Day Before House Warming

Today Harry and I have a ton of things to do before tomorrow. We were finally having our house warming party after 1 failed attempt back in Feburary when it was rained out. This time around it looks to be sunny and beautiful outside.

We've done a ton of work on the house and it's finally feeling like a home. We still need a few things like rug for our dining room and a coffee table to our living room but for the most part things look good. Today we focused one big thing and lots of small things. We knew we were going to wait to do the big cleaning tomorrow morning so today I worked on finishing up our "Star Trek" plate wall (it turned out GREAT). I worked on the Jason Palmer prints and putting them into their frames (which was a pain in the butt because they had to be just center). Harry got up and started to prep the hardwood floors and get them ready for their good cleaning tomorrow. We went shopping one last time for air blower, weed whacker and a few other items. I kept putting off the large project because I wasn't looking forward to doing it.

Finally there was nothing left to do and it was getting dark so I tackled the one big project in our office. When we painted a few months back we left an entire wall white as a friend of mine Greg Aronowitz is going to paint us a Star Trek Mural. Well he's such a busy guy and just hasn't had the time to do it and we've been looking at this white wall for 8 months and since it was our housewarming tomorrow I decided I was going to paint it.. so while we were out we purchased a gallon of the accent color in that room and started to paint. The hardest part was pulling the 2 desks back and trying not to break anything. I had about two feet of space between the wall and desks. It was tough trying to maneuver the ladder in such a small space and also not step in the paint tray. What was crazy is that the easiest part of the job was the actually painting and when I pulled off the painters tape the line were actually in good shape that I didn't feel I needed to repaint anything (I was so excited).

Later that night we went shopping for the BBQ, had to pick up hot dogs, hamburger, beer, soda and a much of other sides. There were 26 yes invites and 13 maybes so we bought food for 40 just to be on the safe side.

So all we have to do now is put up my Jason Palmer pictures and do one final cleaning of the house before noon tomorrow.

Man am I'm sore after painting.. I'm not as young as I use to be. :)

The Last Airbender

Today they released the full trailer for M. Night Shyamalan new movie The Last Airbender. It's based on a cartoon and it looks AWESOME.. I can't wait for this one.

Podcasting and Stuff

Today I had an interview lined up with a Guild Fan for our upcoming podcast Ep. 15 pt. 2. So at 8pm Jenni and I got on skype with our friend Eva for the interview. It was quick and to the point lasting about 7 minutes.. it was a good though short interview.

After that I did a little editing work on the episode. Earlier that day I had gotten the Sean Becker Guild Something segment and so I cut in both of those segments. So all is left to do is cut in the SFX and do one final pass before I level it, convert it and then upload it.

I won't be posted until the End of April (I'm thinking Friday April 30th)

Gotta start planning to record our next episode.. man for a hobby this takes up alot of my time. :)

Guild Comic

Today the second issue of the Guild comic came out.. so while I was at lunch with my friend Brian we stopped by a local comic book shop and I picked up the comic.. I actually bought six issues, 3 of each covers. I also have another set on the way in the mail. But 1 set is for a friend in The Netherlands who asked me to purchase his since it costs him ($70) in shipping. The others will be for contest prizes. I hope to get Felicia and the cast to sign a few. Can't wait to read them.

Work - Wow

Well today I got a call from my supervisor about my email yesterday. She was really pushing for me to take the new job and I got a feeling so I asked, "Are they letting me going sooner then later? Is that why you are trying to get me to take the other job?" She didn't come out and tell me but I told her that I was fine if they let me go early, I'm very unhappy here and would rather be unemployed and able to look for another job then stay here for another 3 months. And if I'm let go I can collect unemployment insurance which will help while I'm looking for work. So I guess it's just a mater of time before they let me go. Was suppose to have a meeting with the show runner but it never happened.. will see if it happens today.

Tron Shirts

I saw a tweet about these T's and I am so close to buying one.. actually was going to buy one for me and my brother for his upcoming birthday. I got to checking out and realized that they don't take Paypal and I hate using my credit card to so closed the window but the more I look at them the more I want one. I'm sure I'll get one in the end. :)

http://www.threadless.com/product/2281/My_Other_Ride_Is_a_Light_Cycle

Work - Made My Choice

Well I talked with Harry over the weekend and as much as I dislike my current job I can't take a demotion in position and a pay cut. Also Comic Con is at the end of July, Harry's family will be coming in from Austria in July/August and he and I plan to travel the west coast a bit in August. So if I took the new job I wouldn't be able to do all that as I wouldn't be able to take six weeks off of work.

So I'm going to email my supervisor and say thanks but no thanks I'll stick it out until this job ends.

Shopping

Harry and I went shopping again, seems like this is all we do on weekends, but we needed to find some borders for some picture frames that we got the previous week for my Jason Palmer Art for our TV room. While we were out I wanted to see if we could find some night stands for our guest bedroom.

We started at Ikea as we had looked everywhere for night stands and couldn't find ones we liked. After walking through the entire store we found some very cool night stands that we both liked. Next we purchased a side table lamp. We want something a bit funky and found a really cool sphere light. We also picked up some round candles for our candle sticks that are sitting on our mantle.

After that we had lunch/dinner at Chevy's then headed to Michael's to get the borders for the picture frames. There are six pictures so we opted to get three dark green and three dark blue borders for the picture.. they should compliment them well.

Jeep Top

For the past few months.. okay more like a year I have needed to replace my soft top on my Jeep. Every time it rained the top was so sun dried that the water would go right through and I would have to wear a hoodie so to keep from getting wet while driving. I also had towels on the seats because whenever it rained, they would get soaked.

I finally purchased one about five months ago and it's been sitting in my closet waiting to be put on. Now it sat there partly because I was lazy but in the instructions it says that when replacing the top it needs to be at least 70 degrees so the canvas will stretch. Well I could only do it on weekends and it seemed every weekend it was either cold or rainy and I couldn't do it.. on the weekends it was nice outside we would do something else and I would totally forget.

Anyways long story short when I took the dog out this morning the sun was beaming down and it felt very hot (and it was only 8:30am). So I check the temp and it was only 52 degrees but man did it feel hotter so I took a chance and decided that I was going to replace the top.

I read through the instruction, and I had to remove the old top.. once that was removed it was so much easier to understand the instructions as all I had to do was copy what I did to take off the top but backwards. It took about an hour and a half but I finally got everything back on and it looks great. I thought it was actually going to be very snug but it's actually kind of loose.. not too loose but not as tight as I had expected. Haven't taken it on the freeway yet so that will the real test.