Timewasteblog — Wasting ALL the Time

Last Century

On May 22nd, 2014, we released another "reserve" episode that was titled Ep. 70 - The Sharket. Obviously, May was a difficult month for us to schedule recordings.

The cold open was us discussing how to handle the dated intro song for that episode.

For What Have You Been Up To? Jon pretended that we were once again dead (hence the need for a reserve ep). I was hoping that we would share fantastic stories about how we had died, but we didn't discuss that ahead of time and wires were crossed so it didn't happen. Instead, I complained about Ted the Intern. ...

May 7
May 7 Last Century... Ep. 69

Last Century

100 episodes ago was Ep. 69 - Super Mega Ginseng Adventure -- GO! for May 14th, 2014. This episode was the first time that Cody and I recorded an episode by ourselves. Jon was unable to record that week and we were unable to get a guest to take his place. It was scary! What would happen?! As I recall, this is one of the few episodes that we recorded in the garage of Cody's own house. If I'm not wrong, there was a really obnoxious compressor of some sort for an appliance of some sort that made a harsh buzzing noise of some sort that ruined our recording flow of some sort for some reason. ...

Apr 30
Apr 30 Last Century... Ep. 68

Last Century

100 episodes ago was Ep. 68 - Missing Time featuring Jon, Cody, and Dave recorded for May 8th, 2014. I think it was a "reserve" episode (one that we record to release whenever we can't make a normally scheduled recording) because it began with a cold opening that I remember setting aside from an early episode for later use and the "What Have You Been Up To?" segment is filled with obviously fictional activities. This episode also features a scene inspired by conversation, instead of a deliberate segment-based scene, which doesn't happen often. ...

Apr 25
Apr 25 New Hire!

Howdy, folks! Ted here, and I’d like you all to welcome the new WAtT Security Guard, iChef #3B5AO2-HH45-271C! Threebee (that’s what we call him around the studio) beat out all the other applicants easily, meeting or exceeding all of Cody’s required performance benchmarks (stuff that comes up a lot here, like being able to operate in an oxygen free environment for several minutes, withstand temperatures of up to 500 Fahrenheit, and survive a “rough-housing” session with eight large, semi-magical wolves, etc.). Best of all, the...

Apr 9
Apr 9 A Shovel Museum!

It's been quite a while since I left the studios at Drowning Man Productions. Cody had been working on having me set up a shovel museum "for posterity." In it he had me collect all of the shovels he's used over the years to save various days and segments of populations. He's got the 1952 Gandy that Santa Claus gave him last Christmas (that was used to brutally beat the magical life out of Evil Santa), the Ames Company Long Wood Handle Round Point Shovel that he used to utterly destroy some zombies and other assorted undead last Halloween, the Nupla 72022 Square Point Mud Shovel that helped clear the rubble when our studio was demolished the year before that, and lots of other scoops, trowels, and spades that have figured prominently in Cody's life. There's one shovel that wasn't accounted for, however. The Craftsman Wooden Handle Digging Shovel with 14-gauge heavy duty steel blade and trusty ash wood handle was NOT in the museum. It was last seen piercing the heart(?) of Magnus, the terrible three-headed chicken beast that guards the legendary lost city of Ho-Qin, the First Accountant...

Mar 23
Mar 23 Revamped Contact Forms

Announcement

In an effort to streamline the website's contact flow, all contact forms have been consolidated to one page, wastingallthetime.com/contact. ...

Feb 29
Feb 29 Breakroom Update!

Dave finally came out of the breakroom today – HOORAY!! It’s been really hard not having him around for the past week, but everything is okay now. He built a whole big sculpture in the breakroom using only the stuff he found in there! Jon is still trying to figure out what it means, and keeps asking me to get him things like protractors and rulers and lutefisk. He says he’s pretty sure the sculpture has something to do with Ho Qin, but it could also be “meaningless artistic argle-bargle deliberately created to piss me off.” Or maybe… To WASTE ALL HIS TIME? Ha-ha!!!

Dave is such a genius. :)

Also, Cody figured out why the critters haven’t been hungry. It seems they managed to chew a hole in their enclosure, and have been sneaking out to feed on whatever animals they come across in the greater compound. I fixed the hole while Cody kept the critters at bay with his shovel, and I only lost my shoes and about one pint of blood. Hopefully this will solve the problem we’ve been having with our mail delivery, too.

Oh! Dave just shouted that he needs me to bring him some coffee. See you next time!

Feb 22
Feb 22 Ted Here!

Lots going on at WAtT Studios this week! Cody bought a player piano using money he made from “sound investment in various pharmaceuticals,” and rigged it up to play “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt” every time the doorbell rings. Jon still hasn’t figured out how to turn it off, but he did manage to turn the volume up. Meanwhile, Dave has locked himself in the breakroom and is communicating with us by slipping napkins smeared with jam under the door.

Ha! This one says “TED, IF YOU BLOG ABOUT THIS, I WILL MAKE SURE THE MIMES FIND OUT WHERE YOU SLEEP.”

I’m kind of worried about the vampire koalas and Cody’s sleigh wolves. When I brought down their food today, they wouldn’t touch it! They’re usually so excited at mealtime that I worry they might break out of their enclosure, but today they acted like they weren’t even hungry. I hope the poor guys aren’t getting sick or something…

Anyhow, enough of my yammering on – I need to go post another Craigslist ad. Today was supposed to be the new security guard’s first day, but he never showed up.

Feb 16
Feb 16 Titanic Revisited