The Pretender

The Pretender                                                3400

February 7, 2006-11:07 A.M.

Well, it's been exactly one year since I started blogging here on AOL.  In that time, I've garnered 3400 page views.  I'm pretty impressed; in lieu of actually having a webpage (which I really have to get on the stick about), I've received a lot of attention, which I guess is good when you're in showbizness.

I woke up early this morning, my wife was up late doing crafting, and when she came to bed, she woke me up, then the baby woke up, and I had to get the baby to go back to sleep by playing "Baby Einstein" DVDs over and over.  It worked, and now everyone's sleeping but me.  I leave for Toledo tomorrow, so it's actually good that I'm up earlier than usual, I got some housework done, laundry and preparation for going away for four days.  I also got Joel Pace from the Comedy Zone to answer an instant message, but so far, no bookings out of him.  I work for them quite a bit, but I got canceled out of Jacksonville, Florida last year and never got the week replaced, and I want to go there.  I was there once, and it's a nice town.  Also, the manager of the Greensboro, North Carolina room likes my stuff and wants me to come there three or four times a year, so I'm trying to get a return date.  It's hard dealing with Comedy Zone because they're so busy all the time, you have to get them at exactly the right moment or you get told to call back about half a dozen times, and it can get to be demoralizing.  Still, I've never had any problems getting what I needed from them once I got through, so I guess it's worth the effort.

I'm an avid Air America listener, and I just found out that WKBW in Buffalo picked them up....I always have a problem when I'm leaving town because the WROC signal here in Rochester fades as I head west, and then there are no Air America stations for quite a distance....just another case for picking up sattelite radio, but until then, at least I have "terrestrial" options.

We got a bunch of snow here in Rochester yesteday, and it seemed to have all fallen in less than an hour.  They're calling it an inch of snow, but I hate that measurement system....it's predicated on melting the snow!  I want to know the actual depth of the snow, which in this case, is a few inches...it's that light, puffy "Christmas" snow that's easy to shovel and just makes everything slippery....a slight nuisance, really, unless you're an out-of-towner who doesn't know how to drive in snow.

I made some dynamite crab salad yesterday....I used that imitation crab....until yesterday, I didn't realize how "imitation" that stuff is....it contains less than 2% crab!  It's flounder with red paint!  Still, the salad was good.....I found out that the ingredient I'd been missing all this time was "Old Bay" seasoning, which is predominantly celery salt and cayenne pepper.  Still, it was great, and with some wheat mini-pitas, it made a really nice dinner.  I washed it down with diet ginger-ale, and then enjoyed an evening of doing nothing, and taking all night to do it.

O.K., I'm tired now.  Maybe I'll append this journal entry if anything exciting happens later, so keep checking back.  And thanks for reading!

Ralph Tetta

Rochester, NY