Our second Rock, Paper, Scissor tournament continued this past week… with a few folks returning to the office, after being out for vacation. Kashif had a slew of games to play, and matched up with Alexandra right near my desk. It was a very surreal Western movie-style battle, as I think Alexandra spotted Kashif from across the office… and they…
We showed up to our last season game to find Skinner Park taken over with a lot of people. Near Left Center, there was a small hot dog stand that had set up shop. Near Right Field, there were a ton of people and kids more or less camped out. When I was in the outfield, I swear I was…
This year’s RPS Tournament is underway, though the games have cooled off a bit to allow the bracket to catch up. We had a run of games last week, but due to a few folks being out of the office… some people are really far ahead, and a few others are waiting to play their first games. Rick and Tim,…
There’s a new RPS tournament going on! Thanks to AJ (our very first RPS Tournament Champion), we’ve got our second official RPS tournament underway. We started yesterday morning at 9AM, and it’s been a blast so far. Compared to last time (when we were working off a bracket print-out), games are happening pretty quickly. We’re using a site to handle…
Emmis the Menace got another win last night! We defeated Mike Tyson’s Tigers with a final score to 9-7. We got an early lead with two runs in the first few innings, but then the other team got on a stream and took over for a while. We were able to close the gap and pulled in even at 7-7…
We played our fifth game last night, against a team called Average Joe’s. They got some runs on us early on, but we ended up rallying and held the lead for a good while (from about Inning 2 to Inning 7). We were up at the top of the 7th, and with two outs… the ball got kicked my way….
Emmis the Menace played its fourth kickball game yesterday, despite the temperatures outside going as high as 98 (with a heat index of 108). Our game was on a different field, at a later time (7:30 instead of 6:30)… and while the later time took a bit of the edge off, it was still freaking hot. Everybody was constantly sipping…
For our kickball team, it’s a good thing we have a large team list. Each week it seems to fluctuate as to who’s in town, and who’s able to attend a game. Today, for our third kickball game, we had a few new faces: Nisha joined us for the first time, Brad was in town, and our newest hire Chris…
We played our second official kickball game yesterday, on a day that wasn’t a scorcher. This is a shot before the game officially began, with folks milling about the bench (and conferring with Tim on the batting order, in the background). We had a few less folks than last time, and lost Al partway through the game (due to an…
Emmis Interactive officially joined the Chicago Social Kickball League, and we had our first game yesterday, after work. The original signup process was actually many weeks ago, and by the time the season started… I think a few of us were caught off guard. The game’s when? Tomorrow? A group of us took the Blue Line to Racine, and walked…
For lunch, a group of us headed out to a (semi) nearby Indian place called Chicago Curry House. Today was the official 10-year mark for Ben, as he officially has been an employee of Emmis Interactive for a decade now! To celebrate, a group of us headed out to lunch together. View of the bar. The interior is quite nice,…
It’s with mixed emotions that I post about this: on Friday, it was TJ and Paul’s last day at Emmis Interactive. While I’m sad to see them leave, the two of them have some exciting days ahead. They’ve decided to focus their attentions full time on their t-shirt company, RIPT Apparel. Launched nearly two years ago, it’s grown to become…
We had a pretty big day at work today, with not one but four people getting awarded a watch from our company’s CEO, Jeff Smulyan. Watches are awarded after an employee achieves 10 years of service, and we had four people in attendance who got to receive those honors. Mike and Phil hit their 10-year mark a year ago, but…
During the Pecha Kucha intermission, Justin and I ducked out a bit early. We were both headed towards the Jackson Red/Blue stop, and en route I decided to stop in to a nearby Chipotle for some food to take home. I stood in line there for what seemed like an interminable 20 minutes. When I got my food, I walked…
I just found out yesterday from Allison that after 25 years, The Wild Hare will be closing its doors here in Chicago. The Tribune article does a nice recap of how the venue came to be, and how current owner Zelek Gessesse plans to head back to Ethiopia to open a new venue in his homeland. I learned of The…