Geek Heaven

Today I got half of my order of Blu Rays that I ordered from Amazon. I got Clone Wars Season 1 and of course The Clone Wars movie along with the new Star Trek. All in blu ray which will be cool since we don't have any blu ray discs other then Serenity (which I bought with the player to have at least one). Should be getting Harry Potter HBP and the Ultimate Year 1 and 2 Blu Rays in a few weeks.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians Trailer

I'm on book five at the moment, but they are making the first book into a movie.. Here's the awesome trailer.. can't wait for this.

V Episode Three

Just finished the 3rd episode and man is it getting good.

So many things.. first I love that the V traitors call themselves the 5th columnist like the original. Even though it wasn't a shocker it was revealed that Lisa is planning something for Tyler. And finding out that Lisa is actually Anna's daughter, didn't have a clue about that. I knew the gunman was going to be a V. I had no idea that the V doc was an 5th columnist.. that was a good OMG moment. I loved the scene with the four founding members of the Resistance meeting up in the church. I liked the people at the beginning giving confessions.. felt very real. I like that they revealed that over 600+ people died when the V's came. I also noticed that all the Captains of the 29 ships were male.. kind of like Anna being the Queen bee. So many things were revealed which made it such a fun episode and it just flew by. Can't wait for the fourth and finale episode this year..

Doctor Who: Waters of Mars

Just finished watching Doctor Who's Waters of Mars and in short it was kind of creepy, then tense, then sad and finally the OMG moments.

I think the doctor went way to far, the all powerful timelord that no one can stop. It was hard to see him get that way as that's so not how I see the doctor.. I wasn't liking him during his final speech.

I knew something was going to happen to the Captain.. it was all to easy. But I didn't expect her to kill herself, but like The Doctor said.. her death was a fixed point in time.. she would die that day and she did.

Hopefully her death will knock the Doctor back down to Earth. But I guess will see what happens in the next two parter Christmas/New Years specials. And then goodbye David Tennant and hello Matt Smith.

The Deck

Got up today all gung ho to get a ton of stuff done... well things didn't go quite as planned. In the morning I did a lot of podcast stuff. When Harry got up I went out back to clean up the deck area as it was really windy and we had debris all over the place. Halfway through that task Harry came out and helped out. We also ripped off all the blue liner that was covering the deck. We were happy to see that our deck isn't that bad.. a good sanding and staining and it should look awesome. We also did a few things around the outside of the house.

We watched a bit of TV and then decided to head into town and go grocery shopping and then pick up some lunch/dinner. Two hours later we were heading back home. We ate lunch/dinner and then watch a bit more TV. It was so difficult to motivate myself but I manage to get up and take some trash to the dumpster and then attempted to work on the garage which was what I wanted to do this weekend. Well that lasted 20 minutes as I realized I can't start this project so late in the day and that it's going to take an entire weekend to do. So I headed inside and just chilled out the rest of the night.

I really hate that it gets dark so early.. by 5:30pm it feels so late and my body checks out as soon as the sun goes down.

So we got a little bit of work done but far from what I had planned... hmmm maybe next weekend.

Knights of the Guild Ep10 pt1

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Show Notes:

Here it is Episode 10 part 1 of Knights of the Guild. We hope you enjoy it.

Today’s show features:

• * First up we have a Vorkism.
• * We are LIVE in studio via Livestream
• * We discuss Season Three Episode 7,8 and 9.
• * We hear from Fans on what they think of season 3 so far.
• * We have a great crew Interview with Audio Guru Sean Oakley

• * We find out what the cast and crew are up too.
• * We Thank our donors.
• * We announce winners of various contest as well are announce our new contest.

We want you to record your favorite “Guild” quote, but you must do it in your best impersonation of the character who says it. We will random draw one will from all the entries and they will win a 9 autographed 11×17 poster of the Guild actors in their avatar outfits.

• * Then we have our final words and we say goodbye.

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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• Megan Lynch’s “Songs The Brothers Warner Taught Me” CD http://meganlynch.bandcamp.com

• Horrible Turn http://horribleturn.com

• Legend of Neil needs your help http://tinyurl.com/wantmoreneil

• Simply Simon http://watchsimplesimon.com

• Solo The Series http://watchsolo.com

• Ted Sampon: Househusband http://Hulu.com or http://teamtigerawesome.com

• J.Teddy Garces in Mid-Life Gangster (pictures below)

Podcast Promo’s played during the show this week:

• Waffle on
• Tuning into Sci fi TV
• Anomaly
• Take Him With You
• AppyTimes
• Turning Left at Albuquerque
• The Scapecast
• Upsidedown Happyland
• Treks in Sci Fi

Painting the Master Bath

So much stuff planned this weekend...

Today I finally started to tape off and paint the Master Bathroom. Harry and I decided that we would so an accent color (a taupe/greenish color) on one of the ledges and then on the other wall as well as the water closet. Our main color will be a chocolate brown. Things started off great, I got the taping down and we started to paint. Around 1:30pm I realized I need to go to the post office to pick up a package that had been there a week and I had to get it before 3pm. So we headed to town and go the package, while in town we grabbed a bite to eat at Chills. When we got back home we were totally wiped. We watched some TV and after a while it took every bit of energy that I had to get back into that master bathroom and finish painting the access color. Luckily we did and I have to say it turned out pretty good... not to much bleeding.

So that's pretty much all we did on Saturday in regards to the house work. So much for getting a ton of stuff done. I had planned to do the Brown in the master bathroom but I really want to get to work on our garage so we can started planning my toy room.

Prepping Master Bathroom

After my visit with my Dad I got home around 6pm and started working on prepping the master bathroom for painting over the weekend. We still have boxes of stuff all over the place so that is what I did first. I put away and organized all our bathroom products. Now it's ready to be taped and painted. I took a short break to make some dinner for Harry and I and catch up on a little TV. Well that was a mistake as I was exhausted from a long day I never returned to prepping the bathroom. But at least it's cleaned up and should take too long to tape off the walls. Back to painting this weekend... joy...

Visiting Dad

Today I took off work to visit my Dad in the hospital. I knew it would be a few hours to get there and with the GPS it found a back way driving the 138 to 215 that it said was quicker. I went by myself as Harry decided that he didn't want to go. As I was driving Dad actually called me and asked if I would swing by the house and pick up some clothes for him. I told him I was going a completely different way and wasn't anywhere near his house but I could stop by a store and buy him what he needs. So that is what I did. I stopped by Walmart and picked him up some underwear, shorts and a T-shirt. I got to his room around 12:30pm.

He had tubes all over the place but he looked in good spirits. He said that they did the angioplasty and he was feeling much better. I spent about three hours chatting with him and visiting.

Found out that he indeed had a heart attack, this was he second in two years. And two of his heart valves are in good shape just needed a bit of cleaning, but the two other aren't fairing so well. They aren't bad enough to justify heart surgery but they aren't the most healthiest of valves. The Doctors want Dad to come back on a regular bases so they can keep in eye on those valves. If they get worse then he'll need to have them replaced. They are currently putting him on more meds to try and help control the issue.

He should be getting out of the hospital on Saturday or Sunday.

So not the greatest of news but it could have been so much worse.

Again thanks to all my twitter and facebook friends for moral support.. it helped very much.

Dad in Hospital

Today around 5pm my sister-in-law called me and said that my brother had just called 911 for my Dad. I immediately called him to find out what had happened. He said it looks as though Dad is having another heart attack.

An hour later he called me back and informed me that Dad was in bad shape. Several of his heart valves were clogged and several were in bad shape. He was currently in stable condition and they were going to do an angioplasty on the clogged valves.

There was nothing I could do, which was the worse part. I had informed my boss that I would be taking off tomorrow so I can go down and visit him.

I'll keep you posted

PS.. thank you to all my friends on facebook and twitter for all your wonderful support.. really meant a lot to me.

PGA Screeners

Finally got my first movie screeners for the award season.. been waiting all month. First one I got was "The Stoning of Soraya M." Sounds like a really heavy movie.. not sure I'll be watching this one. I'm hoping more will arrive soon.

Making Changes

I love when you are finally done and very happy with the final results, but realize that you left something out and have to go back and re-edit.

Might sounds simple but when I'm down with editing the podcast I output (which takes about 30 minutes), then I run it through levelator (which levels out all the audio, which takes another 30 minutes) but that leaves it in a .aiff format which doesn't work for podbean so I then have to bring it into Audacity and output it as an .mp3 and that take about 15 minutes. And finally if I remember I bring it into itunes to add the photo. So once I'm done editing the piece there is still another hour and 15 minutes of outputting before it is ready.

I had to go back and cut in the piece that I forget and then start this process over once again. Oh well the piece had to be in there and It think this pt 1 or Ep 10 turned out pretty good. Can't wait to post it.

Editing my Podcast

After a long day of work I came home and started working on editing KOTG ep 10 pt 1. I had already went through the hours of audio and cut it down to what was needed. I am not cutting it all together with the bumpers and dissolves and making it all pretty. Should be done tonight but won't post it until Nov. 15th. Ep 10 pt 2 is still waiting to be cut down before being assembled.

Clash of the Titans

I am a huge fan of mythology so of course when I was a kid I loved Clash of the Titans.

When I think of my favorite childhood movies, along with Star Wars, Willow, Krull, Last Starfighter and of course Clash of the Titans so when I heard they were making a re-make I was a little skeptical but figured I would give them a change.. well I started to see pictures a few weeks ago and they looked pretty good.. well moments ago they released the very first teaser trailer for the new remake and all I have to say is WOW... it looks AWESOME... I can't wait to see this movie. This trailer really got me pumped for this movie.

Satellite Internet

Today I was feeling a bit better but still having some stomach issues and it still feels like someone is poking my eyes from the inside.

But today our Satellite internet company HughesNet was coming by at 9am to install our new internet service. I don't know much about Satellite internet but because of where we live and lack of any kind of broadband service this was our only option. We currently have an internet service and though it's better then dial up it's a far cry from DSL or Broadband.

Yesterday I did some research and found HughesNet. They had six different speeds to choose from. Since Harry and I are big into the internet we went with a fairly fast speed. We choose their Elite service, just two shy of there fastest. It's going to cost up $120 month but if the speed is even close to where they say it will be.. it will be worth the money.

After three hours our new internet was up and running.. we did a few speed tests and were very pleased with the results... now will have to see if it continues.

I've heard some not so good thing with Satellite service but all we can do is hope for the best.

After that I dragged myself to work.. I'm not feeling 100% but I'll survive.

Still Sick but it's Work Time

Still not feeling great but it's Monday and time to for work. I probably would have stayed home and rested but I had two new employees starting today so I have to be here to meet and greet and fill out new paperwork. And of course neither of them were coming in until 4pm. So I struggled through the day going back and forth from my office to the bathroom.

During the day Harry finally had it with our home internet so I did some research and ordered a Satellite internet service.. should be getting that installed in a few days.. hopefully that will take care of our horribly slow internet.

After work I went home and rested a bit, but then I did a little editing on my Knights of the Guild podcast as it's needs to be done by the 15th.

Painting the Master Bath... Not!!!

I haven't been feeling 100% the past few days but nothing serious... well that kind of changed in the early AM. Around 3am I woke up sweating and starving (like major hunger pains). I got up and made me a sandwich and started to feel a little better. Woke up around 8am and was feeling okay.. I had some breakfast and that when it began.. for the rest of the day I was in and out of the bathroom.. I was feeling horrible and it felt like someone was poking my eyeballs from the inside. Needless to say I did very little painting or prepping the bathroom for painting. It bummed me out as I really wanted to get that done but I just didn't feel good. Hopefully next weekend will be the weekend we finish our painting.

I was so exhausted that I was ready for bed by 7pm.. but managed to stay awake until 11pm.

Podcasting Live

Today we recorded our 10th episode of Knights of the Guild podcast but this time we were broadcasting via webcam on livestream. This was our first time so things didn't quite go as planned. It started off fine.. we did our interview with Sean (audio guy) and it went great. We then started our podcast and turned on the livestream feed. We started the podcast and got about ten minutes in and realized that the audio was one correctly configured so folks watching couldn't hear anything. I just happen to look over at the chat window and people were frantically typing "WE CAN'T HEAR YOU". We quickly fixed the problem and continued with the podcast. For about and hour things were moving along nicely. The webcam would move and I'd be cut out of frame but again we would look at the chat room and they would let us know. We then started getting "trolls" in our chat. If you don't know what a troll is, it's a person (if you can all them that) that join the chat and will swear, attack and otherwise disrupt the chat room. We had several of them and I keep trying to ban them but with livestream you can only ban the name and not the IP address.. so I would ban them and they would sign back on with another name and so on and so on. After a while I gave up and we continued to do the podcast.

When we were done it seemed that those who joined us enjoyed it. We had alot of fun doing it but because of the trolls it kind of ended the night on a down. But I'll be looking into either another live web cam service, one that I can ban IP address or looking into livestream closer to see if there is something I can do.

The night ended on a high as we received a $100 donation moments after the podcast had ended and that made both Jenni and my night.

Will be doing another live feed but we will now know what to expect and be prepared for it.

More House Work

Today I spent the day organizing the office space, emptying out boxes and finding a place for everything. I also finished setting up our other three TV's/DirectTV and activating them. Of course things never go as planned and our direct TV box in our guest room is not working properly so I have to investigate it further, but I did get the TV working on our master bedroom and our office.

Another Week Over

Well work is moving along slowly but that's how it normally is during the beginning of a show. I guess I should enjoy this slow period as it won't last and soon I'll be pulling what hair I have left out. One bright spot today was lunchtime. Today I got to see my good friend Christopher. Both of our lives are so hectic that we don't get to see each other as often as we like but we still try and have lunch or dinner once a month. Today we had lunch at Islands and it was alot of fun catching up. I am sooooo looking forward to the weekend.

Dinner with Friends

This evening Harry and I went to a dinner party over at our friends John and Moises' place. Joining us was Tom, Ervin and Bruce.

It was so great seeing these guys as it's been a few months because of the move and all. We normally got together with these guys every week for TV night at our place but since we moved and now that we live a bit further out we are not having our weekly TV nights and I really miss seeing everyone on a regular bases.

Once again Moises made a wonderful dinner and the company was great. John was showing off his new Mac and of course Harry and Bruce were loving it.

Harry and I have been so busy with the house that it was nice to actually hang out with friends again.. will have to do it more often.

Is Social Media A Fad

I came across this awesome video on you tube asking is Social Media a Fad. If you know me you know I'm huge into social media networks. I did Friendster back in the day and then My Space and currently I'm on Facebook, Twitter and Simlar as well as being connected with a alot of people online via forums and podcasts.

After watching the video and all the data and stats it gives you, it's clear that social media is the wave of the future.. speaking of waves.. have you joined Google Wave?? I have....

V

They finally premiered V on ABC.

First let me say I'm an old school V fan. I watched the first 4 hour miniseries back in the early 80's with my family and then the follow up 6 hour mini series two years after that and was in love. I watched the series over and over as we recorded it on our brand new VCR. In 1989 when they premiered the TV series I was right there waiting with baited breath and loved ever minute of it. Looking back now both mini series hold up pretty well but the TV series has some really cheesy episodes that didn't age will.. but I still love them. So to say I was super excited for this new version of V is an understatement.

I missed the sneak preview at comic con this year (which really bummed me out) so I have been counting down the days for this premiere. Quick thoughts... I really enjoyed the new re-imagined V. It was alot of the same storyline as the original but with some twists here and there.. the biggest is that there have been aliens (V's) living on Earth for years(?). I think they established each character, revealed the storyline and got a good start to the story. I really enjoyed the sfx.. the shuttlecrafts were cool and the inside of the mother ships were like small cities in space.. a big difference from the original. I really like Anna (Morena)'s character.. some of the looks she gave sent shivers down my spine. I like their version of the 5th Columnists (V traitors). This has only been the first episode but I can't wait to see where they take this storyline. Will they pull from the original or vear off on their own.

I do have a few complaints, at the beginning after the ships arrive and Anna gives her speech suddenly everyone breaks into applause. I mean aliens just arrive causing world wide panic and then after a five minute speech from some pretty women who looks human, they all applaud and cheer them. I don't think people are that gullible, at least I'm not. Yes I'm sure they were happy that they didn't attack but everyone around the world all clapping.. with the original V the ships came and sat in the sky for a few hours, then there was contact and folks were still skeptical then they had the meet up and still folks were skeptical.. This all took place in a matter of days not minutes. The other thing is how did the army get in the streets of NY so quickly.. it's like the ships arrived and there they were managing crowds. Did the government know they were coming?? And how lucky Erica when she found her son just a few feet from her in the middle of New York. Also with technology today you would think the world scientist and astronomers would have seen 29 huge ships coming towards Earth years in advance .. but like I have said.. maybe they did and world government had be hiding that news. But even with all those little grips.. the series was alot of fun. I'm a disappointed that ABC is airing only 4 episodes in Nov and then the rest next year in March.. I just hope this doesn't kill the series. I guess only time will tell.

Of course all this stuff it just things you have to ignore for the story to work and it didn't bother me but did make me think.

Cleaning House

Today I spent the morning sweeping and cleaning the hardwood floors.. it's been a few weeks and there was a ton of dust and dog hair. After that I dusted all the furniture in the living room, dining room and TV room. This took a few hours to do all this and I know this will be a constant battle. After that I continued to put away laundry that I had washed a few days ago.

Harry and I then went to Ikea to pick up some shelves for our pantry. Once I got home we built it shelves and placed it in the pantry. After that I did a quick clean up of the kitchen. Now our house is looking great.. only a few more things to put away in the office and we still need to hang some curtains. And of course we still have to hang pictures and accessorize the place but it's coming together.

Next up we move to outside.. so much work to do.

Working Around the House

Since I only have weekends to do stuff around the house I wanted to get started early on painting the Master Bathroom. Well things didn't go as planned. I uploaded my podcast, surfed the net for a bit and then Harry got up and we had breakfast. I was not feeling to hot, both Harry and have been under the weather. So I opted to not paint as that take alot out of you and instead I would do odds and ends around the house. So today I...

• Cleaned the master bedroom

• Put away all the laundry that I had wash a few days ago.

• Organized all the close in our closet.

• Finished the drawers that Harry had started.. he did the majority of the work I just spray painted the handles and re-attached them and put the drawer back together again.

• Set up our new HDTV in our bedroom but couldn't get it connected to our Direct TV, will have to deal with that tomorrow.

• Put the vents back on the wall in the master bedroom, been wanting to do that for a few weeks now.

• Put the new door knob on the guest bathroom door and hung the door back on, again been wanting to do that for a week.

• Cleaned up the kitchen a bit by cleaning off the island.

• Unpacked a few boxes of our DVD collection and put them in the newly painted DVD racks.

And I did this while not feeling 100%.

I wanted to get the office done but I'm just too tired at the moment. I may get a burst of energy but will see what happens. I always have tomorrow.

Hope you all had Happy Halloween and don't forget to turn back your clocks on hour.

Knights of the Guild Ep9 pt2

Knights of the Guild Ep 9 pt2

• October 31st, 2009

Show Notes:

Here it is Episode 9 part 1 of Knights of the Guild. We hope you enjoy it.

Today’s show features:

• * First up we have a Vorkism.
• * Our location today we’re still stuck in the white room.
• * We discuss Behind the Scenes of Season 2 Episode 11 - Collision Course
• * We have a fan interview with father and son team Rick and Andrew Moyer

• * We thank our donors
• * Then we have our final words and we say goodbye.

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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• The Guild http://watchtheguild.com
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• Between the Lines Studio Podcast Network http://Betweenthelinesstudio.com
• Rick Moyer’s Stargazer CD http://www.takehimwithyou.com/stargazer/

End of another work week

This week of work was quiet.. didn't have much to do, the show is just getting started and I don't have many people to manage. But after work today I came home and did an interview with my buddy Rick and his son Andrew for my Knights of the Guild podcast with Jenni. The interview went great, after that I had some dinner with Harry and then we drove to the transmission place to pick up my jeep finally. Took five days to repair and cost my $1995.65 but it's working again and I guess that is all that matters.

After we got home I started working on editing Episode 9 part 2 of Knights of the Guild podcast as the fan interview is all I needed to finish it. I had planned to release it on Sunday Nov. 1st but since it was done and podcasts don't do well when they are released on Sunday I decided I would release it tomorrow even though it's Halloween.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Since I started work again I have picked up some more audio books. My buddy Christopher talked about this new series called Percy Jackson and the Olympains, it sounded pretty cool so I got all five books on CD to listen on my drive in and from work.

• The Lightning Thief
• The Sea of Monsters
• The Titan's Curse
• The Battle of the Labyrinth
• The Last Olympian

Here's a brief synopsis: Percy Jackson & The Olympians is a series of adventure and fantasy books authored by Rick Riordan. Set in the United States, the series is prominently based on Greek mythology. The series consists of five books, as well as spin-off titles such as The Demigod Files and Demigods and Monsters.

The protagonist is Percy (Perseus) Jackson who discovers that he is the son of Poseidon, god of the sea and earthquakes. He learns that the legendary beings of Greek mythology still exist, including monsters, Cyclopes, Empousai, Titans, and also the Olympians (Greek gods) themselves who dwell in Olympus, now situated at the mythical 600^th floor of the Empire State Building. Monsters frequently attack him because he is a child of one of the "Big Three" (Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades). Percy meets many other young demigods, both friendly and hostile, who are also in the process of discovering their heritage and powers.

So far I have listened to book 1 The Lightning Thief and book 2 The Sea of Monsters and today I started book 3 The Titan's Curse. They are fairly short books and not super complicated to understand. I love Greek mythology so I'm really enjoying all the reference in these books.
They are a fun read, not as engaging as Harry Potter but very enjoyable and I look forward to the further adventures of Percy Jackson.

Jeep Woes 3

Today I got a call from my mechanic and he said the part that he needed was not available and that he would need send my broke part to them to repair.. and of course that will delay my jeep from being finished. Now I have to wait until Friday for my Jeep to be done.

Dog Pen and Jeep update

Not much going on today.. work was fine.. still slow as there are only two editors, four loggers and an assistant editor here at the moment.

No word about my jeep..

And Harry finished Daisy proofing the dog pen. We are now confident that Daisy won't get out.. she's a smart doggie so will see.

The Dog Pen

While I was at work Harry got to work on the Dog pen. One thing we liked about this house when we saw it was the previous owners had a doggie door that went from the Master Bathroom water closet to an outside pen that was enclosed. Daisy is really good at holding her bladder for up to 10 hours but of course we feel horrible having to make her do that so we are happy to have this dog pen that she can go out and do her business anytime.. only issue is this dog pen would work for any other dog but not our Daisy.. she's too smart and realized how to get out of the pen so today Harry started working on making sure she can't escape the pen.

Jeep Woes 2

Well just got work that there was some "hard" pieces that needed to be replaced with the additional charge of $138.77 So now my total repair for this Jeep will be $1995.45

You know I can get upset.. because that won't solve anything. Sometimes life just throws you a curve ball. Things could be so much worse.. at least I can afford to make the repairs and not have to charge them to my credit card.. I am thankful for that.

Jeep should be ready either tomorrow but more likely Wednesday.

Jeep Woes

Got a call from my mechanic about my jeep's transmission. Not going to go into all the technical details but needless to say the transmission ends to be pulled apart and further checked. That will cost me $750 just for them to remove the transmission, look at it and put it back (if I don't do any of the work). He also said that with this kind of problem they will need to rebuild the "soft" parts of the transmission. That will cost me and additional $1033.88 for a total of $1783.88 and he said that if they find more issues inside with the "hard" parts the cost can go up.

I have been thinking about buying a new car as Harry has his new Truck and it's really made me want a new car. So I questioned should I have all this work done on a jeep that I don't want anymore. Well we just bought the house and Harry and I are debt free and I didn't feel like having car payments so I gave him the go ahead with the repairs.

Remodeling - Day Forty-Five

Today’s remodel agenda focused mostly on getting the Guest Bathroom finished. That has been on the agenda for a while, but there just have been way too many other projects that had to be done as well, and the guest bathroom never made it to the top of our project list. So I attempted to finished it yesterday but got about 80% done. Today I planned on finishing it up. In between painting the bathroom I started to work on the office.. tried to organize the million of cables we own. I would go back and forth between painting the bathroom and cleaning up the office.

In the afternoon I called AAA to get a tow truck to come by and pick up my jeep and drive it to the transmission place for them to look at first thing on Monday. Harry followed in his truck and since the transmission place was out in Canyon Country we figured we would go to Costco and pick up an HDTV for our bedroom since we had a second Direct TV HDDVR that we hadn't hooked up yet because we had only the on TV.

We also wanted to shop the other half of Costco since we only got half way through it the first time. After a few hours we emerged from Costco with a new 26" HDTV with a built in DVD player, along with fire extinguishers, sham wows, a new dog bed, pens, yard work gloves, bread, two pre-made meals and a bag of candy just in case we get tricker treaters (really just an excuse to have candy in the house).

After Costco we went up to Lowes to get some cable ties for Harry to start working on the dog pen that is attached to the side of our house.. There is a doggie door in the master bathroom that leads to this pen for Daisy to go out and do her business if we can't get home for a long period of time. But of course Harry needs to do a little work on it to keep her in it.

After that trip we came home and I was tired but determined to finish the guest bathroom. So I painted the trim and did some touch up works on the corners and voila it's done.. and it looks AWESOME.

Up next (meaning next weekend) will tackle the Master Bathroom... whoo hooo

Remodeling - Day Forty-Four

Well it's the weekend and now that I'm back to work weekends are my only time to help Harry around the house.. so today’s Remodel task started off with Harry having to finished up the DVD racks with polyurethane. While he did that I started painting the accent wall in the Guest Bathroom. While standing on the seven foot ladder I lost my balance and fell to the floor. I manage to turn upright and avoid hitting my head on the sink or toilet but instead my left foot went right into the gallon can of red paint. I laid there for a moment trying to figure out if I had broken anything but every seem to be in order. I started to get up as Harry came running to see what had happened. As I looked down at my foot I realized that about 1/3 of the red paint had come out of the can and was now all over the walls, tile floor, paint tarp, bathtub, and my pant and sock. It was a mess but after a little cleaning up we managed to get all the paint up. I was sore but avoided some serious injuries.

After Harry finished the DVD holders he tackled the chicken wire around the 'garden'. We planned on using the chicken wire on the outdoor section for the dog. There is a small gap up on top and of course our dog has figured out how to squeeze out of it... so we plan on sealing up the entire thing. After the chicken wire he removed the old and falling down blue picket fence.

I continued to paint the guest bathroom.. I did all the walls and only had the trim and corners to take care of... but I was tired and sore from my fall so I called it a night and figured I would complete that room tomorrow.

Broken Jeep

Not the best way to start my day. Got up this morning and felt pretty good. Got ready for work, then go sidetracked and was running late. I jumped in my Jeep and started it up.. sounded good. Started to drive away and heard a sound that I hadn't heard before and it didn't sound good. I continued to drive down the hill hoping that the jeep was just cold but when I got to the main street it sounded worse. I got out and looked at the engine to see if anything was lose, but it all looked fine. I got back in and drove a half a mile and then the transmission slipped and my engine rived up. I thought to myself.. there is no way I'm going to work in this jeep so I turned around and headed back home. Luckily the jeep made it all the way home. I talked to Harry for a minute and then jumped into his truck to get to work. Not a good way to start my new job. I'll have to take my jeep in this weekend and have it looked it. Sounds like it's a bad transmission, which can be costly.. oh well such is life.

On the house front.. Harry continued to work on the DVD holders. They were light pine color but we wanted black to match our TV room.. so a few weeks ago my buddy Will and I sanded two of the DVD racks and today Harry painted the two and sanded and painted the third one. All he has left is a polyurethane coat and they will be good to go.

1st day on the Job

I've been out of work for three months and 2 days. It's the longest I have gone without a job. It was prefect because we moved and remodeled our house so the time off was much needed but having the house also meant I would have to work again if we wanted to continue to remodel the house. So today I went back to work for Max Post. I've been with them the past three years working on Season 1 of America's Toughest Jobs and then Season 5 of Deadliest Catch. This time I will be working on Season 6 of Deadliest Catch. Right now there are only two of us which is kind of nice but soon enough it will be packed with editors, loggers and assistant editors.

My first day was very quiet. I inventoried the edit bays to see what was needed. And helped out my AE with digitizing.

After being off for 3 months I didn't want to come back to work but once I was here it's like I never took any time off. It's nice being back in the same office on the same computer.

Let's hope this season goes a bit smoother then last season. :)

Last Day of Freedom

Today we had a lot to do since this was going to be my last day before heading back to work full time.

First we drove to Home Depot to return unused flooring and 2 screen doors. Well the returning of that stuff didn’t turn out to be that easy. We had bought the flooring at the Home Depot in Van Nuys with a purchase order type invoice, which I was told would make it easier to return the flooring if needed.. well that wasn't the case. Since we did not return it to the same store for some reason they could only give us a store credit, we're talking over $1100 but we did purchase more flooring and that was with a regular receipt but of course that was at home. So we decided that Harry would drive home while I stayed at Home Depot with the flooring. Once at home he tried to find that receipt… but couldn’t find it. So I told him to just come back and will take the credits as 45 minutes had already past and I was tired of standing there. A few minutes later it hit me that he may not has looked in all the places to I called him back just as he was getting back on the road and told him to look in another location and sure enough he found the receipt. So he got back to Home Depot and after another 20 minutes of craziness we got our refund... and it only took about 2 hours or so. Once we were done with we bought the box of power tools that Harry really wanted. We paid about 130 bucks for a power drill, a circular saw, a reciprocating saw, a flash light, a33 pc drill and driver set and 2 rechargeable battery packs... not a bad deal. Now that we are home owners will be using this stuff more often.

We grabbed some lunch as we were both starving as we didn't expect it to take 2 + hours to return the flooring. After lunch we headed to Bed Bath & Beyond in Santa Clarita. We picked up two more bar stools. We then went to Costco and signed up for a Executive Membership. For those of you guys who don’t know what Costco is, here a short explanation. Costco is a type of Wholesale/Big Box store with quite significant savings and the Executive Membership pays back 2% on all purchases. After we signed up we started to shop. This place was so big we didn't know where to start. So I picked a corner and we started going up and down the aisle and about about five aisle in our cart of full... it as crazy. We did about 1/3 of the store in two hours and by this time we had to get home to let the dog out so we figured we would come back on the weekend to do the rest of the store. We went to check out and Harry predicted that we had spent about $800 bucks and I said about $500. Well we were both shocked when the total was barely $400, we got a ton of stuff and some good deals. We plan on making Costco our first stop for anything.

By the time we got home it was late as our first stops today went alot longer then expected. I didn't get to do anymore house stuff and starting tomorrow will only have weekends to work on the house. But it was a good day.

New Job, Bar Stools and Lamps

I finally heard back from my former boss about possible coming back to Deadliest Catch for the sixth season. And of course as my life goes they want me back and want me to start the very next day. I figured I had a few weeks as we are still working on the house. But they need me so I managed to push my start date back one day so I can get some stuff done around the house before then.

So the first thing we did was drive to Bed Bath & Beyond in Palmdale to pick up the Bar Stools and the Lamps. We got a really good deal on the lamps, they came as a three pack, 1 floor lamp to 2 desk lamps. We headed over to the Bar Stools and knew we needed the 24" stools to fit our counter. We also knew that we wanted at least 3 stools but of course they had only 2. So we picked them up and planned to go to another BBB in the future to pick up one more.

Once we got home we started to assemble both bar stools. That was fairly easy and straight forward. While Harry assembled the second bar stool I started putting the floor lamp and table lamps together. After we were done we really were pleased with our choices. But we also figured out that we needed a total of 4 bar stools for our island to make it look nice. So when we go to pick up another one will pick up two more.

It's all about Kenobi

Today Harry and I decided to take a break from the house and go visit family (dad, brother, sister-in-law and nephew). We now live about 95 miles (1 hour 40 min) from them. So instead of us traveling every other week to visit will have to limit our visits to once maybe twice a month depending on our schedule. But we haven't seen them since we moved (a month and a half ago). So I got up early and made a few phone calls (dealing with previous utilities). Once Harry got up we got ready and headed out. Once we got there we hung out with everyone for an hour or so. Then went out to lunch with Dad (to our favorite Chinese food Hong Kong). Mike and Lora were going to a Wrestling match and Kenobi was at a babysitters. So when we got back we hung out with Dad and watched some TV. Around 5 we decided to head back as we knew it would take a few hours to get home. So in the end we drove for about four hours and spent about four hours with the family. Harry and I were finally able to take a group picture with Kenobi.. he is a little over 4 months and weighting in at a hefty 17.5 lbs. Man is he adorable.

Finishing up the Kitchen

Today I spent the day doing odds and ends around the house. My goals were to finish the kitchen and office. Of course my best laid plans never work out. Got sidetracked every time by Star Trek The Next Generation and Voyager. But in the end I did manage to finish the Kitchen. Meaning I unpacked, continued to wash everything (Harry started this the day before) and then put everything in it's new home. So with exception of accessories the Kitchen is done. Please keep in mind that we plan on replacing the horrible green tile and counter tops.. but it's going to have to work as is for now.

I also put faux stain glass on the entry way window. We came across this stuff at Lowes (or Home Depot) and we didn't want to do a tiny curtain and we both liked this pattern. It was fairly easy to apply and I think it turned out pretty good.

I did start to work on the office but it was a long day and I was super tired.. there's always tomorrow (oh wait we're visiting family)... there's always the day after tomorrow.

More House Stuff

Today Harry and I did more house things. We started to unpack the rest of the Kitchen boxes. We unpacked the rest of our clothes (well the hanging stuff). And finally we attempted to put up our curtain in our Master Bedroom. It was a trial and error and in the end it's up but will have to be taken down to be fixed but we now understand how to do it and shouldn't have any issues with putting it back up as well as the other three that we have gotten so far.

Little by little we are getting the unpacking done. I was disappointed today that the my Steven Walker picture was too large to hang over the fireplace. The colors were perfect and it would have looked great above the fireplace.. oh well will find some other place in the living/dining room to put it.

We also went to Bed Bath and Beyond and found a floor lamp and two table lamps that we both agree would look great in the living room (for some reason Harry and I have totally different ideas about lamps. Everything else we have the same taste) but we did find some we liked as well as some bar stools for our island. We of course left our coupons at home so we plan to go back and get them next week.

Knights of the Guild Ep 9 pt1

Knights of the Guild Ep 9 pt1

Show Notes:

Here it is Episode 9 part 1 of Knights of the Guild. We hope you enjoy it.

Today’s show features:

• * First up we have a Vorkism.
• * Our location today is a large white room.
• * We discuss Season Three up to Episode 6.
• * We have a little Guild news about the Comic Book and DVD’s.
• * We have a wonderful (double) Cast Interview with Brett (George) and Blake (Baby) Sheridan.

• * We find out what the cast and crew are up too.
• * We have some Fan Feedback.
• * Then we have our final words and we say goodbye.

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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• 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

• Legend of Neil http://www.effinfunny.com/legend-of-neil
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• Geekerdome Network http://geekerdome.com
• Between the Lines Studio Podcast Network http://Betweenthelinesstudio.com
• The Crew Season Two http://www.babelgum.com/thecrew
• The Guild 2 Page Comic Preview Issue 27 http://www.myspace.com/darkhorsepresents
• Megan Lynch’s “Songs The Brothers Warner Taught Me” CD http://meganlynch.bandcamp.com
• Melts in your pocket http://meltsinyourpocket.com

Podcast Promo’s played during the show this week:

• Waffle on
• Tuning into Sci fi TV
• Anomaly
• Take Him With You
• AppyTimes
• Turning Left at Albuquerque
• The Scapecast

Unpacking and Rugs

Today Harry and I unpacked the rest of the Kitchen stuff. We wanted to wash everything or at least rinse everything off but before we could do that we had to go to Lowes to pick up some plumbers puddy to seal the hole where the dishwater release value is attached to the sink. So instead I just unpacked the boxes on to our Island to give us a better idea of what we have and were we are going to put everything.

During this time we got a delivery of a rug that we ordered from Home Depot a few weeks back for our living room. We saw this rug at the Home Depot store but you had to special order it. It has our living room colors and looks great with the place. One more piece of the puzzle. Now we just need a light, pictures and accessories and the living room will be done.

Editing and Black Outs

Today I spent most of the day editing my Knights of the Guild podcast. Both Ep 9 pt1 and pt2. It was a dreary and kind of rainy day today. The winds were howling and there was a storm north and south of us. About mid day the power went out and of course I didn't save my work so I lost about ten minutes of stuff.. luckily Avid has auto save. It was only down for a few minutes and came back on fairly quickly. I finished pt1 of the podcast and prepped it for upload. I got most of pt2 done and just need to cut in a fan interview.. well we have to find a fan and interview them first then I can cut it in.

After editing I hung out with Harry and watched some TV. Like I said it was grey, rainy and cold out so it was a nice TV day. I did manage to go out during a lull in the weather and grab some candle from the garage as I knew the power would be going out again. And sure enough around 9pm it went out again. This time it was out for about ten minutes. We did manage to stumble our way to the box of candles and light few as it's complete pitch black up here in the middle of no where.

No more black out, at least none before I went to bed.. but the storm continued to hit us with wind and rain.

More House Stuff

I've lost track of the number of days we have remodeled. This week has been fairly slow week for remodel. After doing it for a month and a half non-stop I think we are just taking it slower. The house isn't going anywhere and yes we do want to finish we also want to be able to enjoy the house also.

Today we had some tree trimmer comes by and trim down some of our pepper trees.. I guess during the winter the winds really pick up and if you don't trim the trees they tend to blow over. At least this is what we were told. We are still learning about the area but the trees were over grown we could see that but after the trimming they look so bare.

I also cleaned up the deck. I was getting tired of all the crap just sitting out there the past month. So I cleaned up everything and made it look like a deck again. It's also suppose to rain and I didn't want everything to get soaked.

The last thing we did was build the Ikea furniture that we purchased last night. Harry and I sat down and knocked out two night stands, one sofa table and a coffer table in a few hours. They look great and take a step closer to finishing our remodel. I don't like putting stuff together but the Ikea stuff are very easy and and come with great instructions.

Shopping and Unpacking

Today we got up and started to clean off the Deck a bit, the past month the back deck seemed to be the catch all for all the crap that we didn't want in the house. I wanted to clean it up because of the treat of rain.

We first brought the rest of our clothes to the house. There were like 25 hefty bags full of our clothes. I was getting tired of wearing the same things over and over. Now I just need to find the time to unpack them and hang them. Once we did that we drove Harry's truck over to the garage and put all the kitchen and bathroom boxes on it and then drove it to the back door where we unloaded the boxes and put them in the appropriate rooms. Once that was done we I loaded up the truck with all the crap and trash (that we would have to get rid of at a later date) into the truck and drove it back to the garage and put it in the spot where we removed all the clothes and boxes earlier. There was still stuff I wanted to do on the deck but we really wanted to get to Ikea to look for side tables, night stands and other accessories. So we grabbed some lunch at El Pollo and then spent the next three hours walking around Ikea buying up stuff.

In the end we purchased two night stands for our Master bedroom, a sofa table and matching coffee table for our living room, two hanging organizers for the master closet, curtains and rods for our guest bedroom, mater bedroom, pantry and office. We spent around $700 but we got some pretty cool stuff. But the one thing about Ikea is that you have to build all the stuff yourself so that is going to be my day for tomorrow.

Knights of the Guild Ep 8 pt 2

Knights of the Guild Ep 8 pt2

• October 10th, 2009

Show Notes:

Here it is Episode 8 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 my new house were we are trying to upload The Spiers of Dragonor.
• We talk about Behind the Scenes for Season 2 Episode 10 - Socializing Sucks
• We have a wonderful Fan Interview with Markus

• We then have a very long Fan Feedback section with some audio comments
• Then we have our final words and we say goodbye.
• We also have a very cool Contest happening with a wonderful online cookie store called GeekyCookies. Here are the details below or go to their website at http://www.Geekycookies.com

We at GeekyCookies have teamed up with Kenny and Jenni of the Knights of the Guild Podcast to give one lucky Twitter follower a free dozen cookies of their choosing from the GeekyCookies catalog! Entering is as quick as logging into your Twitter account!

To enter:

• Log onto your Twitter account (or sign up for one).
• You must be following BOTH @GeekyCookies AND @KnightsofGuild.
• Once you’ve successfully followed both accounts, tweet the following:

  “I want FREE COOKIES from @GeekyCookies #GeekyCookies”

• You must enter within the contest period, starting Saturday, October 10th and ending Wednesday, October 14th 12:00AM PST
• And that’s it!

ONE (1) Winner will be selected at random from participants who live in the U.S. and meet ALL the above requirements. The winner will be announced on Thursday, October 15th at 5:00PM PST. Winner will then be contacted privately to retrieve the necessary information to send prize. Good luck to all those who enter!

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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• 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
• Knights of the Guild Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/knightsoftheguild
• 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