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Yesterday was Roger Federer Day on Campus and Roger was so gracious enough to participate in many different activities. They ranged from leading a work out at the "Bo" (Bo Jackson Gym), playing wii tennis with 5 complete novices (he had never played with a Nintendo Wii before) to ringing at a cash register in the Joan Benoit Cafeteria. I was able to get tons of photos and video of two of the activities and I hope to post them soon. Stay Tuned...

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Greg Oden's Get Well Card...

When I came in to work this morning there were signs to come out at lunch time and sign a get well card. Not knowing who it was for, I grabbed my manager and we headed out to lunch early.

When I saw the card saying, "Get Well Greg" it clicked... A couple of nights ago there was some TV coverage about Greg Oden of the Portland Trailblazers having surgery on his knee. The poor guy, number 1 overall draft pick is out for the entire year because of the surgery. After standing there thinking what to say on the card - I ended up jokingly asking, "What is a microfracture? Good luck!"

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SMC Binder Stuffing

Next week is our annual SMC (Store Manager's Conference). This is where we host all of our Factory Store Store Manager's for the week and present a ton of information, party and support our community by volunteering for the day at preset locations. It is a lot of fun, I get to see all of my friends from the Orlando area again, but it also is a lot of work.

On Thursday, after getting all of the finalized Holiday marketing info into our 60pg Holiday packet, I scrambled to find a printer to turn this around in less than 24 hours since our in-house copy center could not handle the job. Enter Mollet Printing. I called my contact explaining what we needed and they said, "no problem". They kicked ass in printing 170 sets, 60pgs per set and 3-hole punched within 24 hours.

After receiving our printed packets, next up was the fun part - stuffing them in to 170 binders for Monday's kick off. The above photos are the binders at our stuffing party late Friday afternoon.

Stay tuned this week for more posts on SMC activities - on Wednesday evening is our "Winter Formal", which should be a wild and fun evening...

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Air Time With Charlie

Today Charlie Denson held his "Air Time With Charlie" radio show in front of the Pete Sampras Building during the lunchtime hour. There is an email that is sent out prior to the show asking for questions to Charlie - I had a reply email ready for my question but never did hit the SEND button.

Anyway, headed over across the way, got lunch and sat outside for a bit and listened to the show. It was cool, they touched on Nike Retail topics (Yay!) and the up n coming Hood To Coast Race. I was only able to stay for 20 minutes or so, but it was cool to see the President of the Brand in our area rather than on stage in a presentation.

Thanks Charlie!

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Serve The Runner

Walking in to work earlier this week, I noticed our athlete banners around campus had changed to a theme of "Serve The Runner". Since we are a "Running" company it is nice to see us get back to our roots.

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Tarheel Cafe

I decided to go upstairs to the Tarheel Cafe in the Mia Hamm building for lunch. They offer the best house salad on campus. Took this photo as i was waiting for my pizza to go back and work/eat @ my desk...unfortunately that happens WAY too often.

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Glass Cleaner

Walked out of my building to the parking lot late on Tuesday and found the gentleman cleaning the glass on the outside of the Jerry Rice Building.

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Scavenger Hunt

Each month the Inspire Group (a committee of 10 or so people) create activities for the department to participate in for a moral boost. June's activity was a scavenger hunt around the campus. I volunteered to help out the Inspire Group to hand out clues at a destination. Here is the video of my stay outside the Tiger Wood's Convention Center.

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Erin's Birthday Movie

So I have been watching ijustine for a while making goofy, wacky videos about random things. Today was Erin's (a co-worker's) birthday, and immediately I knew this was a chance to grab my Canon SD630 and make a video for my blog. What you see above is what I was able to create from iMovie, part of Apple's iLife software. I am a noob at using it, but so far it has been easy to learn.

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