The site's back up and running! Chewbode.com is now hosted with 3essentials. A big thanks to Doug, Stacy and Russ for their help in getting the site transferred! In other news, Will's in town and we all congregated this past Tuesday to shoot several scenes from the new production. The day's shooting went very well and we got a lot of coverage. Afterward, we all went out and had a bite to eat at the 24/7 Restaurant. I've got the day off today and will be finishing up some Christmas chores and getting the bottom of the tree filled-out. Shauna’s going out with my mom tonight to finish up some last-minute shopping and Millard and I will probably get together and hang out and do the weekly deflate. Sick Thought of the Day: Razorblade chew.
Author: Chewbode
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Site Update
Well, you can probably tell I'm tired, as 1.) it's 3:00am and 2.) I decided (for some odd reason) to change some of the graphics on the site. In my tiredness, I've come up with the idea to change out the graphics on the masthead of the site for each major holiday/time of year. This'll add some spice to the pages. Yeah. Sure. Wrote a couple reports for the MutantMall.com CRM tonight. I've also decided to move this site from a server hosted in my house to an actual, real hosting facility. This will most definitely increase speed and reliability for the site. More on that in the coming days... Sick Thought of the Day: Gay guy gurgle.
Digital Archive Now Live
The Digital Archive section of the site is now live! I'll be putting a bunch of stuff up here over the coming weeks. The first things I've posted up there is a nearly complete list of all the video games I own, and a fairly up-to-date list of all my comics. As time goes on, you'll see my entire DVD, CD, collectibles, and artwork collection up there as well, among other stuff. I want to make this my Chewbode Museum, if you will. If you wanna know what I'm into or some old, interesting stuff, just go up there. I've also decided to start working out again. As soon as I get home tomorrow night I'm gonna hit the gym and do some free weights and cardio. I need to lose some of the turkey-day poundage I put on (those potatoes were awesome).
Makin’ and Watchin’
The script is coming along well. I'm still in the brainstorming stages of it, but should actually be writing the full-version shortly. I meditated for four hours on Sunday to try to spark the ol' creative juices. I'm at an impasse right now in that I can't decide how to end the story. Hopefully this block will clear and I'll dive into the first draft in the next few days. I saw War of the Worlds finally last night. I have to say that I'm really wondering about Spielberg. The last several movies he's made he's made he's decided to go with that washed-out, grey-tinted look. I'm not sure if it's me, but it seems like he's been overdoing that a bit lately. That was really my only gripe about it, though. I also saw Elephant and Batman Begins and I also watched Anchorman again. I also set up one...
The Aftermath
Thanksgiving was a belly-busting success. We ate about a third of the food, send anther third home with people, and had about half of the final third left over in the fridge. Mmm, mmm. The whole day yesterday was about deflating mentally, eating tons of leftovers, watching movies, and sleeping. It was great. However, today I'm gonna be more productive. I've got my Mountain Dew and bananas (heh...), and am ready to jump back into script writing. Will is coming down here around Christmas time and he's agreed to collaborate on a project with me and Millard. I'm also going to be doing a second small script for this, and we'll see where it goes. I'm not sure if I'd like to do something structured with Will or maybe go more improve. I think I'll take the structured approach and see where it goes. Sick Thought of the Day: Cajun...
Gobble, Gobble
We're gearing up for the big Turkey Day feast like everyone else in the country. I plan on being up bright and early to start in on the cooking along with Shauna. My grandmother won't be able to make it, as she's feeling under the weather and doesn't want to make everyone sick too, but other than her, the usual bunch will gather a feed from the Chewbode glutton trough. I suspect that while everyone is beating each other about the head and neck on Black Friday, I'll simply be sitting around rubbing my still-stuffed belly and waging an internal battle; more food, or sleep? All production has halted for the holiday, but should begin back up this weekend. Depend if I've come out of my gigantic carb-fog yet. Sick Thought of the Day: Nut twist squeal.
Food
Well, I just got back from the store and bought $150 in food for Thanksgiving. Damn. That's crazy. I'm going to be quite plump Thursday.
Organizing
Today I added a project management area to the website for anyone who works on a project with me. It allows us to add tasks, files, and related information to a project outline with due dates and the like. This should really help me get stuff in order and finish some things. Everything in the "Projects" area of the site has been added in and will be managed through the new system. I got the motherboard for the new server back yesterday and have been working on getting it up and running again. After a shitload of grief with it last night, I finally found out that there were two problems with it (no, the motherboard was fine): The power supply was bad (it was second-hand) and the IDE cable that connected the CD-ROM drive to the motherboard was bad. I've since replaced both and the system is now (finally!)...
Closet Secrets
Oh fuck. What else is Chewbode up to now? Well, as if I didn't have enough shit going on, I've decided to expand the Chewbode museum up on the site. What the hell is the Chewbode museum, you ask? Nothing. Abso-fucking-lutely nothing. It's a fucked up, insecure attempt to organize a bunch of stuff I found while cleaning out the closet in the studio today. I've got a stack about twelve inches high of things sitting on my desk that needs to be kept; Out of half a closet of shit. These things are neat, fun, goofy, things that I'm going to put online for others to see. I really don't give a fuck if you like them or not, I just need to do this. Then I can put them away in a nice tidy little box for the rest of my life. Or throw them out. Whichever makes...
After The Rain Has Fallen
Well, it's finally over. For the past few hours the sun's been out, the temperature's 72 degrees, and there's been a light wind. It's absolutely beautiful outside. I've decided to go and clean out and re-organize the closet in the studio and get rid of a ton of junk in there. This should make room for the render farm, which I'm still researching how I'm going to build. The goal will be to have several machines in the closet, with some good ventilation. Millard got back into town last night after being up at Mumpdase's wedding. Exhausted, he napped on my couch for a bit, then woke up, grabbed the hard drive with his audio masters and headed home. Hopefully we'll begin working on the DVD tomorrow afternoon. Sick Thought of the Day: Pig urine in the milk.
