Aug 17, 2011

I got up to play tennis with my dad at the college. It was a warm day, but nice for a game. I forgot how good he was. He had me running a lot. I haven't had to work that hard in tennis for a long time. He won both games, but they were close at 5-7 and 4-6. It was a lot of fun.

After I showered and had some food Chuck and I headed up to Rowan to get our podcast started. We did some planning on the setup of the room and the scenes we'd be filming. We came up with some good ideas; namely, just wing it.

We filmed probably an hour's worth of footage. We just did a lot of talking, filmed some intros to the show, and shot some cut scenes that we'll be using. We wanted to shoot our first guest but had some "technical difficulties" with that so it will have to wait. I think we have some good stuff either way.

We went through all the footage after and made sure we would be able to edit it easily with the programs we have access to. It looks like it will work out well. We just need to get the rest of the first episode footage shot and then we can begin the editing process.

We did Quizzo at Applebee's to save us from driving up to PJ's. Some of the questions were actually somewhat difficult. The DJ is still terrible and annoying at times, but at least there was a little bit of a challenge.

We did end up winning! The last round won it for us, I think. We were given 10 cities that we had to spell correctly. We had some trouble with a few, but got 9 out of 10 correct! Cincinnati got us. Someone disputed the spelling of Juneau, Alaska. The DJ actually announced that there were something like four correct spellings for it... uhh.

I had a victory margarita before we left and then came home to watch Rescue Me and Scrubs before bed.

Aug 15, 2011

I had to be at court in the morning to deal with my registration ticket. It went surprisingly smoothly and the people there were friendly. I just had to stand and wait while they conferred with about five people trying to figure out how to reprint my receipt after the spool of paper ran out the first time.

Even though it was nice in the early part of the day it soon started raining very hard and didn't let up. I almost went for another run in the rain, but ended up running on the treadmill instead (with bare feet.. bad idea) and working out in the house.

I met Chuck at Moe's for dinner so we could discuss our plans for shooting the podcast. We stayed there for a long time. It was a good burrito and we got some good ideas down for how we'd start the show.

The rest of my night was much like my day. I watched some shows, edited some photos and stayed inside.

Jul 20, 2011

Chuck and I went to Rowan to test out how our video/audio would work out for our planned podcast. We did a few tests and I like this setup. I think everything will work out. The audio is the only minor issue. We may need to go external. We got some good ideas of what we want to do though. I like the aesthetic.

We went to Saladworks for lunch and talked about changes for the script of the sitcom. It's completely different from the original, but there are some good things coming out of it.

I met Christy to play some ping pong at the rec center. We played a lot of games, most of which I lost. It was hot in there so we went to get McDonald's smoothies.

We wanted to find pool tables but Prof's was closed so we went to the bar in the bowling alley. There were some weird people in there including the bartender, who gave me strange looks when I asked for change for the pool table. We played a couple of games and I made up for losing at ping pong.

We went over to Quizzo and got some food and drinks. We seemed to do alright for most rounds, but I think we ended up tying for sixth or something like that. I'm not sure if Matt is disappointed in our score or just about everyone trying to figure out the bill.

I came home after the game and fell asleep to Scrubs. Chuck getting into it made me want to start watching again.