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Monday the 18th \u2013 WONDERFUL WALK! \u2013<\/span> Under a warm sun, and on a gorgeous day, I walked Roxy over to the groomer\u2019s for a bath. Then I strolled over to GNC to get some supplements, I picked up a few cigars, and then went over to Panera to have lunch with my friends Edi and Elliot Lurie. On the way home I stopped at the hardware store to pick up a few items, picked up Roxy at the groomer\u2019s, and then went home to rest. I met with my pal Brittney at 7 to do some work, and then grabbed a nap. I got up later to do my nightly auditions, typed out Wally\u2019s Week (a whole TWO weeks\u2019 worth), which took me all night to do, and then I made some soup and went to bed. Whew!<\/p>\nTuesday the 19th \u2013 SECRET SESSION, BACK AGAIN! \u2013<\/span> I hit Taco Bell for lunch, and then went over to Bang Zoom to do another one of our \u201csecret sessions.\u201d I\u2019ve been doing these secret sessions for about five years now, and it\u2019s an ongoing thing that I simply can\u2019t ever talk about. Maybe someday. But they\u2019re normally 3 hour sessions that go pretty smoothly. After the session I hit my mailbox to get my packages, and then went home, fed the kids and napped on the couch. I got up later to do my nightly auditions, and then started working on \u2018The Cursed Recorder #12!\u201d If you remember from last week, I\u2019m busy transferring 95 audio files from a personal recorder that I use for my personal log. These files will be passed down through generations so that anyone who cares will be able to listen to stories, anecdotes, historical recollections, thoughts, feelings, etc. from their great grandpa Wally. Normally, as was the case with the past 11 recorders I\u2019ve filled, I would just plug a patch cord into the recorder and my computer and the files would transfer in about 20 minutes. But on \u2018The Cursed Recorder #12\u2019 there was some sort of corruption that prevented this from happening. So in order to transfer the files on the internal memory I have to plug a cord into the headphone jack of the cursed recorder, and put the other end into the recording program of my computer. Then I transfer them in real time; ie \u2013 if the file is an hour and 10 minutes long, I have to sit there for an hour and 10 minutes and babysit it. Then I stop the recording program, edit it, label it and archive it. Things went well with the first 28 files, but then my life got even MORE complicated. \u2018The Cursed Recorder #12\u2019 decided to just arbitrarily STOP in random places during the transfer. This meant that I would have to stop the recording program, mark the timeline, back up to that same point on the digital recorder, and restart it. Then I would have to edit it together later. Sometimes \u2018The Cursed Recorder #12\u2019 would stop five or six times DURING THE TRANSFER OF ONE FILE which really slowed me down on this project! Now I have to slog through about 60 files with this problem. I may actually get it all finished by the year 2022! It just never ends. As convenient as some technology is, when things go wrong, it\u2019s a real pain in the head! I will never, EVER record on the internal memory of these things again. Too easily corruptible. Recording on external memory is MUCH better because you can always remove it. What a drag.<\/p>\nWednesday the 20th \u2013 THE EYES OF A GROUCH! \u2013<\/span> Most of the night I spent working on \u2018The Cursed Recorder #12\u2019 \u2013 so I only got about 3 hours of sleep before I had to be at a lunch meeting with my friend Tuesday and her mom, and Edi and Elliot Lurie. It was a fun lunch! Tuesday\u2019s dad wrote a ton of great songs, including \u201cThe Wonder of You\u201d which was recorded by Elvis. Elliot and Tuesday\u2019s mom had a lot to talk about, and had lots of people in common! Tuesday brought her friend Jeff along to lunch, and after we finished eating we went back to Planet Wallywood for a tour. Then I dashed off to Alex in Wonderland to check out the work they had done on my Oscar the Grouch puppet eyes. They looked fantastic and I can\u2019t wait to get working on him again! I had a few changes and suggestions and they\u2019re going to get working on that. I went back home and put the Gran Torino away in my auxiliary garage, got the Mustang back out and went home. It had been raining somewhat, and we were expecting more on the way, so I wanted to put the Torino away for a while. I grabbed a shower and then napped on the couch for a bit. I got up later to do some more wrestling with \u2018The Cursed Recorder #12.\u2019 I sure would like to know how this got so corrupted! I hit the hay so I could be up early for a session in West L.A. on Thursday.<\/p>\nThursday the 21st \u2013 SPEAKER SEEKER! \u2013<\/span> The day started with a drive to West L.A. and a trip through the Taco Bell drive-thru for lunch. I went over to a local Best Buy to purchase a pair of small speakers for my personal log transfer project. This way I\u2019ll be able to monitor what\u2019s going into the recording program of my computer as I\u2019m working. I went to Formosa studios and worked for a few hours with the great Voice Director Jamie Mortellaro on a new videogame. I had a slow drive back home in afternoon L.A. traffic. When I got home I fed the pets, put my new speakers together, and kept on transferring over more log entries from the digital recorder. It\u2019s going to be a long, hard road. I hope my descendants appreciate the work. I napped for a bit, and then got up later to do some auditions. I did some more digital file transfers, and then drove over to Denny\u2019s to get some food to go, and went home to watch an episode of \u201cPolice Woman\u201d and eat my dinner.<\/p>\nFriday the 22nd \u2013 AMAZING ARTIFACTS! –<\/span> Right around noon my pal Scott Sebring came over so we could drive over to Profiles in History in Calabasas to look at several items that would be going up for auction in a few weeks. Many of the items that piqued our interest were original props and costumes from the \u201cBatman\u201d TV series of the 60\u2019s. We got to see the original Shakespeare bust used on the show to gain access to the Batcave. We also saw other amazing things that I never thought I\u2019d ever see; things I had been wanting to see close-up since I was a kid! What can\u2019t I be RICH!!!?? After a few amazing hours of tripping down memory lane, we headed back to my house to wait for his wife Vickie to get off work. I did some more dubbing, and then drove to the Coral Caf\u00e9 to meet Scott and Vickie for dinner, along with my pal Sara. Then I went home to nap on the couch. I got up to do more work with my personal log entries.<\/p>\nSaturday the 23rd \u2013 THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN! \u2013<\/span> At noon I was up and ready to record a group of our church Elders for the church\u2019s website. Each Easter and Christmas, the Elders write up short meditations which are published in a booklet that\u2019s handed out to the church members. Last year it was decided that the Elders would also record their meditations so people could listen to them as well. This year I\u2019ll be recording 26 different messages from the Elders, then send the files to my pal Scott Sebring. My friend Alex Zsolt, the amazing musician and pianist, will send over several tracks from one of his Christmas CDs that we can use in the background. Scott will put the music behind the voice tracks and then send them to the church\u2019s website. After the Elders left I edited and mastered the tracks and sent them to Scott. I edited some more files from my personal log. I\u2019m STILL not sure what\u2019s causing these to just stop intermittently but I sure would love to know! When I\u2019m done accessing all these files from the recorder, it would give me great pleasure to SMASH THIS STUPID THING WITH A HAMMER into a million pieces! It wouldn\u2019t solve anything, but it sure would make me feel better\u2026at least for a little while. I drove over to JoAnn to pick up some stuffing for a gift I\u2019m sending to my pal\u2019s daughter. She loves Rowlf the Dog, so I bought one of those 80\u2019s vintage Rowlf puppets on ebay that I\u2019ll stuff and send to her. I picked up some groceries and then went home to stuff Rowlf and put the groceries away. I cleaned up a bit around the house and got ready for movie night. We watched the recently released Blu Ray of \u201cMan of a Thousand Faces\u201d from 1957 starring James Cagney. It\u2019s the story of Lon Chaney Sr. and it\u2019s pretty fantastic. After everyone left I took a nap on the couch, then spent all night dubbing over more log entries. As morning started to break, I went upstairs to get ready for my normal Saturday night salad and TV ritual. I looked out and saw a small, dead hummingbird lying just outside my bedroom window. The rising sun was beginning to beat down on his little body, and I really didn\u2019t want him lying out in the hot sun all day baking. So I removed the screen on my bedroom window, scooped his body into a little container and took it downstairs and outside to bury it underneath the hedges. I wanted to give him a proper burial. I thanked him for being an integral part of the circle of life and helping out our environment, and then covered his body with dirt. I\u2019m not sure why he died right outside my bedroom window, but my first instinct was that he might have flown into my window at full speed and killed himself accidentally. But even though I looked very carefully, I could NOT see any sort of impact mark on my window. I made my traditional Saturday night Super Salad and watched an episode of \u201cSpace 1999\u201d before bed. I got to bed around 2pm, but had to be up at 4pm! Ugh!<\/p>\nSunday the 24th \u2013 A CHILL IN THE AIR! \u2013<\/span> After just 2 short hours of sleep, I got up at 4 so I could record our Pastor Bob Bock for the Christmas meditations. When we finished up I fed the pets and got cleaned up for evening church. After the service I took my \u2018adopted grandma\u2019 Shirley (and Roxy) to Paty\u2019s for dinner on the patio. Even though it was starting to get chilly in the evenings, the patio was nice and warm. I got home and grabbed a nice nap on the couch, and then got up to do more work with \u2018The Cursed Recorder #12.\u2019 Little by little I\u2019m going to whip this problem! Then I hit the hay to be up at noon for a lunch meeting on Monday.<\/p>\nAnd how was YOUR week??!!<\/p>\n
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