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Monday, August 31, 2009

Remolding - Day Six

    Today didn’t quite start out the way that we had initially planned. We had planned to leave around 9.30 am but when we checked out the Station Fire conditions allegedly the Sierra Highway had been closed. According to that Info there was no way for us to get into town. Shortly after we had found out that our Contractor (Danny) had gotten there via an alternate route. So Harry checked with CalTrans and got no info about road closures, so we decided to drive up to the house and see if we could make it. Turns out that the story about the road closures, that we had read online, was greatly exaggerated. We got to the house without any problems and it looked even better than the day before. There was hardly any smoke visible, most of the smoke was to the northeast (Acton area). Of course here and there you could see dark smoke rising but you could see the large fixed wing air crafts as well. Certainly makes you feel better.

    When we got to the house we saw that our contractor had made a lot of progress. He had started prepping the 2 holes in the walls of the office, removed the tile from the fireplace that we want to have refinished, taken the carpet out of the bathroom and dismantled most of the built in’s in the bedroom. I was very impressed with the progress he made. While our contractor was working on other stuff Harry and I put a second coat of paint on the accent wall in Guest Room. And later we put a 3rd coat of paint on the remaining 3 walls in the Guest Room. After that was done we painted the closet doors in the color of the accent color. I have friends who ask why we continue to paint and have a contractor doing work when the house could possible burn down. But both Harry and I look at is as we have to keep positive. The house is currently in no danger and we have to move by the end of September. Positive thinking will lead to a positive outcome... But just in case it doesn’t we brought some of my toys and some of the stuff that is irreplaceable back to our rental house in Reseda. Tomorrow we will assess if we take more of the stuff back to Reseda or not. That will depend on how the wildfire is behaving.

    By the time we left there was no smoke visible. Apparently the firefighters have made some progress. Additionally the wind had been blowing all afternoon long in a north east direction. That means it had been driving the fire away from our house and we are very happy about that. On the other hand there are still 11 miles between the fire and our house and the fire is still in the hills above Acton.

    I guess that's it for today report.. will keep you updated on our house progress and the wildfires.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Panic

    Today when I got up I was reading on twitter that Agua Dulce was under mandatory evacuation. My heart dropped and I immediately went online to find out more info. The "Station" wildfire is out of control and is moving closer to Acton and at a slower pace it's moving north west and that is where Agua Dulce is located. The closed the Agua Dulce off ramp on the 14 freeway so the only way you could get into the city was through Sierra Hwy. It seems that the east side of the city is under mandatory evacuation but where we live is not. So I spent the morning cleaning and continuing to pack up stuff but checking the news often to find out the status of the fire.

    Around 2pm Harry and I decided to go up to the house and check everything out. When we got up there is actually looked better then it did yesterday but there was alot of smoke north of us (in Acton) but our place looked okay. It eased my mind a bit. The fire was still 11 miles or so away from us. We didn't do any painting and we also didn't bring anything else up to the house (just to be safe). We cleaned up the place a bit as the contractor will be starting tomorrow.

    We headed home and I continue to clean and pack. We plan on going back up tomorrow and start painting once again. Of course I listen to the evening news and it made me worry about the house again.. but to be honest there really is nothing we can do.. just hope the firemen stop this fire before is reaches us.

    But I guess living in the hills we need to get use to this.. but I don't think I ever will.

    I'll keep you all posted.

Saturday, August 29, 2009

More Packing and Cleaning

    Today we stayed home (rental) and continued to clean and pack up this place. Bill (the owner) said he was placing ads about the rental and that he would want to show people the house. And I would be super embarrassed if they saw it like this. We have stuff all over the place as things are half packed and dumped in corners.. so today I cleaned the kitchen from top to bottom, finished the bathroom that Harry started yesterday, finished cleaning and packing the living room and did a little bit more packing of my toy room. All in all it was a good day of packing.

    The scary part of today was this "Station" wildfire that is slowly moving in the direction of Acton which is next to Agua Dulce (where our new home is). We look to be okay but it's still very scary.. Let's hope everything works out.

Friday, August 28, 2009

Remodeling - Day Five

    Another early day, got lots moved over as we packed up Harry's truck every time we go up. Once there we did a second coat on the Guest Bedroom and did a first coat on the Guest bathroom. Also our contractor Danny stopped by to pick up the tile and go over other construction things, as he is starting on Monday at 6am. We talked about the fireplace and he suggested putting wood over it to make it look more rustic as this was something I wanted and I loved the idea.. so now we are doing that also. So construction wise we are getting the office windows drywalled up. getting the carpet taken up and tile laid down in the master bathroom. Removing the two side closet built-in's in the master bedroom and having the fireplace re-faced and tiled. Along with Harry and I painting every room. Today while at our new place the air got so smokey you would think that there were fires all round us, but fortunately they were miles away and the wind was blowing our way. I had to drive home to grab my check book and had to drive through a down pour of ash. Harry also said there was ash falling at our house. It's a fact of living in the hills that fire are fairly common.. let's just hope they are never close to us. So things are moving along nicely.. hopefully in a few weeks everything will be done and by that time almost everything will be moved over to the new house so we can set everything up and move in full time.

Remodeling - Day Four

    Today we got an early start and headed out around 9 am. We got to the house around 10 am. After unpacking the truck we started setting up all the paint stuff in the Guest Bedroom. We still had to paint the borders and corners of the 3 walls we had painted yesterday and on top of that we had 2 window frames to paint. After we were done with that Harry and I headed to Lowe’s to pick up more paint and paint supplies. While we were at Lowe's we finally decided on the tiles for the Fireplace and the Bathroom. Both of us really liked the tile we choose.. the fireplace is going to be AWESOME. After Lunch we started setting up the TV Room for another coat of paint. To our surprise the second coat of paint went fairly quickly and actually covered the walls. So it only took two coats and the TV Room is complete and I have to say looks great. Around 5 pm Harry and I headed back to Reseda to get some more packing done. While I continued with the Toy Room, Harry started packing up his Desk in the Office. All in all it was a good day.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

KOTG Microcast #6 - Quest for the Music Video

Cleaning up the Rental

    Today we took a break from painting our new house to work on our rental. They will be showing it to potential renter and it needs a good cleaning. We also did a bunch of errands that we have been putting off because of the new house. I also edited and released a new podcast. I miss the new house but it was nice to do something different.. but back to painting the house tomorrow..

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Remodeling - Day Three

    Today we got up, packed up the truck and headed to our house. But first we had two stops. First stop was our escrow company up in Valencia. We had to pick up a check for overages that we paid at closing. Unfortunately they dropped the check in the mail just a half hour before. So we left there and headed to Lowe's. We needed to buy more paint for the TV Room and while we were there I picked up another three paints, one for our master bathroom and two for our guest room.

    Once at the house, we unloaded the truck and started painting by finishing up the window frame and the remaining wall in the TV Room. Once that was done I started taping off the Guest Room, while Harry did some touch-up work with the first 2 walls in the TV Room. We had planned to do the guest bathroom next but I decided that there would be less taping and I really wanted to get at least one room done.

    While we were doing that, Mike, the Internet guy, stopped by to set up the Internet. He uses our hill side for a tower that feeds the valley below and because he uses our hill and electricity we get free internet. Once he was done we were eager to check out how fast the Internet was since he said it's faster then dial up but not quite as fast as DSL or Cable. This worried Harry and I but we were both surprised at the speed. One thing going for us was that we have our very own connection. So there are no other users on our line.

    Once we both checked our Twitter we got back to work. Harry finished up the TV Room and I continued to tape off the guest room. The TV Room now has one complete coat, with exception to the area near the base board that had drywall damage. We have to let everything completely dry before putting on another coat. Harry then moved into the guest room and painted as I finished up the taping of baseboards. Once I was done there I helped with the trim work. We got the three walls covered with one coat (there is an accent wall that we did not do). But we were happy with our progress. We now know that painting is tough. It's tiring and take lots of patience and time. Well get it done.. might be a few weeks.. but will get it done and it will look great.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Remodeling - Day Two

    Today we are up, packed and out the door by 10am. We planned to finish the TV Room and get a start on the guest bathroom. When we got there the paint was alot darker and looked good. It needed a few touch ups here and there but both Harry and I jumped in and started painting. Around 1pm our contractor Danny stopped by to go over everything that we wanted to do to the house. That took about an hour. Both Harry and I knew we had alot of property 2 1/2 aches but when walking around with Danny and standing on hillsides looking down at it, it hits you on how much 2 1/2 aches really is. Once Danny left we were hungry and needed to also pick up some more paint supplies. So we headed to Lowe's once again and on our way back found one of our favorite fast foods El Pollo Loco so we picked up some lunch. Once we were finished eating we continued to paint the TV-Room. And once again daylight started to disappear and we had to call it a night. We were almost one with 1 coat on all the walls. The painting looks so easy.. and HGTV makes it look like it can be done in hours.. this is day two and we are still finishing up just 1 coat on 1 room. Maybe will finish it tomorrow.. but I'm not making any promises.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Remodeling - Day One

    Wow.. what a day.. now that we got the house we want to paint and do some small construction remodels before we actually move in mid September. We planned to be on the road at 10am but I figured since we would be at the new house for the next few weeks the majority of the time that we needed to go food shopping. So instead of heading up to the house we went food shopping. After we got back and split up the groceries between our rental and our house we got back on the road. We also agreed that when we drive up we will always take a load of boxes with you.. so we loaded up Harry's truck, but before we could head north I have to go to Kim Evey's (The Guild) Producer and return the BTS camera I was using for shooting season three. Once we dropped off the camera we head up north to our new house. We got there around 1:30pm and unloaded the truck. We then had to make a trip to Lowe's (the closest hardware store) but first we wanted to teach Daisy about the doggie door that lead out to a small enclosed area for to do her business. Well she figured it out fairly quickly but our little "Houdini" also figured out how to squeeze through a gap at the top and get out which she attempted as we were leaving. So we had to leave in inside the house until we were able to block that exit.

    We get to Lowe's and head to the paint department, we try and find the matching colors that we had picked up from Home Depot but couldn't find the exact colors (we had previously gone through the house and picked out colors for all the rooms). I remember that they can color match so we asked if they could match these color, they said of course and that it would take ten minutes. During this time we walked around and picked up other painting supplies like, rollers, brushes, etc...

    By the time we got out of Lowe’s we were both starving and looked for something to eat. We found a Carls Jr. that was on our way home. We headed back home and were greeted by a totally overexcited Daisy. By the time we were done with our lunch and started working it was about 5 pm... where did the day go?? We pretty much knew that we wouldn’t finish the room, but we wanted to get as much as prep work done as possible. The first room we decided on painting was our TV Room. We went with a darker color called Butternut Wood but it looks more like a dark Olive Green. Both Harry and I really like it. We figure it's the TV room so a dark color would be best. There were these plastic strips that covered the cable running along the baseboard that we didn't want. So we went to pull them off. They were being held on by double stick tape and when pulled off took off some drywall as well. So I attempted to patch up some of the damage while Harry started taping off the six windows. I came to realize that my patch work wasn't going to work and that we would talk to our construction guy about fixing it so I started to paint, I wanted to a little paint on the walls to see what it looked like. I started with the Window surroundings. About and hour later we had to stop, because we ran out of daylight, we had 2 window frame painted. The day didn't go exactly as planned and we didn't get nearly as much done as I was hoping but it was still a great day working on improving OUR house. Can't get any better than that. Going back tomorrow and hoping to finish the TV Room and if were lucky our guest bathroom.

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Blizzcon Day 2

    After a wonderful morning I was on a high, but that was soon gone as I hit traffic driving to Anaheim and Blizzcon. I had a shift at The Guild's booth from 3pm to 8pm. Traffic was horrible, but I got there around 3:15 but then had to find parking as all the lots were full. I finally found something miles away so I didn't get to The Guild booth until 3:30pm. I got excited again about getting my keys and folks kept congratulating me as I showed them the actual key.

    The booth was packed with Guild fans. The signing was fun, meet several folks who said how much they enjoy my Twitter feed. And at 5pm I was asked to run the raffle (The Guild was giving away 4 Zune MP3 players). I had Jeff (Vork) and Robin (Clara) pull the names out of Vork's deep fryer. That was a lot of fun. After that there was the cast's final signing. There was a new Cast photo/poster that a fan did for The Guild and I wanted a copy signed by everyone so I did that. I also got a picture with each cast member because I take 1000's of photos of the cast and crew but there are so very few pictures of me on set and none with the cast members. After the signing everyone helped break down the booth and Blizzcon 2009 was over. Jenni and I finished our podcast and she drove me to my car and I headed home.

    Tomorrow we got to our new house and start painting.

Keys

    Today Harry and I went to the Seller's Realtor at 9am to picked up our keys to our new house. We headed over to the house to check it out as we hadn't seen it in almost three months. We get to the front door and I finally allowed myself to get excited. It was over, all the stress and crap we had to put up with was over. The house was ours and no one could take it away. I am now a property owner (never thought I would be able to be one.. Thanks Sweetie)

    The house looks completely different empty compared to when it had all the seller's furniture in it. We walked from room to room and check out ever corner.. the walls were a little worse then I remember but luckily we planned on painting everything. After going through everything we then went from room to room and planed out what colors we wanted on the wall and where we want the furniture. It was a lot of fun trying to decorate our home, luckily Harry and I have pretty much the same taste when it comes to paint colors.

    We also brought Daisy up for the first time so she could check out her new pad.. not sure she liked it but she'll get use to it. We couldn't say long as I was working The Guild booth later that day in Blizzcon. But we planned to come back tomorrow and start painting.. So we grabbed some lunch and headed home.

Knights of the Guild Ep7 pt2

    Knights of the Guild Episode 7 Part 2

    Show Notes:

    Here it is Episode 7 part 2 of Knights of the Guild. We hope you enjoy it.

    Today’s show features:

    • First up we have our monthly Vorkism.
    • Our location today is at Codex’s apartment, this time for a Thank you Dinner
    • For our BTS segment we discuss our experience working on Season Two Episode Nine: Grouping Up.
    • Then we have part 2 of our interview with the one and only Felicia Day

    FeliciaAvatar2.jpg

    • We have our Fan Feedback.
    • We ask for Donations and Thank those who already donated.
    • Mention important links
    • Then we have our final words and we say goodbye.

    Please send your audio or written comments to knightsoftheguild@gmail.com or you can leave your comments in the comment section of this site.

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

    Kenny & Jenni

    Other Important Links

Friday, August 21, 2009

We Got The House!!!

    When I got back to my car after spending the day at Blizzcon I plugged in my cell phone as it died around 3pm and of course I had a ton of messages but two were urgent. One from my Mary our Realtor and the other from Harry. They called around 4pm and both left me message.. like "I don't know where you are but you loan has closed, you can pick up you keys, you got the house." Of course it was almost 5:30pm when I got this and I was in Anaheim and the Escrow is in Valencia I knew there was no way we would get the keys today. But I found out that the seller's Realtor had the keys and said we could pick them up tomorrow morning.

    I still wouldn't allow myself to get excited. It was a long and hard process and I didn't want to allow myself to be happy until I was holding the keys in my hands.. which will be tomorrow morning at 9am.

Blizzcon Day 1

    Today was Blizzcon Day 1. I was asked to help with The Guild's booth and of course I said yes. My shift was 10am to 2:30pm. It was a lot of fun. I'm not a gamer so I was there just for The Guild and to support them. Met lots of fans and sold lots of Guild stuff. After my time at the booth it was time to get ready for The Guild panel. I was lucky enough to go back stage with the cast and wait for them to go on stage. While we waited I took the opportunity to interview some of the cast for a special KOTG microcast. After the panel, which was Fantastic.. I went back to my car to head home. My cell had died around 3pm so I plugged it in and had several urgent messages.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Transformers 2

    I finally saw Transformers 2 today with Harry and my Dad. I really enjoyed it, it was what I expected. Action, action and more action. I actually liked it better then the first one as I felt it had more of a story. Of course there were plot holes in the story but they didn't bother me. It was just a fun roller coaster ride.. can't wait for #3

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Finally Signing the Papers

    Wow.. what a day. I was told, through my "loan specialist" that it was possible that we would be signing the papers to our loan today at 3pm.. well I had not heard from anyone so I assumed it wasn't happening. Well I get a call from my Realtor Mary saying URGENT!!! you need to get to escrow and sign those papers ASAP!!!!

    I guess they did schedule a notary for 3pm but failed to call me and let me know. Now it's 3:30pm and the escrow company is in Valencia. So I quickly get dressed, wake up Harry who was taking nap and we rush out of the house heading up north. Of course it's Wednesday and I knew there would be traffic and I was told that I had to sign everything by 5pm. So flew down side streets trying to find the least congested route. We arrived at the Escrow company around 4:15pm. Later Harry told me I was driving like a maniac but I got us there in one piece.

    We sit down with the Notary, Steve and we start to go through the paperwork. I have to say I was told that this is the most stressful part of the process but after our 90+ days of hell this was the best part. Steve was so funny and we laughed alot. After a half hour we were done.. all the paperwork was signed. All that was left was giving them a cashiers check for our down payment. Luckily there was a BofA down the streets so we quickly went over and pulled out the biggest check I have every given to anyone and went back to drop it off. They were going to try and rush everything through but the loan still needs to go back to BofA for approval, then be recorded with the county register office and then the loan needs to be funded by BofA and only then would we get the keys.. They hope to get all this done in the next two days and we can get the keys on Friday... Here's hoping.

    PS.. I was in such a hurry that I left my camera at home.. but Notary Steve took a picture of us and I'm hoping to get a copy of that.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Don't want to get my hopes up.. But!!!!

    This morning when I woke up there was an email from my "loan specialist" informing me that the case number has been approved and that she sent this information to the underwriter who will now complete the loan documents. According to our loan specialist we should close by the afternoon (this just shows you that she really has no idea what the process is). Now the loan documents go to Escrow where I will sign and approve them. Then they go back to the lender where they are recorded and finalized. At the same time I will wire the escrow company our down payment and fees which will take a day and after all that is done the loan will close and we will officially own the house. Not going to happen in six hour as our loan specialist thinks.. if we are lucky it can be done by Friday.. if not early next week. Needless to say I don't want to get to excited as we are on our 90+ day of our 60 day planned escrow. I'll celebrate when the keys are in my hand. But at least it seems to be moving in the right direction.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Tackling the Garage pt. 2

    Well after all the craziness of The Guild video. I spent most of the day online promoting the video I did manage to get back into the garage and do some more cleaning up. I'm happy with the amount of work that I did. I have now gone through the majority of the garage stuff. There is still one corner that I have to attack later but I should it done with one more day of work on it.

Our First Interview

    It's been a crazy day with all The Guild stuff going on. But later in the night Jenni came over to my place to record our microcast about The Guild's new music video "Do you want to date my Avatar". While Jenni was here we did an interview for a podcast called Joss'd. This was our first interview and it was kind of strange since we are normally the ones who are doing the interviewing. But we had alot of fun. After that we recorded our podcast and had a special crew interview with Greg Aronowitz ( he created the weapons for The Guild music video. )

Seeing the Light

    Well today I got an email from our "loan specialist" informing me that the new case number still hasn't been approved. They did say it could take up to 48 hours. She thinks it will be approved tomorrow... here's hoping.

The Guild Music Video


    Today The Guild released their AWESOME music video for the general public. "Do You Want to Date my Avatar" I shot all the behind the scenes video for this music video. It was one of the best shot day I have had on The Guild set.

    Let's support The Guild by buying the MP3 from Amazon.com http://bit.ly/amazonavatar or the actually video from itunes http://bit.ly/itunesvideo

    Being The Guild they also released it for free on You Tube.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Tackling the Garage

    Today was my second attempt at tackling the garage. I really want to go through all that stuff and make sure it's 1 packed and ready to move and 2 it's worth packing and moving. I didn't get started until mid-afternoon and around 2 I was getting hungry so I stopped to have some lunch.. well that was a mistake. I wound up hanging out with Harry and watching TV the rest of the day leaving the garage half done. Oh well still haven't heard anything about the house so we still don't know exactly when we will be moving. I'll attempt it again tomorrow.

KOTG Contest #1

    My Knights of the Guild podcast is running a contest.. here are the details below.

    After the Guild panel at Comic Con the cast went to sign at the Xbox booth where they were giving out these really cool picture of The Guild cast in their avatar outfits. Of course I grabbed a few for our Knights of the Guild podcast to give away as prizes, large donations and even put one on ebay to raise money for a charity.

    Well here is the first chance to get your hands on one of these really nice photos and it's not only autographed by all six of the main cast members (Felicia, Sandeep, Jeff, Robin, Amy and Vince) but I got Tara (Dena), Michele (Riley) and Sean Becker (Director) to sign them as well. So you get nine autographs.

    This photo is 11x17

    Now for contest details:

    Jenni and I want you do an audio or video promo for Knights of the Guild podcast. We will choose one winner that we feel best promotes the podcast. The winning promo will be used to promote Knights of the Guild on other podcasts.

    Please make the promo between 30 to 90 seconds.

    We are giving you no direction and/or guidelines, we want to see what you can come up with.

    Please email all entries to Knightsoftheguild@gmail.com

    Contest deadline will be October 1st.

    Okay Guildies lets see what you can come up with... good luck

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Knights of the Guild Ep 7 pt.1

Friday, August 14, 2009

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

    Just got back from watching G.I. Joe. Over thoughts it was a fun movie. It's what I expected, action packed, cool special effects, a very simple story and lots of explosions. I know nothing about the G.I. Joe universe so I don't know how close this is to the real Joe but I didn't have a problem following the story or characters. I think they distinguished the characters well. It was kind of corny on how they did the flashbacks. Each time the person would stare out into space and the camera would zoom in on their face and then the flashback would happen. Once was fine, but I think they did it six or seven times.. every time the camera would stop on a face I thought to myself .. oh they are doing a flashback. Of course all the cool SFX scenes are previewed in the trailer but there is still plenty to oh and ah at. It was funny at times and serious at times. It was a perfect summer popcorn movie. I'll be buying it when it comes out on DVD.

Star Trek: Confusion

    This is hilarious.. and what is really funny is I got all the reference.. even Hook.

    Star Trek: Confusion

Thursday, August 13, 2009

The Variants

    Today I came across another fantastic webseries called "The Variants" It's about a group of co-workers at a comic book store. So far they have only released episode 1 but it's a pretty funny start to the series. I like that this series has some gay characters in it and they aren't over the top. I'm really looking forward to episode two.

    Check out episode 1

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V95gTFLKduQ

Finally!!!

    Well I don't want to get my hopes up but I got a call from our Realtor who got a call from the only person who is compliant at BofA and she informed up that our FHA case number issue has been closed/resolved. Now we wait 24 to 48 hours from them to issue a new one and then the loan documents can be drawn up (another 3 to 4 days) and sent to escrow in which they will contact us and give us the amount that we owe for closing in which I will wire the money to their account (takes 1 day) and then we go and sign the final paperwork, it's recorded and pick up the keys a few days later and the house is ours. If all goes as planned (which it never does) we should have the keys by the end of next week. But I won't get excited because every time I do something goes wrong. So I'll wait until those keys are in my hand and then I'll jump up on down with joy.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Updating the Website

    I spent the better part of today working on one section of my new and improved website Geekyfanboy.com Most the the site has been transferred from the yahoo geocities account but there still are a few links that I need to build. Today I worked on my Star Trek The Tour section. I built 35 pages in Comic Life, then had to reduce them in size on photoshop and then build new pages in MS Frontpage and finally link everything together and upload them. Took all day with breaks here and there but I finally got that section done. Only a few more sections and my new website will be complete.. at least until I decide to change it again.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Home Loan Update

    Since our loan specialist is on vacation we have another lady working on our stuff. And after 75 days of dealing with this stuff I got my very first phone call from them. (I've called and left message many times but never got a return phone call.. until today). I was surprised to hear from this new loan specialist. She called just to tell me that the 5 to 7 day delay that then turned into a 10 day delay is now a 12 day delay. Will this every end!!!!

    Harry and I went out and had a bed liner put into the back of his truck. Eventually when the house does close we plan on taking some stuff up there in his truck and he didn't want to scratch it up.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Felicia Day Interview

    Today Jenni came over to my place so we could do a skype interview with actress, writer, creator of The Guild Felicia Day. She was our special Cast Member interview for Knights of the Guild podcast #7. We started a bit late but the interview was fantastic. Got to ask a lot of cool questions and since Felicia is a friend it was less pressure and was more like three friends just shooting the breeze. After Felicia's interview Jenni and I recorded pick ups to fill in the blanks after splitting episode 7 into two podcasts. Now just a few more editing tweets and cutting in Felicia's interview and Knights of the Guild #7 part 1 & 2 should be ready for release.

    I also prepared the show note for both episodes.

Happy Birthday Pops

    Today is my Dad's 62nd Birthday.. Hope you have a great day.

    Love you.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Lazy Sunday.. Not!!!

    So much for a lazy Sunday. Today I started editing Knights of the Guild Episode 7 parts 1 & 2. Since we didn't record them this way will have to do some creative editing. I'm also waiting to do some pick ups with Jenni and our interview with Felicia.

    When I wasn't editing Harry and I went out to check out paint colors at Home Depot. Luckily we both have the same tastes in color. We both love the warm earthy colors. Grabbed a bunch of color samples, now if we can only close on this house we can see which colors go where. We also went to Urban Living to check out some furniture. They have a few things that we liked but nothing like Living Spaces.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Editing KOTG #7

    I was editing podcast #7 and came to realize that even before we do the interview with Felicia that the podcast is already 1 hour and 30 minutes long. And with Felicia's interview it will push it over two hours. So I had some ideas, let me know what you think.

    First we can leave it long, second we can try and cut a half hour out of it so it runs about the same length of our regular podcast. Or thirdly we move several of the segments to a second podcast (part2) that will be posted on the 1st (two weeks after) the main podcast.

    Then I got to thinking I should do that for every podcast. Instead of one really long one you would get one on the 15th of the month and then another shorter one on the 1st of the month that would have two to three of the segments from the regular shows. The segments would always be changing depending on time. One month it could be fan interview and BTS the next month it's Cast and Crew update and Donations. So you'll be getting the same stuff just in two podcasts.

    Do you like the idea?? Shorter podcasts and more of them? Leave a comment or email us at knightsoftheguild@gmail.com

Keeping our Mind off The Home Loan

    Trying to keep our mind off the house loan chaos we decided that we would go furniture shopping. We have been seeing commercials for this place called "Living Spaces" and that there was one near by in Van Nuys. So we headed over that and WOW that place was awesome... and it was huge. We first looked at recliners and found four or five that we really liked. We then went looking for a regular chair that would go with our current couch. We found a pretty cool one. We then went over to desks but couldn't find any we liked but we did find this awesome and unique dining room table. After that we headed over to the bed section and found four frames that we really like and some mattresses. All I know is when we go to actually buy stuff it's going to be tough deciding on which one to get and will be spending well over $5000 on new stuff. But man was it fun.. now we just need to actually get the house so we can go ahead and buy some stuff.

Friday, August 7, 2009

More Delays

    Today I got an email from our loan specialist informing me that she had made a mistake (again) and that the closing of the case number doesn't take 5 - 7 business days it takes 10 days now. So now it is going to be another few days before this case number issue is resolved. Oh and the best part is our loan specialist Cindy is going on a vacation so we were handed off to someone else. Guess that can be good since Cindy was horrible at her job maybe this new person will know what's going on. So now we wait till Monday to see what is happening next. I'm so tired of all this B0fA BS. If I didn't want this house so much I would call them up and let them have it. When this is all over they will be getting a "nice" email from me pointing out all there mistakes with processing this loan. This has been a horrible experience, and has made the entire home buying process miserable.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

House Update... Kinda

    Well it's been one week since we were suppose to close on our home loan. Still haven't heard anything, well I do get emails saying that the case number has not been closed yet... as hard as it is all we can do is wait. Like I said before the house isn't ours until I'm holding the keys in my hand.

Packing and Podcasts

    Today was started packing up the toys from our office. I had purchased a few plastic containers a few days ago and wanted to get started as there are lot of toys to pack.

    Later in the day Jenni came over to we could record our Knights of the Guild podcast #7. I try and make the as streamlined as possible and try and get them done in an hour but it never happens. Two hours later we finally finished the recording.. now I just need to edit it before August 15th. And we still need to interview Felicia Day for our Cast Interview. Will be doing that next week, but I hope to have everything already edited so all I have to do is plug in her interview and it will be good to go.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

House update

    Still no word on our house loan. Spoke with the sellers a few days ago and though they are nice I could tell this is started to annoy them. But that is understandable as it's annoying to both Harry and I. I just hope it comes to an end soon.

Kenobi


    Today Harry and I went to visit my Dad, brother, sister-in-law and of course my new nephew Kenobi. We've only been to visit once since he was home so I was looking forward to seeing him again. My brother told me that he was gaining weight and started to get chubby. He's also getting better at holding up his head and is awake alot more. I got to spend about a half hour holding him and once again feeding him. And of course I got spit up on for the first time... everyone got a kick out of that. He's adorable and I can't wait to watch him get bigger and bigger.

    We also hung out with my Dad and went to the movies.. wanted to see Transformers II but it was starting to late so instead we went and saw Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, which I had already seen of course but both Harry and Dad have not. I loved it a second time and noticed more with the second viewing and Harry and Dad both seemed to like it as well.

Monday, August 3, 2009

Nothing

    Still nothing on the house front.. still waiting to hear if they have closed the case # and issued a new one. This is the last thing we need before they will issue final loan papers. Let's hope it happens sometime this week.

Interviewing Greg

    Today I went over to Greg Aronowitz studio called The Barnyard to interview him for a behind the scenes piece for the season three DVD of The Guild.

    When I got there he was just coming off of an all night music video shoot (you can check it out here) and we in the middle of doing pick ups for his own webseries called Alien Ninja.

    After a half hour we took a break so he could sit down with me and do his interview. The interview was alot of fun and I think I got some cool bites for the piece.

    After that I headed to Target to buy some plastic containers to start packing up my toys.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Knights of the Guild Microcast #5

Fanboys

    Well I was finally able to sit down and watch Fanboys. I have wanted to see this movie for years and when it finally hit the theaters earlier this year my life was just too busy to get to the movies. Then it came out on DVD and I just haven't had the time so I finally made some time and sat down today and watch it. I enjoyed it alot, it was a fun road trip, buddy flick with a Star Wars theme. I don't think you need to be a big Star Wars fan to enjoy it, but you would get more of the jokes if you were a Star Wars fan. There was their fair amount of Star Trek bashing, but that was to be expected and lots of gay themed scenes. But over all it was a fun film. Could it have been better.. for sure but it was entertaining.

Happy Anniversary

    One year ago today Harry and I had our very geeky wedding. It was a wonderful day and I can't believe it's been a year since then.

    Happy Anniversary!!!!

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Packing, Packing, and More Packing

    Today Harry and I focused on packing up more stuff. Even though we haven't closed on our house we do want to be all packed up and ready to go when we do. So today we drove around looking for plastic totes for my toy collection. I normally use those 50 gallon tubs but we went to three Targets and one Home Depot and no had those large totes. Guess I'll need to buy smaller ones.. just more of them.

    So we got home with no totes so we decided to pack up what we could from the kitchen. We also tried to purge the crap that we either don't use or is too old and crappy looking. So we spent a few hours packing up stuff.

    We still have quit a bit of stuff to pack but we still have until the end of September to be out of our current house... so that should be plenty of time.
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