Posted by Doz on Jul 2, 2009 in
Doz's Blog The jobs aren’t out there or if they are I can’t find them. It’s most likely I’m too proud to go work at McDonald’s.
Job search has to be carried out from home because I can’t really afford to go out looking for them right now. To many bills to pay. Almost caught up from when my car broke down but that still won’t help much.
There’s a new program that might help me out with my student loans but I’ll have to see if I qualify.
Doesn’t really matter if I did get an interview I have no interviewin’ type clothes because I’m so massively fat I don’t fit what I have.
Almost out of unemployment. Hopefully I qualify for the 20 week extension.
Aren’t ya glad I updated?
Have a safe and happy Fourth of July.
Posted by Doz on Jun 21, 2009 in
Doz's Blog If there is anyone out there that actually wastes time reading this anymore I apologize for the lack of updates and the fact that you have nothing better to do.
Things are still the same here. No job. No money. No hope of actually finding anything that would pay decently, have benefits and be something that I could actually get hired for.
One funny thing is that I once again got the senior discount at a fast food restaurant today. I was at KFC getting lunch for me and the folks. They were having trouble with their registers and hand to ring the ticket up so that it wouldn’t go above $25. We got the whole meal for $10 less than originally quoted. I know the sr. discount was not a mistake because they had to ring up two tickets and they both had the discount on there. I’m still only 42 years old…
Well there is your dose of me for awhile. Hope it was worth it.
Posted by Doz on Jun 7, 2009 in
Doz's Blog Oh what a wonderful week it has been!
Thursday While taking my Dad to a Dr. apt my car started acting weird. All the dashboard lights came on and that is never a good idea. So we got off the highway and made it half way home when it got worse. Pulled in to a church parking lot and there we sat. Found out that the alternator belt had broken. Mom came and got us and so starts the look for towing and a repair shop.
Found someone to tow it for $45,which I had,even though it was supposed to go to another bill. Called Pam and she knew a good mechanic she trusted. Got the car towed there. Decided to get an oil change too as it had been awhile(don’t ask.) Shop called back and something else was also wrong so we had to get that fixed also. All in all total repair bill is $199.87, which I don’t have. Mom and Dad loaned me the money. Now all I have to do is pay them back and pay all my other bills too. Have I mentioned I don’t have a job and my have barely been staying even with my unemployment which is almost gone?
Thankfully I have parent s that will help when they can and I ALWAYS make sure I get them paid back before anything else. It’s just fair that way.
Oh yeah and my ear buds quit working on Friday.
Posted by Doz on May 28, 2009 in
Doz's Blog Yes it is 112 days since I was terminated from a job I really liked. A job that I was unable to fulfill the ridiculously high quota on because the papers I was reading had nothing in them that I could check mark. I still dream about that job.I search the want ads and online job sites but find nothing that I can qualify for. I worry about what is going to happen in about twelve weeks when I run out of unemployment benefits. I just worry.
I also worry about my friend Ben. Ben was found guilty of 79 counts of sex crimes. Was the physical evidence that strong against him you ask. Well no it wasn’t, because there was no physical evidence. He was convicted because of a taped phone call in which he neither admitted to anything and the words rape or sexual abuse or anything like that were even used. It is a tape that be interpreted in several different ways.
I along with a couple others spent 4 days this week defending him in the comments of an article from a vicious bitch that is doing nothing but carrying out a hate campaign against him in the guise of defending the “alleged” victim. It doesn’t seem fair that a man can be found guilty on evidence that states nothing and by a party of 12 people who are bored and wanting to get ready for the memorial day weekend. For the record it only took them 1 1/2 hours to go over and debate 79 counts. Does that seem like a really short time to you?
I think the worry is part of the reason I can’t sleep anymore. The past three nights I haven’t been able to get to sleep until 4:30 AM and then I wake up at 9:30 AM. The worry and the fact that the neuropathy in my feet has been acting up again. That really makes it difficult to sleep.
One thing I no longer worry about is Deon. Well I still worry about him because that kid is all kinds of crazy, but the good kind. The reason I no longer worry about him is because something actually did turn out right for once and Sparky and Pam were given full custody of Deon. This means that he can and will be adopted by them and he will be safe from the people who abused him forever. I no longer have to worry about Sparky and Pam either.
Better try to get some sleep. I have to take Scruffy in to get groomed in the morning. I have to have him there by 8:30.
Goodnight.
Tags: Deon, job, Pam, Sparky, unemployed
Posted by Doz on May 8, 2009 in
Doz's Blog Sometime in late 1979 or early 1980 my parents took my bother Jason and me to see two movies in the same night. The first was The Black Hole. It was a Disney movie and we liked it. The next movie was Star Trek: The Motion Picture. It was the first time in twenty years there was going to be live action Trek. My brother and I sat there before the movie making jokes about the name of the movie such as Star Trek: The Popcorn Kernel and so on, stuff that would be funny to a 13 and 9 year old. Star Trek was better than the Black Hole an went on to continue it’s long rich history.
Tonight almost thirty years after the first movie, I attended the as is popular to say “reboot” of the franchise Star Trek. Some people are going to be upset that it doesn’t follow the original series to the letter, but then what would be the point? There are some major differences from the Star Trek “canon” that we all grew up with and loved, but this doesn’t make this a bad movie. I won’t go in to what they are because of spoilers.
The movie was fun, looked good and was action packed. They didn’t sit around saying what they were going to do and then explain everything out, they just did it.Zachary Quinto was great as Spock. Chris Pine did a great job as Kirk. All the other actors fit their parts as well. Hell there was even an Orion slave girl in there.
I encourage anyone who was a fan of The Original Series to go see the movie and go in with an open mind.I encourage everyone else to go see it also as it is a good movie and worthy of the name Star Trek.
I can’t wait to see the sequel.
Tags: happy, Jason, Star Trek
Posted by Doz on May 3, 2009 in
Doz's Blog The Weekend started off with me going to see Jeff Dunham at the Topeka Expocentre with Joyce and Brian. We had a great time even though we had seats in different parts of the venue. I have seen most of Jeff Dunham’s DVDs and heard his stuff on the radio, and TV back in the day. See Jeff Dunham is an overnight sensation 20 years in the making. After seeing all this you would think that the show would just be a re-hash, but it wasn’t . It was all new material. He put on a great show. His opening act, The Guitar Guy, was also great. We all had a great time.
Saturday I went to a bead show in KC with Pam and Deon. Once again we had a very good time. I walked through the show with Pam and Deon kinda quickly, cause it’s kinda hard taking time with a four year old walking with you. Deon was well behaved, young kids like to touch pretty ,shiny things ( hell so do I), and merchants don’t really like that if you’re not buying things.
So Deon and I went out to sit on a bench so Pam could wander a little bit more leisurely. He and I had fun playing with some apps on my iPod Touch, and just playing around. Then it was off to meet Bill
We met Bill and his friend Mike Sullivan. They were at Elite Comics Pop Culture Comix for Free Comic Book Day. They go there to take part in FCBD and to draw things for the customers. When we got there they were done so we went to Fuddruckers to eat.
After Fuddruckers Bill and I went to see Bonnie and Clyde vs. Dracula at the Screenland Theatre in KC. The theatre was in a kind of non-descript building that had been renovated into a little theatre. There is only one screen but the place is really cool, we definitely want ot go back.
The movie was kinda bad but in a good way. It was hilarious. It was an independent film. If you get a chance you should definitely see it.
All in all another great weekend.
Posted by Doz on Apr 28, 2009 in
Doz's Blog I went to Wal*Mart on Monday to pick up a few things. When I got to the checkout line I was behind this family that had a little boy seated in the cart. He must have beeen four or five years old. I was looking around and looked at him. He pointed at me and says:
“Big fat guy.” in a soft voice but I could hear him.
I started laughing. His mother looks aroundand then at him. He proceeds to point at me and say “Big fat guy” again. His mother quits looking at me and kinda takes the kids face in her hand andis gentle scolding him.
I am laughing my ass off!
The mother turns around and says in a timid voice “Are you laughing?”
I said “Yes.”
She says “Oh Good, I’m so sorry.”
I say (still laughing my ass off) “It’s OK . He isn’t telling me anything I didn’t already know!”
She says “This is a Mother’s worst nightmare.”
I assure her ,while still laughing, that I’m fine and that it gave me a good laugh.
Hell I’m still laughing about it right now.
Posted by Doz on Apr 28, 2009 in
Doz's Blog Last Thursday I had the chance to go see an excellent documentary with Bill. It was called K.C. on the Mat. Yes it was a documentary about wrestling in the Kansas City area with some mention of Topeka and Missouri. Yes we are wrestling fans. Not as much as we used to be because the WWE has been boring these past few years.
This documentary was about The Golden Age of Wrestling in the Kansas City area as you can read in the link to the article. We were growing up in the later part of this era and thus where our fandom began. It had clips with some wrestlers who have passed away and some who hadn’t. Some of these guys made it big nationally and some were big here in the mid states area only. He cool thing is that some of these legends attended (the ones who were still alive that is) the premiere showing of this movie.
We got autographs and pics with Harley Race(turn down the sound on the intro page), Bob Geigle, Bill Kersten ( I honestly thought he was dead),Tom Andrews (one of The Interns) and Butch Reed. It would have been even better if “Bulldog” Bob Brown and Rufus R. Jones had been there but they have passed away.
The show was awesome and we had a great time seeing and hearing the legends.
Edit:
Well the damn gallery thingy doesn’t work with this blog and the pics are to big so here are some links to the photos:
Posted by Doz on Apr 20, 2009 in
Doz's Blog In the two part episode Chain of Command from Star Trek:The Next Generation Capt. Jean-Luc Picard is taken hostage and tortured by the Cardassians. One of the points that is used to try to break Picard is the Cardassian Cmdr. trying to get Picard to say that there are five lights shining done on him when in fact there are only four. Picard is defiant until the end and never breaks.
The reason I bring this up is because I had a conversation with a friend on Facebook today whom I have not seen face to face for 15 or 16 years. She had said somethingabout getting botox and I said not to do it because she was to graceful to do so. She said I had not seen her since she was 18. I said yeah and that the last time I had seen her she had gone from blonde to black hair color. She said she had gone from blonde to rocket fire red. I asked if the black came after the red. She wrote back saying she had never dyed her hair black. I let it go at that, but I know I’m right.
The reason I let it go is because I didn’t want to seem like a jerk. I mean it is her hair she should know right? But I know she’s wrong. I can remember it vividly. It was a pretty shocking change because going from blonde to black is a big change, plus she was so fair-skinned. I know I’m right on this one but I just let it go..over there.
There…Are…Four…Lights!!
Tags: Cardassians, Facebook, Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
Posted by Doz on Apr 11, 2009 in
Doz's Blog Hello folks, how are things? Nothing here has changed. Still unemployed and still trying to figure out how I’m supposed to find a decent job when I have no skills. Things aren’t looking so good right now. I still have unemployment money coming in for a few months but I’m still worried.
I did get out of the house last weekend. I went to KC with Bill,Pam and Deon. We had a great time riding in their new van. Then on Sunday Bill and I went up to see our friend Ben in Manhatttan Chris and Mark went with us. Ben is in jail right now. He shouldn’t be there and soon the truth will be known.
I did get to try something new this week. I got o edit an episode of WANC (39)which is the podcast I do with Sparky, Jason and Mike. It was interesting and fun. I want to do more. To bad there are no jobs doing this because it would be really cool to do once I get better.
That is where the State of Doz is for now.
Tags: Deon, doz, editing, Friends, job, Pam, podcast, Sparky, unemployed, unemployment, WANC
