Please, no more snow

Went to a comedy show tonight and the announcer said there was a snow emergency declared during the show. Lost count of how many this winter, but way more than normal. We have plenty of snow already and really don't want any more.
   As my dad would say, 'they're playing my song'. Saw an email recently from my writer union about free publicity for my blog, deadline soon on emailing the information. Just sent it on, so we will see about getting more readers here.
   Finished up another carton of egg nog tonight, got 2 this weekend and the one remaining is likely the last one of the season since there was just 4 after I picked up those 2. I like the taste of it.
  

King's Speech

Went to see the movie 'King's Speech' today. I laughed and cried there, some scenes reminded me of 'The Cowboys', a John Wayne movie, where swearing was allowed if it helped somebody get over a speech problem. It resonated with me when sibling rivalry and parental issues were undercurrents that led to the speech problem. Some scenes triggered memories of seeing a therapist. I did not see a speech therapist, though I was told 'you're articulate'. I was afraid of developing a speech problem due to having some family members plagued by one. But I didn't, although I was still afraid of public speaking for a while. Odd how it worked out for me, I now go up onstage and tell jokes, definitely got past that!
   I got caught up on record-keeping and rest today, which was nice. Before the movie I went to drop off 5 small bags of recycle to a place I knew had the bins.
   Called my dad tonight, heard some more about his surgery from earlier this month, he has another appointment coming up soon.

Twins Fanfest

Went on a date to the Twins fanfest in Blaine today. First time at this venue. Crowded there, but we made it through fine. We saw Paul Molitor get interviewed live on the radio.
   I did get ahold of my dad's pastor, still haven't heard from my dad since surgery. Must be phone line problems there.
   Also returned a call to a Texas man from earlier in the week, asking about somebody with the same name as me but I didn't know him. I did say I wanted to share his story since it would be great to tell on my blog. He told me his own name as well as who he was looking for, and that this man was a teacher of advanced math in my area and was his roommate at Texas Tech in 1962. Was there on a special scholarship grant.
   I had hoped to get around in time to see a movie tonight after my date, but I didn't. Will just push it back a day. There were some other important things I wanted to get done, like get caught up on record-keeping, rest, and going through mail. Of course it means using the shredder on the junk mail, which I like. I even 'shred the junk mail' like an old disco song, 'shake your booty'.
   This was a notable day in my family's history, as we moved from Monroe to Newton on this date back in 1983. I shared this fact with my date.
  

Chores Galore

I wanted to get the place cleaned up for visitors expected on Saturday. So after work I got started fairly early. After checking email and watching some favorite shows like 'the Office' I got started on chores, which meant laundry. Called my college roommate while waiting for the laundry to finish. Then on to doing dishes, recycle, and taking out trash. Also included was sweeping and mopping floors, finally putting away the laundry that was in the basket, on hangers or in the drawers. Got just about everything done I set out to do but I was really busy.
  I'm trying to remember a lesson from work this week, that is to ask about others more. I did this when I called, starting off with asking how things were on the eastern seaboard since he moved from Memphis earlier this month. Of course he spoke of the winter weather, plenty of snow there.
   It was a fairly routine day at work, though the boss wasn't in today. Also liked going to a committee meeting as a good friend of mine is on the same committee, a drawing card for me joining. The afternoon was mainly spent with writing up the meeting minutes for that one and for one earlier in the week, liked getting things finished by the end of the week.

Volunteer Award Banquet

I decided to go to an award banquet tonight as I figured they would have better food than what I normally eat, and I was correct. Though it was a tight schedule, didn't have much time to check email after work then had to leave and still was a few minutes late. Despite this, I still finished my food before others did as I was a fast eater. I was hungry as it was late for me to eat. Liked seeing my name next to the display about the mentoring program I am in at a nearby high school. They had some pictures from the Wolves game last month, I am in the group picture at midcourt and another is of just me and my student. Sadly, I found out today how they will be switching students on me again. My 4th year in the program and only once have I finished the year with the same student as I started with. It's a lack of effort on the student's part, can't make them respond to emails and attend events. Last email I received was December 2, and he attended just 1 of 3 events.
   I am tired, might have been in my best interest not to attend the banquet. But I can decide to just go to bed earlier tonight. There was I.T. problems again at work, so the payoff reports had to wait again.
  One of my comedian friends changed the date of a comedy show, and the new date doesn't work for me. It was to be this Saturday, but was moved back a week. So I had to change it to 'not attending'. But he has a show a week after that, February 12, which should work fine for me.
  

After Action Review

My apologies to my college roommate if I got the term wrong. But he has been advising me about my dates and I think he called it an 'after action review', a military term since he was in the military. I like how he has been willing to help me with plenty of pointers I wouldn't think of myself, and I want to get these things right.
    A comedian friend did a Facebook posting about how she was matched up with me online, and I sure was puzzled when I came home from work and found those notices piling up in my email account. some were funnier than others. I first asked 'What?' and 'Where?' Then said I had a rule about not dating coworkers, at my dayjob and at the comedy club. Reminded myself that I was matched up with her, but it was months ago. And didn't pursue it due to my rule.
   It was odd that a colleague and my boss wanted to discuss me using the term 'flunkie' today, and no it has nothing to do with flunking a class in school. Odd how he said I was being overbearing, but i found out after looking up the definition I was using the word properly and he wasn't. It refers to somebody who does menial tasks like delivering bad news. He still intrigues me, but can get to be nosey and too inquisitive. But he reminds me of me, so that intrigues me.
   I wanted to make it to the comedy club tonight but didn't make it in time. Had too much to do like get a copy of the comment thread I mentioned, since it's good joke material. Also wanted to rest some and I must have fallen asleep for a while as I dreamed and can't recall doing too much of that recently. There was one about trying to stay on top of a horse I was riding, another was watching a video of myself while helping out the high school basketball team. The last was of my friend from school smoking a cigar at a comedy club I frequent, my little league teammate. I was woke up by some screaming kids.

Too Busy To Be Tired

Jesse Ventura was famous for the movie line 'aint got time to bleed'. Tonight I told myself I was too busy to be tired. I was tired at work and wanted to rest after getting home but wanted to see I was early at the comedy club tonight since I would be onstage, and the first comic after the MC. I was too afraid I would oversleep, and I don't care to miss out on stage time. Plenty of new jokes, they went well despite tripping over words a little but I kept going. Reserved some free tickets for a colleague that requested them by IM, I know him from the company's mentoring program. He works in a different office, so since I don't work with him every day it was easier to perform for somebody I knew. Especially since I was doing a few jokes about my job.
   There was 2 meetings at work today, I was note taker at one of them. Hated how IT issues flared up, had to hand off some of my work since I had an appointment to attend and my boss still wanted it delivered by a certain time.