Thursday 29 January 2015

All change and Rangers in a slump

Yesterday was a day of reflection and deep thought for Toni and I. Her senior management have decided to become totally rigid and make stupid demands which would effectively stop Toni having any flexibility with her working patterns. Having read the emails myself I am totally disgusted with their attitude. We talked a lot last night and have come to the decision that the best option is for Toni to hand in her notice and then she can stay at home and ensure Pam gets proper care. I've made it clear that Toni should take a good couple of months of just chilling out and enjoying her time with Pam before she even things about returning to work. She doesn't have to, we will get by and I'd rather she was happy than just working for the sake of it just to bring a few extra shekels in. I'm sure the right opportunity will present itself in good time and she will return to work again, there's just no rush right now.

So, on to today..... Toni went into the office and had a meeting with her line manager and formally handed in her notice. Needless to say she was upset with Toni's decision but fully understood her reasons why. She has asked Toni to get in touch with her should the time come that she feels she wants to return to full time work. So that was that, Toni's last day will be February 26th and then she'll be free to relax and unwind from the stresses of trying to balance work and make sure Pam is looked after properly and can concentrate on things that really matter :)  It's all good!

As for me, had a really good day at work. Lots of things all pulling together nicely in the right direction. We've had a minor team shuffle, a new small team formed and an overview of where we are going over the next year with our product(s). I'd actually have to confess to being quite excited about it all.

Ignoring the disaster that was hockey the other night it was back into the fray tonight with New York Rangers v Montreal Canadiens. This was a critical game to get back into third place and out of the wild card spot again. Also on at the same time was Boston Bruins v New York Islanders and although I would normally want the Islanders to lose, they needed to win tonight to keep the Bruins below the Rangers. First period ended 0 - 0. Shots on goal were NYR 10 and MTL 11.Sadly the Bruins were winning 2 - 0 at the end of the first.    

Second period started with some good play from the Rangers.Nothing really exciting happened though and there weren't a lot of scoring chances. The period ended tied 0 - 0 still. Shots on goal were NYR 6 (16) and MTL 8 (19). The Bruins were leading their game but 3 - 2.

Third period started end to end but neither team could break the deadlock with both netminders making great saves. Bruins won their game 5 - 2 with five minutes left in the Rangers game so a win became critical! Disaster struck with 4.17 left as the Canadiens took a 0 - 1 lead. Thought it was going to be 0 - 2 with the empty net but the Canadiens doinked the puck off the post. Sadly the Rangers couldn't pull one out of the bad and lost the game 0 - 1. Shots on goal were NYR 8 (24) and MTL 7 (26). Rangers need to start turning things around ASAP if they want any chance in the Play Offs!

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