I knew I shouldn't be looking at my flist hours before I'll have an opportunity to watch COE. Just the headers have me screaming: CAN I GO HOME YET?????

Just got this little tidbit in the Disney news release about their Comic-con appearance:

TRON (title not final) (In Disney Digital 3D™)

TRON is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (GARRETT HEDLUND), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (JEFF BRIDGES), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant (OLIVIA WILDE), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.



I see a ride resurrection at Disneyland.

DH called me while I was on the way to a story. He had a 40-minute conversation with the recruiter, and it went VERY well. She says she will be calling him next week to set up the in-person interview, but he has the technical knowledge and is a former Imagineer, so he knows the culture.

And it doesn't hurt that he has references from his former managers, including the current Chief Information Officer at the Disney studios!

Thanks so much for all the good thoughts...keep them coming!

Ever since he was laid off from Walt Disney Imagineering in 2001, DH has been trying to get back there. He's kept in contact with people and just this week got recommendations form his former managers for his LinkedIn account.

This morning, he got an e-mail from Disney HR about a position he applied to. They want to do a phone interview with him. When he called to tell me the news, he was crying.

Good thoughts, my friends. We need lots of good thoughts.

This is one of those times when it's good to be in media! Just got my press badge for Comic-con!

If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

DH has his job interview tomorrow (Tuesday); 11:30 AM at the placement agency, and then 12:30 PM at the employer.

Thanks to all of you who responded to my little pity party last night. I'm still a bit depressed...I failed massively in the Consisderate Wife department for my husban'd birthday, but he's getting over it.

I have looked at Angel Food Ministries, and may be putting an order in this week since the deadline is just coming up here. DH is, well, not too keen on the idea of going to a thrift store for a suit...but he's starting to understand reality, too.

Because I am a sheep. Baaa.

Been arrested? — No
Kissed someone you didn't like? — Yes
Slept in until 5 PM? — No
Fallen asleep at work/school? — Yes
Held a snake? — Yes
Ran a red light? — Yes
Been suspended from school? — No
Experienced love at first sight? — Yes
Totaled your car in an accident? — No
Been fired from a job? — Yes
Fired somebody? — Yes
Sung karaoke? — No
Pointed a gun at someone? — No
Did something you told yourself you wouldn't? — Yes
Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose? — No
Caught a snowflake on your tongue? — Yes
Kissed in the rain? — No
Had a close brush with death (your own)? — No
Saw someone die? — Yes
Played Spin-the-Bottle? — No
Smoked a cigar? — No
Sat on a rooftop? — Yes
Smuggled something into another country? — No
Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes? — No
Broken a bone? — Yes
Skipped school? — No
Eaten a bug? — No
Sleepwalked? — No
Walked on a moonlit beach? — Yes
Ridden a motorcycle? — Yes
Dumped someone? — Yes
Forgotten your anniversary? — No
Lied to avoid a ticket? — Yes
Ridden in a helicopter? — No
Shaved your head? — No
Blacked out from drinking? — No
Played a prank on someone? — Yes
Hit a home run? — No
Felt like killing someone? — Yes
Cross-dressed? — No
Been falling-down drunk? — No
Made your girlfriend/boyfriend cry? — No
Eaten snake? — No
Marched/Protested? — Yes
Had Mexican jumping beans for pets? — No
Puked on an amusement ride? — No
Seriously & intentionally boycotted something? — No
Knitted? — No
Been on TV? — Yes
Shot a gun? — No
Skinny-dipped? — No
Given someone stitches? — No
Eaten a whole habenero pepper? — No
Ridden a surfboard? — No
Drunk straight from a liquor bottle? — No
Had surgery? — Yes
Streaked? — No
Been taken by ambulance to a hospital? — Yes
Tripped on mushrooms? — No
Passed out when NOT drinking? — Yes
Peed on a bush? — No
Donated Blood? — Yes
Grabbed electric fence? — No
Eaten alligator meat? — Yes
Eaten cheesecake? — Yes
Killed an animal when not hunting? — No
Peed your pants in public? — Yes
Snuck into a movie without paying? — No
Written graffiti? — Yes
Still love someone you shouldn't? — Yes
Think about the future? — Yes
Been in handcuffs? — No
Believe in love? — Yes
Sleep on a certain side of the bed? — No

Well, DH came in second with his 21.3% loss. One other person came in at 25% lost. But it's OK...this guy had been the one to beat all along and DH was pretty certain he wasn't going to make it.

Some positive news, though...DH got the two claim forms he was owed by EDD, so he should have two checks coming in by the end of the week.

I got the bail notice for my ticket from two weeks ago, and it's not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. $25 with proof of correction, which I can provide.

So things are getting a bit better!

I cannot believe it...I lost my cell phone, and you'd think someone had ripped out one of my lungs!

I was out covering a story in Palm Springs, and left the phone somewhere inside the PS Convention Center. I realized that I'd misplaced it about ten minutes later, and then spent he next hour and a half trying to find the damned thing. Finally, I left my name and number with the information folks and headed home.

When I was halfway home, they called my husband to tell him my phone had been found. But they won' mail it; I have to provide them a FedEx number or go out there and get it.

ARRGGGHHH. I'm just glad they found it.

And this was kind of neat. When I got home and checked my work messages, there was a very nice one from the TV station manager, complimenting me on a "remarkable" job.

Wow. I don't evern report to him. Pretty cool.

That was DH's final loss as of today's weigh-in. We don't yet know if that was good enough to win. He's one of three guys who had really phenomenal loss, and we know it's going to be very very close.

Keep your fingers crossed!

I just applied for a producer job at Larry King Live!

I was checking the Time Warner site for DH...there had been an ad on careerbuilder.com. And after filing his app, I was struck by the notion to do a wide-parameter search of their job board. That's how I came across the producer opening.

It would be unbelievable if they actually called me. I know I'd be out of my depth...but but but...I've always done my best when being pulled out of my depth.

Only bad part of the job...having to drive to LA.

Maybe I am nuts.

Maybe I'm just gibbering because it's one in the morning and I should be in bed.

In about nine hours, DH goes for his final weigh-in in the local Biggest Loser competition that he's been in since the beginning of March. He started at 300 lbs. As of tonight, he's at 235 pounds on our scale...which we've found has been four pounds off the contest scale. So, say he finishes at 239 in the morning. That's a 20% loss...he's not sure if it's enough to win.

Still damn good, he knows. But he's bucking for that $10,000 prize...and Lord knows we need it since he's still out of work and we're STILL waiting for his unemployment.

Now, even though tomorrow is the final weigh-in, we won't know the winner till next week...they're dragging it out on us.

I hope I can get through this next week without him driving me crazy!

Got pulled over tonight by the highway patrol because of the expired tags on my license plate. I was planning on getting the darned thing renewed on Tuesday!

***sigh***

So I got a ticket and a warning that next time he'd impound the car. So I guess I'll need to switch back to driving my SUV for now.

At least we got some good news...EDD figured out DH is actualy who he says he is and set up his benefits. So we should start seeing something there in the next week.

AND he got a call about a possible job. The pay is not great...it's less than he was making. But it's better than unemployment.

NPR is supposed to be sober and stable. But when I came back from assignment at Fort Irwin, I found that my bosses had gone swine flu crazy.

I spent most of today, NOT going through the HOURS of audio I recorded at Fort Irwin (more on that in a moment), but instead trying to set up possible interviews for a possible live Radio/TV simulcast program tomorrow (Friday) night.

Which I am supposed to host.

**trembling at the thought***

I haven't done live TV in a while. And never unscripted live; our plan is to do a call-in show with several guests. So this will be interesting, to say the least.

I just hope we don't end up having to do something over the weekend; that would screw things up for my other job.

Oh, yeah, Fort Irwin. Home of the National Training Center. NPR tapped me to go out there to do a story on the Stryker brigade currently training there. They wanted a story about prepping for Afghanistan. BUT...this brigade is training for IRAQ. I got some sound on the Afghan angle, but the stronger stories I found were about the people who are at Fort Irwin year-round to stage the training exercises.

The Iraqi city where I was embedded was actually built by a Hollywood set company, Another movie company provides the makeup and pyrotechnics. And yet another group provides Iraqi nationals who help teach the soldiers about the culture they are walking into. Fort Irwin is the place where art meets the Art of War. Which is going to be my pitch line to NPR when I tell them that their idea didn't work quite so well.

It was really an amazing day and a half that I spent up there, and I actually would like to go back up to do more stories.

I'll post a link when the story gets done.

As strapped as we've been, I have deferred some bills as much as possible. One of them was DH's car registration, which I was finally going to get paid this month.

The state caught up to me first. They sent a notice to my employer, to garnish my next paycheck.

Shit shit shit. I don't mind the loss of the money because I was going to make the payment anyway...but I don't like that it went to my employer.

Can I PLEASE wake up from the nightmare now? I HURT from all of this.

DH has been told that he's being laid off after next week.

And we *just* got the home loan modified and *just* started a debt management plan to try to dig out of the hole.

I'm back to working seven days a week. Thank God the other station had hours for me.

It's 12AM Friday and I just found Kings on SciFi.

Maybe this show will move over to SciFi? It is an NBC property.

One of the stories I got to cover on Wednesday was Gov. Schwarzenegger's speech at the Ontario Convention Center. He did a press briefing after the speech, and a photographer got a shot with me in it.




That's me on the left, in the blue shirt with the shotgun mike.