Week in Review!

At the radio station I worked at in Webster City, our news guy did a Week in Review. Kind of a cool idea. But his news stories consisted of church Bake Sales and city council meetings. Where he would interview the people on the most asinine things covered at the meeting. Such as approving to buy a pop machine for outside City Hall.

One of my favourite moments of working there, and of working with this guy is the time that something actually happened in Webster City. A woman was shot in her home. Her husband came in from the field to find her on the floor, bleeding. It was eventually found out that the person that shot her, had broken into the house to steal some things, and make off with one of the vehicles at the farm. Though, Webster City being the gossipy town it is, most of the residients believed that the husband shot her.

Anyway, I veered from my main point. This woman was shot, and I heard it on the police scanner. At first I dismissed it, figuring that Pat(the news guy) would be covering this if it were anything. Darren, one of the sales guys, came into the studio and asked if I had heard anything. I told him about the scanner, and we both came to the conclusion, that Pat would be covering it if this were true.

A lot of calls start to come in and then our Program Director called me and asked why we weren't covering it. I told him, I don't know, you need to talk to Pat. I was then told to do everything I could to find him.

Five minutes later, Pat comes strolling in. I then said, "Hey, Tony is looking for you?" He then says, "Oh, really? I wonder what he wants?" I tell him, "I'm sure it has to do with this shooting Pat, that doesn't really happen everyday in Webster City, and we've got nothing on the air about it." Pat's response, and it's a classic..."Well, I didn't want to worry people about a shooter on the loose, I was just going to let this one blow by."

Good idea Pat. We don't want to tell the people about a real news story, that every news station in the state has a story on. But we better tell them about the five for a dollar Lemon Bars at the First Presbyterian Church. Oh, and if you buy something before 5 PM, you get a free Rice Krispie square.

There is actually a lot more to this story, but I got really side tracked. I just was going to tell you that Pat did these Week in Review things, and I was thinking about doing them here on Friday night or Saturday.

Sorry, a bit more of a sidetrack. he also did a Year in Review in December. Each month was about forty minutes long. This thing ran for six hours. KQWC had a lot of programming problems. From what I know, it's gotten a lot better.

Anyway, my Week in Review...

Bad things...
My sleeping was really off, waking up quite a bit earlier than I usually get up. Thursday I went to bed at about one in the morning, only to awake three and a half hours later.

Monday, the person usually in charge of my team at work was gone. It was the day we had to get everything done for delivery. I was put in charge of making sure it all got done. I don't mind being put in charge, but in the twelve or so years I've worked at various places, this kind of thing happens. I prove time and time again, that I could be in a leadership role, and nothing ever happens. I'm given some "corporate babble" why I they don't want me there. This happened to my dad a lot too. Maybe it's a Dietz curse.

Good things...

Saw the newest Harry Potter, which was very good. The children have become much better actors since the first film. They were horrid in that movie. The first movie was great, despite them not having their "acting chops" yet.

Goblet of Fire had David Tennant in it as Barty Crouch Junior, which was really cool for me, because he is playing the Doctor in the next season of Doctor Who(starts April 15, I can't wait...and thats on the BBC, Sci-Fi channel is still showing the first season. But I'm a nerd, and have been downloading them.)

Oh, also, the band that played at the dance, some of the people in the band are in the real life band Radiohead. Which was pretty sweet.

All in all, I liked the movie. I need to read the books I think.

Saw "Inside Man" last night. A Spike Lee Joint. He didn't disapoint again. I don't think I've seen a bad movie from him. Really good, I recommend it.

Getting confirmation that the blind date for next weekend is go. I'm a little nervous. I have always had the feeling that I leave an overwhelming first impression. I don't mean that as an arrogant statement either.

Wierd occurances, or things I didn't expect to happen...

Playing pool at the MU with Frank and Charlie, that was pretty enjoyable. A lot of fun. Also, losing a bet and having to play Dance Dance Revolution...EXTREME! That thing flashes at you so much. I think I have epilepsy now.

Jeff Sorensen singing Black Eyed Peas song "My Humps" in the back seat of Charlie's car. It was quite surreal.

Having Charlie look for the CD in Best Buy the next day. That just added to the surrealness.

Also, once again, playing Dance Dance Revolution.

All right, the Pat story took up a lot of this, but I hadn't told a Pat story in forever. Anyway, that's my Week in Review. Maybe I'll keep these up.

Oh, don't forget. Brownies are two for a dollar down at St. John's Luthran Church. Today only.

Because my body must of decided I don't need rest.

I went to bed at 12:30am...to awake at 4:30am. Wonderful. I'm wide awake too.

Anyway, this has entertained me...

www.huhcorp.com

My favourite passage came from there "Ideas" section. I share it with you now.

Our female staff members are all hot, so, even if there's nothing to meet about, we'll sit and flirt with them, and charge you for the time. When one of our new-age marketing gurus or design experts or consultants has an idea, the rest of us look at him or her with serious expressions and write stuff down on paper.

The whole site is golden, you should read it. Especially if you like to wake up at 4:30 for no reason.

This seems to be a daily thing now.

More TV on DVD news.

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=5398

There was one for Pinky and the Brain too, but Animaniacs will always rank higher.

Oh yeah! How sweet is this.

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=5391

That will be awesome.

At the behest of Ben Garvey.

Actual content!!!

Since almost everyone that reads this has asked about "that girl Frank's wife is setting you up with", I shall now give the lowdown to my peeps. (Did I just say that.)

Tuesday, her phone number was given to me. On Wednsday, as atypical of myself, I found ways to avoid calling. "After this movie, I give her a call." After the movie, I was hungry. "When I'm done eating, I'll call." When the food was done..."Oh, damn...it's late. Guess I'll just have to call tomorrow."

To explain the waffling I was doing here, you must remember, that I haven't played this game in six or seven years. I really didn't play this game when Rebecca and I got together. It started with me being interested in her. Her saying she just wanted to be friends, me deciding that I was cool with that after awhile, then shortly there after, Rebecca declaring to me that she decided that we should date. Five years later we break up, a little under two and I'm at this point. I'm not really the most confident guy in the world either, though my bravado might lead you to think different.

Thursday, with nothing really to do all night, the opportunity was ripe.

So I found ways to delay it.

"After this song, I'll call." An hour long album later, I decide I should goof off on the internet for awhile. Which does include World of Warcraft. After that, I say to myself once again "After this song I'll call."

So, after listening to that song four or five times,(it was a good song! "Weight of the World" by Tarkio...not that you probably have ever heard of it.) I finally walked it off, sucked it up and dialed the number.

Her name is Valerie. I knew this before, it was on the Post-It note that had her number on it. It wasn't like I went in with nothing. "Hey dude, is this the chick I'm suppose to call?" But not revealing it until now, that's called drama! (I'm done being a literature nerd now.)

We talked for an hour or so, about your general, I've never talked to you topics. What we do for a job, what we do for fun, our families(which is very simular...which led to an odd comment from her..."I don't mean anything by this, but you and I should never breed"). What TV shows we like, or have liked in the past. Things like that.

The plan now is to set up a double date with Frank and Jennifer, as to have more people around that we both know, as to keep the awkwardness down of the whole thing.

She seems very nice, and has a good sense of humour(from what I can tell in an hour telephone conversation). It should be fun. Though we'll have to see how she responds to sass. That's a big thing.

So far, it looks like the date will be two weekends from now. We shall see what that brings.

You nosey people. There is the lowdown.