{"id":2797,"date":"2016-01-04T06:30:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T14:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2019-04-26T18:01:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T18:01:11","slug":"january-4-january-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/january-4-january-10\/","title":{"rendered":"January 4 &#8211; January 10 (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:calc( 1250px + 0px );margin-left: calc(-0px \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-0px \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:0px;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:0px;--awb-spacing-left-medium:0px;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:0px;--awb-spacing-left-small:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h3>RANDOM PIC OF THE WEEK<\/h3>\n<p>Somebody sent me this meme in my e-mail and I thought it was hilarious!&nbsp; But sad. But true!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ww_20160104_0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2801\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ww_20160104_0.jpg\" alt=\"ww_20160104_0\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ww_20160104_0-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ww_20160104_0-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ww_20160104_0-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ww_20160104_0.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/humming\/humming.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"54\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">When I was in Junior High the school would be abuzz with chatter when CBS was going to air the Elvis movie &#8220;Girl Happy&#8221;&nbsp; on their CBS Friday Night Late Movie.&nbsp; I would try my best to stay up late to watch the entire thing, but would often nod off before the end.&nbsp; But I sure do love this movie!&nbsp; It&#8217;s full of terrific, catchy songs&#8230;but the one that&#8217;s been on my mind since we watched it at movie night last Saturday night is &#8220;Wolf Call.&#8221;&nbsp; Hey Rusty! Howzabout Wolf Call?!<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"ELVIS PRESLEY Wolf call\" width=\"1250\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t1BHhZyipIE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Monday the 4th \u2013 OFF TO A BLAZING START! \u2013<\/span> I started the new year with an early morning audition at Elaine Craig in Hollywood.&nbsp; It was a beautiful day, and although it had rained for the past few days, it was now gorgeous and sunny.&nbsp; At the audition I saw my old pal Richard Horvitz.&nbsp; We had a fun time catching up and chatting.&nbsp; I stopped into Staples to pick up a few items, and then went to Arby\u2019s to get some lunch to go.&nbsp; I stopped at the grocery store for some supplies, and then headed home to make some calls and check e-mails.&nbsp; I hopped on my bike and drove to the post office to mails some bills, and then I went over to CVS to pick up a few items.&nbsp; The temperature on the bank said 71 degrees! Amazing!&nbsp; It was supposed to rain all week, so this was one of my last chances to get some biking in.&nbsp; When I got home I did a phone interview with a gal named Tammy for her internet show.&nbsp; It was a fun half hour conversation and I\u2019ll let you know when the interview gets posted.&nbsp; I grabbed a five hour nap, and then got up to write Wally\u2019s Week and do a TON of auditions.&nbsp; Now that the business was back up after the holidays, it was a flood of material!&nbsp; Everything was starting out well!&nbsp; But as it got close to dawn on Tuesday morning, I got a notification that there was yet ANOTHER banking snafu in my corporate account.&nbsp; What the heck?!&nbsp; I e-mailed my accounting and asked him to try and locate the trouble.&nbsp; The good thing was, it had started to rain.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Tuesday the 5th \u2013 IT\u2019S RAINING, IT\u2019S POURING! \u2013<\/span> It sure was nice waking up to rain and seeing everything outside wet and green.&nbsp; I had a bunch of errands to run; putting money in the bank, and other miscellaneous stuff.&nbsp; I came back home and did some busy work around the house, got some stuff together for my eBay seller to unload, and other reorganization.&nbsp; I didn\u2019t get everything done over the holidays that I had wanted to do, so I was still playing catch-up.&nbsp; My pal Emily came over to help out, as did my assistant Sara.&nbsp; I did a bunch of auditions and then hit the hay to be up early for a session on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Wednesday the 6th \u2013 A SAINTLY AFTERNOON! \u2013<\/span> Early in the morning I grabbed my Darth Vader lightsaber umbrella and walked to the \u201cSonic Boom\u201d session at Studiopolis.&nbsp; What a beautiful morning!&nbsp; We had a fun session, but I couldn\u2019t wait to get back outside into the rainy morning.&nbsp; When the session was over I walked back home, made some calls, and then drove over to Jersey Mike\u2019s to get a sandwich.&nbsp; I had nothing to do the rest of the day, so I decided to make an afternoon of it!&nbsp; I put on my pajamas, opened up my bedroom windows, at my sandwich and watched an old episode of \u201cThe Saint\u201d starring Roger Moore while listening to it rain outside.&nbsp; It was an amazing, COZY, afternoon!&nbsp; What a day!!&nbsp; I ended up napping until 9pm!&nbsp; Then I got up to do my auditions and handle some e-mails.&nbsp; I made some dinner and watched another episode of \u201cThunderbirds\u201d on Blu Ray.&nbsp; It\u2019s an old British show from the 60\u2019s that uses marionettes and miniature sets and props.&nbsp; It\u2019s VERY clever and I keep marveling at how they constructed all of that stuff. But it\u2019s flawless!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Thursday the 7th \u2013 I LOVE RUSSI! \u2013<\/span> When I got up at noon I did some work around the house, worked on-line and made some phone calls.&nbsp; I hopped in the car and headed to Hobby Lobby to pick up a few items for the house.&nbsp; I was going to grab a quick lunch before my session for a Disney videogame, but my agent called and said they were running a bit behind.&nbsp; So instead of fast food, I headed over to Lancer\u2019s and enjoyed a nice hot beef sandwich.&nbsp; I even had time to hit Toys \u2018R Us before the session.&nbsp; I drove over to Igloo Studios and got ready for my session.&nbsp; Out of the studio walks the great Russi Taylor, voice of Minnie Mouse!&nbsp; The first thing she said was how much I reminded her of her late husband Wayne Allwine, the former voice of Mickey Mouse.&nbsp; I thanked her and told her I took that as a highly esteemed compliment.&nbsp; It was fun chatting with her and having some laughs.&nbsp; Then I got to work with the amazing Ben Hoppe from Disney Character Voices. It was a fun session, but all too brief.&nbsp; I drove home and my pal Brittney Powell stopped over to say hi and catch up about all the stuff that happened over the holidays.&nbsp; After she left I grabbed a nap and then got up for my nightly auditions.&nbsp; I made some Buffalo Mac and watched \u201cThunderbirds\u201d again.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Friday the 8th \u2013 WHEW! A TOUGH ONE! \u2013<\/span> The day started with two last-minute auditions from two different agents.&nbsp; But the copy was EXACTLY the same, and it was for the same client!&nbsp; However, one agent submitted me for the American accent, and the other agent submitted me for the British accent.&nbsp; The client wanted to hear it both ways, but it was very weird.&nbsp; If I book the job, the agent who booked the winning accent will get the commission.&nbsp; I drove over to Voicetrax West for a 3 hour American Airlines session.&nbsp; It\u2019s hard to believe that I\u2019ve been doing this job for about 5 years, and it started as US Airways!&nbsp; It\u2019s a wonderful job and I\u2019m blessed to have it!&nbsp; But the 3 hour session had a lot of airline industry words and terms I wasn\u2019t familiar with and it was a tough session.&nbsp; I really earned my pay that day!&nbsp; I kept thinking about how nice it was going to be later that evening when I would sit in front of my TV watching \u201cThunderbirds\u201d and eating some food from Denny\u2019s.&nbsp; It was a promise to myself I was bound to keep!&nbsp; When we finished the session I drove over to my \u201cgrandma\u2019s\u201d house to pick her up to go to the bank.&nbsp; My friend Shirley from my church is kind of like my adopted grandma.&nbsp; When we finished at the bank, I took her to dinner at DuPar\u2019s.&nbsp; My assistant Sara joined us.&nbsp; I came home and grabbed a nap.&nbsp;&nbsp; When I got up I spent all night working on my bedroom reorganizing and refiling all of the books in my bookshelf. And there is a TON of them!&nbsp; It was a lot of work.&nbsp; It took six hours to categorize and file them, but it was worth it!&nbsp; Now I need to do the same with my paperbacks, comics and magazines.&nbsp; That project is next.&nbsp; As I promised myself, I went to Denny\u2019s to get some food to go.&nbsp; I came home and finished up some work on my gun cabinet, and then got ready for bed and ate my dinner and watched \u201cThunderbirds.\u201d&nbsp; What a day! What a week!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Saturday the 9th \u2013 CROW AND SERVO TOUCH DOWN! \u2013<\/span> The day was filled with running about doing errands.&nbsp; I got the mail and packages at my mailbox, and then picked up a few grocery items.&nbsp; I went to Bed, Bath and Beyond but they didn\u2019t have the plastic bin drawer I needed.&nbsp; I came back home and unpacked some boxes that arrived at my mailbox earlier in the day.&nbsp; They were lifesize replica puppets of Crow and Tom Servo from the TV show \u201cMystery Science Theater 3000!\u201d&nbsp; And they were amazing!&nbsp; I bought them on eBay and they\u2019ll be a great addition to the Planet Wallywood collection.&nbsp; I even had a space cleared out for them atop my video cabinet.&nbsp; I&nbsp; hadn\u2019t created the stands for them yet for the display, so I just put them on a table in the Chaney Room to show my friends who came over for movie night.&nbsp; When they saw them, they literally gasped.&nbsp; They are just THAT amazing looking!&nbsp; The artist who made them uses all the original parts the \u201cMST3K\u201d guys used to make the original robots.&nbsp; Since January 8th would have been Elvis\u2019 81st birthday, we had Elvis night for our Saturday night movie night.&nbsp; We started with an old \u201cUnderdog\u201d cartoon, and then watched the first episode of the Roger Moore and Tony Curtis TV series from the U.K. called \u201cThe Persuaders.&nbsp; Then we watched my all-time favorite Elvis movie called \u201cGirl Happy.\u201d&nbsp; Surprisingly enough, it\u2019s also my friend Bob\u2019s favorite Elvis movie.&nbsp; We had a fun time and \u201cGirl Happy\u201d is quite wacky and fun.&nbsp; What a night!&nbsp; When everyone left I started working on creating the display bases for Crow and Servo.&nbsp; But I didn\u2019t have all the needed materials in my garage to finish the job. So I\u2019ll have to hit the hardware store and do some shopping soon.&nbsp; I walked and fed Roxy and then went inside to make my usual Saturday night mega-salad and watch the old British show \u201cThe Avengers.\u201d&nbsp; I didn\u2019t get to bed until around 11am Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Sunday the 10th \u2013 MASTER BEDROOM; NEXT PHASE! \u2013<\/span> Since I didn\u2019t get up until 4pm, I didn\u2019t have time to get to the hardware store to get the needed materials for my puppet stands.&nbsp; Oh well\u2026I\u2019ll go Monday.&nbsp; I had plenty of work to do around the house!&nbsp; I checked e-mails, fed the pets, and got ready for evening church.&nbsp; It was a great service, and afterwards I walked my friend Shirley home.&nbsp; I got back home, feeling very mellow, and did some work around the house.&nbsp; I took a quick nap, and then got up around midnight to work on filing, categorizing and organizing my paperback books, comics and magazines.&nbsp; When that\u2019s finished, I need to take all of the photos out of my old photo albums from the 70\u2019s, and remount them in newer, bigger albums.&nbsp; That will be a HUGE job!&nbsp; I had expected to get all this Master Bedroom reorganization done over the holiday break, but it\u2019s taking a lot longer than I thought to do it right. (Doesn\u2019t it always?)&nbsp; Then I turned my attention to my gun cabinet.&nbsp; Each drawer has a layer of foam lining the bottom, and then it has another layer of foam on top of it that has little cutouts for the shape of each handgun in my collection.&nbsp; But since I had them cut I had bought 3 new guns.&nbsp; One of my drawers has a piece of solid foam in it (for new guns) so I got a super sharp knife and started cutting out all of the shapes and contours for my latest purchases.&nbsp; I also used my label maker to label each aperture so I can tell which gun goes where.&nbsp; It kind of looks like those old tests with the wooden blocks, where they time you to see how long it takes you to get the different shaped blocks into their corresponding holes.&nbsp; I finished up with the gun cabinet just after dawn, I got to see yet another amazing sunrise, and I made some food and watched \u201cThunderbirds.\u201d&nbsp; I didn\u2019t get to bed until 10am Monday morning.&nbsp; I\u2019m definitely a night bird, but I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s always a good thing or not.<\/p>\n<p>And how was YOUR week??!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">PIX FROM THE WEEK<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2802\" style=\"width: 484px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ww_20160104_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2802\" class=\"wp-image-2802\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ww_20160104_1.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot look right at home in Planet Wallywood!\" width=\"474\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ww_20160104_1-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ww_20160104_1-500x528.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ww_20160104_1-700x739.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ww_20160104_1-970x1024.jpg 970w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ww_20160104_1.jpg 1137w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Servo and Crow T. 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