My Test Vlog

Been looking for a good and free program that would allow me to record video and audio directly from my webcam as I've been wanting to do some Vlogs as well as my written blogs. Here's the test video.. let me know what you think.

Thunder Storms

Harry cut together a quick video of a Thunder and Lightening storm that pass over head today.

Raising Hope

Watched the first episode of this new Fox comedy last week, I have the second episode on the DVR. If you don't what this series is about here is a brief description. Boy has sex with girl, girl is a murderer and goes to jail, girl gives birth, girl tells boy about baby, girl gets electric chair, boy gets baby girl. That all happens within the first 10 minutes of the pilot episode.

I loved this series.. it's such a funny show. I was laughing out load the entire half hour. I'm not normally into crude humor but there is something about these characters that make them endearing. The main character Jimmy (Lucas Neff) is very naive, stupid but very sweet and kind hearted, you can't help but care about him. The mom (Martha Plimpton) and dad (Garrett Dillahart) are very white trash and pretend to not care but deep down are caring and loving parents who only want the best for their son. Along with a wild cousin, crazy grandma and grocery girl rounds out a pretty funny cast.

The pilot deals with Jimmy dealing with being a Dad and boy he needs lots of help. This show has lots of sight gags, best one is towards the end when he goes to change her for the first time and he takes the diaper off and begins to gag, then they show him running out of bedroom screaming for paper towels because he throw up on the baby.. mom comes in as he is cleaning her up and takes one look at the diaper and throw up and this time they show her throwing up on the baby... if very gross but very funny. Through out the episode his parents keep telling him to give her up. But in the end Jimmy tells his mom that the entire town things he's life means nothing and for once is his life he wants to make a difference and by raising his daughter he'll make a difference in her life. It's very sweet and his mom and dad agree to help. And up to this point the baby girls name has been Princess Beyonce (baby's mom named her). But Jimmy asks his mom what he should name her and the moms say I always liked Hope.. of there you have it.. Raising Hope.

Check it out on Fox on Tuesday at 9pm

My Tattoo - One Week Later

Wow it's only been a week since I got my Harry Potter Hogwarts Crest tattoo and it's looking great. Yes it's killing me because it's so itchy but I've been good and have avoided scratching. I have also been putting lotion on it as instructed.. got a few more days of that still. I do hope the itching stops soon. On day three it started to peel pretty bad. Every time I put lotion on it I would pull dead skin off.. you do worry about it but they did tell me this would happen. The top skin is dead and flakes off but the color is so deeply into the skin that you don't lose it. I added a picture that I took today so you can see how nice it still looks. I'm extremely happy with it and I am looking forward to getting my second one sooner then later but man it is a lot of work to make sure it turns out great. But I guess anything worth having takes work.

Kick Ass kicked ass!!!!

Well for my birthday my wonderful friends Jack and Tara got me Kick Ass on blu-ray. I had wanted to see this movie in the theaters but never got a chance so I was excited so see it. I knew Harry wasn't interested so I got up early today and decided to watch it while he was sleeping. As you can tell from the title of this blog, I loved it as I knew I would. I had heard both good and bad things about this movie, that's the issue with waiting so long to see something you hear about it all over the place.

I have to say I'm surprise at people who said it was too bloody or violent. I mean yes there were lots of bullets to the head but I have seen much worse. And those that complained about the language of the 11 year old Hit Girl, I mean she has a few choice words but man she was the best character. I enjoyed the entire story, I mean who of us geeks hadn't thought about becoming a super hero at one time in our lives. I enjoyed Nick Cage and I really liked the guy who played Kick Ass. I cried, I laughed, I cheered along with the story, to me that makes a great movie.

My "Jason Palmer" Gallery

Well I finally got my wall up for my Jason Palmer prints. I've had some of them for five years. I knew I wanted them up on the main wall in our TV room but I wanted them all to have the same frames. So I finally got the frames and placed the six picture I had in them and they then sat in the TV room for months. Then at Comic Con this year I bought two more to add to my collection and now have 8 of his prints, actually I have another one he did of Codex but it will not be put up with these other ones. So I was tired to seeing them sitting on the floor in the TV room and decided I would put them up for my 40th Birthday party and I did just that. Took a few tries to get them the way I wanted but in the end they look great and I'm very happy that I am finally able to enjoy his wonderful prints.

You can check out or buy your own prints here.. http://www.jasonpalmer.net/

A Healthier Me - Day 46

Did a half hour walk around the park with Daisy.

Today's Workout:

15 minutes of cardio on the elliptical
3 sets of 10 for shoulders (45 lbs)
3 sets of 10 on the front leg press (45 lbs)
3 sets of 10 on squats (110 lbs)

It's so hot and humid here.. there is thunder and lightening and I was sweating so bad that I only managed 15 minute on the elliptical before I called it quits. I figure with my 30 minute walk I got my cardio in. I know it's just an excuse but I was really struggling today. I was hoping this working out thing would get easier as I go and I do have my good days but some days I have to use all the strength I have to get my butt out there. Will this ever get any easier????

Knights of the Guild Ep 20 pt2

Download from Itunes http://bit.ly/KotGCast or Direct Download / Listen http://knightsoftheguild.com

Show Notes:

Here it is Episode 20 part 2 of Knights of the Guild. We hope you enjoy it.

Today’s show features:

• * First up we have a Classic Vorkism
• * We are recording this weeks podcast live in studio
• * We discuss Behind the Scenes of Season 3 Episode 8  - +10 to Bravery
• * We have another great fan interview with James aka Tyghtrope
• * We thank our donors.
• * Then Business Time (We continue to use contest submissions, Thanks Megan, Jennifer, James, Donica, Jerod, and Higlet)
• * Then our Good byes

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

A Healthier Me - Day 45

Wow.. almost forgot to work out.. that's what happens when I'm busy editing podcasts. Luckily it was only 9:45pm when I remembered that I hadn't worked out yet.

Today's Workout:

30 minutes of cardio on the elliptical
3 sets of ten on the chest fly for my chest (75 lbs)
3 sets of ten on the curl arm for my biceps (45 lbs)
3 sets of ten on the free weight (110 lbs)
3 sets of ten working on my back (75 lbs)

Happy 23rd Anniversary Star Trek TNG

23 years ago on the week of Sept. 28th Star Trek The Next Generation premiered here in the US. They weren't sure how the public was going to take it. Up until this point we only had the five  movies and a 21 year absence of any Trek on TV. Everything was different, the crew, the ship, the look of that universe.. would people accept this "new" Star Trek.

Well I was a fan of the movies and watched the original TV series late at night when I would come across it but I wouldn't call myself a Star Trek fan. When I heard about the new Trek series I wasn't really interested so I didn't watch it for the first few weeks. I can't remember why but I turned it on one day and was instantly hooked. I fell in love with Picard, Riker, Tori, Crusher, LaForge, Data, Worf, Yar and yes Wesley too. I came into the series about five or six episodes in and back in the day they only showed repeats during the following summer and there were no VHS let alone DVDs. So I watched the rest of the first season and devoured very episode. And when summer came around I made sure to catch the few episodes I missed at the beginning of the season. But I can say without a doubt after watching that first season I was a Trekkie, I loved everything Star Trek. I went back and re-watched the movies and tried to catch as many of the original series episodes as I could. I bought magazines, cards, action figures and anything else I could find that had TNG on it. My fanaticism grew as the series went on. When they started Deep Space Nine I was right there loving every minute.. then Voyager and finally Enterprise.

I always say Star Wars is what made me fall in love with Sci Fi and Fantasy but Star Trek made me appreciate Sci Fi and Fantasy and will always be very special to me. Thank you Mr. Roddenberry for sharing your universe with us.

Happy Anniversary Star Trek The Next Generation!!!!

KOTG CompanionCast S4E11

Download from Itunes http://bit.ly/KotGCast or Direct Download / Listen http://knightsoftheguild.com

Show Notes:

It’s time for our next CompanionCast for Season 4 of The Guild. First of all be sure you watched Episode 11 of season 4 “Hostile Takeovers”. If you haven’t seen it yet watch it HERE

In this CompanionCast I interview Felicia Day, Sean Becker, Kim Evey, Vince Caso, Viji Nathan, Sandeep Parikh, Robin Thornsen, Amy Okuda, Jeff Lewis, Brett Sheridan and Greg Aronowitz

I hope you enjoy a look behind the scenes of Season 4 Episode 11 “Hostile Takeovers"

Kenny

Other Important Links

• Knights of the Guild Feeds/Downloads http://knightsoftheguild.com
• Knights of the Guild Daily Blog http://knightsoftheguildpodcast.blogspot.com/ 
• The Guild http://watchtheguild.com

A Healthier Me - Day 44

Had to work out late tonight because of the heat.. it's finally cooled down around 9pm..

Today's Workout:

30 minutes of cardio on the elliptical
3 sets of 10 for shoulders (45 lbs)
3 sets of 10 on the front leg press (45 lbs)
3 sets of 10 free weights (75 lbs)
3 sets of 10 on squats (110 lbs)

Still chugging along!!!

Up and Down Kind of Day

Woke up this morning at 6:30am, couldn't sleep because of this "no water/ bad well" thing. DOWN!!

But since it's Monday I weight myself and found out I lost more weight, currently down to 208.5lbs UP!!!

Pump people came to check out the well pump and said that it's not working but they can't tell what the problem is until the pull out the pump and that could cost us up to $800 just for that depend on how deep the well is. And then we will hear what the issue is and have to deal with the cost of that.  DOWN!!

Got 4000 gallons of water delivered to our house for $80 bucks which isn't bad as it should last us a few weeks. UP!!!

My new tattoo is starting to peel and itch badly.. I know that's normal but it just feels like it's going to damage the tattoo and I feel like I'm doing exactly what I was told to do, DOWN!!!

Got a birthday present from a friend of mine up on Canada, Ken Todd. He sent me two books and a CD but the real special gift is that he drew a picture of me which is out of this world awesome. UP!!!

Got in my jeep to drive to the mail box and went to put in my radio, it's one of those detachable face one and when I went to attach the face my radio came loose and was pushed back into my dash. DOWN!!!

So today has been quite an up and down day.. guess that's just life.

A Healthier Me - Day 43

Wow.. it's been four days since I worked out last.. didn't work out Thursday because it was my birthday, didn't work out Friday because I got a tattoo on my left arm. Saturday was my big birthday party and Sunday was my recovery day from the big party. So today I struggled to get back into the swing of things. It was tough but I did have some good news when I got on the scale this morning.

Monday weight in: 208.5

Today's Workout:

30 minutes of cardio on the elliptical
3 sets of ten on the chest fly for my chest (75 lbs)
3 sets of ten on the curl arm for my biceps (45 lbs)
3 sets of ten on the free weight (110 lbs)
3 sets of ten working on my back (75 lbs)

So I lost 2.5 lbs and didn't work out for four days.. guess my better eating is showing results. I only ate out on my Birthday and other then that I ate more healthy then I have in the past.. plan on continuing the healthier eating and start the workout routine back up.. shouldn't have any more missed days.

No Water - Well Issues

Well I was heading off to bed and went to fill up my glass of water that I like to have every night and no water came out... I mean not a drop. So I went to Harry and said "guess what we have no water" so we grabbed the flashlight and headed out to our well.

Now I haven't heard the well go on ever but Harry has said he's heard it in the past early int he AM. We checked our 5000 gallon water tanks a few months back and it was full so we assumed everything was great. Well we check it again tonight and it was bone dry.. looks like our well pump hasn't been working for a while and we have absolutely no water. We went back to the well pump and the motor was still running.. it's been hours now but still it wasn't pumping water so I turned the power off.

I really don't know what is going on, I don't know anything about wells. From what I gathered it could be a malfunctioning pump or worst case serneio the well is dry and we would have to re-drill for a new well which can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Can't really do anything until the morning.. But it's kind of weird not having water. Harry and went around to our cars and gathered all the half empty water bottles so we have something to drink.

UPDATE:

Well I didn't sleep well at all.. worried about this well thing. Got up at 6:30am and waited till about 8pm to call some water people. You can actually buy water and a person will truck it in and fill up your tank (well 4000 gallons of it). So I ordered some water and it should be here in an hour or so. I also called a pump service company and they are suppose to come out and check the pump and tell me what's up. I just hope it's a pump issue and not a dry well. I'll keep you guys updated