Remodeling - Day Nine

Now that we had our paint we got up early and headed to the house around 10am. Once we got there Danny was hard at work. He was finishing up with windows/holes in the office wall and also working on the fireplace. We chatted for a few and then got to work priming the two accent walls in the living/dining room and area under the bar. All were a southwestern orange and we figured it was best to prime first but before we did that we had to fill in all the nail holes and man were there alot. The previous owners really liked hanging things on the wall. Once the holes were filled and the walls were primed we started to paint both accent walls in the steal blue color. One good thing about replacing the carpets is that we didn't have to worry about laying down a tarp or anything, which saved up time. Danny finished patching up the TV Room walls as well as the outside office walls so this weekend will be spent panting the living/dining rooms in the sandy brown and steal blue colors. Lot's a painting to be done but this weekends painting will be dramatic because it's such a big part of the house.. can't wait to see all this come together.

Danny also laid some tile down on the fireplace so we could see what it looked like.. it's going to be beautiful. Stay Tuned!!!!!

Furniture Shopping

After we got home from the painting sample adventure we headed to Living Spaces. We already lost out on the dining table and bed that we had seen a few weeks prior so we planned to buy this time. A wonderful sales person Heather approached us and with her helped we managed to pick out a dining table (pictured to the left, only the table) and four dining chairs.




She also checked and that there was one more bed that we really liked in the La Mirada store so we got that.






We picked out a love seat and a very funky accent chair and matching pillows and finally we had picked out two very comfy recliners but found out that they only had the one (floor model) so we had to choose another one. Which we did and purchased two electric very comfy recliners for our TV room. After two and a half hours we were done and spent roughly $4500 on our new furniture. We still have to buy two desks, accessories, a day bed, side tables and a couch table.. oh and a new mattress for our new Cal King bed... We were hoping to not spend more then $5000 in new furniture but it looks like we are going to go over a bit.. but hey how often do you buy new furniture, well for me.. never.. so it was so much fun.

After Living Spaces we then went to Home Depot and purchased the paint that we liked for the rest of the house. We also checked out more Laminate flooring and I still went for the one I saw a few days ago and I think Harry is coming around to it too.

Remodeling - Day Eight

Our contractor Danny was out today so we knew nothing had changed from yesterday construction wise.. so we headed up to the house fairly early. When we got up there the sky's were pretty good. There was a haze but i think it was just your typical SoCal haze. There wasn't much smoke in the air and to be honest it looked as though the fires were gone (of course we knew they weren't) but they weren't much of a factor today.

We first pulled off all the blue tape from the Guest Room and of course there was bleeding of the paint as we expected. Some spots were worse then others but for the most part it was all fixable. So Harry and I did a few touch ups here and there. We then went to the TV room and pulled up the tape in there and again the paint bleed through some areas so we did a few touch ups. Both the Guest Room and TV Room are done with exception of the window trim

We started with our main living room/dining room colors. We choose a sandy brown color and a stealy blue for the accent colors. We painted them on the wall and both Harry and I knew these were the colors we wanted. They looked great together and gave the feel that we wanted for those rooms.

We then put up the two kitchen colors that we choose.. it's a bold color for a kitchen but we opted for the brighter of the two (the one on the right) and then we painted the living room colors to see if they would all match since the rooms open to each other. And the all looked great together.

Next was the office, my buddy Greg is going to paint a Star Trek mural for us on one of the walls and it's going to be in space meaning a black wall so we wanted a bright color on the rest of the walls. We choose this blue but once on it felt too baby blue and I couldn't imagine that color on all the remaining walls. So we selected another more grey/blue and will get a sample for that later tonight.

Our master bedroom colors were the brown on the right and the wine as an accent and we liked the colors together but we felt that both of those colors would make the room much darker then we intended so instead we pulled the taupe color from our master bath room and made that our main color for our bedroom with the win accents.. and we really like that combination.

The guest bathroom already has the yellow.. which we like but we wanted to bring in an accent color and I don't know what we were thinking but the purple was so not what we wanted and we felt it would look to feminine.

So we took the light blue color that we didn't like for the office and the wine accent color from our master bedroom and painted those on the yellow to see if we liked any combination of those.. and we did.. we liked the yellow with the wine color so that will be the accent color for the guest bathroom.

Last and the hardest room to choose a color was our master bathroom. We had bought the taupe but really didn't like it with the tile and counter of the room. We took the brown that we intended for the master bedroom but that too didn't work with the tile and counter. So we tried the sandy color from the living/dining room and didn't like it.. so we are at a stand still when it comes to paint in our master bedroom. We want to keep the tile and counters because we like them (and cost) but we just need to find the perfect color to compliment them.

So out of all those colors we liked the majority of them and will be buying gallons of paint tomorrow and starting to have fun painting again.

It's All About the Color

Today we spent most of it at home because of the toilet thing and we wanted to pack up some stuff here at the rental. We did get up to the house around 2pm at which time our contractor was leaving for the day. We didn't have really anything to do up there because we had finished painting the day before and we couldn't paint any other rooms because construction was happening in them and we hadn't picked out the paint yet. So that is what we did. We went through each room and selected paint colors that we liked. We already made several mistake by buy a gallon of paint and then realizing you don't like it or it doesn't fit the room and wasting money.. so this time we planned on purchasing small sample paint to see if we like them first. So it took about three to four hours to go from room to room and select what colors we liked.

Once we got home we dropped off Daisy at the rental and then went to Home Depot to purchase samples of all the colors we decided on. Will paint samples on the walls tomorrow and see if we really like the color combinations that we choose. While at home depot we also checked out sinks and vanities for the guest bathroom and the Bamboo flooring that we really liked. Unfortunately we wanted a darker floors and the Bamboo only came in the light wood color (though you could strip and stain it). So we started looking at Laminate wood flooring and most of it looked fake but there were a few that we thought would work and one that I really loved that was darker and more rustic looking. Harry wasn't convinced but he did like it.. will have to keep looking. Oh forgot to mention we are re-flooring out TV room as well since it's kind of opened up to the living and dining room.

Surprise!!!

Well it's 7am and like most morning I have to get up and use the bathroom. As I leave the bedroom I hear this high pitch sound, of course I'm half asleep and I'm trying to figure out what is going wrong but it only takes a minute before I step into the bathroom and into two inches of water. Suddenly it's like being woken out of a deep sleep.. I spring into the action and walk over to the toilet and notice that the tube that goes from the wall to the back of the toilet has come off and water if firing out hitting the wall and bouncing up to the ceiling. I quickly turn off the main water and survey the damage. Besides the two inches of water on the bathroom floor the entire hall carpet is soaked. I quickly grab some towels and drop them on the carpet to try and pick up some of the water. I then attempted to take a cup and bucket and gather the water off the bathroom floor but soon discover that this is pretty useless. So I run to Ralphs to rent a wet vac and vacuum up the water. So about 45 minutes later I'm sucking up a ton of water from the carpet and bathroom. Of course alot of the water went through cracks in the floor and started bubbling up the laminate floor. But I did my best to clean it up. It's still damp and it's starting to smell musty but I'm hoping everything will work out.. it's not how I imagined starting my morning but life sometimes throws you curve balls. Our toilet is operational but you have to turn on the main valve to fill it up every time you flush and when it's not in use turn it off because the tube is back on but is loosely fit. The owner of the house will be coming by this weekend to fix.

Remodeling - Day Seven

Today we got a rather late start. When we left our rental in Reseda it was completely overcast / smokey, but considerably more humid than the past few days. The increased humidity should help the firefighters battling the Station Fire. When we were driving up north the smoke was so thick that you couldn’t even tell that there were foothills around. On the 14 the air quality got so bad, that we had get our air through the AC only. When we got off Sierra Highway exit air quality started to improve. Once we got to the house the air quality was sorta acceptable. You still could smell the smoke in the air, but there were no billow’s of smoke visible, and that's always a good sign.

We talked with our contractor Danny about the way we wanted to have the tiles in the bathroom and on the fireplace. We also were talking to him about having the the carpet in the Living and Dining Room torn out and replaced with Bamboo flooring. Yesterday we found some nice Bamboo flooring at Home Depot that we liked for a really reasonable price. We haven’t made any final decision about that yet, but it looks like we will end up doing bamboo flooring in the Living and Dining Room.

Later we dealt with some touch up work in the Guest Room (Green room). While we were doing that the air quality got worse and worse. You barely could see the ridge in front of our house and Sierra Highway was nearly invisible. It pretty much looked like as if the entire Western Angeles National Forest was on fire. But I knew that wasn’t the case since Harry was keeping informed about the fire situation online. It’s great having a working Internet at our new house. The sound of Super Scoopers and helicopters flying back and forth to the fire line and dousing the flames helps to keep your mind somewhat at ease. The reason that the smoke got so thick was that we got the wind out of the south east during the afternoon hours (Acton area) where currently a lot of the active wildfire action is happening. Once the helicopters had completed a lot of their water drops, the air quality started to improve significantly. But we persisted and finished painting the nook in the Guest Bedroom the same color of the accent wall.

By the time we were done for the day, the air quality had pretty much returned to normal and no smoke billows were visible anywhere. We still didn’t want to take the chances so we packed up Harry's truck with more of my toys that we wanted to bring back to our rental in Reseda… just to be on the safe side. When we got home Harry checked the latest Fire Perimeter Map and it turns out the the north flank of the fire appears to be pretty stable and that the Northern Fire Perimeter is still south of Soledad Canyon Road. In essence that means that there are still at least between 10 and 11 miles between the Station Fire and our house. That certainly puts our minds at ease… But you never say never with fires.. could change at any moment.

Ok time for bed.. remodeling is hard work.

Remolding - Day Six

Today didn’t quite start out the way that we had initially planned. We had planned to leave around 9.30 am but when we checked out the Station Fire conditions allegedly the Sierra Highway had been closed. According to that Info there was no way for us to get into town. Shortly after we had found out that our Contractor (Danny) had gotten there via an alternate route. So Harry checked with CalTrans and got no info about road closures, so we decided to drive up to the house and see if we could make it. Turns out that the story about the road closures, that we had read online, was greatly exaggerated. We got to the house without any problems and it looked even better than the day before. There was hardly any smoke visible, most of the smoke was to the northeast (Acton area). Of course here and there you could see dark smoke rising but you could see the large fixed wing air crafts as well. Certainly makes you feel better.

When we got to the house we saw that our contractor had made a lot of progress. He had started prepping the 2 holes in the walls of the office, removed the tile from the fireplace that we want to have refinished, taken the carpet out of the bathroom and dismantled most of the built in’s in the bedroom. I was very impressed with the progress he made. While our contractor was working on other stuff Harry and I put a second coat of paint on the accent wall in Guest Room. And later we put a 3rd coat of paint on the remaining 3 walls in the Guest Room. After that was done we painted the closet doors in the color of the accent color. I have friends who ask why we continue to paint and have a contractor doing work when the house could possible burn down. But both Harry and I look at is as we have to keep positive. The house is currently in no danger and we have to move by the end of September. Positive thinking will lead to a positive outcome... But just in case it doesn’t we brought some of my toys and some of the stuff that is irreplaceable back to our rental house in Reseda. Tomorrow we will assess if we take more of the stuff back to Reseda or not. That will depend on how the wildfire is behaving.

By the time we left there was no smoke visible. Apparently the firefighters have made some progress. Additionally the wind had been blowing all afternoon long in a north east direction. That means it had been driving the fire away from our house and we are very happy about that. On the other hand there are still 11 miles between the fire and our house and the fire is still in the hills above Acton.

I guess that's it for today report.. will keep you updated on our house progress and the wildfires.

Panic

Today when I got up I was reading on twitter that Agua Dulce was under mandatory evacuation. My heart dropped and I immediately went online to find out more info. The "Station" wildfire is out of control and is moving closer to Acton and at a slower pace it's moving north west and that is where Agua Dulce is located. The closed the Agua Dulce off ramp on the 14 freeway so the only way you could get into the city was through Sierra Hwy. It seems that the east side of the city is under mandatory evacuation but where we live is not. So I spent the morning cleaning and continuing to pack up stuff but checking the news often to find out the status of the fire.

Around 2pm Harry and I decided to go up to the house and check everything out. When we got up there is actually looked better then it did yesterday but there was alot of smoke north of us (in Acton) but our place looked okay. It eased my mind a bit. The fire was still 11 miles or so away from us. We didn't do any painting and we also didn't bring anything else up to the house (just to be safe). We cleaned up the place a bit as the contractor will be starting tomorrow.

We headed home and I continue to clean and pack. We plan on going back up tomorrow and start painting once again. Of course I listen to the evening news and it made me worry about the house again.. but to be honest there really is nothing we can do.. just hope the firemen stop this fire before is reaches us.

But I guess living in the hills we need to get use to this.. but I don't think I ever will.

I'll keep you all posted.

More Packing and Cleaning

Today we stayed home (rental) and continued to clean and pack up this place. Bill (the owner) said he was placing ads about the rental and that he would want to show people the house. And I would be super embarrassed if they saw it like this. We have stuff all over the place as things are half packed and dumped in corners.. so today I cleaned the kitchen from top to bottom, finished the bathroom that Harry started yesterday, finished cleaning and packing the living room and did a little bit more packing of my toy room. All in all it was a good day of packing.

The scary part of today was this "Station" wildfire that is slowly moving in the direction of Acton which is next to Agua Dulce (where our new home is). We look to be okay but it's still very scary.. Let's hope everything works out.

Remodeling - Day Five

Another early day, got lots moved over as we packed up Harry's truck every time we go up. Once there we did a second coat on the Guest Bedroom and did a first coat on the Guest bathroom. Also our contractor Danny stopped by to pick up the tile and go over other construction things, as he is starting on Monday at 6am. We talked about the fireplace and he suggested putting wood over it to make it look more rustic as this was something I wanted and I loved the idea.. so now we are doing that also. So construction wise we are getting the office windows drywalled up. getting the carpet taken up and tile laid down in the master bathroom. Removing the two side closet built-in's in the master bedroom and having the fireplace re-faced and tiled. Along with Harry and I painting every room. Today while at our new place the air got so smokey you would think that there were fires all round us, but fortunately they were miles away and the wind was blowing our way. I had to drive home to grab my check book and had to drive through a down pour of ash. Harry also said there was ash falling at our house. It's a fact of living in the hills that fire are fairly common.. let's just hope they are never close to us. So things are moving along nicely.. hopefully in a few weeks everything will be done and by that time almost everything will be moved over to the new house so we can set everything up and move in full time.

Remodeling - Day Four

Today we got an early start and headed out around 9 am. We got to the house around 10 am. After unpacking the truck we started setting up all the paint stuff in the Guest Bedroom. We still had to paint the borders and corners of the 3 walls we had painted yesterday and on top of that we had 2 window frames to paint. After we were done with that Harry and I headed to Lowe’s to pick up more paint and paint supplies. While we were at Lowe's we finally decided on the tiles for the Fireplace and the Bathroom. Both of us really liked the tile we choose.. the fireplace is going to be AWESOME. After Lunch we started setting up the TV Room for another coat of paint. To our surprise the second coat of paint went fairly quickly and actually covered the walls. So it only took two coats and the TV Room is complete and I have to say looks great. Around 5 pm Harry and I headed back to Reseda to get some more packing done. While I continued with the Toy Room, Harry started packing up his Desk in the Office. All in all it was a good day.

KOTG Microcast #6 - Quest for the Music Video

KOTG Microcast #6 Quest for the Music Video

This is a special Maxi-Microcast about the Hit music video from Felicia Day ‘Do you want to date my Avatar’ Both Jenni and i worked on set during the filming of this.

For this microcast:

• We talk to Greg Aronowitz, who created and built the Weapons used in the music video

• We then have audio and written fan feedback about the video
• And finally Jenni and I talk about our experience working on set during the 14 hour shoot.

Hope you enjoy it…

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Cleaning up the Rental

Today we took a break from painting our new house to work on our rental. They will be showing it to potential renter and it needs a good cleaning. We also did a bunch of errands that we have been putting off because of the new house. I also edited and released a new podcast. I miss the new house but it was nice to do something different.. but back to painting the house tomorrow..

Remodeling - Day Three

Today we got up, packed up the truck and headed to our house. But first we had two stops. First stop was our escrow company up in Valencia. We had to pick up a check for overages that we paid at closing. Unfortunately they dropped the check in the mail just a half hour before. So we left there and headed to Lowe's. We needed to buy more paint for the TV Room and while we were there I picked up another three paints, one for our master bathroom and two for our guest room.

Once at the house, we unloaded the truck and started painting by finishing up the window frame and the remaining wall in the TV Room. Once that was done I started taping off the Guest Room, while Harry did some touch-up work with the first 2 walls in the TV Room. We had planned to do the guest bathroom next but I decided that there would be less taping and I really wanted to get at least one room done.

While we were doing that, Mike, the Internet guy, stopped by to set up the Internet. He uses our hill side for a tower that feeds the valley below and because he uses our hill and electricity we get free internet. Once he was done we were eager to check out how fast the Internet was since he said it's faster then dial up but not quite as fast as DSL or Cable. This worried Harry and I but we were both surprised at the speed. One thing going for us was that we have our very own connection. So there are no other users on our line.

Once we both checked our Twitter we got back to work. Harry finished up the TV Room and I continued to tape off the guest room. The TV Room now has one complete coat, with exception to the area near the base board that had drywall damage. We have to let everything completely dry before putting on another coat. Harry then moved into the guest room and painted as I finished up the taping of baseboards. Once I was done there I helped with the trim work. We got the three walls covered with one coat (there is an accent wall that we did not do). But we were happy with our progress. We now know that painting is tough. It's tiring and take lots of patience and time. Well get it done.. might be a few weeks.. but will get it done and it will look great.

Remodeling - Day Two

Today we are up, packed and out the door by 10am. We planned to finish the TV Room and get a start on the guest bathroom. When we got there the paint was alot darker and looked good. It needed a few touch ups here and there but both Harry and I jumped in and started painting. Around 1pm our contractor Danny stopped by to go over everything that we wanted to do to the house. That took about an hour. Both Harry and I knew we had alot of property 2 1/2 aches but when walking around with Danny and standing on hillsides looking down at it, it hits you on how much 2 1/2 aches really is. Once Danny left we were hungry and needed to also pick up some more paint supplies. So we headed to Lowe's once again and on our way back found one of our favorite fast foods El Pollo Loco so we picked up some lunch. Once we were finished eating we continued to paint the TV-Room. And once again daylight started to disappear and we had to call it a night. We were almost one with 1 coat on all the walls. The painting looks so easy.. and HGTV makes it look like it can be done in hours.. this is day two and we are still finishing up just 1 coat on 1 room. Maybe will finish it tomorrow.. but I'm not making any promises.

Remodeling - Day One

Wow.. what a day.. now that we got the house we want to paint and do some small construction remodels before we actually move in mid September. We planned to be on the road at 10am but I figured since we would be at the new house for the next few weeks the majority of the time that we needed to go food shopping. So instead of heading up to the house we went food shopping. After we got back and split up the groceries between our rental and our house we got back on the road. We also agreed that when we drive up we will always take a load of boxes with you.. so we loaded up Harry's truck, but before we could head north I have to go to Kim Evey's (The Guild) Producer and return the BTS camera I was using for shooting season three. Once we dropped off the camera we head up north to our new house. We got there around 1:30pm and unloaded the truck. We then had to make a trip to Lowe's (the closest hardware store) but first we wanted to teach Daisy about the doggie door that lead out to a small enclosed area for to do her business. Well she figured it out fairly quickly but our little "Houdini" also figured out how to squeeze through a gap at the top and get out which she attempted as we were leaving. So we had to leave in inside the house until we were able to block that exit.

We get to Lowe's and head to the paint department, we try and find the matching colors that we had picked up from Home Depot but couldn't find the exact colors (we had previously gone through the house and picked out colors for all the rooms). I remember that they can color match so we asked if they could match these color, they said of course and that it would take ten minutes. During this time we walked around and picked up other painting supplies like, rollers, brushes, etc...

By the time we got out of Lowe’s we were both starving and looked for something to eat. We found a Carls Jr. that was on our way home. We headed back home and were greeted by a totally overexcited Daisy. By the time we were done with our lunch and started working it was about 5 pm... where did the day go?? We pretty much knew that we wouldn’t finish the room, but we wanted to get as much as prep work done as possible. The first room we decided on painting was our TV Room. We went with a darker color called Butternut Wood but it looks more like a dark Olive Green. Both Harry and I really like it. We figure it's the TV room so a dark color would be best. There were these plastic strips that covered the cable running along the baseboard that we didn't want. So we went to pull them off. They were being held on by double stick tape and when pulled off took off some drywall as well. So I attempted to patch up some of the damage while Harry started taping off the six windows. I came to realize that my patch work wasn't going to work and that we would talk to our construction guy about fixing it so I started to paint, I wanted to a little paint on the walls to see what it looked like. I started with the Window surroundings. About and hour later we had to stop, because we ran out of daylight, we had 2 window frame painted. The day didn't go exactly as planned and we didn't get nearly as much done as I was hoping but it was still a great day working on improving OUR house. Can't get any better than that. Going back tomorrow and hoping to finish the TV Room and if were lucky our guest bathroom.

Blizzcon Day 2

After a wonderful morning I was on a high, but that was soon gone as I hit traffic driving to Anaheim and Blizzcon. I had a shift at The Guild's booth from 3pm to 8pm. Traffic was horrible, but I got there around 3:15 but then had to find parking as all the lots were full. I finally found something miles away so I didn't get to The Guild booth until 3:30pm. I got excited again about getting my keys and folks kept congratulating me as I showed them the actual key.

The booth was packed with Guild fans. The signing was fun, meet several folks who said how much they enjoy my Twitter feed. And at 5pm I was asked to run the raffle (The Guild was giving away 4 Zune MP3 players). I had Jeff (Vork) and Robin (Clara) pull the names out of Vork's deep fryer. That was a lot of fun. After that there was the cast's final signing. There was a new Cast photo/poster that a fan did for The Guild and I wanted a copy signed by everyone so I did that. I also got a picture with each cast member because I take 1000's of photos of the cast and crew but there are so very few pictures of me on set and none with the cast members. After the signing everyone helped break down the booth and Blizzcon 2009 was over. Jenni and I finished our podcast and she drove me to my car and I headed home.

Tomorrow we got to our new house and start painting.

Keys

Today Harry and I went to the Seller's Realtor at 9am to picked up our keys to our new house. We headed over to the house to check it out as we hadn't seen it in almost three months. We get to the front door and I finally allowed myself to get excited. It was over, all the stress and crap we had to put up with was over. The house was ours and no one could take it away. I am now a property owner (never thought I would be able to be one.. Thanks Sweetie)

The house looks completely different empty compared to when it had all the seller's furniture in it. We walked from room to room and check out ever corner.. the walls were a little worse then I remember but luckily we planned on painting everything. After going through everything we then went from room to room and planed out what colors we wanted on the wall and where we want the furniture. It was a lot of fun trying to decorate our home, luckily Harry and I have pretty much the same taste when it comes to paint colors.

We also brought Daisy up for the first time so she could check out her new pad.. not sure she liked it but she'll get use to it. We couldn't say long as I was working The Guild booth later that day in Blizzcon. But we planned to come back tomorrow and start painting.. So we grabbed some lunch and headed home.

Knights of the Guild Ep7 pt2

Knights of the Guild Episode 7 Part 2

Show Notes:

Here it is Episode 7 part 2 of Knights of the Guild. We hope you enjoy it.

Today’s show features:

• First up we have our monthly Vorkism.
• Our location today is at Codex’s apartment, this time for a Thank you Dinner
• For our BTS segment we discuss our experience working on Season Two Episode Nine: Grouping Up.
• Then we have part 2 of our interview with the one and only Felicia Day

• We have our Fan Feedback.
• We ask for Donations and Thank those who already donated.
• Mention important links
• 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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We Got The House!!!

When I got back to my car after spending the day at Blizzcon I plugged in my cell phone as it died around 3pm and of course I had a ton of messages but two were urgent. One from my Mary our Realtor and the other from Harry. They called around 4pm and both left me message.. like "I don't know where you are but you loan has closed, you can pick up you keys, you got the house." Of course it was almost 5:30pm when I got this and I was in Anaheim and the Escrow is in Valencia I knew there was no way we would get the keys today. But I found out that the seller's Realtor had the keys and said we could pick them up tomorrow morning.

I still wouldn't allow myself to get excited. It was a long and hard process and I didn't want to allow myself to be happy until I was holding the keys in my hands.. which will be tomorrow morning at 9am.

Blizzcon Day 1

Today was Blizzcon Day 1. I was asked to help with The Guild's booth and of course I said yes. My shift was 10am to 2:30pm. It was a lot of fun. I'm not a gamer so I was there just for The Guild and to support them. Met lots of fans and sold lots of Guild stuff. After my time at the booth it was time to get ready for The Guild panel. I was lucky enough to go back stage with the cast and wait for them to go on stage. While we waited I took the opportunity to interview some of the cast for a special KOTG microcast. After the panel, which was Fantastic.. I went back to my car to head home. My cell had died around 3pm so I plugged it in and had several urgent messages.

Transformers 2

I finally saw Transformers 2 today with Harry and my Dad. I really enjoyed it, it was what I expected. Action, action and more action. I actually liked it better then the first one as I felt it had more of a story. Of course there were plot holes in the story but they didn't bother me. It was just a fun roller coaster ride.. can't wait for #3

Finally Signing the Papers

Wow.. what a day. I was told, through my "loan specialist" that it was possible that we would be signing the papers to our loan today at 3pm.. well I had not heard from anyone so I assumed it wasn't happening. Well I get a call from my Realtor Mary saying URGENT!!! you need to get to escrow and sign those papers ASAP!!!!

I guess they did schedule a notary for 3pm but failed to call me and let me know. Now it's 3:30pm and the escrow company is in Valencia. So I quickly get dressed, wake up Harry who was taking nap and we rush out of the house heading up north. Of course it's Wednesday and I knew there would be traffic and I was told that I had to sign everything by 5pm. So flew down side streets trying to find the least congested route. We arrived at the Escrow company around 4:15pm. Later Harry told me I was driving like a maniac but I got us there in one piece.

We sit down with the Notary, Steve and we start to go through the paperwork. I have to say I was told that this is the most stressful part of the process but after our 90+ days of hell this was the best part. Steve was so funny and we laughed alot. After a half hour we were done.. all the paperwork was signed. All that was left was giving them a cashiers check for our down payment. Luckily there was a BofA down the streets so we quickly went over and pulled out the biggest check I have every given to anyone and went back to drop it off. They were going to try and rush everything through but the loan still needs to go back to BofA for approval, then be recorded with the county register office and then the loan needs to be funded by BofA and only then would we get the keys.. They hope to get all this done in the next two days and we can get the keys on Friday... Here's hoping.

PS.. I was in such a hurry that I left my camera at home.. but Notary Steve took a picture of us and I'm hoping to get a copy of that.

Don't want to get my hopes up.. But!!!!

This morning when I woke up there was an email from my "loan specialist" informing me that the case number has been approved and that she sent this information to the underwriter who will now complete the loan documents. According to our loan specialist we should close by the afternoon (this just shows you that she really has no idea what the process is). Now the loan documents go to Escrow where I will sign and approve them. Then they go back to the lender where they are recorded and finalized. At the same time I will wire the escrow company our down payment and fees which will take a day and after all that is done the loan will close and we will officially own the house. Not going to happen in six hour as our loan specialist thinks.. if we are lucky it can be done by Friday.. if not early next week. Needless to say I don't want to get to excited as we are on our 90+ day of our 60 day planned escrow. I'll celebrate when the keys are in my hand. But at least it seems to be moving in the right direction.

Tackling the Garage pt. 2

Well after all the craziness of The Guild video. I spent most of the day online promoting the video I did manage to get back into the garage and do some more cleaning up. I'm happy with the amount of work that I did. I have now gone through the majority of the garage stuff. There is still one corner that I have to attack later but I should it done with one more day of work on it.

Our First Interview

It's been a crazy day with all The Guild stuff going on. But later in the night Jenni came over to my place to record our microcast about The Guild's new music video "Do you want to date my Avatar". While Jenni was here we did an interview for a podcast called Joss'd. This was our first interview and it was kind of strange since we are normally the ones who are doing the interviewing. But we had alot of fun. After that we recorded our podcast and had a special crew interview with Greg Aronowitz ( he created the weapons for The Guild music video. )

Seeing the Light

Well today I got an email from our "loan specialist" informing me that the new case number still hasn't been approved. They did say it could take up to 48 hours. She thinks it will be approved tomorrow... here's hoping.

The Guild Music Video

Today The Guild released their AWESOME music video for the general public. "Do You Want to Date my Avatar" I shot all the behind the scenes video for this music video. It was one of the best shot day I have had on The Guild set.

Let's support The Guild by buying the MP3 from Amazon.com http://bit.ly/amazonavatar or the actually video from itunes http://bit.ly/itunesvideo

Being The Guild they also released it for free on You Tube.

Tackling the Garage

Today was my second attempt at tackling the garage. I really want to go through all that stuff and make sure it's 1 packed and ready to move and 2 it's worth packing and moving. I didn't get started until mid-afternoon and around 2 I was getting hungry so I stopped to have some lunch.. well that was a mistake. I wound up hanging out with Harry and watching TV the rest of the day leaving the garage half done. Oh well still haven't heard anything about the house so we still don't know exactly when we will be moving. I'll attempt it again tomorrow.

KOTG Contest #1

My Knights of the Guild podcast is running a contest.. here are the details below.

After the Guild panel at Comic Con the cast went to sign at the Xbox booth where they were giving out these really cool picture of The Guild cast in their avatar outfits. Of course I grabbed a few for our Knights of the Guild podcast to give away as prizes, large donations and even put one on ebay to raise money for a charity.

Well here is the first chance to get your hands on one of these really nice photos and it's not only autographed by all six of the main cast members (Felicia, Sandeep, Jeff, Robin, Amy and Vince) but I got Tara (Dena), Michele (Riley) and Sean Becker (Director) to sign them as well. So you get nine autographs.

This photo is 11x17

Now for contest details:

Jenni and I want you do an audio or video promo for Knights of the Guild podcast. We will choose one winner that we feel best promotes the podcast. The winning promo will be used to promote Knights of the Guild on other podcasts.

Please make the promo between 30 to 90 seconds.

We are giving you no direction and/or guidelines, we want to see what you can come up with.

Please email all entries to Knightsoftheguild@gmail.com

Contest deadline will be October 1st.

Okay Guildies lets see what you can come up with... good luck

Knights of the Guild Ep 7 pt.1

Knights of the Guild Episode 7 Part 1

Show Notes:

Here it is Episode 7 part 1 of Knights of the Guild. You may have noticed the part 1, will explain that in the podcast. We hope you enjoy it.

Today’s show features:

• First up we have our monthly Vorkism.
• Our location today is at Codex’s Apartment (post party)
• We talk about Season Three… finally
• We have our Fan interview with Poknish

• We update you on the Cast and Crew and what they currently are up too.
• We have our very special cast interview with the one and only Felicia Day

• Mention important links
• 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

Other Important Links

• Knights of the Guild Feeds/Downloads http://knightsoftheguild.com
• Knights of the Guild Daily Blog http://knightsoftheguildpodcast.blogspot.com/
• Knights of the Guild Fan page on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group
• Knights of the Guild Group on Watchtheguild.com http://community.watchtheguild.com/group
• Follow us on twitter @knightsofguild

• Knights of the Guild Cafe Press Online Shop : Where you can buy KOTG T-shrits, magnets, buttons and so much more. http://www.cafepress.com/KOTG

• Robin on Movie Mobs http://www.reelzchannel.com/moviemob
• Legend of Neil http://www.effinfunny.com/legend-of-neil
• The Guild http://watchtheguild.com
• Geekerdome Network http://geekerdome.com
• Between the Lines Studio Podcast Network http://Betweenthelinesstudio.com
• Kim and Greg’s tour of The Guild’s Stripper Bus at Comic Con http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsbDse-2YIU
• Stephine Rose “Movie” Closed for the Season www.closedfortheseasonmovie.com
• Stephine Rose Close for the Season Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN0SpX0-TxE
• Michele Boyd’s episode of Penny Dreadfuls “Sleeping Beauty” http://www.strike.tv/show/penny-dreadfuls
• PAX http://www.paxsite.com/
• Dragon*Con http://www.dragoncon.org/
• Fury of Solace http://furyofsolace.com/
• Dani’s Comic Con Reports http://guildies.posterous.com/

Podcast Promo’s played during the show this week:

• Waffle on
• Anomaly
• Take Him With You
• Treks in Sci Fi
• The Ready Room Podcast
• Worlds of Wayne

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Just got back from watching G.I. Joe. Over thoughts it was a fun movie. It's what I expected, action packed, cool special effects, a very simple story and lots of explosions. I know nothing about the G.I. Joe universe so I don't know how close this is to the real Joe but I didn't have a problem following the story or characters. I think they distinguished the characters well. It was kind of corny on how they did the flashbacks. Each time the person would stare out into space and the camera would zoom in on their face and then the flashback would happen. Once was fine, but I think they did it six or seven times.. every time the camera would stop on a face I thought to myself .. oh they are doing a flashback. Of course all the cool SFX scenes are previewed in the trailer but there is still plenty to oh and ah at. It was funny at times and serious at times. It was a perfect summer popcorn movie. I'll be buying it when it comes out on DVD.

Star Trek: Confusion

This is hilarious.. and what is really funny is I got all the reference.. even Hook.

Star Trek: Confusion

The Variants

Today I came across another fantastic webseries called "The Variants" It's about a group of co-workers at a comic book store. So far they have only released episode 1 but it's a pretty funny start to the series. I like that this series has some gay characters in it and they aren't over the top. I'm really looking forward to episode two.

Check out episode 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V95gTFLKduQ

Finally!!!

Well I don't want to get my hopes up but I got a call from our Realtor who got a call from the only person who is compliant at BofA and she informed up that our FHA case number issue has been closed/resolved. Now we wait 24 to 48 hours from them to issue a new one and then the loan documents can be drawn up (another 3 to 4 days) and sent to escrow in which they will contact us and give us the amount that we owe for closing in which I will wire the money to their account (takes 1 day) and then we go and sign the final paperwork, it's recorded and pick up the keys a few days later and the house is ours. If all goes as planned (which it never does) we should have the keys by the end of next week. But I won't get excited because every time I do something goes wrong. So I'll wait until those keys are in my hand and then I'll jump up on down with joy.

Updating the Website

I spent the better part of today working on one section of my new and improved website Geekyfanboy.com Most the the site has been transferred from the yahoo geocities account but there still are a few links that I need to build. Today I worked on my Star Trek The Tour section. I built 35 pages in Comic Life, then had to reduce them in size on photoshop and then build new pages in MS Frontpage and finally link everything together and upload them. Took all day with breaks here and there but I finally got that section done. Only a few more sections and my new website will be complete.. at least until I decide to change it again.

Home Loan Update

Since our loan specialist is on vacation we have another lady working on our stuff. And after 75 days of dealing with this stuff I got my very first phone call from them. (I've called and left message many times but never got a return phone call.. until today). I was surprised to hear from this new loan specialist. She called just to tell me that the 5 to 7 day delay that then turned into a 10 day delay is now a 12 day delay. Will this every end!!!!

Harry and I went out and had a bed liner put into the back of his truck. Eventually when the house does close we plan on taking some stuff up there in his truck and he didn't want to scratch it up.

Felicia Day Interview

Today Jenni came over to my place so we could do a skype interview with actress, writer, creator of The Guild Felicia Day. She was our special Cast Member interview for Knights of the Guild podcast #7. We started a bit late but the interview was fantastic. Got to ask a lot of cool questions and since Felicia is a friend it was less pressure and was more like three friends just shooting the breeze. After Felicia's interview Jenni and I recorded pick ups to fill in the blanks after splitting episode 7 into two podcasts. Now just a few more editing tweets and cutting in Felicia's interview and Knights of the Guild #7 part 1 & 2 should be ready for release.

I also prepared the show note for both episodes.

Happy Birthday Pops

Today is my Dad's 62nd Birthday.. Hope you have a great day.

Love you.

Lazy Sunday.. Not!!!

So much for a lazy Sunday. Today I started editing Knights of the Guild Episode 7 parts 1 & 2. Since we didn't record them this way will have to do some creative editing. I'm also waiting to do some pick ups with Jenni and our interview with Felicia.

When I wasn't editing Harry and I went out to check out paint colors at Home Depot. Luckily we both have the same tastes in color. We both love the warm earthy colors. Grabbed a bunch of color samples, now if we can only close on this house we can see which colors go where. We also went to Urban Living to check out some furniture. They have a few things that we liked but nothing like Living Spaces.