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.