fairly productive day

Its been a pretty productive day for me if you're talking about actually doing things. But not writing.

First I finished my Pell for practicing my sword technique.

Then I went down to Paramount to see if I could get my hands on a copy of Kung Fu Panda, and of course they were out. So I bought Ferris Bueller's Day Off, No Direction Home, a t-shirt, and an Indiana Jones hat. I actually ran into Steve Glickman, the comedian who played the music producer on the pilot I worked on, which reminds me I need to find an open mic night.

On my way home Vincent (my car) started making an awful sound and then the air conditioning stopped working, so I took him to the Honda dealer and I'll drop him off in the morning. Which is too bad because I wanted to run down to San Diego for an SCA event.

Next I opened a new checking account.

And then I cut and shaped a piece of rattan to be made into a sword, but I needed some more duct tape and a hose clamp to attach the basket hilt. After I got that I came home and covered my piece of rattan in tape.

I got the kit to make my SCA helmet in the mail today, and I am both very excited and basically intimidated at the prospect of putting it together.

I was going to make the pattern for my coat of plated tonight, but I think I'll go to bed instead.

Actually, I did get a little writing done. I wrote most of an e-mail to Tom Jacobson the producer of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mission to Mars, Big Trouble, The Ladykillers, who apparently is the son of a friend of my dad's bridge partner. And his brother I guess is the agent who represents Kevin Costner and Bette Midler. Needless to say, I want to get it right. Which is why I'm going to call my dad in the morning and make him listen to my e-mail before I send it.

Now tomorrow, since my car is going to be in the shop, I'd better get some freaking writing done.