My Saturday

Today I had planned on getting some painting down around the house.. we need to do the fixes our contractor did not complete. But before that I was going to work on my next Knights of the Guild podcast. I already edited some of the audio at work so half my job was done but when I went to import the audio file I found out it was corrupt and wouldn't play. So doing my podcast this weekend went down the tubes. By this time Harry was up so we started to do things around the house.. did a few paint touch ups here and there, but couldn't tackle the larger paint jobs (laundry room and master bathroom) because we didn't have any painters tape. I also put up all the pictures.. as we used those 3M stick up velcro things but pictures kept falling (and breaking) so I finally removed them all and went with good ol' nails.

Because we couldn't continue to paint without painters tape and other supplies. We headed to Lowes.. while out I wanted to get a DVD holder as we have out grown our three DVD shelves already. In the end we got our home supplies, picked up a larger DVD holder and stopped by Staples and got two very nice and expensive office chairs.

By the time we got home it was later and neither of us felt like painting so instead we watched six hours of Lost. We fell behind last season so we had to watch four hours form last season and then the 2 hour premiere of the final season. I knew once we started we wouldn't stop. After the 4 hours of last season it was almost midnight and I asked if Harry wanted to wait till tomorrow to watch the 2 hour premiere and he said.. we can watch them now.. it will end at 1:30ish so we stayed up and watch it..

I've loved Lost since I saw the pilot at comic con in 2004 and still loving to today.. it's confusing and crazy at times but it's such a fun roller coaster ride and I look forward to this final season. I haven't a clue what's happening or where it's going but you know what... I don't care... I'm just going to sit back and enjoy the ride.

New Hairdo

Since I've been growing my hair long I figured it was time to try something new.. I haven't highlighted my hair in over five years.. it's always scary to see how things turn out but as always it turned out pretty good.. I'm very happy with this look.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

I don't know alot about this movie.. I do know it was a series of cartoons but man it looks so cool.

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter Commerical

I am already planning to fly out to Orlando when this opens... I can't wait!!!!

I Am A Browncoat

On Saturday when we were done with the majority of the podcast and folks started to leave I wanted to get a group of us to do the "I am a Browncoat" video for the Browncoats: Redemption, a charity fan film. I also did several individual ones.

Knights of the Guild Ep 12 pt2

http://knightsoftheguild.com

Show Notes:

Here it is Episode 12 part 2 of Knights of the Guild. We hope you enjoy it.

Today’s show features:

• * First up we have a Vorkism.
• * We are recording this weeks podcast from the back of the Vork-mobile
• * We discuss Behind the Scenes of Episode 1 Season 3 Expansion Time
• * We have a fun fan Interview with SoapboxMark
• * We thank our donors
• * Then we have our final words and we say goodbye aka Business Time.

This podcast was recorded live, you can watch the video on our UStream channel - http://www.ustream.tv/channel/knights-of-the-guild

You do need a password to access it. The password is KOTG

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

Kenny & Jenni

Skywalker Ranch... NOT

Okay so it was a wonderful dream while it lasted but I got an email from my friend Ray, who invited me yesterday and he informed me that his job is ending on Friday and he had to rescind his invite. I was bummed but I feel bad for him as he will now be jobless months before he was expecting it. Maybe one of these days I'll actually get to visit Skywalker Ranch.

While podcasting Jenni surprised me with a picture that the very talented Matthew Brackney drew.. I totally loved it...And if you don't understand it you must not listen to my podcast Knights of the Guild

Knights of the Guild : The story of Kenny and Jenni

My friend Chris wrote this very cool article about Jenni and I and our podcast.. I love it.

by Chris Feyrer Check out his website HERE

Kenny Mittleider always wanted to be popular. What he didn’t know was that he would be some day, hosting the Internet podcast Knights of the Guild, the official podcast of the web series The Guild.

Mittleider, in his late thirties, is a post production supervisor in southern California and a huge self-proclaimed geek, with a major Star Wars collection and a sweet, huggable teddy-bear personality.

Enter Jenni Powell, former Lonelygirl15 crew member and transplant to the crazy world that is Los Angeles, funny, quirky, irreverent, and chasing the dream of web series industry success.

Both offered their talents to Felicia Day’s web series The Guild crew back in the first run of the off-the-wall comedy about a group of addicted gamers forced to interact offline. Back then, all was funded by PayPal and run by volunteers, with Jenni as Production assistant and Kenny working behind the scenes on featurettes and in post production. Already fans, they became even more hooked while working on the show, with the access to the awesome cast, crew, and fan base that makes up the Guild community.

Thusly, a fan podcast was born.

Powell found herself Mittleider’s partner in crime, and together “Kenny and Jenni” have built quite a name for themselves not only for their excellent coverage of The Guild but for their great repoire and hilarious online personas.

From the first edition, it was clear that this was not your every day fan podcast. With professional quality audio production, show-to-show continuity, and clever lead-ins to each section of their show, Knights of the Guild launched a year ago and became a staple for fans looking for the latest and greatest in goings-on with the Los Angeles-based web series.

Kenny and Jenni make it look easy. What fans don’t see are the hours and hours of preproduction, organizing schedules with cast members for interviews, soliciting and handling fan feedback, dealing with crazy technical difficulties, and spreading the word near and far that goes on behind the scenes.

To both of them I wanted to say bravo and congrats for a year of hilarity, unicorns, one-liners, and insightful cast, fan and crew interviews.

If you are a fan of online gaming, comedy, or social outcasts, and you still haven’t seen The Guild, please quit living under your rock and go to http://www.watchtheguild.com and then check out Kenny and Jenni’s awesome Knights of the Guild podcast at: http://knightsoftheguild.com .

Hours of laughter later, you’ll understand why the podcast has thousands of downloads and the web series is in the top ten comedies on ITunes.

Skywalker Ranch

This morning one of our guests (Ray) who stayed the night invited me to Skywalker Ranch. He works there at least until April. My jaw dropped when he invited me. I mean I was coming off of a high from the night before and the great party/podcast but this threw me into the stratosphere. I am on cloud nine.. time to plan a road trip.

1 Year Anniversary Podcast: A Look Back

WOW!!!! that pretty much sums up last nights 1 year anniversary party/podcast. First of all there was a 1 hour warm up act with Jared Hoy and Andrew Seely who were on mic because Jenni and I were running around greeting our guests and such. Once we started the podcast it continued for over four hours of guildie goodness. So much great stuff that I think I'm going to break it up into 3 or 4 podcasts. After 11:30 when the party started to break up it turned into the "After-Hours" Karaoke night. Headed up by my best bud Will along with Jay, Meagan, Ray and Jenni they were singing up a storm until 1am.

It was truly and amazing night of friends, podcasting and good times. I would like to thank all our guests for making the trek out of my house (I live in the middle of nowhere). Felicia, Kim, Michele, Brian, Fernie, Andrew, Will, Mel, Jay, Greg, Jared, Sean, Megan and Ray.

It was an awesome night and I wish we did that for every podcast.

Cleaning and KOTG Anniversary

Today I was having friends over to celebrate my 1 year KOTG (Knights of the Guild) Podcast Anniversary. The day started out with Harry and I cleaning the entire house… and there was a lot of cleaning to do. Having remodeling done for the past 2 days wasn’t much help either. To make a long and exhausting story short… we got done just in time.

Around 7 pm people started to arrive. All in all about 20 people showed up. Everyone loved our place and complimented Harry and I on our choice of the wall colors and the paint job. So I guess having spent 40+ days painting has been worth while. Daisy and Harry spent most of the time in front of the fire place. Harry attended the fire to keep it going and watched Daisy so she wasn't in the middle of all the hustle and bustle. That way she wouldn’t be freaking out. She actually did alot better than I expected. For most of the time she was fairly relaxed and was chilling out next to Harry. But of course she never left his side.

I spent most of the time in the office recording the podcast. We had some great guests lined up Felicia Day, Kim Evey, Greg Aronowitz, Sean Becker, Michele Boyd, Fernando Chien and many more. Around 1.30 am we called in the night.

Remodeling Continues Day 2

So I got home from the dinner and a play and then had to check out what our contractor had done. He said he had finished everything so I decided to check it out. Fireplace looked great, couldn't see the stain and the tile looked nice. He also sealed up around the Direct TV satellite on the roof. Seems those guys didn't seal the screw holes and that allowed water to leak into our master bedroom damage the wall. So he sealed those holes. He also sealed around another piece of the roof where he thinks the water came into our living room.. only way will know he got it is when it rains again. So that stuff was good. He re-textured the ceiling in the living room and though the white paint is slightly off it's not a bad job and is okay. The new doorway into the laundry room was wonderful.. looks just like the doorway in front of it. But the paint job in the master bathroom is horrible, at least in my opinion. The lines are not good, there are places where you can see the color that was on the wall. They painted around fixtures instead of removing them and painting under them. I was not happy about the master bathroom. Next was our master bedroom where the crack was. They re-textured the wall but didn't bother to cover anything so there was a layer of white dust from the sanding all over the floor and pillows. And to top it off they used semi-gloss paint instead of the red paint. And damaged the paint on the other wall.. so now I have to re-paint that corner to make it match everything else. Not to the laundry room.. again the painting was half ass. Looks like the did one coat and there is white all over the place. They did pull out the washer and dryer and kind of painted behind them but didn't bother to hook them back up. So will have to re-paint that room as well. As I said the doorway looked great but there was a inch think of white dust all over the pantry area. Also texture splattered onto other walls which will need to be painted again. Our contractor is great when it come to construction but lacks on the painting skills.. at least to my standards which can be high but please even leaving things half done is not good. So now it looks like because Harry and I were lazy and didn't want to paint will have to do a lot of touch up painting.

Proof

Today after work I went out to dinner with some of my Guildie friends and then to watch the play Proof which Teal Sherer who played Venom in season 3 of the Guild, produced and starred in. Dinner was fun as we went to a pizza place just down the street from the theater in North Hollywood. After dinner we walked over to the theater and enjoyed the play. I didn't know much about Proof. It's a story about a young girl who not only got her mathematics genius from her father but also may have inherited his mental sickness. The premise alone made it sound like a very dramatic play but it was very funny and sweet at times. Teal was remarkable and really shined in this play. Once it was over we hung out at the theater for a bit and chatted with Teal. It was a very fun night.

Remodeling Continues

Just when I thought we was done... since Harry and I couldn't motivate ourselves to paint the laundry and master bathroom we decided that we would hire our "handy"man Danny to do the painting for us and since he was here we would have him do a few other odds and ends around the house.

So our list grew and grew. Remove Metal Door in Laundry Room, Remove Door frame in Laundry Room and Replace, Paint Laundry Room, Paint Master Bathroom, Caulk Bathtub, Replace both Screen doors (Living Room & Master Bedroom), Fix Toilet in Guest bathroom (Finish from previous job), Roof Leak, Take down Fan and seal hole (above what use to be eat in kitchen), Patch Carpet in Master Bedroom (from where you took down the closets)

When he arrived this morning we altered a few things that we had requested.. instead of framing out the laundry room door once we remove the steel mesh door he suggested that we just turn it into a walkway with rounded curves like the walkway right in front of it. I loved the idea and approved it. The next change was the old fan that we wanted him to take down and seal up.. I realized the day before that we couldn't seal it up because we needed a light in that area so Harry and I went to Lowes and bought a really cool light that would match the living lights. Of course this morning I realized that it wouldn't work since the roof is slanted and the light hung and would stick out at a weird angle.. so before work this morning I had to run back to Lowes and exchange the light for something that would be flesh with the ceiling and less noticeable. The other add on was the fireplace. During the last rain storm a dark spot appeared on some of the tiles and we couldn't get it off.. so Danny suggested that we "seal" the tiles and it would make them all look the same. So we added that to his "to do" list.

So a little late I finally got into work. When I got home they had done about 1/2 of what needed to be done and planned to finish up tomorrow. The finally finished mounting the toilet in the guest bathroom which was part of their last job. They hung both screen doors and started painting the master bathroom. They started work on the new doorway in the laundry room and replaced the missing carpet in the master bathroom and they removed the fan/light in the pantry area and replace it with the new light I bought this morning. The toilet, screen doors and new light were fantastic.. I wasn't happy with the replaced carpet. Before there were two little sections of carpet that needed to be replace.. instead they decided to cut the entire corner off of the carpet and replace leaving this very long and noticeable line. Of course they realized this wasn't such a great idea and just replaced the two missing pieces on the other side but the damage was done. I wish they would have asked before going that route. Before with he night stand you wouldn't have noticed the two small pieces being replaced but with taking the whole corner out it's noticeable and I was not happy.

Tomorrow they have to fix the leak on the roof, patch the ceiling where the water came down, seal the tile on the fireplace, finish the doorway to the laundry room, paint the laundry room and finishing painting the master bathroom... let's hope he can get this all done by tomorrow.

Apple's New iPad

Today Apple unveiled it’s newest gadget: The iPad. I watched the live blogs as they were released and got more and more excited with every new reveal. I knew I wanted one but I wasn't sure if Harry did or not.. but after watching the video Harry was hooked.. So looks like we both will be getting an iPad. For those of you who haven't a clue what I’m talking about, let me give a short explanation:

• The iPad is way more than only an eReader
• You can page through websites
• Flick through photos
• Watch videos
• Listen to your Music Library
• 9.7 inch Multi-Touch Screen
• Run all existing Apple Apps

Visiting Family

Today we went to visit my Dad, Brother, Sister-in-law and Nephew. It's been a few weeks and it was nice to visit. I had planned to take Dad to see Avatar but Harry really wasn't up for it so we took him out to our favorite Chinese place Hong Kong Restaurant and then back to the house and visited with my bro, sis and nephew. It was a short visit but fun.

Also while there Danny our contractor was doing stuff for Mike and it hit me.. why not have him come do the painting in our master bathroom and laundry room as Harry and I are never going to do it. So we plan on talking to him in the next few days to make some plans.

Shopping

Today Harry and I went shopping.. we first went to Home Depot to buy a taller ladder then we already had because of leaks on the roof and our 8 foot ladder being to small to reach it. Luckily we had some gift certificates cause ladders are expensive. We picked up a few other thinks like bush trimmer and clippers.. We also looked at prices of Generators as we both think it's a good idea to have one for a "worse case scenario". They ranged from $600 to $1200, we didn't buy one tonight but plan to get one soon.

After that we headed to Target to pick up some more accessories for the house. We got a bunch of little things but what was cool is we found a picture that would work for our guest bathroom as well as a shower curtain. I have to say our guest bathroom looks pretty nice. It's actually the first room that is 100% complete. We also picked up some more candles, can never have to many candles and we planned to pick up a coffee table but the ones they had at that Target were damages so I plan to pick one up by the Target at my work.

Serenity Keychain

Can't afford the $2500 Serenity Model.. Well today QMX announced their really cool Serenity Keychain. Of course I didn't waste a second before pre-ordering mine. They are so Shiny!!!! They only cost $9.99

http://store.quantummechanix.com/Firefly-Replica-Keychain_p_85.html

KOTG News Minicast #2

The Guild Season 3 comes to DVD & iTunes

The Guild is pleased to announce the release of the Season 3 to DVD and iTunes. On Monday, January 25th, The Guild seasons 1 through 3 will be available for purchase on iTunes. Because of the length of the individual web series episodes, on iTunes they will sell as bundles of 2-3 episodes, each approximately 10 minutes in length.

Season 1 will be available in standard definition for $0.99 per iTunes episode bundle or $2.97 for the full season. The first episode bundle from Season 1, which is comprised of the episodes “Wake Up Call,” Zaboo’d” and “The Macro Problem” will be a free download” Zaboo’d - The Macro Problem

Seasons 2 and 3 will be available in both standard and high definition, priced at $0.99 per episode bundle (SD) or $1.99 per episode bundle (HD). Season passes are $5.99 (SD) or $9.99 (HD) for seasons 2 and 3. The iTunes contents are episodes only, no DVD bonus features are included with this release, with the exception of the Season 3 bonus feature “Tips on Making a Web Series” which is free on iTunes with the purchase of the season pass.