Monday, January 31, 2011

Sunday

Its Sunday evening. I get to head back to work in the morning. My manager went on 'aternity leave so tomorrow will be my first day with the new manager. I hope it does not suck.

The weekend ended pretty good. I had a nice quiet Sunday at home with Diana. We watched a few super hero cartoons and she helped me tidy up. Did the show from our basement again and i guess it sounded really good so pretty happy about that. Had dinner at cheers after the show. Some lovely wings and fries.

Man i'm kind of dreading work tomorrow. I should get some sleep to prepare myself. So i'll talk to you all later. Jstew out.

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Another shitty saturday

wow blogging live from work today for the first time. I 'm on my 2nd lunch. I hate these stupid extended hours with the stupid 2nd lunch. I want this day to be over. Diana was up most of the night crying. She has a cold and unfortunately she hasnt learned how to blow her nose yet. I am so tired.

I actually can't wait to be moved over to cell phones now. I am getting annoyed by everything here now. The customers are really getting on my nerves today. I'm gonna be blunt, i hate them a lot!

Had a pretty cool night last night. We went to the states and got groceries. Starting today Kath is in the same boat i was in last year. Her passport expires. We will see what we can do about renewing it.

Did i mention i wanna come home? Can't wait. Gonna watch tv with Kath and have popcorn. I'm gonna go back to work now. Wish me luck.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Yet more Get Your Geek On News

So we got some awesome news from Rob the other night. As you may or may not know we have been doing our get your geek on show from our house instead of the regular studio. It's been awesome doing it here. The only problem is that it does sound a bit tinny. Anyhow Rob mentioned that Matt had an extra mixing board that he could donate to our underground train rek radio station that should improve the sound. I can't wait to try it out especially since we have have some guests coming on in the next few weeks. Can't wait. It's fun doing the show from here. Wizard world is coming up in about 40 days. Looking forward to it.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

On a Date With My Wife


Had an excellent Tuesday off of work. I actually booked the day off of work to go to a movie with Kathy. We never get days off together anymore so it was nice. We went to see The Green Hornet. I liked it a lot. The only complaint i had was it was in 3d and i didnt really think it was necessary. Other than that what an awesome flick. Seth Rogen was funny in it. It was action packed. Highly recommended by the Stewarts. Had a great time and didn't miss work at all. Rob and Nickle came over and we watched some tv shows that night.Great day. Maybe i will book more tuesdays off.

My wife; the voice of reason

So got some interesting news the other day about my future at the day job. Apparently all tenured reps who make over 13 dollar an hour are being let go by the cable company. This would include me and all my friends. The good news is i wouldn't be fired i would be moving over to another client that works with cell phones. When i first got the news i was extremely pissed off. Kath was the voice of reason here. She thought maybe this was a good idea. I'm mad all the time now so maybe a change is good after 9 years. I have to agree. I would be off of the phones for 4 weeks so that's a good thing. The only thing that may suck is the schedule i would get after i move. Kath says we will worry about that when the time comes. So time will tell i guess. I'll keep you posted.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Safe family

I just want to thank God for getting Kath and Diana safely home tonight. While driving on the skyway tonight a tire popped on the van. Kath quickly called 911 and CAA. With the help of an awesome policeman Kath was kept safe until a tow truck could get there. All this happened when i was stuck at work. I don't know what i would have done if God forbid they didn't make it safely home. I may have jumped off a bridge or something. I'm glad i don't have to find out.

Friday, January 21, 2011

a cool but cold day

Despite it being Hoth cold outside its actually been a really good day. Sure i can't feel my feet or hands right now but our van is working again! It didn't cost thousands of dollars so right there is cause for celebration. We were able to go get some groceries and a few comics as well. It was really cool hanging out with Kath this morning and it sucked when she had to go to work. I just back from picking up Diana and it is freezing outside. Just heating up some split pea soup for us. I just found out last night that i like split pea soup. Diana thought i should try it and I'm glad i did. Diana wants to use the computer so i'm going to go for now. See ya!

Thursday, January 20, 2011

stupid ass van

So we had some van issues this week. Stupid van. The van kept overheating. Kath feared the worst and thought it was going to cost us thousands of dollars to fix. She was really .really upset. This upset me because Kath is the strong one of the duo. She was convinced she would miss work on Monday and get in big time trouble. Lucky for us we have a good pair of friends that came to our rescue. Rob and Nickle drove Kath to and from work on Monday and Rob went with Kath to his mechanic on Wednesday.

Thankfully it wasn't as bad as Kath thought and its is kinda sorta in our price range to fix the van. It's being repaired right now and we should have it back tomorrow.

So just a thank you for having such awesome friends. You guys were nice enough to drive Kath around and thanks again to Nickle for helping to calm Kath down Saturday night.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Thank God the day is over.

Another fun filled Saturday with too much snow and too many asshole customers has come to a close. I'm glad its over. I wish my family was here. I did do one really stupid thing. So i washed a pan at lunch time. I went back to work and about half way there i thought to myself 'did i turn off the sink?' It was to late to go home and check. When i got to work i called Rach and asked if she would go check. By the way when did the payphone start charging 50 cents? Luckily for me the tap was off. That could have sucked. Thanks Rach for checking for me. You're a good friend. And on that note. I'm going to lay down.

Friday, January 14, 2011

Happy birthday Andrea

So having a pretty awesome day. I spent the morning with Kath. We did some grocery shopping and went to the comic store. Unfortunately she had to go to work. So that sucked.

I wanted to wish my good friend Andrea a very happy birthday. We've been friends 23 years now and i wish her all the best. I know she reads the blog so i hope she's having an awesome day.

well I'm gonna go do some more show prep before i pick Diana up from school. So good day for now.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Thinking about the week so far

So just sitting back,taking a breather and reflecting about the week so far. I have had some bad customers this week. No surprise there. I can't think of any specific calls right now. Its all one big blur. Maybe it was best i came home after 9 minutes today.

So v Tuesdays are back. What are V Tuesdays you may ask? Rob and Nickle come over and we watch the show V. Its gotten really good this season but unfortunately ABC is only running 10 episodes this year and it probably won't be back next year. Its to bad. We finally got to see one of the alien visitors with his lizard face exposed. Good times. Makes me feel like a kid again watching the original version in the 80's.

Yeah yesterdays snow sucked. i'm getting really old. Shoveling really tired me out for the rest of the day.

I'm really getting into the Rick Springfield book my mom got me. I always liked his music. He's pretty much known for the song Jessie's Girl but he's had a lot of other songs that i personally like better. The book is a real page turner. Damn you customers for getting in the way of my reading.

Speaking of reading. Holy is Diana ever getting awesome with her reading and sounding out words. We read a super friends book the other day and there was maybe 3 words in the whole book that she had trouble with. So proud of that kid.

We've had some issues with the van this week. Its leaking coolant. We had planned a trip to Rochester this week but i suggested it might not be a good idea. We're looking in to getting some repairs done. In the meantime we keep filling it up with coolant.

That's about it for now. Back to work on the show.

Nine frigging minutes

Nine minutes. I went all the way to work through this crazy snow on a day i normally have off to work for 9 minutes. It was so dead in there today that i got asked to leave 9 minutes after i get there. So no one could pick up a phone and call to say don't come in today? Way to go with all the extra hours for January. So that hasn't back fired. Oh well at least i got to come home. For some reason it feels like i haven't slept in a a week. The crazy shovelling yesterday didn't really help. Oh yeah i didn't blog yesterday--we got hit with a lot of snow. We kept Diana home from school and everything. Anyhow gonna catch up on some blogs and start preparing Sundays all new Get Your Geek On.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Extra hours for the jay man

what a shitty week, It was out of control busy the first 3 days. Because its supposed to be this busy all of January, we are all being forced to work an extra 4 hours a week. So to be blunt--that blows. So the way it works for me is i have to go in on my day of--Thursday and work 4 hours and i have to go in an hour early on Saturdays.

I started this awesome new schedule this week. Diana was still off on vacation this week so Rob came over to watch her on Thursday. Thursday was really really dead so i got sent home after an hour. That was worth waking up early for.

when i went in an hour early Saturday i realized what was gonna suck about that. So i would work an extra hour and because of this i would get an extra lunch? So go in an extra hour and only get paid for half an hour of that. That is so messed up. So yeah work continues to impress me so much. Hooray for work!

Friday, January 7, 2011

MacRobert

So last Sunday was our first show of 2011. We found out we couldn't record at the regular studio. Matt was in quarantine. So Rob suggested we try and do a live show at our place. Now that Kath had a laptop this was an option. So Rob came over and Macgyver'ed a studio together with 2 lap tops, a microphone and a card table. It worked! People listened and said it sounded awesome. So I'm guessing we will try again sometime. Our very own underground/Macgyver'ed together studio.

Starting the year off right


Welcome to my first blog of 2011! The year started off awesome. New Years Eve was spent at Rob and Nickle's place eating pizza and watching episodes of the tick. Hey we had to do something geeky after all don't ya know. It was awesome having 4 days in a row off from work. New years day we actually ventured to the good ol' u.s.a. to get some groceries. We also stopped at Target and i got a really cool Star Wars t shirt that had a cover from the comic book series that came out in the 80's. We also found a cheap iron man ornament that was on sale. Sadly we also took down the Christmas tree. The holidays were now officially over and done. At least the stores already have valentines day stuff already.