Jerzei Collie's journal

During last night's meeting, I noticed a group in the next room playing a game. The game involved flipping items which looked a bit like sex toys. I found the game box later and saw it was called Chicken vs. Hotdog.

The snow became heavier during the meeting. There were some slick spots on the roads as I was driving home.

I got lunch at Meta Burger after some Denver deliveries. I ordered the Inferno chicken sandwich and sweet potato fries. This time I ordered both Meta sauce and Ghost Pepper Ranch sauce for my fries, but both look the same. I guess I'll be playing "sauce roulette" this afternoon.

When I heard Klaus Nomi on Doggy Radio singing "Ding Dong, The Witch is Dead," I originally thought it was Fred Schneider of The B-52s singing in a fake German accent.

Boomer showed the logo of a radio station called WNUB in Vermont, which brands as "Dog River Radio" and has a Golden retriever in the logo. I thought they should have used a Spaniel or a Rottweiler for the logo since their nub tails would go with the WNUB calls.

I won't be able to afford this for a long time, but I was looking up flight costs for a vacation in Japan. I noticed that on some of the flights home from Japan to Colorado, I would arrive hours earlier than my departure because of how the International Date Line works. One flight would depart at 5:30 PM and arrive at 1:00 PM the same day.

During Doggy Radio, one of my open browser tabs started playing the "Yahoo!" jingle repeatedly. I thought Boomer was playing it on the show at first!

Hearing Don Ray's "My Desire" before the show reminded me of both Jack Jones and Eilert Pilarm. Pilarm is known as Sweden's favorite Elvis impersonator, or perhaps its only Elvis impersonator.

Later this week, I will book a June flight to Pittsburgh for my singles cruise group's reunion. As I said in November, I wish I could afford to stay an extra month and attend Anthrocon. Of course, I likely wouldn't be able to find an available nearby hotel room before then. The cruise reunion's hotel is only 3/4 mile away from the convention center across the Allegheny River. However, I wouldn't want to walk or get a ride there and back constantly due to the summer heat.

I was looking through my Dreamwidth blog this weekend. I found a post from November 4, 2019 where I mentioned doing my first fill-in show for the Rabbit Hole, though I originally called it the DJ Collie Show.

I wish I had the energy to completely digitize my VHS library. Watching Kevin McCarthy's repeated losses while trying to become Speaker of the House reminded me of a particular Late Night with David Letterman episode from around 1986-87. During "Viewer Mail," Dave read a letter from someone named Kevin, and Dave responded by saying "You're a loser, Kevin!"

I have some VHS shows dubbed onto my old DVR, but some of the buttons on its remote don't work. I've ordered a new remote so I can more easily search through what I've saved. I actually recorded one of Steelwoulfe's game nights from back when he streamed on mixer.com. I'd like to eventually get a newer DVR since my old one is from the pre-HDTV days.

Next Saturday will be FoxTrot's Halloween party at the Roxy Theater in downtown Denver. The last party at the Roxy happened in 2019. Back then, I had planned to leave at 11:30 to get some sleep before work at KRCC. This year, I don't have a job (yet) to get rest for, so I can stay for the entire event.

Random thought: When I heard people talk about Don Quixote as a kid, I thought they were talking about a donkey named Hotey.

I e-mailed my Vocational Rehab counselor yesterday to update her on my job search. I told her I wasn't having any luck landing a radio job and asked if there were alternate paths to employment I could explore.

I look at house plans once in a while to get an idea of how I want my future home to look. I wish some of the features in the larger houses could be available in the smaller ones, like a good-sized kitchen. I'm hoping to find a two- or three-bedroom home with a garage, totaling 900-1200 square feet. Some of the plans I've liked are around 1400-1500 square feet.

One luxury I'd like in a new home is a sauna. I don't sweat as much at a higher altitude, so I'd like to get used to sweating more when I'm at a lower altitude.

I was hoping to find a particular Saturday Night Live sketch from the mid-'80s online, but it's not out there (for free, anyway!) Since the "Super Bowl Shuffle" was mentioned previously, I wanted to find the "We Are the Kickers" parody from January 1987. The episode itself (hosted by Walter Payton and Joe Montana) is on Peacock, but this sketch and others were cut from the streaming version.

A Denver car dealer had done its own "Shuffle" parodies for its commercials around that time, but I don't feel like going through dozens of VHS tapes to find them.

Happy Birthday to Romeo Rabbit!

My therapist has completed and faxed the forms he needs to send to Vocational Rehab. I picked up a copy of the forms today.

I attempted to make kolaches at home using sausages, cheese and dinner roll dough. I do have a recipe to make kolaches from scratch, but I wanted to see if my "shortcut" method would work. The sausages I used were a bit too heavy, so I'll use lighter sausages next time.

Hearing that O.J. Simpson responded to the Will Smith/Chris Rock incident at the Oscars reminded me of how Norm Macdonald used to make O.J. jokes on Saturday Night Live. I imagined Norm reporting on this and saying "After hearing about the slap, O.J. said 'If that was me, I woulda just stabbed him.'"

139 days until DenFur!

After downloading a song by Wax, I found that there are three groups named Wax whose songs I have: the U.K. band who did "Bridge to Your Heart" (the song I downloaded tonight,) a U.S. punk band that did a cover of "Happy Happy Joy Joy" on the Saturday Morning Cartoons Greatest Hits album, and a rapper who had a hit called "Rosana."

Since the year's almost over, here is how I did on my 2021 New Year's resolutions:

1. Weight loss: below 300 (Started Noom program at 317.8 lbs. in April)
I initially got down to 295, but stress is making me bounce back and forth between 300 and 310. I weighed 301 on Thursday morning.

2. Reduce debt by 15-20% ($27.4k at end of 2020)
A lack of work hours and my eventual layoff from KRCC kept me from earning enough to reach this goal. I only reduced my debt by about $550, or 2%. I have paid off my dental credit account, so that's one good thing.

3. Christmas vacation
A lack of money also scuttled this goal.

4. Regular online music show
I filled in for Romeo Rabbit for several weekends this year, but nothing regular.

Some resolutions for 2022:

1. Weight below 290
2. Reduce debt by 10%
3. New higher-paying job or self-employment
4. Furry Fiesta and DenFur (if COVID doesn't affect either)
5. Christmas with friends or on my own