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Monday the 10th \u2013 DOUBLE DENTIST DAY \u2013 PART DEUX! \u2013<\/span> Before I started the day I recorded a last-minute audition that had been sitting in my inbox. Then I headed to Wienerschnitzel to get a quick lunch, and then head to my Endodontist appointment for the third and final phase of my root canal. I had an appointment scheduled at my dentist\u2019s office immediately after so I could get cast for my permanent crown. The third phase of the root canal went well, and I headed two floors up to my dentist\u2019s office. He pulled off the temporary crown and said that the Endodontist did an amazing job on my root canal. But he put the temporary crown back on and sat me up in the chair. He didn\u2019t put in the goopy stuff to take a mold for my permanent crown! He told me I\u2019d need to go to a gum surgeon to cut away enough gum around that tooth to get cast for a crown. WHAT?! I thought this would be the final phase of all this madness! The dentist told me there wasn\u2019t enough tooth structure left for a permanent crown to attach to, and I needed to get a \u201ccrown lengthening\u201d process. Oh man was I pissed! Not at the dentist, but rather at myself for letting this go on so long. I had fully anticipated getting the permanent crown on before my trip to Kansas City on the 21st; or at the very least before Thanksgiving. But neither was going to happen now. I\u2019m never procrastinating on stuff like this again! The gum surgeon needs to cut away about 1mm of gum tissue around the tooth in order for the permanent crown to have enough tooth structure to lock into, otherwise it will fail. UGH. I\u2019m starting to think I should have just had it pulled and had it over with. But the dentist assured me that keeping your own biological material whenever possible is always preferable. I got back home and did a little work around the house. Then I rested for a bit, and recorded my auditions. Later at night I took my nightly WOG (walk\/jog), made a salad and watched the President lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, as is my tradition on Memorial Day and Veteran\u2019s Day. Then I watched several more episodes of \u201cTiger and Bunny\u201d from the second season on Netflix.<\/p>\nTuesday the 11th \u2013 VETERAN\u2019S DAY! \u2013<\/span> In the afternoon I called the gum surgeon (the Periodontist) that my dentist recommended so I could get this gum surgery and get this tooth thing finished. Unfortunately the earliest he could see me is December 23rd. DECEMBER 23rd! That\u2019s over a month away. I started doing the math. If the consultation is on the 23rd of December, that meant the surgery would probably be another month away \u2013 in January. Then it takes a while for it to heal before it can be molded for a crown; probably the end of January. Then I get the area cast and it takes 2 weeks to make the crown. So I\u2019m looking at sometime in February before all this gets settled. For cryin\u2019 out loud! And it\u2019s really all my fault. Plus, I\u2019ve got to schedule my thyroid surgery soon, so it\u2019s going to be a VERY busy couple of months, surgically speaking. I called my dad to wish him a happy Veteran\u2019s Day. I recorded my auditions, and later on I took my nightly WOG. We\u2019re expecting several days of heavy rain, so I\u2019m going to miss a lot of nights of wogging. Add to that the time I\u2019ll be in Kansas City \u2013 so my WOGs are going to be real spotty for the next couple of weeks. I scanned some checks for deposits, and then I hit the hay.<\/p>\nWednesday the 12th \u2013 MEDICAL MAYHEM! \u2013<\/span> With everything going on I felt that I should speak with my primary care physician and bring him up to speed about all that\u2019s going on. I headed over to CVS to pick up a prescription, and then I went to the bank to make some deposits. I picked up a few packages at my box, and then headed home to do some work. I spoke with the scheduler for the doctor who will be doing my thyroid surgery, and the date she offered was December 2nd. It\u2019s going to be a very busy medical month! I rested up a bit, and then did some work around the house, recorded some auditions, and took one last WOG before the monsoon hit L.A.! While going through some documents on my computer I read that I had started my wogging on January 5th, 2023. So I\u2019ve been at it almost 3 years, and virtually EVERY night of the week (with a few exceptions). I\u2019m pretty proud of myself!<\/p>\nThursday the 13th \u2013 BOND-ING! \u2013<\/span> My pal Kelly Delcambre came over to do some prep work on my Roger M00re James Bond figure. He needed to look at a few things in anticipation of the work he\u2019ll be doing with the figure on Friday. He and I headed over to Paty\u2019s to have lunch, and we were soon joined by my pal Chris Malmin. Kelly had to split eventually, so Chris and I got a chance to catch up. But soon my buddy (and effects artist) David Woodruff showed up with a friend, so I encouraged them to take a table next to us so we could all chat. The total time I spent at Paty\u2019s was about 3 hours, which isn\u2019t really that uncommon, but time sure did fly! I got back home to do some work. I checked the weather forecast again, and it said we\u2019re expecting several days of heavy rain. I relaxed for a bit, and got up around midnight. It had rained, but it wasn\u2019t presently raining, so I took the opportunity to throw on my workout gear and go out for a quick WOG. I even sat in the anti-gravity chair for a while enjoying the night, but it started sprinkling so I went inside to do some work.<\/p>\nFriday the 14th \u2013 FAUX-CAST! \u2013<\/span> Every weather report kept talking how it was going to rain cats and dogs starting Thursday evening. But so far I hadn\u2019t seen much evidence of it. All the gloom and doom weather chatter was turning into a big nothing burger. My pal Kelly Delcambre came over and we headed to Bob\u2019s Big Boy to meet up with Roger, his counterpart at Blok4 effects studio, and my pal Rob Klein. Rob will be bidding on my behalf at the upcoming Jim Henson auction on November 25th. I\u2019ll be on a plane coming back from Kansas City when the auction is happening, so Rob is going to try and win a few items for me. We had a fun lunch, as all four of us are pop culture nerds, so we had a lot to talk about. Roger, Kelly and I went back to Planet Wallywood to begin the work we needed to do on the Roger M00re the Darth Vader life-size figures. Roger M00re needed to be mounted onto a new base, and have a change of shirt. Vader needed to be mounted to the new base my pal Joe Pendleton made, and he needed to be wired for sound. When the Darth Vader Voice Changing Mask was released in 2004 I quickly snapped it up. In the chest box lived a digital chip which contained several original voice clips from James Earl Jones, which were lifted from the movies. I had the voice chip extricated from the toy\u2019s chest box and mounted in one of the walls of my house. The wire from the voice chip led to a speaker that was mounted inside the face mask of the Darth Vader bust I had. The push of a button installed on my wall would activate Vader\u2019s breathing sounds, in addition to several random voice quotes. But when I acquired the amazing Vader costume from Jazwares earlier this year, I decided to turn the bust into a life-size Darth Vader figure. Roger was busy working on rigging the speaker wire to Vader\u2019s mask, but he wasn\u2019t getting power from the battery pack for some reason. It wasn\u2019t looking good for a while, and I thought that the voice chip may have given out. Meanwhile, Kelly had stripped down the Roger Moore figure and put on the new shirt I had purchased for it. The other shirt developed a dye leak of some sort, and it created some weird streaking on the face of the shirt. Kelly suspects that the hot, humid summer we had may have reactivated the dye somehow and caused it to streak. We also discovered that the humidity caused the black knitted tie to stain the shirt as well. So the old shirt ended up being junk. But this new shirt was factory dyed eggshell, so it should remain colorfast. I think I will trace the tie onto a piece of thin plastic so I can create a barrier between the tie and the shirt, in case this situation happens again. Kelly was also busy attaching foot pegs to the new wooden base. This new base looked much better than the round, silver metal platforms that Roger M00re had been standing on. Once he got the figure mounted and fully redressed, it looked amazing! Through a lot of troubleshooting work, Roger managed to get the voice chip working and wired it to the mask. This figure will be amazing when it\u2019s finished. Later in the evening, Alex and Mike from Alex In Wonderland came by to take measurements for Vader\u2019s new cape and cloak. Mike also took the breast plate with him to do some repair work on it. By now it was raining pretty hard. The weather forecast had been really inaccurate so far, as the heavy rain they predicted on Thursday afternoon was happening now \u2013 on Friday night. So I guess the science of predicting weather accurately still has a long way to go. I grabbed a nice nap to the sound of the rain. When I got up later the rain had subsided a bit, and I thought I might be able to sneak out and grab a quick WOG. But I didn\u2019t want to chance getting half way out and then having the sky open up and drench me. So I took the night off. As I continued looking over the Darth Vader life-size figure, I noticed a trait on Vader\u2019s belt buckle that I wanted to replicate. On the edge of his buckle it looks like there has been some paint wear, giving the buckle a silvery outline. I believe that it\u2019s not paint wear at all, but rather a clever way of giving a highlight to the buckle to make it \u201cpop\u201d from the rest of the black on his costume. I removed the buckle from my figure\u2019s costume and hit the edges with a silver paint marker. WOW! The difference is night and day! You can clearly define where the buckle is in relation to the rest of the costume. The \u201cStar Wars\u201d costumers were very clever for doing this. The rest of the night I slept to the sound of heavy rain. Nice.<\/p>\nSaturday the 15th \u2013 SPOOKY! \u2013<\/span> It was great seeing my pal Sara Raftery for lunch at Paty\u2019s, as I hadn\u2019t seen her in quite a while. We got caught up on all the news and had a great time. I picked up a package at my box, and then got some grocery items. I also picked up some extra-large potty pads at the local pet supply store. My cat Spooky had gotten pretty bad of late, and almost constantly has a leaky butt. This makes it difficult to keep his bedding (and my carpet) clean. I have to continually wash the blankets he lays on while he\u2019s resting on his beanbag chair. I figured if I could just put some potty pads on his beanbag, I could save myself from doing all the laundry, and just discard the potty pads when they became soiled. But after giving it a try, I discovered that he didn\u2019t like lying on the potty pads. At one point I found him lying on his beanbag, but he had twisted his body around to avoid being on the pad. This wasn\u2019t going to work, I\u2019m afraid. I also discovered that he had peed in a corner on my carpet. It appeared that my 20 year old kitty might be breaking down. Might be time to let him go. My friends Joe and Zandra Pendleton had stopped over on their way back home. I showed Joe how his Darth Vader base turned out, with all the buttons and wiring finished. While we were discussing Spook and his deteriorating condition, Joe said something that stuck with me. He said, \u201cDogs will show that they\u2019re miserable by whining. But if cats are miserable they don\u2019t show it as much.\u201d That got me thinking. Perhaps Spook is in a lot more pain and agony than I know. Food for thought. After they left I wrote up my packing list for my upcoming trip to Kansas City. Since it wasn\u2019t presently raining, I took the opportunity and took a quick WOG. But just as I finished it started to sprinkle, and eventually it was coming down pretty heavily by the time I came back inside. My gal Angi called after she got off work and came by to hang out. We made some food and watched the new \u201cFrankenstein\u201d film on Netflix. It was a very interesting film and it had me thinking a lot. Angi took off and before I went to bed I checked on Spook in his bed. He was sound asleep. I left him some fresh food and hit the hay.<\/p>\nSunday the 16th \u2013 SAD, SAD SUNDAY! \u2013<\/span> After four hours of sleep I woke up and checked on Spook. He was still asleep in his beanbag and hadn\u2019t moved since I checked on him. I made sure he had water and he hadn\u2019t touched the food I laid down earlier. I also noticed that he hadn\u2019t used his litter box. I got a horrible feeling that the end was near, but I went back to bed and slept a few more hours. When I got up later in the afternoon I checked on him again. He still hadn\u2019t moved. I pulled out his beanbag chair and pulled back the blanket. He was still alive, but sleepy. He was also very messy, and I had to clean him off, which he didn\u2019t like a bit. He wouldn\u2019t eat, and I offered him some water from the faucet. But he wouldn\u2019t drink either. This was very, very bad news. I went back to bed, distraught, to meditate and pray on the matter. After an hour or so I got up and called Sara to let her know. Sara and Spook always had a special friendship, so I wanted to let her know what was transpiring. I also called my friend and assistant Emily to let her know what was up. I called a local 24 hour pet care facility called True Care For Pets. They assured me that they did end-of-life care and I could come in anytime. I called Sara and Emily back and asked them to meet me. Emily came by the house and wrapped Spook in a blanket and carried him out to the car. He didn\u2019t protest at all, which told me he had lost all his \u2018fire of life.\u2019 Normally when he and I hit the car he would meow loudly in protest. Sara met us at True Care and we registered and told the attendant what the issue was. They came out and took him so they could start his IV. Then Emily, Sara and I were ushered into a private room to spend some time with him. We gave him lots of love, scratches and pets, and told him what a good boy he was. He enjoyed all the affection, but we could tell he had definitely lost his fire. The doctor administered the sleeping drug and we watched Spook fade off into peaceful sleep. Then he administered the final drug, and after monitoring his heart told us that Spook had passed. We were all crying and very sad, but it was the best thing to do. Spook had an amazing (and spoiled!) life of 20 years, but it was time to give him his rest. He wasn\u2019t enjoying life \u2013 just simply existing. And that\u2019s no fun for ANY living thing. It\u2019s the first time in 24 years that my house has been completely petless. I got Sassie in 2001, got Spook in 2005, Sassie passed in 2011, so it was just Spook and I for about a year, got Roxy in 2012, Roxy passed in 2023, then it was Spook and I for 2 and a half years, and now Spook\u2019s gone. Hopefully Spook, Sassie, Roxy and my mom are all hanging out together having a great time in the great beyond. I feel in my heart that they are. And I\u2019ll see them all again someday. When we first went in to True Care it was 10:00pm. By the time we came out it was 10:40pm. I\u2019m so glad we were all there surrounding him with pets, scratches and kisses as he went. Even though he was 20 years old and in poor health, it\u2019s still very, very sad. I went back home and fell into bed to sleep. My body clock woke me up at 2am (my usual WOG time) and even though it wasn\u2019t currently raining outside, I didn\u2019t feel very much in the mood for a WOG. So I just turned over and fell back asleep.<\/p>\nAnd how was YOUR week? (Hopefully better than mine was.)<\/p>\n
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