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What I feel like, sans the bullet.

Last week I won $200 in gift certificates ($100 Visa and $100 Amazon) at a user group holiday party and tonight I won 2 round trip tickets to anywhere in the 48 states at our company holiday party.

I'm thinking about Key West. Always wanted to go there, never made it though I started out to get there 3 times.

BackInTex wrote:What I feel like, sans the bullet.

Last week I won $200 in gift certificates ($100 Visa and $100 Amazon) at a user group holiday party and tonight I won 2 round trip tickets to anywhere in the 48 states at our company holiday party.

I'm thinking about Key West. Always wanted to go there, never made it though I started out to get there 3 times.

Congratulations! What does the user group use?

Awesome!

I won a comany T-shirt yesterday.

BackInTex wrote:Last week I won $200 in gift certificates ($100 Visa and $100 Amazon) at a user group holiday party and tonight I won 2 round trip tickets to anywhere in the 48 states at our company holiday party.

At our Christmas party, they have drawings and the winner(s) get to take home the floral arrangement on the table they're sitting at. I won that one year. Mrs. SSS was surprised I brought her home flowers that day.

BackInTex wrote:What I feel like, sans the bullet.

Last week I won $200 in gift certificates ($100 Visa and $100 Amazon) at a user group holiday party and tonight I won 2 round trip tickets to anywhere in the 48 states at our company holiday party.

I'm thinking about Key West. Always wanted to go there, never made it though I started out to get there 3 times.

About 70 miles off the coast is Fort Jefferson, now part of the Dry Tortugas National Park. It makes for a fantastic daytrip if the weather is good. There is a daily ferry that takes a few hours; many people choose to fly out in a float plane. It's pricey to fly but I thought it was worth it.

TheConfessor wrote:Congratulations! What does the user group use?

JD Edwards

The user group party was a casino themed event and participants used their winnings for tickets to put in raffle buckets for whatever prizes they wanted. You had to first visit individual vendor tables to get your seed money. I turned $11K of seed money into $52K with 6 plays at the roulette wheel. I either wanted to win big or go home early.

$4k on black: win
$8k on black: lost
$4k on black: lost
$7k on black: won
$13K on even: won $1k on 00: lost
$26k on black: won and cashed out $52K


The company party had a similar raffle (20 something different prizes) but to earn tickets you bring toys for tots ($5 to $10 each) or donate money. I spent about $50 on toys and donated another $20, so I invested $70 to win the airline tickets.

BackInTex wrote:

TheConfessor wrote:Congratulations! What does the user group use?

JD Edwards

The user group party was a casino themed event and participants used their winnings for tickets to put in raffle buckets for whatever prizes they wanted. You had to first visit individual vendor tables to get your seed money. I turned $11K of seed money into $52K with 6 plays at the roulette wheel. I either wanted to win big or go home early.

$4k on black: win
$8k on black: lost
$4k on black: lost
$7k on black: won
$13K on even: won $1k on 00: lost
$26k on black: won and cashed out $52K


The company party had a similar raffle (20 something different prizes) but to earn tickets you bring toys for tots ($5 to $10 each) or donate money. I spent about $50 on toys and donated another $20, so I invested $70 to win the airline tickets.

So you're a HUGer? Oracle is evil.

Bob Juch wrote:So you're a HUGer? Oracle is evil.

My first exposure to JDE was in 2000 prior to the PeopleSoft acquisition. PeopleSoft acquired them in 2003. JDE was left to die on the vine as PeopleSoft wanted it to go away and move everyone to PeopleSoft Enterprise apps so they invested nothing to improve the product. When Oracle bought PeopleSoft a few years later JDE was resurrected as a viable longterm product and they began investing in upgrades again. So from that perspective, Oracle hasn't been so bad.

However, we used to have a single Oracle rep that would call on us. Now they have split the sales groups by product line so I have 3 or 4 reps sending requests. I'm sure I'm know as Mr. Crickets among the Oracle sales reps, because that is all they hear from me. I have told my JDE rep I want all support and communications coming from her.

BackInTex wrote:Last week I won $200 in gift certificates ($100 Visa and $100 Amazon) at a user group holiday party and tonight I won 2 round trip tickets to anywhere in the 48 states at our company holiday party.

Cool! We had our annual Christmas luncheon, I ended up with a $10 Starbucks card (which I promptly gave to Mrs. Spiff, since I don't drink coffee). It averages out - last year I got 2 days off (paid!)

silverscreenselect wrote:At our Christmas party, they have drawings and the winner(s) get to take home the floral arrangement on the table they're sitting at. I won that one year. Mrs. SSS was surprised I brought her home flowers that day.

I had something like that happen to me years ago - a lady at my office always brought in fresh flowers on Monday, and on Friday she gave them to someone else to take home, The day I brought them home, the (then) Mrs. Spiff liked them. However, the lady next door saw me coming home with them and promptly picked a fight with her husband -- "how come you never bring me flowers!!!" (They obviously had some issues going on, as they divorced about six months later.)