Guild Secret Santa

I'm participating in The Guild Secret Santa gift exchange. I haven't gotten my gift yet but the person I had drawen got his and he really seemed to like what I got him. He's in England so I was just happy that it got to him in time for Christmas. Here are some pictures that my buddy Markus sent.

Lazy Saturday

I love lazy Saturdays.. I have a ton of things I could be doing but sometime you just have to kick back, watch TV and hang out with those you love.

That's what I did today.. I did manage to wrap all of our Christmas presents, but that took a whole lot of effort.. but other then that I sat and watch hours and hour of recorded TV shows.

Sherlock Holmes

Today I was lucky enough to get an advance screening of the new Sherlock Holmes movie. The PRG (Producer's Guild of America) were sponsoring it. Since Harry didn't want to see it I took my friend Greg Aronowitz who really wanted to see it. It was playing at some Guild theater so no food or drinks allowed and because it was a pre-screening they didn't allow any cell phones.

Two hours flew by and what an AWESOME movie. I'm not going to give away any spoilers just my general thoughts of the film. It was a fun, murder mystery type movie. The acting was great, RDJ was the perfect Holmes and Jude Law was fantastic as Watson. It was funny, sad, action packed and kept you guessing the entire way through. I loved how it was shot and how they would slow things down and drop the audio.

I'm not a huge Sherlock Holmes fan so I don't know how true this is to the original but it was entertaining and I can't wait to see it again after Christmas. Here's hoping it does well so we can get a sequel.

Going Bald

I have been trying to deny this for the longest time but no longer.. I'm going bald!!!!

I have noticed that my hair has been getting thinner and thinner on top since my late 20's. It was hard at first because I had such a great head of curly hair all my life and now I was starting to see thinning. I went to the doctors and see if there was anything that could be done but alas he informed me that my hair lose has the characteristics of male pattern baldness.

For the next few years I tried to hide my thinning hair. I would grow it out and since it was long and curly I was able to comb it in a way where you couldn't see the thinning. Then while getting a hair cut the stylist told me that if the hair is shorter the thinning is less noticeable and she was right.. so I started shaving my head every few months and kept my hair super short.. that worked for a while but this last year life's been a bit stressful (buying a house) and I have notice that my hair has gone from thinning to being bald.

I don't know what changed but instead of trying to hide it or be embarrassed by it, I embraced it.. so I'm going bald, I don't know if I'll go completely bald (at least on top) but you know what.. I don't care. I can't do anything about it as I'm not buying a toupee.. I may try hair transplant down the road but for now I just have to live with it.

So here I am in all my baldness :)

The Guild Sell Out!!! Xmas Special

This is what I was working on a few Sunday's ago that I couldn't talk about.. The Guild Christmas Special. I'm actually in two of them.. see if you can see me (one is obvious and one isn't so much).

Intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3_PDrJO8Zc&feature=sub

Codex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0gzL-3_CAg&feature=sub

Vork: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMcm7Se-KpY&feature=sub

Tink: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOMffR3h4Fg&feature=sub

Clara: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Nc63RDRzc&feature=sub

Zaboo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRE6nJMAWsg&annotation_id=annotation_991892&feature=iv

Bladezz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juCvu9cbLJ8&feature=sub

The Guild Comic Book

This is what Felicia has been working on the past few months.. The Guild comic book..

Felicia Day (W), Jim Rugg (A), Dan Jackson, Georges Jeanty (Cover), and Cary Nord (Cover)
On sale Mar 24
FC, 32 pages
$3.50
Miniseries

Internet phenomenon The Guild comes to comics, courtesy of series creator, writer, and star Felicia Day


(Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog)!

Chronicling the hilarious on- and offline lives of a group of Internet role-playing gamers, the Knights of Good, The Guild has become a cult hit and is the winner of numerous awards from SXSW, YouTube, Yahoo, and the Streamys. Now Day brings the wit and heart of the show to this three-issue miniseries. In this origin tale of the Knights of Good, we learn about Cyd’s life before joining the guild, how she became Codex, and how she began to meet the other players who would eventually become her teammates. This storyline fills in details never before revealed on the web show, making it a delightful new chapter for existing fans as well as a perfect jumping-on point for new fans!

• The Guild is “perhaps the smartest (and definitely the funniest) webisodic series of the year.”

—The Los Angeles Times

• The web series is the winner of three 2009 Streamy Awards: Best Comedy Web Series, Best Ensemble, and Best Actress for Felicia Day.

• See the web series at watchtheguild.com.

The Internet phenomenon The Guild comes to comics!

Knights of the Guild Ep11 pt1

Show Notes:

Here it is Episode 11 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 UStream
• * We discuss our thoughts on the S3 Finale along with written comments from listeners.
• * We have a great crew Interview with one of the funniest guys I know Jeff Lewis (Vork)

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

This podcast was recorded live, you can watch the video on our UStream channel - http://www.ustream.tv/channel/knights-of-the-guild You do need a password to access it. The password is KOTG

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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• Geekerdome Network http://geekerdome.com

• Between the Lines Studio Podcast Network http://Betweenthelinesstudio.com

• Horrible Turn http://horribleturn.com

• Teal Sherer Play “Proof” https://www.plays411.net/newsite/show/play_info.asp?show_id=2197

• The Return of El Diablo http://www.eldiabloreturns.com/

• Signed Legend of Neil Shirts http://tinyurl.com/NeilHolidayDeal

• Rick Moyer’s Stargazer CD http://www.takehimwithyou.com/stargazer/

• Rick Moyer’s A Christmas Caroled http://www.takehimwithyou.com/achristmascaroled/

• Jeff Lewis’ movie http://www.forchristssakemovie.com/

• Jeff Lewis’ growing up pictures http://twitpic.com/pb9yb

• Special KOTG discount on The Guild ‘Spires of Dragnor” 11×17 Poster. Only 200 made.. individually numbered. http://nearmintmedia.com/kotg/

Podcast Promo’s played during the show this week:

• Anomaly
• Worlds of Wayne

Putting up the tree

Well it's a two weeks late but we are finally putting up and decorating our new Christmas Tree. This year has been a bit different. Not only are we two weeks late from when I normally like to get a tree but this year we got a fake Christmas tree. Took some doing be we got the tree put together and fluffed. We then put additional lights (colored) on, then bulbs, then orinments and finally candy canes. And to top it off we put on our new tree topper.. Jedi Yoda. I have to say this is one of my favorite trees we have had. With the decorations around the living room everything really came together well. Check out the video below..

Xmas Tree and Family

Today the weather was much better, but regardless of the weather I was going to put up Christmas lights and we were going to get a Christmas Tree. So I started early in the morning on our back deck hanging lights on the back of the house since that was the part that over looked the hill and that folks would see the most. I didn't want to put staple holes in the trim of the house so I stapled the lights to the top of the roof. I manage to cover the back side of the house and then had to figure out how and what I was going to do for the rest of the house. First of all I didn't have a tall enough ladder to get on the roof. I didn't want to put holes on the trim and I really couldn't figure out where I wanted all the lights.. so I opted to not put lights up this year.. it's only 12 more day till Christmas and this was much more a hassle then it should have been. I'll do it next year and have a better game plan before the time comes. So with that I pulled down the few that I had put up and once Harry was up we went Christmas Tree shopping.

We normally get our trees from Home Depot as they have nice and cheap trees. Before that we went a little Christmas shopping at Target and while there we checked out some of the artificial trees. Both Harry and I have talked about getting one but I have been opposed to them for the longest time but this time around and they fact that they look so real now I was interesting in getting one. Target was having a 50% off sale on all their trees. We found two that we liked.. one pre-lite and one not.. the one that wasn't pre-lite looked a bit nicer and we both agreed that , that was the one for us.. of course they were sold out. They did have 2 of the other pre-lite ones but instead we decided to head 30 minutes south to the Santa Clarita Target and see if they had the tree that we really liked. We figured if they didn't we would get the pre-lite one from them.. as surely they would have some.

Well we get to the second Target and they had less then the first and were out of both Trees that we liked. We went next door to Lowes and there artificial trees were not an sale and didn't look as good. We checked out there live trees and they were the most pathetic things we saw. We opted to head back to the first Target and hope that one of the 2 pre-lite trees were still there.. if not we could always go to Home Depot, which was are original plan. Our luck changed and they still have one of the pre-lite trees that we liked. So we got a $300 tree for $150. Can't wait to put it up.

Oh while at Target we came across one of the best Tree Toppers around..

Took us almost 4 hours to get the tree but we came home for a half hour, visited with the dog and then headed to my Dad's to visit. Got to Dad's around 6pm and went out to our favorite Chinese restaurant and then back to his place to visit my brother, sister-in-law and nephew Kenobi. Spent about 3 hours with them and finally head home.. got home around 10:30pm and we were tired.. figured we will put the tree up after work tomorrow.. can't wait.

Doctor Horrible Comic Books

With all this gloomy weather there was a bright spot.. I got my Doctor Horrible Comic book. It came out a few weeks ago but sold out quickly so I ordered mine from Ebay and got it today.... and because I'm a geek I had to have all three covers. Can't wait to read it...

Xmas Tree Shopping.. NOT

Today was my big day.. I as going to put up Christmas lights and go out and buy our Christmas tree. I was very excited because it's only a few weeks till Christmas and this is the latest I have very done these things. Well we have had cold weather and rain the past few days and today was no different.. it rained and rained. Instead we were stuck in the house, which wasn't a bad thing just not what we wanted to be doing today.. we did manage to head into town to get some groceries but that was about all we did outside and it rained, rained and rained.

Rain or Shine.. I'm buying my Christmas Tree and putting up lights tomorrow!!!!

New Harry Potter DVD's

Got my new Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince blu-ray DVD but what I really was excited to get was my Harry Potter Year 1 & 2 Ultimate Edition DVD. There are some cool new extras, the movies have the deleted scenes cut back into them and for the first time directors commentary. They are releasing two years every years.. Years 1 & 2 in 2009., Years 3 & 4 in 2010, Years 5 & 6 2011 and Years 7pt1 & 7pt2 n 2012. Can't wait till I can watch them.

What a Morning

Today I had a doctors appointment. My doctor is out in West Hollywood and the appointment was for 9:20am. So not knowing how long it would take to get to West Hollywood and the fact it was raining I got up at 6:30am and left my house by 7am. Traffic was actually not bad and the rain wasn't coming down hard so things were looking up. I got to my doctors office at 8:20am and found a metered spot right our front... looking good.

So I had an hour to kill. I had brought my netbook that Harry had bought me for my birthday. I was hoping to find some open wifi and surf the net.. bamm a very strong open signal, so I sat in my jeep listening to Christmas music and surfing the net.. life was good... until....

Around 9am I figure I would start packing up my computer and get ready to head up to the doctors office. As I was getting out of my car I pulled the keys out of the ignition and my warning bell went off.. it means my headlights are on. I then thought to myself.. "Oh Crap!!!! I had my engine off, headlights on and the radio on for the past hour... please, please battery don't be dead.. " I go to start the car and nothing.. I try again and get the familiar click click click sound of a dead battery. Okay.. not horrible, I'll call AAA when I get out of the appointment and they will come and give me a jump. So I exit the jeep and walk over to the meter and start to put quarters in. first quarter :15 minutes, second quarter :30 minutes, third quarter :30 minutes, fourth quarter :30 minutes.. wait a minute.. I'm parked in a 30 minute only metered spot and my appointment was still 20 minutes.. No problem that's plenty of time to find another parking spot... So I start to head back to my driving side when it hits me that my jeep battery is dead. I can't move the car.. so I'm stuck with a doctors appointment in 15 minutes and my jeep is at a :30 minute parking only.

I said screw it and hoped for the best.. I put in another quarter and brought my time up to :30 minutes and headed to my doctors office. I sat there watching the time click by as my :30 minute disappeared. Now I could only hope I get down there before a meter maid got to my meter. Thirty minutes pass the allotted time I head back down to my car and sure enough there is parking ticket on the wind shield for $40 bucks.

Sometimes life just SUCKS!!! But on a positive note I got in my jeep and after a few drives it started right up.

Rain, Rain and More Rain

Winter has begun.. well maybe not on the calendar but up where we live it's been getting colder and colder every night..on average we hit about 22f at night and today it's the start of what they say will be a wet week. I'm happy for us because we need the rain.. it not only waters all our planets but replenishes our well.. so yay rain.. just wish it was cold enough to actually now. Everytime it starts to rain the temp goes up to about 37f .. oh well.. this is only the beginning.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

This is another fantasy novel series that I have heard good things about.. they just released a new teaser trailer.. I'm really looking forward to this one next summer.

And it continues

Yep.. today we spent all day trying to figure out the one audio issue we were having. We knew it was a bad clip but we couldn't find it.. we narrowed the two hour show to 1 hour, then 30 minutes, then 15 minutes then 4 minutes then 2 minutes and finally at the end of the day we found the clip that was causing the issue and fixed it.. Now it seems to be back in order..

Along the way we had tape issues.. not so much our issue but they couldn't find tapes that were needed for digitizing. So spent hours looking for a few tapes that I knew we did not have in our building.

Is this week over yet??

No Snow

Woke up this morning and looked out side but there was no snow.. at least not on our property. We are surrounded by hills that are about a 1000 feet higher then us and they were all snow capped. Our house, deck, and cars were all layered in a thin sheet of ice. It was 24 F outside and it was painfully cold. We have another storm coming on Thursday.. maybe will actually get snow that will stick this time. I'll keep you posted.

Cold, Rain and... SNOW

Today was our first winter storm.. it rained all day long, sometimes hard and sometime light. Traffic was horrible coming into work but I managed to take an alternate way into work so it wasn't that bad. While at work Harry would send reports of lakes forming at our house. The Grapevine was shut down because of snow and I figured it was going to be horrible traffic going home, but once on the road traffic was light. Maybe everyone was avoiding the 5 because of the shut down but I got into Agua Dulce in no time. I was almost home when Harry called and said that the once lakes in our driveway area were now frozen over and that I needed to be careful. As I was driving down the dirt road I noticed stuff falling from the sky.. it wasn't rain as it was not hitting my wind shield. When I got home I got out of my jeep and realized that it was actually snowing. It wasn't alot but it was snow.. I was very excited as I've only seen snow fall a few times in my lifetime and now it was snowing at my house. I was hoping it would rain again as it was now in the low 20's and if it rained it would snow for sure... guess will find out tomorrow when I wake up.

Work Hell Continues

Of course after a horrible week last week I was hoping this week would be better since we got our recap done and didn't have anything due until Jan 2010.. well first thing I get a call and was informed that there was an issue with the audio of the recap.. spent the rest of the day trying to figure out what the issue was.. couldn't do it so now we have to go bit by bit and check clip by clip and see if we can figure out where the bad clip is... not how I wanted to start my week.

Top Secret Shoot

Today I spent all day on a top secret shoot.. from 7:30am to 8:30pm. While on the shoot I did meet some celebrities Brea Grant, she played Daphne from Heroes and David Blue from Stargate Universe and Ugly Betty. That was alot of fun. I can't say much more about the project excepted my buddy Greg Aronowitz the very talented SFX guru directed it. I was an extra in several scenes as well as shooting behind the scenes and still photos.. guess I'm getting known for that now. Once this is released I'll be able to share more stories and pictures. It was a long but very fun day.

Decorating for Christmas

After our friends left for the day.. Harry and I went into our decorating mode, well I did at least, Harry helped where needed. This will be our first Christmas in our new home.. This is my favorite holiday and I love decorating. I decided to decorate only the living room area and I think it turned out pretty nice. We still have to get our Christmas tree (hopefully this week) but I'm liking how it's turning out.

House Guest/ BBQ

Today we had our very first house guests.. we had a BBQ and several of our friend made the Trek up to our new house. It was great fun to show them around the property. We had several firsts.. we used our fireplace for the first time and we also used our dining table. It was alot of fun hanging out in our living room with the fire roaring and just chatting. No TV, just good ol' conversation. They seemed to really like our place. Here are some pixs we took next to our first fire.
Tom and Ervin

Kenny, Daisy and Harry

Bruce

KOTG Microcast 12 - Quest for a Winner

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This microcast announces the winner of our Favorite Guild Quote Impersonation.

We had 14 entries: Vadergirl, Dave Deenik, Julie McCormick x2, Adam Linden, Mark Donica, Kevin Bachelder, Filip “Pilipp” Pruszek, Mike Bell, Harky Lentil, Bard Lehigh, Robert Collier, Brent Latham and Matt Brown

Our winner is…. you’ll have to listen to the podcast to find out

Hope you guys enjoy it,

Kenny & Jenni

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• Knights of the Guild Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/knightsoftheguild
• Follow us on twitter @knightsofguild

• Call Knights of the Guild 818-308-KOTG (5684) Let’s us know what you think of our show. Give your thoughts on the current season of The Guild or just say hi. US folks can use the widget on our websites to call for FREE.

• 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

• The Guild http://watchtheguild.com

• Geekerdome Network http://geekerdome.com

• Between the Lines Studio Podcast Network http://Betweenthelinesstudio.com

Recording a Podcast

After a hard and long day at work I had to get home to record a microcast with Jenni.. we had done a contest for our Knights of the Guild podcast that had ended on Dec. 1st and folks were waiting for the winner. I wanted to announce it in a podcast so Jenni and I recorded the intro and outro. After recording it I realized I had made a mistake and then we recorded again and once again I had made a mistake and we recorded for a third time. So it seemed my horrible luck at work followed me home.. we eventually got it done and it turned out great.. I'll be posting it tomorrow.

Another one of THOSE days

Work has been crazy as we are trying to get the recap episode done. It's already behind schedule and it just continues to fall behind. My AE's Brian and Jeremy have been working all day on getting this show locked and prepped for online. Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong. It's super late and I'm tired but it looks like everything is done and the recap show can go to online.. now we wait for Monday and see if there are any issues.. and with our luck I'm sure there will be.

So glad this week is over...

KOTG Microcast #11 Quest for S3 Finale

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This microcast is all about the Fans

Season 3 just aired it’s FINAL episode last Tuesday and we wanted to hear what the fans thought. Did they like it? What did the think of the final scene? Several regulars along with some noobs called in and left us some voice messages.

We also got some written comments and we share those along with our own thoughts in our regular episode #11, coming out Dec. 15th.

Hope you guys enjoy it,

Kenny & Jenni

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• Knights of the Guild Fan page on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group
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• Knights of the Guild Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/knightsoftheguild
• Follow us on twitter @knightsofguild

• Call Knights of the Guild 818-308-KOTG (5684) Let’s us know what you think of our show. Give your thoughts on the current season of The Guild or just say hi. US folks can use the widget on our websites to call for FREE.

• 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

• The Guild http://watchtheguild.com

• Geekerdome Network http://geekerdome.com

• Between the Lines Studio Podcast Network http://Betweenthelinesstudio.com

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

Podcast Promo’s played during the show this week:

• The Scapecast
• Treks in Sci Fi

World AIDS Day

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The Truth is Out There

If you know that tag line then you'll know this series. Today we received from Amazon all nine seasons of The X-Files. I was a huge fan of this series back in the 90's and watch every episode. When I saw that Amazon was selling the seasons for only $12.49 each I couldn't pass it up. I've always wanted the series but in the past they have been over $100 per season. So when I saw the deal I called up Harry and asked if he would be interested in having he entire series and he agreed that we should get them. Now will have to have an X-Files marathon.

Garage

Today I finally did what I have been wanting for do for the past month.. no it wasn't finish painting the master bathroom it was cleaning up the garage (my future Toy Room). I spent about four or five hours out there moving things around. I also pulled out our Xmas stuff so I can started hanging lights and decorating the house. Still not sure how we are going to remodel the garage with all the stuff in it.. but I'm sure will figure out something.

More DVD Screeners

This week I have gotten more DVD screeners.. this is one of the huge perks of being a member of the Producer's Guild of America. This time around I got a few that I actually want to see.. like Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince which I saw twice in the theater and comes out on DVD in a few weeks but I really loved that movie. I also got Coraline and 9. I have seen 9 and enjoyed it and really wanted to see Coraline. Still have a few more weeks hopefully I'll get some more that I am wanting to see.

Home Stuff

Today while Harry was outside cleaning up the drains we have on our hillside I was putting up the toilet and towel bar up. And of course it never goes as planned. I first stated with the toilet paper bar. I got everything ready and pre-drilled the holes with our new drill, I then started to screw the plate to the side of the cabinet and realized that the screws that came with the bar were so crappy that the drill and all it's power striped them. I then had one screw almost in all the way and the other one two-thirds of the way out. I then found better screws that we had lying around and screwed in the second support piece with no issue. I had to take a pair of pliers and slowly unscrew the one that was two-thirds of the way out. It was a slow process but I manage to get that screw out. I went to the other one and sure enough as my luck would have it.. the tip broke clean off leaving the screw stuck in the cabinet. In frustration I accidentally knocked over the drill and snapped the drill bit in half. I was not a happy camper. I persevered and slowly but surely I unscrewed the broke screw from the cabinet. Once I had that out I used two better screws and had the toilet bar up in no time.

My next adventure was putting up the towel bar. There were already holes form the previous towel bar but again as my luck would have it they were horizontal and of course our new towel bar had vertical holes so I have to first drill holes and then hammer in the drywall screw supports. It wasn't as bad as the toilet bar but it wasn't a cake walk.. in the end both bar are up and look very nice. What I thought would be a half hour job turned into a two hour pain in the butt... I love home ownership.

Computer Fixes

Today I had an interview scheduled for my podcast Knights of the Guild, but currently my computer is making so much noise that it would be impossible to record said interview. So I checked out my computer and realized it was the fan/power supply that was making all the noise. I swore I would not go out shopping today (being Black Friday) but I needed a quiet computer for tonight. We ventured out to Frys and as we expected traffic and people were everywhere. We did manage to find what we needed fairly quietly which is a shock since we normally walk around for hours looking for it. And the line wasn't bad at all.. it actually wasn't a bad shopping day.. since we had luck with Fry's we went to Target to check out high chairs and clothes for Kenobi for Christmas but in the end only picked up some guest bathroom items that we needed.

I got home manage to pull apart my computer and found out that the new power supply that we got didn't actually fit my computer.. meaning the plug was on the opposite side and I had to use metal shears and cut a hole in the back of the metal plating of my computer so I could plug it in. When all was said and done the new power supply worked and my computer was humming quietly. I'm not ready for the interview.

Kenobi

While at my aunts for Thanksgiving but brother, sister in law and nephew were there. Kenobi had been up all day and wasn't in a good mood and was crying alot. For some reason every time my mom would approach him he would get upset.. we all thought it was funny but mom.. no so much. Anyways I got to finally hold him. While I was holding him I started to bounce and he started to laugh.. we caught it on camera. He's so adorable...

Happy Thanksgiving

Today Harry and I went over to my Aunt Joyce's for Thanksgiving dinner. It was just the sisters of my mom's side of the family. Joyce, Carol (my mom) and Linda. It's funny because each sister had two boys. The picture above has the mom standing in front of their boys.

It was a fun time I haven't seen my cousin Dillon or Dwayne for over 10 years. It was nice catching up and it was also fun hanging with my Aunt Joyce. Dinner was fantastic, company was fun, we played games and chatted. All in all a very nice Thanksgiving.

Jury Summons

Barely a few months in the new house and I get a Jury Summons. I have been lucky over the years with these as I have never been called in. Funny thing is the start date is 06/30/2007.. like several years ago. I'm afraid if I call the number I will have to do Jury duty and my job doesn't pay for it so it would be some major financial hardship, which you can no longer claim. Not sure what I'm going to do.

Goodies in the Mail

Today at work wasn't as horrible as it was yesterday.. it was super busy but I was in a much better mood and was handling the stress much better. On a good note when I got home I had gotten a two packages.

First one was my Star Trek Christie's Auction House Catalogues. Christies had a HUGE Star Trek prop and costume auction a few years back and you could guy the catalogue with all the pictures and information about each item. It was going for $90 and I really wanted them but couldn't bring myself to spending that much. But a few days ago I found them on Ebay for only $20 for both + $5 for shipping. I couldn't pass them up.. so I got them. Can't wait to have some free time to look through them.

The second package were my new mic stands. I've always like the swing arm mic stands.. to me they seem more professional. So I spend an hour setting both of them up.. can't wait till Jenni and I do our next podcast.

Still haven't figured out what is wrong with my computer :(

New Computer????

Got up this morning and turned n my PC.. soon as it started there was this very loud noise coming from the processor. I immediately turned it off and restarted it and it seemed fine. About a half hour into surfing the net it started again. I didn't have time to investigate. I just turned it off and figured I would have to look into it more when I got home.

Not sure what the deal is yet but it's over five years old and it might be time to replace it. Now the question is do I get a PC or a Mac???

One of THOSE days

Today was one of those days. Every person who came into my office annoyed me. Everything they said rubbed me the wrong way. It didn't help that I was at work for 12 hours but it took all my will power not to go off (which if you know me takes an awful lot). I'm normally good at letting thing run off my back but some from reason I couldn't do that today..I guess we all have THOSE days. Hope tomorrow is better.

Household duties

Well today I had planned to finish painting the master bathroom.. but I had the hardest time motivating myself.. in the end we only hung blinds in the office and guest room, which was a tough job but we spent the rest of the day hanging out and watching TV.

It's funny going into the weekend you have so many plans but putting them into action is very tough, especially after spending months and months remodeling. I know this stuff needs to get done and I'm sure it will soon enough.. just not today.

Stuff Around the House

So much stuff still to do but it's the weekend and after a long work week it's hard to motivate myself to do anything. But of course I did do somethings. Here was my Saturday.

• Had a skype call with my buddies from Treks in Sci Fi for their next podcast
• Pulled out stuff (DVD's and accessories) from the garage and attempted to try and figure out what I was going to do next with it. I need to clean it up and try and make room for the contractor to start building my toy room. Harry and I also walked around the property and discussed all the yard work that needed done.. As for the garage I gave up, too overwhelmed.
  
• Went and had lunch at Denny's
• Went to Target and picked up some dog stuff along with a few accessories for the house.
• Went to Bed Bath and Beyond and got a few more accessories for the house as well as some Xmas presents for Harry.
• Went to Pet Smart to pick up a new dog lease for Daisy and also got a new playmate for her.
• And finally went to Home Depot to pick up paint for our master bathroom which I am suppose to paint tomorrow.

Once I was home it was dark and I was exhausted from running around so I chilled. I tried several times to motivate myself to get up and do something but all I managed was pulling the DVD's out of boxes and setting them by the DVD racks. So I didn't do everything I wanted too.. but I did do some things. I know we have a life time of living here so we are in no rush but I would love to have a day when there is nothing to do on this house.. I'm sure the day will come but it seems so far away.

More Sceeners

Today I got more screeners.. that's one huge perk of being part of the PGA (Producer's Guild of America). So far I have gotten The Stoning of Soraya M., 500 Days of Summer, An Education, The Informant, Julie and Julia, Where the Wild Things Are, and today I got Up. I've also gotten a ton of invites to screenings but those are so much harder to attend because of scheduling. So screeners come on handy. Hopefully I'll get a for more before the end of the year.

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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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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• Upsidedown Happyland
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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.