Okay, I have a lot of ground once again to cover so bear with me, but it has been a few days since I have blogged anything of note, and that doesn't mean anything of note hasn't happened, just that I haven't mentioned it yet.
The easy thing would be the change meter, as it is now up to $9.34.
Again we have added new people to the friends list, including my friend Rich, who has already blogged about our drinking exploits this week though I think I remember more of it than he does, and his daughter Christina. Why they started blogging I will never know. Maybe I am a bad influence or something, but by all means stop by and check their stuff out.
Hockey is the only fantasy sport I have going right now, and for the first time in a while, I posted a losing week, going 4-5-1. I still lead the league overall, but only by a tie breaker now. Thankfully I have a big enough lead that the playoffs right now don't look like too much of a problem, the top 6 qualify and I would have to drop 31 pts over the course of the second half of the season not to make it, but still there is a certain amount of pride with being in first place, just not sure how much longer I will stay there with the injury bug hitting my team pretty hard, what with Jean Sebastian Giguere, Jason Speeza and Jerome Iginla all out right now, that is only my best goaltender and two of my best offensive players right there.
Some of you may have gotten a message from me via yahoo the other day about adding to my friends list. You can ignore it if you wish, I was just upgrading my messenger to the current version (I am the last to do such things) and it sent out the invites from the 360 page to my messenger if you too run yahoo messenger. If you did add me anyway, thanks, but be warned I am almost never visible. I tend to run invisible an awful lot, even if it is constantly on. I just found the buzzes and what not a little too much to bear, especially when I was taping the radio show on my computer. To have it be interrupted with buzzes from yahoo im was a little much, so I just muted the messenger bells and whistles and now keep it on invisible most of the time. You can still reach me through it, but you just can't tell if I am at my desk or not. (For the record, I am typing this at work while taping radio shows, so no I am not at my desk right now.)
I find I have been testy of late and I am not sure why. I would have thought a vacation would have toned things down for me a little bit, but recently I have been on a very short fuse. Prime example, I got an email yesterday asking if I am printing up too much show prep for the radio show in the morning and the question came from someone who really has nothing to do with my job at all. Now I suppose I could cooly explain why I visit every website I do in the morning and also explain that we are the only news talk station in the building and yet we get no newspapers to work with. Instead, right now I am more of the mind of saying "If you want to do my job, drag your ass in here at 5am everyday, if not then shut the fuck up." What can I say, I am not always the most pleasant person to be around, not that I mind being unpleasant, at times I kinda like it.
I am still about a week behind in my podcasts for the station, I may do a couple tonight (I am doing an all night shift, this is what passes for Saturday night for me a 5pm-1am shift at the part time job, followed by 1am till god knows when at the radio station) if I get up the gumption to, I knocked a couple out last week and I at least broke even during the week, putting up a new pod every day, but I am still about a week behind, the same week I was on vacation. There are just some things that I will not let my replacements do, one of them is post the podcasts.
By the way, remember when I blogged about leaving home before all of the fun started regarding my grandmother's house and the family "meeting"? Well, needless to say, it went so well that a couple of them walked out of it. If it were up to me, I would rather just see my grandmother turn a reverse mortgage on the house, where she gets payments from the bank and at the end of it, the bank owns the house. This would give her an additional income stream and when she does eventually pass away, the bank owns the house and anyone that wants to buy it can buy it at market price from the bank. After all, it is not like any of her kids are so hard up that they need the house and the minute one of them gets it over any of the others it is going to start a fight, so I'd rather none of them had it.
Well, I have recorded two commercial feeds and the Lutheran Hour for next week so far this evening. I only have two commercial feeds left and plenty of time to do them, so I may get around to some podcasting yet this evening, depending on how much time I spend on this blog entry. I think after work I may head over to Best Buy and blow some more of my gift card. I need a good movie to watch, and I am not much of a renter when it comes to DVDs anymore, I would rather just buy them and be done with it. I already bought one with the gift card, that being "Friday Night Lights", which was a better movie than it is a TV series.
An update on the Bedtime Stories blogs I am working on, right now I am trying to get the size down to a manageable amount to make them postable. They are too big size wise right now for Youtube or yahoo. I imagine it is just something I am doing wrong, which should come as no surprise because I do plenty of things wrong.
One book that won't be on the bedtime Series Stories series is the one I just finished. Yes I continue to read at the rate of at least a couple of books a month. I got the new john Grisham for Christmas, "An Innocent Man" which wasn't too bad. Not great but for his first non fiction books, I am willing to cut him a break and say it was pretty good.
Many thanks to yahoo and You Tube. Yahoo has been air NHL games live, which is a smart move for the NHL, given it is added exposure for a league badly in need of it. I know tomorrow they are airing the Anaheim game live, and given how bad tv usually is on a nightly basis, I may go ahead and watch the computer instead. You Tube has been posting highlights of the NHL games so that if you miss a game, you can at least see the higlights, as well as weekly highlight packages.
Sorry, took a little break from the blog. Watched some Youtube and chatted with Greg, who is the afternoon producer for our radio station. he also does overnights for the Fm on Saturdays, which means that at least when I am here on Saturday nights trying to get a jump. We just spent some time watching Family Guy clips on the computer. The cool thing about Family Guy is that I haven'ty seen all that many episodes, so while I think the show is hilarious, alot of it is still first run material for me, unlike most everyone else in the modern world that if they like the show, have seen most of the episodes. I guess I have reached the point where I am content to be behind the curve on most things. Such as technology, as long as what I have works, I am loathe to upgrade anymore, as evidenced by my finally upgrading messenger this week. I knew the update was out there, but my older verion worked fine so I didn't care to go newer. Heck, I finally just downloaded IE 7 within the last two weeks, and before that I was the last on my block to go with Service Pack 2 for Windows XP.
Cool, I got another commercial feed knocked out, only one to go. I have the spots already recorded for it, I just have to put them together and finish off the feed, which should take all of about ten minutes.
We have another change meter update. I think this is a first, two updates in the same entry, but when I went out for a cigarette, I did a quick run by the vending machines and found two more pennies on the floor, so the new total is $9.36. I should have looked under the machines as well, but I didn't. Maybe later this morning if I am really hard uup for change, but I doubt it.
I am not sleepy, which for most people would be a surprise, but not for me, since I slept all day yesterday. I took a nap Friday afternoon around 4pm and got up around 8pm, then was up until 3am, then went back to bed and didn't get up until almost 2pm Saturday afternoon. It is probably the most I have slept in ages and I have to admit, it felt pretty good. I figure I might as well store up on sleep now, I have 4 doubles next week, and a 9 hour Saturday before I drag myself back here for another all night shift. All told, I am scheduled for 32 hours at the part time job, though I am sure I will get sent home early a few times, so I will probably end up with 27-30 hours plus the normal 50+ that I will have at my full time gig. I did get a raise at the part time, the state of PA just raised its minimum wage, so all told I get an extra quarter out of the deal, woohoo indeed. I don't know how this will affect the raise I am scheduled to get in the very near future or if it will affect it at all. My raise was scheduled to bump me 50 cents an hour, but since every just got bumped compliments of the state, I don't know how much I can expect to get now.
Well, I should wrap this up. But I will leave you with the info on the new cd I burned. I have found a trick that allows me to burn music from the launchcast station, though I am not giving away my trade secret. Instead, I will just leave you with the list of songs I "stole" that I use for new bumper music for the radio show.
1) What Difference Does It Make? - The Smiths
2) Strawberry Letter 23 - The Brothers Johnson
3) Roll With It - The Crystal Method
4) Rain - The Cult
5) Private Idaho - The B 52s
6) Divine Thing - The Soupdragons
7) Firestarter - The Prodigy
8) Pets - Porno for Pyro
9) Here & Now - Letters to Cleo
10) Love Plus One - Haircut 100
11) Low - Cracker
12) Mrs. Robinson - The Lemonheads
13) No One Knows - Queens of the Stone Age
14) Original Sin - INXS
15) Perfect Way - Scritti Politti
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