Reconnecting With My Padawan

Well it's been over a year since I have talked about my Padawan Troy. During San Diego Comic Con 2011 we had a falling out. I don't really know what I did or said but for some reason he unfriended me on Facebook and stopped following me on twitter. That was the year that everything was stolen from my jeep including his laptop, autographed pictures and other comic con stuff. I reached out to him several times over the year but never got a response.

Anyways I've always enjoyed his company, I think he's a very sweet guy and we had a cool friendship and I'm not one to let something like that just go without a fight. So last week I messaged him on Facebook, though we are not friends, I could still send him messages. He responded within minutes and we started to communicate again. We decided to get together this coming weekend for lunch... and today is the day.

He arrived around 2ish and it wasn't awkward at all. It was like no time had passed. I gave him a hug hello and we immediately headed out. I was hungry so we headed to Chili's. We caught up on each other lives. Not a whole lot was happening for him. We ate and chatted for about 2 hours. Afterwards we headed back to my place to hang out. He didn't have any plans and though I could have done yard work I was happy to be hanging with my padawan again. He is doing a Buffy watch as well but was at the end of S3. I am doing a Buffy rewatch with my bestie Robert but we are in the early part of season 2. So I figured I can watch some Buffy with Troy since it will be months before Robert and I get to S3/S4. So that's what we did. We watched the last three episodes of S3 and the first four episodes of S4. We hung out until about 11pm when we finally said our goodbyes.

It was a good visit... you could tell he didn't want to talk about why he was mad at me. I would have like to know as I've never lost a friend like that. But I was happy to have him back in my life and to be honest it doesn't really matter.. all that matters is that we are friends again and I'm extremely happy about that. Looking forward to seeing where our friendship goes next.

42 Pixs til my 42nd Birthday - Days 26 & 27

Age 26

Age 27

The pictures continue... this time it's age 26 & 27. The Age 26 picture is one of my favorites of me back then. My buddy Jared is behind me grabbing my sides making me laugh. The Age 27 picture I dyed my hair blonde. I did that here and there and it always turned out pretty cool. Would love to do that again... if I had the hair :)

Tickets and Titles

Another busy day here at work, but I won't bore you with details. Two things happened and if your a Star Trek fan you'll be either excited or confused about on of them. Star Trek 2 (Abrams reboot) has gotten an official title Star Trek Into Darkness. This title is odd because there is no colon as in previous Star Trek titles; Star Trek: First Contact or Star Trek: Nemesis. So Star Trek fans are split some like the title and some hate the title. I'm not a big fan of the title but then again I understand that they are trying to get away from the "older" Trek universe as this is a new Trek. I do find the title interesting as in what the story will be. We still have nine months before it hits theaters and I'm sure will get more info as it get's closer.

Second thing is I purchased my weekend tickets for Stan Lee's Comikaze Con. I didn't go last year as I thought it was an anime convention and me not being into anime I didn't bother but I found out it's just a smaller San Diego Comic Con here in Los Angeles so I'm going to give a got this year. I plan on cosplaying in my Hobbit outfit all weekend... so that should be fun.

My Gimpy Dinner & Podcast

Tonight after work I headed over to Teal and Ali's place for dinner. We were also going to record a "wrap up" podcast for her webseries My Gimpy Life.

Got to Teals and chatted with the two of them as dinner was running late. We were talking politics as Ali was watching the DNC (Democratic National Convention). I normally don't like to talk politics because it can be a touchy subject to some but Ali, Teal and I pretty much had the same thoughts on the race so it wasn't so bad.

We soon found out that the food place hadn't even sent out our order so we decided to start the podcast and see how far we could get before dinner arrived. We got about 30 minutes into the podcast when dinner finally arrived.We ate and then finished up the podcast with some Q&A.

It was a good "wrap up" podcast.. I should have it edited and out in the next few weeks. Not sure what will become of My Gimpy Life podcast but for now we are planning short monthly installments.. will see how that goes.

Got home around 11pm and crashed

42 Pixs til my 42nd Birthday - Days 24 & 25

Here I am at Age 24 & 25, it's so crazy to look back at these pictures and realize I was a cute guy. At this time in my life I didn't feel cute. I was confused about my sexuality, wasn't attracting anyone and was very lonely. 25 was finishing up collage and within the next year be moving to Hollywood and starting my career in the Entertainment industry.

To Many Friends???

Is it possible to have to many friends? I never thought I would ever ask myself that question since I've haven't had many friends in the past but if you read my blog you know that the past year and a half I have built a significant amount of friendships. And me being me I love to keep in contact with them, keep up on their lives and see them from time to time. This wasn't a problem when I didn't have many friends, but now that I have a lot more I'm finding it much harder to keep up on every one's lives. And this makes me feel guilty for not being the "friend" I would like to be. So I ask the question; do I have to many friends?

Of course as I have mentioned in past blogs I have layers of friendships. My close/best friends I tend to talk to more often and see more often. Then the second tier and so on. But there are close friends that I don't talk to for months and when I do I find out all this stuff has gone on that I didn't know. I try and read up on folks Facebook and twitter but I only have enough time in the day for so much. I'm not a big talker on the phone but I do love to text so I try and keep in contact that way. But even with all that I feel like I don't talk to 2/3'ds of my friends on a regular bases and I don't like that.

So what is the solution? Stop making friends? Pick and choose which ones I keep up with? I don't know. I do know that in the past I'd say about 75% of the friendships I did have I would give 90% and they would return 10% in regards to keeping in touch, hanging out and such. But I will not be doing that anymore. If a friendship is worth having then both parties need to give 100% each to that friendship. I mean I know there are times when one or the other will be super busy but a friendship is made up of two people.

I love writing this blog as it really lets me write out my thoughts and when looking at them I ask myself am I just over thinking this.. a friendship shouldn't be work.. it should just happen and be enjoyed. I don't know.. I don't know if there really is a solution. All I can do is try my best at keeping up with those that are closest to me.

Weekly Bro-Date

Love my weekly Bro-dates with my buddy Robert. Each week we get together grab some dinner (pizza, taco bell or italtian) and watch a TV series he has not seen and that I am rewatching and totally love. We started with Firefly and now have moved on to Buffy The Vampire Slayer. We are currently on Season 2 and tonight was watched episodes "Lie to Me", "The Dark Age" and "What's My Line Pt.1".

I loved Buffy when I first saw it and as the season progresses it just gets better and better. Robert seems to be liking it, which is cool. It's fun watching something that I love and being able to see it through someone else's eyes. It's going to take us 11 months to go through all seven seasons but it's going to be a fun ride.

Afterwards I crashed at Robert's place since he lives so close to my job and it's saves me the stress of my hellish commute the next morning. But besides that I really enjoy just lie there in a dark room chatting about life. Robert and I have always been able to really talk about anything. So I love getting some uninterrupted one on one time.

Prefect ending to a perfect Bro-Date.

42 Pixs til my 42nd Birthday - Days 22 & 23

Age 22

Age 23

Here are two more pictures... this time its Age 22 and Age 23.

My Age 22 picture was taken while in San Fransisco for the first time. I went with my good friend Lisa. We spent a week up there and it was a ton of fun. And yes those are my round sunglasses.

For my Age 23 picture it's a picture of me at my job (Mervyn's). I was with that company for about eight years before I graduated from collage and moved to Hollywood to pursue my career in the Entertainment industry.

Work, War, & William

Well it's labor day and I had to work. Since we are a bit behind on our edit our co-ep asked for the editors to come in and work and since they had to come in, it meant I had to come in just in cast they needed something. Of course I didn't have a thing to do all day so instead I brought in my podcast hard drive and hooked it up to one of my work avids and actually edited an entire episode of my MASH podcast.. well before the 15th due date... woo hoo.

After work I headed over to North Hollywood to have dinner with my bestie Will. Will and I haven't really talked or seen each other in over six weeks. That's crazy long for us not to hang out. Neither of us really had a reason. It's not like we didn't want to hang out but our schedules never meshed. We had a lot to catch up on and we had some awesome talks about some hairy janky planks (inside joke).

We had dinner at Chevy's which again it had been a while since I had been there. Good food, great company and a fun evening was had. Hopefully another six weeks won't pass by without us hanging out.

No Podcasting

After getting home from Josh's, I picked up some El Pollo Loco for lunch and went home and caught up on some TV. For the first time in a month I don't have any pressing podcasts that have to be edited or released the next day. And since I didn't have really anything to do I actually went to bed at 8:30pm. I don't think I've gone to bed that early in years but I was just so tired and I deserve to get some rest from time to time.  I'm not getting a three day weekend but I did have a nice, kind of relaxing weekend.

Wonderful Morning

I spent the night at my buddy Josh's place, since we watched Spaced until the wee hours last night.

So this morning we woke up and just laid there in bed chatting, laughing, napping and just enjoying the morning together. It was so nice to not do anything and just hang with my best friend. Planned to leave around 10 but stayed until around 11:30am before heading home.

Since Josh lives so far away from me we don't get to see each other as often as we would like. He is also in collage, works part time and preforms in plays from time to time so his free time is very limited. So when we do hang out we try to make them epic visits... and this one was defiantly an epic visit.

42 Pixs til my 42nd Birthday - Days 20 & 21

Age 20

Age 21

And it continues.. I hope you guys are enjoying this look down memory lane. It's fun for me to see how much I have changed over the years. I realize that my Age 20 picture really isn't me at 20 since I had a mustache until I was 22/23. Oh well it's close enough. I really didn't change much in the 20's. BTW we are halfway through this little experiment. 21 days down, 21 days left to go.

Family And My Bestie

Today is the first weekend I've had off in over a month. Between work and The Guild I haven't had a free day so what do I do on my first day off in a month... go visit family of course. Got to spend a few hours with my dad, brother, sister-in-law and my nephew and niece. Also picked up some yummy Chinese food from my favorite restaurant in Corona on my way to visit family. It was a good visit, my nephew is getting better at saying Uncle.. he use to call me Unk.. but now he's saying Uncle, which is adorable. My niece Molly still hates me. I can't hold her for more then a minute before she starts crying bloody murder.

 After my visit with my family I headed out to see my bestie Josh. I haven't seen him in over a month and that's far to long for us not to see each other. What is great he lives fairly close to my family so I can drive two hours and see both family and Josh. As always it was great seeing Josh. We hung out and chatted with his ex Nicole for about an hour. When she left we watched a bit of TV. He had the series Spaced and I haven't never seen it. I've been told by many people that I had to watch this. I have never been a big Simon Pegg fan but I liked him in the new Star Trek and I've slowly been watching his stuff. So we started with season one and got through a few episodes before getting hungry and heading out for dinner. We went to this really good Italian place called Johnny Carino's. We had a nice dinner and then headed back to his place and continued to watch Spaced. Since I live so far away I decided to crash at Josh's place. So we stayed up till about 1am watching Spaced and we manage to watch all of Season one and the first two episodes of season two.

I enjoyed Spaced, it wasn't anything like I expected. I mean from the title alone and that fact that Simon Pegg is a big geek I was expecting some sort of science fiction show, but it's actually a quirky kind of comedy. It's funny and has some very bizarre but lovable characters. I like how some of the scenes were shot. It gave me some great ideas for an upcoming project that I'm working on. I hope to finish off season two soon. British shows are always a hit or miss with me and this one was a hit. Thanks Josh for sharing this with me.

MASH 4077 Podcast #38

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Show Notes

Kenny Mittleider from Knights of the Guild, Alien Nation: The Newcomers Podcast & Confessions of a Fanboy Podcast, Simon Meddings from Waffle On Podcast, & Al Kessel from Tales from the Mouse House, Fast Forward & Just Because Podcast discuss one of the most successful and longest running television series in history.. M*A*S*H

Today we cover Season 2, Episode #14 - Hot Lips and Empty Arms

38th Episode Overall

Directed by Jackie Cooper
Written by Linda Bloodworth, Mary Kay Place
Production code K414
Original air date December 15, 1973

Set during the Korean War in the 1950’s

Plot Summary: Fed up with her aimless affair with Frank Burns and the lack of discipline and professionalism at the 4077th, Margaret requests a transfer. The night before she is scheduled to leave, she becomes very drunk and says what she really thinks of some of her comrades (that she really likes them deep down) and realizes she should stay.

Hope you enjoy it, Kenny

© Geekyfanboy Productions

Lunch, Dinner & MASH

Had lunch with my buddy/co-worker Sebastian. I brought lunch today (something I'm trying to do more and more) so we went and ate out in the Water Garden, which is the common area in between all the business buildings. It's a beautiful setting and while we were there we had this great view and Sebastian took a picture and sent it to me. I altered the colors a bit but it turned out pretty cool.

After the end of work I needed to head home to finish my MASH podcast as it's due to be released at midnight tonight. But my buddies Dallas and Robert wanted me to come out with them. We've been trying to get together for three weeks but it seems like something always comes up. I declined their invitation but in the end I figured I needed to eat dinner and why not have dinner with my buddies so we headed to a local Islands restaurant and enjoyed a fun meal together for a few hours. Afterwards I dropped off Dallas on my way home and got home around 10ish. I immediately jumped on my MASH podcasts and had it done within a few hours and had it ready to go just in time for it's midnight release.

Cards Against Humanity

Today they released a 2nd expansion pack for the extremely fun Cards Against Humanity. If you haven't heard of this game look it up, if you haven't played this game you're really missing out. It's one of the funniest and most entertaining card games that I have played in a long time. With three people or a large group it's one of the most unpredictable games ever. Find out who among your friends and family are just horrible people.

Of course as soon as I got the noticed about the expansion I went to Amazon and picked up me and my brother a pack. Can't wait for my next party because CAH is a must play.

42 Pixs til my 42nd Birthday - Days 18 & 19

Age 18

Age 19

Two more days have passed and I posted Age 18 & 19 pictures. It's tough going through hundreds of pictures and trying to figure out how old I am in the pix.. unless it's an event  and I can normally remember my age at the time I'm really just guessing. But it's still kind of fun walking down memory lane.

Editing MASH Podcast

Spent the evening pretty much doing what I have been doing every evening for the past month.. working on editing podcasts. This time it was the next episode of my MASH 4077 Podcast which is due to be released on the 1st. It's difficult to motivate myself to edit podcasts after a long day at work but our MASH podcasts have some of the most dedicated and loyal listeners around and I know they look forward to new episodes and I can't disappoint. I was hoping to get it done but atlas I did not. I was just too tired to continue and figure I do have one more night to get it done.

Birthday Gifts Begin

It's not even my birthday month and I got my first birthday present from my buddy Steve.  A few weeks back I tweeted, facebooked and blogged about these Hobbit feet slippers that I just loved.. and I happen to mention that my birthday was coming up. I've had friends tell me that they wouldn't be surprised if I get a few pairs of these, since I'm always hard to buy for, when I say I like something everyone is going to get them.. now I'm not so sure about that but I did get my first pair in the mail today... and I love them. If I do get multiple Hobbit feet, the more the merrier say. They are extremely soft and look great. Thanks Steve C. for getting me these awesome slippers.

My Gimpy Life Podcast Episode 105

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Show Notes:

This CompanionCast covers Season 1 Episode 5 - The Commercial (Season 1 Finale)

If you haven't seen the episode yet, You can see it HERE

My CompanionCasts for The Guild were a huge hit so when Teal was putting together My Gimpy Life she asked if I would do some for her series and of course I said yes!!

I was on set almost everyday while they shot Season 1. 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 interview Teal Sherer (creator/star) and Sean Becker about the directing. Each one of these CompanionCasts will be episode specific and will vary in length depending on how much bts goodness I am able to gather.

In this CompanionCast I interview Teal Sherer, Sean Becker, Leah Mann, Gabe Uhr, Gary Anthony Williams, Jeff Winkler, Kristin Ingram, Eric Acosta, Yuri Lowenthal, Patrica Tallman and Extra's Jes and Jamie

I hope you enjoy a look behind the scenes of Season 1 Episode 5 - The Commerical

Kenny

Editing Gimpy Life

Tonight I stayed up late editing the final CompanionCast for My Gimpy Life webseries since it's due to be released tomorrow morning. Though season one has ended, I still have a few ideas for some followup episodes before I decide what to do with this podcast. I haven't heard if there is going to be a season two, which if it happens I'll be back from that. But it's a wait and see kind of thing. Maybe I'll release monthly or bi-monthly podcasts every so often updating folks on Teal's life... who knows. I plan to sit down with Teal sometime soon to record a follow up podcast and we can decide where we want the podcast to go next. It's been a fun but short run but I have a feeling this isn't the end of My Gimpy Life Podcast.

42 Pixs til my 42nd Birthday - Days 16 & 17

Here I am at Age 16 and 17. I have a cast on my wrist in the picture because I broke my wrist while dirt biking / ATVing with some buddies of mine. It's also the first time I had alcohol. On the first day of a six day trip I was riding an ATV and going up a hill when it stalled. I pushed the right brake for the front wheel but it didn't work so I pushed the left brake for the back and didn't realize that doing so would make the ATV flip backwards over me and tumble down the hill. At first I thought I sprained my wrist but it soon swelled to triple the size. We wrapped it up and since we were dudes and it was only the first day we didn't give it much thought. I would take pain meds here and there and I didn't go to the hospital until I got home a week later as it was still swollen. The docs looked at the xrays and said.. yep.. it's broken and it's amazing that you survived a week without having it checked. So they put a cast on it for a few weeks until it was healed.

My Age 17 picture is my Senior Prom picture. I went with a really good friend of mine Meisha. She and I had gone to the Winter Formal together the previous year. I remember being a nervous wreak having to ask her to go to the prom with me. It was a fun night of friends and dancing.

Buffy Bro Night

After work I headed over to my buddy Robert's place for our Buffy watch/rewatch. He ordered some yummy Italian food and we started with some episodes from season two. First up was "Inca Mummy Girl" Which when it first started I was like.. oh this isn't one of my favorites but after it was over I actually really enjoyed it. Not sure why my memory had me not liking it. And it also introduced Oz (Seth Green).

Next up was Reptile Boy, again not one that I remember fondly but really enjoyed. I liked Willow in this one.. as she really stuck up for Buffy and how Angle and Giles were treating her... good stuff.

Our final episode for the evening was one of my favorites from Season Two.. Halloween. This one has so much going on. But the big reveal about Giles/Ripper was just enough to get you wondering. And once again Willow in her "sexy" ghost outfit was pretty hot.

Three really enjoyable episodes. I'm so happy that I'm rewatching this series with someone who's seeing it for the first time. They tend to see things or think things that you never did. Can't wait to continue our Buffy watch next week.

I crashed at Roberts place tonight since I had to be up early for work the next day. So after the third episode we called it a night and went to bed.

Playing with Photoshop

This morning I was suppose to work on My Gimpy Life 105 but honestly I've been working on podcasts so much lately I wasn't in the mood and needed a break so instead I worked on something I've been wanting to do for a while. I want to alter some pictures of The Geek Mob's adventures at Vasquez Rocks in our Star Trek uniforms. This is what I came up with.

Saying Goodbye

Got up at 5:00am and left my house at 5:30. Chris was heading back to Montana. :(  Luckily he was flying out of Burbank but still had to be there an hour early and the airport is still an hour away.  Got him there at 6:30am for a 7:30 flight. We said our goodbyes (or as I like to say, "See you later").  And I'm happy to say there were no tears. And honestly I don't know if that's good or bad.

I care for Chris more then I have ever cared for him, and miss him when he's not around but maybe because we talk almost everyday online and we are working on several "secret projects" together he's never far from my thoughts. And with his special dog tags that he gifted me he'll always be close to my heart.

I didn't have to be at work until 10am and it was currently 6:30am. I didn't want to drive home so I asked my buddy Robert if I could crash at his place and of course he said yes. I got to his place at 7:30 and crashed, I was so tired. My alarm went off at 9:30am and I headed into work. I don't know if the nap helped me or hurt me. I was not feeling so great and before the nap was actually feeling okay.

Mondays are always bad here at work and having very little sleep the entire weekend it made it even worse. The lack of sleep was so well worth it for spending as much time I could with Chris. There's always tonight to catch up on some sleep... or not.

I have two podcasts due this week My Gimpy Life Ep 105 and MASH 4077 Podcast #38. So when I got home from work I made some dinner before starting on My Gimpy Life. I got everything strung out and it was 11pm and I couldn't keep my eyes open so I opted to go to bed as I'm no good if I can't thing properly.

42 Pixs til my 42nd Birthday - Days 14 & 15

Age 14

Age 15

Today is Age 14 & 15...  When I posted Age 14 I got the most reaction... Yeah I hit puberty.  I still can't get over how much hair I use to have. What I wouldn't give to still have those curly locks.

Guild, Gauntlet & Goodies

Today when I got up Jes, Nicki and Olivia had already left for the set of The Guild season six. Chris and I didn't have to be there as early so we got up at 7am and I made biscuits and gravy for all who stayed over last night. Dallas, Aaron, Rupert, Anthony, Jennifer and Chris. We ate breakfast and hung out for an hour.

I then proceeded to kick everyone out of my house as Chris and I headed down to LA for the shoot. Chris was not extraing today and instead was actually working (paying gig) as a art PA.  I spent the first half of the day interviewing cast members. I then moved on to working on Chris and my "special project" and then went back to interviewing cast members. This was my last day on set though they still have two more days of shooting. I didn't get interviews with many of the main cast members so I'll have to go over to their place in the near future and interview them.

We left set at 7pm and headed east to my brothers. Chris purchased a Gauntlet 2 stand up arcade game. He was going to send it to my house but because I live off a dirt road the delivery truck wasn't able to deliver it to me so instead he had it delivered to my brothers house so we were heading there now as they just drop it off this afternoon. Took about and hour to get to my brothers. Once I was there my nephew Kenobi had to show me his room and all his stuff as Chris got a tour of Mike's house. We headed out to the garage and unpacked the game, plugged it in and started to play. We only had a half hour before we had to head home (had to get Chris to the airport really early the next morning). But Chris, Mike and I had a blast. I don't know what it is about playing a multi player video game but we were going wild and it was AWESOME!!! Can't wait to get this game to my house so we can play it on movie marathon weekends.

On our way home we picked up some Wienerschnitzel for dinner. Again Chris hadn't had Wienerschnitzel since he left CA. Got home around 11pm and went to bed around 11:30pm.. have to be up at 5:30am tomorrow. Spent a fun filled day with my best bud.

Guildies and the GOE's

So Jes, Olivia, Aaron, Chris and myself were up at 5am getting ready and out of the house my 6am. Traffic was unusually light and we got to The Guild set at 7am, we weren't suppose to be there until 7:30am so we went to a local iHop to grab some breakfast. Of course we ordered and it took them about 25 minutes to get our food. We ate quickly and got to set around 7:45am. Kim and Robert were already on set being "stand ins" and when they saw Chris they had looks of surprises on their faces (which was awesome). Once again I can't really say anything about what happen on set but it was a blast. I did get to be an extra again, so will see if I make it on screen.

After the shoot we went to a special dinner for the Guild of Extras. It was at a local Chinese restaurant close to the shoot area. 20 or so extras showed up. Because we were on set until it wrapped Robert, Chris and I didn't get there until 7:30, which was an hour and a half later then the start time. But it was still a blast seeing so many friends that I haven't seen in awhile.

Once again Chris planned this elaborate ruse about not being there and having Dallas skype with him (which was the plan) but when we got there half of the people already knew and in the end Brian made a speech and mentioned those Extra's that couldn't be with us and Chris came out and surprise half of the crowd.

It was a fun dinner, but I did notice that I didn't really mingle. We were spread out over three tables and sitting at my table was most of my Geek Mob folks and I was content. I could have gotten up and walked over to others and talk a bit but I was having a great time and folks were coming over to me to chat. I really do need to be more social.

The night ended with Jes, Olivia, Chris, Dallas, Rupert, Aaron, Anthony, Jennifer and Nicki crashing at my place. We only stayed up about a half hour because half of us had to be on set the next morning super early. But everyone who stayed the night wanted to spend as much time as they could with Chris, even if it meant driving up to my place for a half hour of hang out time... gotta love my friends.

42 Pixs til my 42nd Birthday - Days 12 & 13

 Age 12

Age 13

Two more pictures of my "Pictures a Day Until my 42nd Birthday" This time it's Age 12 and 13.  One thing I'm noticing posting these pictures of the younger me, is I had alot of hair. Man how I miss that hair now.

Friday Night Surprise

Tonight I left work and headed to the Burbank airport to pick up one of the most important people in my life, my best bud Chris. We have been planning this surprise for a few weeks, he was extraing/working on The Guild season six but we kept it on the down low. We planned to have a dinner on Saturday night and wanted to surprise The Geek Mob gang.  So I got to the airport around 8:30, parked and waited until around 9:10 for him to exit his plane.

Was very happy to see his smiling face, though he did smash his finger a few hours prior to his plane flight and was in some pain he was in good spirits. We grabbed his bag and headed to my car. We stopped for some dinner at Del Taco (something he misses living in Montana). After dinner we headed back to my place to chill.

About a half hour later our buddy Aaron arrived and Chris wanted to surprise him so he hid in my bedroom and Aaron came in with his stuff and we chatted for about five minutes when Chris just mosey on out of my bedroom and says "Oh, hey Aaron" like it was perfectly normal. The look on Aaron's face was priceless and exactly what Chris was hoping for.

An hour or so later Jes and Olivia arrived at my place. They knew of Chris' arrival and actually came down from San Fransisco to be an extra, as well as hang with Chris.

Once the ladies joined us we hung out for a half hour before calling it a night as we all had to be up at 5am to get on set by 7am.

Star Wars Detours Trailer

So this has been in the works for several years and if you listen to the Forcecast you'll know all about it. Started off as Star Wars Squishies but then was renamed to Star Wars Detours. George asked the creators of Robot Chicken, Seth and Matt to come up with a funny new series. At first we were told this was going to be for pre-schoolers but after seeing this trailer I don't think they are going for that audience anymore.

I literally laughed out loud many times that co-workers asked what was going on and soon everyone in the office was watching and laughing along. I can't wait for this to premiere. If you read the comments on You Tube there is already a ton of hate for this series.. but you know what.. I don't give a crap. Haters gonna hate, especially Star Wars fans, they are some of the worst. All I know is I'll be watching this every week and laughing right along.. Star Wars Fan for Life!!

42 Pixs til my 42nd Birthday - Days 10 & 11

Age 10

Age 11

Here are two more pictures in my 42 pixs till my 42nd Birthday. This time around it's Day 10 & 11 which means pictures of my at Age 10 and 11.  It's funny how much you can grow in a year. Age 11 I was hanging out at the pool all the time and sporting a great tan. I also broke my arm while at school. I kid tied my shoelace to the monkey bars and the bell rang so I went to jump off and instead of hitting my head I put my arm to break my fall, which it did but I also broke the my forearm at the weakest point. Had to go into the hospital for a night and be put under while the set the bones (it was a compound fracture). Had a cast for six months and it still wasn't healing properly. They threaten to put pins in but lucky for me it finally healed and the cast was removed. Took months for me to regain the full extension of my arm.

My Gimpy Life Podcast Episode 104

Show Notes:

This CompanionCast covers Season 1 Episode 4 - Crowded

If you haven't seen the episode yet, You can see it HERE

My CompanionCasts for The Guild were a huge hit so when Teal was putting together My Gimpy Life she asked if I would do some for her series and of course I said yes!!

I was on set almost everyday while they shot Season 1. 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 interview Teal Sherer (creator/star) and Sean Becker about the directing. Each one of these CompanionCasts will be episode specific and will vary in length depending on how much bts goodness I am able to gather.

In this CompanionCast I interview Teal Sherer, Sean Becker, Leah Mann, Gabe Uhr, Jake Stormoen, Daryl Crittenden and Extra's Nicki, Jen, Anne, Rupert, Aaron, Jes and Ashphord .

I hope you enjoy a look behind the scenes of Season 1 Episode 4 - Crowded

Kenny

Bros & Buffy

Tonight after work I headed over to my buddies (Robert) place to once again watch more Buffy. We finished season 1 last week so we are moving on to season two. We ordered some pizza and began the mini marathon. First up was "When She Was Bad", wasn't a fan of emo Buffy but it was a nice followup to the season one finale. Second we watched Some Assembly Required, not my favorite episode but had some really funny lines. And our third one was School Hard which was the introduction of Spike, who I love. I totally forgot they introduced him so early in the series.

It's a slow but awesome process rewatching this series. At our current rate it will take us until the beginning of next year to finish the series.. but it's going to be a fun adventure.

I Love Hobbits

My friend Tabs posted in my facebook a new item from ThinkGeek that she felt was right up my alley.. well she couldn't be more right. They are Hobbit Plushie feet and they are pretty EPIC!! They would have been an instant buy for me but since my birthday is little over a month away I am trying to restrain myself from buying anything for myself and instead putting it out there that I would like these. If I don't get a pair for my birthday I'm hoping they are still available afterwards. They are only $20 so if you want to buy yourself a set you can get them HERE

Also I've decided today that I am going to attend Comikaze Con which is Stan Lee's new comic convention here in Los Angeles. It's a new con but folks who have attended have said it's a much smaller version of San Diego Comic Con. I plan to cosplay the entire weekend as a Hobbit. I love that outfit and folks seems to really like it. The cool thing is the con only costs $30 for the weekend. If anyone wants to join me please let me know.. Here's the link to the con. http://comikazeexpo.com/