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Day 1,900: flibbety flabbety

Flargle fungle y’all.

I.

Am.

WIPED.

Working a 50-hour work week is no joke, yo…but it’s that gooood tired. I got so much done this week, it’s insane. And as tired as I am, and I am tiiired, I was up today and focused and energetic to start my day.

Writing continued to cruise along. It’s definitely not going as fast as I want it to, but I’m actually fine with it deep down because I know that I can’t really go any faster. Not yet, anyway. I’m putting in the actual time, and I’m productive as he...

Day 1,899: Perfect Evening

Y’all, I just spent a perfect evening with my wife.

I drove home from work and traffic wasn’t too bad (victory!).

I picked her up outside, and we went straight to Pho So 1, our favorite pho place. We had to wait a few minutes for a table, but nothing bad, and the pho was sooo goood as were the lemon sodas.

And THEN we went next door to the 99 Ranch (an Asian food grocery store) and got some delicious goodies to take home (these rice noodles with little salty shrimp in them, big box of hello p...

Day 1,898: Over There

Quick one tonight because it’s already bed time, so here goes:

Great writing sesh this morning. I’m fully into the new project I’m working on and worried about finishing on time…but I have faith. I can do it.

Then Josh and I podcasted Yankee Doodle Dandy which was deeeelightful. I played Josh our new theme music too, and he loved it as much as I do (and Liz, too, so we know it’s a keeper).

For reals, tho, this project, watching the AFI’s top 100 movies…it’s the business. So, so good. Learning...

Day 1,897: The Case of the Missing Wallet

Guys. I couldn’t find my wallet today.

I had to leave the house without it.

And Liz didn’t come across it all day at home. I feared the worst…

I came home, and slowly started going over the places I remembered I’d been the night before. The doorway. My office. The couch. The closet.

Had it fallen into the wash? Nope. The clothes (by then moved to the dryer) were just clothes. Damn. Had I set it down on a random shelf in the living room? No. Those were clear. Double damn. Had I dropped it some...

Day 1,896: Pats for the Pets

I’ve always loved petting animals. Always.

As long as I can remember, I’ve loved just sitting down with my cat or my dog, beside them or with them on my lap, and just petting and scratching them for 20, 30 minutes at a time.

When I was a kid, I dreamed of my cats being able to sleep with me. When I was even younger, I used to crawl inside my dog’s dog house to hang out with him–his name was Merle and he was a German Shepard–pretty sure I used to try and eat his food with him, too.

Merle was s...

Day 1,895: Quick Sunday Wrapup

I have to make this entry a quick one tonight because it’s already past me bed time, but, here goes

Day 1,894: Wedded

Joe and Madhuri are married. Let the world rejoice.

I am definitely going to keep tonight’s entry short because it’s 2am and I am tiiiirreeeddd from my day, but what a day it was.

Liz and I got to be there for their proposal a year ago, almost exactly to the day, and now we got to be here for their wedding, which was AWESOME. They did it at Union Station in downtown LA and holy crap, what a gorgeous venue that turns into at night, all lit up. Amazing food. Hours of dancing (so much dancing)…a...

Day 1,893: Rehearsal

So, I’m sitting in bed right now at the Omni Hotel in downtown Los Angeles…and Joe and Madhuri are getting married tomorrow.

TOMORROW.

For anyone who doesn’t know, which I bet is a lot of you: Liz and I have known Joe and Madhuri for…almost 8 years, I think. Maybe even nine years. Maybe even TEN years. I think it’s been 8. Anyway…

Joe and I met in college. He was going to USC with my wife Liz, and after a very brief period of being rather skeptical of each other, we became the best of friends...

Day 1,892: Mehindi

I attended my very first Mehindi party tonight. I really hope I’m spelling that right.

It was for Joe and Madhuri’s wedding on Saturday, and it seems like it’s fairly akin to a Bridal Shower in Indian culture, but for this one, everyone was invited. People ate, listened to live music, got henna done for the wedding, and mingled and talked.

The food was SO GOOD.

Guys, I love Indian food. Who knew? Good Indian food, that is. And holy balls tonight was good Indian food. Samosas with that spicy g...

Day 1,891: Visibility

So, back in late 2018, Facebook made a change to their platform. It was a rather BIG change. They got rid of any ability to automatically post to a personal profile from an outside source. It was a big change at least for me.

Why? Because it meant that my daily blog posts no longer showed up on my profile (and into your news feeds).

There is a workaround. I can post stuff manually, like I am tonight, but I didn’t do a lot of that last year after the change went through. I just kind of did it...