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Day 4,329: Uncle Papa

Joe and Madhuri and Ashi and Aavi are here! It’s been a while since we hosted them. Particularly all of them. Man…it’s been a whiiile, actually, since they stayed at our house. Aavi wasn’t born yet. It was just the three of them. So, more than 18 months by that count. Wild.

Ashi was excited to see Cooper and Joy, and the feeling was mutual. With Aavi, too. They played fetch together with Joy’s balls. lol. It was very, very cute.

They’re here for the weekend, tonight and tomorrow night, to ...

Day 4,328: I Guess

Once again, thumbing it. Joy is snugged up in the exact spot I’d need to put my iPad to write this entry, and she’s not budging. Silly baby.

Another day a bit out of it. Going to be out and about tomorrow super early and away until the afternoon, I think. So…it was just hard for me to focus. And then we have people staying with us this weekend, plus stuff with the Kings on Sunday…it’s a lot. Good stuff, though, and I shall persevere in terms of the writing.

I’m almost done digging out my p...

Day 4,327: Two Thirds

Thumbing it tonight. Joy just haaaad to curl up in my lap, so no room for the iPad. She’s such a snug. I love it.

Got eight pages written today, which is better than six, the standard, but not as many as twelve. I just petered out by the end of the day because work took me so long. That’s been the story the past couple weeks. Mad busy. Plus distracted by figuring out putting Film School on camera.

Sigh.

Still, it was a great writing session in the morning. I can hold onto that. Time for...

Day 4,236: Tweak

List three books that have had an impact on me.

Resisting the urge to make a joke and say the bible. Honestly, the first one that came to mind, because it was recent, was the Dan Simmons series of essays on Writing Well. Massively influenced by that, which essentially boiled down to: if you want to write, you must read.

The next one that comes to mind, also because it was recent, is the Kermit Lynch book, Adventures on the Wine Route. It got me into wine. I mean, truly, it was Jay Mcinerne...

Day 4,235: Meds

Coops spent allllll day with me today out in my office. Sweet boy.

It’s late, so this is gonna be a short one…but I’m excited about filming our podcast. Whether or not Liz does social media for it (and I hope she does), I’ve turned the corner and am really looking forward to it. There’s a whole audience out there that video will reach, and I think we can accomplish that with some pizzaz. It looks good! Already! And it wasn’t that hard to put together. Simple lights. And miraculously, we’ve al...

Day 4,234: Spicy Grand Prix

Today I learned that ‘jidaigeki’ film is a Japanese genre that means its a period drama, and specifically the time period in Japan before the Meiji restoration, which was when—among other things—Japan began to heavily industrialize. So…the period before all that. The time of samurai, peasants, warlords, etc.

Akira Kurosawa did a lot of work in this genre. It was very popular in the mid-century. I watched The Hidden Fortress yesterday and today. Loved it. Somehow, I’m super glad that I split i...

Day 4,233: Obscurity

I find myself ruminating tonight about ‘toiling away in obscurity.’ And just as I type those words, I think I know where this rumination ends, but before skipping to the end…

I just. I post this blog—these journal entries, because that’s what they are—online. It is public, you know? But I don’t make any effort to otherwise get the word out there about it. I don’t do any SEO, I don’t go around posting links, sharing, social media, marketing, etc. I literally don’t do anything to drive traffic ...

Day 4,232: March List

Today I learned that Brett McKenzie and Jemaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords were roommates in college, and that’s how they started performing together. Taika Waititi was also at the college at the same time, and they were in at least a couple different comedy groups together. Brett and Jemaine took Conchords to the Fringe festival in Edinburg for two years, and it was after that they got their first TV gig with HBO on a program back then called One Night Stand, half hour stand-up comedy s...

Day 4,231: Lickums

Zonked! Long, loooonnggg work day today. Had a new project come in from work that involved curating clips, which is always super brain-intensive for me. It takes work to get those clips right, you know? Of course you do. That’s why we’re friends 🙂

Had a great morning of writing to start things out, which is kinda wild because I was also super tired waking up, lol. Took me a while to get going…but it flowed when I did, I guess, because all the sudden it was time to stop and I’d written more th...

Day 4,230: One Eighteen

Do I remember life before the internet?

I do! Barely…

Essentially, as soon as I was old enough to use the internet, the internet was around. It happened in grade school. I remember an ISP called ‘Prodigy.’ There was a puzzle game you could play, a way to chat with others (though I never did that), and something to do with the San Diego Zoo. And I remember going online for the first time and basically seeming like magic, this idea that the computer was connected to someone on the other side...