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.

Bah humbug!

  To the people that are already putting up your Christmas trees--all i have to say to that is-- really? It isn't even December yet. The last thing i want to do is think about Christmas. We're not even close to getting ready. I guess I'm the grinch this year. Oh well.


 On a related note. Once again I have skipped my works Christmas party. That's 12 years in a row baby!!  Why break my streak now?  That would be wrong.

Black Friday blues.

 Well it was the second day off in a row that work made us take. Its Black Friday in the states. Its a big holiday  where all the stores in America have gigantic sales and customers line up  and almost kill everyone trying to get the deals.  We have American customers and the powers that be don't want us calling anyone today. It sort of sucks. Kath still has to work and Diana is in school so its kind of boring around here, Today Kath dropped me off downtown. She works downtown now. I hung out at a Tim Hortons for an hour and then went to Mostly Comics to get my books. Although it had snowed last night it was pretty warm out so i walked home while listening to music on my ipod. I got home and immediately started to miss the family.  Hopefully next time i'll get a day off with Diana and Kath. Hopefully no one died this Black Friday trying to get a deal on a toaster or something.

The day i loved the day job

  So i  guess i should tell the tale of how i wound up with two tickets to the Hammer town comic con. Its actually a pretty cool story.

  Longtime followers of the blog will remember that I'm not a fan of my day job. I have never taken part  in any extra activities my work has done. I've never even been to one of my staff Christmas parties in the last 12 years. In mid September i read that our work was going to have a comic con themed day. I thought it was a cool idea but figured I would stay out of it. As i was leaving work a guy i kind of recognized came running up to me and asked what i was doing for comic con day. I replied probably nothing. Then he asked me if i was still doing the pod cast? Ok i was starting to get curious. I guess my name was given to the committee in charge of the event and they were interested in me doing the pod cast at work. I quickly changed my tune and said that i was indeed interested. It turns out the gut i recognized was also friends  with Paul who runs Pulp Comics and his name was Dusty,

  So the following week for the first time ever i was excited to go to work. I even wore my half assed Clark Kent costume. I gotta tell--in 12 years it was the coolest day i ever had at work. There were super hero movies being played on the tvs and people  in costumes. There were giveaways and super hero music being played in the hallway and free bags of popcorn. I sat at the front with Dusty. Man that guy knows his stuff. I set up the dice game that we run when we have appearances at cons. I was a bit nervous as it was the first time i had run a table without Kath, I recorded a full day of answers and had an excellent time. One of the ladies in charge--Meagan said i did an awesome job and would consider me for future events. Oh yeah i wasn't complaining that this also got me off of the phones all day.

  The next day as i was sitting at my desk wishing i was doing the podcast, i was visited at my desk by Meagan. She produced a comic book looking statue with a panel that said best pod caster. So i guess that technically we now have an award winning pod cast. The icing on the cake was that i was also presented with the tickets to Hammer town for doing such a good job. It was such a great moment. I'll never forget it.