Friday, December 31, 2010

Jay's goals for the new year


So its that time of year again. In honor of my last blog of 2010 i will look back to last years resolutions and see how i did. Here's the recap

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 handsomely.
5} 3 way with Lacey Chabert? Really Kath is on board for this. Honest!

How did i do?

1) i kinda sorta had some weight loss success this year. I started off at 238 pounds and got down to 215. Then as it is every year, winter came and i got lazy and i gained some weight back. Currently I'm at 223 pounds. So not quite my 210 goal.

2) yeah the don't get pissed off at work thing may have lasted 5 minutes after i started work on January 2nd. Work makes it hard with all the new rules and regulations the give us every day. Not to mention the bastard red necks i have to listen to. They all want something for nothing.

3) did i invent time travel? Not so much. I couldn't find a flux capacitor or a Tardis anywhere.

4) not doing the radio show for a living. I wish. We had a lot of fun this year creating our show. Definately my highlight of 2010 was wizard world and the interviews we got to do

5) Unfortunately our 3 way with Lacey Chabert didn't happen. This comes on the heels of my 2009 jennifer Love Hewitt sexcapade not working out either.



Jay's goals and resolutions for 2011

1) I'm gonna diet again and hopefully by the end of 2011 i'll be a slender reed. I want to drop some weight so i finally get to wear a costume to a convention.

2) ok seriously i need to relax at work. I'm going to try really hard to be calm around these assholes. If i have a heart attack at work the red necks win and we can't have that!

3) i want to make sure i stay in touch with all my friends a lot better than i did this year. I've already told friends like Dennis and Lisa we should get together more often. I want to at least email friends a lot more often.

4) more fun with the show. I want to try really hard to get more interviews this year. The more i do the better i will get at it.

5) ok i am running out of Party Of five actresses to have a 3 way with. This year i will try for Neve Campbell. She may have to take a day off of work from Macdonalds to accommodate this. Honestly I have the full support of my lovely wife Kath


In all seriousness 2010 turned out to be pretty good. Kath and i were talking last night about it. Sure a couple bad things happened but nothing like the shit storm of 2009. We had some great times with friends this year. We're hoping for an even better 2011. So happy new year to all my friends and family. I'm wishing you all the best in 2011!

Pizza with awesome friends

Last night we went to Buffalo to visit our good fried Hollie. I hadn't been to her home in 2 years. You might recall we had that crazy business with my passport last year. Hollie is a friend of Kath's from way back and she is really cool. We arrived around 7pm and Hollie had ordered us a pizza. It was a really good pizza too. As we got out of our van we noticed 3 deer running around in Hollie's yard. Very cool. Another friend Ian was there as well. We ate pizza and all had a bunch of laughs. Ian popped in the Will Ferrell classic Elf and we actually watched it twice. It's still a funny movie 7 years later.
We exchanged Christmas gifts as well Hollie has always given us the coolest 'geeky' gifts. One year she got us a drinking glass from the show Heroes,another year she got us a really cool ornament with 6 removable marvel super heroes. This year? Star Wars cup cake making kits. It'll go great with our star wars cookie cutter set.

Our visit came to an end shortly after midnight. Had a great time. Hope to visit more often now that the passport issue is behind us.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Jay turns into the hulk


Wow i have a day off and not a moment too soon. What an awful week. I wasn't expecting so many bastards calling in after Christmas. Yesterday i actually got so pissed off i yelled at a customer. In my defense she had told me to go "fuck myself" several times.
The call had started out ok. I was completely calm and nice. The lady calling had been shut off. She was a couple of months late. I was doing my best to be understanding and i was even going to give her an extention. Then i realized she had 6 extentions this year and we're really only allowed to give 4. The notes for the last extention stated it was a one time courtesy. I told her all of this and that's when she started yelling and stating she didn't care what i was seeing in the notes.

Then all of a sudden she mentioned she had made a payment in November with her bank. Hmmm why would you neglect to tell me this at the beginning of the call? Ok so i tried to explain that if it cleared her bank she will need to fax in something called a transmittal report so we can search for the payment. Nope that answer wasn't good enough. She wanted a supervisor to get on the phone and magically find the missing payment. Again i tried to reason with her stating i could get a supervisor but these are the procedures she will need to do to find a payment she claimed cleared through her bank. Then she kept repeating supervisor now! very loudly in my ear. Then she kept counting how many times she had bellowed for a supervisor while i stupidly kept trying to talk. By the time she yelled ten times! in my ear the smart a"ss part of my brain kicked in. Never a good thing at my job. I yelled back --"eleven! I started yelling at this point, "look i will get you a supervisor but there's no need to be rude to me." That met with (you guessed it) Twelve times! I don't know why i kept trying to explain our policies. She continued to yell. Finally i said i would get a manager and sarcastically said "merry christmas." Her answer to that? "go fuck yourself." And then i lost it. "what did you say to me?" it was like the scene in Back to the Future 2 where Griff called Marty Mcfly chicken. "you heard what i said." "no i'm hard of hearing would you care to repeat what you said to me." finally she said 'i told you to go fuck yourself asshole." "maam i'm not going to tolerate being treated that way." Then i hung up. A supervisor was standing there as i hit the release button. My face was red and i was shaking. I was that pissed off. I told the supervisor what she had said to me and that was that.

I read the notes of the next representative she spoke with. No mention was made of our conversation even though i had written a mini novel in her notes. Then big surprise i read she had given a different story. There was no mention of a payment clearing her bank account. Now she was claiming she had paid in cash and had a receipt for it. Yep i love when someone lies their ass off. Oh and to make matters even more awesome--yes she got a 7th extension. Anyhow i calmed down after that.

So that was officially my last asshole customer of 2010. I wonder how long into my shift next Monday until i talk to my first bastard customer of 2011.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010


Wow i just saw the new Duran Duran video for the song all you need is now. It sounds weird as hell but its a really cool song if that even makes sense. I like it a lot and Simon Lebon has a really cool beard now. Oh man and i feel really old. In February of next year it will be 30 years since the release of their first album. 30 years. I remember when they were a new band. So to sum up new Duran Duran song is cool and i'm massively old. Good night for now

Not a good first day back.

I should have known that going back to work was going to suck. My mind wasn't there. Diana had been up all night throwing up. I was worried about her all day and had no patience with asshole customers. Kath stayed home with her. I so didn't care about anybody but my kid. I sighed really loud when one customer pissed me off. It was non stop yelling douchebags all day.I was happy to get an email mid day stating Diana was doing a lot better. That made me happy. By night time Diana was back to normal, dancing and laughing and playing. Oh and it was official December 27th was my 9 year anniversary at my awesome job. I sure didn't feel very appreciated. Where was my cake and champagne? Ok i would have settled for a 'thanks for all your hard work.'That was probably asking way too much.

Christmas day 2010


Christmas was also pretty swell this year. Kath got stuck working but it helped because i had called in sick the week before. We got up early so Kath could watch Diana open her presents before she went to work. "Santa" had brought Diana a Barbie styling head and a Joker fun house to match the Bat cave she got last year. Kath and i got her some zhu zhu pets--they are little hamster toys that make noise and move on the floor. I also gave her the nintendo ds i had won and we bought her some games for it as well.

Kath went to work and my mom picked up Diana and i for Christmas dinner. My sister and Dean and the boys were there as well as my step sister Erin who I hadn't seen in a million years. They spoiled Diana rotten. I appreciated the gifts they got for her. Diana got lots of pajamas which was nice and lots of games and coloring books and stuff. My mom got Kath and i a pair of tickets to see Barney Bentall at Brock University in March. That totally rocked. She also got me the biography of Rick Springfield which is actually a really dark book.

Dinner was great. There was lots of turkey and mashed potatoes and desserts galore. Kath joined us around 7. It was awesome. Had a great time with the family. Man Christmas snuck up on us this year and then it was over really quick. Can't complain though. I had 4 days off in a row which was an awesome present itself. So hope all my friends had a great Christmas and hope your New years eve is awesome as well.

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Christmas Eve 2010





Christmas eve was really cool. I had spent the day with Diana getting the house ready. I hung up all our stockings and some last minute decorations i had forgotten about. Kath came home around 7. Shortly after that some of our friends came over to eat cheese dip and exchange Christmas presents. First to arrive was Amy and Marcus and Nala the friendly dog. This meant it was time for Hesh and Merlin to run upstairs and hide. A few minutes later Rob and Nickle joined the festivities.
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Kath outdid herself again for the snacks. Her chicken wing dip is always a hit. We did the ol'exchanging. Rob and Nickle got me a cool walking dead calendar and a superman book and an atom book. Cool stuff. We ate a lot of chips and crackers and chicken dip and had a lot of laughs. It was the perfect Christmas eve.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

I do beleve in Santa Clause

Some good stuff actually happened to me this week. On Sunday we had an excellent show. Our friend Kristen was on the show. It turned out pretty good, We actually had a bunch of new listeners. Was very cool. We went out to Cheers after the show for chicken wings. I met some cool people that Kath works with.
Just listening to an old show right now that we recorded in November which had many technical difficulties. The first 15 minutes were annoying, i was like a deer caught in the headlights. Thankfully hot Amy was there to bail me out.

In really exciting news. I won a nintendo ds. My work had a 12 day Christmas giveaway. I walked into work the other day and before i even got to my desk, a really cool manager named Bethany came up to me and told me the good news. What makes the story even cooler,i guess about a week ago or so Diana told Kath she wanted a ds. So apparently there is a Santa Clause!

Diana's concert

Diana had her Christmas concert at school last night. Her class went on first and they sang some songs that featured bell ringing. It was really nice. I can't believe the hoops i had to jump through to get to see the concert. So i found out about the show about 3 'weeks ago. I went into work hoping they would be understanding. Nope. I was told i couldn't have the day off not even 2 hours so i could go. The only way i was getting the time off was to find someone to work for me. Yeah that was gonna be an easy task. Long story short my friend Trudy offered to work the last 2 hours of my shift. It was very nice of her--i wouldn't dream of asking my friends to come in and work on their day off from that place. What really makes me laugh-i was re reading last December's blogs and i guess i ran into the same situation and my boss at the time Erin had no problem getting me the whole day off. She was awesome. Too awesome for that place i guess cause she was let go. Anyhow thank you Trudy. I got to the show on time and it was great.

Tim Allen can be funny sometimes

I'm a little behind with blogs this week so its catch up time. It's almost Christmas time. Here's something funny. I totally got sucked into The Santa Clause 2 and 3. You know, the tim allen movies where he becomes santa clause. I saw the original back in 1994 when it first came out. I thought it was ok. It didn't make me want to the sequels in 2004 or 2006. Anyhow fast forward to 2010 and my work has been playing christmas movies for the last 2 weeks on a big screen with no sound. One day they played the santa clause and i got mildly interested. So i recorded 2 and 3. I found out that elizabeth mitchell fro lost and v was in it and i find her hot. I figured i'd probably watch a couple of minutes and get bored and erase it. Nope i couldnt stop watching. I watched 2 and part of 3 in one sitting and watched the rest of 3 today. The story was very good. The special effects were kinda cheesy. Not bad though.

Kath did most of the christmas wrapping today. Merlin slept under the tree and Diana went to her last day of school until 2011. I'm happy i'm off for 4 days in a row. Gonna try and get a bit of sleeping in. Diana will probably get up early every day. She has no problem getting up early on days where school isn't involved. She's funny that way. Man I'm feeling sleepy now but gonna blog and write back to a few friends.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Stupid syfy channel

Son of a bitch. The mega geniuses at the Syfy channel have canceled Stargate Universe after only 2 seasons. This is just a month after they canceled Caprica the Galactica spin off. I'm a huge Star gate fan and this totally sucks. So next year will be the first time in 14 years that we don't have a stargate series. They will still play the second half of the season but apparently it'll end in a cliffhanger with no resolution. I hate when series end without a proper conclusion. They did that to Stargate sg 1 as well but luckily there was a dvd movie that tied up all the loose ends. I can only hope that's what happens this time as well. On a side note the stargate franchise was the first thing i had bonded over with Rob and Nickle. Yeah its a sad day. Oh well at least the syfy channel plays a lot of wrestling. Yeah that makes sense.

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Saturday is over

Damn i like getting out early on a Saturday. Good times. Already finished my show preparation and I'm showered and cleaned up and just waiting for my wonderful family to get home for a bit of grocery shopping. Wasn't such a bad day i guess. Gonna relax after that and have some tacos. Good times indeed.

Friday, December 17, 2010

just chilling

Last night was pretty cool. Rob came by and we took Diana to her final ballet class of 2010. While she was in class we went back to Rob's place and watched the first episode of the live action tick show. I hadn't seen it since it first aired. It was pretty cool. I went home and watched some Christmas cartoons with Diana and when Kath came home we had manwich and home made fries. I love my friends and family.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

R.i.p George


Wow just realized that its been 9 years since George Harrison passed away. He was probably my favorite Beatle. I admit i knew nothing about him until he was in The Travelling Willburys. Was just watching some old clips on You Tube. I guess there was a tribute concert a few years back. Just saw a clip of Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton singing the song Something. It actually gave me chills. Man now i feel a little sad.

technically would have gotten a raise

So December 27th marks nine years at my current job. Quite the feat since i guess by now you know I'm not a fan of my job. I had my review yesterday and it was pretty good. If my company was still doing raises i would have gotten one. Yes 2 years ago the american company we work with decided when they renewed our contract that they wouldn't be doing raises. So that was awesome. Don't know whether to laugh or cry. I wasn't supossed to be there almost a decade. It was supossed to be temporary. I guess I might as well make it a full decade. Hooray!

Fast 5--Seriously?

As a host of a movie/tv oriented pod cast i have to keep up to date of upcoming releases and try and have an open mind. Keeping that in mind i just watched the trailer for fast 5 or fast and the furious 5 if you will. All i have to say is really? was that sequel actually necessary? Was there a lot of unanswered questions from the other 4? I guess Vin Diesel has to eat. I wonder if they'll drive really fast in cars. Oh well.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Happy Birthday

A very happy birthday to our good friend Nickle. Here's wishing u many.many more. Oh and i'm glad you aren't going to Michigan. I would miss you--plus who would yell at me about Dewey Cox dvd's?

Time to get sick

I am feeling totally shitty today. I'm achy and i can't stop coughing. I'm such a dumb ass though. I was going to go into work. Kath had to convince me to stay home. One day won't make much of a difference i suppose. I get extra pay at Christmas time so it'll make up for me missing work today. Anyhow that's where I'm at. Laying on the couch,eating soup and feeling just awful. Yay for Monday!

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Saturday woes

Just want to take this space to thank Rob and our friend Ken for being cool. Last night we recorded an episode of get your geek on. It ended up going til midnight. I blame my day job. Every Saturday without fail it gets dead and i get sent home an hour to an hour and a half early early. I always take that as a reward for putting up with the shit i do. So its been that way for at least 6 months. So i figure ok I'll ask the guys to record after work. I'll get out early and we'll get an early start. Yeah that didn't happen. So despite it being even deader than usual, i wasn't allowed to leave until after 7:30. I think between 6 and 7;30 i may have taken a whole 3 calls. The people around me were just as busy.I was pissed. I think we finally got started recording after 9. So thanks Rob and Ken for putting up with me and the late start. I really appreciate it

Friday, December 10, 2010

Bored and loving it

man i love boring days. No joke. I'll take that over any day where i'm getting hollered at by customers. All I'm doing today is preparing for Sundays show. Our friend Ken is gonna be on with us again. Oh and i did some dishes as well. Also cool? No bills in the mail today just flyers. I'm totally on board for that as well. I'm simple, it doesn't take much to put me in a good mood. Gonna do a bit of Christmas shopping tonight--and get some comic books as well. Life is good--until i go back to work tomorrow.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Beard

Yesterday i made the most important decision i have made this year. I decided that because its been so cold, its time to grow back my winter beard. Nothing like a big ass beard to keep my face warm on those cold winter days It'll help a bit. I hate being cold. It sucks. That is all.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Blue Monday

This is sure to be a craptacular day. Kath had to be to work super early so I was walking Diana in today. Looked outside and it was a bit windy with snow on the ground. SO went back upstairs to wake up Diana. AS i looked out the window i saw the garbage truck. Why did this suck? Cause i hadn't put the garbage out yet. It was too windy to do it last night. So i ran outside like a madman in my going to sleep pants to put the garbage out. I just made it. The truck never comes this early any more.

I walked Diana to school and didn't really feel the cold until i was on my way home. Now I'm on my way to work. I really don't wanna go. Its going to be busy and i know i'm not going to be able to find a seat. Oh well. Let's go get this crappy 10 hour shift over with. See ya!

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Finally the tree of geekiness is up

Oh yeah our Christmas tree is finally up and trimmed. We put the tree up last week but last night we finally put up all the ornaments. As a bonus Kath bought a new ornament. She had a coupon for 5 dollars off at the Hallmark store. So we picked up a miniature star wars set - Boba Fett and Han solo frozen in carbonite. Might i add its our 6th Harrison Ford ornament--3 Han Solo and 3 Indiana Jones. Sadly no Regarding Henry ornaments yet.

Printer cat

A quick funny observation about my cat Merlin. Any time we print something he gets really excited and runs over to watch and listen and just stare at it until our work is done printing. It's pretty funny and makes me smile

Friday, December 3, 2010

Rambling on a Friday

First blog of December! Yee ha!Hasn't been so bad so far. We started getting a tiny bit of snow the other day. Poor Buffalo. Hollie has been posting pictures on her facebook and they got hit massively hard. There's so much snow over there. Her car was completely buried. Not so cool.

Man i love days off. I enjoy the lack of stress. I will take household chores any day over screaming assholes. Spent yesterday doing laundry and dishes and writing up stories for the show. I couldn't be happier. Well actually if Kath were here that would make it even more awesome. We've both been working opposite shifts and we don't have any days off together anymore. Not a lot of time to visit with friends and family.Most of our friends and family have been cool about it. Lets just say most of them and end it there.

I have big plans this afternoon. I'm gonna try and catch up on episodes of Caprica. Canada got the final 5 episodes months ahead of the United states. Gonna try and get a few more in today. Tonight when Kath gets home we're gonna do some grocery shopping and perhaps s get more christmas presents for Miss Diana. Our kid not the ballet teacher.

Have a great day everyone
Jay
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