Geeking it up with the fam

Its the last day of June and we're having a geeky good time. We went to Pulp comics with our friend Ryan. They were having an anniversary sale and we got a bunch of comics at a dollar off. Ryan is new to comic collecting and he bought a bunch of stuff. We went for a slice of pizza for lunch. Tonight we are taking the kid to the drive in to see the new pixar movie brave and its playing with th avengers. Its a win/win for me. Tomorrow is July 1st. I get extra pay for working it. Also in July i get to see 2 concerts. Huey Lewis and Barney Bentall. The new schedule kicks in next week. Naps here i come! Ok gang I'll see ya in July.

Niagara Falls comic con

Holy crap its the last day of June. That month flew by.One story i forgot to write about was our experience at Niagara Falls comic con a few weeks ago. It started off shitty but by the end of the day we had a blast.

So a bit of back story. Two people put on the con. Our friend Paul and another guy named Chris. Unfortunately it was Chris we had to deal with. So a few months before the con a website went up for the show. There was a section where you contact contact Chris if you were media and try and  get press passes. We didn't think this would be a big deal because
A) we get press passes to wizard world every year and they are one of the biggest cons in north america. They contact us now every year and ask us if we want tickets,
and
B) we had a table at the first smaller niagara falls con and broadcast a show from there.We were already hyping the new con on our show for a few months

Turned out it wasn't so easy
Chris wrote back with a million questions on what made us qualified to get press passes. He practically made us jump through hoops. He advised us if we were selected than we would only get 1 press pass. This kind of sucked because there was  kath and i and Rob. We got 4 every year from wizard world.  Anyhow weeks and weeks and weeks went by. We didn't hear back from Chris. We wanted to know how many tickets we needed to buy 1 or 2 and this would be determinned if we got our press pass. We ran into Paul at the fun expo star wars show and he was selling tickets. We explained the press pass situation to him. He immediately called Chris who announced that get your geek on was on the media list. So we bought a ticket and didn't question it.

  So the day of the con arrived and we were really looking forward to it. Robert Picardo from Star Trek was going to be there and so was burt ward from batman and  several other celebrities. We never heard back on whether or not we would be allowed to interview everyone and we didn't push our luck. Rob actually volunteered to help out. He was working the front door when we arrived. When we got there we were impressed. It was at a new venue called the scotia bank convention centre. There were lots of people dressed up. It was going to be a great day. Then disaster struck. I made my way to the media booth to get my press pass. Shouldn't be to tough. We were there when Paul called Chris. Chris confirmed we were on the list. Here is the conversation i had with the nice lady at the desk
Nice lady : What is the name the pass is under?
Me: Train rek Radio
NL: sorry its not here
Me: oh it might be under Get Your Geek on,
NL : no sorry
Me starting to get pissed : jason stewart?
NL:its not that one either
So lets sum up. Good  ol' Chris had royally f'ed us and left us off the list. Lucky for me the lady was really nice and still gave us a pass. She had me sign the media list and it was less than a page long. Had Chris screwed other media? I went back to Chris and i was fuming. It took me about an hour to calm down.  What did calm me down was seeing  a lot of my friends, Just about everyone  who had ever been on Get Your Geek on was there. Our friend Kristen was there. She had a booth and was selling her geek jewellery. Kath bought an Avengers one of a kind necklace she had made. Hunter was with her and of course we talked comics and other assorted geeky stuff. Our friend John Bulmer also had a booth and he was drawing some awesome artwork as usual. He was actually handing out our business cards and gygo  even appeared on his banner. At least someone remembered our name.

 We saw a lot more of our friends and soon we were joined by my friend of 30 years John Merry and his son Nick. It was john's first con and that was really exciting.We walked around for a bit. It was at this point that Rob texted me and asked if i wanted to come to the Robert Picardo q and a. I'm a huge stargate fan so of course i wanted to be there. It was really entertaining. He told stories of his days on stargate and star trek voyager. He played some comedy videos. He read poetry and sang. It was so cool. Had a blast. Definitely a highlight.

 I should note that we saw Paul a lot that day. Usually he was running and working his ass off.I know he wanted to make the day a huge success. He wanted to put Niagara Falls on the map as far as conventions were concerned. On the other hand anytime we saw Chris all he did was shake hands and pose for pictures while it seemed that Paul did all the heavy lifting. Despite being angry  at the start of the day we had a fun time and i really hope that the con continues and gets bigger and better. We thank Paul for all his hard work.

ho ho ho

Holy crap. Just looked in the mirror after i showered and my goatee appears to be getting whiter. I'm gonna look like santa soon. Don't wanna shave it though cause then i'll look like i'm 5 years old. I wish July was far away. I don't feel like turning 43. Not cool. No sir.

 I'm off to  take a walk with Diana and maybe play some catc. Days off rock!

Rent a cop parking police

 So apparently we have parking police here at our co-op, and they arent very good at their jobs. They seemed a little drunk with power. So a few months we get an envelope containing 2 parking passes, You need these if you want to park in your parking spot. Ok fair enough. We gave the other one to Rob because he's here a lot doing the show. Didn't think much of it after that. Rachel had told us stories about the parking police. How they handed out tickets and fines to everyone.  So we're about 10 minutes away from doing last weeks show and Kath comes down to the studio to tell us Rob is getting a ticket. He was parked in visitors parking so we didn't see what the big deal was. Kath went out and yelled at  the power mad parking cop. Rob didn't have a pass. He was parked in visitors parking and figured he didn't need one. Apparently there hasn't been  visitors parking in 6 months? News to us. So Rob came back in to do the show. A few minutes later Diana came down during the show to tell us that Rob was about to be towed. Seriously? What the hell? They were also fining our neighbor who had the pass in his car but it had fallen down.  Rach was telling us that thee are neighbors here who have nothing better to do than to call in and report stuff. Snitches if you will. Anyhow no one was towed and Rob is fighting it. Parking cops.

Good mood finally returns

Its Friday morning. Things making me happy.
1) Diana did amazing on her report card. She got a lot of "excellents". So proud of her. She is now on Summer vacation and  looking forward to grade 2 in the fall.
2) Got the results of my shift bid. Its not bad. I don't have to do 10 hour shifts. Thank God! I have my weekends off so i can do my show. I'll be doing split shits. I go in at 11 until 3. Then i get four hours off to nap and what not and then i go back from 7-11. I can totally do that.
3) Huey Lewis next week!
4) I'm off for the next 2 days and i think we are going to the drive in on Saturday night
5) did i mention the kid is off for the summer? I get to sleep in tomorrow and as you know sleep is my friend.
I'll write again tomorrow gang. Have a good one

Headache city

 What a day. I'm glad its over/. So much whining. No not from me. I had 2 calls that were an hour long.I seriously got a headache.So much yelling. And kudos to the lady that made me tell her the name of the porn that was ordered. My answer of it was an adult movie apparently wasn't good enough and demanded i tell her the title which was "teens taking 12 inches." Bravo. Ugh there is still 2 days to go until the end of my work week. Man i hope i can make it. Then i get to find out my new schedule. Can't wait for the weekend

Geeky stag and doe

   Ok time for some happy topics. I want to tell you about a cool event Kath and i went to last Saturday night. We attended the stag and doe of our friends Hunter and Kristen. I've worked with Kristen for a long time. She used to be just someone i knew from work but now she has evolved into a really awesome friend. She's been on our show a bunch of times. Hunter  was in Korea for a year and while he was there he started listening to our show. We finally met him a year later and  and he has evolved from a guy we knew on the internet to the cool little brother i always wanted.Kath and i have a lot in common with them and they are geeks like us. I use that term proudly by the way.

  Anyhow Our friends are getting married this summer so they threw a stag and doe. It was the greatest stag and doe I've ever been to! It was geek themed. People were encouraged to show up in costume. There was a live version of Angry Birds, They had star wars and star trek cup cakes. It was right up our alley. Our friend Ryan also came and he bought me 8 jello shots. I don't drink very much anymore and i am a lightweight. I had a buzz from that and the one beer i drank.  It was a fun time. I can't wait for the wedding. It should be awesome.