The Guild BTS

Now that the schedule has been moved up on when my Guild BTS stuff is due I will be focusing all my free time for the next 15 days on finishing these pieces. Today I finished digitizing the rest of the tapes. I now have everything I shot in my system and I can began editing by BTS pieces. Talk about being stressed out, in the end I get these done in time to be put on The Guild season two DVD. Wish me luck...

The Ready Room #50

Got up early even though it's the weekend. I have a lot of things to do today. First up was The Ready Room #50. Recorded with Jen and Rick at 10am, got done around 11am and started to edit the podcast. Being super busy I asked Rick to add music which normally takes me hours to do. I was waiting for several other rpg posts and a song that Rick was creating before I could send it to Rick for music. Well I just finished and have sent it to Rick to add music. Now for the next few weeks I think I'll be stepping down from The Ready Room as I have to focus everything on The Guild BTS.

KOTG Episode 2 is Done

After making a few changes, I finished editing Knights of the Guild Episode 2. Whoo hooo.. I need to work on the show notes and I'll be posting the episode on Sunday 3/15 as scheduled. Actually I'm very excited to post it so it will go up at Saturday/Sunday Midnight. Hope everyone enjoys it.

Famous Last Words

Guess I spoke to soon.. got another email today informing me that yes all the BTS stuff for the Guild DVD is due at the beginning of April. So the next three weekends I'll be doing nothing but editing and try and slip some editing before going to work and when I get home from work. Gonna get this stuff done and looking great.. can't let down my fellow Guildies.

Wish me luck guys...

Happy Anniversary

Six years ago today I got a response to my personal ad on Yahoo personals. It started off Dear Kelly and so began the courtship of Harry and Kenny. It still amazes me that I could find the person I was meant to be with the rest of my life 6000 miles away. It's been a wonderful six years. We've had our ups (getting married) and our downs (immigration issues) but the most important thing is that we have each other and the love we share will get us through anything.

Love you Hubby

More Guildie Goodiness

Okay I got an email today informing me that they don't need all the BTS stuff by the first of April, YAY!!!! they only need one piece from me and that shouldn't be a problem.. Still don't know when the rest will be due but at least it's not due at the beginning of April.

Stressed Out Guildie

Today I got an email and call informing me that the Behind the Scenes specials that I am suppose to cut in the next three months are now due in the next three weeks. Talk about panicking, Luckily I have about 2/3 of the tapes digitized but I haven't had a single moment to look over the footage or start to organize it. I figured I had months to go and could take my time.. well that's not the case. So now the next three weekends I'll be working on The Guild BTS and I won't be able to get everything that I wanted done in time... which is a bummer but stuff I can't finish for the DVD I hope they can put it up on their website or you tube channel.

Must breath.. in... out... in....

Knights of the Guild Episode Two

After a long day at work, Harry and I tried to catch up on some TV as our recorder is beginning to fill up. We watched a few hours then both went to our computers to work, Harry is building his new website and I began editing KOTG podcast #2 which is due this Sunday. I edited from 10pm to 1:30am but manage to get a fairly tight rough cut done. Now I have to add sfx, music and do one final pass and it will be ready for upload on Sunday March 15th.

Grandma in Hospital

Today I got a call from my Mom informing me that my grandmother fell and broke her hip. They planned to do surgery but found out she had in infection running through her body and didn't want to take any chances until they get the infection under control. I tried calling my mom back at lunch time but she couldn't talk as she was in the hospital and was not suppose to use a cell phone. Everything seemed okay but I didn't get the details. I'll have to call her tomorrow and see how everything is going.

Spreading myself to Thin

Again today I was on set shooting BTS of Legend of Neil. This day wasn't as long, got to the stage around 9am and left around 6pm. Another fun day and also my last day of shooting, though they will continue to shoot I was only available to shoot on weekends. :( but it was fun and I have buddy Jenni shooting for me in my absence.

But I have to admit I'm spreading myself a bit too thin, between work, 2 podcasts (The Ready Room and Knights of the Guild), Editing 2 BTS webseries (The Guild and Legend of Neil), building my new website, and playing a Starfleet Captain for a RPG that I help fun, leaves little time for anything else. What free time I have I spend with my hubby, family and if I'm lucky a few friends.

I know this won't be forever.. but man this is tough. All I can do it take it one day at a time.

Legend of Neil BTS Shoot

Today I shot more BTS for the Comedy Central/Webseries The Legend of Neil. Had to be up at 5am so I could leave my house by 5:30am and be on stage at 6am, well the location wasn't the easiest thing to find as google maps forgot to mention a few streets to turn on. But with a 15 minute detour I was able to locate the stage and begin my filming. I can't really say much about the characters or story, got some really good BTS and I'm looking forward to cutting some cool BTS together. Only downside was it was a long day 6am to 8pm. And I get to do it all again tomorrow.

Work Craziness Continues

Man I was so happy the weekend was coming, the past week of work was horrible. Not that I get to rest this weekend. Both Saturday and Sunday I am shooting BTS for Legend of Neil. Though it will be fun I wish I had some time off after this tough week.. oh well life moves on.

KOTG on Itunes

It was such a horrible day at work but right before I left I was checking out itunes and looked at there top 100 TV and Movie Audio podcasts and guess what I found.. Knights of the Guild was number 88… How cool was that.. talk about lifting my spirits.. it's just what I needed.

What a Day!!!!

Wow.. I haven't had this bad of a day in a long while. First we tell us that we can't digitize tapes that run over the 24 hour mark.. this is of course after we have already digitized almost 5000 tapes. I wish they would have told me when I started this job months ago. It took me and my AE four hours to figure out how to find out which tapes were wrong. Luckily it was only 70 tapes out of the 5000 that will need to be re-done, but that is another 70 hours of digitizing that could have been prevented if they would have mentioned this rule when I first started.

This whole tape issue didn't help with the fact that we are up against the wall to get a four hundred(hours) of tapes digitized in a few weeks. Between decks breaking down, the crappy job the camera guys did on shooting the stuff (timecode breaks ever few seconds that cause the machine to kick the tape out) it takes two hours to digitize an hour tape.

Besides that we have old Avid system that breakdown at least once a day so I have editors and producers complaining everyday about something.

It was just a frustrating day....

Recording KOTG #2

Tonight Jenni and I got together to record episode 2 of Knights of the Guild podcast. Both of us are super busy and this seemed like it would be the only time we could do it and since it need to be posted by the 15th we went ahead and recorded.

I had to scramble and find a fan to interview and luckily I got my buddy Bel-Rand from The Guild chat forums. He's from Sweden and the time we picked to do the recording/interview was 9pm our time but 5am his time. But he really wanted to do it so he stayed up all night. Thanks Bel-Rand.

The interview was fantastic and the rest of the podcast just flew by. This is only the third time Jenni and I have recorded but it's like we have been doing this forever. I did a rough cut of the podcast after we recorded it and it sounded great. I can't wait to add the bumpers and interviews and polish it off. It will be posted on March 15th.

Forgot to Vote

I was so busy today getting stuff done around the house, hanging out with Harry and getting computer stuff done I totally forgot about voting. I was listening to the news at 10pm and it hit me.. I turned to Harry and said.. "Oh crap I totally forgot to vote today". Oh well.. whatcha going do.

Taking a Day Off

Since I put in a 16 hour day yesterday I decided not to go into work today (it's good to be the boss). Instead I stayed home and hung out with Harry, worked on my new website, edited a podcast and watched some TV. Of course I got four or five calls from work but they were things I could over the phone. So all in all it was a very nice day.. wish I had more of those. Back to the grind tomorrow..

Long Work Day

Today I came into work around 9am and left work around 1am, It was a super long 16 hour day of digitizing. One of our boats (I'm working on Deadliest Catch) wasn't able to send in tapes like the others and all of a sudden then sent up 200+ tapes that had to be digitized in three days. So I stayed for a double shift to get as much of it in the system as I could. I'm glad I stayed because I got a lot done and we are a bit closer to getting all those tapes into our system.

BTS for Legend of Neil

Today was the first shoot day on season two of Legend of Neil. Sandeep (who plays Zaboo on The Guild) is producing this comedy for comedy central. Legend of Neil is of course a spoof on Legend of Zelda, a very popular video game. You can check out season one and find out more info here about Legend of Neil http://www.effinfunny.com/legend-of-neil

Since I did the BTS stuff for The Guild Sandeep had asked if I would do the same for LON season 2. And of course I said okay. Well come to find out they are shooting two weeks straight and of course I have a daily job. So I will only be shooting stuff on weekends for the next two weekends. I did pass on my camera to Jenni and hope she or another PA can get some good footage for me to use in my BTS stuff.

Today was our first day and we were filming in Angeles National Forest. It's a beautiful location but man there was alot of climbing up and down hills. I'm an old man and not use to all that walking. By the end of the day my feet were dying. But it was a fun shoot, lots of cool stuff happened. I took about 3 1/2 hours of video and about 300 pictures. I'm bummed that I won't be with them this coming week and look forward to joining them again next Saturday.

KOTG Podcast Update

I'm very excited about this. Knights of the Guild podcast has just crossed the 4000th listener/download mark in 28 days. Our promo which went up first on Feb. 1st has gotten 1006 listeners/downloads. Then we posted our first episode #1 on Feb. 15th and so far it has gotten 2002 listeners/downloads and then recently we posted our first microcast #1 on Feb. 23rd and so far it has gotten 1043 listeners/downloads. As of today the three podcasts have gotten a total of 4051 listeners/downloads.. how cool is that.

Thank you to all those Guildie fans who embraced our little podcast about our favorite webseries The Guild.

Front Page

While at lunch with my buddy Christopher last week we started talking about websites and stuff. He knows I've been working on mine new one for quite a while. Back in Oct. 08 I purchased the domain www.geekyfanboy.com and wanted to transfer my current personal website from yahoo geocities. Though I'm internet savvy I'm not really good at HTML and decided I would try my hand at Dreamweaver. Well it's been months and I have built a few pages but not like they are suppose to be build. Instead I created them in photoshop and then just import the entire thing as one image. Anyways I was conveying my frustration to Christopher and he mentioned Front Page which is a microsoft program. He said it was fairly easy to use, kind of like page builder from yahoo geocities.

So Today I finally "acquired" a copy and gave it a shot. Well I have to say that Front Page is a website building for dummies and is perfect for me. It's pretty much set up like most of the MS programs. I only had an hour or so to play with it but I already built most of my main page, with Dreamweaver it had taken me weeks. So I'm off to a good start. So it will still take me a while to get everything transferred but at least I can see a light at the end of the tunnel.

Thanks Christopher for the heads up.

Podcasts

Today I finished editing The Ready Room podcast #47, Next I have to prep another Knights of the Guild podcast. I think will get at least one more microcast out before we release our second episode.

I don't have the stats of The Ready Room podcast since Rico over at Treks in Sci Fi hosts it but I do have the stats for Knights of the Guild and for a show that has been out a almost two week it's doing pretty good. Check them out.

Podcast Stats:

Feed: 1883 / Download: 358 / Streaming: 1499

Total Listeners 3740

It's a BOY!!!!!!

My brother called me today to inform me that he and my sister-in-law found out the sex of their baby... It's a BOY!!!! I'm going to have a nephew... I would be happy with either I just want a healthy baby.. but I have to admit I was hoping they were having a little boy. Can't wait to spoil him rotten.

Knights of the Guild Microcast #1 Quest for the Finale

Today we released Knights of the Guild Microcast #1 : Quest of the Finale.

Since folks have been emailing us to release our podcast more then once a month Jenni and I decided that we would do microcasts in between our main casts. They will be two to fifteen minutes podcasts on one single topic. Our first microcast will be a discussion about The Guild Season Two Finale. You can check it out on itunes or click on the link below.

http://knightsoftheguild.podbean.com/

Oscars

Today I watched the Oscars with host Hugh Jackman. First of all Hugh Jackman was great he was funny and charming and is such a great singer and dancer. They also did several different ways to present the awards that I really liked. For the four actors awards they brought out five previous winners to say something nice about each nominated actor. I really liked this. They also handed out awards like doing a movie. Pre-Production, Production and Post-Production. All in all it was a fun show.

Lost Marathon

Today Harry and I finally sat down and forced ourselves to watch Lost. We haven't watched a single episode since it came back this year. We had six hours of unwatched Lost to catch up on. We kept putting it off because Lost is one of those shows that you really need to pay attention to and most of the time when we watch TV it's at the end of the day and were tired but I have been trying to avoid spoilers the past month and knew I wouldn't be able to stay spoiler free for long plus I was really missing it. So we sat down early today and started with the two hour premiere then took an hour break, got some stuff done and watch another few hours, break, and finale watched the last two hours. OMG it was so great having six hours to watch because we didn't have to wait each week for a new one, but when we got to our last episode we were on the edge of our seat and once again are will have to wait a week for another new Lost.

It's Tax Time

Tonight I have an appointment to met my Tax guy Mike to do my 2008 taxes. I found Mike seven or eight years ago through my friend Renee. Mike is one of the nicest and funniest guys. He doesn't act like your typical stuffy accountant. He is super popular (because he is good) and every year I have to book an appointment with him earlier and earlier (now booking at the beginning of November). What is great about Mike is he explains everything in simple terms. I understand everything he is saying. Today I found out he is a geek also, he loves Star Trek, Stargate and many more sci fi TV shows. So besides him doing my taxes, we got to have a really good chat about Trek.

BTW In 2008 I made the most I have every made which worried him a little bit as it pushed me into a different tax bracket.. but in the end I'm getting back a bit from Federal taxes and a little back from State (or an IOU). As long as I don't have to pay and I get enough back to cover his fees I'm happy. So it was another good Tax season for me.

Podcasts, Podcasts and More Podcasts

Today I recorded my Ready Room podcast with my friends Jen and Rick. It had been several weeks since we did a recording and it was a lot of fun getting back together, well at least via the internet. Jen lives in the Texas and Rick in Washington. Now I have to edit the podcast together for a Wednesday release.

Also today I edited our Knights of the Guild Microcast #1 Quest for the Finale. I hope to release that early this week.

Inpromt to Podcast

Tonight Jenni came over to my place around 10pm to record a special microcast podcast for our Knights of the Guild podcast. It was a lot of fun.

Negative Comments

Well I knew it was bound to happen as you can't please everyone but it still doesn't take away the sting of reading our first negative comment about Knights of the Guild #1 podcast. I was checking out twitter and noticed this person has posted this. "I love The Guild, but I'm not gonna lie. I found Knights of the Guild episode 1 to be slightly boring." I know it's not a horrible review but it still stings. But like my friend Sean said.. now you got your first negative comment over with the rest will be easier. And I'm sure they will but.. it was just tough after reading all the great things folks have said about KOTG #1 to hear that one person thought it was boring. Oh well everyone has their opinions.

Lunch with Christopher

Today I got to have lunch with my buddy Christopher. He was my best man at my wedding and I haven't seen him since my birthday in September. He's a super busy guy at Disney and we never seem to be off at the same time. Well today we finally decided that we would do lunch and met at Bob's Big Boy in Burbank. It was great catching up on each other's lives.. at least as much as you can in an hour. We say the same thing everytime we seperate.. let's not wait months to do this again and of course it's always months before we see each other again. I guess it's just the way it is at the moment, but when we do get together it's like no time has passed at all and that's one thing I love about Christopher, even though we don't see each other as much as we both would like we've still the best of friends.

Knights of the Guild Episode One

We just hit 1500 listeners to Knights of the Guild Episode 1 in less in then four days.. How cool is that. It's so strange to know that fifteen hundred people have listened to Jenni and I talk about our love for The Guild webseries. Now the real test will they come back again for episode two??

The Guild Cast Live Web Chat

Today the finale of the Guild season two is up on MSN Video http://tinyurl.com/bblnes
Look for the guy in the blue and white checkered shirt who is videotaping the fights.. that's me.

Also the Behind the Scenes Video that I cut a few months back was finally put up on MSN Video you can see it here. http://tinyurl.com/b2lwy9

And tonight the Cast and Director of The Guild did a live web chat on Ustream. Felicia asked if I would be a moderator. It was crazy, hundreds of people all chatting at once. Of course we had our trolls who where there just to make trouble. I had to ban about 15 people but it was a lot of fun. The picture above is a screen grab.

Knights of the Guild Podcast

Our podcast Knights of the Guild http://knightsoftheguild.podbean.com has been out for two days, I think you can say it has been an success. We've had 780 listeners for the promo and 1295 listeners for Episode 1 for a total of 2075 listeners in the past two days. Our site has been up for about two weeks and we have had 3307 visitors and it's still growing every hour.

It's great having a built in fan base and from the reaction of our first podcast they seem to be liking what we are doing.

Now it's time to plan out podcast #2

Guild Cast Interviews

Today I was finally able to do the cast interviews of The Guild for the Second season DVD specials that I plan on doing. These were suppose to be done in January but everyone was busy and we weren't able to get to them until today.

Today I got to interview Sandeep (Zaboo), Robin (Clara), Jeff (Vork), Vince (Bladezz), Tara (Dena), Amy (Tink), Fernando (Wade), Felicia (Codex) and Michele (Riley). It was a long eight hour day but it's always fun hanging out at Felicia's house (where we did the interviews). Now with those done I can get started on editing the DVD specials.

Knights of the Guild Ep. 1

Midnight tonight I posted the very first Knights of the Guild podcast #1 and as of 10pm we have had 885 downloads and our website has been up for 16 days and we have had 2741 visitors. That is truly amazing. Thanks to all those wonderful Guildies who have downloaded our podcast and thank you all for letting us know what you though either by twitter, watch the guild forums, knights of the guild website or knightsoftheguild@gmail.com. Jenni and I really appreciate all the good thoughts.

If you haven't already please watch The Guild webseries at http://www.watchtheguild.com

Then go to our podcast website at http://knightsoftheguild.podbean.com and download our promo and first episode.

Then go to Itunes or another podcast catcher and subscribe to our podcast.

This is suppose to be a monthly podcast but man it's so much fun it might turn into a two times a month podcast.. stay tuned.

Valentines Day

Harry and I aren't really into Valentines Day, but we did spend the entire day together catching up on TV, in the office on our computers and go out to dinner at Outback Steakhouse. So it was great just spending the day with my husband doing things that we love to do. Valentines isn't about gifts or roses it's about being with the one you love. Happy Valentines Day Harry.

Transferring my Blog

I have spent the last five days.. a few hours a day transferring all my Blogs from Yahoo 360 blogging system to this new one. I have been wanting to change blogging systems for a while. 360 is so primitive compared to this one.. this feels like a real blogging system and I love it. I transferred over 750 blogs since 2002 and now with the cool column at the right you can look for specific blogs unlike 360. I can add photos and multiple photos with ease. And I love the layout and colors.. all in all a great move and I'm so happy that it's finally over. Time to blog.

Knights of the Guild Test Audience

Today I started to get emails and IM's from the few friends that I sent my first Knights of the Guild podcast episode 1 too. And though they are friends I know they would be honest with me and they all really seemed to enjoyed the podcast. I also sent it to a diehard fan of The Guild and she seemed to really like it.. so it seems like it's a good podcast.

I'm kind of nervous because The Guild has a huge fan base so our podcast has an already built in fan base and geeks can be kind with they like something or very mean if they don't.

I have been debating on posting the podcast early just to see the reaction but as folks are expecting it on Sunday Feb. 15th I'm holding out till then.

One of "THOSE" Days

About 4:30am I heard Homer Simpson say "the mail, the mail is here" which is my notification ring when I have a text message or voicemail. I heard him three times and knew it would drive me crazy so I got up and checked it and it was a voicemail from one of my AE's from Deadliest Catch and she was having major issues with the Unity system (hard drives). I was half a sleep but think I did a good job at communicating what needed to be done. There was a chance that I would have to drive over to fix it and I was not looking forward to it. I had had about three hours sleep so far. Luckily I was able to figure a work around so she could do her work and I didn't have to drive in. So I went back to bed and it felt like I was asleep for two minutes when my alarm went off and I have to get ready for work.

Today we were locking our very first episode of season five. I knew it was going to be a busy day but I had no idea what was in store. Both Jeremy (my day AE) and I were running ragged all day. Between computer issues, things not being done correctly and just plain craziness this day dragged on and on. It was our TV night but I had to cancel because I knew I would be stuck at work. Jeremy finally said go home at 9pm and that he would finish up. So I left and he stayed another hour and a half... man I hate days like these.

More Interviews

This morning I got an email from Vince saying he was sorry but something came up last night that prevented him from meeting up with us. He asked if he could do it tonight. I figured why not, it's better to have two cast members interview in the can so we booked him for after Michele's interview.

When I got home from work today again Harry and I ate very fast as I had to do a cast interview with Michele (Riley) from The Guild for our podcast Knights of the Guild. This time Jenni was going to be on skype as well as Michele. We started a bit late but the interview was in full swing by 9pm. In the middle of Michele's interview Vince contacted me and said he was ready.. so after we finished with Michele we did an interview with Vince. So it was a good night for Knights of the Guild podcast.

I cut in one of the interviews and did a final pass at the episode one. It is DONE. I emailed it to a few close friends as well as Felicia so they could get a sneak listen. It will be posted on Sunday Feb. 15th as planned.

Stood Up / Finished KOTG #1

Tonight when I got home Harry and I ate really quick, because Jenni was coming over to do an interview with one of the Cast members (Vince) from The Guild for our Knights of the Guild podcast. Well the interview was suppose to happen at 8pm. 8pm came and went, 8:30pm came and went and finally at 9pm we gave up and contacted another Cast member (Michele) who agreed to do an interview with us tomorrow. So Jenni went home and I finished polishing the Knight of the Guild podcast episode 1. So all I had to do was drop in the interview and it would be ready.

Lunch with Will

Today I took my friend Will out to lunch, I know it's crazy but I wanted to thank him for the awesome prank he did on me the day before. He put a lot of work into it and it meant a lot to me. So we went out to Islands for some burgers and some very nice conversation.

The Ready Room Podcast

Tonight I edited together a kind of clip show for The Ready Room podcast for the Treks in Sci Fi RPG game. We did one the previous week where forum members read character profiles for the RPG and episode 46 was more of the same. Thanks to all those who helped.

Pranked!!!

Okay a week ago I foiled the entire desk of one of my friends here at work.. well today I came into work and noticed that there was a curtain hanging over my glass door so you couldn't see in. They did some shooting over the weekend so I figured they did this and forgot to take it down. Well I opened my door and noticed that my desk chair was replaced with a pink love seat with a leopard print draped over it. I then noticed that there were curtains up over all my pictures and my desk lap had changed.. for that matter my desk had changed. Will had changed every single piece of furniture in my office. I could not believe he did this by himself. He actually came in on Sunday and said it took him an hour to make the change. I was very impressed.. he got me.. but now this just makes me want to get him back.. so stayed tuned.

KOTG Episode 1 Rough Cut

Today I finished a rough cut of episode one of my new podcast Knights of the Guild http://knightsoftheguild.podbean.com/ . All I need to do is add a cast interview which we should be doing in a few days. We are still on schedule for a Sunday Feb. 15th upload.

Interviewing Sean

Today Jenni and I interviewd Sean Becker (director/editor) of the second Season of The Guild for an upcoming episode of Knights of the Guild, our new official fan podcast for the webseries The Guild. We had a great time, it was suppose to be a 15 to 20 minute interview but turned into a 50 minute interview... it's was a fun time.. thanks Sean.

New Shoes

Today I went shoe shopping with Harry and Dad. Well we went to Famous Footwear in Corona and I found these very cool shoes. I showed them to Dad and Harry and they both laughed and thought I was kidding. Harry said they looked like his boxer shorts. They continued to make fun of them but I liked them and thought they looked fun and quirky like me so I bought them.. what do you think??

More KOTG stuff

Today my good friend Rick Moyer produced some really cool bumpers for my new podcast Knights of the Guild. Rick is a very talented guy who can produce such cool music, music parodies, bumpers and pretty much anything else you need. Thank you Rick for doing these.. if you want to check out more of Rick's awesome music check out his site. He also has started a new geeky/spiritual podcast called Take Him With you. Check it out.

KOTR Website

I have been very happy with the amount of traffic that has come to my new podcast site. As of today only being online for a few days we have had almost 400 vistors and 300 download of our promo podcast. I'm having such fun with all this podcast stuff.

Also today we got our first podcast donation. It surprised me because we really haven't had a full episode posted yet but my good friend Chris Q. donated $20 dollars to our show. Thank you Chris for helping out, these donations will help pay for the website, artwork, music and equipment upgrade. Thanks again Chris.

http://knightsoftheguild.podbean.com/