Today I moved over the September and October 2005 blog posts. I've decided that I really don't want this site to be too involved right now. The current to-do list to complete the migration is: Migrate all blog entries. Migrate all photos. Migrate all backend data files. Move the chewbode.com domain name. Decommission, archive, and delete the old site and the hosting plan. Reskin this site. I'm hoping to have all of this completed no later than June 1st. Right now, I'm just listening to some podcasts before starting some work tonight. I need to cut up the boxes my bed came in and put them in a trash bag. Now's a good time to do that.
Author: Chewbode
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The Migration Continues…
The old blog site has newer entries from October 2010 to January 2011 and then old blog entries from April 2004 to December 2005. So far the newer entries have been migrated to this site and I have November and December 2005 migrated as well. I'm going to try to migrate at least two months' worth of entries every night. I did a lot of coding tonight on Allie's project. Had a good dinner of steak and summer squash. I cheated a little and had some chips and a couple tablespoons of some really nice salsa a guy at work gave me to try. Worked out some too.
Off The Floor
I woke up this morning with a lot of energy and a good outlook on the day. Amazingly enough, I was pretty productive at work too. I think it's a result of the fact I actually bought a bed yesterday - finally. For the last six months or so, I've been sleeping on a queen-sized air mattress on the floor (including while I was in Los Angeles). My back would ache from time to time, so it was a very uncomfortable situation. I'm taking advantage of this good mental state and am doing the work I need to do for Allie tonight. I've been able to extend the delivery date by one more week. After which, I'm going to be relaxing a lot.
Buried
Earlier today I listened to the American Cinematographer Podcast with Eduard Grau, the Director of Photography for the movie Buried. After hearing about how he shot the film, I was intrigued, so this evening I rented the movie on iTunes and gave it a watch. I have to say, it really kept me on the edge of my seat. The premise of the story is that Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds) is buried alive in an old pine coffin. He has a few things in the box with him, including a cell phone that he uses to communicate with the outside world and a Zippo-style lighter. Grau had to be incredibly creative with the shots and lighting throughout the production. He and the director, Rodrigo Cortes, really wanted to vary the scenes as much as possible (there are only so many ways to shoot coffin scenes). The result was very interesting,...
Blub, blub.
A couple of week ago Arnold picked up a complete freshwater fish tank for me. I got it home, scrubbed it down and cleaned it real good, put new gravel in it, clean water, and changed out the filters. Currently, I have two large plecos (they're going away soon to be replaced with snails), two neon tetras, one lemon tetra, five orange tetras, and some blue fish - I'm not sure what it is yet.
Exhaustion
I've been going non-stop for the last couple of weeks. My weekend is chocked-full of work, but I'll steal away to go to Corey's party for a couple if hours tomorrow night. I need a mental break.
Moving Data
I've grown tired with the complexities of DotNetNuke for my personal site, so I brought the blog to Squarespace. I spent last night moving a bunch of data over. It's painstaking, as there's no real export feature on the old site, so I'm having to move each blog entry over one at a time. As soon as all the data comes over, then I'll migrate the domain name.
Hello, Los Angeles.
A lot has gone on since my last post up here. I've made the transition (for the most part) to L.A. on December 21st. I immediately jumped into working on getting the studio built with Carl and have been slammed with getting caught up with work and beating the learning curve ever since. Finally, I think I'm about there. There's pretty much nothing going on other than work right now, which is fine. For those of you who know me well enough, I'm usually like this the first month or two at a new job (well, actually, I'm like this ALL the time at a job). I think this weekend will be my first "break", although I'll be working all weekend shooting footage at NAMM. At least I'll have a change of scenery and won't be staring at a computer screen all day. Well, I need to get started editing...
Tick, Tick, Tick…
Let me catch you up to speed here... During the week of November 15th, Carl approached me with an offer to come work for him out in L.A. I accepted his offer on Sunday, November 21st. This means that I will be moving to L.A. on December 20th. We are starting up a new studio that will initially focus on video production, sound mixing, and editing. I resigned from my IT day-job on Monday, November 22nd with my last day of work being Friday, December 17th. This is a huge life shift for me, as I'm leaving IT and moving into the career I've always wanted and I get to work with a friend I've known for almost 22 years. This will also give me the ability to grow Suncoast Studios a lot. Of course, the hardest part is leaving Alex, Nel, and the kids, who are my family now....
Here It Comes…
So, I've been busy with a lot of things pertaining to a HUGE announcement I'm going to make up here soon - probably in the next couple of days. So, I dropped the P90X for a little bit and have been spending time prepping for this announcement. Tonight's the last night I'm going to be at Arnold's place. I'm moving out tomorrow into a small apartment to save money (oh, and he sold the house, so I gotta go anyway). So, I did some final packing and now am relaxing the rest of the night by catching up on a bunch of older podcasts. I'm going to watch Sherlock Season 1, Episode 1 and The Walking Dead Season 1, Episode 1. I bought them on iTunes earlier in the week and haven't had time to watch them until now.
