Visiting the M*A*S*H Set

Harry is a huge MASH fan and I became one because of him so today he and I went to Malibu Canyon Park to visit the MASH set. We had gone to the park before to go hiking and saw signs that stated that MASH was filmed there. We always wanted to go back but never seemed to find the time. Well the day before while watching MASH I told him we should go and visit the MASH set. So the next day we got up and headed over. The park is about 20 minutes away and when we got there we really didn't know where to start. We walked back to where we saw the first sign. We then say that in order to get to the site you had to hike 2.3 miles. Well I haven't worked out in over a year and am really out of shape.. but 2.3 miles didn't sound bad so we started. About a mile in the sun was shining down and I was starting to hurt. The hike starts off on a dirt road and then steadily goes up a hill and then down. You then start walking along side a mountain on a thin trail with mountain on one side and a creek on the other. Alot of this road is filled with rocks, looks like the bottom of a riverbed. Well after about an hour and a half we got to the site.

We knew there wasn't going to be much. A burnt out jeep and a rusted over ambulance. But it was still fun to stand there and try to picture where everything was. Of course the easiest was the helo-pad as it's overgrown with bushes but it's still there.

We hung out there for about a half hour, debating where Rosie's bar was or the sign welcoming people to the 4077. We took pictures and video to capture the experience.

Once we had our fill we headed back. The hike back wasn't that bad until the very end where I was getting hungry and my blood sugar dropped.. but we made it back to the jeep and then headed home... and of course we were both super sore. But it was well worth the pain to see where they filmed one of our most favorite TV shows.

Knights of the Guild

Been a super busy day today.. but in a good way.

Lots of Guild podcast news... first we got our drawing that we commissioned from the say person who did the drawings for The Guild cast. It turned out great (even thought I don't think I'm that large).

Second Jenni came over to record a promo and our first episode. After a rough start, trying to get skype to work so we could do an interview with Dani (Guild fan) every went smooth. Jenni and I just clicked.. we laughed and told stories and played off each other very well.

Third I cut the promo together

And Fourth, I finished the podcast website, which you can view here. I think it turned out great. I then uploaded the promo podcast to the website and also uploaded it to itunes for review. Once the approve the podcast you'll be able to subscribe to it on itunes.

Next up I have to do an interview with a crew member (Director Sean) and a cast member which I have figured out yet. Then I can cut the first episode together and post it up by Feb 15th.

It was a great day today.. lots of fun and I'm really looking forward to continuing this podcast for many years.

A Bright Spot

When I got home from that horrible day there was a package for me. I finally got my Star Trek The Next Generation figures that I ordered over a year and a half ago. Ensign Ro, Dr. Crusher, Nurse Ogawa and Chief O'Brien. So with those figures and watching one of my all time favorite TNG episodes my horrible day ended on a very bright note...

One of "those" days

Today started off bad, just a bunch of little things that didn't go right. I knew then I should have just gone back to bed.. but of course that was not a choice. And it just go worse from there. Work was a total crazy hectic mad house. Onlines, outputs, DVD's, schedules, computer issues, lap tops breaking, internet going down and the list goes on and on. Needless to say when 6:30pm came around I was ready to go home and put an end to this horrible day.

Foiled!!

Today I foiled the desk of my friend Will. A few weeks ago we were talking during lunch about practical jokes. He kept saying how good he was at it. Well when we got back he pulled a minor joke on another co worker of ours. She then came into my office and said we have to prank Will. So several weeks passed by and the day final came. Will have an appointment and left the office around 10am and wasn't expected to come back till 11:30am. So I hatched my plan. I purchased five rolls of aluminum foil and wrapped every single item on his desk. Computer, keyboard, mouse, mouse pad, pens, papers, post its, wires, coffee cup and even the coffee stirrer. If it was on his desk it was wrapped in foil.

Well he came back to his desk and had the biggest smile on his face. Of course he knew it was me who did it and proclaimed that he would have his revenge. So now I sit and wait for something to happen to me....

More Guildie Podcast Stuff

After choosing a name for the podcast I had to go and build a website for it. So much stuff goes into creating a podcast that I never thought of. It's a fun process but some things cost money. I plan on putting up a paypal donation button on the site and hope folks enjoy the podcast and will make a donation to cover production costs. I decided to go with podbean.com as my podcast host. It's a very simple website and explains exactly how to create the webpage, offers templates and has a step by step instructions on how to upload you podcast to itunes. It was well worth the $50 bucks for the year. I'll post a link when it's closer to being finished.

Naming my Podcast

I am starting a podcast for The Guild. I'll be co-hosting it with my friend Jenni. Both her and I are fans of the Guild and worked on season two together. We are trying to come up with a name of the podcast. I put out several requests for names on several forums and today Jenni and I finally picked a name for the podcast.

We decided to go with Knights of the Guild. Out of all the names given this one we both felt told people what it was about and gave a nod to the die hard fans as the guild's guild name is The Knights of Good.

So the full title is Knights of the Guild: The Official Fan Podcast of the webseries The Guild.

Skype Chat / One Year Anniversary

Today we had a skype chat with some members of the Treks in Sci Fi forums. Today is The Ready Room's one year anniversary. The Ready Room, if you don't know, is the podcast I do every week about the role playing game that we play on Treksf. It was alot of fun as we got alot of people to join us. You can check out the Treks in Sci Fi Forums here. We recorded this skype call and turned it into podcast.

Long Work Day

I'm soooooooo tired, today I put in a 15 hour day.. I haven't done that in a while. Now that we are delivering episodes to the network work is going to be getting a bit more hectic.

Obama's Agenda

Today I came across President Obama's Agenda and several things caught my eye. Under his civil rights section here is a "Support for the LGBT Community". And he mentioned one item that were very important to Harry and I.

Support Full Civil Unions and Federal Rights for LGBT Couples: President Obama supports full civil unions that give same-sex couples legal rights and privileges equal to those of married couples. Obama also believes we need to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and enact legislation that would ensure that the 1,100+ federal legal rights and benefits currently provided on the basis of marital status are extended to same-sex couples in civil unions and other legally-recognized unions. These rights and benefits include the right to assist a loved one in times of emergency, the right to equal health insurance and other employment benefits, and property rights.

Many of you know Harry is from Austria and because of the DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) I could never sponsor Harry as my civil partner. We have been dealing with Harry's immagration status now for five years and if Obama acutally reverses this law it will open doors that he and I never though possible. If this does happen it will change Harry and my life forever.

A New Beginning

Today our 44th President took office. It’s been a day I have been waiting for, for 8 years. I am happy that Barack Obama won and we can finally get rid of one of the worse presidents in history.

President Obama has a very large task ahead of him and I don’t expect him to perform miracles but at least he can turn this country around and bring back hope and prosperity.

I stayed home an extra hour this morning so I could listen to his swearing in. It was such a monumental event and in the future I’ll be able to say I was here when our first black president took this country out of the darkness and brought it back into the light. Of course we have to see if he holds true to his promises, but there is something about this man that when he speaks, you know he speaks the truth. Here’s a fantastic four years!!!!

Happy Birthday Tom

Happy Birthday to one of my closest friends and former boyfriend. And to the ordained minister who married Harry and I last August. Thanks for always being there for me. Hope you have a great day.

One More Day!!!

Today is the last day of having one of the worst and most unpopular presidents in United States history. Everyone rejoin.... the evil witch is dead. Let's start a new era for the country and it's people.

Visiting Dad and More Editing

Today I got up early and did some more editing of my Doctor Who podcast. It's very slow going but I'm shaving off minutes here and there.

Around lunchtime Harry and I headed over to visit my Dad, brother and sister-in-law. It was a nice visit. We took dad out to our favorite Chinese restaurant for lunch.

When I got back home I went back to editing the podcast. I finally got it down to 1 hour and 39 minutes. It's till over by 9 minutes but I can't cut anymore. I hope Rico will accept it at this length... I'm sure he will..

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.

Guildie Interviews

Part of the BTS stuff I am doing for the Second Season of The Guild includes Interviews with Cast and Crew. I got most of the crew while we were shooting but the Cast is much harder then they were always busy. Today I was able to go over to Felicia's house and interview Felicia Day (Codex), Sean Becker (Director/Editor), Kim Evey (Producer), John (DP), Elizabeth (Production Manager) and Ben (Post Super). I spent about six hours there doing the interviews and getting some BTS footage of Sean editing an episode. I got some good stuff and can't wait to interview the rest of the cast and get to editing some of these pieces.

Hair in Unexpected Places

Wow.. today I was getting ready for bed when I looked in the mirror and noticed that I had quite a bit of hair on my stomach. This is unusual because I have no hair on my chest or stomach area. It's must be because of the testosterone gel that I am using but it's funny because I know this didn't grow over night but I never noticed it before. I was so excited I went to Harry and said.. "look at my stomach" and he said, "Where did all that hair come from??" It was very cute. Now if I could only get the hair on the top of my head to grow.. I'm been extremely happy. :)

Voting

Today I voted for the first time for the Producer's Guild of America Awards.. it was kind of exciting, now I have to see who the winner will be.

The Guild Episode Six

Today episode six of The Guild second season was posted at MS Video. I'm loving this season.. and I'm not saying that because I worked on it.. it's actually a really funny season so far. You can see the episode here.

Jeep Issues... again

Today when I left work my check engine light came on. It's frustrating because only two weeks ago I took my jeep into the shop because my check engine light was on. My jeep is still running smoothly so I'll see what happens the next few days.

Still Digitizing

Today I finished up to tape 29 of 50 for the BTS Guild tapes... not bad a little over halfway done.

The New Doctor

Today they announced the new Doctor Who, he will be the 11th actor to play that role. His name is Matt Smith and he is fairly and unknown. He is also the youngest actor to play the famous timelord. I am holding back judgment until I actually see him in the role but man is it going to be tough stepping in the shoes of David Tennet... only time will tell.

Xmas is Over

Today Harry and I took down all our Christmas decorations. It was sad but also nice getting our house back in order. I got to finally move the Big Screen TV to its rightful spot and hook up my surround sound. Now I'm just waiting to get an HDMI cable to we can get true HD from our cable box.

More Star Trek Videos and Digitizing

Been trying to get more of The Guild footage digitized as I'm going to start editing the BTS stuff soon. Between digitizing tapes I'm editing last years footage of Star Trek the Tour. It's great fun to see how geeky and excited we were when we went last year... so much fun.. you can watch the videos on my You Tube page

It's A New Year...

Every year I make various resolutions and every year for various reasons I don’t keep them. So instead of disappointing myself I am going to set life goals.

- First goal: Is to be a better husband, after five years of being together your life becomes a routine, you do the same things day in and out. This year I’m going to try and vary the routine as much as possible.

- Second goal: To be a better friend, I have some wonderful friends who have enriched my life and I don’t see them as much as I would like to. My goal is to see my friends at least twice a month, even if it’s just a quick lunch. If we can’t meet up then will call each other and talk over the phone and catch up on each other lives. I miss my friends.

- Third goal: Lose weight, last year I gained 30 lbs. As a somewhat excuse I did start using testosterone gel and my doctor said that one of the side effect is weight gain but it also doesn’t help that I don’t work out or eat properly. So I am going to start to work out again as much as I can and work on eating better.

- Fourth goal: Do more creative things, I use to write poetry and was working on a sci fi novel a well as a fantasy novel. I video tape everything and would love to be able to editing pieces together to share with family and friends. I need to get back to being creative.

- Fifth goal: To finish updating my website. I recently purchased Geekyfanboy.com and I’m slowly transferring my personal website from Yahoo to that site. I hope to have it up and done with in a few months.

- Sixth goal: To be a better human being. To care more, to love more, to be a patient and kind person.

Life is way to short to sit around and complain about how things are so unfair. You never know if this is your last breath.. and if it is I want to make sure I left this life knowing I loved, lived, and laughed to my fullest.

Here’s to a wonderful 2009

A Look Back at 2008

As this year comes to a close I wanted to take a quick look back at 2008. This year has seen many highs as well as many lows.

Of course the best thing that happened in 2008 was Harry and I getting married, it was a dream of a lifetime and it was as ever beautiful and geeky as we planned. His family visited during that time and I got to meet Harry’s mother Zita, sister Gerda, her son Leonhard and her fiancé Bernd. All were wonderful, kind and loving people.

Another high for 2008 was going to Star Trek The Tour, three days of Star Trek geekiness and Harry and I loved every minute.

Another high was getting my first job for a network show, America’s Toughest Jobs aired on NBC for one season only but it was a fun experience and it lead to my current job on Deadliest Catch for Discovery.

And a really good high was the election of Barack Obama for our next President of the United States. Not only because he is our first black President and a Democrat it’s because when he talks you actually believe him. Many from the JFK generation said when he spoke he moved you. That is how I felt for the first time listening to Obama speak. Great things are ahead for this country.

And with that said now to the lows of 2008. Of course the biggest low at least for me personally is the passing of Prop 8, the gay marriage ban in California. This fight is far from over, one day folks will understand that all people should have equal rights.

Another low is our economy, people losing their jobs, houses and retirement funds. This hasn’t effect me directly but it has affected many of my friends and family.

Luckily for me the highs have outweighed the lows and 2008 was a pretty great year.

With a new President let’s hope he can start to re-build this great country of ours.. only time will tell.

Happy New Years Eve

Today Harry and I were invited to a friends for a New Years Eve party. Neither Harry or I are into big groups of people or parties but we thought it would be fun. But at the last minute I wasn't feeling so hot and Harry was having some tooth pain so we decided to stay home and celebrate the new year with just the two of us and Daisy. It was a quiet but nice night.

Happy New Years.. 2009 is going to ROCK!!!!

Star Trek The Tour

Today I started working on editing together some of the video from our wonderful three trip to Long Beach for Star Trek The Tour back in February 08. We took over three hours of video and watching it now brings back such great memories. Harry and I are such geeks.. we had such a wonderful time. If you want to see the videos you can go to my You tube video page and watch them there.. I have a few up now but plan on putting up more as I get them done...

Episode Five of The Guild

The Guild episode five is up on MS video.. check it out here.

Being Sick and needing Serenity

I've been sick on and off the past few weeks.. it's a cold that just won't leave. Well today it was at it's worse and I was feeling horrible. So I decided to rest on the couch in front of our new 60" big screen TV and watch one of my all time favorite movies Serenity. If you don't know it is, look it up online. It's a movie made from one of the best yet very short lived TV series called Firefly. It's from the wonderful mind of Joss Whedon.

It was exactly what the doctor ordered.. I relaxed, sat back and watched a fantasic movie.

I hope I feel better soon....

Re-Digitizing The Guild

After the lose of my hard drive I had to start re-digitizing the 50+ hours of footage I shot for The Guild BTS. It's a slow process but I should be done in a week or so and I can start cutting together some cool BTS pieces for the DVD. Wish me luck that my drive doesn't crash again.

Dr. Horrible DVD

Today I was finally able to sit down and watch the Dr. Horrible DVD extras and listen to the commentary and I LOVED IT.

First of all if you don't know what this is you can go here and watch it for free.

If you are a Joss Whedon fan then you already know how AWESOME this show is. But what is extra special about this DVD is there is a commentary track that's called Commentary: The Musical and cast and crew sing their commentary while the show is playing.. it's totally cool. There is also a "regular" commentary which is also very fun. There are few BTS pieces and a very cool Evil League of Evil section where fans sent in videos of their characters. Some of them were so cool and interesting.

I know you can watch this show online for free.. but it's worth every penny of the $9.99 to buy the DVD and support such a cool and innovated project.

More Guildie Stuff

Success.. I was finally able to get the three Guild videos uploaded to my You Tube channel. The picture quality is okay but the more important part is listening to the singing. Later in the day I uploaded the videos directly to watchtheguild.com website and the picture quality was 100 times better, you can see them here. All in all I think the videos turned out pretty good... even the one that has me singing on it.

Guildie Stuff

Today I worked on getting The Guild mini wrap party karaoke videos up on you tube for all too see. First of all the clips were too long, you tube has a limit of 10 minutes now so I had to cut them up. I also wanted to have a high enough picture quality but the file couldn't be over 1gig. After lots of attempts and staying up till after 2am I finally gave up and went to bed.. I vowed to work on it the next day.

Dr. Horrible DVD and CD

Today I got my Dr. Horrible Sing Along Blog DVD and CD from Amazon.. I can't wait to sit down and watch/listen to Commentary the Musical and watch all the extras.. The Hammer is my Penis...

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Everyone...

Today Harry, Daisy and I went to my mom and step dads and had Christmas breakfast and opened gifts. Besides my mom and stepdad, my grand mother was there as well as my brother and sister-in-law. Mom and Chuck got me my new podcasting microphone and audio usb mixer... it's very cool.

Around 3pm we headed over to my Dad, who lives with my brother and sister-in-law and we opened a ton of presents and then had a very yummy Christmas Turkey dinner with all the trimmings.

It was a long but fun day.. everyone had a very merry Christmas.

Gift Exchange

Merry Christmas Eve..

Tonight Harry and I exchanged gifts for each other. There weren't many gifts to exchange since our big gift to ourselves was our 60" Big Screen TV.. which we love. We got additional DVD's and clothes. We also opened the gifts that Harry's family had sent up for Xmas. They got us this awesome pet vaccum, Harry Potter A History book, Friends Seasons DVD and a flood light for outback. We videotaped the whole thing so Harry can show his family later. All in all it was a quiet night.

The Guild Episode 4 & Gag Reel

They posted The Guild episode 4 and a gag reel from the first three episode up on MS Video. http://is.gd/9Zjj . I did a BT S piece for this episode but I'm not sure when they are going to post that.. I'll keep you all updated.

Please Don't Divorce Campaign

My friend Chris sent me this link. It's a photo campaign for folks to post pictures of you, your spouse, husband, wife, kids, family holding signs asking "people" not to divorce my mom's or dad's. There are some amazing pictures and my heart swells with pride to be part of such a loving community. Check it out here.

DVD Screeners

One of the reasons I joined the PGA (Producer's Guild of America) was to get DVD screeners during the award season. Here is what I have gotten so far. The Tale of Despereaux, The Reader, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Milk, Madagascar 2, The Dark Knight, The Wrestler, Gran Torin, Changeling, The Visitor, Rachel Getting Married, Kung Fu Panda, Wall-E, Frost/Nixon, Slumdog Millionaire, Defiance, Bolt, Doubt and Revolutionary Road.

It's all about the Jeep

Today I got up super early 6:30am and dropped off the Jeep to the jeep dealer and then went to the car rental place to pick up my rent-a-car. While there the dealer called and informed me what the problem was. Beside they fact that my dash cluster is bad (which I already knew and it would cost $1200 to fix) there was a bad sensor throttle and to replace it would cost about $260.00. Which was better then the $700 I spent a few months ago and the $2000 I spent a year ago fixing this jeep. Many ask why I keep putting money into this thing and I tell them that I'm still paying on it and I have no choice. Having a jeep is great but I was warned that they could become a money pit.. and that is becoming very true as of late. The good thing is my car would be ready by 10:30am but I was already at work and rented a car so I am going to pick it up tomorrow morning.

The Tales of Despereaux

Today for TV night we watched The Tales of Despereaux. I had gotten the DVD screener that day. This movie is based on a best selling Children's novel.

The movie is cute but there is something missing and I can't put my finger on it. It's not a blockbuster type of movie. The characters are very well done and endearing and I liked the story, but it was just missing something. I enjoyed the way the story was told.. following four different charactera then all coming together at the end. I didn't love it but I will defiantly watch it again, as it's a very cute movie.

A Sad Day for Us Trekkies

Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the widow of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry, has died. She was 76. Roddenberry, an actress who appeared in numerous "Star Trek" TV shows and movies, died Thursday of leukemia at her home in Bel-Air, Calif.

At Roddenberry's side were family friends and her only son, Eugene Roddenberry Jr. Gene Roddenberry died in 1991.

Her romance with Roddenberry earned her the title "The First Lady of Star Trek." A fixture in the "Star Trek" franchise, her roles included Nurse Christine Chapel in the original "Star Trek," Lwaxana Troi in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (Pictured Above) and the voice of the USS Enterprise computer in almost every spin-off of the 1966 cult series. She recently reprised the voice role in the upcoming "Star Trek" film directed by J.J. Abrams.

She was a very kind and sweet lady and always very warm and loving to her fans. This is truly a sad day for us Trekkies.

Could it get any worse.

I must have angered the Gods.. first my 1 TB drive crashes and is broken and I lose a ton of material then when I get in my car this morning and my check engine light comes on and my car starts having some acceleration issues and sounds like wants to die. I manage to get to work and of course it's another crazy day. I finally have some down time and I call the jeep dealer and make an appointment to have my jeep looked at tomorrow morning. I also book a rent a car for a few days not knowing how long the repairs will take. Can't wait for this day to be over... I'm saying that alot lately.