I won!!!!

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Script Frenzy is done for me! Well, I crossed the 101 page mark around 1:30 am Monday morning (I was so close at midnight I decided to plow on through), validated and closed the file. I have about 10-15 pages yet to go to finish Act I but I’ll do those in the next week or so. No hurry. So tonight I finished up tomorrow’s comic (last one of Year 1! Woot!) and spent some time working on the site stuff for Random Acts. Hopefully I’ll get all I need to done tomorrow night so I can totally have my birthday off from everything. If not, I’ll spend Wednesday (which I took off from work) morning finishing all that up and playing hooky all that afternoon. Is anyone planning to join the fam and I for dinner Wednesday night? 6:30, El Jalisco on N Monroe. Just shoot me an email or comment so I know how big a table to ask for when I get there.

Weekend Update

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Wow, so far I’m being very productive. But, then, I’m also going to be turning on the television soon so that could change.

Last night I worked on getting an article drafted after dinner, then Spectrum came over after spending his day unpacking his kitchen and bathroom. What follows is how we got from the cable guy (not the movie) to A Mighty Wind (the movie):

Spectrum tells me about his day which includes the partial installation of his Cable service. Extra cable needed to be run into another room and it was almost done when the crawlspace needed for access was found to be inhabited by a snake which took off farther into the crawl space when Spec tried to snag it (by the tail… he’s lucky he didn’t get bit!). This reminded me of Sneaky Snake, which is a song by Tom T Hall on a record of barnyard songs that I had a child that I’d recently rescued from Mom’s closet. Todd had never heard the song (and, of course, I could only remember two lines of it) and while I was in the ladies room looked it up on You Tube. While we were listening to the various TTH songs on there I grabbed the album cover. Well, there were some songs on there that we’re online so I proceeded to dig out my ancient stereo with the turntable on top and–lo and behold!–actually was able to play the album on it! That led to looking through the rest of the albums on the shelf and I found the one with the Battle of New Orleans on it. Which then put me in the mood to watch A Mighty Wind (which Spec hadn’t seen) so I dashed off to Blockbuster for the DVD. Unfortunately the DVD was very scratched but we were able to watch most of the movie without too much interference. Gotta love the way an evening can develop.

Today I finished up another article for eHow (one left for the month) and wrote about 16 pages on the script. I’m up to 77 pages now, the winner’s bar is totally reachable in the next 4 days. Now, though, I’m going to layout Tuesday’s comic (the last of Year 1!!!) and work on that last article for a bit.

Spectrum is here!

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The move was a success. He is now officially a resident of Florida. And there was much rejoicing. At least by us 🙂

Been catching up a bit and then working on the script, it was a light night all in all but I’m shooting for 60 pages by the time I head for bed. We shall see how successful I am.

When you listen, you hear a lot

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So this morning on the way to work I heard Mariah Carey’s new single: Touch My Body. Which, you know, I’ve heard before and all, but I never actually listened to many of the words. Seriously, folks?

First funny is hearing her mention that if there’s a camera in the room she better not find herself on YouTube. Dude. That’s just, wow… but then there’s that really lilting tagline ‘I will hunt you down.’ Not kidding, folks, she makes that line so oh so sweet and innocent when really it’s on the verge of psycho. Wow. Just wow.

See? That’s better than simply reporting on how many pages I got written on the script (several) or the article I finished and the time I spent on the stationery bike. Figured I’d shake it up a bit.

Two for Tuesday!

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Two nights in a row of major productivity. Tonight I managed dinner, cleaning the bathroom, another 4 miles on the stationery bike, inking Thursday’s comic, drafting an article, and scanning examples for another article. Whew! Granted, I was up a bit later than intended but, you know, it’s no biggie. The rest of the week and through the weekend is likely to be just like this.