Well, dear readers, in honor of Rodzinski returning to haineshisway.com, I am listening to Rodzinski conduct the Sibelius fourth symphony. Otherwise, I am sitting here like so much fish, having just eaten a late night snack of a Wendy’s burger and a few fries. I haven’t had a Wendy’s burger in over a decade, maybe even longer, and that one was my first. They’re a little messy but good. I did attempt to watch some documentary but fell asleep within thirty seconds. But mostly, the evening was spent finishing entering my fixes. Normally, it doesn’t take as long as this took but because of the style of the book, I had tons of really minor things and it just took a ton of time. And after I finished, I just moved on to Proofer one’s fixes, most of which were very simple, a lot of which I’d already caught on my own, and there were only a handful of things I didn’t do and I have one thing to run by Muse Margaret. So, that just leaves Proofer two’s fixes, and I’ll begin those after I post these here notes, but mostly that will be tomorrow’s work. And that brings us up to speed.
Yesterday was okay, I suppose. I got about seven-and-a-half hours of sleep, got up, answered e-mails, and then moseyed on over to Casa Vega for a meal and meeting with our publicist for Sami. Food wasn’t quite as good as usual but was certainly okay, and we discussed quite a few things. Then we came back here and I ran three episodes for the publicist and Karen Staitman and I think the publicist enjoyed them quite a bit. Many laughs. But despite my warning in advance that these were low-resolution files and that we were still color correcting, naturally we got a comment about the color. Marshall Harvey has already found the look we like, but it’s in the later episodes and we have to go back to the early ones, which are indeed very yellow. I will say that one piece of physical comedy that I was absolutely determined to bring back works like a charm. It’s laugh out loud funny and I’m so glad we did it and Marshall really nailed it in the editing. So, that was fun.
After they left, I went directly to the mail place and picked up two important envelopes, then went to the bank to cash a check, which, as always, went very fast. Then this nutty, stupid thing happened. I came out of the bank and walked straight ahead to go to my car – which wasn’t there. I completely freaked out, there was no one to talk to about it, and then I realized I was one row off, and there was the motor car awaiting my return. This is what senility looks like, dear readers.
After that, I came right home and went back to entering fixes and finished, as you know.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll continue entering fixes, I’ll take a break to make a bank deposit, I’ll probably stop at Gelson’s for food, I’ll eat whatever that food may be, then continue on entering fixes. I really want to finish doing so, so I can get the manuscript to two of the three folks who’ll be blurbing – still figuring out who the third will be. It was super important to find a cover image that worked perfectly, and thanks to a friend, we did. So, Doug Haverty will now whip up something fun, I’m sure. If there’s time, I may watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow will depend on today and today will depend on tomorrow and that’s a lot of depends. But if I do manage to get all the fixes in then it sure would be nice to have a complete ME day. Saturday I can rest, hopefully, then Sunday I have a quick sound check rehearsal for the Robby Awards, then I’ll come home and get ready, then attend the show, sing, and present.
Let’s all put on our pointy party hats and our colored tights and pantaloons, let’s all break out the cheese slices and ham chunks, let’s all dance the Hora and the Monkey, for today is the birthday of dear reader Iris. So, let’s give a big haineshisway.com birthday cheer to dear reader Iris. On the count of three: One, two, three – A BIG HAINESHISWAY.COM BIRTHDAY CHEER TO DEAR READER IRIS!!!
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up when I’m up, continue entereing fixes. Make a deposit, get food, eat food, continue entering fixes, and then if there’s time, watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: I think we missed Ask BK Day yesterday so let’s do it today, a day in which you 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 and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy that two of the fixes are in.