Into March with Soccer, Work, and Basketball

I was at the new Creve Coeur Park Soccer Complex (http://www.slysa.org/creve-coeur) last Sunday afternoon (25 February) to officiate three under 14 girls matches. It was my first time at the facility, which opened up earlier that month. My three matches went well--including my middle in the first match. I think this complex will do very nicely for the St. Louis area youth soccer community.

Back at work Monday morning, and it was real busy. Many vehicles and customers passed through our branch that day, but my colleagues and I were able to keep things going well. It was much of the same the next day.

After work Tuesday night (27 February), it was off to Chaifetz Arena (http://www.thechaifetzarena.com/) for the first round Atlantic 10 Conference (http://www.atlantic10.com/) women's basketball game between Saint Louis University (http://www.slubillikens.com/) and the University of Massachusetts. I arrived just before the opening tip, and helped cheer on the Billikens to a 70-64 come from behind win over the visiting Minutewomen. This enabled SLU to advance to the A10 quarterfinals in Richmond, Virginia against Duquesne. They won that game last night; however, they lost the semifinal today to St. Joseph's. It was an up-and-town season for the Billikens, but I think overall their program is on the right track. After the game, I patted the belly of the Billiken outside of Chaifetz Arena.

I had a rather busy (much of the time) Wednesday at work, then it was my off day on Thursday. On the latter day, I did my laundry, and I put together a public relations work samples portfolio onto a PowerPoint presentation. I plan to look it over and make adjustments as necessary to it, before finalizing it and getting ready for sending it to prospective employers. I also plan to do similar portfolios for my writing and editing work by the end of March.

Friday (2 March) at work, I found our from our assistant manager Miranda (who ran the branch this week while manager Cory was off) that our branch's customer service score in February was very high. Just a small notch below next month, but still good enough for us to have breakfast bought for us in the coming month by our area management. It was rather busy that day, but we got done earlier that night than usual.

I ran some errands this morning before coming home for lunch and to watch the SLU vs St. Joseph's women's basketball game on TV. Then, I drove to World Wide Technology Soccer Park (https://www.saintlouisfc.com/soccerpark) for a pre-season match between Saint Louis FC (https://www.saintlouisfc.com/) and FC Denver (http://fcdenver.org/). I joined in the tailgate with the St. Louligans (http://stlouligans.com/) before the match, then marched into Toyota Stadium with them to watch the match. Our group had a lot of fun, especially as Saint Louis FC won the match, 8-0. Both teams play again tomorrow (Sunday) morning.

Relaxing at home now.

Later.