Saturday, December 31, 2011

Hey there rover come on over

Wow 12 years since ytk. More importantly 12 years since the family guy y2k episode where they went looking for the twinkie factory. Ha HA. seriously what happenned with the cheese and crackers? Man i'm over tired. Happy new year to everybody. Left foot, right foot

Where's the cheese and crackers?


Watching New Years Rocking eve on tv right now. They're running old clips from the 80's and 90's when i was watching the show. Just saw Tears For Fears and the spice Girls and billy idol. Fergie from the black eyed peas is hosting. I can't believe i have friends that think she is gross. To them i have to ask---really? I'm just rambling now. Counting down to cheese and crackers.


Can't wait till tomorrow. We're counting down our favorite movies of 2011 on the show. This year kath and i are doing separate lists just to see how different they are. Can't wait. It's been 2 weeks since our last show. Oh yeah just a big shout out to John and Rach and Stacey for helping with the show in December.

Resolutions 2012


Well i guess its time to look back at my resolutions from last year and see how i did. Here's a recap


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

How did i do?

1) Yeah the diet was non existant. I usually diet in the summer. Not this year. The diet was in the toilet.

2) ha ha ha. Yeah i'm never gonna relax at work. I've been downright angry at work. I tend to swear like a trucker. It ain't pretty

3) well i wasn't really successful at staying in touch with friends. Although i did hang out with Dennis and Andrea and Stacey.

4) ok i had so much fun with the show this year. We broadcast from the first Niagara Falls con,we also returned to wizard world where i got to interview an honest to God Kid in the hall.

5) can't believe the neve campbell 3 way was a bust. She wouldn't even return my calls.


ok the moment you've been waiting for

Jay's 2012 new years resolutions

1) I'm dead serious about losing weight this year. My short term goal is to lose 10 pounds before Wizard World in August. I want to lose at least 20. If i cut all the crappy food i should be able to do it. Fingers crossed

2) i want the show to keep going. I want more interviews this year. I want to broadcast live from assorted geek events

3) ok i know i need to chill out at work. I hate the job but i have a family to support. If i have to be there i should try and be happy about it

4) i think i should take another crack at inventing time travel. I want to travel back to meet the guy who coined the phrase "the customer is always right." and punch him in the balls

5) ok i'm running out of party of 5 actresess to have a 3 way with. I think Paula Devicq the maildis still left so lets say her. I do have the full support of my lovely wife Kath. Seriously.



I really hope 2012 is a fun year. There were a few good moments here and there this year but for the most part i consider it a rotten year. We lost Hesh, I got moved to another jb that i dislike as much as the last one and i still feel like i don't know what the hell I'm doing. Some opportunities that i thought were going to pan out for me didn't. I'm gonna try and put all that behind me and work on having the best year possible. I have my family standing beside me and i have my health. So happy new year everybody.

New years feast

Man i am looking forward to new years eve tonight. We're gonna have a big Stewart family pig out, Steak and fries and cheese and crackers and chips. One last blow out before i buckle down and go on a diet. I want to lose 10 pounds before wizard world in April. I can do it! maybe?

Rochester bound

Yesterday we finally made it back to Rochester. Unfortunately it was a really sad reason that brought us back. Kath's aunt had passed away on Christmas day and yesterday was the funeral. Luckilly for me work let me have the day off. We found out the funeral was 9 in the morning so we had to be on the roadtro Rochester by 6;30 in the morning. Quite the early morning.

Guess how we started the morning? You guessed it--dead battery again! Hooray! and it was 6;30 in the morning. Again we got lucky. A very nice neighbour that we have never seen before gave us a boost. We were gonna have to do something about that pesky battery real soon. We arrived in Rochester a few minutes before the funeral. It was a really say event. I didn't know Kath's aunt really well but she seemed like a really nice human being. I have to say that i am so proud of Diana. She was so quiet and well behaved during the funeral.

Following the funeral we went to visit with Kath's dad and his fiance. We had a really nice lunch and they gave us some Christmas presents. My brother in law Jaime also showed up with our niece Victoria and nephew Jamieson. I couldnt believe how Victoria had changed. She is 14 now. I couldnt believe it. I met her when she was 2 years old. She seemed all grown up. I am very old.


We left a few hours later and visited a couple of new comic book stores. Of course we wanted to buy one of everything. I picked up a couple of comics and we left our business card. I can't wait to go back when we have more time. They were both cool shops. While we were getting comics we decided to go to an auto poarts store Kth's dad had recommended and we got a new battery. Whew. No more boosts at 6;30 in the morning.

From there we went to spend some time with our friend Rose--or bubba as i call her--its a Nash Bridges thing. Anyhow she had some nice presents for Diana. Man the kid got spoiled this year. She made out like a bandit. We decided to go for dinner and when in Rochester that can only mean one thing--garbage plate! A garbage plate is mac slad and french fries with 2 burgers coveed in onions and meat sauce. It is delicious. While we there we also got to see our friend Don. It turned out to be a really good day after alldespite the circumstances.

Happy birthday Kimmy

I just wanted to wish a very happy birthday to my super friend Ki. She and her husband Nick are celebrating their anniversary this week as well. Congrats guys.

Friendship is rare

Gonna give a shout out to 3 of my best friends who i got in touch with this week. First of all i will go on record as saying that i suck when it comes to writing to friends. I also am not a phone guy. I used to love talking to friends on the phone in my younger days but in my adult years not so much.


First of all i heard from my buddy Scott. I think we may have wrote once in all of 2011. Scott moved to England years ago. We both admit that we suck at the emailing. I always have so much i want to tell him but i am far to lazy to write. We wrote a couple of times this week. His emails always make me laugh.

Speaking of Scott back in 1988 he introduced me to another long time awesome friend--Andrea. We've been through a lot together over the last 23 years. I did actually get to hang out with her once this year at The Barney Bentall show in July. We also saw him 20 years ago in 1991. I know she reads the blog so i will go on record as stating we will hang out more in 2012. There's a ton of cool movies coming out that we should all attend. Kath and i were going to all kinds of movies with her in the past but our stupid work schedules never seem to sync up anymore.

This brings me to my third shout out.I wrote to my friend Allison for the first time in 2011 on Christmas eve. Man back in the old days we were actually writing letters to each other the old fashioned way. We've been friends since the early 80's and one of very few people i still talk to from high school. I think i may have dropped a mention a time or 2 that she suggested i try my hand at blogging in the first place. I just found out her daughter is going to be 12.That makes me feel really old as i remember her writing to me to tell me she was pregnant. I think at the time i had only been dating Kath for a few weeks.

Anyhow i just wanted to say that although i may have slacked in the writing department i consider the 3 of you to be really awesome and i am lucky that after all these years you consider me a friend. I am going to try harder in 2012 to stay in touch a little more often. I apologize in advance if at the end of 2012 i am writing an entry like this again.

Hot Amy where art thou?

Ugh. My hair is doing that stupid thing where when its starts getting too long iy curls around my ears. I miss my hair cutter/friend Hot Amy. She moved away earlier this year. She knew her way around a pair of scissors and she was easy on the eye. Curse you hair! Damn you and such.

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

10 years burning down the road

Yesterday was my 10 year anniversary of working at the call centre. Sadly there was no parade,no confetti falling down on me and no cake in sight. I did have my usual bad mood at work though. So that was nice.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Christmas day

So Christmas day 2011 arrived. It really felt like it snuck up on this year. It didn't feel like we were prepared--even though we were. Anyhow Diana came into our room around 8:30 to try and wake us up. She crawled into bed with us and lets us sleep until 9:30. it could have been worse. My nephew Devon woke my sister up at 9 in the morning. We went downstairs to see what Santa had brought her. She got some cool super hero toys and some stuffed animals and other assorted goodies. For writing the list only the night before, santa did pretty good.

Kath did some more baking and we headed out to the van at 1. We were about to drive to London Ontario to spend the holidays with my family. My sister Erin had invited us. Then disaster struck. We had packed the van and we were about to be on our way. Unfortunately the van had other ideas. It decided it didn't want to start. Awesome! Luckily my good friend John was home. He gave us a boost and saved the day. We got to London within an hour and a half and had an awesome dinner. Erin's boyfriend Jim is really cool. He's into Comics like Kath and I. We had a great time and eveytone spoiled Diana rotten. I ate enough cookies to choke a horse. It was cool seeing the family.

Monday, December 26, 2011

Christmas Eve 2011


So i haven't blogged in a few days. I was lucky enough to have Christmas off. This was the first year at my work where we were staying open. I don't get it either.

We woke up on Christmas eve day and cleaned a little bit. Kath did baking all day. We did our exchange with Rob and Nickle around noon.They got me a really cool wall hanging of the justice League. We're gonna hang it in the living room after the tree comes down.


Spent the rest of the day cleaning and watching Christmas shows. Kath baked. I even grilled chicken. I've never grilled on Christmas eve before. Thankfully its been a green Christmas.

Diana finally wrote a letter to Santa. A few days ago Kath took her to the mall to talk to santa. All day she had been rehearsing what she was going to ask him. When they got there Diana didn't talk to Santa--she is really shy. In this years santa picture Diana looks really pissed off. Santa said he would surprise her since she didn't ask for anything. So we tried to explain that maybe asking santa for presents on Christmas eve maybe wasn't a good idea. You know since he was already delivering presents at the time.

Oh and i should also mention--Diana never wants to go to bed early. Starting at 6:30 she was all set to go to sleep. Nice try Diana Rose. We put her to bed at 10 and then wrapped presents and watched another batch of Christmas shows. Got to bed at 4. We wee hoping Diana wouldnt get up to early.

Boxing day good times

Here in Canada its Boxing day. A day where everyone in Canada takes back the christmas presents they didn't like All the stores also have great deals. Unfortunately the stores are jammed packed with sweaty angry people. I honestly don't know what would be worse today--going shopping or having to go to work. I get to go to work! I am praying that people will be too busy shopping to call in to complain. My friend Hunter lent me a Stargate Atlantis novel and all i want to do today is read it. I'd rather be home. Diana and Kath are both here today. I feel rested up at least so maybe it won't be so bad. Ha ha ha i crack myself up.

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Miss you pal



Wow i am in quite the sad mood. I've been sitting here writing to friends to wish them a merry christmas. I started thinking how this is our first Christmas without Heshy the cat in 17 years. Sure he used to try and knock all the ornaments off the tree. I think i actually miss that a little. I can't believe i'm tearing up now thinking about my orange buddy. Hey you know what doesn't help? Listening to a song called christmas won't be the same without you.

Oh yes i wil grow a doctor rush beard--oh yes


Well because it was snowing today and getting massively cold there's only one thing i can do. Grow my beard back. I have a pretty good start. I'm gonna grow a big ass doctor Rush beard from Stargate Universe. Yeah thats the ticket. Take that winter!

Friday, December 23, 2011

Thursday, December 22, 2011

My angels concert


Diana's christmas concert was cool It was a play about penguins and Diana was part of the choir. It was really nice. As i stated before i got out of work early as well. It was an awesome day. I only have one more day of work until the holidays. I can't wait.

I miss 24


Speaking of Jack Bauer--Happy birthday Kiefer Sutherland. Please finally make that 24 movie. Thank you.

Dammit


I knew i was having to good of a week. My stupid dvd player died on me. To quote Jack Bauer "dammit!" Kath says that maybe in the new year we should make the jump to blu ray. I guess some blu ray players play regular dvds as well. I guess i'll have to wait til the new year to finish my greatest American Hero box set. Again i say 'dammit!"

Random nice things happenning this week.

Wow. So far i'm having an ok week. I passed a quality at work-finally. We passed our inspection as well. We've been getting Christmas cards and cookies. That makes me happy. Kath and i have even managed to catch up a little bit on our tv watching. I only have to work half a day today. Diana's school christmas concert is tonight so i'm getting out of work at 6. Christmas is this weekend. Should be fun. I have one more day of work until the weekend. Hopefully things will stay pleasant for the rest of the week. I might even be able to catch up on blogging.

Monday, December 19, 2011

Good mood to end the night

Its 1 in the morning but wanted to blog before my good mood went away. Tonight was our Christmas episode. It was our 3rd. Our good friends John and Rach were kind enough to appear. We had a great time. I wish it wouldnt have ended. It was our last show of 2011.I'm not looking forward to tomorrow. It's gonna be a long week. We're gonna do some last minute shopping on Tuesday. I hate Christmas shopping. Oh well. I feel like i accomplished a lot this weekend. Ok i can do this. I can have a good week. I can pass my qualities. I can stay positive. Next weekend will be fun.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

cd less 2011

Wow here's something weird i just figured out. I love music cd's. I got my first cd player in 1989 and have bought cd's every year ever since. I realized that 2011 marked the first time in22 years that i didn't buy any cd's. We're in an age now where we can just go online and download music. There wasn't really a lot i wanted to buy this year, Strikes me as odd.I didn't even buy the newest Bryan Adams and i own all his stuff. Strange days indeed

Sunday a week before christmas

It's sunday afternoon. I feel like i barely made it to the weekend. Work was rough this week. I failed 2 qualities. I wasnt the only one. I swear they are making the qualities harder to pass. I was doing pretty good quality wise until i hit November. I don't get it.
Christmas is in a week and for some reason i don't feel prepared. We have most of our shopping done,and the tree and decorations are up. I kinda feel blah about the holidays this year, Not sure why. I'm looking forward to Christmas day though. My sister Erin has invited us up to London Ontario for dinner. Its about a 2 hour drive away. I used to go to London all the time to visit my buddy Scott. I really like that town. I've been there once with Kath to see Bryan Adams.

My weekend has been cool. Did some cleaning and decorating and watched a bunch of christmas stuff. Went out and got a bit of air with the kid. Hooray i have work tomorrow, Yeah i guess i am a glass half empty kind of guy. I wish i wasnt. Oh well.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Learning to Cry


Hooray i made it to Tuesday. Last night i got to speak to a customer who claimed his name was Tom Petty. Tom Petty is a hero of mine. Love his music. After talking to Tom Petty last night i came to the realization that Tom Petty is a dick. This guy really wouldn't back down. See what i did there? I thought he was going to have a breakdown The waiting wasn't the hardest part for him. I'm glad it wasnt the real tom petty. Heroes aren't supposed to be assholes.

Monday, December 12, 2011

Much like the boomtown rats-i don't like mondays

So its an hour and a half into my week and i already want it to be saturday. Diana was tired and in a very cranky mood. She spilled a drink all over herself so she had to change. She was ok by the time we had to walk to school. Kath has a long weird schedule this week so I'm barely going to see her. I have a headache and i can hear that my cat is throwing up under the christmas tree. All this and i get to go to the most wonderful place in the world in a few hours. My lovely job. Yay me!

Two weeks into December all ready

Holy crap. Tomorrow is December 12th and i have yet to blog this month. Holy crap. I can't believe that we're 2 weeks away from Christmas. That seems insane to me. We've gotten a little bit of shopping done. Work has been just flat out crazy. What else is new. Not sure what else to say in this here blog. I think I'm gonna go to sleep and I'll blog fresh in the morning. Have a great night

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

November won't be missed

See ya November. You won't be missed. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Bring on December!

Rip Mr Harrison

Wow. Just read that its the 10th anniversary of George Harrison's death. He was my favorite Beatle. He had so many great songs. Everything from My Sweet Love to Got My Mind Set On You. He was also in an amazing late 80's group called the Travelling Wilburys. I also became a huge fan of Tom Petty as a result of that band. R.i.p peace George

AND the hits keep on coming

Its Wednesday and the week hasn't gotten any better. I've gotten sicker,it rained for a full 24 hours and today i slept in causing Diana to be late. I wish it was the end of the week. Yup i think I'm just going to whine and complain today. Thats a nice attitude.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

This truly was a Monday

What a fantastic day. I woke up sick. My nose has been running all day. It was beyond crazy at work and i got my 3rd manager in a month. Its pouring rain outside as we speak. Only 4 more days until the weekend.

Monday, November 28, 2011

another long week ahead

Yuck. Here comes another week of crappy shifts. Had an awesome weekend. Spent Sunday with my family. We went to the new muppet movie and it was amazing. There were spots in the film that made me tear up. Kath lovd it--she's a lifelong muppet film. I love going with Diana to the movies. She sits there and listens and laughs in all the right places.

Had a nice dinner and did an episode of Get Your Geek on. Three more episodes left this year. Kath's friend Mark from work did the show tonight. He's a cool guy.

Ended the night with the walking dead, The last episode until February was on. It ended so f'ed up.


I really hope this week goes by quickly. I'm really not looking forward to another crazy week at work. A slow week would be great. I'm not going to lie--u would love it so much if its dead in there this week. I just want to see my friends and read some comics. Thats the dream.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Yup not a fan of dealers

I spoke with a dealer the other day and i swear to you he said his name was awesome. He was far from his name. His name should have been useless. Thats all i have to say about that.

Muppet time


Had a muppet filled afternoon with Diana today. Tomorrow Kath and i are taking the kid to see the new muppet movie. So to prepare myself i watched the muppet movie, the muppets take manhattan and muppet treasure island. I'm almost completely muppetted out.That being said i am really looking forward to the new movie. Can't wait to see Kath's reaction to the new movie. She is a lifelong muppet fan and i imagine she will giggle a lot. It'll be cute.

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Super friends reunion

Thursday night we went to the christmas party for Kath's work. It was a little different then years past. This year in addition to dinner there was a magic show. It was in a theater in Niagara Falls that i didn't know existed. I'm not much of a magic guy but the show was really cool. I was impressed with all the tricks. The magician had some cool tigers too.


Actually the highlight of the night was seeing my friends Kim and Nick again. Kim is an old friend who works with Kath now. I had first met them over in 1999 when i was working the midnight shift at the donut diner. It was a shitty job. I got the midnight shift and it was all drunks and crazy people. I think i met Kim on my 2nd or 3rd night there. It was around this same time i met Mike and Trish and Adriel. I soon struck up a friendship with them and started hanging out and going to movies and karaokee and stuff like that. They truly kept me sane at that job. So many great stories from that time. I called them my super friends I stayed in contact with Mike and Adriel after i left the diner and lost track of Kim. When facebook started up a few years ago i reconnected with everybody. Last night was the first time i hung out with Kim in a decade. it was really nice.

Friday, November 25, 2011

Ha ha ours was last month--we win

Forgot to wish our American friends and family a happy thanksgiving yesterday. Diana has started calling American thanksgiving-fake thanksgiving. For me it just means that sometimes i get 2 thanksgiving dinners. I do love the turkey. I will say i am thankful for our american friends and family and can't wait to see them all now that Kath has her passport.

Passport--finally

Good news for the Stewart family. Kath got her passport yesterday! This means we can visit friends and family in the United states again. I haven't crossed the border with Kath since last January. Its going to be cool. We could go over every 2 weeks if we want. I have weekends off and Kath has every other weekend. I also want to take this opportunity to thank Rob for carting my ass over there for groceries all year. It was much appreciated.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Kath rocks

I just want to go on record as saying i have the greatest wife ever. Sunday morning she surprises me by taking me to Toronto to a comic book convention. It was a small con that i had completely forgotten about. We packed Diana into the van and took off. There was no traffic and we got there pretty fast. It was a little bit crowded though. I was able to find some cheap comics and trade paperbacks and we capped the afternoon off with some hotdogs and fries.

On the way back Kath noticed a sign for a fancy grocery store she wanted to check out in Oakville. There was all kinds of samples and we also had spicy ice cream. On the way out of there we discovered a comic book store called conspiracy comics. Nice little shop. It reminded me of the comic book store that the big bang theory guys go to.

Thanks Kath for being my best friend and for always having my back. You're the best!

Welcome back Boss


Ok how about some stuff that did make me happy this week. Kath sent me a link showing that not only will Bruce Springsteen be putting out a new album in 2012 with the e street band but he will also be touring. Kath has already confirmed that we can go. I can't wait. It will seem weird seeing him without Clarence Clemons though. Listening to Jungle land as i type and tearing up a bit

Horrible day for Jay

Man did i have a rough day. We were supposed to have a unit inspection today. I spent the last week cleaning when i could. The inspection never happened and won't for another 2 weeks.

Diana woke up sick. She was actually crying. There was no way she was going to school today. So i kept her home and we each took a couch to crash on. I unfortunately woke up around 10 to one when Kath was getting home and i had to leave for work at quarter after one.

I also saw that our Get Your Geek on site was down. I didn't know at the time that it was just maintenance so i panicked. We can't do a show without that site.

Work turned out to be shitty as usual. Luckily i got to sit by my pal Trish who made me laugh and cheered me up.

I really want this week to be over.

Monday, November 21, 2011

Dealers= fun


So have i mentioned how much i dislike the dealers at our cell phone stores? They always call in and they don't know what they're doing.They never want to finish their own work orders or credit the customers. They constantly make mistakes on the account and sometimes we can't fix it on our end. When we can't fix it on our end they get really pissed off at us. I always kid that i want to go to dealer school because it seems like an easy gig.

Anyhow on Friday i had to go all Jack Bauer on a dealer. The dealer was trying to cheat the customer out of a refund. We have a policy that if you don't like the service or if you have any issues then you can return the phone within 14 days after purchase and get a refund on the equipment. The service itself is a different situation. If you want a refund for the service then you have to return the phone within 7 days and you cn't be over 30 texts or 30 minutes of talk time.

So a customer called me and the dealer had refused him a credit for the phone. It was 3 days after he bought it so he was well within his right to ask for a credit. However he was over the 30 minutes so he wasn't going to get a credit for the service. The customer understood that. He asked me to talk to the dealer. No problem. Here's what i heard in the background

customer to dealer: "can you talk to him?"
dealer: "no he can call me back if he wants to talk to me."

what the hell? Who is that being helpful to?

cust to me: " he says you need to call him back.


screw that so like i said i reached down deep inside and channeled my inner Jack Bauer

Me: "no put him on he's going to talk to me now."

dealer gets on the line all cocky and obviously doesn't know what he's doing. He's confused the return policy of the phone with the return policy of the service and tells me he's not crediting the phone itself because the customer is over the 30 minutes of talk time. So i explain--slowly i might add--the policy of returning the phone

Dealer: "so what do you want me to do about it?

Me pissed by this point: "You're going to refund the nice customer for his phone."

I'm not sure if i helped or not.I don't think the dealer ever processed what i was saying. I would love to be a fly on the wall at dealer school. I've yet to meet a helpful dealer.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Happy half birthday little devil


SO Kath pointed out to me that yesterday was Diana's half birthday. She is 6 and a half years old. We celebrated it with the gift of cake. Happy half birthday buddy!

Diana the report card queen!

As i already mentioned in an earlier blog i an super proud of Diana this week. As if i couldnt get any prouder,she kicked ass on her report card.They don't get marked on a grading system but they mention everything she does well. Apparently she is awesome at everything. She is reading at a grade 3 level in grade 1. I'm happy that she took after Kath in the brains department.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Can it be the weekend already?

Hooray! The week is half over! Yesterday was just a total shit fest at work. There were outages everywhere and a new 50 percent off sale. Customers were ruder than usual. I know right? Had a huge head ache by days end. There was some swearing on my part. Couldn't wait for the clock to strike 10. To be blunt the day sucked balls. Finger crossed this day will go smoothly. I'm already counting the seconds until the end of the shift. Anyhow gonna go nap for a bit. We'll talk soon

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Remembrance day

Forgot to mention that last Friday Kath and i went to Diana's school for a remembrance day assembly. All the classes in the school sang songs and read stories about remembering the soldiers who fought in the war. Diana's class sang a song about poppy flowers and then read out loud a play about being brave. Diana remembered her lines and was great. I was proud. Lets be honest everything she does makes me proud.

What happenned to the weekend?

Man that weekend went by way to fast. It felt like i blinked and missed it. At least i'm back at work. Yay. Four more days until the next weekend! I drank my first pop in a week yesterday. I also had 5 waters. I don't think i need to totall give up pop but i do need a better balance. Maybe 2 pops a day compared to the 5 or 6 i was doing. My sleep schedule is a little better since i started the new shift. I'm not as tired as i used to be. Did i mention only 4 more days until the weekend? Sigh.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Productive saturday

Hey everybody. I had a pretty productive day off. Diana and i went for a walk to her school and then to the new flea market. The flea market is coming along nicely. Not all the stalls have been filled yet--still hoping for some toy and comic book vendors. At least its in walking distance. I do miss the macdonalds toy selling lady from the original flea market though.


Did some cleaning to. W e have clean up at our complex next weekend so thought i would get a head start. I started with the hall closet and i don't think I've cleaned it since I moved in here. Found some interesting items in there. Some old entertainment weekly magazines from 2007 and even a mixed cd of unreleased Bruce Springsteen material i had downloaded. Its still only about halfway done cleaning the closet. Then its on to Diana's room.

Watched some shows with Kath after she got home and now sitting here blogging and working on tomorrow nights get your geek on. My day was ok. I can't complain.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

the ufo whisperer

Yay! my neighbour has already put up his christmas lights that are brighter than the sun. The good news is that they stay on all night. I swear if you look outside at 1 in the morning it looks like 1 in the afternoon. I love it. It looks like he's trying to signal a ufo to land on his property. We call his lights the landing strip. So hooray for us!

Movember

Hey i forgot to mention that I'm taking part in Movember. Yup that's November with an m. Movemeber is where you try and raise money for cancer by growing a mustache. So on Novemeber first you make sure you are clean shaven and then the fun begins. I hadn't been clean shaven in about 10 years. Diana had never seen me without a beard. So i shaved and slowly I've been growing a mustache. I haven't been doing to well with the donations though. I've asked a bunch of people and haven't gotten a response yet. Hopefully I'll get some donations by the end of the month. I sure can't wait to grow the beard back.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

The great pop experiment

Wow its really taking me a long time to blog this month. So on Sunday i decided to do an experiment for a week. I've gained some weight lately. Part of the reason for this is that i have stopped drinking water which isn't good. So for a week i'm going to try and go with no pop. So far i'm on day 3 and not sure if i like it or not. I've had a headache for 2 days and i have felt pretty tired. I almost fell asleep at my desk yesterday. On the plus side i'm getting about 6 waters in a day. So there's that. Anyhow We'll see how i do next Sunday. Maybe i will drop a few pounds. That would be swell

Monday, November 7, 2011

First blog of November. Only took 8 days. Had a great weekend. Its been a long time since Kath and i got to spend a whole weekend together. This new schedule might be ok after all. Its still taking some time to get used to it. Last week wasn't to bad, It was slower than i expected. It was nice getting home at a descent hour. I got to tuck Diana in and read her bedtime stories. The only drawbacks so far were--there's a lot more calls from dealers and as you may have guessed-I am not a fan of dealers. Its also hard to find a seat because when i start during the day everyone is there. Other than that its been ok.
Saturday we went to a craft show in Oakville. We got a few early Christmas presents. We also did a little grocery shopping and went for comics. Sunday we checked out the new flea market and finally got Kath's passport information mailed out. Soon we can go back to the states together again. We're hoping her passport will be in before Christmas so we can go see family and friends.

Well I'm rambling now so you know what that means? Yup its time for a nap. I'll write later. Take care.

Monday, October 31, 2011

Trick Or Treat




Today during the afternoon ,Kath and i went to Diana's school for their halloween parade. All the kids and teachers get dressed up in their costumes and walk around the neighborhood. This year we were told it would be ok if parents came to. Diana was dressed like a little devil. There were lots of ninjas and skeletons and clone troopers. The parade actually went past our neighborhood as well. It was really cool.

Trick or treating turned out pretty cool as well. Nickle came with Diana and I while Kath handed out candy. We actually ventured out of the complex this year and did a couple of extra streets. I threw on a green lantern t shirt and ring and Nickle painted a mask on me. The mask looked cool. We came home after an hour. Diana got so much candy and 12 bags of chips.

Not looking forward to tomorrow. Its the first day of my new shift. Although i will be home at a descent hour and i will be on a great sleep schedule,i'm not looking forward to being busy all the time. That could suck. On the plus side i am looking working with people like Debbie and Kristen and people i didn't get to see working the midnight shift. Here's hoping November doesnt suck.

happy halloween everybody!







I am so looking forward to trick or treating with the kid tonight. Hope she gives me some sour patch kids!

Sunday, October 30, 2011

No show again

I shouldn't be blogging right now because i am beyond angry. We couldn't do a live show this week because Kath and rob had other stuff to do. We went ahead and recorded a show last night. I should have known better.No im not Richard Marx. Every time in the past we have recorded a show something screwed up that prevented the show from playing. Not sure why i convinced myself this time that wasn't going to happen. I'm sitting here in front of my computer at 8;30 and have yet to hear any of this weeks show. It should have started playing half an hour ago.


In the past when this has happened the recorded show that didn't play would just go up on our web site. That's great and everything but i want something to play in our show time slot. There was one week where we didn't record anything and i was assured an older episode would play. Didn't happen. So lesson learned if we can't do a live show i will expect our 8-10 time slot to just be dead air. I will not put myself through this again.

Staking out the neighborhood.

Wow didn't realize my last post was post number 700. Time flies when you're complaining. Diana and i went out for a walk and scoped out where we're going to trick or treat tomorrow. We are actually going to venture a little bit out of the complex this year and maybe do an extra street or 2. I'm excited. Kath and i both have the day off. We're going to visit Diana at school also for her halloween party. Looking forward to it.

Lazy days rule

Had a real cool Saturday off with Diana. We took a walk,watched tv and did a few chores. Kath came home at 9;30 and we recorded a new get your geek on to play Sunday night. I like lazy days. It avoids having to listen to customers tell me to go fuck myself. Good times

Saturday, October 29, 2011

blah blah

Another call i took yesterday i want to briefly mention. Another angry gentleman called in yesterday. Big surprise huh? I don't remember a lot about the call. I remember he wasn't a big help though. I think his internet was down. I asked if he was getting an error message, I swear to God his reply was

"yes i have an error message that says blah blah blah blah blah blah."

really? Does it really say that? hmm let me look up blah, blah , blah etc in your phones user guide. And he said it so fast to. He expected me to be able to figure out his issue by saying blah blah blah. I can't understand why i dislike my job so much.

No time for love doctor jones


Believe it or not i had another exciting/annoying/funny call at work. A very angry asian fellow called in and his issue was that one of his friends was getting an error message when he tried to call him. His friend had a different phone carrier and everybody else in the world could get through. So i suggested that maybe the issue was on his friends side and they should contact their phone carrier. This did not sit well with the angry asian. So i tried to troubleshoot in other ways, However the guy refused to answer any of my questions and proceeded to yell at me. He asked me why i was asking questions and i replied it was my job to ask questions to find out what the problem was. So eventually here's what short round had to say to me. Pure genius i might add.

Awesome asian angry man: "fuck you!"--see i told you it was genius

Me not taking his shit : "sir if you continue to swear i will end this call."

Jackie Chan: "fuck you,fuck you,fuck you,fuck you,fuck you(he may have said it 10 or 12 times i lost count), Do you understand that?"

me feeling a little like Clint Eastwood: i do understand and you understand you've been warned about the swearing. Have a great day."

and i ended the call. Fuck me? Fuck him.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Just another day at the office

Another awesome day was had at work. Yesterday there was an outtage in Toronto that took cell phone service out for maybe 3 hours. I couldn't believe how angry the customers were. They were seriously treating me like i had anally raped their grandmothers while pouring sugar into their gas tanks. Thank you Kevin Smith for that quote. They seriously thought we caused a problem on purpose. I'm sure the president of the company woke up and thought "hmmm, you know what would be cool? We should disrupt service so all our customers call in pissed off. Wouldn't that be delightful?" Customers are great. I get where they are coming from but to be that over the top angry? Ridiculous.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

cell phones; the number of the beast,


So i actually had a customer call in today and cancel their account because their account number ended with the numbers 666. Did they think satan was going to visit them because of a demonic cell phone account number? Yeah your cell phone was created in hell. A red creature with horns and a tail is going to show up because of your account number. Some people. Sorry pal if its hell on earth you want then might i suggest the new Twilight movie.

Monday, October 24, 2011

Sunday --ugh

Wow not gonna sugar coat it. Sunday sucked balls. I couldn't wake up to save my life. I stumbled out of bed around noon and went downstairs only to fall asleep another 3 times before 3. Seriously what the hell? Finally dragged my ass off the couch around 3;30. I took Diana for a walk to try and get some air and wake up. It did the trick.

Kath got home around 5:30. We were gonna have some dinner and watch some tv and get ready for the show. A friend of Kath's from work was coming over to talk about the new Batman game. If anything i was over prepared for the show. It was gonna be good. Shortly before 7 Rob called to say his van broke down on the highway. So no show tonight. Thats ok we had some shows we could watch. Waited all week to watch the walking dead and rescue me. However they recorded with tiling and no sound. Good times.

Going to bed soon. I 'm starting my last week of working the midnight shift. I can't wait for it to be next weekend already. Oh well

Sunday, October 23, 2011

John Mclane makes it all better


Weekend is great. Already mentioned our Green Lantern adventure. Was weird coming out of the theater and it wasnt even noon yet. After the movie Kath went to work and Diana and i came home. We cleaned up a bit and Diana did a painting craft. We went out for our regular Saturday walk and just chilled out. Did some grilling,cleaned the studio and hung out with Merlin the cat who refuses to come up stairs now.

It's almost 1 in the morning and i'm dead tired. Why arent i in bed? Live free or die hard is on tv and i think its the unedited version. Yup the version where john mcclane says yippee ki ay mother fucker. Life is good.

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Yet more shitty call centre news

So i got some bad news the other day. A day after i get my excellent shift bid news i found out my new cool manager who got me my awesome new shift has been transferred over to the hellish cble company i used to work at. She was my manager for a total of 3 weeks and she was probably the coolest manager i ever had. I feel bad for her having to go to the cable company though. I hope she doesnt have to deal with a million porn disputes. There's something i don't wish on my worst enemy. Or maybe i do. I'm so confused.

Happy birthday Hollie

A very happy birthday to our good friend Hollie. Hollie and Kath have been friends since they were teenagers. I met Hollie 12 years ago today. Jath and i had been dating for 2 months at the time and we went to The states to Hollies birthday party where we met. It was also the first night that Kath and i got pukked into U S customs. We still joke about it to this day. The guard asked us where we were going and we told him a birthday party. He actually asked us who was having the party. Kath almost asked--why are you going to be there. Good times.

i know right?


Wow its been a pretty cool Saturday so far. We went to the Niagara square at 9;20 in the morning to see a free screening of Green Lantern. Yeah i realize it was a weird time to see a movie, A kids charity was showing some movies for free this morning. All the snacks, pop and candy were 2 dollars a piece and the money was going to charity. Diana came with us and it was her first non animated film in a movie theater. She seemed to like all the parts that showed Green Lantern but didn't care for the talking parts. Kath actually made it through the whole movie with out falling asleep. I forgot a lot of the jokes and stuff from the first time we saw it in June. I still really liked it a lot and still can't understand why it did so badly at the box office. Fingers crossed there will still be a Green Lantern 2. I can't believe its only 1 in the afternoon and i had popcorn for breakfast. Yay Saturdays

Thursday, October 20, 2011

A few less problems for Jay

ok i feel like things are going my way for the time being. I got my shift bid request and it looks like i will still get weekends off. I can still do the show. I will work monday to friday 1:30 TO 10:00. Its a pretty good time frame. I will still get home fairly early to watch rv with Kath and i can get to bed fairly early. So i'm pretty happy. That and another issue i was having was solved yesterday. So for the time being i feel pretty good. I feel like i could take on the death star all by myself.

Not so cool quote

While speaking to a dealer yesterday i asked if i could put him on hold to get some information. His reply? Something i hope no one ever says to me again--"that sounds delicious broseph!" Lame.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

customers are funny

Favorite quote of the week at work. So when anyone calls in we need to either verify a 4 digit code on their account or the answer to a security question. One lasy tried to answer the security question what is your favorite color? She answered--green something. Thats cool because i think my favorite shade of green is the popular green something. Yeah it apparently doesnt take much to ammuse me these days.

Assorted stuff

I just got back from taking Diana to school. I realized i'm behind in my blogging. I really hope this week is going to be a good week. I feel a little better about the shift bid. Still not liking the job so much though. Thats big news isn't it?

The weekend was pretty cool. Rob took us to the Buffalo comic con. Had a pretty good time. I spent a whopping 12 dollars but that got me 12 comics and the screenplay for clerks 2. It was a really good turn out this year. Fingers crossed that next year at this time Kath will have her passport so she can go.


Its starting to get cold outside. Not a fan of that. Hoping to get a new jacket soon to stay warm. Wow i sound really boring today. Maybe theres a reason i havent blogged so much this month. Anyhow I'm gonna go watch a bit of tv and go take a nap. Yup i am really old. Have a great day.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

New manager rules!

So it turns out i got a new manager,and she's really cool. She's a lot more organized than the last one. I told her about my issues with working on Sunday,told her about get your geek on. It turns out our friend Kristen had mentioned to her awhile back that i had a show. So she said she would try really hard to get me that day off and i will probably work saturdays now. I don't have an issue with that because i worked just about every saturday for the last 10 years. Needless to say i'm in a good mood about this news. I'll keep u all posted

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Gygo 100

One cool thing did happen to us this week. We aired our 100th episode of get your geek on. John was kind enough to record with us. I figured it would be awesome to have my friend of almost 30 years to be on with us. It went pretty good. We had a lot of listeners and it was a great time. I can't believe we've been lucky enough to do the show for 2 years. I know that if i don't get my sundays off we'll figure something out. Not ready for the show to die off just yet. I feel i have a lot of shows in me and its a lot of fun.

Shift bid again

Wow i haven't blogged a lot this month so far. October is not going well. So i got some awesome news this week. My shift at work will no longer exist. No more midnight shift. Because i worked that shift i was guaranteed my weekends off. I don't really care about Saturday but i need Sunday off to do Get Your Geek On. The call centre will now only handle calls from 10 am to 10 pm. I can still take Diana to school which is awesome. We got our shift bid choices yesterday and there was 42 different shifts. I could work with 25 of the shifts. Hopefully things will go my way. Fingers crossed.

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Let Me say thank you

Havent written a blog in awhile but popped out here to wish all my Canadian friends and family a very happy thanksgiving. We're going to my mom's house for dinner. Turkey rules.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Stupid 3 am shift

Hey good day and welcome to october. Fridays shift really sucked. There was a big midnight madness thing going on so everyone and his brother called in. I started late--6:30 and worked until 3 am. It was busy until about 1am. Call after call. It sucked ass. When 1 hit it slowed down and died off. For the last 2 hours i just talked movies and comics with the other 3 people that were working. We had some laughs. Man i don't wanna work that late again. It totally blew. Have i mentioned i hated the shift?

This week should be interesting. Maybe get my shift bid papers and maybe get a new manager. Man i hope this week doesnt suck.

Friday, September 30, 2011

Help me energy drink

Having a pretty good day. Got up at 8 to take Diana to school. At 10 Rob picked me up for groceries in america. Here it is 3:30 and i've been up ever since. The great news is i start work at 6;30 and go til 3 in the morning. Yeah I'm screwed. I wanna go nap but i'm afraid of not waking up on time. Kath is bringing me home an energy drink on my lunch break. That'll be at 10 so hopefully that will keep me going til 3am. Probably not though. Hope i dont fall asleep at my desk. They might frown on that.

Bye bye September

Wow September is almost over. I guess it was an ok month. Who knows-- i slept a lot. Looking forward to October. I have the con in Buffalo on oct 16th and of course there's halloween. If i get my way with the shift bid it should be a kick ass month. As long as i get sleep that is.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Hooray its Thursday

The week is almost over and it hasn't been to bad. I never got in trouble for that horrible call last week and the shift bid has been postponed for a couple of weeks. Everyone in my row including me were told we had to go sit somewhere else. That sort of sucked. I liked the computer i was sitting at. Oh well. Sleep continues to be my best friend and i will nap any chance i get. Yup I am an old man. I have become a huge fan of pizza pockets this week. They're quick to make and delicious. Just said good day to my family and I'm headed into another wonderful shift. Tomorrow i work til 3 in the morning. Sleep isnt going to like me. Gotta run. Talk to you all soon.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Hooray its work time again

I just ate a bunch of burger king and now i want to go back to sleep. I am old. Oh well off to work in an hour. Hooray! I had a nice afternoon with Kath but alas its all over. Its like a prison sentence.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Monday: is the week over yet?

Once again an excellent weekend has come to an end. It was everything i wanted in a weekend. Lots of sleep and a flea market adventure capped off by another excellent episode of get your geek on. There were so many people in our interactive chat room this week. It was so cool. My friend Andrea was listening to the show for the first time. Thought that was pretty cool. Now I'm in the middle of getting ready for work. It sucks. I'm hoping that bad call from last wednesday is a distant memory and it doesnt come back to haunt me. Also we will probably get the forms for the new shift bid this week. Not looking forward to that. Can i just skip ahead to the end of the week? That would be nice.

Sunday, September 25, 2011

High times

So just thought I'd share my conversation with the biggest drunk in Vancouver. Friday night i got a call from a guy wanting an extention. I immediately felt dread becasue we don't grant payment extentions and i had a feeling it would go to a supervisor. I saw that he had already paid the bill and didn't owe anything until the end of October. This is when i discovered he was out of it. Some quotes that followed:

"i don't know if you can tell but i'm pretty high."

" Did you hear that R.E.M. broke up?" Then he proceeded to sing Everybody Hurts at the top of his lungs.

" Are you from Vancouver? I fucking love Nickleback !"

"Hey Jason guess what i did? I took my shirt off here at the bus stop. I'm half naked.Yeah!!!!"

then i hear him yelling at someone

" Hey baby!! What's up? Jason she don't wanna have anything to do with me cause I'm so fucking old!!"

he also read half a poem to me. It was kind of entertaining. Kath hopes thats the call that my supervisor marks this week, That would be funny.

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Everybody's working for the weekend!

Hooray! I made it through the week! Yeah baby! Nothing o do this weekend but sleep and grill and work on the show. By the way there's a brand new get your geek airing this sunday night from 8-10! i'm in a pretty good mood. Work was half descent tonight. It rained a lot and i got soaked but other than that my day sure was swell. Now its off to bed with visions of no work dncing in my head

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Anyone wanna work for me today?

Man i don't want to go in to work today. Any of my friends want to go in for me? I'll give u a dolla. I'll be your best friend. I have a bad feeling i'm going to be getting into trouble today. I think my manager over heard me telling a customer off and i think he might be grading me on the call. So fingers crossed i don't get written up. I'll post about it later as an update

3 am again

Man remember that shift last month where i agreed to work until 3 in the morning? I remember during that shift we all vowed to never work till 3 again. Well they asked us to work until 3 in the morning on september 30th. We all agreed to do it again. Oh well at least its extra money and it will be dead at the end of the night. 3 in the morning though. I can barely stay awake as it is now. I'm looking forward to working that shift. Not.

Did i mention dealers suck?

Halfway through the week. Thank God. Yesterday sucked. I had so many people wanting to talk to supervisors. This included a dealer who called in with a customer on the other line. The customer was cool. The dealer was an ass. First of all his name was Sheldon and he was trying to hard to be a tough guy. I fixed the customers problem--no thanks to the dealer. Anytime i would suggest a solution the guy would call me out and question what i was doing--in front of the customer. Um hello --I'm on the same team as you asshole do you maybe not want to be a dick to me in front of one of our customers? Then he demands a huge credit for the customer for one feature not working for a day. I couldnt validate the credit so he demands a supervisor. I don't know why he was trying so hard. I'm guessing to make up for the fact that his name was sheldon. Anyhow long story short--the manager stuck up for me. I really wish the customer had called on her own because i had no problem with her. Did i mention I'm happy the work week is almost over?

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

believe it or not


I have totally gotten sucked into a 30 year old tv series. When i was at Wegmans about a month ago with Rob i found a copy of season one of the greatest American hero. I loved the show as a kid and the dvd was only 5.99. I figured if it turned out the show sucks now than i was only spending 5:99. The show was about a school teacher who recieved a costume from some aliens. He fought crime with an fbi agent and a hot girlfriend. Watching it now? The effects are cheesy but i love the stories. I haven't seen any of the episodes since i was in grade 6. I liked it enough to go to the future shop and drop 12.99 on season 2. Still a really good price for a dvd box set. i'M curently watching season 2 and i can't wait for season 3 which is sadly the final season. Great series.

Cool out


Rob brought us over a mini fridge for the basement. For weeks we've been joking around about getting a fridge for the get your geek on studio and because we're such nerds we're going to get action figures of characters that can make ice and display them on top. You know characters like ice man and mr freeze and captain cold. We are such nerds. Loving the idea though. Can't wait to stock it with tasty beverages---Kath wants to get ice cube trays shaped like han solo frozen in carbonite. Love it.

Is this week over yet?

Ugh. We're only at wednesday and i'm ready for this work to be over. The calls at work have been brutal,i have a sore throat and my sleep schedule has sucked. I'm tired all the time. Oh well what are you gonna do. The only cool thing this week is that i get to spend my mornings and afternoons with Kath this week, She is on a schedule where she doesnt go in until 4;30. So thats been cool. We went with Rob to Pulp comics yesterday. That was pretty. Wow i seem to be rambling my ass off. Like i said no sleep.

Monday, September 19, 2011

The weekends go by so quick

Son of a .... Weekend is over already. Sunday was great--much like Saturday. Diana and i went to the flea market with Rob. We got Kath a glass from The Great Muppet Caper. It was the last one she needed so mission accomplished. My new goal is to find all the glasses from The empire Strikes Back. I used to have all 4 and now for some reason i have 3 Lando glasses? I think i lost some in one of my many moves. It sucks. I hope the shift bid goes my way or next week could e my last flea market trip for the next 3 months at least.

We put on another episode of Get Your Geek On Tonight and i though it went over great. Next week Kath has to work so Nickle has agreed to be my co host. Should be good. Nickle is a comic book reading machine. Now i just have to figure out what we are going to talk about.

I really don't wanna go in tomorrow but i know i have to. That weekend went by so fast. I can't believe its almost the end of September. Well i guess i should get some sleep. Kid has to get ready for school in 5 hours. Kath works nights this week so i get to spend time with her during the day at least. Goodnight all.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Another shift bid

I found out that in 2 weeks we are having yet another shift bid at work. They're gonna happen every 3 months. I pretty much hate that. My stats have improved a little bit so I'm hoping i can stay on the same late shift. It works out better for me--i can take Diana to school and pick her up and i get Sundays off to do the show. I'm gonna be so pissed if i get stuck with a shift i can't do but will have to do. The only thing that will suck is i will get a new manager no matter what happens. I pray its not the manager i had earlier this year. She never spoke to me in 2 months but failed me on multiple qualities. So it may be a win/lose situation. Fingers crossed it goes my way again.

Saturday off with the fam

Had an excellent day off with my wife and kid. Finally got to sleep in. Spent the afternoon watching a tv series we had downloaded called falling skies. It was a really excellent show about an alien invasion. We went out for a bit to check out the new halloween store and we also bought some propane. Exciting stuff huh kids? Had a nice barbeque with burgers an chicken and i even drank a whole beer. Yup I'm a party animal! Split up a few fights between our cats starlight and Merlin. Watched some more tv until Kath fell asleep and here we are. I'm catching up on blogs and working on tomorrow's exciting new episode of get your geek on. Exciting stuff.

Friday, September 16, 2011

Crazy news

Kath just informed me that Christmas is only 100 days away. Then a few minutes later i read that Billy Ray Cyrus is seriously growing his mullet back for the 20th anniversary of Achy Breaky Heart. Not sure which of the 2 seemed crazier to me. On that note I'm off to pick up my kid from school.

Too much sleep for the jay man

My crazy sleep schedule finally caught up with me. Diana woke me up this morning instead of the other way around. It was after 8 and we leave here at 8:25 so she can get to school on time. We made it in case you were wondering. i came home at 9 and intended to sleep for another 2 hours, I had stuff to do so didnt want to sleep in to long. I set my alarm and then slept--for almost 5 hours. Son of a ! So didn't get too much done. I picked Diana up at 3 and went to work at 4;30. Stupid sleep cycle

Monday, September 12, 2011

12 years with Kstew

September 11th is an awful day to remember because of what happened in 2001. However 2 years earlier on september 11th 1999 I met my soul mate. So Kath i just wanted to thank you for 12 years of good times. I'm glad we met-even though you were the one that introduced me to the music of Lou Bega--on the first date. It's been fun and i can't wait to see what the next 12 years and beyond will bring us.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Drive in goodness

Well it took awhile but we finally made it to the drive in this year. We usually go a few times a year but we couldnt decide on anything this past summer. That all changed tonight. So what movies made the drive in cut? The modern classics The smurfs and Spy Kids all The Time In The World. All joking aside they turned out to be a lot better than i expected and i laughed out loud a few times. Diana had a good time so that was really the main thing. See ya next year can view drive in.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Boy did i sleep

Man i did not sleep a lot this week. I work until one am and by the time i settle down i get to sleep around 3. U then wake up about 7;45 am to get Diana ready for school. After i drop her off sometimes i can go back to sleep and sometimes not so much. Yesterday i got a total of 4 hours sleep. I then ran errands with Kath in the afternoon and went back to work at 4 for the same cycle. Bless my wife and daughter today. They let me sleep in for 10 hours and got me a meatball sub while i was sleeping. So a big thanks to my family for allowing me the extra sleep. I feel like a million bucks now.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Grade one aka making Jay feel old

Howdy and welcome to September. It's been a good month so far. I know we've only had 6 days of september so far. So Diana started grade one yesterday. I seriously can't believe it. She's growing up way to fast. I know i'm going to blink and all of a sudden she'll be in high school. Where does the time go. Seriously. I guess Kath and i need to get on that plan of having a vampire bite her so she doesn't age anymore.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Oh yeah buffalo con!

I'm a little excited. Just got the announcement about buffalo comic con. As you know its a small con with great deals and its held every year in the fall. Its cheap to get in and there's tons of cheap comics there. We've been going to it since the day after we got married. Rob is gonna come out this year to. So here's to the fall sucking less than the summer!

Wednesday walking

Just got back from mostly comics. One thing i have enjoyed doing this summer is waking up on new comic book day and walking to get my books. Its about a half an hour walk each way and i take my ipod and rock out. Its the only exercise I've gotten in the last few months. On the way home there is a 711 so i always grab a big gulp. I like it. I don't know if i can continue to do the walk in the winter but we'll see. I picked up some good books today including the first issue of the new jla--the first official title of the new dc comics reboot. I can't wait to read it. Hopefully it won't be to crazy at work today. Fingers crossed

F U August

Wow i can't believe we're at the end of summer. July was so awesome and full of promise. And August? Well August sucked ass. Everything that could have gone wrong did. The only thing i can remember liking in August was fan expo. I only got to do one get your geek on,work annoyed me and it just felt like way too long of a month. August needed to be put out of its misery. I'm glad its over. I hope September is a worthy month. August was the like the Hitler month and July was like the fonzie month. Screw you august.

Mandate

Today was pretty cool. Diana and i went with Rob to the united states. We did a little grocery shopping,had a little pizza and chilled out. Then i had to get my ass to the most wonderful place on Earth. I'm being sarcastic i had to work. On the plus side i got to leave 2 hours early. I do love the voluntary down time. So gonna go eat some pizza and watch some tv. Have a good night

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Starlight express!


Just wanted to announce the newest edition to the Stewart family--our new cat Starlight. Our friend Amy moved out west and we took her cat. She's really nice and friendly. She's not getting along well with Merlin yet, Hopefully that will change soon.

Monday, August 29, 2011

Saturday good times

I should note that Saturday was enjoyable as well. Woke up early to go to Ikea with Kath and Nickle. We hadn't been in a long time. I was just looking forward to a cheap 1.99 breakfast and cheap hot dogs. The food did not disappoint. Pancakes,eggs sausage and hash browns for a buck ninety nine. We also looked at furniture. The end

Fan expo 2011




Once again fan expo has come and gone. After last years fiasco we didn't know what to expect. Would we have to wait outside in the sun hour an hour again? Would there be wall to wall people and no place to breathe again. One things for sure if it sucked this year we werent going to be going back again. This year fan expo was being held in a bigger room and we were going on the Sunday instead of Saturday. Maybe it would be ok. This was going to be my 10th fan expo and 4th with Rob. Because it sucked so bad last year Kath and Nickle were sitting this one out.

Rob and his son Anthony and some girls they knew picked me up at 830 am and we headed out. After we arrived in Toronto and parked we were escorted down into a deep parking structure. Anthony thought we were being horded in for zombie food. So we were off to a weird beginning. We were in a big crowd and it didnt smell very good. We didn't know how we were going to make it back up the ramp. Then the line started moving really fast. When we got to the bottom of the area we were able to purchase our tickets and right beside the ticket booth was the door into the con. Ok that was kind of cool.


We went through the door and immediately saw the dc comics booth so we headed there and picked up some free swag. We walked around the whole con to get a lay of the land. We could actually walk pretty freely. It was pretty cool. I found a dude that was selling a new trade paperback an hour for a buck or 2. For those of you that don't know a graphic novel can cost about 15 dollars and up. So i went back over the course of the day and got some Captain America and spiderman and assorted books. I'm a fan of cheap books.

A personal highlight of mine was meeting comic book writer James Robinson. He wrote my favorite series of all time Star Man and just wrapped up an enjoyable run of the justice league. He spoke with us for a few minutes. He was a really nice guy. We also said hi to Liana K who remembered us and get your geek on. She was nice as well. One regret was that we didnt get to say hi to Michael Shanks from Stargate. You had to get a ticket to stand in line to talk to him. W e didnt feel like waiting so we passed.

Found a lot of bargains. And had a great time. I wish Kath and Diana would have been there but maybe next year

I gotta say that fan expo was enjoyable this year. They've earned at least another year out of me.

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Jay's geeky Christmas eve

So excited. It's like Christmas eve! Tomorrow Rob and i are attending fan expo. I hope i can sleep. Gonna be all kinds of free swag. Can't wait. I'll have a full report later.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Bannisters suck!

So the railing along my stairs has been an asshole this week. Monday as i was running up the stairs my work badge around my neck caught on the stairs and ripped right off. So now i have to carry my badge in my pocket and i know i'm going to lose it.

Yesterday as i was going upstairs to take a shower i bashed myself really hard in the man boob and it really hurts today. I guess i shouldnt be running up the stairs but that doesnt mean the bannister has to be a douche bag to teach me a lesson.

Monday, August 22, 2011

A mistake makes me happy

So a mistake was made on my pay check at work and i couldn't be happier. Let me explain. So as you know i started a new shift a few months ago. Because i was working until 1 am i was to get an extra 50 cents an hour. I've been doing the shift since July and didn't realize i wasnt getting the extra 50 cents an hour.

Anyhow why does this make me happy? Work finally figured out its mistake and i'm getting 19 extra hours of pay this week. Just in time for fan expo. Looking forward to the big paycheck.

Weekend is over

Wow the weekend was pretty cool. Saturday i spent the day with kstew and Diana. In the late afternoon i helped Rob move some furniture to his new residence. Spent the night watching movies with the family. A nice quiet Saturday. It rocked.

Sunday Diana and i traveled to the flea market with Rob and Anthony. I spent a whopping 3 dollars.

Kath has decided she wants to skip fan expo this year. Rob and i are gonna go together. Should be fun. I just have to get through 5 horrible days at work. I just have to be strong. I can do it! Stupid work.

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Welcome glorious weekend

The weekend is finally here! I get 2 days off with my family and a return to the flea market with Rob. It seemed like it took a hundred million years to get through this week. Tonights shift dragged on. Had a few drunk customers. Its all behind me. Bring on the weekend.

Holy crap I'm getting really addicted to pac man on facebook. Man i miss the old arcade days from when i was a kid. I remember there was an arcade a few blocks away from our school and John and i would go in there and be late for classes every single day. I remember blowing all my money on games like donkey kong and dig dug and popeye. There's no arcades anymore and any video games you may come across are all stupid fighting games. I miss the good old days. I am so old.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Various topics while in a good mood

Well the week is kind of moving fast for me. This i like. Diana and i once again joined Rob for a trip to the united states. Diana got a new back pack and lunch bag for school. I can't believe its almost time for school again. I can't believe my baby is going into grade one! We're all getting older i guess.

Only 9 days until fan expo. We're hoping that its better than last year. If it hasn't improved this could be our last. Its the 10th anniversary of Kath and i going for the first time. We're at least going on the Sunday so hopefully crowds will be down to a minimum. I am excited that Diana is joining us this year. I can walk her over to all the booths and this year she can choose her own free swag. Most of the stuff i am looking for this year is for her. She wants her first graphic novel--Archie babies. I'm actually happy that she is starting to choose her own comics.

Thats about it for now. I'm in kind of a good mood. Hopefully that won't change at 4;30 when i arrive at work. Talk to u soon

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Piece of shit Jay

Wow. I'm probably not supposed to feel proud right now. I made a dealer so mad that he called me a piece of shit and hung up the phone on me. So this dealer called in and he was rude to me from the get go and wouldn't let me get a word in. He asked me if i could add a promotion to a customers account and keep the promotion they already had, Now we normally don't let customers have 2 promos at a time so i had to go ask. The dealer was pissed at me for having to ask. It turned out it was ok so i added the promo,then the dealer mentioned i added the wrong promo even though that was the one he told me to add, So i changed it. The call was at the half an hour mark by this point but i got everything sorted out, Then the dealer announces that he has another customer for me. Screw that. We are only suppossed to take 1 customer per call from the dealers and he already had me at half an hour for the call. I told him he would have to call back. He started yelling saying i had to do what he said. I've been through this before and was told by a supervisor 1 customer per call. I have made exceptions in t he past but it was crazy busy in our call center and i wasn't taking another one of his customers. So he took down my name and badge number. He yelled some more and then asked for my badge number again. I told him i gave it to him already and wasn't repeating it. Then he called me a piece of shit--in front of a customer i might add and hung up on me. Its pretty bad but i felt strangely proud of this. Oh well. Tomorrows gonna be another day.

Monday, August 15, 2011

Weekend recap

I made it through the God awful midnight madness of Friday's shift. It was busy for the first half but died off in the second half. I could live with that. The rest of the weekend was pretty cool. Kath's dad came for a visit and introduced us to his new girlfriend. She seemed nice. W e had a pretty awesome barbeque. Following that we went to Jumbo video and picked up 3 dvd's for 20 bucks. Can't beat that. Sunday was pretty quiet. Rob is camping so we skipped the show this week. We got to hang out with our friends Hot Amy and Marcus. All in all not a bad weekend. Now i just have to stay happy when i have to go back to work on Monday. Lets be honest thats a pipe dream at best. Oh well I'll always have my quiet weekend to look back on fondly.

Friday, August 12, 2011

Jay is smoking something

So apparently i am smoking crack. How else would you explain me volunteering to work until 3am. My work is having a midnight madness sale and they asked all the people who work until 1 am usually to stay until 3. It will mean some extra money and i start 2 hours later then i normally would but there's only going to be 4 of us there and i don't even know yet what we are supposed to be doing. To quote the great Han Solo-I have a bad feeling about this.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Almost time for work

o k continuing on my angry week at work. Yesterday or wednesday if you will was ok. There were a couple of asshole customers but only a couple. The rest of the night was nice and quiet. I'm hoping that continues tonight. I just want a quiet evening,maybe read some comics and thats about it. I'm not in the mood to get yelled at. I'm not tired,i slept in so i'm hoping i will have enough energy tonight. Man i don't want to go in. Anyhow if anything earth shattering happens I'll write later.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Some Tuesday rambling

Hey its 1;30 in the morning and i just finished work. Yeah that positive outlook i was going to try lasted about 5 minutes after i walked in the door yesterday. I really hate my job a lot. Its getting hard to pretend.

On a positive note i did get to hang out with Rob today and he bought me a copy of Iron Man 2. Thanks man. He's been watching Diana a few times a week. Kath started her new hours. I appreciate it.

Could not wake up to save my life today. Came downstairs,made Diana breakfast and fell asleep on the couch. I kept waking up long enough to put her cartoons on.

Anyhow it is the end of the day so gonna grab some food,watch a little tv and get my ass to bed. Its going to pour tonight. Lightning is going off and I've been hearing thunder for the last hour. Yay.

Monday, August 8, 2011

Monday

Ok time to man up. I'm going to try and get out of this bad mood. Its a new week maybe work wont be so bad. I decided to shave as i was looking like grizzly adams. I even trimmed my goatee. I've been sitting here all day waiting for the maintenance guy. He's suppossed to come and check our plumbing. I figured he would have been here by now. Woke up early and i've been chilling on the couch waiting. I went out for about a half an hour to play catch with Diana. I feel even more tired now. I'm leaving for work in about 15 minutes. Maybe i will carry my fake good mood into tonights shift or maybe i will fall asleep at my desk.

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Beardy

I'm in such a crappy mood this week i haven't felt like shaving. I never grow a full beard in the summer. Screw it i think i will let the beard come in. Take that life!

Friday, August 5, 2011

August starts off shitty

First blog of August. I've had a shitty week and haven't felt much like blogging. Its about to get shittier as i head to my shitty job. I will say i am lucky that i have friends like my wife and Rob who have helped me through this shitty week. Thanks guys. Now its off to another exciting evening of getting yelled at.

Sunday, July 31, 2011

I hate the end of the weekend

Man why is my stupid weekend over? I can't deal with 5 days in a row of this crap. Its gonna be a long week. Kath has training this week and won't be home until after i leave for work. I'll be seeing her on my lunch break only this week. Rob and i will be checking out a new collectibles store on Tuesday and getting some groceries in the states. That'll be cool at least. I can't believe July is over. At least i have fan expo to look forward to. See ya July.

3rd day is the charm

It was my 3rd saturday in a row at the comic book store and i thought it went great. No screw ups at all-- which i loved. Felt good.Sure beats my other p.o.s job.

Just sitting here working on stuff for the show tomorrow night. No set agenda so there will probably be a lot of rambling. Good times.

Rob and i are going to the flea market again tomorrow--3 weeks in a row. Havent been to the flea market this many times since the 80's. How will i follow up my Christopher lloyd klingon glass from last week? Stay tuned.

Friday, July 29, 2011

vdt

Wow i actually got offered voluntary down time at work today. I hadn't been offerred that since i left the cable company. From what i understand its never given out with the phone company. Well work was handing out vdt left right and center all week. Because of this it got busy very quickly when people were being sent home. I was already in a bad mood to begin with when i got there today. It was crazy busy and i didn't want to be there. I had to work until 1 am so there was no way i was getting it. Or so i thought. Around 6;30 i was asked if i wanted to go home. I jumped at the chance. I may regret it on my next pay check but tonight it felt great. So i'm blogging at 11:51 when i normally would be working and i love it.

Once a year with Barn


Just waiting for Kath to come home. We're gonna get some groceries and comics. Then its off to shitty work! Hooray for me. It feels like i just got home from work. I'm hoping it isn't busy tonight. It was busy right until 1 o clock last night and that's insane.

In happier news The old winery put up all the pictures they took at the Barney Bentall concert. The owner stated they wanted to make it an annual event. I would love seeing Barney there once a year. That would be so cool. I have my fingers crossed that i will get to see him rock out at least 1 more time with his band the legendary hearts as well.

Dealers-worse than hitler?

Work sucked today. Big surprise huh? I had a run in with a dealer today. To sum up he fucked up an order,i fixed it but not the way he wanted and then reported me to a supervisor. He called up and couldn't figure out why he couldn't port a phone number over from another phone company. I don't now what he was doing but i had no problem doing it. Then he springs another port on the same work order on me. So i did it. Then he demands a family plan be put on the account. A family plan is when you have more than one phone line on an account and we give a five dollar a month credit. Well he didn't tell me at the beginning of the call that there were 2 phone lines involved. If there is a port in progress we can't make any changes to the account--including adding a family plan. Ports generally take about 3 hours to complete. I advised that in 3 hours the customer could call back and we could add the family plan and they would get there 5 dollar a month credit. Well that wasn't good enough for the dealer and he wanted me to give the customer a credit right then and there. I advised i couldn't validate an extra credit as he would be getting one applied in 3 hours. Well apparently i wasn't doing my job and i had to do what he said and i better get a supervisor. I calmly tried to explain things to him but he didnt want to hear it. Meanwhile lets sum up--the dealer couldn't do his job in the first place and i had to add the line then he neglected to tell me upfront that there were 2 lines involved. Fucker never even thanked me for fixing the problem. The supervisor got on the line and totally took my side. Did i mention i hate the dealers? I seriously do. They suck. End of story