From Tricycles to Troubles: Embracing New Experiences

Surely You Jest - Episode SYJ904: From Tricycle to Troubles: Embracing New Experiences

Host: DJ Starsage Release Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2025

🎙️ Episode Overview

DJ Starsage checks in from the chateau with a mix of fall weather updates, workplace concerns, and personal joys, including new eye-wear and the unexpected pleasure of cycling.

📝 Show Notes & Topics

• Fall Weather and Microbursts
• Discussing the lovely, blustery northeast fall weather.
• Experiencing a current temperature of 73 degrees amidst recent low temperatures around 54
• Explaining the weather phenomenon of a microburst causing scattered twigs and branches
• A brief mention of the movies Twister and its sequel, Twisters
• Work Updates: The Abacus Lounge
• The routine of preparing meals ahead of time for the work week.
• DJ is now at the 90-day mark with the company.
• Concerns over limited training resources9. The training experience relies on peer training/job shadowing rather than dedicated trainers
• A supervisor was "appalled" that training was incomplete, which DJ found unfair since they were never given all the resources needed
• Feeling uneasy after two peers who were helping with training were recently let go
• Hubby Report: The Morty's Problem Child
• Hubby transferred to the Morty's North location
• The transfer was supposed to reduce time spent working on days off, but a "problem child" employee is forcing him to go in
• The problem employee, who has a co-conspirator 15, was passed over for a promotion and is now "slacking off"
• The problem has contributed to a high turnover rate among store managers.
• The situation is compared to the movie The Money Pit, as DJ has been told for at least a month that the issue will be resolved "in two weeks"
• DJ is hopeful "justice is in the process of being served" with management now taking a step back to gather evidence
• Personal Life & Health Updates
• The Adult Tricycle: DJ, who never learned to ride a bike due to childhood inner ear balance issues, purchased an adult tricycle
• Enjoying the experience of biking on trails near a canal
• Eyeglass Update: DJ received a new prescription to adjust for a developing cataract
• The vision is the best it's been since April
• The new frames feature magnetic snap-on lenses for style and sunglasses.
• Matinee Minutia Promo
• The companion film and TV trivia podcast, Matinee Minutia, has started Season 8.
• The new season's theme is being trapped in a video store and traveling through time.
• The next episode will discuss the 1988 film Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, featuring Cassandra Peterson and Edie McClurg

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Mistress Jackie sends her love. Bye bye