Wednesday, February 27, 2013

We're not gonna take it

  So Kath and i made an announcement  on Get Your Geek On 2 weeks ago. The announcement was that we were  quitting. So what brought this on? Didn't i love doing the show? Well yeah of course i loved  doing the show. Unfortunately over the past year little things kept adding up. More and more i was getting frustrated. None of our shows were going up on our site. Every week i would get people  asking me how they could listen to the shows when they missed the live show. Everytime i would shrug and look like an idiot. I confided in a couple of friends who kept telling me i had to move on. I remained loyal to gygo even though i was getting more and more annoyed.

  So about a month ago. Something hapenned that really set me off. Without going into  the gory details i did what i thought was a huge favor for the show and the station we were on. My hard work wasn't appreciated and i was put down in front of 2 brand new guests on the air. This caused me to actually walk out in the middle of the show. I went back after a few minutes because i didn't want to let people down. However i was fuming and i had trouble keeping my train of thought. The show went on though.


  The next day  a buddy of ours John Bulmer who i had met through the show had heard what  occurred and asked us over for dinner. We discussed what we wanted out of a geek show and where we wanted to take things. We definitely wanted  more people to hear what we had to say.  We decided a podcast would be the way to go. So a decision  was made to partner up with John and Another friend Ryan Mcnab. We formed a production company and named it Mc Meatball Stew productions. We would be doing a podcast and not a live show. We just had to come up with a name. We threw a few names out there and then my 7 year old Diana piped up with We Got The Geek. We all fell in love with the name.  We had a couple of hurdles to  over come. We had to set up a new web site and get some proper equipment. When that happenned I would be comfortable quitting Gygo.

To Be Continued.....


He was big trouble

  My friends are funny, I was at work yesterday and a text comes through from Andrea. She wanted to know if Chinese John Oates was in Big Trouble in Little China. Chinese John Oates is an actor named Ali Aleong who kind of looks like an asian version of John Oates.. As a matter of fact if you get in a deloreon and go back to 2008 you'll see i blogged about this man. In the 80's and 90's he showed up in every action movie. He played the asian american terrorist who ate the chocolate bar in Die Hard. He also played the asian american criminal who tortured Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon. Anyhow Andrea thanks for the laugh at work . Enjoy this picture of a great action star.

Please take the weather with you

 What is the deal with this weather? Is it snowing, is it raining? make up your mind already! On my third pair of socks already today. Gross. Can it be spring now please?

Monday, February 25, 2013

The Jstew donut diet

Wow stepped on a scale today expecting to be horrified. Turns out in 2 weeks i have 8 pounds. The miracle of that is i didn't exercise and ate a lot of donuts. I seriously don't get it. So yup this is definitely my year! A whoo hoo!!

Free as a bird

Happy birthday to my favorite Beatle and Wilbury George Harrison. It would have been his 70th birthday today. Was just watching some old videos of his. Man he  kicked ass on the guitar.

Noooooooo!!!!!!

 My favorite cheap video store has closed its doors for good. No more 5 dollar dvd's for me. That makes me feel like a sad panda. Well i had almost a year of cheap dvds not to mention a 100 dollar shopping spree. All good things must come to an end.

A Good day to Die Hard

 So how was everyone's valentines day? Yeah i am really behind seeing how its now the 25th. Our valentines day was great. We got to hang out with our good friend Andrea. We had a little dinner at Wimpy's in the fall. Oh h yeah we saw a  little independent film called A Good Day To Die Hard. That's right kids Die Hard 5!!  The original Die Hard is still one of my favorite movies ever. John McClane is one of the  greatest characters ever. I've been counting the days since this project was announced. I loved it a lot. It felt more like a Die Hard film than the last one. There were all sorts of nods to the original. It was fantastic--and one of the best uses of yippee ki a--mother f------. It's been getting a lot of negative reviews which i don't get. Its Bruce Willis blowing up stuff. Its not rocket science. Anyhow such a great choice for a valentines day movie. Nothing says romance like a Die Hard film.

Monday, February 18, 2013

The cat came back

Ok i guess i should start the February blogs with the best news we got. After a month and a half we got Starlight back. Starlight is our little black ninja cat who went missing December 23'rd. A week ago we got a call from the Humane society saying she had been turned in. Lucky for us she has a chip  they were able to use to locate her owners. I couldn't believe it! I had almost given up hope of seeing her again. I was hoping a nice family had taken her in. She is a little bit tinier now but she is still a friendly cat and it didn't take her long to get comfortable with us again. Elvis spent kept trying to play with her and kept crying. I was so happy. We had gotten  our little buddy home and the Stewart family was complete again.

Feeling Alright!

Ok i haven't been blogging. I have a total of 4 blogs--soon to be 5 this year. I still feel like this is my year but January felt crappy. We had some car issues that i don't really want to get into. That problem was fixed and the car  situation is great. So here we are 18 days into February and things feel great. I feel happy again and that's what counts. I'm off work today. I had a weird schedule for the last 2 weeks and now i'm back to normal. I slept in way to late today but i feel better. Just wanted to check in to let everyone know i was ok. I'll blog a little more later. Have a great night!