On the Stage

Still waiting to hear about my interview...it's hard. It's like waiting to see if I got the part I want when I audition for shows.

I interviewed good I thought, and the very next day I got my thank you letter out to him, so there's nothing more I could have done.

If it's meant to be it is, if it's not, it's not.

Wow...profound words from Lars the philosopher ;-)

Got to talk to my best friend that's a girl. It's her birthday and I love her, she always makes me smile and makes me happy.

Also, some people that are "fiance'd" and I met through when I was in Oklahoma! are now in Cafe Noir with me and they're so much fun! I"m glad they're my friends. Her and my wife hang out some times and they talk about him and me and how we're so much alike and how we both talk about each other, yet both of us are afraid the other person may not like us when in fact they do...did you follow that? It's funny, because we want to be best friends and probably should be, but we're both apprehensive of each other, lol. I"m having so much fun with this production, such a great cast of people.

P.S. My sister pisses me off a lot, not just every now and then, but a lot...it's really unfortunate that I keep forgiving her for all of her snide comments and pretentious bullshit, but I'll keep forgiving her, because when she's not like that she's so much fun to hang out with! and I love her and all that junk and stuff ;-)

I don't normally care about astrology and I mostly think it's all bunk, but this web site I go to to post about musical theatre etc etc, there was a thread on astrology and someone said to go to www.alabe.com and do the birth chart thingie.

Well, I did...and damn, it was like 98% true! I do a lot of self reflection and so I know what I'm like and how I think and act and my faults and strengths etc, and damn if this little 2 page report (you can get a 30 page report for $$ but I dont think so!) wasn't so accurate it was kind of freaky!

Just wanted to share that...weird...

The ever flowing fountain of information Thoughts from the Oasis admist the corn (I wish he would have chosen a smaller name ;) has led me to this article...

quite intriguing

Maybe someday soon I'll actually post something about myself again instead of all these quizzes and articles...sorry folks, busy life with my show opening in one week from today.

Though no one commented when I posted about my show earlier, so I don't think anyone cares!

I love Sweeney Todd! Another quiz...


You are Sweeney Todd. Sure, life's given you
lemons, but you didn't need to chop down the
whole lemon grove. Still, driven mad by grief
and fury, you'll make a bloody name for
yourself, both on Fleet Street and on Broadway,
for your cunning, your ruthlessness, and your
inability to lay the past to rest before you
destroy it yourself.


Which Sweeney Todd Character are You?
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Yes! I'm Sweeney! :-)

Though...I don't know if that's necessarily good...or true...

You're Welcome to the Monkey House! You're a
political activist, or the opposite of it, as
you see the problems in our world. You're
something of a pessimist, but you're just so
damn funny that no one can resist you. You're
an alternative person, you don't work in the
normal "novel" way, but it works for
you. You'd enjoy anything Vonnegut ever wrote,
like Slaughterhouse-5, Hocus Pocus, or Cat's
Cradle.


Which Piece of Classic Literature are You?
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Thanks yankeebob for this one. It's kinda weird, but most of it is true...

these links..

See Republicans, you're bad boys and girls too...

Hypoallergenic, Genetically Engineered Cats To Be Sold But you'll have to pay $3,500 in the US and $10,000 in Japan and you can't have them until 2007

Yay, we now have a pretty new baby in the world!

Please go to Iowa Geek and check out their new baby!

It's such a wonderful thing, nothing else is like it, I should know, I have one myself and plan to have more.

Their will change so much now, so much for the better.

I'm just so happy for them, they're such wonderful people, she will be a fantastic kid, I just know it.

So, Congratulations Doug and Jody and welcome Brenna Clare...you're blessed to have such wonderful parents! :-)

You are most like Christine, Very sweet, a little
clueless, and undeceive, but sweet and besides
looks makeup for what ever important attributes
you are missing. I would marry rich and hope
for the best.


What character from Phantom of the Opera are you most like?
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I KID YOU NOT...I am the girl again...how does this happen? When I sing I sound like the dashing love character, like Raoul or Marius...oh well...I must think like a girl...

Thanks Thoughts from the Oasis Admist the Corn"

I'm Cosette!
Sweet and sheltered, but not just another pretty face, I've overcome some tough times, and have nowhere to go but up. Only the most hardened sociopaths -- and, well, fanatical Eppie/Marius 'shippers -- have anything bad to say about me. Which Les Miserables Character Are You?

Figures I'm a girl! I sing high and I've been known to go drag before...yeah, I get called a girl all the time anyway...mostly an inside joke with my family and friends but feel free to laugh

Right from the interview I went to rehearsal, so I didn't get a chance until now to post!

Well...I don't know, good or bad, I have no idea. There were some good things, we got along swell I think. I didn't impress him with my lack of Quark experience, but I did make him go "hmm" and raise his eyebrows when I told him that the little I did know about Quark I taught myself and am continuing to teach myself, he seemed to like that.

I got it switched around to where we were talking about him and where he came from what why he was in Iowa, because he said it was his first day of his third week in the job, and I took over from there for a bit...from what I've read that's good!

He asked a couple questions and I think I answered them well enough.

It's so hard to recall what happened in an interview...

At the end he said "well, I have a few really good candidates and so I'll need to think about it for a couple days but I should give you a call Wednesday or somewhere around there." Then asked if I had any questions and I said "well, you said there were two graphic designers..." and let him take over from there. So I asked why the other one left, which is a good question to ask to see why they left and if it was because the company sucks etc etc.

And I seemed very interested in the company and the job, which I was...man, I just don't know...I want the job so bad..but I just don't think I have what anyone wants...I just suck

I don't think I got it...but who knows, I hold out SOME hope...but I just don't think my portfolio is strong enough and I don't think I have the skills...I just don't...especially not compared to what's out there...BUT then I think that if given the job I would do it, maybe not well at first, but I could grow and I would be good...I would be...

My life is rated R.
What is your life rated?

That's right everybody, you can brings your kids around me...mostly. Never smoked or drank, I do swear and tell dirty jokes and I have "gone all the way" hello...I'm married and I have a kid! :-)

Thanks for the link YankeeBob, even though you probably have no idea I exist...

It has! The sites I go to "reguarly" haven't posted since wednesday, inlcuding myself, and my post on Wednesday was only half hearted at that.

Don't worry, I have plenty to say, just not plenty of time to come on here and say it!

YAY RED SOX!!!! Best series I have ever seen, made my week...

Then what made my week even better was the Cardinals winning too!!

I have a job interview on Monday for a job I want REALLY bad...so, I just have to show them I'm the right man to hire at that interview. I'm so nervous I think I'm going to puke. AND...I have no confidence in myself as a graphic designer at this point in my life, so, I better try and get some of that back before Monday. I have been doing some graphic design these past few weeks at work and for the show I'm in, so I have some current stuff, not all that excitingly well done, but, that's my low self-esteem at work again.

What else? Kaia's birthday is tomorrow! I got her some playdough and bubbles at work yesterday, she loves both of those right now! And V and I are getting her a trike (sp?) so she'll be loving that too. She's getting this Dora doll that's hair grows and she sings or SOMETHING from Aunt Jena and she has been asking, by name, for that for a long time (and she's only turning 3!) so she'll probably be most pumped about that! I! use! lots! of! exclamation! points! when! I! post! Oh well...

I'm going to RENT TONIGHT!! Wooooooooooooohoooooooooo!!!! more exclamation points!!!

There was a big 3 days 6 hour series on Broadway: The American Musical (or something like that) sitting on my TiVo and from what I've heard it is AWESOME, so I'm excited to some day get ot watch that, and we'll then put it onto tape so we'll have it forever...that is exciting.

Ok, I'm done...I'm hungry, must find someone to donate $.85 to the cause so I can go get donuts.

**If you make it to the end of my posts, and if I remember I'm going to start putting the song that's in my head at the moment right here**

"La Vie Boheme B" from RENT

Yes! It was fantastic, felt good, looked good. Very exciting. I'm too tired and hungry to comment more but...

Go Red Sox on game 7 tonight!
Yankees fans are so beyond rude they had to call the cops in on them last night!
A-rod has complete unsportsman-like conduct...pathetic
Curt Shilling rocks...

IF they don't win, at least they made it worthwhile and gave it their best effort!! :-D

This is the e-mail I just got forwarded from Veronica..



Forwarded Message:
> To:
> From: >
> Subject: Irene Ryan nominations from "Bleacher Bums"
> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:04:43 -0500
> -----
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> The following actors have been awarded Irene Ryan nominations from "Bleacher
Bums":
>
> Kenneth
> Veronica
> Christopher
>
> Congratulations! We'll see you in St. Louis!
>
> Jane




Which means a committe came in to see the show and critique them and then nominate 3 actors for this college theatre festival where they will perform monologues and scenes and just have this week-long theatre experience...I'm not completely sure what all of it is yet...but it's good! :-)

Congratulations to my beautiful wife...even though she doesn't read this here blog I have!

Saw this on my wife's cousin's blog, thought it was cute...


1.) do you have blogs saved in your favorites?
Yup

2.) do you show your blogs to your real life friends?
no, not really...

3.) do you obsessively check your friend's blogs for updates?
Yes, I..um..yes...*hangs head in shame*

4.) do you obsessively check your hit counter to see how many people have read your blog in the last 30 seconds?
I have the code for a counter but haven't put it on my blog yet

5.) do you make more than one blog a day?
Sometimes

6.) do you make more than 5?
Never have...

7.) do you read your own blog when you're bored? and laugh at how clever you are?
Depends on the blog...sometimes...

8.) do you have trouble sleeping at night when one of your blog posts which you found particularly clever doesn't get commented on by your readers?
No trouble sleeping, I just get depressed because apparently I'm not as interesting as I was hoping to be ;-)

9.) do you comment on other people's blogs just so that they will comment on and/or read yours?
I comment on others because I have something to say and hope they're come SEE mine, but it doesn't usually work since I've only have about 2 people come over and comment on my blog

10.) when things happen to you throughout the day, do you instantly begin composing blogs about them in your head to post later?
um...hehe

11.) are your email updates to old friends actually just cut and pasted pieces of your blog?
no

12.) do you own a tshirt with your blog URL on it?
no

13.) do you print out copies of your blog?
no

14.) of other people's blogs?
no

15.) have you ever copied someone else's blog entry and used it as your own?
no

yay baby!!!! Pulling it out in the bottom of the 14th!!!! OH, yeah. Ortiz saves the day again. He hit the winning homerun last night in the bottom of the 12th. He hit the homerun tonight to start the run to tie the game. THEN he has the base hit to drive in the winning run in the bottom of the 14th!!! OOOOH YEAH, STAYING ALIVE.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

ok...anyway, now on to the funny part...

So Johnny Damon, the centerfielder for the Red Sox, my sister and I have been calling Billy Ray (hehe, it makes me laugh) because he grew out a short beard and he grew out his hair, all around, BUT, under his helmet and his hat it looks like a mullet, and well, Billy Ray Cyrus...Acky Brakey Heart...he has a crappy lookin' beard and a mullet and they look EXACTLY alike, so we call Johnny Damon Billy Ray and every time he comes on the tv we yell "Billy Ray" and it's very funny...to us

ANYWAY...that's funny by itself, but, Kaia was watching the game with us tonight and Billy Ray got on first at the bottom of the 14th and Kaia started asking "Is Billy Ray on first?" it was SO funny!! She now knows him as Billy Ray and she kept asking throughout that inning where Billy Ray was, and when Ortiz hit the base hit that sent Billy Ray home I picked up Kaia and was dancing around the room all happy because they had won and Billy Ray got home, and so Kaia wanted to know what happened with Billy Ray and why he ran home...it was probably funnier in person and to us because we're brother and sister and we do stupid things like that...but it was FUNNY that Kaia was all in to Billy Ray and we just think it's so funny that we still call him Billy Ray, sometimes we still call him Johnny Damon, but we say it "Johnny Damon" just like we say "Billy Ray."

Oh, oh, oh...and my dad was trying to explain to me what happened with an out last night while I was in the other room helping Kaia with something and it was something Johnny Damon did wrong in centerfield and Dad called him Billy Ray and Jena and I cracked up laughing and, jeez, it was just so funny...we got Dad calling him Billy Ray too...

ok...I'm done with my Red Sox/Johnny Damon/Billy Ray/Kaia story...still giggling though and still so ecstatic and on a high that the Red Sox won 2 in a row and now it's 3 games to 2, Yankees up still, and now back to New York...where it will be hard for the Red Sox to win...the game ended after 5 hours and 49 minutes and 14 innings of play, a new record for the ALCS, and the next game is 21 hours after that one ended...wow...cool...

Meritt, and the rest of the world since everyone seems to have seen this movie, I finally saw The Day After Tomorrow and it was good! I liked it a lot. That's all on that...

Now on to the heavy stuff...

He said it best, so I'll link to him (he's also linked to the side in my bar of links) but smoking should be banned in public...enough said.

Here I am, I had this picture taken for our headshots in the programs I'm making for our show...

Is it extremely loser-ish to be posting a picture of myself? LOL...I found a free host online and well, in case anyone was wondering what I look like now...ok, so I'm a loser!

So, I stayed up until 12:30 am to watch my Boston Red Sox win the game in the bottom of the 12th! Pretty darn sweet game...

Rehearsals for the show are going well, I'm about 15 lines from being memorized and I'm starting to do some good things with my characters, we're getting the death tango banged out so we have that down, it's about a little less than half the song done...ok I have three verses and chorus between each and we have through the first verse done...so only a third of the way through, but thats still some good stuff! It'll be very funny...I encourage all to come out and see :-)

Kaia does something cute every day, numerous cute things every day, so it's hard to share all of them. We were driving home last night and she wanted to hear a story of when Mommy and Daddy were little babies, so we told her one. Then she wanted to tell US a story of when Mommy was little. Hahaha, it was so cute. She talked about how Mommy was in the house and in her room and something happened, I can't remember, then Kaia goes to Mommy's room (when Mommy was a little baby) and knocks on the door and says "Mommy, let me in" and she kept going on for like 5 minutes, is was the funniest, she threw herself into a story of when Mommy was a little baby. Then earlier that night at Grandma and Grandpa's we played monster, which is where I chase her around the house and try to catch her. That's always fun! And we read a lot of books "Herbert the Timid Dragon" and about every Doctor Suess book plus tons of other books.

What else did I do this weekend?

Got to watch Sunday football...you just can't beat that. Packers won, but more importantly...my New York Jets are 5-0 for the first time in franchise history!! Woo...how fun!

Disappointed that the St. Louis Cardinals lost...2 in a row...they win two, than lose two. So it's 2-2 in the series, both teams are playing again tonight I think.

The Yankees-Red Sox game starts at 4 pm our time, 5 pm there time...15 1/2 hours after their last game finished. It was a 5 hour and 2 minute game.

Funny thing is, I was watching the game in my room with Veronica and we made bets to each other for when the game would end, after I freaked out that they even tied the game in the bottom of the 9th to go into extra innings, and Veronica said it would be over bottom of the 12th with the sox winning and I said the 14th inning. She was right...but even cooler than that is when Ortiz stepped up to the plate with one man on in the bottom of the 12th I said "This guy can hit one out of the park." and he did! And I'm talking to my sister over the e-mail here and she was still at my parents house watching with my dad, we went home to put Kaia to bed of course, and when Ortiz stepped up to the plate her and my dad said "Just hit a homer so we can go to bed." and he did!

Works for me...

Good times, Kaia's cough is doing better, still has it a little bit. Veronica is sick again, but this time with just a drainage/sore throat sort of deal..should be fine!

I'm sure there's more...but we've talked about my memory before

Zoooooooom

Just do it. Follow the directions and zoom in forever but never loss focus. It's Escher-ish. Enjoy the artwork!

Web Site Color Picker

Use this to help you decide a nice color scheme for your web site. Pick the mail color from the wheel on the left then it shows you safe colors to match with it and right below the wheel is more ideas based off your color. And then on the right is the html for it!

Pretty sweet...

Juggling

Check it out, just juggle the balls with the mouse as a paddle...I played it twice and my second time for 2850...I will play more and I will get a higher score :-D

Get rid of it. I'm sure there are probably plenty of reasons why it's still around, and plenty of things that might happen if we got rid of it, but you know what? Get rid of it.

I don't like the penny, no one likes the penny, except penny collectors, but then won't that make their collecting so much better because it'll be harder and harder to get pennies and feel better every time they get a penny they were lookin for? Yes it will, so get rid of the penny.

I don't like change much at all, but I'd much rather deal in increments of 5's than in 1's.

I don't much care that the price of everything might be jacked up a penny or a little more, society will learn to deal with it, they learn to deal with inflation don't they? Pretty soon it will be normal and no one will remember that they had to pay $20 for their remco electric shaver special TV offer, instead of $19.99. I don't want to pay $1.56 for my hotdog, I want to pay $1.55, but I'd pay $1.60 if that's the game they want to play.

So...get rid of it.

I swear I heard something along that line a couple years ago, but apparently nothing became of it. Is there anything in the house or senate or anything that is proposing to do this? Because I'll stand behind that!

P.S. Veronica is doing fine, Kaia is sleeping through the night for two nights in a row now! She still coughs some, but I think it's getting better too. She is going to be Dora the Explorer for Halloween, so we're getting started on that.

Kaia's birthday is in 8 days, October 23rd! She's the cutest 2 year old on the planet right now and in 8 days she'll be the cutest 3 year old :-) She's funny, sometimes she says the most grown-up things, it just makes Veronica and I laugh. She's already very stubborn and not listening to Mom and Dad...that's fun! But we hold strong and if she has to cry it out because she didn't get chocolate at 10 pm after she's already been in bed for an hour, then hey, that's how it is because Mommy and Daddy said so!

As weird as it sounds, I'm quite curious to see what she'll turn out as when she's a teenager and farther along. Just to see what she looks like and what kind of habits and personalities and morals we were able to squeeze in there. I sure hope she's a good kid!

I'm also quite excited to get her into school and events and what not that I can cheer her on and tell her how proud I am and support her and her school and help her with her homework and miss her so much when I send her off to camp or off to a church mission group. And I hope she gets the right friends and I hope she doesn't smoke and drink and break curfew(though I know the curfew will happen) but I never smoke or drank and I'm 23 now, so maybe she'll learn that or maybe she'll rebel and go the opposite, maybe she'll think Dad is cool for that, maybe she'll think Dad is a loser for that. Maybe she'll join choir and band and theatre, maybe it'll be sports, maybe she'll be recluse and have no friends(I sure hope that doesn't happen, I just don't see how it could with the parents she has!). Hopefully she'll meet the right man...no wait, she WILL meet the right man ;-) And no I'm not wishing her life away, just thinking, wondering, imagining. A daddy can do that right?

Lunch break is over...

I wish I had something to say! I feel so bad, I haven't been much of a blogger lately. Lots of things have popped into my head, but as soon as I get here they are all gone.

There's a couple things I shouldn't mention in here ;-)

I'm not moving ;-) I'm not having a baby ;-) I'm not in classes or anything, just work and rehearsal, and well, no one wants to hear about rehearsals!

I'm pretty sure I already talked about this up coming summers musical and what part I want.

Has anyone heard of Nutella? The chocolate spread that goes on toast? ANOTHER party in my mouth. I first had it when my mom brought it back from Germany when I was, like, 12ish? It was amazing, then I found out they carried it here in the States, and I've been eating it ever since. Fantastic product...go for it!

I didn't get to watch Survivor so I have no idea what happened or ho got kicked off.

Man! I just can't figure anything to say, do I have a boring life, or can I just not put my life into interesting words like my fellow bloggers?

I always considered myself eloquent in the writing and speaking, as long as the speaking isn't in front of a group, friends are ok, but...maybe it's writers block?

Well...signing off?

JUDGE STORY'S THEATRICAL TROUPE presents:
Murder at Café Noir
A comic tribute to the Bogart Movies of the 1940's by David Landau

November 5-7, 12-14, 19-21, 2004
Fridays & Saturdays - 6 pm Social Hour - 7 pm Dinner & Show
Sundays - 5 pm Social Hour - 6 pm Dinner & Show

The Cottage on Broad
410 Broad Street
Story City
Reservations: 515-773-4376
www.cottageonbroad.com
Tickets: $30 includes dinner & show.

This forties detective story come to life features Rick Archer, P.I., out
to find a curvaceous runaway on the forgotten island of Mustique, a place
stuck in a black-and-white era. The owner of the Cafe Noir has washed
ashore, murdered, and Rick's quarry was the last person seen with him. He
employs his hard-boiled talents to find the killer. Was it the French
Madame and club manager, the voodoo priestess, the shyster British
attorney, the black marketeer or the femme fatale? The audience votes
twice on what they want Rick to do next and these decisions change the
flow of this comic tribute to the Bogart era.

Cast List:
Rick Archer, P.I. - Robby
Madam Toureau - Marla
Sheila Wonderly - Andrea
Anthony Cairo - Clay
Marie LaRue - Veronica
Simon Gutterman - Adam
Thursby/VanGilder/Rigfield - Lars

Director - Jena

"Mystery theatre at its finest." - Sun Times, Portland.
"Aptly tongue-in-check [with] clever punch lines and occasional song
interludes." - Washington Times.
"Fast and funny satire." - L.A. Times.
"This whodunit is darn good - it's the kind of show that lingers on your
mind, like a dame's perfume." - Maryland Journal.
"A feast for connoisseurs of mystery." - Orange County Daily Pilot.
"Riveting." - Daily Pennsylvanian.
"It's as close as you'll ever get to stepping into Bogey's shoes at the
Blue Parrot." - Boston Herald.

The Greatest Invention in 50 Years

I have one word for you: TiVo



Aaaaahhh…..

Let’s let that word soak in for a while…
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Alright, you ready to move on? It is such a cool tool.



It’s basically a hard drive that can store your TV shows for you, so you can watch them at your convenience, and fast forward through those pesky election commercials!

You can get a 40-hour TiVo for $99! Or an 80-hour for $199.99 or a 140-hour for $299.99.

You then pay $12.95/month for the TiVo service, or $299.99 for lifetime TiVo service.

Ever have one of those days where you just couldn’t get back to the house to pop a tape in, grab the controller, program the VCR or even find the tape first? Well, with TiVo that’s no problem. It records it for you, it’s your TV brain and your TV memory. You tell it once to record Survivor for you, all new episodes, and it will do it every day that a new Survivor is on, you don’t even have to know that it is on Thursday’s at 7 pm. It’s called getting a Season’s Pass to the show.

Before I get too far, lets talk about the pausing of live TV. It’s as simple as it sounds folks. You’re watching your football game and you have to use the restroom, or you have to grab some more pop and chips, or your kid falls and hurts themselves, or you wife makes you clean the toilet, or the doorbell rings, or a bird flies through your sliding glass door, you can simply hit the pause button your TiVo remote and go handle that situation and when you come back, sweet little TiVo will be waiting for you with your show paused. Then, when a commercial comes on, you’ll be behind schedule on your TV show, so you can just fast forward through that junk and get back to your show faster! Amazing, and it works!

Are you a big fan on old episodes of Cheers as I am? Well, with TiVo you can tell it to record Cheers whenever it is on and it will record every episode of Cheers on any channel it may be on, any channel that you have with your cable that is. Remember, it’s called a Season Pass. Don’t want it to record the same episode more than once? Well, don’t worry, it knows. It wont record the same episode of anything if it has taped it for you already and it comes on again within a 28 day window, unless you tell it to.

Man, I just hate it when two shows I love are on at the same time, I can’t record one on the VCR and then watch another, what am I to do? Get a TiVo. With TiVo you can record two shows at once. Or, you can record one show and watch another. Or, with all the TV sitting in your TiVo Now Playing list you can watch a show you didn’t get to earlier and record the shows that were on that night.

TiVo will even be more of a brain and start to learn you and your families TV habits. With the thumbs up/thumbs down technique, you decide what you like. Start thumbs up-ing shows because it has Tom Hanks in it and it will remember that and anytime you’re not recording something and there’s a show with Tom Hanks on, it will just record it for you and leave it there for you to decide if you want to watch it or not. You can either thumb up and down from the show as your watching it, because the thumbs up and thumbs down buttons are on your controller, or you can do it from within TiVo as your searching for the show, or as the show is on your Now Playing list.

The Now Playing list, that has all the shows you’ve TiVo’ed, also lets you know when a certain show is on the verge of being deleted. If there is no circle next to your show, it’s telling you that you have 2 days or more before the shows starts to be put in danger of getting recorded over. With a yellow circle it means it has a day or so. With a yellow circle with an exclamation point in it, you better be watching that show or telling TiVo to keep that pesky show for longer, or it will be recorded over. Now don’t worry too much, I have kept shows with an exclamation point for many, many days. It’s just a system to let you know that it could happen. TiVo has a built in system of recording a show for 2 days for you then you have to decide what to do with the show if you haven’t watched it yet.

Another patented feature of TiVo is view all upcoming episodes. If you go to a show in TiVo, lets say “Will & Grace," to see when it’s on and to record it, it has the “view all upcoming episodes" option where you can see every “Will & Grace" episode in a two week span listed on every station you receive. You may then pick and choose what you want to record, or then choose your Season Pass option. With the then further more options associated with Season Pass.

Season Pass: Lets you tell TiVo whether for a particular show you would like to record only first run episodes(only the new ones), reruns & first runs or all episodes. Beautiful…

Let me tell you something else, say your watching live TV, which rarely happens when you have a TiVo because you’ll learn to record whatever it was you wanted to watch live and go into your TiVo and watch something already recorded on your TiVo. But, let’s say your watching live TV and all of a sudden a commercial for the next episode of ER comes up, in the top right corner you will see a bleeping green thumb that says something like “push to record" and you push your green thumbs up button, it will take you to the screen to record that ER episode, because you saw the commercial and wanted to record that.

Another handy feature of TiVo is the recording quality of your TV shows. If you want to fit even more TV on to your TiVo, you can simply record all of your shows on basic quality and you will have more space for more shows. The higher up in quality you go, the less room TiVo has. Believe me folks, I record on Basic Quality, and it’s just fine! But if I’m recording something to put onto tape later, I will then bump it up to Best Quality.

Which reminds me…you see a movie on later and you have wanted that movie forever…simply TiVo it and you can then go to it in your Now Playing list and choose the send to tape feature and pop a tape in your VCR start it on your TiVo and hit record on your VCR and it’s going right on to your tape, ladies and gentlemen!

There is also a live guide that is basically a built in TV guide. You’re watching live TV and you hit the live guide button and it will let you surf through every channel you have and any time you want with the TV showing in the background so you don’t miss anything and can still find out what’s coming up.

Also with your TiVo is a built in feature that tells you the name of the episode or movie, the basic plot, the actors, the date and the length. You pull up the show in your Now Playing list and hit your “enter" button on the TiVo remote and up pops all that information plus episode number, when it originally aired, producers, directors and guest stars. Beautiful…if you’re trying to manually record a show because the Season Pass conflicted with too many other shows, you can hit your enter button on the description of the show in any part of TiVo and find out when it originally aired and if it’s then an episode you already saw, believe me, it comes in handy!

I didn’t even get into searching for ANY show or movie or documentary or anything on TV by name or actor, etc and finding it or the wishlist which you can go to and TiVo let’s you know what shows an actor will be in for the two week period or when the Jets are playing on TV or anything. Buy the TiVo ladies and gentlemen and let the TiVo do the talking for you.

Any questions? :-)

I know every person has their own story as to why they don't get as much sleep as they should, or why they get up in the middle of the night...Jody, come on, you're pregnant and then after the whole pregnancy thing you're going to have to have the kid too, so you won't be sleeping sound for many a night...doug, kind of works the same way for you...Meritt, I could make up some story now about why you don't sleep through the night, but I haven't heard anything as to why you wouldn't, and I haven't met you in person yet, so...congratulations on sleeping through the night! :-)

Normally, I do, no problem. I love sleep, I'm good at it. But these past 7 days, Kaia has been getting up to cough, and last night was the worst so far. Today V is going to call the pediatrician and have him write something up and fax it to Target so we can get our little girl all fixed up, because it's bad and we feel so bad for her.

Last night it was 5 am again when she got up. Mommy, being the good Mommy she is, got up with Kaia and rocked with her because her coughing was so bad. What a sweet Mommy. So I was only up for like 10 minutes and then I woke up briefly when V came back to bed after putting Kaia back to bed. But...after 7 nights in a row of disruptive sleep, and not the wake up and go right back to bed kind either, it really messes with you.

Rehearsal went well last night, I did some good things and felt good about some of the things, some of the things I didn't like, but I guess there's still time. I did do my first two characters sans script, so that felt good. I had some flubbs, but it was my first time trying it sans script.

I'm really not all that entertaining today or these past few days either...sorry people...I guess not a lot besides lack of sleep, sickness and rehearsal are going on in my life

Woohoo, I got my groovy new template! I like it so much better than the other one.

So maybe I'm not creative enough to make my own template and I just used one of the standards, but I still like it a lot.

I'll stick my links back up there in the sidebar as soon as I can figure out how to do it without it messing up the set fonts etc. I will get a pic of me in the profile some time too..that would be fun!

In other news, V is feeling better, she went to classes today. She says it still hurts and she's still icing it and heating it etc. but it's not unbearable like yesterday.

We have rehearsal today, fun!

I am eating dry peanut butter cap'n crunch and it's like a party in my mouth...I miss this cereal. I've been eating non-stop cocoa puffs, lucky charms and trix since you can buy that in a three pack at Sam's Club.

Tootaloo! :-)

Yup, it's 2:30 am and I shouldn't be awake.

ALL day, but especially from 11-1 am Veronica was writhing and crying in pain from whatever the hell is happening to her back...don't ask me or her we don't know what the hell is going on, then she remembered the drugs she had from last time this happened to her, so she took those and she's fine now...but it wasn't until around 1 am that she finally went to sleep.

At 2:10 am in walks Kaia who has started her nightly ritual of hacking up a lung for about 45 minutes, except it has only been about 20 minutes and she has stopped the two-three hard coughs every 30 seconds, so maybe tonight she's done...nope, she just did one again so I can't go back to sleep yet.

Whether anyone is coughing or having back pain or anything our bed is too fucking small for two adults and a child, but it's especially worse when someone is coughing loud and the other one is pushed up again me and I don't like to be touched when I sleep and the temperature in the room never regulates with my body so I can't figure out if I'm hot or I'm cold and so I can't decide what to do with the covers and since I can't tell if I'm hot or cold sometimes I'm sweating and sometimes I'm not and I have something of my own wrong with my throat that has a mucusy problem that I'm trying to swallow every night no matter if I'm sick or not and I'm REALLY tired and have no help when the other two people in my family are sick, but only at night for Kaia and smack in the middle of the night for about 30-45 minutes...in our bed...loud...but I did find something in the cabinet for last time this happened and she's suppose to take it in the evening, so I can't start that until tomorrow night.

Yes, you read correctly, this exact coughing thing has happened one other time to her and that's what she took, so there are four little packets left, so we have four evenings to try and tackle this thing

and Yes, you read correctly, this exact back thing happened to Veronica one other time and ooooooh yes I remember it because it was a living hell for me back then just like it is now

AND I'm trying desperately hard not to use any MORE PTO because now after missing today I only have three whole days left to go to Washington with so I'm probably already going to have to use one day of non-pay vacation at the end of the year when we go, IF we go, IF we can find plane tickets.

MAN, KAIA'S COUGH ISN"T DONE YET AND IT"S BAD AND I WISH THERE WAS SOMETHING I COULD DO, NOT JUST BECAUSE IT"S DRIVING ME NUTS BUT BECAUSE I FEEL SO BAD FOR HER AND WISH SHE DIDN'T HAVE TO HACK EVERY DAMN NIGHT FOR 45 MINUTES...AND I WANT SOME SLEEP...AND I'M GOING INSANE AND NO ONE CARES ABOUT ME DURING THESE TIMES WHICH IS UNDERSTANABLE BUT STILL...

2:40 am...one is still awake...one is still coughing...and one's back pain is still there but not noticeable because the drugs must have knocked her out if she can stay in that bed with the little one coughing...

and I just looked at the date and realized it's my mother-in-laws birthday today, I'll have to make sure I call her and/or write her an e-mail, but you know what? by the time it's noonish our time, 10 am her time and I'm at work, I'll have already forgotten...

thank you...

**UPDATE** Well, it's only 6 hours after I posted this but still, I'm a little more sane now and I apologize for the sleep deprivated post. I'll wait till I hear from Veronica to tell you if she's better or not today, but I fear she wont be yet. Kaia is maybe not as bad as I make it sound. She does indeed wake up during the night at some point and cough for 30 minutes, but it's just because of drainage etc I think, not because she's "hacking up a lung" but it is very sad and now that I found those drugs from last time we'll see if that helps. She completely fine during the day, so it's just a middle of the night thing. I do have a vaporizer in her room and that little vicks medicated patch thing on her chest, so I'm doing all I can right now. I'm still really tired, but that's ok! I'm here at work and that's all for now.

Thanks Jody and Meritt for the kind words :-) Veronica is not feeling better yet, but she'll get there. Kaia was very cute again tonight! She was saying she'd be Veronica's mommy to take care of her. She said to me "I hope Mommy gets better" and she was being all sweet. She's such a sweetheart.

Jody: Acupuncture...sounds scary and expensive! Hahahaha, yes I WAS very sneaky in saying "that man." muahahahaha :-) Yeah, you and Doug and little Brenna are most welcome to the show, if the time is right and you two would like to do that!

Meritt: You're awesome! We'll have to drop by the new home and see if it is someplace Kaia would like to hang out at every now and then ;-) And meet you and your family, of course. Unless we see everyone at a certain dinner theatre before then.

RENT!!! As everyone knows I obssess way more than I should with musical theatre and theatre in general and especially RENT. RENT used to be my fav. musical, it isn't so much anymore, I've of course moved on, but it still holds a special place in my heart and is still one of my favorites! Anywho, I've seen the show 10 times and now I'm going to see it when it's in my OWN town, Ames on October 22nd. See, that friend from Des Moines I talked about, well he's in between homes and starting pretty soon he'll be living on our couch in our apartment for a while, and even though he's my best friend, he wanted to repay us by taking us to RENT, so that's exciting and very generous of him! :-)

If you want to see my large collection of theatre memorabilia sometime just ask! :-) Even though I'm sure I'm the only one that really gets excited about my collection, still...it's better than slides of a vacation!

Clint Black is singing on the TV show Las Vegas and reminding us why we don't listen to country...now they may have good voices, and as a singer I most certainly appreciate that, but I just don't like country! :-)

And I wanted to share this...not because I want to show off or anything, because those that know me know I don't show off, don't have much to show off, but I got this e-mail from the pianist/organist of my church (little bit of info, I sang "O Holy Night" for the Christmas Eve service 2 years ago, and my sister and I sang "The Prayer" once and I've sung a couple other solos):

Hi Lars....I don't usually specifically ask people to sing for our Christmas Eve Service, but I'm making an exception this year and want you to consider singing Oh Holy Night, or if not that, then an equally beautiful Christmas piece of your choice. I'm hoping you'll agree to this and in so doing, add a little touch of excellence to the evening. Thanks. Emily

Now the only problem is, whether we're going to see the in-laws in Washington the week of Christmas or the week after Christmas...I'd love to sing for my church again :-) Then I always sing for V's church too. V's mom is a vocal instructor and in charge of music at their church and her dad is a high school band instructor...and he just broke his arm helping V's brother with his paper route! Ouch...

I love singing...more than anyone knows...it makes me feel so good and so happy...love it

goodnight all! :-D

There have been a lot of things that have happened since Friday, but I have such a bad memory that I don't even know where to begin.

I have a horrible memory, it sucks so much. I get in trouble with the wife because she tells me things and I forget things all the time. It's just uncanny how horrible my memory is. I will do something on Friday and my Monday when someone at work asks me what I did, I have forgotten already. Now it's not always true I can remember things, but it's weird...oh well

Well, one thing I do remember that was funny is at rehearsal on Saturday I was in the middle of one of my longer lines and all of a sudden I feel a little girl crawling between my legs and I hear "meow." It was the cutest thing in the world! Oh, and also apparently Kaia went up to my sister and said "I have to go tell Daddy I love him, because I love him and he has to know that I love him." :-D is all I have to say about that.

I got to hang out with one of my friends this weekend and it was fun! He lives only in Des Moines, but we don't ever see each other, he's really busy and I am with Kaia and if we were to travel there after work we'd get there and then in about 2 hours we'd have to go back home so Kaia could go to sleep.

I'm watching Family Guy right now and it is so funny it's hard to concentrate on this post, LOL.

I can't remember much of anything I wanted to post all this time I have been away from posting, so I'm afraid this is much more of a useless post that I thought. Great...

I sent my thingie in to make sure I'm registered in this county to vote, so I'll be taking care of that little deed. Got to make sure I do all I can to make sure that man doesn't get into office...;-)

My poor wife is sick and it's not very much fun at all. She has massive backaches and she did throw up a couple times at 5 in the morning and has tried again today as well, but nothing happened. Poor girl, I just wish there was something to be done, but there is nothing to do...she's just in a bunch of pain.

Then there's my litle girl. Poor girl, she has tons of congestion and drainage and has a little cough. She wakes herself up and can't get back to sleep because mucus and snot drains into her throat and it makes her cough it up, and she's only 2 so she doesn't know to get up and spit it out or anything, so she just swallows it and it all happens again.

I need to have my lines memorized for the show in 2 weeks. I have my first character down, his lines and his song, my second character has about 10 lines and I need to get those down, then my third character is the biggest and I have the hardest accent for him too, he has about 35 lines and he has a british/english/cockney/australian accent. Ha...it's only suppose to be British, but I have and always will suck at accents! My first character, thank the lord, is just American, so he's fine. My second character is Dutch, but I have this cooky over the top accent, because this whole show is suppose to be over the top and campy, so it works perfectly. Then my third character is suppose to be British and I have this huge mix of accents, and it works because it's suppose to be over the top. It'll be fun :-)


OH OH!! And Veronica got approved to be director of the 2006 JSTT musical. She will be doing Into the Woods and it's going to rock so much!!

Ugh...the two people that had a problem with it last meeting were NOT there for this meeting, and one person was that had a problem and it was because she heard from others problems and she was fighting for them. Well, guess what, it had been two months of meeting where the people with the problems have not shown up, so how much longer are we suppose to be polite and wait for the people to come try and talk everyone out of Veronica doing Into the Woods? It is a great show and it will turn out great, the tickets will be sold out, there will be a lot of auditioners and the best will get the parts and most everyone will love the show.

Their main concerns were that it wasn't a well known show...well that's just not true...it's a Sondheim show! He is one, if not the, greatest composer ever.

Another concern...it may not be a good show...well that's just not true either. It is done thousands of times a year all over the world, it has been done TWICE on Broadway...now a bad show does not get done on Broadway twice. They are some older people that are not used to change. Last year and this up coming year JSTT will be doing shows they've done before, when they haven't done that for 19 years. So it is time for a new show to be done again, and Into the Woods is SUCH a good show. Even for children. It is about fairy tales!

Sometimes they have trouble finding a director that wants to do a show for the year and they have a director who is ready two years in adavance, and they want to deny that person? Especially when they have a great show! The woman said "well, maybe we should wait to approve Veronica because it's two years in advance and someone might step up with a show to do." So I said "Well, then they can be approved to do their show in 2007 if it is a good idea." So basically hey want to wait for someone else to hopefully step up and take over Veronica because..eh, I don't even know why. It was ridiculous. Two years in advance for a major musical is a good thing, not a bad thing! Veronica is also going to assistant direct with Kathy for this up coming years The Music Man and Kathy has done many shows with JSTT, so for the people who don't think Veronica can do it, or anything like that, she will be under the direction of Kathy first. She is also in the middle of her major in theatre at ISU.

So their two reasons were 1.) It's not a well known show and 2.) It's too far in advance oh and 3.) It's not that big of a cast. 25 people, that is beautiful. They want The Music Man to be a 50 people cast! We have a smaller stage, 50 people is so over the top it hurts to think about. Into the Woods is such a drop dead awesome show that JSTT isn't going to know what hit them.

P.S. I'm a little excited to audition for The Music Man because I want to be the 1st tenor in the quartet! SUCH a fun part!

Oh well, maybe I'll be more insightful tomorrow!

I love penguins...it's what I collect from the animal world...they're cute :-D




That one's for you meritt!

Have a fantastic weekend!!

Do with it what you will...

Go to This blog to get a link to thoughts and pictures etc on bush being wired.

There are tons of comments and links to more blogs with thoughts and comments...check 'em out.

I'm not saying I believe it or I don't...just providing...

To see implications on Kerry's foul play go here

I'm not saying I believe THIS or not either...just being fair and impartial...

This was taken my senior year of high school when I dyed my hair blonde when I visited my sister at the college I ended up going to later.



hahaha...thanks Meritt

trust me, there are better pictures than this! and newer ones...but I don't have any on this laptop which I LOVE, so let me find a picture of my laptop just so everyone can drool... :-D 17" of pure widescreen....oooooh yeah, feel the burn :-D I want to take a picture of our actual computer here at the computer desk but I dont have a digital camera, this is the only thing expensive in my apartment. We have no desktop so this is our desktop, and believe me, it does the job :-D



the second is a picture of it in the expansion base, which I don't have, it looks so cool...

Ugh...

Anyway, tomorrow ISU will have a visit from Randall Wreightt the producer of Little Women on Broadway ! How damn exciting is that?! He's currently the producer of the hit show Golda's Balcony However, it is at 3pm and I will be here at work and I don't have the luxury to use my PTO I have left, because we're trying to save it for the end of the year run out to the in-laws in Washington...grrr...would be so cool to get to hear a Broadway producer speak!!! Veronica, an ISU student, can't even go because stupid Target put her down for work when she told them she couldn't work. Mr. Wreightt graduated from freakin' ISU and is now a major Broadway producer...that is once again so cool!!! AND, his own production company is Iowa Boy Productions...even cooler!! :-) Oh well...so is life, eh?

I have included the little blurb from the ISU Theatre web site below.

In other news...eh, just not a good day. Some bad things are happening, but there isn't anything I really need to blog about...I'd just be letting steam off and everyone would have to read it and then start judging me, and we all know how much I like that!!

I'm slowing starting to teach myself Visual Basic...which I'm excited about! Should be worth while.

Oh..yeah...right...so I called one of the jobs I interviewed for THREE WEEKS AGO, and "Yeah, the position has been filled. I will keep your resume on file though in case anything comes up." THANKS FOR CALLING AND LETTING ME KNOW I DIDN"T HAVE THE JOB ASSHOLE. Very professional, you should be very proud dickface.

I haven't called the other place, though I assume I don't have that one either. Which might be ok since the benefits were so unbelievably bad that I was nervous he'd offer me the job and I'd have to tell him that he has to change his benefits or I just can't take the job...I have a wife and a kid, and the wife is in college, so I kind of can't wait a WHOLE YEAR for crappy health benefits to kick in. He had a whole three pages on benefits, vacation, sick time, etc. It was all a bunch of shit. It's him owning this small business, he has about 4 other employees and so he can get away with it, and he does. But I couldn't work that way.

Didn't post yesteday, I don't think at least, so I made up for it today by posting three times! :-) Might be more left in me, who knows! Tune in to find out. Same blog time, same blog channel.

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Broadway producer Randall Wreightt will be on campus for Homecoming, October 8-10 as an honoree of the University; he has asked to speak with Performing Arts students and anyone else interested on Friday, October 8 at 3:00 in Pearson 214.

Randall graduated from Iowa State and took theatre classes while he was a student before going to Minneapolis, working for Disney and then starting his own production company, Iowa Boy Productions. He currently is a producer for "Golda's Balcony" on Broadway and his production of "Little Women; the Musical" will open on Broadway in January. He has also produced "Metamorphoses", the revival of "The Real Thing" and was an associate producer of the London premiere of "Three Tall Women".

I hope you will all take time out of your busy schedules to meet with Randall a week from tomorrow; he is a great person and will have lots to share with us.

For more infomation about Iowa Boy Productions visit these sites



http://www.littlewomenonbroadway.com
http://www.goldasbalcony.com
http://www.broadway.com/show_info.asp?SI=40030


Randall Wreghitt, Producer


Wreghitt is currently producing the acclaimed GOLDA’S BALCONY on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre.

Last season he produced Kenneth Lonnergan’s THE LOBBY HERO on London’s West End, VELOCITY in Scotland at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival and the film A TALE OF TWO PIZZAS.

On Broadway Wreghitt has produced Mary Zimmerman’s Tony Award winning Broadway production of METAMORPHOSES, HEDDA GABLER starring Kate Burton, the Tony Award winning revival of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST starring Gary Sinese, Martin McDonagh’s THE LONESOME WEST, which was nominated for four Tony Awards, including Best Play; McDonagh’s four-time Tony Award winning play, THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE; the acclaimed revival of ELECTRA starring Zoe Wanamaker (nominated for three Tony Awards, including Best Revival) and the musical, BAND IN BERLIN. He was the Associate Producer of the Tony Award winning Broadway revival of Tom Stoppard’s THE REAL THING.

Off Broadway productions include: THE WAVERLY GALLERY by Kenny Lonergan starring the legendary Eileen Heckert in the role that won her every major theater award including the Tony, Drama Desk, Obie, Lortel and Drama League. He also produced Douglas Carter Beane’s hit comedy, AS BEES IN HONEY DROWN; Karen Trott’s acclaimed one person musical, THE SPRINGHILL SINGING DISASTER; the hit revival of Mart Crowley’s THE BOYS IN THE BAND (Off-Broadway and on London’s West End); Nicky Silver’s long running hit, THE FOOD CHAIN; Mark St. Germaine’s award- winning comedy, CAMPING WITH HENRY & TOM; the Off-Broadway cult hit musical, ZOMBIE PROM. He was the Associate Producer of Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play THREE TALL WOMEN.

Future productions include the Broadway bound THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN, the Off-Broadway VELOCITY and CRUSH THE INFAMOUS THING.

Wreghitt is the recipient of the 1996 Robert Whitehead Award for “outstanding achievement in commercial theatrical producing”. He serves on the Board of Director of Early Stages.

In addition, Wreghitt has created and heads Pro-Marketing, a marketing and promotions company that specializes in entertainment.

Ok, this first one is just plain funny...he messed up, and so they are, I guess, capitalizing on it, and I think it's just funny...maybe you don't, but it's not hurting anything, so try to see the humor in it.

Cheney slip-up send net surfers to anti-Bush web site

Now this one, this is just another crazy Democrat, stupid if you ask me, but also funny that she did it, because it's so stupid...

Tattoo Against Bush on Head

I'm frustrated with life right now...dammit...

Am I absurd for loving theatre so much, or is it just that theatre is full of absurd people?

Today a co-worker was talking about a person they know that has a doctorate in virtual reality and is one of the foremost people working with virtual reality and it’s all happening right at Iowa State. While she was talking about that I started contemplating my hobbies, my loves, what is just in my head and what information keeps growing. And that is theatre. My co-worker was wondering how this person could keep so much in his head and know so much and that they just read all the time and absorb so much. I was wondering, why couldn’t I have chosen something different to absorb and read about and become a pseudo expert in?

The reason I wonder why I couldn’t have chosen something different is because then I maybe could have made a career out of it, a high paying, respected career out of it. Instead, here I am with all this love and devotion to theatre, all this knowledge that is, essentially, going to waste. It’s not going to waste because I know it, and it makes me happy, so what else does it need to do? Well…it needs to get me a job.

People choose to love computers, which I do, but it just doesn’t seem that I can grasp onto it like everyone else. They choose to love computers and then make lots of money out of what they love to do and love to know. They make lifetime careers out of it. Well, yes, it is possible to make a career out of everything I know and love, I suppose, but 1.) It’s not near as easy, 2.) I live in Iowa and am kind of attached to here at the moment and 3.) I think it has to do with what has gone on in my life thus far.

So, what does it come down to…is the way my life turned out to blame? If I wouldn’t have gotten married and had a kid would I have been doing something different? I tend to think so…but I don’t want to NOT have Veronica and Kaia, most certainly not, most certainly not at all. Things would have been different though.

If I could have done what I think I might have done, I would have dropped my Communications program and made my theatre minor into a major and pulled up vocal performance and made it a major as well. BUT…do I have the cajones to make it as a vocal performance major? Hell yeah I do…don’t have much doubt that I don’t at all…much…but come on, can’t I think that? Don’t I HAVE to think that if I ever planned on making it? People have always, and still do, tell me that I have a beautiful voice, and there is just something to it that makes it so spectacular and makes them want to listen. The only thing I need, and I still think this is true, is someone to guide me, someone to train me. I have the voice, and some of it is naturally there, but hell, everyone on Broadway is trained time and again and for years and years…train with me, I can be something great!!!! But, this is a bit off topic, and believe me, it will be covered some day in this here blog.

When it comes to straight knowledge of theatre, why can’t I make a living out of it? Why can’t I make hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars off of it? Because it’s the WRONG industry for that sort of thing, but it’s what I love to do and it’s not going to change…ever! All I simply want, ladies and gentlemen, is a job in the theatre industry. I can do financial planning for a theatre, I can do public relations, I can do planning and implementing of tours that come through, I can do anything for a theatre, as long as it doesn’t require bitch work, I want a real job thank you very much. But there’s people better qualified.

Where can I use my knowledge of theatre? Working for broadway.com or working for playbill the magazine, or playbill.com working for American Theatre (do you underline titles of magazines?) working for The Civic Center to promote the tours that come through, to figure out what the people want to see? To see what tours we can get in here that are hip and new…etc, etc.

Or how about I produce shows? YEAH RIGHT…I need to already have millions of dollars and be a big wig and what not…that’s out of it.

Does any of this make sense or am I really just scatterbrained? Well, I know I’m not scatterbrained, I just have so much to think about and so much to say, and so many points to refute before anyone can come back on me and say “well, this and this.”

Also, I write this throughout the day, so sometimes there's 2 hour breaks before I come back to it.

There is so much to say on this topic and the other’s I kind of half went off onto, but I’ll save that for another day :-)

Yay! What a way to start the day…waking up about 20 minutes late…ugh…

So, I have some frustrations with our morning process that don’t ever seem to get resolved, which makes it even more frustrating…but I can’t figure out any way to handle it, because anytime I complain, or nicely suggest or bring it up, it just goes in one ear, she gives me her reasoning, and then it goes back out the other ear and she forgets it ever happens, without trying to compromise in any way shape or form to actually help me out in a pinch, no matter if it’s my pinch or not, shouldn’t make a difference, I would hope we have that kind of relationship. BUT, alas, I shouldn’t let it out here, and I wont, I will just let it brew inside of me, like everything else, for the rest of my life, let it keep happening over and over and do nothing about it, because, like I said, whenever I say anything it makes no difference anyway…

I’m here at work, I was but three minutes late…which means, don’t tell your friends, I was bookin’ it on the interstate today! I got from hitting the interstate in Ames to my desk in Des Moines in 33 minutes. Not too shabby…

I’m really hungry…

Like my blogger friend Meritt, I wish I could wake up in the morning and have something nice to drink…I love the homemade hot chocolate we have, and I could drink that puppy on the way to work, but I didn’t wake up in time to do that this morning remember? ;-) I long to have some sort of morning where I’m not rushed and I can do what I need, grab something to eat…who knows, just something normal and adult like.

CHILD BREAKTHROUGH:: probably not, but hey, it’s blogger worthy! Last night my child went to bed at 9, like usual, got up only about 4 times :-o and then was asleep in ONE hour, with only listening to one CD and about 3 minutes of another one!! HA!! WOOHOOOOO!! I can’t believe it, she is such a sweetie, man I love her to death…I really do, she makes my day everyday.

Now folks, you have to understand, usually it’s bed at 9 then we pop in a small veggie tales video, about 40 min. long (now don’t judge me until you know what we’ve been through that led us to decide to pop in a video for her, and you don’t, so don’t judge me) and hopefully she goes to sleep during that, but it hadn’t been working this past MONTH, and then after that’s over no more movies, and she gets to listen to the cute bible lullaby CDs she has and she has to go to bed, but she’s suppose to go to bed during her movie, and she was, but like I said, not recently. So from the 9 o’clock bedtime it’s about 2 or 2 ½ hours of getting up and going to the bathroom, needing a Kleenex, forgetting hugs and kisses (even though we never forget those…just one of her excuses, and we always give her more because who can get enough of hugs and kiss? Not me I tell ya) and needing a cuddle toy, deciding she’s hungry, wanting to sleep in her tent, you see what I’m getting at here, and then after more of those than we probably should, it’s “If you get out of bed again I’m closing the door (for 5 minutes)” and she doesn’t like that so she tries hard not to get out of bed, but invariably she always does, and then she finally conks out. PHEW!

BUT NOT LAST NIGHT!! :-) :-) I said no movie, just music, and she got out of bed a couple times, but she was asleep in one hour. Oh sweet release, she went to bed like a so-called normal child, and I say that because I know I’m not the only one dealing with this, I can’t be!

YES...I hate them too, but why not?

1.First name? Lars

2.Were you named after anyone? Kind of a viscious cycle of the same names on the male side...

3.Which finger food is your favorite? I like chicken strips...sure, why not?

4.Are you answering these questions during work? Yep.

5.When did you last cry? elephino(what do you get when you cross an elephant and a rhino...hehehe)...I don't cry, remember?

6.Do you like your handwriting? No, it is beyond terrible

7.What is your favorite lunchmeat? I will eat it, but I don't enjoy cold meat sandwiches

8.Any bad habits? No...lol

9.What is your most embarrassing CD on your shelf? I don't have the foggiest idea, though I do need to take all those CDs into Hastings and get money for them, since I never listen to them

10.If you were another person, would YOU be friends with you? Oh, of course!

11.Are you a daredevil? So-so.

12.Have you ever told a secret you swore not to tell? Yes.

13.Do looks matter? I believe so

14.How do you release anger? Yelling, cursing or shopping...those are all good choices Jena

15.Where is your second home? Well it'll be Chris' when it gets built! ;-) Otherwise my in-laws when I get to go there or my parent's house

16.Do you trust others easily? Unfortunately, I think I do

17.What was your favorite toy as a child? I can't remember.

18.What class in school do you think is totally useless? Underwater basketweaving...jeez, biggest waste of my money EVER!

19.Do you use sarcasm a lot? No....YES!

20.Have you ever been in a mosh pit? Yep.

21.What do you look for in a Woman/Man? Veronica, with a few highly calibrated modifications ;-)

22.Who is your favorite singer? A few come to mind: Raul Esparza, Adam Pascal, Jack Noseworthy, Josh Groban, Brian D'arcy James, Michael Cerveris, Neil Patrick Harris, Norbert Leo Butz

23.What are your nicknames? Boogie Diggler

24.Would you bungee jump? Oh man...ask me when I'm standing on that ledge and we'll see

25.Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? Yes.

26.Do you think that you are strong? Yes, very much so, and yet, in some areas, not so much..so I don't know...you tell me

27.What's your favorite ice cream flavor? Cookies & Cream or Cookie Dough

28.Shoe size? 13-15

29.What are your favorite colors? Green (but lots of times I have to give it up when doing anything because it's Kaia's favorite color too!) and Orange

30.What is your least favorite thing? Oh...hard to say...

31.How many wisdom teeth do you have? Zero.

32.How many people have a crush on you right now? uh...is there something you're trying to tell me? ;-)

33.Who do you miss right now? Friends and in-laws, always do

34.Do you want everyone you send this to, to send it back? You bet your hiney I do!

35.What color pants are you wearing? A sandy colored pair of Khakis

36.What are you listening to right now? Nothing...they don't let us have sound on these computers, or I'd be listening to accubroadway.com an online radio that plays showtunes baby!

37.Last thing you ate? Tuna noodle casserole from the cafateria

38.If you were a color what would you be? Orange most definately

39.What is the weather like right now? Cool but sunny

40.Last person you talked to on the phone? Veronica

41.The first thing you notice about the opposite sex? Their face and their body, unless I'm turned around and they're screaming, then it's probably their screaming...

42.Do you like the person who sent you this? Of course I do, my loving sister

43.How are you today? Just fine and dandy. Thank you for asking

44.Favorite drink? Water

45.Favorite Alcoholic drink? Can't say I have one, oh...Strawberry Daqueri, or however you spell it...I know I spelled it wrong

46.Favorite sport? Football or golf

47.Hair color? Brown if you would call this stuff on top of my head hair

48.Eye color? Blue.

49.Do you wear contacts? Yep.

50.Siblings? Jena & Katie

51.Favorite month? December 20-January 20...hey you didn't say it had to be a normal month

52.Favorite food? Jena's succulant Chicken Fettucinni Alfredo...I know, the dude who likes to spell can't spell anything

53.Last movie you watched? Mean Girls

54.Favorite day of the year? December 25

55.Are you too shy to ask someone out? Yes

56.Scary movies or happy endings? Killer Klowns from Outerspace ;-)

57.Summer or winter? Summer without any shred of a doubt

58.Hugs or kisses? Hugs.

59.Relationships or one night stands? Um...let's try relationships for 100 Alex

60.Do you want your friends to write back? I believe I already answered this question about 26 questions ago

61.Living arrangement? Apartment with the wife and the kid

62.What books are you reading? The Stephen King Dark Tower Series

63.What's on your mouse pad? Here at work it's some mouspad that was here when I got here, some company that I would assume FMH gets stuff from

64.Favorite board game? Cranium

65 .What did you watch on TV last night? Well, I have this great invention called a TiVo, so I watched a lot of different things, but Desperate Housewives was one of them

66 .Favorite smell? I dont know...food?

67.What is the first thing you think of when you wakeup? AH CRAP, WHY CAN"T I JUST BE AN ADULT AND GET UP WITH ENOUGH TIME TO SHOWER AND EAT SOME BREAKFAST...IM SUCH A LOSER I NEVER GIVE MYSELF ENOUGH TIME AND THEN HERE I AM WITHOUT ANY TIME AND...I wonder if Veronica will get up and get Kaia's bag ready? I wonder if she'll take Kaia to daycare this morning so I can sleep more? BUT I STILL WONT WAKE UP IN TIME TO GIVE MYSELF TIME TO DO ANYTHING BEFORE I HAVE TO RUN OUT OF THE APARTMENT AND INVERITABLY FORGET SOMETHING I SHOULD HAVE DONE IN THE MORNING...STUPID, STUPID, STUPID

It's the weekend, and I'm making a post! Hey, hey, hey! Nothing really exciting to say, but hey, I'm sure something will come up.

So....ha, we don't have rehearsal today because the directors, my sister and her ex-fiance, finally called it for real quits today and they are trying to decide who will stay on as the director...so we don't have rehearsal today for personal purposes...but on a side note we did a read-through on Saturday and I LOVE my characters and can't wait to develop them more and get to perform them!

Only 20 days until my beautiful little girl is three years old and she's excited about it. The other day, when it was October 1, I was driving with her home from daycare and we had this conversation:

"Hey Kaia, guess what month we're in?"
"I don't know"
"October...do you know what that is?"
"No" (she really does speak more than this!)
"It's the your birthday month!"
"Am I three yet?!?!"
"Hahaha, no not yet sweetie"

It was really cute! She's really cute.

From what I'm learning from reading, I have to download some sort of thing to upload pictures to put into this, so I don't have anything to put up a picture of Kaia yet...but trust me she's cute...cute in every way, cute looking, cute sounding, cute when she talks, cute when she sleeps (she snores) and cute when she walks and runs, etc.

Family guy is hilarious...

Do I get rid of my last post because I'm afraid of what people will think of me? Or do I leave it because it's my opinion and my honesty and if they really care, and don't like it, they can look past it and still like me for me?

I don't want to get too into politics, I like to just leave that in my head...I like my world without politics but unfortunately, I think this post will be about politics...dammit

By the way, happy October! The birth month of lots of people I know, but specifically my daughter and my mother-in-law.

So, I watched part of the debates last night, I have the whole thing on TiVo still, I just can't decide whether I need to watch it again. I watched from 8-8:30, sorta, then I gave my daughter a bath and read her some books and put her to bed and then by that time they were all but on their closing statements and even then I was on the internet and only half watching again. It's not hard for me to say, my daughter is more important than some political debates on TV.

I don't think I'll get much out of it...when it comes to watching politics on TV I either start doing something else and half to none pay attention or I gloss over and start thinking of something else. I just can't pay attention enough to what they're saying.

I can seem to pay attention when co-workers and and friends are talking, but when they talk I just can't take it.

Let's face it...I'm undecided...so what? I can be, probably will be for the whole election. I see good in both sides, it's just, I guess, a matter of weighing the goods and the bads and seeing where it comes out...but it never comes out anywhere when I try.

Although I feel it's an unpopular decision, but face it, it's my decision and I have to live with it...I'm not so sure I'm going to vote. *GASP* I said it...I am not sure if I'm going to vote.

"But you have to vote"
"It's your civic duty"
"You're a bad man if you don't vote"
"You're not an adult"
"You don't care about your country"
"How immature and naive"
and whatever else bad everyone can say about it...

I can't decide...I think both sides will do fine as president...

Unlike a lot of other, which I think is sad, I don't think the country will go to shambles or be ruined if either one of those gentlemen is in the office these next four years. We're America, we'll be fine...and if that's naive thinking, then let me think it dammit.

I've got an uncle...I hope he doesn't read this, but he's crazy. He is non-stop, fucking non-stop, into conspiracy theories. I can't even talk to him anymore without that coming out. He's sent me video tapes and CDs of all thise mumbo-jumbo and letters saying "if you want to live your life not knowing the truth, fine, but don't say someone didn't try to tell you" and other worse comments that I can't remember because it's probably better that I don't, and my basic point is...FINE, if anything you say is true, and I"m not so sure anything but maybe 5% is, then FINE, let me think the world is still a safe enough place and that bringing a child into this world was fine and that there are still some good people and this and that. I'm living my life happy and positive of the future, let me stay that way. I don't want to live paranoid and afraid and always on the look out, whatever, I don't want to.

Just like me thinking America will be ok no matter what...if that's not true, FINE, but let me think that it is...

JEEZ...I didn't even want to get into politics...but I guess this blog is for me saying what I'm feeling and right now that is something I'm feeling.

I KNOW that those presidents will make decisions that affect me and my family and my friends, but if I don't vote, I won't complain, I guaran-damn-tee you I won't, so don't give me that "If you don't vote, you can't complain" because I wont!

I consider myself an intellegent person and I haven't fully decided that I wont vote yet, but I'm leaving that option open.

Now...so far I haven't said basically anything about either party or either person and what I do or don't like about either and why it's all swirling in my head, and you know what? I'm not going to.

I'm afraid of my own opinions because everyone attacks them so. Attacks them openly, attacks them in their head, but I know they are and I don't feel like being attacked...sometimes I'm a vulnerable person, hell, I'm always a vulnerable person, it's just sometimes I hid it better than others.

I can't fully rely on one side of the political spectrum or the other, so either way I vote I'm voting for some good things and some bad things.

I'll tell you, one of the main things I want to base my vote on I don't like the way either one of them thinks...so what do I do then?