Jerzei Collie's journal

A couple of the furry artists I commisioned are in Europe. They don't seem to understand the time difference between Europe and America because they keep messaging me on Telegram between 3 and 5 AM when I'm usually asleep. The only time I see those messages is when I need to get up to pee. There really is no excuse for this when sites like worldtimezone.com can tell them the current time in any location.

Another round of snow is happening today. The snow is much heavier this time. The weekend and next week will be back in the 50s and 60s, with some low 70s the following week.

People were messaging me on Telegram around 6:00 this morning. I kept hearing Max Headroom's voice from The Art of Noise's "Paranoimia" saying "Please let me sleep."

I found a Saturday Night Live sketch that had eluded me two years ago. The season 12 episode hosted by Joe Montana and Walter Payton started with a parody of the "Super Bowl Shuffle" called "We Are the Kickers." This sketch and others were cut out of the episode on the streaming services I browsed. I was able to find the complete episode today on the Internet Archive.

I'm almost halfway packed for the trip to Furry Fiesta. I need to pick up a few more items today.

I got lunch from Whataburger yesterday. I got a 9-piece container of boneless buffalo wings, which Whataburger recently began selling. Since it's January, the Dr. Pepper shake is back for 2-3 months.

Before Sunday's show, WikiFur didn't come up for me for an hour or two. I'm glad it worked before my show started. I get my list of the week's furry conventions from this site.

I did another drawing for the WebGuest during Radiolawn, but the WebGuest got disconnected before I could finish it. I'll save it for next week.

I think I might just uninstall Facebook Messenger from my cell phone. I've gotten two messages from people on my friends list trying to sign me up for assistance programs (which are likely scams.) I do communicate via Messenger with some of the people going on next October's cruise. I guess I'll just have to chat with them on my laptop whenever I'm on Facebook.

Just as a reminder, I'm unable to attend DenFur this year due to financial reasons.

While reading a Telegram chat for furry fans of game shows, I remembered that Rocky Mountain Fur Con 2015 had a game show theme. I responded to another fur who wanted to do The Price Is Right at RMFC. Back then, I didn't know there were computerized versions of the TPIR games available (Neither did the other fur, apparently.) My old-school mind had been searching the internet for sites to buy things to build the games from scratch like large dice, LED displays and materials for a "Big Wheel." I even downloaded music like the opening theme and the Cliffhangers' yodeling song. The fur later canceled his plans for the show.

I've dreamed about going on real game shows since I was a teenager. Unfortunately, I think I'm too old for what most shows are looking for now. I also don't have as much energy as I used to, so I'd probably seem boring to the producers and talent scouts.

I inadvertently got banned from the Pawpet IRC channel this morning. Boomer was talking about the Peteena the poodle doll from the 1960s. I found a picture of the doll's box that described her as a "swinger" and thought it would be funny to share. Unfortunately, the IRC's spambot filter saw the page link I posted and kicked me out. Ricochet said he was also banned for posting the show's link in the topic.

Speaking of Pawpet IRC, one of the chatters who asked me to record the first part of Doggy Radio for them asked me to send the audio files via Telegram instead of Discord. This is actually easier because Telegram has a 2 GB limit for sending files, compared to only 25 MB for Discord. I have to split the file into two or three files and resample them at a lower rate to send on Discord.

Romeo was having technical problems at the start of his show, so he asked me to take over. It took a little bit to get connected and running, then I switched between parts of old shows and newer music.

I initially thought Romeo would be taking this weekend off to prepare for Anthrocon. I slept in a bit, then saw his Twitter post about this weekend's shows when I got up to pee. Romeo also mentioned Matt the Martian Mouse Rat would be resuming "The Night Shift" in a few weeks.

Even though I still can't afford it, I saw a revised sale listing for a southern Colorado radio station. The price was reduced from $500,000 to $300,000.

I've been posting about my Ko-Fi account on other sites. I'm hoping to raise $1,350 for a set of professional radio equipment for a home studio. My page's address is ko-fi.com/collieradio.

I got lots of rain and thunder this week. The power in my condo actually flickered a few seconds on Friday. In a way, that was good because I discovered my Echo Dot was disconnected. It still had my old Wifi in its memory. I entered the new Wifi and had the device tell me a joke: "What is a cupcake's favorite weather? Sprinkles!"

I'll be going to the FoxTrot meet tonight in Denver. The temperature will be in the 50s and low-60s during the meet. I'll just wear my light jacket with the partial parts of my suit. I missed the last two FoxTrots, so it will be good to see the Denver furries again.