May16
Beach day today rather than hunting down more work was probably a mistake, but since there are friends in town, it was pretty much unavoidable. I'm making up for it a bit now, as well as having worked out a bit of (expensive) business this afternoon. Gotta get some bills paid, too, which is priority one after writing this minor update. Today was the first sunny beach day I've yet seen, so it was nice to be there, even though it ended up only being for an hour or so after driving all over western LA.
Tomorrow is back to real work, finding more work, and trying to push forward some projects (anyone remember the import company? yeah, that's stalled in the works, huh?). A lot of my projects can't go anywhere till I get myself some more money, so it's work, THEN projects, complete with working in between, or at least I hope that's the case.
You know, someone should change up a school system and make it so the elementary school kids go to school early and the high school kids go late. Like 7, 9 and 11 for the three levels, with corresponding out times. Later sports and games would allow more parents to go and show their support, too, which could be cool. Maybe this can be implemented once the retardation of NCLB gets wiped from the record books. Keep homogenous grouping, though, and add Farsi, Japanese and Mandarin as language options to the middle and high schools. Make a romance language mandatory in elementary school so kids can at least count in a couple languages before they're 10.
No idea why I bring this up.
I made 5 jars of strawberry jam, though. Yum.
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May10
I'm doing it again - that thing where I let too much time go by and then I don't want to post a stupid update because I feel like I owe an explanation... It's foolish.
Anyway, I've done some teleprompting (TruTV, Kraft) and bought a shitload of teleprompting equipment over the last 2 weeks. I'm about to buy more, believe it or not.
What else? I got in some trouble, which I'll elaborate more on some other time, and I've been going out less, but still enough that I'm happy about it for now. I'm still debating on going to Vegas tomorrow for a day or so, but that's looking less than likely. We'll see.
That's it for now. I just wanted to pop in and say hello.
Apr18
I am not as good at eggs as I should be. I cook them very rarely, and almost never over-medium, the way I like them in the diner. I think I'm using a pan that's too small for two eggs, actually, and I think I'm impatient. If I had a bigger spatula I could probably flip both eggs at once in the small pan, but alas, I do not. (Time to go to Spatula City!)
I make really good scrambles, of course, but that's about the ingredients and finding tasty things that taste great together. And an omlette is just a scramble with pretentious aspirations, make no mistake.
At least I'm trying to start the day off right with tea and eggs.
Apr10
I bottled my second batch of wine!
It's another kit wine, this time from "Cru Select." It's a Chilean blend of Malbec, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, and I call it Chilean Mystery Blend because I don't know the percentages of each, nor really anything about the grapes' origins. On the provided labels, the description says this: "Opening with dark roasted notes of coffee and chocolate with a hint of blackberries, fermentation on Cabernet Merlot Genuwine Winery Dried Grape Skins and French oak completes this monumental taste experience."
I have more pictures and notes and such after the break, but the takeaway here is that in 10 days or so, I'll have a new wine in rotation at the Casa Fredonia.
Read more...
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Apr26
 So I've been on the teleprompter beat all week and it's been tiring.
Well, the 7am calls have been tiring because I've been chasing girls or staying up late inexplicably, but I blame the work. I'm headed off to Vegas this weekend to get yet more tired, which should be fun, but very stupid.
I'm getting antsy about how little work I've been getting done recently on my personal projects, too, and it's really taken a week of "real" work to push me over the edge into doing something about it. My work with MWS has been very sporadic because I'm neither taking charge nor really taking direction, so there's very little going on there that I can really self-direct or follow directions on.
Next week I also want to focus on how I'm eating, too, because I'm eating badly and have been for about forever. I'll never be able to hike the million-mile trip that Andrew wants to do in October without getting better sleep and eating well, at least. I need to set a baseline for myself, and that's gotta start next week, too. At least figuring out where the baseline should be. I don't really live a lifestyle that lends itself to consistency, nor is my personality the type to let me believe that turning down present pleasure for future reward is ever a good idea. It makes me a bad investor, that's for sure.
Apr13
 Tired!
Broke!
Scatterbrained!
These are the ways I'm feeling right now, and that' just stupid. I have too much to do (ask me how much RoR I've learned or how many pages long my script is or whether I'm any closer to setting up the Virtual Server box in my server rack) to be feeling like this, but such is life. I know it's because I'm staying up late and getting up early and that I have to quit doing one (or both) of these things if I'm ever going to get anywhere, but I'll be damned if 9pm doesn't come around and leave me looking for something to do.
I've agreed to hike some impossible trail with Drew in a few months, so I also should be at least working out my plan for working out, right? Meh. Maybe next week. I have been eating a little better, which is good, and I have been working on the redesign for iwasbranded.com (I've been working on content for it, anyway), so that's good. I ran a bunch of Mechanical Turk projects (HITs) yesterday and got a bunch of transcriptions done, which I like. I think I messed up the process a little bit, but I'll be damned if I know how to do it right.
Anyway, today is for more server shit, and I've got two shoots scheduled this weekend already (none for BRANDED somehow, but still), so I'm honing skills, albeit the wrong skills. I'd also like to point out that if you're going to write a review of CloudFlare, you should know the phrase "for all intents and purposes" and not write "for all intensive purposes" because it makes you look like an idiot. More properly, it shows the world that you are an idiot, and begs the question of why we'd take your advice on anything.
I don't know why it bothered me, but it did, so there you are. Also, rain still? Indian food for lunch in Glendale? Weird.
Apr09
Easter came and went already, and Pris' dinner party was a hit. Here's a bullet-point list of some of the things I've done since I've last written:
- Written one page of my screenplay
- gone to the West Side for Alyssa's birthday party
- celebrated BootieLA
- gone to a new bar down on fairfax
- gotten an insurance quote for my bike
- done headshots for Emily Music
- hatched another harebrained scheme
And I'm sure there's more, but I'm not in any shape to think about anything more because I have some work to do and errands to run. This afternoon is writing time, probably after nap time. And less drinking this week. Much less.
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