The world would swing if I were King

Hooray!! The snow stopped again. All is good in the world and Tom Petty and his wacky Heartbreakers still rock!! I dont even care that Diana had an accident of the poop kind. Its all good! Long live the Heartbreakers!

I'll be king when dogs get wings

Well spoke too soon. It's snowing again. To quote Jack Bauer "Dammit!" On the plus side did I mention Tom Petty rules? Just found out the download i mentioned earlier also has a 2 hour concert complete with Stevie Nicks duets. Ok the snow ain't gonna ruin my good mood. Oh yeah i just remembered that one of Diana's nick names is Tom Petty. She put on her sunglasses one day and she said she was a rock star so i started calling her Tom Petty. Maybe someday she will write a song half as good as Free Fallin and make millions of dollars.

It's good to be King

Man I just got paid and I'm already broke but today it feels good to be alive. We paid all our bills and the sun is shining. I don't have angry people screaming in my ear about porn movies they swear they didnt order. Speaking of which the other day i think i heard my all time favorite customer quote. A customer called in and there was 15 adult movies on his bill. He said "i only ordered 7 of them,I'm not a pervert!" Classic. Just hanging out with Diana. She is watching a Barbie ballerina movie. I'm watching part of a massive Tom Petty biography called Running Down a Dream that Kath downloaded for me. It's 4 hours long but damn interesting. Tom Petty is bad ass. Anyhow as stated in a previous blog its rare for me to be in a good mood so thought i would share. Tomorrow its back to the old grind. Oh and a quick shout out to my neighbour Nancy. She's a really cool older lady who lives next door. Hence the term neighbour. She's about the nicest neighbour I've ever had, Trust me I've had some hellish neighbours. When it snows I will shovel out her parking space as well as our own. Its not because I want to be rewarded for it i just do it because she is really nice. The other day was pretty brutal. I shovelled our parking spaces and brushed off both our cars. Later i found a thank you note in our mail box and she insisted on giving me ten dollars. I've told her in the past that its isnt necessary to pay me but she wont take no for an answer. So hats off to Nancy. Talk to ya later gang. Keep the faith-Jay

customers are funny

Yes yet another tale of customers getting bent out of shape for no reason. Trust me I got a million of 'em. Anyhow this guy calls yesterday and immediately demands a supervisor,as they all do. I ask what the situation was. Turns out he's upset because one of the channels he watches has played an alchohol commercial and his room mate is an alcohollic. I appologize but advise him our company has nothing to do with the programming on the various stations. His reply? You better be in charge of programming. Yeah that makes sense. I ask him what station it was played on. He doesnt know. So I explain for example that if cbs played the commercial he would complain to them not his cable company. He still is not getting that we have nothing to do with what the channels choose to play. Man if we had a say in it i would make somebody play Macgyver 24 hours a day. He keeps yelling and i think he threatened to sue us and he would tell all his friends to cancel their cable subscription. Blah blah blah. All because his buddy can't handle seeing a beer commercial. His buddy must be Barney from the Simpsons.

Stupid snow

Woke up a few hours ago on this my day off and what do i see? Lots of snow-yet again. Sigh. Man last weekend it was starting to melt. Just got in from shovelling. I'm wet and can barely feel my right hand. It is good enough to type this here blog. It is cold out there. Hoth cold. Yes that is a Star Wars reference. Did you forget i was a nerd already? Say it ain't so!

Happy New Bruce Springsteen cd Day!

Hey folks. Pretty excited. For Today is the release date for "Working On A Dream" the new Bruce Springsteen album. Yes I am so old i still call them albums. I've been a huge fan for 25 years now since the Born In The U.S.A, record. What's really cool is that its less than a year and a half since his last cd. It's been a really good decade to be a Boss fan. He's had five studio albums, a live album and a few concert releases on dvd. Back in the 80's and 90's there was sometimes a five year gap between releases. I'm proud to say that i made Kath a fan of Bruce since I've known her and we've seen him live a few times. One of the highlights of my life was when Kath and I drove to Cleveland in 2004 to see him perform with R E M. You havent lived till you've heard Springsteen duet on Man in The Moon. Got home today and was pleasantly surprised that Kath had made a special trip out today to pick up the cd. I really have the coolest wife ever. Much like Springsteen she rocks hard! Man after the day i had this totally cheered me up. Who cares if a lovely customer told me to blow him ,i get to rock out with the Boss!

Full Moon Fever

Just got back from work. It Was an extremely long day. I swear theres a full moon on Saturdays as thats when the most f'ed up people call in to yell and give me a headache. Today was no exception. To the guy who called me a pussy. Do you really think i won't end the call for that? Really? And you called me that after i said i would hang up if you wouldnt tone down the language? Really? Are You serious? Oh I'm sorry let me help you after you've personally attacked my character and made offensive comments about the mentally challenged. To the douchebag who said he was going to contact the president of the company and report me because i wouldnt waive a fee for taking his payment. Really? I gave you four options where you can pay your bill for free. Oh and you demanded i waive the fee because you are unable to pay on line and i advised who you could contact to fix this but you flat out refused? Oh my God are you serious? Oh you demanded i do it whilst yelling at me? Ok since you asked so nicely sure why not. After all you have "connections" to talk to our president directly. I'm sure he gives a rats ass we wouldnt waive a charge to take a payment. Man i took about 100 calls like this today. The whole time i heard Adam Sandler singing "Somebody Kill Me Please!" from the Wedding Singer. I swear i want to meet the guy who coined the phrase "the customer is always right" and flat out punch him square in the nuts.

These Arent The Jay's were looking For

Just a quick note. A customer didnt like that i told her three times that she had equipment to return as she had been charged for it. "get me your supervisor you sound like a damn robot!" she said to me. Yep just call me Artoo jay too.

Happy Lost Day!

Hey everyone. Tonight season five of Lost starts. I myself am not even done season four yet. Let me explain. So Lost started in 2004. For some reason didnt watch it even though i thought it was a cool idea for a show. I remember when season three came out thinking wow wish i would have gotten into this show,well too late now. I tried to tell myself that it probably wasnt any good. After all it starred the Older brother from Party Of Five. Our friend Rose always told us how great it was. Oh well I had enough tv to watch as it was. Then something cool happenned. In September of 2008 our space channel started running the show right from the beginning. Kath and i decided to watch the pilot to see if we were going to like the show. Long story short,right from the beginning we were hooked. Space was running the show four times a week Monday to Thursday. Over the weekend we would go into withdrawl. We couldnt imagine waiting to see an episode once a week or even waiting a year between seasons to watch it. About a month ago we realized space wouldnt be done playing the old episodes before the new season began. Three weeks ago--problem solved! Space started running 2 episodes a night! As a matter of fact the finale of last season is on 2 hours before season five starts. Rose was really cool the whole time and didnt give anything away to us even though i did ask her to explain polar bears and the smoke monster. I have to admit i did spoil a few things before we saw certain episodes. I also have a facebook account,there is an application there called Flair. Flair is pretty much pictures in the shape of buttons. I did a search of Lost. There is certain flair there that revels characters deaths and things like that. Damn you flair! So yes I am looking forward to Lost tonight. Its tv heaven for a nerd like me this month. 24 , Battlestar Galactica and now Lost are all back. I will stop rambling now, Have a great day

Come On Up For The Rising

Well today in the United States Barack Obama was voted in as the new president. I live in Canada and even I know this is an awesome thing. I feel bad for the guy.He has to clean up 8 years of George Bush crap. I like him already. Because today was the inauguration, nobody called in. For awhile there we were going half an hour between calls. Obama you rock! If you're good enough for Bruce Springsteen,you're good enough for me!!

Daddy's turning Diana into a nerd story of the weekend

Yes another proud moment occurred today. When i was pouring cereal into a bowl for Diana she came into the kitchen with her purse. She put it on sideways over her head and said : "guess who i am daddy?" "Who?" I repled. Well what would you say? "I'm Indy Jones!" she replied. Proud!

Comic Books:Not just for geeks anymore!

Hey kids. First of all was thrilled to hear that yet another person reads my blog-my friend Maria. That's four people! Hope to get it up to five by years end. I have such lofty dreams. Anyhow Maria is a school teacher and she read my blog about Diana being into comics. She was thinking of trying to get her students into reading by introducing them to comic books. I think that is very cool. I still remember getting my first comics when i was a kid, When I was five my parents got me a Superman and a Spiderman comic. Of course i could kick myself now. The SPiderman issue was the first appearance of the Punisher and is worth big bucks now. I think i had the cover ripped off that book within the month. Oh well. Anyhow i gave Maria some suggestions on some books the kids might like-pretty much the kid friendly stories Diana loves. Don't think the kids are ready for watchmen or The Dark Knight Returns. Wow my blog may be responsible for helping kids develop reading skills--or turning them into geeks like me. I'm happy with either outcome!

Friendship is Rare

Hey just a quick shout out to a few of a my friends. I found out thats there`s actually three people that read my blog. That`s 2 more than i hoped for! The only one i expected to read it is my lovely wife Kath. I`m sitting here missing her as she had to work a stupid Sunday shift. Anyhow our friend Nicole actually asked Kath today when i was going to write another blog. Kind of made me smile as i didn`t realize she gave a crap what i had to say. I`ve been putting off writing because 2009 has started off shitty and i was just going to come across as a bitter old man. So kudos to Nicole for getting me to write again. Oh and Nicole if you`re reading this i will go on record as saying your blog is entertaining as well. Oh and its been cool talkinf comics with you. Lastly i will mention my friend Allison. I`ve known her for 25 years ever since we were in grade nine. Wow has it really been 25 years since I started High school.I am very old. Anyhow she was the one that mentioned I should consider writing a blog in the first place. In her Christmas card this year she made some sweet comments about how she thought i was a good writer and made her laugh. So i will raise a glass and toast Kath,Nic and Allison. I don`t really drink anymore so the toast will be done with a nice cola beverage. You guys rock!

Like Father Like Daughter

Ok I lied i also smiled at one other thing today. I`ve done my job well. My daughter is a nerd. Anyone that knows me is aware i am a geek
. I`ve been reading comics since i was five years old. I make a weekly trek to the comic store. I collect 3 comic book series for Diana and we read them at bed time. There`s one series called the tiny titans which is basically the kid versions of super heros.
Anyhow there is a new Batman cartoon starting today. Basically on every episode Batman will team up with a different super hero. A lot of the team ups are with really obscure characters. So Diana saw an ad in her comic for the cartoon and i told her we were taping the episode today. Kath brought the cartoon up today and Diana got all excited and just started naming all the characters. I think this was the conversation

Kath: Hey Diana your new Batman cartoon starts today
Diana: yeah and it has Flash and Green Arrow and Blue Beetle and Aquaman with a beard!
Kath: (to me) well i hope youre happy!

Actually I am happy and after Diana has her bath we`re going to curl up on the couch-maybe with some popcorn and watch the Batman cartoon and also the season premiere of the Spiderman cartoon.

This has been the longest week of my life. Events Occur in real time.

It's been a rough week. We had to get major brake work done on our van. It cost a million dollars and i will be eating kraft dinner for awhile. I've talked to some major assholes at work this week. One lady was going to contact our corporate office because i could only reprint her last 3 bills. She wanted all bills since 1994. Milk went bad. Didnt notice it til i put it on my daughters cereal. Yum! Chunky milk. What else? Oh yeah i attempted to take down my Christmas tree and managed to make it fall to the ground breaking a couple cool ornaments in the process. But its all good. Why is that? Because my favorite show 24 is back tonight after a 2 year hiatus. I think watching Jack Bauer shoot a dozen or so terrorists will make me smile. Maybe he`ll chop another dudes head off. Ah who am i kidding,just hearing him yell dammit! at someone will make me smile.