{"id":5132,"date":"2018-07-09T08:06:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T15:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/?p=5132"},"modified":"2019-04-26T19:23:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T19:23:20","slug":"july-9-july-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/july-9-july-15\/","title":{"rendered":"July 9 -July 15 (2018)"},"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>I know that technically this isn&#8217;t a photo, but this short video is so freaking funny I can&#8217;t stop watching it. I laugh until I cry it&#8217;s so funny! God bless our animal friends!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 480px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-5132-1\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" poster=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/spinning_dog.jpg\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/spinning_dog.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/spinning_dog.mp4\">https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/spinning_dog.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\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\">While traveling down I-90 in Minnesota a few weeks ago with my pal Scott Maguire, this song from Dan Fogelberg and Tim Weisberg came on my iPod. DAMN this is a good sounding song! That&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;The Power of Gold!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5132-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/the_power_of_gold.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/the_power_of_gold.mp3\">https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/the_power_of_gold.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Monday the 9th \u2013 BRAND NEW WEEK! \u2013<\/span> When I got up at 2 my pal Edi came over to pick up a check for some work she did around the office while I was in Palm Springs a few weeks back. We\u2019ve both been so busy this is the first time we\u2019ve been able to get together to get her paid. Then I headed off to the post office to mail off some eBay stuff. I picked up a package at my mailbox, got food at Taco Bell, and then headed home to start writing two weeks\u2019 worth of Wally\u2019s Week. It was a long one because I had been out of town enjoying some vacation time. I grabbed a quick nap, and then got up later to do my auditions, finish Wally\u2019s Week, eat some cereal, and hit the hay.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Tuesday the 10th \u2013 FILM PREP! \u2013<\/span> Around 2 I had a quick session for American Airlines at Voice Trax West. As is my tradition when I have a session at Voice Trax, after the session I go next door to Chin Chin and get some combo fried rice to go. Delicious! I went to Staples to pick up a few office supplies, and then headed home to do some work and put my purchases away. I grabbed a nap later, and then got up to do a bunch of auditions. I spent about an hour prepping for a session for an animated film on Wednesday morning. I read through the entire script they e-mailed me to prep for the part I\u2019d be doing. It\u2019s a fun film, but this is just the first of many sessions to come. I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll be tweaking it along the way before they settle on the final version. But it looks like I\u2019m in for a very fun time! I fed and walked Roxy, ate some cereal and hit the hay!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Wednesday the 11th \u2013 SHORT SHIFT! \u2013<\/span> Bright and early, I arose at 8am sharp. I was due at L.A. Studios for a four hour session for this new animated film I\u2019ve been cast in. But when I arrived they got me right into the studio, and after a few hours I was finished. I was expecting a much longer day, but they had a lot to record with the other actors so they said they\u2019d get the majority of my stuff next week. So afterwards I went home to do some work. Later that night I went to see my stylist Andie at Floyd\u2019s Barbershop to get another tweak on my color. Another stylist filled in for her last week while she was at the hospital with her son and his wife, getting ready to welcome their new baby. The replacement stylist didn\u2019t mix my color right and it had started to fade almost immediately. So after Andie fixed it up, I headed to CVS to pick up a prescription and went home to feed the pets. I grabbed a short nap, and then got up later to do some auditions. I worked around the house some, and prepped for the upcoming San Diego Comic Con. I constructed some outlines for the three panels I\u2019d be doing. I was going to be a very busy little bee during Comic Con! And I\u2019m taking Roxy with me so she can stay in the hotel while I\u2019m there. It\u2019ll be a fun trip! I\u2019ve never taken her to San Diego before, and I\u2019m not sure how she\u2019ll react to the shoreline. I made some spaghetti and started watching the Season One DVD set of \u201cHappy Days.\u201d It was quite a different show when it started out!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Thursday the 12th \u2013 HAPPILY HEALING HEALTHILY! \u2013<\/span> My first stop of the day was at the Voicecasters in Burbank. They wanted me to sing the blues for a commercial audition. Then I went for my follow-up visit at my oral surgeon\u2019s office. Dr. Mizin looked inside and said that everything is healing perfectly, and the bone graft took magnificently! YES! In about 3 months I\u2019ll go back and have the posts installed for the implants. I can\u2019t wait to have teeth back there again! I got a cheeseburger at Del Taco (yes, the best fast food hamburger in L.A. is at a taco place!), and then hit It\u2019s a Wrap. I wanted to look around for a few shirts to wear to Comic Con. I was going to be interviewed, so I can\u2019t wear anything with logos or brand names on them. I stopped by the post office to mail some things, and then looked in on my mailbox to get my packages. The box I sent myself from Sioux Falls had arrived! I went to see one of my seamstresses to pick up a few shirts she had been working on for me, and then went home to open my box from Sioux Falls and start doing my laundry. I did work around the house, organized some photos I\u2019d be using for one of my Comic Con panels, and took a short nap. I got up later and did my auditions, fed the pets, drove over to Denny\u2019s to get some food to go, and then headed home to get ready for bed, eat my food and watch a few more episodes of \u201cHappy Days.\u201d I just can\u2019t get over how different it was in the first season when it was a \u201csingle camera\u201d show. I almost kind of liked it better than the multi-camera sitcom. The content of the shows were more poignant and \u201cweighty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Friday the 13th \u2013 MOO-HOO-HA-HA-HA-HA! \u2013<\/span> Well, for me Friday the 13th is usually pretty good. I decided that I was going to relax all day and enjoy my Friday. I slept in late, then got up to meet with my friend Kelly who was working on a great new lifesize figure for the Batman \u201966 exhibit at the Hollywood Museum. (We\u2019ll be unveiling it at our Comic Con panel on Thursday the 19th!) But Kelly got tied up with stuff and couldn\u2019t make it. I noticed that I had an ant problem in my kitchen, so I moved all the food off the shelf and plugged their points of entry with packing tape. I hope it works. I grabbed a nap and then got up later to do some more work around the house, and do some more photo organizing for my upcoming cosplay pane on Sunday the 22nd!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Saturday the 14th \u2013 PESTS? OR SPECIAL EFFECTS!? \u2013<\/span> Just after 2 I got up to meet with my pal Kelly again, but he was still having a problem finding transportation to my house. The lifesize figure he had been working on is so large, he had trouble finding a vehicle large enough to transport it! He had no luck finding a ride before I had to get going to do my own errands. So I told him not to worry about it. He was going to bring it over so I could do some work on it making some arm bands. But instead of having the figure here to work on in person, he just gave me the measurements I needed and I would make them \u201cblind.\u201d Normally I like to have the subject here to work on, but it simply wasn\u2019t possible. I sped off to do some grocery shopping, and I hit the craft store for a few items I\u2019d need to make the arm bands. I got home and met with my pals Mark and Boz about one of the panels I\u2019d be doing. Mark is moderating and Boz will be doing A\/V for the panel. I still had a few straggler ants roaming around on the counter, so I found a few extra points of entry and plugged those too. However, the movie \u201cAnt-Man\u201d was on the schedule that night for movie night, so I considered leaving the ants alone and telling my guests that I had concocted amazing special effects just for the occasion. After further consideration I decided against the latter, and purified the kitchen of all bug life. After movie night I grabbed a nap, and then got up to work on the arm bands per the pattern Kelly gave me. I printed out the pattern to the exact sizes he mandated and got to work. As the glue dried on them I made my traditional Saturday Night Super Salad and watched an episode of \u201cSNL\u201d from the second season hosted by Jodie Foster. It was a great episode and I envied her. She was only 14 when she hosted, and I would have been right around that age at the time. I can only imagine how cool it would have been to host SNL at that age! WOW!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Sunday the 15th \u2013 CANCELED CONFERENCE CALL! \u2013<\/span> As usual on Sunday, I slept all day. My alarm went off at 4:30pm so I could be up for a 5pm conference call with a few business cohorts. But just before it was scheduled to occur, one of my contacts texted me to say his hard drive on his computer had been corrupted and he was at the store all afternoon trying to get it fixed. So no conference call. Just as well, because it allowed me the chance to hit evening church. I hadn\u2019t been for several weeks because I had been out of town. After church my \u201cadopted grandma\u201d Shirley and I went to Tally Rand to eat. They\u2019re very old school there and it\u2019s a wonderful place. One of their delicious staples is their hot turkey open-faced sandwich. YUM! After a quick stop at Wienerschnitzel for a banana split I took Shirley back to her place. Then I went home and crashed on the couch for a bit. I got up to do a few auditions, did a little more work on the arm bands, and then hit the hay so I could be up for another early session for the animated film on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>And how was YOUR week??!!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wallysweek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}