Jiffy Lube is retarded

I just noticed that my blog is named "Stuck in an 80s time warp" yet I don't talk about much 80s stuff.. at least as much as I should. Guess sometimes I'm just caught up in real life, I guess. Living in 2006 and working anywhere from 50 to 75 hours a week can cause you to be devoid of any spare time. Im so caught up in my radio career, paying bills, doing housework, and spending time with my Manny that I don't even have time to research on 80s crap. Since I'm in the middle of an 11 hour shift here at work.. followed by a 5 hour one in SF in the morning, I'll try to make time.

I'm also trying to help Manny find another fulltime/parttime job. He brings in about $500-700 a month, just barely enough to cover his half of the bills, if that. He's trying his fuckin ass off to find other work, and has gone to 6 interviews in the past 2 1/2 months, with no luck as of yet. Well 3 of the interviews have been in the last few weeks, and they said "they were interviewing other applicants" and would give him a call when they made their decision. So it's basically up in the air. I have had experiences with a few jobs that do take up to 3 weeks to call you back and hire you, so he does have a chance. On the other hand, they could just be blowing him off. So in the meantime he and I are still perusing Craigslist and thinking of any place that we can for a job. It sucks.

Also, something happened yesterday/today that makes me feel like a retard. I left my other set of keys at KKIQ, in the bathroom. Along with a bottle of water, a yogurt, and a spoon. In a Safeway bag. I asked my homegirl Tricia if she had seen any keys at work there, and she contacted the building's lost and found. Low and behold, she found them. Unfortunately due to my crazyass schedule this weekend I won't be able to go get them until late Monday morning.

Earlier today I went to Jiffy Lube to get my oil changed and wiper blades replaced. I was going to get the tires rotated but they were "doing inventory and couldn't use that work area". I also was going to get two of my front signal lights replaced but they said I probably need to get a fuse replaced. I also should get my transmission serviced soon. I have like over 51,000 miles by the way. I'm thinking of going to Doral's Auto Repair or asking around for a place that can replace my fuses, rotate my tires and service my transmission before I take my road trip in April. I really don't want to go to the dealer, they will rip off my ass and charge like $400 or something. Oh yeah, when I left Jiffy Lube, I discovered my emergency brake wouldn't turn off, and my speedometer wasn't working. I turned around and came back, they fixed it. If they weren't, I was gonna plan on getting someone there fired. Sorry, but my car was running before I brought it there. Freakin morons.

That's what's on my mind for now. I'm gonna go eat some potpie and chicken nubgets, and chill out for a while here at work.

I actually did work tonight.. believe it or not

I had an interesting few days. Wednesday I went to the gym when I got out of KKIQ, then went to Pac N Save and picked up more food. Manny eats like no tommorrow, so I have to stock up on food a lot. LOL. Later that evening I got called into KDFC again, Dane was still sick. I decided to drive to SF, since I had to leave there at 11pm and be in Pleasanton by 12. I got to the city by 6:40, but it took 30 minutes to find stinkin parking. I was 15 min late for work. I don't know if anyone knew or cared, but oh well. Not much I could do. I left work around 10:45ish and got to KKIQ by about 11:30. Not too bad. When I got there I discovered the music log and an adapter for my headphones were missing. I asked Trish Bell (For Lovers Only host) if she knew where it was and she was no help. (She's a natural blonde, FYI) Anyway I had to scroll ahead on RCS to find my billboard artists, and I borrowed some other guy's headphones for my shift. Then I went home and was in bed by 5:30. Allelujah.

Thursday I woke up around 3pm after over 9 hours of sleep. I felt pretty damn good. I don't mind working so many psycho hours if I get enough sleep in between. I took a nice hot shower and got ready for my day. Went to Chabot, and did my show. I was teaching Liana our new PSA director how to use stuff in the on-air studio. We had lots of fun. She's funny as hell. I like her. Came home and watched WWE Raw, then went to work here.

Around 12:30am the power went out here on Hegenberger Road. The lights flickered, everything outside and in the rest of the building went black. Our automation pooped out for the West Coast and a European feed. Long story short, lots of technical issues occured, people were woken up, some forced to come to work at 1am and fix things. For once I earned my $ 13.61 an hour this morning. After an over 3 hour fiasco (including writing a longass report and hunting down a witness to prove I checked the generator fuel), I can finally relax and do some blogging and websurfing. Well I gotta go check out Craigslist and then hop on Myspace. smell Ya'll later.. oh wait.. here's what I played on my show.

6:00p- 7:00pm
GoGos- Head Over Hells
Steve Winwood- Valerie
Duran Duran- Wildboys
Michael Jackson/Paul McCartney- Say Say Say
Indeep- Last Night A DJ Saved My Life
Foreigner- I've Been Waiting For A Girl Like You
Blondie- Rapture
Whitesnake- Here I Go Again
Jo Boxers- Just Got Lucky
Afrika Bambaata- Planet Rock
Brenda Russell- Piano In The Dark
Violent Femmes- Kiss Off

7:00-8:00pm
Fine Young Cannibals- She Drives Me Crazy
Gap Band- You Dropped The Bomb On Me
Journey- Don't Stop Believin
Billy Joel- Tell Her About It
Chaka Khan- I Feel For You
Heart- Alone
George Kranz- Din Din Da
Starship- Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
Joan Jett- Hate Myself For Loving You
Ready For the World- Let Me Love You Down

8:00-9:00pm
The Clash- Rock The Casbah
Wang Chung- City Of Angels
Lindsey Buckingham- Holiday Road
Altered Images- Happy Birthday
Huey Lewis And The News- Hip To Be Square
Glass Tiger- Someday
Bow Wow Wow- I Want Candy
Hall and Oates- Maneater