I must admit, I had a pretty productive day, even though I slept in AND took a couple of Guitar Hero breaks throughout the day. I finally sold my dining room table through Craigslist. The guy came to pick it up around noon today which meant I had to finally put together the new table I bought at Cost Plus two months ago that has been sitting in my garage. I got a great deal on it - only $299 for the table and all four chairs. I guess the tradeoff is that I had to put it together - something I didn't realize until the guy loaded to large box into my car. I will say it was MUCH easier to put together than anything I've ever purchased from Ikea and used standard screws and nuts and not some weird European metal thing I've never seen before. Although my old table was still in excellent condition, it was the table I had when I was married and I'm tired of having it around. Also, I wanted to move toward a little different style of furniture. You can see photos of the old and new table. While the new table looks black, it's really just very dark brown. I like it a lot, and I think the rectangle shape fits the room better. The irony is that even though I spent a lot of time redoing my office, since I can't edit from home right now, I find myself doing most of my computer work at the kitchen table on my laptop.

For LA, here's a photo of Madeline's Mobay (named for Montego Bay). We got together again today and took the dogs to Old Town where we visited Three Dog Bakery and they both got to eat frosting off the spoon. One thing about being with Mobay - she's so large, poor Wally gets almost no attention at all. Here she is with Madeline as we eat at Johnny Rockets.


For those of you who have asked, the pending writer's strike will not affect me at all. Except for the relentless reality TV I'll be subjected to once the scripted shows run out of stuff to shoot. I guess this is where NOT getting back on to my union show will benefit me this year. I'm not sure it's an equal trade.

Also, Fish, if you're reading this, I lost your regular e-mail. Drop me a line.

The song of the day is "I'm Only Happy When It Rains" by Garbage off their 1995 debut self-titled album. Again, not a big fan of female singers, except for the ones who can really rock, and Shirley Manson is definitely one of those women. I haven't followed Garbage much lately, but really enjoyed their first couple of discs.