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Day 2,016: Oof

Watched a movie tonight that I really didn’t like. Le sigh. I’ll save the deets for the podcast, though.

It’s a bummer tho, because I was genuinely looking forward to watching it.

It’s late, so this is short one, but I will end on this: I love podcasting with Josh. He shared a story tonight from his own past that was…well, wonderful. Vivid. Heartfelt. It made me think about why I love movies and storytelling in the first place, and how connected they are to our memories of the people we love....

Day 2,015: Tired Day

I don’t think the entry tonight will be a long one, but we’ll see

Day 2,014: The Best Year

This is entry number two thousand one hundred fourteen.

In the year 2014, I had probably the best year of my life thus far.

I got married.

I wrote my first book, and I loved it.

Oh, man, and we ALSO adopted Coco that year, the looooove of my life (don’t listen Coops, it’s all about you, boo. And Bear! You, too…but for reals, the Coco has my heart).

What was your most recent amazing year?

I was so happy that year. 2013 had been so hard, but so satisfying. I figured so much out. How to work fro...

Day 2,013: Formative

2013 was a formative year for me. It’s the year that I decided I wanted to stop acting and focus on writing instead.

Man, that was a tough year.

I ended up making the right decision. Liz asked me the other day what I would have done differently in my acting days, knowing what I know now and being outside of it for a few years.

I struggled to answer the question because it’s so clear to me know how ill of a fit it was for my personality. If I’d found success early on, of course things could ha...

2,012: This Nugget

This little nugget of mine.

Coco is pressed right up against me tonight. Like, closer and snugglier than normal. I think she missed me.

I went and podcasted with Josh tonight. He was wiped. He shot all day down by LAX, but what a trooper, man. He still wanted to podcast.

We watched 12 Angry Men, and it was really impressive. 12 men in a room, just talking, and it was compelling. Really well shot, too.

Anywho…it’s late. Time for sleeps, like the Coco suggests.

Night

Day 2,011: Weird Week

It was a weird week this week.

First week back from vacay. Just felt like I was out of my routine, which I was. And these last two days working from home were, well, just different, because I wasn’t in the office.

Building was stressful. Yesterday and today. That’s always exhausting, and I was here at home for it, you know? But, mostly, it was just having been gone and getting back into the swing of things.

This is normal. This feeling of uncomfortableness around the routine being messed up....

Day 2,010: All My Friends Are Bread

Happy Birthday to the love of my life: bread.

Lol. Nooo…it’s to my wife. Liz: I love you with all my heart parts, and I’m so, sooo glad you were born today. You’re an amazing woman, person, lovah, and Mother of Shih Tzus.

I worked today, but from home, so we go to spend time together. We had breakfast together, worked together from home, and had dinner together. We went to Petit Trois for the first time and it was really good! Rich AF (it was French food, duh), but delish. The drinks, especia...

Day 2,009: Quick One

Quick one tonight because I have to sing my wiiiife happy birthday in three minutes, so let’s do this. Lightning Round!

Work was busy, but good. Have to find more clips for one title, but I think I might already have some good stuff.

Had drinks and food with our friend Darren from Maui, who’s in LA right now taking a much-needed break.

Hung out a bit with HuPunch and played music and beat saber.

Tomorrow…I celebrate Liz’s birth.

Night!

Day 2,008: The Green Ones

So much of my self-worth is wrapped up in what I create.

I started doing a daily “mood” journal. I assign a number value 1-10 for how I’m feeling that day, and I have a color assigned to each of those numbers, and I draw out a graph into a moleskine journal so I can visually see at a glance how I’ve been feeling for the past couple weeks.

I haven’t decided yet if it’s something I’m going to do forever, but right now I like it. Even though it’s been spotty in terms of me filling it out every d...

Day 2,007: Back to Werk

I went back to work today. It’s always hard to do that after a long vacation…

This wasn’t that hard. I was ready, actually. Ready to get back to work.

Don’t get me wrong, I was tired. Getting up “on time” felt like slow torture, but I did it. And I worked for a full day. Came home, watched a little bit of (depressing) A’s baseball, went back to “work” to post the rest of all the LIVE! Film School episodes to the Patreon, which once I get the “cutting room floor” episodes up tomorrow will be f...