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Day 2,138: El Encanto

So, yeah…this place is the tits.

We had an absolutely decadent day today. We woke up late, ate breakfast as room service (and the food was delicious, which isn’t always the case, even with the fanciest of hotels), I took another quick nap, and then we spent the rest of the day poolside. Like, damn, right? THAT is vacation.

I think my favorite aspect of this hotel is that it’s really a series of bungalows, and that means these winding paths around the grounds to get to each room, and I just lo...

Day 2,137: Fifth Anniversary

Happy Anniversary to the love of my life,

Elizabeth Ho! We’ve been married for five years, and y’all…I am the luckiest man on the freaking planet.

We’re up in Santa Barbara right now staying at El Encanto, which is the hotel where I proposed all the way back in 2013. We’re with the pups, which is how it was back then, too! Coops was with us, and we were taking care of a friend’s dog named Hubble and they were both there when I proposed.

I made a slideshow of our 9 years together up to that po...

Day 2,136: A First

There was a first tonight whilst we were recording the Film School podcast: I was genuinely scratching my head as to why a movie was on the list.

Holy shit, I just realized that the movie we watched had not only Richard Harris in it, who I just put together is Dumbledore from the first two Harry Potter Movies, but that Jared Harris, the actor who played the main character on Chernobyl recently, and has among other roles played Moriarty in the RDJ Sherlock Holmes movies…is his son.

And I calle...

Day 2,135: The Blog Suffers

I was reading through some of my older blog posts from the first couple years I was doing these entries and you guys, I WROTE SO MUCH MORE.

Part of it was that I was just excited about it. And it’s not that I’m not excited to write these entries any more…it’s more that back then, I really had to think about what I wanted to say, and now it’s an automatic.

I suppose that means I take this thing for granted now.

Really, though, what it made me think is exactly what’s happening right now: this f...

Day 2,134: A Quick One

Making this a quick one bc I still have to take a shower and get in my writing bits…

HAPPY PANDAVERSARY TO MY BEAR!

Liz and I have called each other “panda/bear/panda bear/pb” for fifteen years now. Good lawd.

I feel so lucky. So incredibly lucky.

Love you, bear.

Now: shower time and sleepy time. A’s beat the Angels!

Day 2,133: Sunday Monday

It’s Monday, but it feels like a Sunday.

I wrote today! I wrote in the morning for a half hour, and I just wrote for about another 15 minutes.

I’m staaaaarttttiiinnggg to get into the habit of writing before bed. I wouldn’t say it’s a habit yet. More of an obligation. But it’s getting there.

I set up my little tracking journal for the writing sessions, and as I’ve talked about already here, I want to dip my toes into modeling and see if it’s for me. No, not the underwear kind

Day 2,132: Kitbash

Doing a quick one tonight so I don’t get up so late tomorrow on my extra off-day…but today was a nice one. Not so crazy as yesterday with all the running around.

Got to hang with Reed and his peeps over at his house for the first time. So nice! Loooove their place. Did podcast editing a posting. Napped. Watched baseball (we lost, sad face).

Twas a good day.

Night!

Day 2,131: That Time Cooper Ate A Cockroach

Cooper ate a cockroach tonight.

We were outside letting them do their final pee business before bed, and the bugs were out. Crickets and cockroaches. And all the sudden, Cooper had his head bent down towards the sidewalk and he was crunching on something in his mouth. Like, actually crunching.

Cooper!

Day 2,130: Reward…

I’ve decided that I need to reward myself whenever I complete a week solid of writing every day.

As much as it’s worked for me in the past, and as much as I preach it to others, during this difficult stretch of writing, I’ve really struggled to reward myself on a consistent basis for completing goals or tasks, or for staying consistent.

It’s really consistency that I’m striving for. Completion is a result. It’s not a process.

I’ve thought about blu-rays, but I’m not sure that’s it. I’ve thoug...

Day 2,128: Reward…

I’ve decided that I need to reward myself whenever I complete a week solid of writing every day.

As much as it’s worked for me in the past, and as much as I preach it to others, during this difficult stretch of writing, I’ve really struggled to reward myself on a consistent basis for completing goals or tasks, or for staying consistent.

It’s really consistency that I’m striving for. Completion is a result. It’s not a process.

I’ve thought about blu-rays, but I’m not sure that’s it. I’ve thoug...