So I had an interview for a job in radio this morning.  It has been a long time since I’ve actually had an interview in my field of expertise (Not that I think I’m a radio expert, I just couldn’t think of a better word).  It does not look like I will get the position, but I met some really cool people (I had never interviewed with this company before).  The best part was being back in a radio station, there is an energy that a real, working radio station has, and I really miss it.  As I sat waiting, I saw employees come and go chatting with the receptionist, people picking up tickets they won, you know just the normal daily operations of a station… It made me miss working, I miss the almost ten years I spent at STAR.  Anyway, it was fun to be a part of it again, even if it was just for a hour.

Kids come over tomorrow, they haven’t been here for a while, it will be so good to see them.  I promised Bing a trip to the bowling alley to try out the Ronald McDonald ball… Lucy wants no part of it, so I think she’s going to visit the aquarium with Angela Channel.  And there is going to be some fudge making (Not Bing style), it’s the kids new favorite.

Tigers PR move.    He just wanted what he paid for.  It’s not Conan’s fault.  Burglar makes himself at home.  Douche bag needs press.  Yes, they’re too old.  God is mad at Burbank.  IMPORTANT: Crib Recall.  A real cave woman.   Hug a penguin today!

Rock On, Jack

I just realized that my kids birthdays are right around the corner, just what an unemployed Dad wants to think about… And my daughter informed me, “Mommy said you’re getting us toys for our birthday, because she has to get us clothes.” No pressure.

I continue to hate my apartment building, some b***h complained that I would not let her use the computer in the business center and management tried to confront me… But upon discussion, it ends up I was in the right and she can go ___________ . (Fill in your favorite insulting action here).   It’s funny, this place sells itself on being a hub for creative, industry professionals, but it is mainly full of ghetto losers… OK, enough of me venting.  But seriously, avoid this place!

It’s looking like our CRN Halloween party may be canceled… Maybe we can throw a Pod/Blog Party together?  I’ll keep you posted.

It was a good stock day… Now if only we could afford stock!  He was not a Beegal!  This doesn’t sound like fun.  Start planning your vacations now.  You knew this was coming.   R.I.P. Captain Lou. Nazis in the garden!  Russian invaded by UFO.  Look who’s on the phone.  All aboard the pumpkin train (I’ve always wanted to do this).  It’s almost Whore-o-ween. Don’t mess with a pregnant stripper.  Oh Lord land the plane.

Rock On, Jack

I went for a walk yesterday and ended up at Universal City Walk.  It’s kind of cool to be up their midweek, in the morning, it’s crawling with tourists…  Makes for great people watching.  I think it was on my mind because I received this thing in the mail the other day about how they’re trying to get a huge expansion built… It actually sounded pretty cool.  I love the whole urban living concept… That’s sort of how I lived when I was at STAR, I lived behind the building and everything I needed was walking distance, I could go days without having to drive my car.

I’m stepping into the modern age… DSL is getting installed in my apartment on Friday!  I know you pod-people will miss random people walking in on me while I’m recording, but I’ll still have distractions, don’t worry.

The other day I was low on polka-dot diapers (or diapies, as Bing calls them), so I went to my local Target.  I hadn’t really thought about it before, but that Target was Gemco when I was a kid… The Gemco my Dad worked at as an appliance salesman.  I flashed back to being a kid and going to see him there with my Mom, there he would be near the stoves and refrigerators wearing a short sleeve shirt with a tie, his glasses, clean shaven (I remember him explaining, after I asked why he shaved his mustache off, that people had a preconceived notion of men with mustaches and it would be harder to make sales – it was the 70′s).  The same store that there was a huge line in front of the day the Star Wars toys went on sale…  My Dad was able to get me some figures before the store opened, they sold out really quickly.

Thinking back, it was one of the few times I thought my Dad was cool.  For the most part, he was a tall, thick man, who grew back his mustache when he got out of sales and the eighties rolled around.  He never had cool jobs or was particularly popular… He had friends, was well liked and could be very funny, but he was no means the life of the party.

My parents divorced when my sister and I were roughly the same age as my kids…  But for obviously vastly different reasons.  For a while all was good, they shared custody evenly, stayed within the same city, we stayed in our school.  This went on for 2 or 3 years.

Things really started to change when my Dad lost his job at AT&T.  He was unemployed for a long time and ultimately was only able to find work at Thrifty’s  (Were it was obvious, even to me a kid at the time, he was quite unhappy).  It was around this time that he met a woman that he would later marry.  He has never said this, but it appeared this was more a marriage of convenience… Although to his credit, they are still together.

I bring cliff’s notes version of my Dads life up because walking through that Target, thinking about Gemco, I realized that my life has run the same course… And that scares me.  I don’t want to be my Dad.  I want to be a hero to my kids, for them to have lists of great memories with me.  I want them to think I’m cool… Although I know that the older they get, the bigger the dork I become to them.  I refuse to be with someone just so I’m not alone, or have a house, or because they support me… I’d rather spend the rest of my life alone.  I look at my Dad as a functioning broken man…  I’m trying to find my pieces and glue them back into place, so I can just be a man.

Let’s boil this guy alive.  What car color city are you from?  Oh deer, good tackle.   Want a “supercat?”  You know Miss Plastic Beverly Hills is not far off.  Breaking Skunk News!  Iart.  Drive-bike shooting.  Don’t mock the one armed softball player.  Don’t leave your kiddie porn packed phone as collateral.

Rock On, Jack

Lucy had a sore throat all weekend, so we stayed home and watched movies.  I highly recommend Red Box, they’re all over the place, have the latest releases and charge only $1 a day.  Lucy picked a new one to annoy me, Dive Olly Dive…. It’s about these submarines that help clean up the ocean, good message, just not that entertaining to 38 year olds.  I’ll take Yo Gabba Gabba any day!  We did discover a show called Tiny Planets where the lead characters are Bing and Bong… This was amusing to us all!

Did some baking, made M&M Chocolate Chip Brownies… Bing and Lucy loved them!  And as I type a loaf of sourdough is baking…  I love fresh baked bread!

Still no breaking Bing’s desire to be “Polka Dot Bowling Girl” for Halloween… He tried on his Dragon and Strawberry costumes, but has no desire to wear them trick or treating!  I guess it’s time for Daddy to do some costume designing, I’ll let you know what I come up with.

It’s sad when the kids go home and you look around at all their toys.  I got home last night and started to clean up, I found all the pictures they had drawn (We had art time since we were home)… They are so great, I save them all, at some point I will just have an apartment full of little kid drawings.  Lucy drew a picture of a person as seen from the perspective of an approaching shark that I’m going to fram and put in our shark themed bathroom.

They took it too far!  No one is making this kid eat soap. Oh deer.   I guess he had a change of heart.  They’re not called porn stamps! Do you think this is fair?  Secret Flaming Lips this week.  Loch Ness balls! This is not a good way to start a marriage!

Rock on, Jack