Today, while I was at work, I overheard two women talking. One was typing something slowly into her cell-phone and looked very emotional, as the other was reasuring her she was simply "telling him what she needed to tell him".

I didn't think anything of it - until the emotional one closed her phone and let out a long sigh, saying, "okay, I did it, I sent the text, I'm so nervous".

As it turned out - what had just happened was the woman used her cell-phone to break up with her boyfriend while shopping at Ikea... I thought breaking up over the phone was bad, but that, I thought, was a new low.

Last night, or really, early this morning, I said that the new template looks perfect both on the Mac and the PC. Which is does... in Firefox.

I forgot to test it in other browsers, I know it will look like hell in Explorer, but who cares, people shouldn't use that crap browser anyways. But when I looked at in Safari, it didn't even resemble the same site... looks like I have some tweaking to do after all.

Amanda and I just got back from a dinner party for Lorrie's 22nd birthday, which was actually this last Monday. It was great except for the end, when the six plus cokes I had downed during the night hit me like a three story tidal wave of syrup. Since I've been sick, I haven't had much to eat - I've just lost my appetite, so today I pretty much had a small bowl of cereal and then, 12 hours later, a plate of garlic drenched noodles and a plethora of coke.

I've never gotten sick off of drinking pop, but tonight I felt like I might pass out, it was very strange. Of course I felt like a baby because everyone around me is drinking vodka, etc, and I'm the one who is wondering if I'm good to drive home.


I did, as some of you might have noticed, scrap the old template for caliblog and try something a bit different. Amanda never liked the last one anyways. Last night, I bundled up under a blanket, with my wool socks pulled up knee high, wishing I could breath through both my nostrils at the same time, plopped down in front of the computer and in about four, maybe five hours, over two days time, finished the new layout.

I have to say, it was the most pain-free switch I've ever undertaken. It even looks exactly the same on the Mac & the PC - on the first try no less, which has never happened! There's always something that needs to be tweaked.

Amanda picked the color scheme, I originally had something with a bit more blue, green and yellow to it, but the Barney-look is growing on me. There are a lot of little things that are, for the first time in a long, long time, missing from the layout. First off: no palm trees, we've also dropped the "season 2, 3, 4" theme we had going.

But, as dorky as it sounds, I'm very excited about the new look. I really like the use of our flickr streams in the header. Okay, moving on.


Actually, it's late and I need to get some sleep if I'm ever going to get over this cold. I wanted to write about a diner I had last night with Tara, a producer for Wes Craven's company – and no, I'm not going behind my other producer's back... Tara recently produced a short film for Sam Raimi that is intended for cell phone broadcast... I was hoping she could do something similar for Pedal's website as we were on the road filming - an every other day video journal kind of deal.

I'll have to get into that later. Goodnight.

I can't believe a whole month has almost passed by with out a post here. In our defense: I've been very, very busy with 'Project Pedal', things have been overwhelming the past few weeks... it's all very exciting. Also, Amanda's Godfather is currently understudying for Alfred Molina in a big play, so her hours for baby-sitting have jumped from maybe 3 a day, to 8 or more.

I have a lot more to write - but I woke up yesterday with a terrible head & throat cold, and I need to get something to eat first. I just wanted to post this to let people know we are still alive and well. More to come soon.

Originally posted on Project Pedal...

In about twenty minutes I'll be sitting down with Matt, the producer, at the 'backlot cafe' in Universal - I keep shifting from feeling anxious, to un-prepared, to clear-minded and anywhere in-between.

This is my first face to face with a producer, let alone a producer who has shown high interest in 'Pedal' - to be perfectly honest, I've been a bit uneasy the last several days. Going over different scenarios and conversations in my mind. People seem to keep giving the advice, "just be confident - don't look unsure", but I'm torn between: knowing exactly what I want for 'Pedal', and trying to figure exactly what I need to keep Matt's interest.

If I'm lucky they'll be one in the same.


At the moment - while I'm typing this - I feel 100% comfortable... maybe 90% comfortable, all the same I'm excited to shake Matt's hand and hear what he has to say about the film. I'm, inside my head, jumping up and down at the thought of spilling my guts on every idea and expectation I have for 'Pedal'.


A part of me wishes I could just type in 'project pedal dot com' and read the next several posts ahead of this one. Peek ahead; to the outcome of our meeting, will it go smoothly? Will it end abruptly before either of us gets a full chance to go into the things we hoped to go into? Will this be the start of a strong and healthy working-friendship? Or simply a business opportunity?

It's time for me to leave. Wish me luck.

Yay! i'm 1 today!