Tom's Fantastic Four-ty Party

Today one of my good friends is having his 40th's birthday party. He's a geek like me so his theme is Fantastic Four and everyone is either wearing a superhero costume or t-shirt. Harry and I opted for the Superhero t-shirts. He's having at his boyfriend Ervin’s house, who is a doctor and lives up in the Los Feliz hills in a beautiful house that over looks Los Angeles, Hollywood and the Ocean.

The party was alot of fun but after four hours Harry and I were hungry (he supplied pizza and lasagna) which is great if you are not lactose intolerant. So Harry and I left to get some dinner. It was a fun night.

Editing a Podcast

Some of you may know I help moderate a forums for the Treks in Sci Fi forums. It's also one of my favorite podcasts and I have been listening for years. Well Rico (the host) put the call out there for folks to take over a podcast once a month and me along with several other forum friends got together and recorded our thoughts on the New Doctor Who series.

I'm currently editing the 2 hour and 50 minute podcast down into a very tight 90 minutes, as this is the length Rico likes to keep his podcasts. I got up super early to start working on this and it's going very slowly. I'm having to cut alot of the fun banter and sample audio clips from the episodes. This is going to be tough..

BSG Returns

After a seven-month hiatus, Battlestar Galactica returns for it's final 10 episodes of the series. Man did it not disappoint. No many answers but tons and tons of new stuff to think about. We find out who the final 5th cylon was and there is a shocking moment that made me jump up from the couch and screen NO!!!!!!! Can't wait for the final 9 episodes.

IMDB Updated

Hey all.. I will occasionally go to IMDB and updated the project I have been working on. I have a fairly extensive list now of shows I worked on and today I just submitted quite a few other shows that I did, including The Guild. You can check out my IMDB (internet movie database) page HERE.

Star Trek: Boldly

Some of you may or may not know that I co-run a Star Trek role playing game online. It's part of the Treks in Sci Fi forum in which I help run. I am the Captain of the ship as well as a few other characters. The way we write is like a continuing novel that everyone contributes to via his or her character. We are about to start Season Nine, each season runs about three month. Well our fifth season was extra good and Jen, my co-mod and co-runner of the rpg wanted to do a dramatization of that season. She went all out, she got some of the members of the Treksf forum, including me to do some voice work and she also got outside actors to do some of the voices. She produced it and added sfx and music courtesy of the Moyers. And she makes this wonderful audio drama.

So far only part one has been posted (runs about 40+ minutes) but it's very well done and so much fun to listen to. If you are interested you can check it out here.

$10,000

Today I took Harry to the dentist. He broke a tooth about a month ago and he has been having issues with it and also having issues with a back molar. Harry has no insurance so we knew this might be costly but it's something you have to do. They had no problem pulling the back molar but with the front tooth, it was not savable so they would have to pull it and we didn't want him to have this hole there so we discussed our options on how to fill it.

We had two... we could pull the tooth and Harry could get a temp tooth that would only be for ascetic purposes or he could get a permanent tooth. If we went with the temp only it would be about $5000 to pull both teeth and make the temp one. If we went with the permanent tooth it would cost $10,000 to pull both teeth and file in the hole with cadaver crushed tooth so it would not heal over and make it easier to put in the post to hold the permanent tooth and of course this would take months to do so they would have to make a temp tooth anyways for the time being.

Well I'm not a rich man but knew we had to do something. So Harry and I talked it over and he will have both teeth pulled and will fill in the front one and prepare for the permanent tooth and will make the temp tooth. If he doesn't mind having the temp tooth we may just keep that. Or in time when funds are back up we might go ahead with the permanent tooth since it's all prepped and ready.

So to make a long story short this first visit to the dentist is going to cost us $5000.00 and if we decide to go back and get the permanent tooth that will be another $5000.00. And that is just for one tooth. And people wonder why so many folks have bad teeth.. It’s the cost plain and simple.

The Guild Podcast

Well it's official I am going to start a monthly The Guild podcast. I have wanted to do a podcast for a while but really wanted to come up with a unique topic since it seems everyone is doing a podcast these days. A few weeks ago while I lying in bed it came to me that no one is doing a podcast about our favorite Guildies. And since I'm working on the BTS of season two and know all the actors and crew I figure it would be perfect for my podcast topic.

I emailed Felicia to make sure she was cool with the idea and a few days later she said yes. I then went to a fellow crewmember from the second season and asked if she would be interested in co-hosting the show with me. I find when you have two people who play off each other make a more interesting podcast. Of course she was very happy to be part of the project. BTW her name is Jenni.. so it's going to be Kenny and Jenni :)

Today I started to work on an outline for the show and with Jenni's input I think we have the beginnings of a cool podcast. We haven't gotten a name yet but we have some cool ideas. We hope to record our test podcast in a few weeks and have our first official podcast up on itunes mid-February.

I'll keep you posted.