Saturday, May 16, 2009

A New Truck!!!

Well since Harry got his inheritance, besides the down payment for a house he wanted to buy himself a "newer" Truck. He went back and forth between Dodge and Ford and finally settled on a Dodge Ram 1500 4x4. So he mapped out five different Dodge dealers and we set out early this morning. First one we went to (Canoga Park Dodge) had two Dodge Rams 4x4, lots of 2x4 but Harry wants 4x4. But the only issue is that these were new trucks and were priced $38,000 to $42,000 and well out of our price range of $25,000 to $30,000. Of course Harry sees it and says.. I LOVE IT in front of the salesman. We go on to tell the gentleman that we are looking for more of a used one and a lower price. Well they had one used Dodge Ram but it was in White and that was the one color Harry did not want. So the salesman really wanted to sale us the Truck so we went back to his office and he drew up some numbers. He first came back with a $5,000 off the ticket price plus fees (additional $4,000). Which brought the total to around $37,000 out the door. I told him that it was still to much and that we can't spend more then $30,000. Of course the guy laughed and went back to his boss. A few minutes later he came back out and said.. okay we can give you the truck for $28,000 (that's $10,000 off the ticket price), plus the $4,000 taxes and fees for a total of $32,000 exactly. Well we knew it was a pretty good deal but this was our first dealer and we really didn't want to spend more then $25,000. So I thanked him, told him we wanted to see a bit more but would be back.

Next we went to the Dodge dealer in Van Nuys and found out it was out of business. So we moved on to the Dodge dealer in Glendale and they had four or five Used Dodge Rams but all of them 2x4. We stopped for a quick lunch at Sizzler and then drove north to the San Fernando Dodge dealer and found out that it too went out of business. Next we drove even further north to Valencia Dodge. And a side note it was hot in the valley but it had to be 15 degrees hotter in Santa Clarita Valley. Anyways we found the dodge dealer but they had no used Dodge truck. We started to head a little north west to Simi Valley Dodge but I was tired and said instead of us driving around we should all these places and find out if they actually are in business and have used Dodge trucks.. so we headed home. Once home we started to look for trucks online. There were a few but the prices were $25,000 to $29,000 and they had 202 to 30 thousand miles on them. I turned to Harry and said should be just go get the brand new truck as it didn't make sense to spend a few thousands less for a used car. Harry of course said yes so we went back to our first dealer (Canogo Park Dodge) and started the process of buying the truck. Besides the $32,000 cost of the truck and fees we purchased a lifetime warranty for the truck for another $2,060 so in the end we paid in CASH (well a check). $34,060.00 for a 2009 Dodge Ram 1500 4x4.

This was the first time in my life that I was buying a new car but also paying cash for a new car. My heart was racing as I was writing that check for over 34,000 dollars. Of course Harry said just wait, with the house you are going to write a check for $100,000 dollars... great!!!

Friday, May 15, 2009

KOTG Promotional items

Got some promotional items from our Cafe Press store.. three different sizes of Buttons.





Also got a t-shirt for Jenni and I, they are AWESOME.

Knights of the Guild Episode 4

Knights of the Guild Episode 4

Show Notes:

Here it is Episode 4 of Knights of the Guild. We hope you enjoy it.

Today’s show features:

  • First up we have our monthly Vorkism, every month Vork will bestow his words of wisdom to us.
  • Our location today is Bladezz’s Basement
  • For our Fan interview we have die hard fan World of Higlet

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  • We update you on the Cast and Crew and what they currently are up too.
  • For our BTS segment we discuss our experience working on Season Two Episode Six: Blow Out.
  • We have a very special crew interview: Jared Hoy - Chief Lighting Technician

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  • We have our Fan Feedback.
  • We ask for Donations and Thank those you already donated.
  • Then we have our final words and we say goodbye.

Please send your audio or written comments to knightsoftheguild@gmail.com or you can leave your comments in the comment section of this site.

Thank you again for all your support, we do this podcast because we are fans and more importantly for the fans.

Kenny & Jenni

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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Paying Off Our Debt

Today I payed off our credit card, dental credit card and my jeep.

Harry and I are now officially DEBT FREE!!!!!

It was awesome being able to make such large payments but it's also kind of scary making such large payments...

I was Debt free a few years before I meet Harry and it was great but it didn't last. This time I can guarantee it will last. I refuse to go into the debt again.. other then a house of course, but that's not debt that's an investment.

Dr. Appointment

Just got back from the Doctors. I started taking some medicine and they want to do some blood work to make sure it's working. Everything was good until we go to my blood pressure.. 147 over 95 is the highest it's ever been.. kind of scary. Also my weight, which wasn't a surprise to me, ever since I started taking testosterone my appetite has increased 10X and I have gained about 35 pounds in the past six months.. again not good. So I have a few things to work on. But over all things looked good.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

It Really Happened

Today I checked my bank account and my heart skipped a beat. Actually it started to beat fast as a feeling of joy and excitement took control of my body. Harry's inheritance was wired into our bank account today. We knew it was coming but knowing something is coming and actually seeing it in there are two totally different things. I wanted to take a screen grab of my computer screen as I will never see this much money in my back account again.

Now that the money situation is taking care of we can pay off our debt, buy Harry a new Truck and continue looking for a House.

Fun times ahead.

Monday, May 11, 2009

The Ready Room Podcast #57

Tonight I spent a few hours editing up The Ready Room podcast for the rpg game happening at the Treks in Sci Fi forums. It's fairly easy I all I have to do is record an opening and closing and then any posts that I have to read for the week, then string them all together and voila it's done.. well my part is done. I then email it to my buddy Rick who adds music and then sends it off to Rico so he can posted in his Tresf podcast feed.

House News

Well today I send an email to our Realtor and asked about the offer that was made on the House Harry and I really loved.. well she responded and said that the owners accepted their offer and the house is now in escrow. :(

I guess we knew this was coming but still it's very upsetting this house has been on the market for 450+ days and the weekend we see it and fall in love with it is the weekend someone puts an offer in on it and it's accepted.

Well it wasn' t meant to be... if it is then escrow will fall through and will get our chance to make an offer on that house... until then we continue to search for a place we can call HOME.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

KOTG Episode 4 is Done

After my high on Star Trek I wanted to finish up my Knights of the Guild episode 4 podcast as it's due to be posted on Friday the 15th. I spent the next four hours editing it down and tweaking it. It's finally done and I think it's pretty good. Going to send it to Jenni (my co-host) for her approval, not that she ever gives notes.. but it's good to have second pair of ears to listen to it just in case I missed something. I'll do one more pass this week before posting it Thursday PM/ Friday AM.

STAR TREK!!!!!


Well it was released four days prior but I was finally able to see the new Star Trek movie. I have been excited to see this movie since I heard the were making it but as the date got closer and excitement did not build like it had with other Star Trek films.

This was a re-boot of the series. Going back to the Kirk era and using all new actors. I was never a huge fan of the TOS (The Original Series) era so maybe that is why I wasn't uber excited to see this. I mean I saw previews and it looked like an AWESOME action movie but it didn't feel like Star Trek.. at least not the Star Trek I grew up on. So I did not see it opening night but knew I wanted to see it opening weekend because most of my friends would have seen it before me and I didn't want to be spoiled. Well spoilers happened and I found out about a few key moments.. oh well.

Today Harry and I sat there in the theater and waited to see JJ's version of our beloved Star Trek Universe. When it was over I was EXTREMELY EXCITED and LOVED every moment of this new Trek. I like that they created an alternate timeline instead of a erasing the forty years of Trek history. This opened up the storyline for anything to happen and boy did it. Planets blowing up, unexpected folks hooking up and things being slightly tweaked.

All the actors were fantastic. (going to use their characters names instead of actors names) Kirk, Spock, Uhura, Sulu were spot on. Scotty, Bones and Chekov stood out. Scotty was funny and refreshing, Bones was played perfectly, and Chekov was cute, funny and smart.

I liked the story, how they tied in the original Trek universe and I loved seeing Leonard Nimoy as old Spock.

SFX were AWESOME, music was great and the overall movie was fun and entertaining. Of course not everything was perfect but those little things that bothered me were way over shadowed by the cool things that I loved.

I swore I was not going to buy the new Star Trek action figures.. but as I was getting into the car I turned to Harry and said.. "CRAP!! Now I have to buy the figures."

I can't wait for the next Trek film.