Fan expo recap

  Well its the last blog of August so thought i would talk about this years fan expo. Last Saturday  i attended the con with Rob and Ryan. I've been to every fan expo since 2001 and this was my fifth  with Rob. It was Ryan;s first. I was looking forward to introducing Ryan to the festivities. The only thing is you never know what you are going to get. Its a crap shoot. Two years ago we had one of our worst experiences but last year when we went it was pretty awesome. The verdict this year? Unfortunately it wasn't so great. It was jam packed and not a lot of room to move. Did i mention i'm not a fan of crowds? Also the fan expo staff for lack of a better word sucked. Not helpful at all and so unorganized. There was an autograph sesion for the cast of the new Green Arrow show. It didn't cost anything so i decided i wanted to go. We got in a very small line and a few minutes later were told we couldn't get in unless we had a special ticket. So i asked how we could obtain one? Seems we had to be at a special screening of the arrow pilot a few hours earlier to get one. Hmmm. The  ad on the website said nothing about a special ticket. So pissed. It was just chaos in there.


  It wasn't all bad. There were some good highlights,

1) Ryan was like a kid in a candy store and it was fun seeing his reaction to  things

2) a lady name Lisa a.k.a. nerdbiskit was there. She makes various nerdy crafts and we have interviewed her before on the show. I went to her booth to buy some things for Kathy. I mentioned who i was and she gace  me the stuff for Kath at no extra charge. So nice. Oh and she's really pretty. Kath told me that before i met her and  hey it was true.

3) There was a doctor pepper booth there that was handing out free samples. At the end of the day i got a big bottle of pop for free. I guess they were trying to unload their stock. Win for me!

4)There were a lot of cool costumes there this year and the people were really nice when Ryan and i took pictures of them.

5) I found the first 2 hard to find issues of Adventure Time for Diana. Here's how much i love her. I spent ten dollars an issue for them. I figured it was the last day her friend Courtney was going to be in Canada and i wanted to get her something to cheer her up. It did

All in all i had a good--not a great experience and i will really have to think twice about going next year. Still stings that we can't get a press pass from the. Hey the Buffalo Con is willing to work with us. We are even mentioned by name on their site. Suck it fan expo

Buh Bye 10 hour shifts

  Yes! No more 10 hour shifts!!  Done! I seriously ran out of gas with 2 hours of shift left. I started to fall asleep at my desk. It was horrible. I made it though. Just got home and i am relaxing. Diana just got here and Nickle presented me with a Batman potato head! Thank you Rob and Nickle. You guys rock! just gonna blog and work on the show for a bit. I will probably blog again later. Oh yeah its the last day of August as well. I just realized that. I am so tired

Go Clark Go!

Got my comics yesterday. Superman and wonder woman are doing it! apparently thats a bad thing. Booster Gold came back through time to stop them from hooking up and couldn't do it. Then he was erased from existence. Ha ha. I am such a nerd. Seriously though  clark and diana are getting it on in the new continuity.

Arem't the 10 hour shifts done yet?

Yuck. My third 10 hour shift. To quote the great Danny Glover, I'm getting too old for this shit. It was worth it to come home and play will with the kid again. Also had some awesome blueberry pancakes that my lovely wife made for me. One more long shift. I can do it. I think.

Cheer up sleepy Jay

 I am very old. I almost fell asleep at my desk at least 5 times today. I also couldnt concentrate and mind drifted off to other stuff all day. This was because i worked a ten hour shift yesterday and was doing so again, I stayed awake long enough to make fun of the power hour. I'm home now about to enjoy some supper and tv with Kath. Hope i can stay awake long enough to enjoy it.

Wii with the kid

  Yesterday was a proud moment for me. Diana and i played a video game together for the first time. Batman the brave and the bold on our wii system. The kid loved it--so much in fact we played it again tonight. Yesterday was such a lazy day. Laid around all day watching tv. We ventured out  around 6 to go get ice cream. Was a pretty cool day actually.

Best friends

  I'm feeling bad for Diana. Let me explain. So three weeks ago some of Nicole's relatives from Ireland came for a visit. One of the relatives was a little girl named  Courtney. Diana really hit it off with her and they became the best of friends. They were inseparable for 3 weeks. They played qute a bit and went to Marineland. Diana even had her first sleep over. They got best friend necklaces and everything. Unfortunately Courtney and her family had to go home to Ireland a couple of days ago. Both the girls were really sad but they will keep in touch through letters and face book and what not. Kath and i both know what she is going through. One of my best friends lives in England and Kath has a friend in Ohio. I get it. Long distance friendships are hard. I really feel for the kid. The good thing is that they both made a friend for life. The friendship doesn't have to end. 

Ten hours of hell

 I am beyond tired. This week i have to do four ten hour shifts. Our department is closed this coming Saturday. Instead of letting us enjoy an extra day off we were told we have to make the hours up. I could have worked an extra day--yesterday on Monday or do  the 4 ten hour shifts. I originally chose to work Monday but then found out i didn't have a babysitter that day. Did my first ten hour shift today and now i am exhausted. I had a couple of really bad calls right at the end. One guy wouldnt let me talk. His service wasn't acting properly. I tried to send him to the technical department. He said i was condescending for trying to do that? I don't think he actually knew the meaning of that word. Oh well i am home now waiting for Kath to get home. I'm not going to see much of her this week. She is working until 11;30 at night. Sucks for us. Oh well what can ya do?

The power hour

 Well my former billing department has gone nuts. All they care about now is sales and now they are threatening to fire people if they don't make lots of sales. So glad i got moved out of that department.

 For the last 2 days 2 of the supervisors have tried to drum up sales by having something called the power hour. What is the power hour? Well its an annoying hour each day where they walk up and down the aisles screaming "power hour!" They are giving candy and t shirts to anyone that makes a sale in that hour. It;s damn distracting because they just keep shouting over and over again until the hour is up. So we're trying to keep it together talking to our customers as they keep screaming at the top of their lungs. Did i mention that I'm super happy that i got moved to outbound calls?

Happy birthday Sis

 A very happy birthday to my sister Su. I know she was concerned with getting older so i won't say how old she is turning. She's younger than me. Age is only a number. You're only as old as you feel. Some days i feel like a kid, some days i feel like i'm one hundred. Anyhow hope you have a great birthday Su.

A neck breaking good time

  Hasn't been a lot to blog about this month. I did forget about the day that our maintenance person had to come do some repairs--and then locked me out of  our home. No i didn't have my keys on me. I left the door unlocked for them and didn't think about taking my keys. Came home for lunch and couldnt get in. So i had to go around the back and hop over our gate. I'm not a young guy anymore so i don't know what i was thinking. I got to the top of the gate and realized it was a long way down. I thought i was going to either split my pants or break my neck. Luckily i was ok. The thing that really sucked was that the repair they were supposed to finish never happened. So mad that day. Yup almost broke my neck just to get a sandwich.

Free dvds? Yes please

 So after the wedding we went for a drink to wait for the reception. While we sat there drinking our pop Kath got an email. More good news for the Stewarts. We won a 100 dollar shopping spree from that video/book store I'm always raving about- Entertainment deals! Sunday we went to collect our prize. I gotta tell you it took awhile to find 100 dollars worth of stuff. We did it though. Kath found  2 cookbooks, Diana found to childrens dvds. I found 2 books about Bruce Springsteen and The Monkees and several action dvds. The dvds included, Swordfish, Maverick, Conspiracy theory, the losers, Blade 3, 3000 miles to Graceland and 16 blocks. I also found Stargate the movie on Blue ray. It was awesome.

   In addition to the shopping spree we also joined our friend Kate at the flea market and then we all met up with Mark to have lunch at wimpys. Pretty awesome day if i do say so myself

Congrats Hunter and Kristen

  Yesterday we attended the wedding of our good friends Hunter and Kristen. What a fantastic day and awesome wedding. They are a great couple and really deserve each other. We were honored to be there. There was a geek theme to the festivities. The ring bearer and flower girl dressed as characters from the zelda video game and there were video game songs played throughout the night. I worked with Kristen for years and it really wasnt until we started doing the show that we all became close. Hunter was actually teaching in Korea when we first became aware of him a few years ago. Kristen told him about our show and he would often jump into our Gygo chat room. We finally got to meet him last year and very quickly i realized he was   like  the cool little brother i always wanted. We really love those guys and  are very happy they  got married.

Denied again

So for a 3rd year in a row   the fan expo  has given us a great big f u . Once again we applied for press passes--over a month ago i might add and once again we were rejected. Third year in a row--third different excuse as to why not. This year we were told it was due to space restrictions. We're asking for passes for sunday--the slowest day of the 4 day convention. I can tell you why we were declined--fan expo is greedy.  There are thousands of people getting into  this convention and they can't spare a few passes? Last year we were told we were declined because they chose the passes in a lottery. I don't get it. The fine folks at wizard world call us and ask us if we want press passes. I don't see what the big deal is. I really don't. They've raised the price of tickets so we can't all afford to go. Kath and Diana are sitting this one out. Money grubbing sons of bitches. F U fan expo.

Too much wikipedia not enough work

  How was work today? Yup you guessed it. I sat on my ass again all day not doing anything. It actually was a drag. I was falling asleep and i got a head ache. I was told our system would be fixed by Monday. Thankfully i won't be there tomorrow. There was only so much i could look up on the internet and by the time i did a search on the Brady Brides i knew it was getting ridiculous. Fingers crossed i have work to do on Monday. Never thought i would ever write that sentence ever

asleep at the desk again

  Guess what? Yup i had another day of sitting at my desk falling asleep because the server didn't work again. Definitely not complaining although it was a little boring. Will everything be fixed tomorrow? Tune in to find out  same bat time same bat channel!

Eight hours of jack shit

 Folks, pardon my french but today at work i did sweet fuck all for 8 hours. It wasn't by choice. The system that sends us our calls was down. So rather than go home in case it was fixed, we had to sit there and we were allowed to surf the net. I gotta tell ya, i was ready for a nap. It was so boring. I'm so thankful that its a short week. I have Saturday off so i only have to work 2 more shifts this week. Going to what i think is going to be a most excellent wedding on Saturday. More on that later in the week. I can't believe I'm gonna say this but i hope the system is fixed tomorrow so i can actually do work. I guess i'll find out in 10 hours.

They may be coming to your town

    Holy crap. The surviving members of the Monkees are reuniting for a series of 12 concerts. Unfortunately as everyone knows Davey Jones passed away earlier this year. I figured that was the end of the band and there was no way micky Dolenz and Peter Tork would ever tour as the Monkees again. What makes this even  cooler is that my favorite member of the group--Michael Nesmith will be joining them. The monkees formed in the 60's and have done many reunion shows since 1986. Nesmith has only done a handful of shows with them since 1986. He hasn't shared the stage with them since 1997. I love his music and have his solo albums as well. I was trying to not get to excited about this figuring they would come nowhere near us to play. I was wrong. One of the 12 concerts is in Buffalo. Man i want to go so bad. They have said that they will be playing with a back up band but there will be a segment of the show where  just the 3 of them will playing  one of their albums in its entirety. So cool.

Kim And Trish

  So it has been a really descent month. Work has been ok. Its boring work but at least no one is yelling at me every minute of the day. Enough about work though. Last night we had an awesome show. Our friends Kim and Trish were our guests. They know their stuff that's for sure. I met them years ago when i worked at a hell hole of a restaurant called the donut diner. I think on my first or second day there they started talking to me and a friendship was born. They helped me keep my sanity. We called each other the Super friends.  Man the show was fun. It was cool reuniting with the girls,had a fantastic time.

Can it be October now?

      Well i waited until half way through August to blog. Not sure why. It hasn't been a bad month.  I do want to start the month off with something that made us really happy. So i did mention that Kath and i are doing a show from the Buffalo con. A few days ago The owner of Queen city books pimped us on the facebook page for the con. It was so cool. They are working with us big time. I can't wait. I've included the picture that was on the page. I am so looking forward to this. Its gonna be a blast.