Going Gray.. not!!!

Today in between podcasting I took a break to dye my hair. Well at least over it up for six weeks (so the box says). I've used the "Just for Men" before and liked the results so I opted to do it again. And once again it turned out pretty good. It's funny the box says it only targets the gray hairs but it actually darkens all my hair, which I don't mind. It's only temporary and the gray will be back. I don't mind gray hair as the years pass I'm just happy to still have a little hair left to turn gray.

Recording with Teal

Today after work I headed over to my friends Teal and Ali's house for some dinner. Teal and I were also going to record an episode of my Knights of the Guild podcast. I haven't done a "regular" Knights of the Guild podcast in a few months and really want to get them going again.

So I got to their place around 7:30, we had some yummy dinner and good conversation. Around 8:30 I set up my studio in Teal's office. Was using all my new equipment (Thank you all). Teal was my guinea pig not only my first new co-host with this new formatted Knights of the Guild but I hadn't worked with this new equipment in the field yet. Everything looked great until I realized that Garageband only recorded for 8 minutes at a time. I knew there had to be away to change the length as many friends us it to record long podcasts but for the life of me I couldnt' figure it out. Luckily I had my back up plan and had my awesome new hand held recorder and after a few false starts we got the podcast going. After an hour we were done and I think for a first attempt it went pretty good. If you listen to my podcast you know it's very structured and this new format felt all over the place. It's going to take some creative editing to piece it all together but I'm liking the idea of this newly revamped format for Knights of the Guild.. hopefully the listeners will like it too. It was suppose to come out Sept. 15th but I think I'm going to wait and really make it good and release it on Oct. 1st as the new podcasts come out on the 1st of every month.

Anyways it was a fun night hanging with my buddy Teal.. she's a sweetheart.

Potter Happiness

Today after a very long and stressful week I came home to a package on my door step. I had an idea of what it was and was very excited. The past few years I've been collecting Harry Potter mini busts (among others) and a few weeks prior I had found this really good deal of a set of four Harry Potter busts, Luna, Dobby, Sirius and Harry Potter (1st edition). Now these busts pop up on ebay from time and time and each can go for $100 to $250 each. Well I put my max bid in for all four at $300 and when it ended I won them for $280 + $13 shipping. So I roughly paid $75 a figure, which in my book is pretty good and I got some really hard to find ones.

Well they arrived and I excitedly unpacked them one at a time. First was Luna and she looked great, then Dobby and again he looked fantastic and then I unpacked Harry and noticed that both of his hand were gone. I noticed that one was removable and must still be in the box but the other one had snapped off and was laying next to the figure. :( I was disappointed at first and was going to write the person but they did wrap them up in a ton of bubble wrap and did everything they could to protect them so I couldn't blame them. Luckily the break was under his sleeve and with a little super glue you would never know it has snapped off. I then opened Sirius who looked great. So proudly displayed them with the rest of my Harry Potter mini busts and it was a great way to end this crappy work week. I love HARRY POTTER!!!

Only A Few Weeks Left

Is what I keep telling myself to get through another day of this stressful job. I don't know why I keep putting myself through all this stress. Yes the money is good but it's not worth the headaches, chest pains and sleepless nights worrying how I'm going to get all this stuff done. My official last day on this job is my birthday Friday September 23rd, which is only two weeks away but my list of things to do is so long that I may have to come back the following week for a few days to finish everything. And if I don't get done by then I'll be back after my Florida vacation on Oct. 10th but I really don't want to do that. I just want this job to end!!!!

KOTG CompanionCast S5E7

Download from itunes - http://bit.ly/KotGCast or listen, get direct download at http://bit.ly/2CrYxk

Show Notes:

It’s time once again for the next CompanionCasts for The Guild Season Five. First of all be sure you watched Episode 7 of season 5 “Downturn”. If you haven’t seen it yet watch it HERE

Our Season 4 CompanionCasts were a huge hit so we thought we would do them again for Season 5. So what is a CompanionCast?? It’s a behind the scene look at the current episode of The Guild.

I was on set everyday while they shot Season 5. As actors and crew were finished with scenes I would try and speak to them. Get some inside info about the scene they just shot. I also interviewed Felicia Day and Kim Evey about the storyline and Sean Becker about the directing. Each one of these CompanionCasts will be episode specific and will vary in length depending on how much guildie goodness I am able to gather.

In this CompanionCast I interview Sandeep Parikh, Jeff Lewis, Amy Okuda, Vince Caso, Robin Thorsen, Sean Becker, Greg Aronowitz, Maurissa Tancharoen, Leslie Crystal & Erin Gray.

I hope you enjoy a look behind the scenes of Season 5 Episode 7 “Downturn”

Kenny

Confessions of a Fanboy Logo

Check out my new logo for my new podcast Confessions of a Fanboy. My friend Ken Todd surprised me with this today.

This is the same awesome guy who sent me this fantastic drawing (picture) of me for my 40th birthday

Fires, Podcasts & Glee.. Oh My!!

Today have been an interesting day... got up early with plans to finish my next episode of Knights of the Guild CompanionCast S5E7 and MASH 4077 Podcast #16. I also wanted to do a bit of cleaning and replace my headlight and a fuse on my jeep.

Like yesterday I had a very hard time keeping myself motivated. Those remaining six episodes of Glee kept calling to me.  But I resisted (for a while) and get started. I strung out my next Knights of the Guild CompanionCast and then cut together the three hosts audio for my next MASH 4077 Podcast. I then took a break to get some breakfast and watch some TV. And like yesterday this was a mistake as I watched not one, not two, not three but four episodes of Glee. Glee has been a hit or miss with me, I mean that's why I left the last 9 episodes on my DVR for months. But once I start watching it sucks me right back in and I'm so in love with Blaine (Darrin Criss) and I enjoy his relationship with Kurt, I just had to keep watching. I still have two more episode in season 2 but I really needed to get back to podcasting.

So I decided to work on my next KOTG CompanionCast as that is due Thursday and my next MASH 4077 Podcast isn't due until the next, next Thursday (Sept. 15th). So I already know I'm not going to get both of these done and the KOTG needs to get done first. So I work on that one for an hour before I remember that I wanted to go buy a new headlight and some fuses for my jeep. I figured I'd pick up some lunch while I was out as well. So I went to Pep Boys and then do Del Taco and as I was heading home I noticed a think black smoke coming from over the hills where I live. As I got closer I realized the fire is still a few miles away from me but it's growing fast.

So for the next few hours I'm on high alert, I can see the fire from my home across the valley. And smell the smoke in the air but there really isn't anything I can do but wait and see. So I ate my lunch and yep you guessed it I watched the last two episodes of Glee from Season 2.  I really enjoyed the last nine episodes of the season. So happy to see that Kurt and Blaine's relationship is going so well. I was afraid they were going to have a rocky one.. but I was wrong. Went out to check on the fire and while I was out I replaced my headlight in my Jeep, that was an ordeal but in the end I got done. And for the fuse I couldn't find the one that went to my dash board and it was too bright to see if the one I did replace did the job.. will have to wait until it's dark to see if I fixed that.

Back in side and no more excuses I had to get at least one of my podcasts done so I continued to work on Knights of the Guild CompanionCast S5E7. As I blog this I'm about 2/3'ds of the day done and will put the finishing touches on it tomorrow.

Just noticed that my Confessions of a Fanboy podcast website is done and must go to investigate.

Fire is still going on but it seems that the firemen have everyone under control, let's just hope the winds stay down and everything goes well tonight.. I'll keep you all posted.

Confessions of a Fanboy #2

Hey all you Fanboys and Fangirls, it's time for another installment of Confessions of a Fanboy. On this episode I chat with fellow Podcaster and all around great guy Kevin Bachelder. You may not know his face but you will definitely know his voice as he's hosted some of the top "geeky" podcasts out there. The Signal, Scapecast, Seekercast and Tuning into Sci fi TV Podcast.

If you want to confess your fanboy or fangirl-ism to me send me an email at ConfessionsofaFanboy@gmail.com

You can also follow the podcast on Twitter @FanboyPodcast, or follow the Host Kenny @Geekyfanboy. You can also follow our guest Kevin at @kbachelder

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My Sunday

Today I had planned to do nothing but podcasting. Since yesterday was my Dad's family BBQ and tomorrow is my Mom's family BBQ. So today I wanted to get another episode of Confessions of a Fanboy done as well as my next episode of Knights of the Guild CompanionCast and MASH 4077 Podcast.

Well in reality I wanted to do nothing, I wanted to just kick back and watch TV. I have quite a few TV series DVR'd. So I started preparing my next Confessions with an interview I did last month with my buddy and fellow podcaster Kevin Bachelder. Strung it out and started editing it. Took a break for lunch and started to watch a Glee episode.. which was not a good idea. I had nine episodes on my DVR so I watched one, then another and then a third before forcing myself to stop and get back to podcasting.

Finally got my next episode of Confessions of a Fanboy #2 with Kevin Bachelder all edited, leveled, converted and uploaded. By the time I got done it was late and I had gotten a call from my mom earlier today cancelling the BBQ for tomorrow so I figured I would go to bed and work on the next two podcasts tomorrow.

So I started off wanting to get 3 podcasts done but by the end of the day I had only finished one but I did get 3 episodes of Glee watched and loving it. Still got 6 more episodes to go, maybe I'll watch them tomorrow... no bad Kenny.. must get my podcasts done!!