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Free Internet for a year contest!

Augie Schwer — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:38:15 +0000

For the next fifteen days we will be running a contest on Twitter where we will give away free Internet service for a year!

We will give away one year of free Internet service (traditional AT&T line shared DSL as fast as we can, or Fusion at up to 30mbps, CA only) every day for 15 days to celebrate our 15th anniversary.

The contest will be run over Twitter, entrants have to use the hashtag #sonicnet .

One entry will be chosen at random every day for fifteen days from the mentions of #sonicnet during the past day. Each mention is an entry, but please don’t over-tweet, spammers won’t be winners.

One win per person, win is transferable if you’re in an area we do not serve (you are welcome to give it away or sell it).

Winners’ Circle

Hey, Hey, We’re the Monkeys!

Jennifer Daly — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:47:25 +0000

Sonic.net Death Monkeys are leading the way with 2 wins and 1 loss for the 2009 Summer Adult Softball Season. We have a great team full of talent and are having a lot of fun. Games are played weekly on Monday nights till mid-August at Rincon Valley Community Park on the Montectio Blvd side. Santa Rosa, Ca. Game times are 6pm and 7:10 and vary from week to week. Please come out and enjoy a game, the great American past time and Sonic.net!

Sonic.net Death Monkeys, Season opener!

Jennifer Daly — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:16:46 +0000

Come one, come all the Sonic.net Death Monkeys have their season opener tonight!

Game starts 7:15pm at Rincon Valley Park, Montecito Blvd, Santa Rosa.

We’ve got a great team this year from all departments of Sonic.net. Please come and join us.

Thank you for your support

~Jenny and Kim

The Sonic.net T-Shirt Contest

Augie Schwer — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:30:38 +0000

For the past few years we have done an internal T-Shirt design contest where employees submit their artwork and the design with the most Employee votes is then made into our newest T-Shirt handed out at our annual Holiday Party.

Now that we have this Blog, I thought it would be fun to share some of the entries our Employees came up with; Customer votes will not affect the winner, however it would be fun to see what designs Customers like, so vote with a comment.

You have to Pay to Play.

Augie Schwer — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:16:48 +0000

The new Sonic.net softball team, The Sonic.net Death Monkeys, is comprised mostly of Sonic.net employees with a few friends and family of employees – all of them are tough.

Jenny sent me some pictures as proof:

Kim's Arm.

Lani's Toe.

Terra's Leg.

Note: Terra’s Leg has Karl’s autograph – Karl being the one who threw the wild pitch that caused that bruise.

More Monkey Madness

Jennifer Daly — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:31:15 +0000

Two games down, and three to go. The Sonic Death Monkeys have been playing hard and are tied for 4th place! We’d love to have you in the stands cheering us on, tonight’s game starts at 7:20, Howarth Park, Santa Rosa. Thank you everyone!

Ed: for some reason this post was never approved after Jenny originally wrote it 23, September, sorry.

Sonic Death Monkeys season opener!

Jennifer Daly — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:51:53 +0000

The Sonic Death Monkeys have been working hard this last month and are ready
to put their game face on. Our first game of the season is 8:40 tomorrow
night at Howarth Park. Games are played every Tuesday for the next 5-6
weeks and times will vary so if you can’t make this one, we’d love to have
you at another. We need cheering from the crowd, so help get us pumped up
and watch us win some games!

Hope to see you out there and GO TEAM!!!!

The San Francisco Manager Tools Conference.

Augie Schwer — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:45:15 +0000

Kelsey and I have become big Manager Tools fans, and as such we jumped at the opportunity to attend the Manager Tools Effective Manager Conference when it came to San Francisco.

Kelsey Cummings

Augie Schwer

We learned a lot and met a bunch of great people; I would recommend it to any Managers or aspiring Managers who want to learn more about being an effective Manager.

It’s dead Jim…

Augie Schwer — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:10:40 +0000

Our dishwasher at Sonic.net died; the “heat dry” got stuck on and melted some of the dishes.

The dishwasher melted our cup; Mr. Hasselhoff was not pleased.

While a replacement was on order some people forgot how to wash a dish “manually”; thankfully Tony (our resident Web Design Guru) was on hand (pun intended) to help out.

When the replacement arrived Juston (our resident Facilities Guru) went to work.

Things did not go as planned at first; this made for a cranky Juston.

Juston eventually pushed on and now our shiny, new, super energy efficient dishwasher is purring away; this makes for a happy Juston.

The moral of this story is that sometimes things break at Sonic.net and when they do people pitch in to help, do extra work, and keep working until the problem is fixed.

However… sometimes we still forget the difference between dish soap vs. dishwasher detergent:

Celebrating 14 years

Dane Jasper — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:16:33 +0000

Do adults belong in the bounce house?

We mark Sonic.net’s inception on July 26th each year. This year, it was a BBQ and some crazy kickball at Morton’s in Kenwood. Staff and family participated. Click for some pics. Support was unavailable while we took this break, thanks go to our customers for their patience.