Crazy guy update: My mom ran his credit - he has the best score she has ever seen.

Em and I went to the first day of a three day Real Estate investing class today. It was pretty interesting! The woman who teaches the class talked about contracts the whole time, which in itself is not a very exciting topic, but she wasn't boring in the way she spoke. We've done a couple of really rushed jobs in the last couple days. Yesterday I shot a Lifetime Tribute Video for a woman who needed it for a family reunion today (24 hour turnaround!); today we edited and burned three copies of a concert video we had shot for a family friend (and we did it in two hours!).

Tomorrow is day two of the real estate thing. We have to be there at 8:30 am. Riiiight.

P.S. The crazy guy is in the class too...

Thumb update: first my nail turned white, then it turned green, now it's turning black. Hope it doesn't fall off...

In other, less exciting news, we met with a crazy egomaniacle lunitic who was interested in our hard money loans. Well, I shouldn't be that harsh on him. He was probably just really insecure. He spent the entire meeting telling us how smart, educated, worldly, qualified and most of all people friendly he is. Needless to say, he was not someone I want to spend much time with in the future, despite his uncanny ability to deal with people. He wouldn't even answer our questions; instead he changed the subject to himself!

My stupid thumb has been hurting all day. This morning I was scraping something off the bottom of a pot with my thumbnail (pasta maybe?) and instead of it coming off the pot, it logged itself under my nail. I ran to the bathroom, where Emily was putting on makeup, and made her remove it with tweezers. I was worried it wouldn't come out, because it broke in half the first time I tried to get it. Luckily she got it, but it still hurts a lot. And now it's starting to feel hot. Hope it doesn't have to be amputated.

We met with Adam, the hard money lender, today. He taught us about his program and gave us all the steps to make loans on our own. Very informative. Now I just have to find clients and make the deals.

I spent way too much time yesterday trying to figure out how to make a scrolling text box and have my blog entries inside of it. I could either make a box with my blog inside, or make a scrolling text box, but not both. Finally at around 11 pm, I figured it out. Use layers! It sucks trying to figure out all this web coding stuff when you have absolutely no training.

We shot a live concert video for Rhythm Method about a week ago. It came out pretty well (we had the forethought to record sound seperately). Now we are talking to them about shooting a real music video. I hope they go for it, because shooting music videos is great fun. And we may even get to shoot on 16mm! Good stuff.

Went to the Mall at Mellenia today with my mom and Emily. I needed some new work clothes. The only stuff I had was the clothes I had gotten right after graduating from college for interviews. It's so great when I can actually find clothes that fit me. Kenneth Cole seems to be the only store that works. I got three shirts and three pairs of pants. Now I'll be set for at least another year.

I've been working on music a lot more lately and tightening up the songs for my next CD. I already have over an hour and a half of music, but I keep taking out the songs that arn't absolutely perfect. I have maybe 35 minutes of music that I really like. At this rate I will never finish. I made a really cool song yesterday by creating three drum loops, putting them into one sampler, mapped across the keyboard and overlaping on some notes. That way one loop will be sped up, while another is slowed down. Then I wired each loop to a different reverb unit. The main bass and snare sounds were created with two different synths and I put a simple monosynth over the entire mix. All the drum sounds and effects were automated and the song came out great.

As you can see, I moved my blog again. Blogger is great. They have a deal with Flickr.com and Audioblogger.com to provide free photo hosting and free audioblog hosting. You can call audioblogger and they will automatically post your message to your blog. It's amazing. Here is a nice clip of Emily burping into my phone.

My grandparents from Baltomore have been in this weekend. Emily and I ate dinner with them and some other family members on Friday. Saturday, Grandma Mitzi, Mom, Emily and I took a cooking class with Chef John (The Helthy Chef). It was lots of fun. We want to take more. After the class, we met up with my dad and Grandpa for dinner at Bonefish. I wasn't very hungry after all the cooking. They all came over for dessert. Em and I make home-made icecream. Abe showed up around 9:30 and we hung out till 11:00.

Today my parents, grandparents, Emily, the dogs, and I went to Blue Springs State Park. We saw the manatees, which was interesting for about 5 minutes. Emily, the dogs and I hung out in the grass, while my grandparents and dad listened to the ranger speak. That was my favorite part of the day. Very relaxing.

I grilled some hotdogs for everyone durring the Superbowl. Em and I stayed till halftime, then watched the rest of the game at home between commercials in Iron Chef America.

Emily and I didn't have much to do for the business today. I made some phone calls in the morning and got a film job. We recieved 4 or 5 calls from companies who wanted us to advertise with them. I directed them to Lynda Moy, our marketing director. I also ran by her office to drop off a check.

We went to a real estate meeting at 5:30. Hung out with my mom and talked to people at the meeting and didn't stay long. Afterward, we went to the pet store to get Turtle some more food. Emily decided she needed a real Turtle, so we ran around looking for one, but didn't find any.

I made phone calls this morning to present and potential clients. In trying to find a company who converts film to DVD, I contacted a woman from Park Ave Video. At 1:00 pm I went over there to talk to her; we worked out a deal whereby we would do all of their Photo Slide-Shows and they would do our film to DVD transfers. She was extremely nice and I look forward to working with her. This afternoon, Emily and I went to Pettys and got meat, cheese, and side dishes. That place is great. I made steak on the grill with hollendaise sauce for dinner and we watched the Napoleon Dynamite DVD.