Blizzcon Day 2

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

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

Tomorrow we got to our new house and start painting.

Keys

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

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

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

Knights of the Guild Ep7 pt2

Knights of the Guild Episode 7 Part 2

Show Notes:

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

Today’s show features:

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

• We have our Fan Feedback.
• We ask for Donations and Thank those who already donated.
• Mention important links
• Then we have our final words and we say goodbye.

Please send your audio or written comments to knightsoftheguild@gmail.com or you can leave your comments in the comment section of this site.

Thank you again for all your support, we do this podcast because we are fans and more importantly for the fans.

Kenny & Jenni

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We Got The House!!!

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

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

Blizzcon Day 1

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

Transformers 2

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

Finally Signing the Papers

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tackling the Garage pt. 2

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

Our First Interview

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

Seeing the Light

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

The Guild Music Video

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

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

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

Tackling the Garage

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

KOTG Contest #1

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

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

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

This photo is 11x17

Now for contest details:

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

Please make the promo between 30 to 90 seconds.

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

Please email all entries to Knightsoftheguild@gmail.com

Contest deadline will be October 1st.

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