"Nerve Racking"

It's just something about me and job interviews...

Yesterday, I was SO prepared.

Sunday I had gotten a nice haircut, I brought some crisp resume paper from staples and I had this cool Resume Maker program installed to help me AND MOM do some magic.

The only thing I had to do monday morning was get my shirt and slacks from the Dry Cleaners and print some new copies that the software made of my resume...THAT'S IT!

Anyone wanna guess what went wrong?

I get my clothes at 10:30, jump in the shower and wash up at 11.

I approach Mom's busted ol' PC and the Leximart 3-in-1 Copier, scanner, printer I got Two Years Ago..."

I've been using the damn thing to print my "Catalog" of movies I sell on the job (It's in the presentation). It was taking up a lot of ink thou, so I brought a replacement cartridge as well.

I call up the spiffy new resume and get ready to print. I had 3 pages left of ink so I decided to install the new one first...

I put it in and closed the lid on the printer and an error message started to come up when I turned it on...

"Cover Open"

I couldn't understand it, the lid was down, everything was secure...

I thought maybe the ink cartridge was loose or sticking out, so I checked everything again...nothing sticking up, I close the printer and the error message was back...

"Cover Open"

It's a little after 11:15, now...my interview was at 1:30, I needed to leave the house by 12, 12:30 the latest...

My mind started to PANIC a little...

I thought about my own printer in my room, but the damn thing has had alignment problems due to having the wrong cartridge inserted...I should have brought correct ones for THAT one, too...

I couldn't believe this was happening...

I tried to be calm, I kept working and banging on the machine, trying to make it close or lock...

Nothing was working. I couldn't begin to comprehend...

I tried to go the Leximart website, nothing there on what to do...

11:30 rolled on by I became a raving maniac! I was halfway ready to SMASH the printer with a sledgehammer!!! I started slamming the thing over and over again, I broke the top lid off it's hinges! I Ripped out the lil arm-stick thing that holds the lid up like the hood of a car...

I was in complete Homer Simpson mode!

11:45, I gave up and decided to just go with the few copies I had from the Library Job Interview back in November...

I start to throw my clothes on and...

My cell rings.

It's Miss Philadelphia and she jus wanted to chat for a bit...

Can you say "Honey, this is REAL bad Time right now..."?, apparently, I Couldn't.

We're goin thru the motions here, and as usual thing are looking bleak on that end as well, (What'd you expect, a happy ending?)...She's going thru a lot right now, and wants to be alone, yadda, yadda, yadda...like SHIT is all Spring Time FRESH on MY END!!

I "Un Huh", and "Um Hmmm" a full 15 minutes when she finally ends the call.

It's going on 12:40pm now...I can't BEGIN to tell you how petrified I am.

I finally leave the house, go on down to St. Nicholas and walk to the 1 train station...where I get stopped from those Marketing Reps trying to get people into Health Insurance...

"Hey, you don't recognize your former supervisor anymore?" The guy says to me.

I looked closer and it was Agustin Prado my boss from Enrollment back at Community Choice up in Yonkers!

He was working in my OTHER firm, HEALTHFIRST now! What are the odds!?!?!?

I couldn't help to get into a chat and bring him up the speed on what happened with all the office politics that went on. Prado had gotten fired because of this soulless bytch named Eve had migrated her way up to Community Choice AFTER fucking up and getting fired from Healthfirst! It was uncanny, it felt like she was following me and destroying firms everywhere she went like "Unicron" from Transformers or "Galactius" the planet-eater from Fantastic Four...

I told Prado that Eve's incompetence finally got the best of her and she got fired from Community Choice months after she took over. The damage she did was irreparable and more ignorant figure-heads followed in her wake, in the end, it was too much for me...and now, 3 years after I left and 4 after Prado, the company folded and is no more.

Prado was so much an influence on me, I planned to use his name for one of the characters in my TV Show...

I told him I was thinking of getting back in Enrollment and if they have positions to see if he could pull some strings.

"Management wasn't for me, why not get into Marketing? Make yourself 100,000 dollars a year?" he asked?

I smiled, "It's not for me..." I answered. I took his card and said, I'd be in touch, I then decided to pass over one of the few resumes I had on me. I couldn't help but think it was fate that brought me out here to meet him today...

By the time I ACTUALLY got to the train station, it was 12:55...

I didn't have a prayer.

I needed to get to 50th Street, then walk down to 46th. The 1 train has all those local stops...

I didn't get down there till 1:30 on the dot. My stomach was twisted in knots by now. Part of me didn't even wanna make it to appointment...just turn around and call them back with a believable lie...like a Death in the Family or something...

But I kept on walking. I was on the edge of Times Square, lots of loud shops and tourists traps around, I guess it would be kinda fun working around here...

I get the place, check in with the security guard and take the elevator to my floor.

I took one last sigh and prayed...

When I stepped off, I was expecting a fancy hi-tech, sophisticated lobby...

...but saw a jagged maze of warehouse storage!

The place looked like a loft, with boxes EVERYWHERE!

...Just like the hallways to our office right now!

The place was huge, I was told they had the whole floor, but you step off the elevator and all of the sudden you're out in the open!

There was no desks or anything, jus different paths leading to offices and cubicles...

I walked by the restrooms (Least they're easy to find) and saw a couple of people walking thru coming from lunch...

They completely ignored me.

"My god, I could be a serial killer coming in to shoot-up the place and no one would notice!" I thought!

I finally caught someone's attention and told them who I was meeting, they led me to an office and no one seemed perturbed by my lateness (1:40, for the record).

We talked about my work history, they took notes on the copy of my resume I submitted online. I told them how the work fluctuates and we get these 4 hour work days when there's nothing...

They told me that their workers are GUARANTEED their 35 work week, no matter what. In the event of a dry spell, the people sit there and read a newspaper or a book.

I believed I heard Angelic Chords in my head at that moment.

BUT, you never clap after the first magic trick...I needed to know more.

We exchanged questions and formalities and then I filled out a form okaying a background check and that was it...

No forms, no id, no EXTRA RESUME!

No sweat...right?

Geez.

For what I went thru this morning, they better offer me no less than 10.50 for my troubles! I hear 8, 9, 9.50...I'm staying my ass RIGHT where I'm at! (Maybe)

I just couldn't believe I drove myself crazy for nothing!

I walked up to 59th Street and brought two HP ink cartridges for MY printer and got back home by 4pm.

I looked at that damn Leximart printer again...

Damn, piece of shit!...I guess you get what you pay for. Rest assured, I'm NEVER buying anything from THEM again.

"Holy Job Interviews, Batman!!!"

I gotta call yesterday that went to voicemail...

It was from a place I applied to online at the end of December during the dry spell, they FINALLY got around to calling me.

They want to interview me MONDAY...

Wow.

Is this the out I've been looking for?

Or will this place be just as fucked as where I'm at now?

Work's been stabilized for the moment. This'll be the 2nd week in a row I worked a full 35 hours with no OT, there's been JUST ENOUGH works to squeak by...

We still got the so-called BIG JOB PART TWO from Pfizer, the 700 boxes, BUT as they are checking them it and divvying up what the client wants to actually be scanned, of the first 100 or so FOUR boxes have been approved and set up.

FOUR...

SHYYYYT!

At THIS rate the 700 will dwindle down to 50!, WTF!

SO while researching this OTHER company, I gather some questions to throw at them back when they're done with me.

*Is YOUR workload consistant?

*Do ya'll believe in "Cross-Training" BS?

*Will I ACTUALLY Scan or my task will be determined when I start?

*How involved are we in the whole process? (Do we do EVERYTHING?, Check-In, Doc Prep, Scan, QC, OCR Cleanup, Burn, Re-Prep and send back...etc, etc...)

*What Machines do you use? (Cuz I'm tired of these broken down models...)

*If I work Weekends which days during the week would I have off? (Cuz this Mondays & Tuesdays thing HAS spoiled me...)

*Do we have to work EVERY f'ing weekend? Even if there's little work?

The place is on the opposite side of where I'm at, over on 46th and Seventh. It would be nice to be back on the West Side and not dealing with the Shuttles and crap to get to Grand Central. Salary is 10-12 an hour depending on experience, shyt I'm worth 15, but I'll take at least 11 and prove myself in time...I don't want them to expect TOO much of me.

I just want a basic, simple, reliable scanning position. Everlasting work, no drama, no dry spells with 4-Hour work days, no cross training to make me a copy operator or paper-pusher...Just let me sit on my ass, scan pages, look at the screen, and listen to my music...can I freaking do that for 8 hours a day at 12.00 an hour?, Huh?!?!?!

"Hustlin', Hustlin...Everyday I'm Hustlin', Everyday I'm Hustlin'..."

All this looking at "The Wire" has gotten to me. Looks like I'm about to get in the game, playa...

No, no, I don't mean drugs...C'mon!

I mean DVD's

The office bootlegger (Some lame-ass supervisor from "Production" named HAROLD) had the entire floor on lockdown.

People were buying homemade DVD's from him left and right. He was charging 3$ a hit, but his service was sloppy...he'd deliver on HIS time, and his Customer Service personality wasn't that charming...

He usually deals with downloading thru torrents (Which is SO passe...), with my Rapidshare links and blogs, I know I can shut him down.

But I bided my time, laid in the cut and studied the developments...

..."Bad Boys moves in Silence and Violence"...

THEN, this year in 2008, he gonna raise up the prices of his DVD's to 5 dollars.

The office wasn't too thrilled about that...

So now, it's MY TURN.

I got the connect, the product, and I'm slinging at a lower price...

It's time to cut the competition off!

He's Avon Barksdale, I'M Marlo

Ya'll probably don't know what that means, heh...

Anyway's, I hope Harold can respect the game this way...

I don't want things to get messy...

Imma a Bizznessman, ya heard?!

"Time Trials"

Why must it be so hard, huh?

All I want is a nice lil squeeze to chill with, watch movies with and occasionally get my smooch on.

I'd like to be appreciated damnit!

I got all this love and attention to give and all these women are total Ice Princesses and shit!

Okay, me and Miss Philadelphia did our thing on new years, but that seems to be the highlight of the damn relationship so far.

Despite giving me her old phone so we could talk more, we've been talking less.

In all fairness some of it has been MY fault with the OT that came our way for a bit, but now she's busy on her end and is going thru some things.

I've been sending her movies and TV Show download over the IM and thru the mail, but she's still a lil bored.

And I don't blame her, but the thing is, I wanna chill with her.

Something tells me, she's not the extravagant type...we don't have to go somewhere all the time, we can jus chill. But first I have to GET THERE to where's she's at and establish a routine passage. I don't want her picking me up from Philly all the time, I have to get closer.

SO, that requires a Field Trip, reconnaissance, get to know her neck of the woods without it seemingly looking like I'm staking her. I can't just show up at her house unannounced, BUT I have know how to get there so when I do tell her I'm coming, I don't get lost.

SO I'm planning to head down to South Jersey on my day off next Monday.

I just wish I didn't wait so long to do this, 3 weeks have gone by, and soon, it'll be a MONTH since "new years" (Friday and Saturday) and we'll try to touch base again, and once again, HER PERIOD will resurface!

Then again, I could wait till the 2nd week of February and plan something, but then Valentine's Day rolls around the middle of the third week...

This is so damn hard, and I don't know where her head is at in all this.

Miss Philadelphia is a Strong WOMAN (unlike these GIRLS i've been dealing with), she's been one tough nut to crack, I can't get a read on her.

She seems perfect cuz she so nonchalant, but at the same time it's pissing me off.

I know if I don't stay in her head enough, she'll fuckin forget about me in a heartbeat.

I'm such a forgetable person, I don't maintain a deep enough impression to stand out and be remembered.

I gotta make this work, the extended trip and effort is worth it. Lord know these New York City chicks ain't gonna give me a shot.

"The Killing Joke" aka "The day Laughter Died"

I spent all day today catching up on "The Wire" and cleaning up my hard drive.

I looked at Seasons 3 and 4 of DVD because the first few episodes of Season 5 have confused the shyt outta me. (But damnit if this show ain't been so GOOD!)

Then I cleaned up the hard drive, backing most of the downloads and media and erasing a whole lotta of unnecessary crap.

I even deleted all those LOVELY pictures of VIX...finally. (Rest assured THEM shyts got backed up, thou!). I erased movies I burned on Rewritable DVD's only to download NEW movies and more TV Shows (Damn, I'm a DOWNLOADING FIEND!!!)

I really need to do a post on how to do this because it's becoming VERY VERY addicting. You start to treat your PC like its Tivo and Download EVERY lil show you missed!

MOM came home at 5:30 and she told me about some rumors she heard in her office about
Heath Ledger being dead.

"The Joker?!?!" I said, "No WAY!"

I then went to yahoo and confirmed it.

Wow.

Talk about outta Left Field...

He was found dead in Soho at 3:30 in the morning. Just like that...

He was ONLY 28 years old. That's younger than me!

I remember him from "The Patriot", and of course "Brokenback Mountain".

But he was also gonna be the new JOKER in "The Dark Knight" with Christian Bale returning as BATMAN.

Lucky enough he finished the film...I wonder if it was his last role.

Damn.

So unexpected.

I remembered a lotta fans didn't think he had the balls to OUT-Joker Jack Nicholson...someone had asked Director Christopher Nolan (Memento, The Prestige, Batman Begins) why Ledger got the role, in which he simply replied.

"Because he's Fearless."

That about sums it up.

"Lucky Number 7"

1) I was born with my mother's maiden name (Me being the bastard I am...), I plan to change it back at the appropriate time.

2) I can't shave with a razor, only electric shavers.

3) There are moments where I cry for just no reason.

4) Sometimes I fantasize about being a Gigolo/Male Prostitute.

5) As fucked up as my life is, I believe I'd be a good life coach for someone else.

6) I have a subscription from the US Mint and have been collecting uncirculated State Quarters (I Lost Minnesota and Colorado during my move back in with my mom)

7) I sleep with a LOT of crap on my bed. (Remotes, DVD Spools, mail, cups, bowls, plates, my keys, phone, pens, wallet, watch, etc...)

"Against ALL Odds"

Giants beat Green Bay in OT to go to the Super Bowl...

"Cloverfield" earns 41 Million this weekend, breaking January Box Office records as well as setting a new 4 day total record for MLK weekend, rumors are already flying about a FRIKKIN SEQUEL to that Piece of SHIT!!

Microsoft has abandoned all hope of Vista becoming the Second Coming of Windows and is planning to push up the expected NEXT OS from 2010 to this year called "Seven" or Vienna.

Whose to say things go as they are expected to these days?

Sometimes the unexpected happens

Sometimes the underdog beats the odds.

Who knew?

"Whatta Rip-Off!!!"



Oh MY GOD! 2008 is starting off on the expensive tip!

The price of EVERYTHING is going UP!

A slice of pizza was on average 1.50 to 1.80 from Uptown to Midtown...

Now you're paying 2.00-2.25

Candy from a deli or newsstand use to 50 to 65 cents, TOPS

Now we're paying 75 to at least 90 fricken cents! for TWIX!!

A movie, you're paying anything from 9 to 11 dollars, now it JUST went up to 12!

This is BULLSHIT!

SO, after hype and marketing along with mystery, I decided to go see "Cloverfield" today.

This movie piqued my curiosity when I saw the trailer in front of "Transformers" last summer.

The idea of a "Blair Witch" type account of New York City during a monster attack in the wake of a farewell party seemed interesting.

In the end, I was treated to shaky camera theatrics, unknown actors portraying lame characters you care nothing for, and a monster whose presence is NEVER explained.

Not for nothing, if "Blair Witch" didn't exist, and this was the first of its kind, it would have stood out. But the films ENTIRE presentation reeks of it's predecessor, you jus sit in the theater when its over and want to demand your money back.

Believe me, I heard about 10 people ACTUALLY say that as they filed out.

THIS MOVIE STOLE time AWAY from me, time I could have used elsewhere...

I've seen some BAD movies in my day, "Batman and Robin", "Highlander:Endgame", "Mystic River", etc, etc...but this goes in the history books and THE WORST movie, ever.

THIS is WHY I DOWNLOAD MOVIES from the internet, this reason, right here...and this is why I will CONTINUE to do so.

To think they can honesty charge 12 dollars for, for...that unspeakable piece of crap is offensive and insulting.

I feel SO unclean.

"Devine Intervention"

Okay,

JOE didn't want me to come down THIS weekend...

thus, I didn't really wanna come...

But I also didn't want to change anything SO...

Leave it to the Guy Upstairs.

Sunday morning I got a call from Delta...

My monday morning flight was CANCELED due to the impeding SNOWSTORM coming to the northeast. The rescheduled me to a later flight that would have had me in Jacksonville at around 3:30pm...

...That was the LAST straw.

I called Delta, asked for a REFUND to my credit card rather than another ticket credit, canceled my motel reservation and then told JOE off over the phone.

I was done with HIM, Jacksonville, and his Namby-Pamby life!

We're HISTORY!

I then went to work, where the OT offered was nothing compared to the TYPE of work that was being thrown to us! It was SO horrible it turned me off any idea of staying extra late. It started to RAIN at 8pm during lunch, and when I left at midnight, it turned into a LIGHT SNOW...

Come this morning, there was Jack SHIT on the ground!

They said we were gonna get 6 inches or more...NOTHING!

All that effort in prevention, what a complete waste of time.

BUT, it was jus not meant to be.

THIS is it, thou...

Like friends from my past

CHINO, TREVOR, OMAR & TONYA

I am NEVER talking to that moron again...

I am putting out an ad:

Wanted: New BEST FRIEND

For movies, playing video games, and fooling around with computers.

MALE, Age 26-33, MUST live in the city and MUST NOT be MARRIED or with KIDS!

FREE PSP for applicant.

*sigh*

I'd join Big Brothers, Big Sisters, but I hate kids...

GOD, LIFE SUCKS!!!

"If you're happy, I guess I'm Happy...'

My mother got her notice, today.

After 10 years of service, they're letting her go with a severance package and giving her the go-ahead to claim unemployment insurance.

Her last day is the 31st.

And she couldn't be happier.

She's been loathing every single day for the last 3 or 4 years and since they announced her company going up for sale, she's been waiting for her "Downsizing" with baited breath.

Meanwhile, I feel terrible AND worried.

I should be supporting her by now...

She's 59 years old, she shouldn't be working now...

I should be paying our rent on our own somehow and she should preparing for social security and retirement

I've been such a failure in life.

I really have to do something.

She says her package is nice due to her experience and the amount due to her from unemployment should be enough to still pay the rent.

She's so happy, she's making all these plans to get more involved (or should I say, "Butting In") Psycho-Lesbo Sis's crazy existence...

I almost wanted to cry while on the phone with her on my break from work...

I really need to do something.

"Friends, what good are they for?"

Getting ready for Jacksonville, I've been speaking to JOE, my soon to be EX-Best Friend and things are just getting more and more of a headache.

The damn fool can't the time off, so he intends to take a half-day monday, pick me up at the airport and spend the afternoon with me.

Tuesday, I'm on my own since him and wife work and the kids go to school, SO I'm checking into a hotel near the airport for the second night.

The lil punk-bastard SAID he'd have a guest room for me in his damn house (AWAY from those 3 wild and crazy children of his), but it'll be the sofa for me monday night...

Whatta ASS-WIPE.

HOW many times have I let this fool let me down? HOW many times has he Flat-Left me somewhere?

This trip was the last straw, after this...I'm cuttin' that moron outta my life!

IF I EVER get married, he ain't even gonna be an usher, let alone the best man...

10 years from now, them brats will be grown and bad as hell and either his wife'll leave him or he'll leave her and I'll have nothing to do with him.

The hotel situation has a silver lining within the clouds as things with "Kitty" seem to be looking up.

Her Online Magazine debut was this month and she's trying to get some notoriety...






Me being supportive that I am, Imma try to do my thing to get the word across so people can check her out and maybe she'll get famous...

The magazine is called Thick Klique you can check it out at http://www.thickklique.com/






I'm a bit nervous when it comes to "kitty", we've been talking a bit on the Yahoo IM and we plan to get together Tuesday for movie and maybe dinner...

She has also agreed to spend the night at my hotel room...*GASP!*

...

With my luck, thou...she'll probably be on HER period TOO next week...

"I'm a fuckin' race car In the Red...it's fuckin dangerous to have a race car in the fuckin' red, I can blow!"

*sigh*

I JUST spent this weekend working 25 HOURS, out of 48. Normally, I'd only work 16, 2 days...8 hours each, getting PAID for 7, out of 48. But this time I work TWENTY FIVE, thats more than HALF.

Friday, after yet another DRY SPELL since the holidays (Thanksgiving AND Christmas) we get a job of 290 boxes from Pfizer that supposedly has to be done in 11 days. Another "GREAT WALL OF CHINA" job, I call it...due to the fact the boxes are stacked and lined up down the middle of the room. This time, they had to be stacked OUTSIDE the office against the wall in the hallway...

SO, with the gun placed to our heads, OT was authorized.

The work itself, is also difficult (As always), the work that always had to be done YESTERDAY is always the most taxing. There are issues graphic and image quality-wise, everyone's a bit rusty due to the layover...AND, we've also become short on staff...

Everybody's bailing out like an episode of "Prison Break", no one likes to be underpaid AND dealing with lack of work.

So, like what we once did before going to the "Production" side and helping the Copy Operators...The Copy Operators are coming over to our side to "help" and it's just making things worst.

Then, there's the conflict in-between shifts, 1st Shift staying over into OUR shift and butting heads and Our Shift intermingling with 3rd Shift. Let's just say we're not exactly the "Get Along Gang"...

NONE OF THIS had driven me over the edge, thou...

I'm used to the OT, working 12-15 hours straight, coming home in the wee hours, just to sleep for 5 and go back to do it all again...THAT IS NOTHING NEW!

IT'S this gaddamn, fuckin MONEY!

The extra amount sitting my Checking Account.

It was really fuckin with my nerves.

I should have left it alone, I should have waited till the end of today...

I had almost accepted that it was HIS way of cutting me a break. Some sort of KARMA for all I've been through. Helping out others who in turn played with my emotions and treated me wrong. Took advantage of my kindness, noticing how I'm the type of person who would JUST give a single to someone asking for change of a five to go to the vending machine. Someone who would give his last piece of candy to someone, without thinking of myself...

Part of me really believed it was just a mistake and no one would notice...

BUT I knew better.

I'm just glad I held SOME restraint and was able to compensate where needed be.

After checking my account for yet the umpteenth time, at 1:30 I went down to staples and brought 250gb backup hard-drive for all the videos and music I've been downloading as of late.

I thought about around chirstmas.

I really should have waited, I don't know WHAT I was thinking...

within a HALF hour of coming home, I finally got a call from The CHIEF, they realized the mistake and plan to fix the account that was added.

I sighed...

Part of me wanted to go right back to staples and return the damn thing...I was so stupid...

It was a little over a hundred dollars, so I decided to jus take a cash advance of 80 and put it in the account to hopefully cover the transaction in time.

If it gets overdrawn and I face penalty bank fees, I'm really gonna let the job have it.

My account isn't some damn Money Till that they can play with, what kind of professionalism is this?

It's all my fault, I should of known better...

A guy like me doesn't get any breaks in life.

I feel so really stupid now, but I feel a lesser person would have took the money instantly and ran to Atlantic City or something...At least I waited a bit and only got that thing cuz it was such a nice day and I worked all that OT this weekend...

This whole thing is really working on my nerves, my hands keep shaking every couple of hours...

I keep thinking back to 2004 back up in Westchester working in the Enrollment Department for Health Insurance...when the job made me snap and I had the breakdown on the bus going home...

I do not do well under extreme stress. I guess I could never be an Air-Traffic Controller or something...

I cannot believe work is interfering with my mental state like this, why can I have a simple normal life with a stable non-fluctuating career and no problems at home? When did things get so FUCKING hard and out of control all of the sudden?

My gauges are at the max right now...I am in the Fuckin' Red.

"WWJD? - What would JET Do?"

If your job made a mistake and direct deposited over 500 dollars EXTRA in your account what would you do?

These clowns did this once before around Thanksgiving, but it was fixed that same day (They put in extra money and took it back...)

It's been 24 Hours now, and I constantly keep checking my balance online...




I'm shytting Bricks here, MAN!


Should I take this as a sign from god?

Should I consider this a test by the job and think it's a setup?

Should I jus chill and wait a lil longer thinking they'll find out sooner or later?

Should I tell someone?




My imagination has been fuckin with me!

"Fargo", "Hard Rain", "A Simple Plan", "No Country for Old Men"...

I don't want some crazy ass hit man with a limp coming after ME!!!!

If that money isn't outta my account by tuesday, I'm buying a Backup Hard-Drive and maybe an ipod finally, and jus SAVE the rest!

This is some BULLShyt!!!!

"Phil Jackson has a new Career!"

The Writers' Strike has been on for almost 2 months now. With no end in sight, Late Night Talk Shows decided to get back on the job with their OWN material to keep the show rolling.

Both Jay Leno and David Letterman took the stage for the first time tonight after weeks of reruns and special-themed "Classic" replacements.

The highlight of the night seemed to go to Dave who was sporting a beard in his return.

Featured guest Robin Williams teased Letterman calling everything from Robert E. Lee, a Rabbi and an Iraqi religious figure!



I honesty thought he looked like Lakers Coach PHIL JACKSON!

I wonder how long he plans to keep that damn thing...and wonders if JAY might grow one too!

"2008:A Jet Oddesey"

Okay, I'm Back!

You thought he was gone...

You thought he was through...

But in the end you knew better, Didn't YOU?!

OMG Sorry folks It has BEEN SO long and I do apologize...

But I'm still here...and so begins Season FOUR of "Wasting Time with JET".

Before we start the new year festivities I want to send a special Thank You to

IRENE aka Anocsanamun, aka, the love of my life, aka, the one that got away for remembering me this past Christmas and giving me an Old Navy sweater!

"If you are chilly, here take my sweater.
Your head is aching, I'll make it better."

Thank you, now I have that song from Ingrid Michaelson in my head forever...

I saw "Sweetney Tood" that afternoon and then journey all the way to Queens to see her...and practically fell in love with her all over again (Biting my fist...) She's happy now with someone else in her life, and I guess I can take consolation in that. It was real nice that she thought of me, I hope to catch up on things by meeting her for lunch someday...

Okay, with that said and done lets recap the last 48 hours shall we?

I welcomed the New Year, far from home for the first time...

Monday morning, I hopped on a Greyhound for 2 hours and stepped of in Downtown Philadelphia, the home of my beloved Eagles football team. It was the first time I ever spent time in the "City of Brotherly Love" and I can say for sure, it's jus like home.

My pre-arraigned holiday was planned alongside with meeting a certain special someone who I may have mentioned in the past. (See, I can mention this escapade cuz it has already happened...it's in the past, it CAN'T BE JINXED!)

I treked my way down ARCH street to Columbus Boulevard to find the Comfort Inn where I checked in for a 2 night stay...

Once I was settled, I meet up with my dear female friend who I have come to nickname on this blog as MISS PHILADELPHIA (after that song by Musiq).

I greeted her with a rose and a peck on the palm and we proceeded to drive to the movies down the road.

We saw "National Treasure 2", it was very very good. After the movie we ate a lil, drove around a bit, got lost, caught up in New Year Day celebration traffic then finally made it back to my motel room.

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Now, without divulging TOO much information...the two of us enjoyed each other's company throughout the night...

There was a lotta sucking, panting, moaning, licking and grunting till the wee-hours of the morning before our body went limp and retired to our separate corners.

New Years Day we slept most of the afternoon (For OBVIOUS reasons...), in mid naps we caught glimpses of the MUMMERS Parade, which was some local philly tradition dating back 100 years. When the sun came down, we finally arisen and went to see "Aliens Vs. Predator:Requiem" the movie provided lots of scary moments much to my delight as Miss Philadelphia grabbed me in many places. After the movie we drove around a bit again and then back to the motel room where we sorta spooned for a bit then went to sleep.

Wednesday (Today) morning, we woke up early cuz Check out was at 11 and my Bus back home was at 12. We looked at "Robin Hood:Prince of Thieves" on HBO, proceeded to take each others clothes off for some foreplay then took showers and left our room in a messy heap.

I checked out and she drove me to the Bus Station, we said our goodbyes and I took the bus back to the city and proceeded my way to work.

It got BRICK cold throughout the evening but I worked a full shift, came home at 1:30am and collapsed on my bed.

All-in-All in was a hella experience.

Now for the reality checks...

This MAY have been ill planned, she had JUS came back from a 6 day cruse along the Caribbean islands and was Very, very tired.

Curveball #2...her period arrived. PERFECT timing.

Why is it everytime I plan a perfect romantic event it is ALWAYS eclipsed by, by...by that DAMN monthly biological occurance?!?!?!?! ONCE every 30 freakin days why can't I beat those odds?!?!?...what the HELL!?!?!?...SO with that said, you can only DO so much...this was a formal introduction anyway, we had both agreed that sex was out of the question, but who's to say you can't fool around?

SO, despite everything, she really wasn't in the best of moods, and I was very understanding. We consummated the trip with a gift. She had given me her old Cingular phone to reactivate into An AT&T Go phone. That way we could talk to each other free via Mobile-to-Mobile.

The relationship has potential, but it is not without flaws. She lives in South Jersey, we agreed on Philly as a common ground and first meeting place but I'll be welcomed in her place hopefully come next time. Second, difference in work schedules. She has weekends off, I had Mondays & Tuesdays...how can we make THAT work?

Everything was a blur these past two days, I wanna say I'm optimistic about this relationship, but with my track record, I just don't know.

What makes things MORE interesting is my Trip to see JOE down in Jacksonville in two weeks (14th) and the fact that my other, ahem friend, KITTY is down there too.

I think that's enough information to set up a cliffhanger premise, tune in next following episodes to see what happens...