{"id":5586,"date":"2019-01-02T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/?p=5586"},"modified":"2019-04-26T20:42:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T20:42:37","slug":"january-2-january-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/january-2-january-6\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2 &#8211; January 6 (2019)"},"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>BRRRRR! See, it DOES get cold in L.A.!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ww_20190102_00.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5589\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ww_20190102_00.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"374\"><\/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\">&nbsp;Since seeing &#8220;Bohemian Rhapsody&#8221; again for the second time, I&#8217;ve been humming a plethora of Queen songs. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t Stop Me Now&#8221;<\/span> has been my latest obsession.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Queen - Don&#039;t Stop Me Now (Official Video)\" width=\"1250\" height=\"938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HgzGwKwLmgM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Wednesday the 2nd \u2013 NEW YEAR\u2019S LAZIES! \u2013<\/span> Even though I woke up at 3, I promptly came down with a case of the lazies. I gave the pets a treat, walked Roxy for a bit, but then came back inside and laid down on the couch until 6:30, when I got up to feed the pets dinner. It was a really cold night out, even as early as 7pm! When I got up I had a voicemail from my oral surgeon\u2019s office that my Thursday appointment to install my implant would have to be postponed until next Tuesday the 8th (Elvis\u2019 birthday!) because the doctor came down with the flu. So with the fire ablaze in my fireplace, I laid back down on the couch and slept until 10:30. I convinced myself that I had to get something constructive done, so I went to the garage in my improvised eBay studio (or I.E.S. to those in the know) and took some photos of stuff I\u2019ll be listing on eBay soon. But as I worked I began to see my breath, so I figured it was best to go in around 1am. I did some work inside, made a Tombstone pizza and watched a few more Johnny Carson Tonight Show episodes on DVD. Then I hit the hay.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Thursday the 3rd \u2013 CUSTOMER CRAZINESS, COLOR, AND CARSON! \u2013<\/span> When I got up I called the Burbank Auto Doctor to see if I could bring my Gran Torino in to have an electrical issue with my dashboard lights looked at, but they were swamped after the holidays. They said to give them a call on Monday to see how they were sitting. So I decided to call AT&amp;T to see if there was a way to bring down my \u201crather expensive\u201d monthly home phone bill. Yup, I still have a landline, because the cell signal in my house isn\u2019t very good. And since I occasionally do Voice-Over sessions out of my home studio, a reliable phone line is essential. Once I reached AT&amp;T Customer Service it was obvious I wasn\u2019t chatting with someone stateside. I said, \u201cI\u2019d like to look at ways to reduce the monthly cost of my landline service.\u201d She soon replied, \u201cSo, you want to get rid of your landline?\u201d After a long pause (I wish she could have heard my eyes rolling) I asked to be forwarded to a Supervisor; preferably in America. FINALLY, I got on the phone with a guy in San Diego who assisted quite capably. Come to find out, even with deleting certain features that I\u2019m not using, my bill would still be pretty high because of close to $40 in monthly \u201cgovernment mandated\u201d taxes and fees. He told me about a landline service that\u2019s wireless-based, which would eliminate those fees, but with my spotty wireless service in my house it wouldn\u2019t help matters much. He was able to lower it a few bucks, but I guess it\u2019s just an expense I\u2019ll have to endure for the foreseeable future. I called my water company to have my service discontinued. Arrowhead (now called \u201cReady Refresh\u201d \u2013 who came up with THAT idiotic name?!) are not only raising their prices on water, but are starting to charge extra for paper invoices. I took that as a sign to move on to a different provider. Not everybody prefers to pay their bills on-line. The way my system is set up here, is all about paper invoices for my files. But since I still have two unused 5 gallon jugs of water, I need to keep the service going until I can transfer those jugs to my personal receptacles. Arrowhead, um\u2026Ready Refresh\u2026won\u2019t discontinue the service until their jugs are replaced for recycling. I ordered two 5 gallon receptacles on Amazon, I\u2019ll transfer the water once they arrive, and I can be done with Rocky Rejects, or Ridiculous Refrain, or whatever they\u2019re called, once and for all. If a competing provider can\u2019t offer a good price, I\u2019ll just buy water at the store and keep in refrigerated. Not really any need for a water cooler any longer anyhow, since most people prefer their water room temperature anyway. I walked over to see my stylist Andie for a touch-up on my color, and then came home to relax. I got up later to do some work and record some auditions. I scampered off to Denny\u2019s to get some food to go, and then watched a few more Johnny Carson episodes before bed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Friday the 4th \u2013 PUPPET FEVER! \u2013<\/span> The day started with a trip to my seamstress\u2019 house with my finished components for my new Rowlf the Dog puppet project. Shelley will attach the fur to his head, build a body (based on the foam understructure pieces I provided her with) and make the hands and ears. When he\u2019s finished I\u2019ll glue in the foam pieces under his fur to give him body, and attach the eyes and nose. I came back to my house to swap out my Mustang for my Gran Torino, drove to the bank to make a first-of-the-year deposit, went to CVS to get some supplies, stopped by the grocery store to get some items for Saturday\u2019s movie night, came home to put the groceries away, and napped for a bit. When I got up it was clear that my subconscious had been working on a few problems I\u2019ve been pondering about my next puppet project\u2026Oscar the Grouch. So I sat down and started sketching, and sizing things up. I had some styrene plastic, so I cut out his upper mouth plate, and the piece for his lower jaw. Then I glued on the finger loops. This will be a fun one, but because of the \u201ceyebrow mechanism\u201d in Oscar\u2019s head, I may need to call in some help from my pal Jim Ojala who does special effects all the time. I made some spaghetti and watched the bonus DVD that came with my Johnny Carson Tonight Show set. He was truly a master of comedy!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Saturday the 5th \u2013 DON\u2019T LET THE RAIN COME DOWN (MY ROOF\u2019S GOT A HOLE IN IT AND I MIGHT DROWN!) \u2013<\/span> After only a few hours of sleep, I woke up and drove the Torino in the rain over to Encino to meet up with my pal Pete in Encino. We went to a delightful, small caf\u00e9 to have some tuna melts. The place is small but very famous, as Fabio came in while we were there. I went over to see the new items in Pete\u2019s collection, and then hopped back in my Torino (which needs new wipers, by the way) and drove over to meet my pals Edi and Sara at Paty\u2019s in Toluca Lake. I picked up my mail at my box and started home just as the heavy stuff started coming down. I got home and prepped for movie night. Since it was going to rain all night, I was expecting a light crowd. But my friend Cecille brought a few visitors from France, so it was fun showing them around Planet Wallywood. Just as we were getting into the movie, I noticed the couch was wet. I didn\u2019t spill anything on it so how did it\u2026just then it hit me. Oh no! A leak! I looked up at my sloped roof and there were little drops falling down! I grabbed a beach towel and put it on the sofa to catch the drops. Luckily it was a very slow leak, but still annoying nonetheless. The first Saturday of every month is \u201cDog Night\u201d at movie night, so tonight we watched \u201cGood Boy,\u201d an old favorite from 2003. It was appropriate too, because by the time everyone left it started raining \u2018cats and dogs.\u2019 But as the night went on the leaking tapered off. The roofers won\u2019t be able to get out to look at it until Monday, and more rain was on the way! When my guests left I napped on the couch. But I sprang awake at 3am when I heard it raining hard outside. I looked around to see if it was leaking again. I did some work around the house, cleaned up, made my traditional Saturday night Super Salad, and watched another episode of \u201cSNL\u201d from the season 3 DVD set. Once the sun rose in the morning, and the rain clouds were gone, I crawled out through my bedroom window, which overlooks my sloped roof, and put some plastic down. I hope it will help, as more heavy rain was expected Sunday night!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Sunday the 6th \u2013 NO SUN ON SUNDAY! \u2013<\/span> Later in the day I woke up in time for evening church. Roxy and I walked over, but because some awards show was on TV it was a light crowd. Plus the threat of rain didn\u2019t help either. Shirley and I drove over to Barone\u2019s to have a delicious dinner, and by the time we finished it had started raining again. I took her home and then came back to nap (with the beach towel ready to catch the drips in case my plastic covering didn\u2019t work!). I got up for a bunch of auditions, did some work around the house, noticed that my plastic plan had NOT worked (as drops were falling again) and I put a bucked over the couch to catch the drops. I heated up my leftover Barone\u2019s pizza and hit the hay to get ready for a busy Monday.<\/p>\n<p>And how was YOUR week??!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">PIX FROM THE WEEK<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5590\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ww_20190102_01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5590\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ww_20190102_01-500x354.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ww_20190102_01-500x354.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ww_20190102_01-700x496.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ww_20190102_01-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ww_20190102_01.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Starting to think about how my Oscar the Grouch is going to come together<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ww_20190102_02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5591\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ww_20190102_02-500x255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ww_20190102_02-500x255.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ww_20190102_02-700x356.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ww_20190102_02-768x391.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ww_20190102_02.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 560px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-5586-1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" poster=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Leak.jpg\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Leak.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Leak.mp4\">https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Leak.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">Love the rain, HATE leaky roofs<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5586","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\/5586","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=5586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}