Well, dear readers, we are over the dilemma of yesterday, thanks to the wise and sage hainsies/kimlets. Thanks to the wise and sage hainsies/kimlets I did not do anything foolish and I feel better for it. Yesterday, we also had our first uncouth interloper in ages but, thanks to the wonders of our discussion board, I simply erased him, which is what he deserved. Since I’m sure he’s reading these here notes, one does have to ask the question: Why read them if you have such obvious loathing for the person who is writing them and whose site this is? Go elsewhere and have fun, that is my advice. What else happened yesterday? Well, I didn’t attend to the replacement of my union cards, which I’ll have to attend to today or tomorrow. We began taking preorders for the DVD of Deceit, and I must say it was a very heartening start to our DVD division. We’re offering the first one hundred preorders signed copies and half those are gone now. So, tell your friends, tell your neighbors, tell the man in the street and the woman in the window, pass the word, and pass the potatoes because we want this to be successful so that we may do more DVDs. What else happened yesterday? Oh, yes, I picked up the VHS of the rough assemblage of Kevin Spirtas’ DVD – unfortunately something went awry with the sound which, five minutes in, suddenly jumped about 100db in level and almost blew out my speakers. My receiver shuts down automatically when that happens, and so I could not play the tape at all. I did have quite a few telephonic conversations and I also had a lovelier than lovely jog. I also had a very terse and strong conversation with AOL – I attempted to send out an e-mail blast and apparently if you have too many names they simply shut down your account. You then have to call, they tell you you’ve violated their Terms of Service, and you have to reset all your passwords and your account security questions. It just furthers my resolve to hire someone in the next few weeks to come over and transfer all my e-mail info from my various AOL screen names into gmail, which has none of the AOL stupidity. After I do that, and also get the gmail address set up with paypal and any other important e-mail stuff, then I shall rid myself of AOL once and for all. It was my second tiff with them in two days – the first tiff was Monday, when they had endless pop-up windows telling me they’d attempted to charge my credit card for their big $9.95 monthly fee and it hadn’t gone through. I called the number and was put on hold for an hour. I tried their online live help – that was also an hour wait. And then, I couldn’t even get on without giving them another credit card number. As you know, none of the credit card numbers are currently working because I had to block them all when the wallet was stolen. But you can’t even get these creeps on the phone to tell them. For $9.95 they should just wait a couple of days before putting the screws on, especially when they’ve been charging the credit card for seven years without incident. Luckily, I’d just received a new debit card from paypal.com in the mail and I used that, but I’m still going to have a conversation with them.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I must get up early and attend a meeting and I must have my beauty sleep.
Yes, Virginia, today I have an early morning meeting at LACC to discuss a few things. Then I have to ship out a few orders, then I’ll be going to the editing room for what will probably be a six-hour session. And I must find time to jog prior to the editing session, and I must try to have a decent dinner tonight – I’m quite bored of eating fruit and weird low-cal stuff. I can have one night a week now where I can have what I please and tonight’s the night, baby, tonight’s the night.
I saw the test disc on the Deceit DVD. It was very exciting to see the main menu come up, looking like a real DVD. Basically, it’s fine, but the image on the show itself is too dark – and not like my test DVD from the editing session, which is a few ticks brighter and therefore easier to watch. So, I’m sending him my DVD and he’ll match that brightness perfectly. And that should be that.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, meet, greet, eat, edit, and other worthwhile things. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Ask BK Day, the day in which you dear readers get to ask me or any dear reader any old question you like and we get to give any old answer we like. So, let’s have loads of lovely questions, and loads of lovely answers whilst I try to figure out what foodstuffs I’ll be stuffing myself with, because, frankly, tonight’s the night, baby, tonight’s the night.