The Blog of Derek Kovacevic

This blog ain’t dead yet.

Though, if you’ve been visiting regularly during the past two months, and seeing nothing new, I could see how you might be thinking that.

The main reason it’s been so long is I was away in London for the better part of three weeks. In addition to running my own video production company, I work part-time at Best Buy in the cellular department, which recently went through a major overhaul (re-branded as Best Buy Mobile). Thus, the training.

While in London, I stayed at the Delta Armouries Hotel. It was a pretty nice place overall, but it certainly wasn’t without its…quirks, shall we say? During the first week or so, it was overrun by elderly women. It wasn’t just a few here are there, they OWNED the place with an overwhelming majority. While standing outside, I witnessed one taxi after another unloading 3-4 at a time. It kind of felt like a Twilight Zone episode. We wondered if there was some sort of Golden Girls convention in town. As it turns out, we were invaded by the Daughters of the Nile. Once the “daughters” left, there were US military the following week. It seemed like you had to be part of something if you wanted to stay at this hotel. I was among 30 Best Buy employees, so it applied to me as well.

During some of our training in one of the conference rooms, a horrible noise would randomly occur. It sounded like a helicopter. The explanation we were given was they were turning on some pipes that had been shut off for a while. Uh, ok.

And then probably the worst was when one of the elevators went down for a whole day and change. There were only two so this REALLY slowed things down. To make matters worse, the one “good” elevator would automatically stop at each floor, whether or not someone requested it. So we had to wait 15 minutes for an elevator. Awful!

The girls at the nearby Subway should be fired. I stood there for 10 minutes before the person working at the adjoined Mac’s went and banged on their desk and yelled “Subway, you have customers.” They were slacking in the back, and said they couldn’t see me in the camera because I wasn’t standing in the right spot. As if I know what their camera can see. Regardless, what reason, other than a serious bathroom escapade, possibly a Russian invasion, do you have for not checking the desk for over 10 minutes? Where’s Donald Trump when you need him? You’re FIRED!!!

While London is only about two hours away from Windsor, I had spent next to no time in the city prior to this training. I noticed that their population is more polarized than Windsor’s. They have more rich people driving Audis and Lambos but they have way more bums, whereas Windsor is more middle-classed all around. I don’t think they have an equivalent to our EC Row Expressway, so getting from one end of town to the other takes longer. While dining at Jack Astor’s, I proudly wore my Windsor Spitfires t-shirt, just in case they forgot who knocked out the Knights and went on to win the OHL and Memorial Cup crowns.

Overall, it was good times and I hope to go back before Winter on my own terms. No training, just fun stuff.

Once I finally got back, I had so much catching up to do on my business and routine home stuff that the blog had to be put on hold until I got caught up.

Now things are falling back into place and I’m writing once again.

One thing about this long layoff is it has provided me with plenty of material to write about, so stay tuned for more…