I got this amazingly cool print (hi-res version here) hanging my cube from Secret Headquarters, a cool comic book store over in Silver Lake, the neighborhood I should be living in. This is a poster of Scott Campbell's artwork for King of Kong, which you must rent/buy if you haven't seen it. Great movie.

Three day weekend! Ovef! I had a really good one, I must say. Whit was at work pretty much the entire time dealing with the very successful Phoenix landing--click the link, very cool mission so far.

Ugh, I started this earlier this week and wasn't able to post it. Been kind of an odd week, bouncing from "life is great" in the morning and then "argh, life is driving me CRAZY!" just a few hours later. Work is good, but one of the products I am working on is causing people headaches, which gives me a migraine. We'll get to the bottom of the problem, but it's hard to deal with when your email program is hogging up 99% of your CPU usage. Frustrating.

Going surfing again tomorrow morning, which will make it twice in one week. The key is to keep sticking with it, I assume. I am looking forward to it, I just want to actually stand up and drift on down, just to figure out that balance. I'll work on the balance stuff tonight during yoga.

Acting is slow and it's really driving everyone I know crazy. Kind in an irritable mood, so I will just post this now..

I am at the airport waiting to fly up to Apple Inc. to talk to the Silicon Valley Mac Users Group this evening. It should be fun, I haven't been to a MUG meeting in a very, very long time...the Internet has made discussions and virtual meetups so easy that the user group thing is nowhere as big a scene as it was back in the, ah, back in the day. So that should be fun, I am kinda bracing myself for complaints about old products and the usual "why should I use your product when..."--but it's cool, at least we get a chance to talk.

The real news, of course, is the arrival of one of my very best friend's first child, Kendra Louise Ross, born to Zak and Megan yesterday. Big news! Everyone in the family is doing well, and it's gonna be fun watching Zak deal with raising a little girl. I actually can't wait. It's interesting, we're getting to that tipping point where more of my friends have kids than do not. I mean, Ollie already has two boys! Life, life, life all around us. Congrats, Megan and Zak. Zagan. Welcome Kendra! Looking forward to meeting you!

It's been, somehow, over a week since I last updated--and I was doing so well, too! And since I refuse to pay for LAX's lame ass wifi, it will be a bit of time before I can send this off. A few things:

1 - it's truly uncomfortable using a MacBook Pro on your lap. it's just too damn hot.

2 - the guys at iFanboy have asked me to contribute some writing and I am very happy to get a chance to do so. I'll keep you posted on this.

3 - Had a nice audition this morning. had a great class last week. got some very nice feedback, recognition and encouragement from work based on the work I have been doing over the past few weeks. kinda cool, I will admit.

4 - My screenplay has gone from action adventure to a comedy that deals with relationships using my experiences in off-off broadway as a literal figurative backdrop. I liked the other story, but I really wanted to hang out and start working with characters as opposed to types. I will get my explosive action movie after this one goes.

Oh--Zak, my hip flexor was rocking me a bit, I am not sure what was going on, but it was popping and freaking out and I wasn't sure what to do. It was almost as if one leg was shorter than the other for a bit there. Somehow it's settled a bit--I think it's because I stopped running for a week (I usually run a bit before spinning class); the impact from the running was knocking things about. I also started focusing on it (the pain, such as it was, was right in the balljoint area thing) in yoga as well as doing some faom roller stuff.

Finally, went to Angelino Heights this past weekend, they had an open house tour, where you could check out these amazing Victorians, right in the middle of Echo Park! It was really neat to be in restored Victorians (I couldn't take pictures inside) in LA.









I'll post more to my flickr page, too.

Tags: baby, travel