Sick again

Shit. I really was all set to go back to work today. I went to bed at 10:30 last night. I never go to bed that early. I was going to sleep off the sick. Unfortunately it didn't work out that way. I got all achy again with the chills. I was delirious. Kath says i even talked in my sleep. Woke up at 7:30. Felt really rough but was still considering going in to work. Then i threw up. That was the end of going into work. This means i don't get paid for the holiday tomorrow which means i lose 3 days of pay. It  really sucks. Its also New years eve,I didn't have any crazy party plans but Kath was going to make all kinds of great treats to eat. I'm scared to eat anything for fear of throwing up again. Well hopefully next time i write I'm feeling better,

Sick

  Today was supposed to be my return to taking billing calls. It was not to be. I woke up at 5 in the morning feeling sicker than a dog. I was achy and freezing and was having terrible nightmares. When my alarm went off at 7:30 i made an executive decision that i was staying home. I haven't been this sick in awhile. Unfortunately i have to go in tomorrow even if I'm dying. I will miss out on getting paid for New Years day if i'm not there tomorrow. I messaged a couple of my friends that were going back to billing and they said it was terrible in there. Yay. I'll have a full report tomorrow on what its like.

sad day for the family.

  Today we had the sad task of attending my Aunt Kristin's funeral. She was my Mom's lifelong friend for 50 years and had been battling cancer for the past year.. She was a really nice lady and I'll always remember her fondly. It was a nice service.

It got me to feeling grateful for the friendships i have made in my life and really glad Colin and i settled our differences this year. Life is way to short.

Mostly Comics big day

  Congratulations to our friends at Mostly Comics. Last month they did a long over due renovation of the store. I've been going there for thirty years  to buy comics practically every week.Fourteen years ago a new owner named Kim took over the store. He and his fellow workers Bev and Sheryl have been really  good to us over the years and there isn't anything that we wouldn't do for them. This is why we said yes to pod casting from the store on the day of their grand re opening. We had an awesome time and the store was busy all day. Ryan came and took pictures and the Mayor of St Catharines was there to cut the ribbon.  So thanks Mostly Comics for a great day and can't wait to buy comics from you for another 30 years!

Its Christmas all over again

 Merry Christmas everybody! It's December 25th and guess what? I still don't have the Christmas spirit. I'm looking forward to seeing my family and eating turkey but i still feel so bah hum bug. Next week i am done training and back to the billing department. I'm still kind of pissed off about that.Its been doing nothing but raining and snowing the last week. Not to happy about that either.

Despite my crappy week and dislike for Christmas, I do hope everyone is having a safe holiday season with friends and family.

Conversations with Alfonso

 It's 2:00 am and I'm about to head off to bed. I've complained quite a bit and I am feeling quite bitter, I thought I would end the night on some good news that we experienced recently.

  Earlier this year at Art o con we met an interviewed a really cool guy named Alfonso Espinos. Alfonso runs a comic book company called Studiocomix and he writes and draws some of the titles as well.

  One of the great things about doing the podcast this year is the new friends and contacts we've made. We've gotten a little bit of recognition as well We never had that with the old live show. In June at the Niagara Falls comic con the first person who said hi to us and shook my hand was Alfonso. I thought that was pretty cool.

 In July we ran into Alfonso at con Bravo where we were  lucky enough to interview him again, Following that event he started linking to our pod cast on his face book page. We really appreciated that.

 In September at the Canadian toy con we got to interview him a third time. This time we felt really comfortable around him and joked around a little more during the interview.

  This brings us to December and Alfonso has put out the third issue of his comic The Night Spike. On the inside back cover he put up an ad for We Got The Geek. I was so touched by the gesture. It was nice. I want to take this time to thank him again for the promotion. He's such a nice guy, Do us a favor and check out his stuff at http://www.studiocomix.com

More head aches for Jay

  I  got some more wonderful news last week and by wonderful i mean shitty. Remember my awesome job in the welcome department? Well last week we were told the welcome department was being discontinued after 18 months. So what does this mean for the 12 people including myself that were in the department? We are being shipped back to the billing department. Longtime readers of my blog know about all the headaches i used to get from the fine customers that call in to the department. To put it as nice as i can--I am not looking forward to it.

  The good news is that they put us in a training class for the next three weeks. That's great because i don't remember a lot. I do remember that the customers always made me angry. I can't wait to go back. Merry Christmas to me indeed. Oh that was sarcastic as well.

I want to punch winter in the face.

  Well i have slacked off again after getting back into the swing of things. If you read the last post December started off awesome. I change my mind December sucks ass. We had some technical issues with our  internet. We also had car issues. As i type these words we are in the middle of our first big snow fall of the year. The roads absolutely suck. You know what else sucks? We had been planning to attend a comic convention in Toronto this weekend. We were going up with our buddy John Bulmer and we had some interviews lined up for the pod cast. There's no way we are going now. We aren't risking our lives for that. I am really disappointed by this. It sucks. On the plus side Diana likes shoveling for some unknown crazy reason. She helped me a few times already yesterday. Please winter go away.

A great start to December

   Hey everyone. Welcome to December. So i gotta tell you all- I had a great first day of December. The snow is melting and it felt nice out. I only needed 1 jacket instead of 2. Best of all--I got to have a day off with Kath and Diana! We got to sleep in which was a big plus. We headed off to Pulp comics with our artist friend Chris. Pulp has open sketch Sundays where artists can go and hang out and draw. We interviewed the lady in charge of it--Racquel. She was really cool and nice. Then we headed off to Sketchbook comics. The guys there have been helping us with a weekly segment where they discus which books are being released that week.

  We came home around 6 and recorded a few things with our buddies Kristen and Hunter, We followed that up with pizza and the Walking Dead. What a fantastic day.