Connect Four and (Semi) Cold Calling

TrialGraphix is having a company-wide Connect Four competition. How cool is that? (I know, right?) Everyone was given the option of signing up for a few weeks and then we were paired off with people in our respective offices for first round matches. Now that the first round of play is over, the matches switch to inter-office play. They found a version online where two players can connect and play each other in real time.

I had no idea that I was such a wizard at Connect Four. Greg, the new workflow coordinator, was practicing before the tournament to beef up his skills. He and I started practicing together and playing against a computer online. We both felt solid but not experts. Greg went out and bought a Connect Four game for the office and we started playing while we were bored. Yusaf heard us talking about it. Before I knew it, trash talk turned into putting my money where my mouth was and Yusaf and I were off to the conference room to settle the score. I beat him unmercilessly. Next thing I know, everyone around the office is buzzing about my mad Connect Four skills. I didn't even have to do my own trash talking -- Yusaf did it for me! =)

Today, Sam and I played our first round match in the conference room: best two out of three. Erica, the President of the Company, happens to be visiting from the Miami office for a few days and she along with the VP and half the office were in the conference room to watch our match; talk about pressure. Sam and I played forever, me winning the first match and him the second. Our third game was a draw.... I barely won the fourth game with a little strategy and a little luck, as Sam had nowhere else to go but a place that would give me the win.

Other office excitement today including Greg's birthday (which equals cake) and I'm helping out the sales dept. by calling attorneys to see if they want to come to our CLE in March. No matter how you slice it, it's really not that much fun talking to people you don't know on the phone, particularly if they don't want to talk to you....