Hello Everyone,

It has been a while since I put anything on my Live Space. I have been busy getting MySpace pages setup for the TV show and for myself. I started attending one of the largest private art schools in the country in June. The Academy of Art University in San Francisco. I have always been interested in TV and film since I was a little boy, and since I have a bunch of free time I decided to go back to school.

I learned that I would need to buy a Mac computer in order to attend the university. As you can see from my last post I was very surprised and found the transition from PC to Mac not that difficult. The video editing software we are using is what many of the production houses  use. Even Mr. Coppola uses it. So it can’t be to bad. After installing Final Cut Pro HD on my iMAC, which took several hours and over 60gb of hard disk space, I found a treasure trove of tools, Video filters, professional audio editing software, Color correction software, Title Software, the list is just incredible. I now have the task of taking all 28 episodes of the TV show and color correcting and audio correcting them. This I will have to do on my spare time.

I started Classes in the Summer Semester so things were really crazy. Both classes I took were writing classes. I was maintaining a B average until I had an emergency room visit and took me longer to recover then expected. It’s heck getting old. Luckily I get to send in missing assignments in this week to make up the grade from summer.

The fall semester plans to be much more fun. Photo Story Boarding and 8mm. Yes, they still make 8mm film. I even have an 8mm camera, projector and editing station. By the way, Did you know the show “Monk” is filmed on 16mm film then transferred to digital HD? I didn’t either till i read it in text book for the Non Linear video editing class. Which is my second class for the semester by the way. The third class is one of the classes I had to drop from summer. Storytelling. The instructor is an actual writer that works in TV and film industry and has a TV movie coming out on Sept 12th on the Hallmark channel called “Citizen Jane” and it is based on a real life true crime story. My instructor wrote the book and the teleplay, stars in it include Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club), Sean Patrick Flannery (Young Indiana Jones), Nia Peeples and rock star Meat Loaf Aday. And this is one of my instructors?!?!?! If you are going to learn something, learn it from someone that ACTUALLY does the job, and is successful at it, not from someone that did the job and wasn’t successful. Most of the instructors at the university are part time and work in the TV and or film industry full time. So I should be able to get a good education from it.

Other things that are going on around here. My youngest daughter started kindergarten this year, my oldest is in high school now. Man time flies.My wife is hoping that I will be able to physically handle going to school. I tell her that we won’t know until I try. Other then the one minor incident in July I haven’t been feeling to bad. I am supposed to be going over the the University of Washington Research center  sometime in the next few months to run a bunch more genetic tests and such. They want to study me for a while since they haven’t had a case as severe as mine and have no real data to do research from. It’s fun being a guinea pig. They hope top prevent my body from shredding itself apart from the inside. All of the connective tissues holding things in place are decaying and they have no idea how to stop or treat it. I had to stop taking the pain medications so I could attend school. I couldn’t think or study while taking them. So I now only take them at bedtime.

My wife still works for Wal~Mart and is doing very well there. Once you have been with them for a while they take care of you real nicely. She is still working over night but she seems to like it. It also gives me plenty of time to work on computer and video stuff with out being disturbed. We hope to build our house within the next 5 yrs. I have most of the designs and modifications done. The architect hates it when I change things. And we may be able to start building in 4 to 5 yrs. It is going to be a very nice Log Home. Approximately 3,500 square feet for main house and a 1,500 sq foot guest house. The only problem we have is WHERE to build it. We were thinking of the south west area. We lived in New Mexico for 3 years and I liked it. Winters there are not very long and not as cold. So we have been looking in that general direction. I almost bought 10 acres in Arizona for dirt cheap and property even had a canyon with a stream running through it. only thing was NO UTILITIES, no electric , Telephone nothing. Electricity would be no problem Solar panels and wind generators, easy fix. The big problem would have been, NO EASY ACCESS to internet. Now that I just can’t go without. SAT internet is ok but still to slow for the file sizes I upload. 350 to 500 mb files can take a long time at 1mb upload.

I will probably post some more videos on Veoh.com or MySpace soon so check those out if you can. Just look for Hedgy0 at both Veoh and MySpace, you should be able to videos from that.