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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...

Day 2,006: An Epic Weekend

What an intense, epic weekend for…well, I was going to say us “nerds,” but really, there are more people watching Marvel and Game of Thrones than aren’t, so…

Episode of GoT tonight was wonderful. Intense. Exhausting. Really well done. It’s one of the best episodes they’ve made. I think my opinion on that will stick.

I’m going to keep this short. I have to sleep. Work is in the morning, and I should already be asleep right now. But, I got everything done I needed to. Not everything I wanted to...

Day 2,005: Podcasting Is Exhausting

Podcasting is exhausting, yo.

So are vacations

Day 2,004: Endgame

Endgame is good. It’s a fitting end with a couple scenes that will actually stick with me for a while.

You should see it if you’ve seen any of the other Marvel movies and enjoyed them to any degree.

I know those movies aren’t for everyone, but it’s rather astounding to me what Marvel has been able to do over these past…11 years and 20-odd movies. It’s actually unprecedented. They serialized a movie series in ways that have never been done before. So many characters. So many stories. All cohes...