Jerzei Collie's journal

I slept more than usual this weekend. Initially, I was just going to sleep all night Saturday. I woke up around 10:30 PM and had trouble getting back to sleep. I got up and caught the end of game night with two games of Quiplash. The Rabbit Hole took Sunday night off, so I just slept until 1 AM and am now listening to Doggy Radio.

I need to get my cell phone's screen replaced. The bottom part was cracked during my Grenada cruise. The top cracked last Thursday when it fell off a counter.

"I need to get some adjustments made to my fursuit."
"You're getting it fixed?"
"Never say 'fixed' to an old dog!"

I was debating whether to bring my fursuit or kigurumi to FoxTrot last night. I wound up not bringing either. I still need to get the body suit adjusted.

When I first began working my revised KRCC schedule last year, I thought it would be better for my sleep schedule. It wound up being worse for sleep since both work and some of the leisure activities are on the weekends. I love my job, but I wish I could get moved to weekdays. I should get moving on my goal to save/earn/win enough money to buy my own radio or TV station. There's an FM station near Pueblo offering a local marketing agreement with an option to buy, along with an AM station in Denver for sale.

The community where I live is having a company inspect and fix windows in all of the buildings. Some of my windows are drafty, including my bedroom window. I'd love to get them fixed before it gets much colder.

While cleaning out my glove compartment last week, I found the vial of touch-up paint for my Subaru, but the applicator brush is missing.

Today is National Taco Day. I'm thinking of going to a downtown restaurant which is offering happy hour special on tacos and margaritas. Local rock station KILO 94.3 is supposed to be doing a remote there. UPDATE: I couldn't find any parking near the restaurant, so I just picked up some Del Taco tacos on the way home.

Since the weather is getting a bit cooler, I can wear my light jacket with the fursuit "partial" parts to FoxTrot this weekend.

I skipped this week's Toastmasters meeting yesterday because I was still tired/stressed when I woke up. I initially went to the Sunbird restaurant last night for a meet on the patio. After waiting on the patio for about 10 minutes, I checked the Meetup site and discovered the meetup is actually tonight. I went home and went to bed a few hours earlier.

The monthly Drinking Liberally meeting was on Thursday. I planned to go to the local furry pizza meet afterward, but the organizer said the meet was canceled due to low attendance.

While my Subaru was at the dealership to replace the passenger airbag and fuel valve, the mechanics found the car's head gasket needed to be repaired/replaced. At the moment, I can't afford the $1,800 or so to fix it.

Autumn has officially arrived, both time and weather-wise. The weather this week is supposed to be rainy with highs only in the 50s and low-60s. I turned on my furnace for the season Saturday night and put an extra blanket on my bed.

I was too tired to go to a Happy Hour meet last night. This meet was held at the Jose Muldoon's east location near my neighborhood.

The KRCC membership drive started last Wednesday. The fall drive usually begins in mid to late-October, but it was moved up to September for some reason. Since the weekend programming has moved to at least partial automation, the programs had fixed breaks of three to seven minutes. This is a bit easier for me since I don't have to do any math to figure out how long the breaks need to be (e.g.: 5 breaks with 23 minutes of talk time means each break should average 4:36 each.) There was no pitching on Sunday, but one member came by the studio to submit a pledge. I have a few phone shifts that will conflict with a meeting and my Friday dinner; I was moved to these shifts when the station decided to just use an answering service during the shifts I wanted to work.

On Saturday night, I needed to wear sweat pants to bed since the temperature at night is starting to drop down to autumn levels. This week, I'll probably add a blanket to my bed since the low temperatures will dip into the 40s.

My Subaru Impreza is back home. Since birds decided to target the rental car yesterday, I took it to Water Works car wash and the gas station before returning it to Hertz. My Subaru's roof still has some hail dents in it because replacing that made up a large part of the repair estimate, and the shop said it wouldn't really be worth it. I let my Toastmasters group know I couldn't make it this week since I wasn't sure exactly when the shop would call me.

I don't have a Toastmasters meeting this week since next Monday is Labor Day. Later tonight, I'll go to the local furry pizza meet.

I went to the Red Gravy Italian restaurant yesterday with a local Happy Hour group. I need to remember to park in the garage at Colorado and Nevada when I'm dining in the central downtown area. This time I could only find a space with a one-hour meter. I ordered the toasted ravioli appetizer and a local honey wheat beer since the appetizers and draft beers were half-price for happy hour.

I'm hoping my car will be ready before Tuesday since I have to return my rental car then.

I recently got some lemon-scented plug-in air fresheners from an online store. Lemon and peppermint are the two scents I can't seem to find in local stores, unless they're combined with another scent. This lemon scent isn't triggering my allergies. I don't know if all of AirWick's scents make me sneeze or just the lavender and chamomile.

I need to get a haircut tomorrow.

I went to the auto repair shop where my car is being worked on to retrieve my OA book bag from the back seat. No work appears to have been done to the car so far. I don't know if the shop is waiting for specific parts or if other cars are ahead of mine in their work order.

One of my neighbor's cats is missing. A "lost cat" poster was put on the community mailboxes. Also, I hear the neighbor's other cat occasionally meowing outside as if to call for the missing cat.