GAH! For the first time this year I TOTALLY MISSED A PICTURE!!!!
I just forgot to take one! Rene didn’t even take any that I could cheat with.
We had such a slow day. Rene had the day off, but I had to work. Business may have been shut down in the U.S., but Canada was open for business and so I talked to them. Then eventually I had to go teach.
I can’t believe I missed a day.
Obviously there’s no picture for today.
See you tomorrow.
Filed under fail, project 365 2010, rene
Happy Birthday America!
Rene, Frankie and I had a very full Fourth! We started at the block party on her brother’s street. They do it every year with food, a giant inflatable water slide and a bike parade that we missed because the alarm didn’t go off.
I didn’t mind that the alarm didn’t go off.
They had a taco guy who made tacos right off a small portable grill which were delicious! Between the tacos, taquitos and salad I was pretty stuffed – and I managed to miss the cupcakes which I could have totally powered down had there still been one.
Frankie even got into the spirit with patriotic bandana, which is today’s picture:
After the first party we took Frankie home and joined Dean at at new friend Roger’s house! He’s a voice actor who voiced Chris Redfield in Resident Evil 5 and a whole bunch more, but I’m a R.E. geek so Chris Redfield was enough for me. He and his lovely girlfriend Steph were marvelous hosts and were very kind to open their home to us. We floated in the pool, had some drinks, Roger grilled meat – that I eventually made room for – and we played some very hard core air hockey in his game room.
Seriously, the air hockey was hard core! We played with four pucks at a time and played fifteen minute games. Very active! I have bruises forming on my wrist and a sore spot on my palm from the thing that you hit the puck with. We’ll see how those heal.
Then too finish off the evening Rene and I burned sparklers.
Like I said, full day.
See you tomorrow!
Filed under Frankie, friends, holidays, project 365 2010, rene
Rene and I didn’t do JACK today except exercise, walk the dog and eat.
OK, that’s not true, we did other stuff but nothing of real consequence. Since I usually have to work on weekends we really took the time to enjoy the fact that we didn’t have anywhere that we needed to be.
There is something delightfully luxurious in nothing.
Today’s picture is of my favorite candy bar:
We bought candy today too.
See you tomorrow!
Filed under Frankie, project 365 2010, rene
I was a sweating machine today! Not all day, but most of the day. It was a hot day in general, but that wasn’t the proactive sweating – the proactive sweating began when I met Rene at the gym. The cardio really got me going, but then, surprisingly, even my weight work kept up the sweat.
Then at night I did Shmimprov and it was a pretty physical show and I was definitely “glistening” after that performance as well.
If I were in Japan I would have just finished off the day with a refreshing Pokari Sweat!
Today’s picture is of me right before bed – I don’t know how visible the sheen of sweat is:
As I get older I just get more disgusting.
See you tomorrow!
Filed under getting fit, Improv Shmimprov, project 365 2010, rene
One of the things that goes along with being an independent producer is a lot of driving.
Well, at least for me there’s a LOT of driving.
I had an audition in the morning and while I was on the road up I was on the phone discussing deal details. After the audition I went from Santa Monica down to Dana Point for an edit session. Traffic on that drive was actually remarkably light – but going home after…
I love what I do, but I hate traffic. If there’s one thing that I could change it would be the public transportation situation in Southern California. Every time I get stuck in traffic I yearn for the Tokyo subway system! The trains are clean and run on time and you can get EVERYWHERE!
I dream of the day that I no longer need a car!
See you tomorrow!
Filed under business, project 365 2010, traffic
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Filed under project 365 2010, rant
Deadlines.
Right now deadlines are the bane of my existence.
I used to really like deadlines. I work well under pressure. It takes away the luxury of of worrying about a decision, you kind of just have to go with your gut. I like making decisions. I can live with making decisions even if they might not have been the best decisions, but what I can’t do is make other people make decisions any faster than they do and it is frustrating the hell out of me.
There’s only so much you can do when you’re frustrated: engage the feeling of frustration, engage the reason for the frustration or ignore the frustration. I get a bit of an energy surge when I engage “feeling” frustrated. It gets me fired up and usually means another task gets completed. When I can I engage the reason for the frustration, usually if it is a person. Meeting it head-on usually means that whatever the problem is will be solved or at least identified as a problem that needs addressing and having things come to a conclusion is better than letting them sit and get worse. But, when neither other option is available or has worked you’re stuck with ignoring the frustration.
I went through all three phases of this today.
Between the wedding, the show and three different movie projects all waiting on other people Rene and I are just about at our wits end. Around the corner is either paradise or tragedy and we don’t know which one it will be.
I keep re-writing the next section of this blog and it keeps coming out like a “Gipper” speech. It’s horribly cliche and doesn’t even come to saying what I want to get across so I’m going to quote my Twitter instead, “I’ve never let anything stop me from doing what I want & I refuse to let that start now.”
Today’s picture is of my bag:
It is what I carry my business around in. It was with me all day today ready to be opened, even though I didn’t open it until very late at night. It is starting to show the signs of it’s travels: a “D” clip from Sundance here, a luggage tag there, distressed leather in the spots where it rubs against my belt loops. I kept hoping that during my day I would find the time to use up some of this frustration energy that has been building up, but it didn’t quite work out. Now it’s just patiently waiting for tomorrow when I wake up.
It’s getting a lot of use then.
See you tomorrow.
Filed under business, project 365 2010, rant, rene, the wedding
I really need to wash my car!
Seriously, the dirt is starting to crust on it and I’m pretty sure that’s bad.
Well, maybe not bad, bad but having constantly dirty windows gets pretty dangerous. I even clean them, almost daily, but something happens at night! There must be extraordinary dew forming in the morning, but just enough to pool all the dust from the summer days on the windows of my car. I was joking with Rene that I now have tinted windows just from the dust.
Today’s picture was intended to be an image from my typical commute home from the school and should look like this:
But when I took the first picture the flash was still on and it reflected off the windshield and looked like this:
That’s not just glare, folks, that’s filth. I think a car wash and an oil change are in the cards for tomorrow.
See you tomorrow!
Filed under musings, project 365 2010
Today, after school, Rene and I went to Disneyland to visit with our friend Erik and his baby, Lucy, since they are moving away to Washington. I’ve never been all that comfortable will very small children. Until they reach walking age I always feel like I’m going to break them. Don’t get me wrong, I love kids! Tiny babies are cute and adorable when they aren’t crying and in spite of my fears of breaking them I do hold and play with them. Lucy, though, is a pretty neat baby. At ten months she’s starting to talk, she walks and kind of sings – well, warbles in an attempt to sing. Both of her parents are theater folks and it has already shown in her tiny personality.
Today’s picture is of me with Lucy:
I think we look cute. I’m told that I look good with a baby in my arms and people keep asking Rene and I when we’re going to start having babies. I tell them we have a dog.
Now I just tripped myself out about babies.
See you tomorrow!
Filed under friends, project 365 2010, rene
My friend Amber is getting married and she’s a member Improv Shmimprov so a bunch of us boys came together for her batchlorette party and did our best to give her a great last night as a single woman!
We played marriage-centric improv games and she wore a tutu.
Nate did a strip tease…
…with fishnets and a corset.
He also smuggled a sausage in his pants.
It was very funny.
Ryan Clark and I had to mime Olympic luge and it looked like this:
The last one is, technically, the pic for today.
See you tomorrow!
Filed under acting, Improv Shmimprov, project 365 2010
