Thursday, December 31, 2009

Happy New Year


I figured as my last post of 2009 i should look back to my new years resolutions from last year and see how i did. So the resolutions from last year were

1) To lose weight --I'm getting rather portly and would like to drop at least 20 pounds. Its important i try not to look like Boss Hogg anymore

2) To not to worry so much about stuff. I need to relax or I'm going to cause myself to get a huge bloody ulcer. Good times!!

3) To get bitten by a radioactive incect of some type and/or get splashed with nuclear waste and become the defender of St Catharines

4) To win the lottery and buy a house and a space shuttle or something oh and hire Bruce Springsteen to play Diana's next birthday party!

5) To meet another Happy days cast member. I sure hope Potsie is at this years convention!

6) To convince Kath that a 3 way with Jenniffer Love Hewitt is in both our interests



ok 1} i did meet my goal for weight loss. Kind of. I wanted to lose 20 pounds, I lost 24 but gained 5 back in the last month. So in reality I'm down 19 pounds. I'm going to buckle down in the new year.

2} Yeah i still worry about everything. Didn't help that it felt like everything went wrong this year. No ulcer yet I'm happy to report

3} I did'nt become a superhero but i do talk about them every week on the radio. Does that count?

4} Yeah didn't win the lottery and at this point i couldnt even hire the other guy from Wham to play a party for Diana.

5) didn't meet another Happy days cast member. I did meet Beau Bridges who worked with Richard Dean Anderson on Stargate. Richard Dean anderson was on Macgyver which was produced by Henry Winkler. Henry Winkler was the Fonz on Happy Days!

6) No 3way with Jenniffer Love Hewitt. Maybe i shot to high with that one. Should have gone with one of her Party Of 5 co stars like Lacey Chabert or hey Neve Campbell doesnt work anymore right?

So goals and resolutions for 2010

1} i need to lose another 15 pounds. I will get down to 210 pounds even if it kills me
2) gonna try really hard not to get pissed off at work. I started yesterday. I'm taking deep breaths before every call.
3} I will invent time travel and go back in time and steal super hero figures and vintage comics from the me of the 1970's. Then come forward in time and sell them.Then i can quit my job. This is a realistic goal right?
4}Somehow Rob and I will get to do our radio shows for a living and be paid handomely.
5} 3 way with Lacey Chabert? Really Kath is on board for this. Honest!

Hey just want to wish all my friends and family the happiest of new years. I hope everbody has a wonderful 2010. Take care friends!

2009 can eat it!


Well today is the last day of 2009. Thank Christ. What a horrible year it was. We lost Kath's mom, had financial issues,had problems with our brakes and a friend of mine for 25 years decided our friendship was done. Oh yeah because of the new passport laws i haven't been able to cross in to America to see friends and family. I'm not going to shed any tears missing 2009. I for one am looking forward to 2010. Ok trying to be a little bit positive--there were a few good moments this year. I got to see Scott after a decade. That was actually my highlight of the year. The visit was over way to fast though. Speaking of friends Rob and Nickle became really good friends this year. I actually feel like Rob is a brother. Oh yeah because of the friendship I'm doing a radio show with Kath. I guess that makes me happy.Merlin the cat came to live with us as well! Six months later he is finally getting used to his surroundings! Ok not all of 2009 sucked. Still felt like the worst year of my life though. Screw you 2009!

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Watching the boss get honoured


Hey gang. Just got in from work. Another craptastic day in the trenches. I'm so happy for the next 2 days. I got so pissed off yesterday i kicked my bin over. Good times!Just gonna relax and hang out with friends on New Years eve. Last night was pretty cool. My mom picked me up and we went to Su's to watch the Kennedy Centre awards. I've never watched it before but this year Bruce Springsteen was being honored. Between the super bowl appearance and the new album and now this--what a great year to be a fan of the boss. Cool performances by John Mellencamp and Melissa Etheridge as well. For some reason sting had a humoungus beard and looked homeless. He should change his name to stink.

Russell gave me a present last night--The Dark Knight Dvd! I was speechless. It was really a thoughtful present. My nephew rocks! The family is going up to London to visit my step sister Erin. I sure wish i was going.

I have to get back on track--I've gained 5 pounds in the last month. I think I'm gonna start working out with Kath's wii program. I can't wait for 2009 to be over and done. Crappy year. Anyhow gonna go eat and bathe and wait for the fam to get home. Talk to you all later!

Monday, December 28, 2009

ALl good things come to an end.

Well holidays ended today. The good times were done. Back to the trenches. Back to the ol' grind! Playtime was over. Time to get back to the real world. Ok I'll cut the crap. Today sucked large! I started the day off by geting a soaker and mud all over my leg. Yes it was at my favorite path. Where the skate punk kids insist on taking the planks of wood that are used to get across puddles. This was followed by me almost falling on my ass at work. Oh did i mention that since it was the first monday after Christmas it was beyond crazy busy? Yup for the whole day! Giddee up! It was horrible. Non stop yelling red necks all day! Ugh. Glad this shitty day is over and can't wait for my family to get home.

Christmas 2010


I'm a little bit behind blog wise. Figured i'd relax with some Tom Petty music in the back ground and write about the holidays. Christmas turned out better than i expected. Diana is so cool. She let me sleep in until 11. Then we went down stairs to see what "santa" had left her. She loved her Batcave and all the little super heroes. We've played with it a bunch ot times. She figured out all the little elevators and what not on her own.My little nerd. She made me a guitar out of a cardboard roll. Shortly after presents we went to my sisters house. Dinner was awesome. Eerything tasted awesome. My mom and sister got Diana some really nice stuff. Mom got me some Star Wars ornaments. Loved it! After dinner i played some rock band on the wii with Russell and Devon. It was a lot of fun. I totally want to get a version of that game. Maybe the Beatles version. Following that Kath and I played a boardgame with Su and Dean until midnight. Had a great time. I ate way to may cookies but there wasnt a bad cookie in the joint. Thanks Kath and Su. All in all i wasnt looking forward to Christmas but had a really good time. So thanks to family and friends for making it a memorable holiday!

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Pizza with friends: a new Christmas eve tradition.

Christmas eve turned out pretty great. We went to Rob and Nickles for pizza and pop and cheese and crackers. It was delicious. We watched some of The Phantom. Menace and some of Attack of The Clones. Space was playing all 6 star wars movies in a row.We also watched Elf as Nickle had never seen it. Did the Christmas present exchange with them. I recieved the new Tom Petty live collection. Thanks again guys. You rock. THey also got Diana a stuffed animal unicorn. I love our friends. I ate a lot. I feel like i may gain all my weight back this winter. Fingers crossed it won't happen. Anyhow just getting the place reasy for Santa's visit. Diana was excited to get to sleep. She can't wait for tomorrow morning. Anyhow gonna go watch some tv with Kath. Talk to you all tomorrow.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Christmas eve is here again

Just wanted to wish everyone a very happy Christmas eve. We did some last minute shopping and took Diana to see Santa. I still don't feel very Christmassy. Its gonnabe cool having dinner with my family tomorrow but I'm feeling pretyt blah and blue. Well at least i don't have to work i guess. So that's a good thing. ANyhow we're going to Rob's tonight to watch Elf and have pizza. That'll be cool. Anyhow i'll chat with you all later. Happy holidays.

Monday, December 21, 2009

Christmas is the devil

Wow i am never wishing anyone a merry Christmaas--ever again! So i was talking to a crazy customer. Yeah go figure-- a crazy one. Was bitching about everything on his bill and his account. He bitched about the credits that were given and the promotions on his account and so on and so on. He was pissed off for 45 minutes straight. Oh and he was really stupid. I told him the dates his bill covered and he asked me "why aare you trying to sound like you're a smart guy.?" Folks i gotta tell you--i was dumbing everything down. I literally felt dumber from talking to this guy. So 45 minutes straight the guy was finally getting ready to hang up. Then i made the mistake of wishing mr crazy pants a merry Christmas. This was followed by him quoting bible verse after bible verse after bible verse. Here are some of the honest to God-not made up in any way quotes that followed for the next 45 minutes.

"i don't believe in Christmas. Christmas is the devil's holiday."
"december 25th isn't Jesus birthday. Prove it."
"God never told anyone to get divorced and remarried."
" Christmas is just a bunch of people getting drunk and fornicating. Christmas is evil."
"Jesus wearing pants is an abomination."
"Men in womens clothing is an abomination."
"I can't write a check for my daughter and sign it "the father." I have a name."
"devil gets into our head during the holidays."
"on judgement day i'm gonna get told I'm annoying."
"politicians lie and can be bought, Jesus doesnt need to be rich."
"Jimmy Swaggart is hustling Jesus."

THis guy droned on for an hour and a half in total. It was insane. So if Christmas is the devil's holiday i have totally been celebrating wrong for the last 40 years. My word i love my job.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

she did Make Me a Believer


Oh my God!! Canadian rock singer Sass Jordan tweeted back to me! I usually only tweet Kath when I'm on Twitter. I prefer facebook so i'm rarely on twitter. I'm following some singers and actors i like. One of them being Sass Jordan. I'm a huge fan of hers. I own all her cd's(ok i lie i still havent picked up her newest cd from Dusk Til Dawn, but i really want it a lot) and have been a fan since she was a back up singer in a band called The Box in the late 80's. So she was tweeting about the show stargate. I never would have pegged her as a sci fi geek. SHe did about 5 or 6 tweets about Sg1 and Stargate Atlantis. So i thought i would add my 2 cents. I asked her if she likes Stargate Universe she wrote back thats she's not much of a fan and mentioned another sci fi show she liked. Sure it wasnt alot but it made me happy. I love you Sass! Cause I'm so sure she's reading my blog.

Customers: ya gotta love 'em--or not.

What kind of world do we live in where an angry lady can yell and call you an asshole,hang up the phone, call back and complain about you. I friggin hate working Saturdays. Have i mentioned that? A lady called in i told her that her due date was december 30th. She couldnt make it in to pay her bill yesterday. Ok no problem you have until the 30th. All i said was there were other ways to make a payment that didnt involve coming in to a store. This is something i',m suppossed to mention on everycall. What a great time for me to finally decide to do it. She started yelling and called me an asshole and hung up. Ok whatever. I don't know why i went back into her account a half hour later. Apparently she didnt believe me when i told her the due date. Also i guess i was the biggest jerk since Hitler for suggesting she make a payment over the phone. How dare i. Um hello you were the one calling me an asshole. Seriously why would you bother calling back? Frigging Northern Virginia customers. I hate 'em!

Friday, December 18, 2009

Why does it have to be Christmas?

Man last minute Christmas shopping sucks ass. Went to a few places today. Crowds werent to bad. Have a bit still left to do. I'm not sure i'm into Christmas at all this show. Just not feeling it. It'll be good to spend time with my family. I'm happy i get an extra day off. I'm happy Kath is off next week as well. Was chatting a bit with Matt yesterday. We're gonna help out a bit with the train rek Christmas special.Looking forward to that. We made a few plans in regards to the future of Get Your Geek On. We're gonna try and get some interviews scheduled next year. Theres a convention at the end of March we're gonna try and get press passes for. Matt is going to produce the show Sunday. Will be cool to see how we get along with another producer. Anyhow i guess I'm done rambling. Have a good day

Brave Merlin.

Ok kind of happy. Merlin came downstairs on his own last night. Big steps for such a nervous cat. We leave the bedroom door open all the time now. Hesh gets in there and they hiss for a bit but usually they settle down and just lay down. So we were watching the tv last night and Merlin came in the room and looked around. Hesh must have looked at him wrong or something cause soon he was running faster than the flash upstairs. Hopefully he will be exploring the place more often.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

The x mas files.

Diana's first Christmas concert was a success! Turn out it was actually a play called the x mas files. It was a take off on the show THe X Files. Timely. All the classes sang songs in the play. Diana's class did a medly that included Jingle Bells. They all wore Santa hats. It was nice. It brought back memories of all the Christmas concerts i was a part of back in the day. Diana was great. I'm so glad I got to be there.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Jay needs prozac--the drug not the band

All i gotta say today is i should start taking prozac while I'm at work. I go off on at least 1 customer a day. That ain't cool. Some jack ass kept telling me over and over that i didnt know what i was doing. This was because i couldnt tell him what our web site looked like. He refused to listen to what i had to say and kept telling me how wrong i was. I shouldnt have let it bother me but i had a bad headache at the time. Man i can't wait until my half day is over tomorrow. Looking forward to Diana's concert. SHe even got a santa hat for the show. Snow is starting to come down. Not a fan. Oh winter beard help protect me from the cold.

Monday, December 14, 2009

Monday

Man i friggin hate Mondays. What a crappy day. One good thing did happen. I asked Erin if i could leave early this coming Wednesday. I just found out Diana has a Christmas concert Wednesday evening. I talked to Erin and she managed to get me a half day off. I can now attend our daughters first school concert. I'm very happy. Rest of the day moved so slow. It was the usual redneck customers.

Last nights show was cool. John was our guest. It was awesome having him there. So thanks John for being our first guest. Kath's friend Amy will probably on some time soon. Next week is our Christmas show. I can't wait. I can't wait till this week is over. Gonna do Christmas shopping on the weekend. Can't believe Christmas is 11 days away. What the hell. Didnt we just have one?

Happy birthday to a fellow Oliver Queen fan


It's a day late but just wanted to wish our good friend Nickle a very happy birthday. Cheers to you buddy. Thanks for being a good friend to Kath and i these past 2 years. You rock my friend!

Beard is the word


I've decided. Its to cold in the mornings so winter beard is coming back. Starting today. The beard is back. That is all. Thank you.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Good lord do i ever hate working on Saturday


I hate Saturday customers more than i hate customers during the week. It seems like the cream of the crop assholes wait til the weekend to call and bitch. So many time customers amazed me with their stupidity. Let me throw out a couple of examples.

One customer wouldnt stop swearing. So i warned him that if he said one more swear word i would be eding the call. Here's what followed

"why are you telling me to stop swearing?"
"I'm trying to be professional on this call and i would appreciate the same courtesy from you"
"swearing has nothing to do with being professional. I think you'd better get your supervisor."
So apparently its ok to call anyone and say fuck every 10 seconds. It doent mean you're not being professional, I guess I've been wrong for 40 years. Thanks you mr. Jack ass for setting me straight.

Another old lady called in and went off on me about charges on her bill. Unfortunately her name wasn't on the account and the account holder had passed away. I actually felt bad and appologized and said we'd need to see a copy of the death certificate to get the name changed.This caused some serious old lady yelling.

"this is ridiculous. I pay the bills!"
"I appologize but unless your name is on the account I can't access the account."
" i guess you can't raise the dead either."

Then she hung up. No ma'am i am not God or someone who dabbles in voodoo. I can't raise the dead.

Then came the regular Saturday calls of lazy bastards that wont open a tv guide. People wanting to know what channel sertain shows were playing. I don't have access to a tv guide. We're not in charge of programming. I usually give several websites where they can go to check listings. One lovely lady yelled loser and hung up the phone in disgust. Fuck you(remember thats still professional) i can't pull up web sites at work to check myself. And youre getting that pissed off because i can't tell you what channel a stupid hockey game is? Get a life moron.

Same situation about an hour later. I couldnt tell a guy what channel some stupid show was on and he started giving me a retarded voice. Really? Without missing a beat i replied with I'm sure i didnt say it in that voice sir. And the douche got mad at me for saying that! God I hate Saturdays. They suck balls.

I'm home now. Gonna go sak in a tub and relax,maybe watch some Stargate to prepare for tomorrow's show. I'm looking forward to hanging with my family tomorrow.

Friday, December 11, 2009

A much deserved 2 days off.

Man the first 3 days this week were rough. On Wednesday i got massively loud and sarcastic with a customer and if a manager listens to it i will probably be disiplined. It was pretty bad. I wouldnt give a customer a credit and he thanked me for nothing. I probably shouldnt have thanked him and gone on about what a great job i thought i did. It was annoying. I hope i don't get written up for it.

I'm on day 2 of my days off. Its been awesome spending them with Kath. We bought ingiedients for Christmas cookies. Diana and Kath are making cookies as we speak. Yesterday we put our tree up. I was scared Kath was gonna beat the crap out of me. You may recall i took doewn the ornaments last year At least i tried to, The tree fell on my head and i broke about 4 ornaments. Luckilly Kath let me live.

We Did a bit odf Christmas shopping today and made a trip to the comic book store. I should probally figure out a show for Sunday. John is going to be our guest so I'm pretty excited. We're gonna have a lasagna tonight and a cauliflower salad. I'm in a really good mood today. Anyhow gonna go try and sneak some cookies. Have a great day all.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Snowy days, bastard red necks and porn legends


Monday started out really shitty and got good eventually. Work of course was beyond horrible. I lost track of how many times i got yelled at. One lady actually ssaid "i hope bad things happen to you." Of course it also snowed. That sucked ass. i hate snow. So lets skip ahead to the good stuff.

At 6:30 Rob picked me up and i got to sit in on his show. I got to talk on air a little bit. The highlight of the evening was that he got to do a phone interview with Nina Hartley. Nina is a legend in the adult movie genre. She's kind of like the Bruce Springsteen of porn. I'm not gonna lie,I've seen some of her work. Hey I'm a guy and all guys have looked at porn at least once in their lives. Anyone that says they havent is a damn liar. So i thought it was pretty cool that Rob and Matt got to talk to her. Rob pissed off her husband by bringing up bootlegging. It was pretty funny. Good times. Hung out there for a bit until it was time to come home. Ate dinner with the fam and watched a bit of tv. Life is good.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Sundays Rule!

Oh Sunday how i love you! I finally got to sleep in. I love how 10:30 is sleeping in to me now. Just a boring day and i love it. Doing chores and barbequing some chicken. That's right its december and I'm still grilling! I'm so happy it hasnt snowed yet. I prefer eating grilled meat. Yup still eating a lot of meat. I'm trying to continue with the atkins diet. I've let it slip the last couple of weeks and i need to get back on track. Yay diet!

Man last night there was a huge party going on a couple doors dow. That wasnt so bad. The bad part was that it spilled out into the parking lot.A bunch of people were on our lawn beside our van talking out loud in front of Diana's window. Kath put an end to that. Is it wrong i was happy when the cops eventually showed up to break it up?

Rest of the day went by quick. Did a bunch of chores and watched Stargate Atlantis. Can't wait for Thursday and Frisay. I'm off both days with Kath and we're putting up our tree. I only have 3 shitty days of work to get through. Anyhow talk to you all soon.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Oh yeah Bat cave!


Holy lord God do i hate Saturdays. It never stopped today. The best was the loud lasy that wouldnt let me talk. When she did let me talk she would cut me off and scream NO! in my ear. No matter what i said. "you owe money on your account." "NO" "You have one cable box." "NO!" "The sky is blue." "NO!" It was awesome. I came home on my break to visit the family. The day was way to rough.

Speaking of the family,last night Kath got Diana the coolest Christmas present for Diana. A little Batcave for her little super hero dolls. It even came with a Batman and Robin doll. It's so cool. I watched my favorite Christmas movie last night--Die Hard. Damn i love that movie to this day. Yippe ki ay mother fucker indeed.


I can't wait until tomorrow. It's my one day to sleep in. I'll probably watch some time travel related tv to get prepared for our show next week. THen at 7 i'll get to listen to our latest show. Only thing that'll suck is Kath won't be here to.

Ok Jay is rambling again so gonna go eat and watch some tv. Talk to u soon.

Friday, December 4, 2009

Hooray! Finally started Christmas shopping.


It's Friday. Day 2 of red neck less goodness. We ran a bunch of errands today. When Diana was in school we did some grocery shopping and bought some bulbs to change some brake lights. I was hoping we would change the brake lights today as i am nervous with Kath not having all her brake lights. She has assurred me she will attempt to repair it tomorrow while i am at work. We also checked out toys r us and bought some Christmas presents for Diana. We got her 2 sets of miniature Brave and the Bold action figures. One of them was a Green Arrow set!

After we picked up Diana we went to the comic book store and got Diana the coveted Indigo Lantern ring! We also bought some comics. We read all our comics in an hour as we had to review them on the show today. Got to Rob's around 3 and quickly recordede Sundays show. It went pretty smoothly. Following that Kath went to pick up Nickle for a run to the States for more groceries. Definately a busy day for the Stewart family. I'm sitting here really missing her. Soon i will have proper i.d. That'll be a sweet day. Rob should be arriving soon. We're gonna watch the Mel Gibson classic--Payback! Good times. Well gonna get going. I have some popcorn to pop. I'm sure i will have some horror stories to report on tomorrow at work. Wish me luck!

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Bored but loving it

Day off number one! Good times! Didn't do to much today. I'll tell you what I'm not doing--getting yelled at by red necks. Day started off rough. Diana is still a bit under the weather and di not like waking up today. She creied a little bit. Once she got to school she was fine. She was really happy to do her show and tell--a stuffed Robin bird.

Kath was a bit ill as well. SHe went in to work an hour late. Man i know my time to be sick is coming soon. hooray for me! I just heard from my friend Deb and i guess it is beyond crazy busy at work today. I am so glad i was off today. I got some stuff done to. I ironed some shirts and cleaned a kitty litter and worked on the show a bit. Gonna be a full day tomorrow. We're gonna do some running around in the morning. We'll buy some comics and read them soon after as we need stuff to review. In the afternoon we will record show # 7 and the Kath and Nickle will journey to the states. Rob will come over and watch some movies. Should be a fun day.

Can't wait for Kath to come home. Gonna finish up watching some stuff for the show tomorrow and have some burgers. Thats about it for now. Talk to you soon

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Working in the boonies sucks

Ok today was brutal. I took voluntary down time. I couldnt take it any more. I had just debated with a lady who wanted credit for a service that doesnt cost anything. When i told her that i got a big speech about how we don't care about the customers. It was awesome. Sitting in the boonies sucks as well. Anytime i have a question for a supervisor it takes 50 years for them to come over. I was miserable and tired so jumped at the chance to leave. I came home and already have laundry done and have cooked dinner. I'm off for 2 days. Thank God. We're recording Friday afternoon.


Diana is feeling better, That was a relief. Her feever went away and she went to school. She's pretty excited,she has show and tell tomorrow. I'm really happy she's ok. I just wanted to stay home with her and Kath today.

Last night we had our friend Amy over. She's pretty cool. She brought over her dog as well. What a nice dog. I want a dog. I'm not allowed to have a big dog here though. Stupid complex.

I'm feeling kinda drowsy so i'm going over to the couch. I'll write more when i'm more awake. Peace.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Oh Danny Glover where art thou?


December is starting off just crappy. Kath just messaged me and Diana has a fever. She's going to pick her up now and bring her home. My poor baby. We'll give her some medecine and keep an eye on her. One of us may have to stay home with her tomorrow. I'll check with Kath when she gets home.

Work sucked large today just like i thought. Everyone was mad. One lady called in because she had ordered a pay per view twice. She thought she was resuming the first one she had ordered. She was not. I decided to give her a credit but advised her it was a one time courtesy. This as an outrage! She had been a customer for 40 years. How dare i mention this was a one time courtesy. o she was planning to order more movies twice? I didnt understand what he problem was. I didn't have to give her any credit. I wasnt being a dick or anything. I gave her a credit. SHe was going to go to a supervisor over this. Some people have a lot of free time on their hands. She asked me where i was from. I told her near Niagara Falls. As soon as i told her that she got even more angrier. How dare i not actually be in Virginia! She said that explained a lot because i had a lot to learn about southern hospitality. What the hell? Take your credit and shut the hell up. SHe kept saying southern hospitality. After a while i just kept remembering the guy in Lethal Weapon 2 that said "diplomatic immunity" before Danny Glover shot him. There was no Danny Glover to bail me out today.