It's Tax Time

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

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

Podcasts, Podcasts and More Podcasts

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

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

Inpromt to Podcast

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

Negative Comments

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

Lunch with Christopher

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

Knights of the Guild Episode One

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

The Guild Cast Live Web Chat

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

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

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

Knights of the Guild Podcast

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

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

Now it's time to plan out podcast #2

Guild Cast Interviews

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

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

Knights of the Guild Ep. 1

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

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

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

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

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