Sir Terrence the Terrible
10-22-2009, 10:27 AM
These last few months have been filled with so many changes, I am getting a whiplash trying to keep up.
I am now an empty nester (to a degree), and I thought the experience would be horrible. My boys are like my left and right arms, and I thought their departure would leave me feeling lonely. Well, that is not the case thanks to two new additions to the household in the form of Pepper, a pit bull/lab mix, and Bodhi, a $hitzu/apso mix rescues. It has been a while since I had a dog (let alone two), and the fun I am having with these two is truly refreshing. The pit mix is a big baby at 1.5 years old, and the little bratty $hitzu mix is three. They get along so well, but the little $hitzu runs the pit, keeping him in line and under control. The pit is my new running partner, and boy can that dog run. We ran 4 miles yesterday, and when done, he looked at my like "is that all you got?". The shizu is uppidity, and will turn his nose up in a minute. I just got certified by Cesar Milan after spending a week at his dog crib, and these two are my first dogs in training.
I resigned as a reviewer at Blu-ray.com as I just do not have the time to keep up with the pace of reviews. As their music reviewer, I was doing a little more than five reviews a week, and a promotion at the slave house (my great job), and a burgeoning freelance work load (along with two dogs) killed my review time dead. Blu-ray.com was a great place to work, has great reviewers who are very, very cool, and was a great side job/hobby, and I will miss it much. The work was extremely stimulating, and really opened my mind and ears to a lot of music I would not have normally listen to.
After many years of planning and saving, and with the help of my friends/investors, I am going to finally be opening back up my post production studio in just one month. Having spent a year on design plans, auditioning equipment, and looking at spaghetti like wiring plans, everything has finally come together and the facility will be complete almost 8 years after demolishing my old studio. The complexity of this facility boggles the mind, but it is a state of the art studio complete with a Sony 4k projector, 10,000 watts of power, and beautiful custom made 4 way horn loaded screen speakers, and 3 way horn loaded surround speaker array. The mixing board is an old 96 channel custom upgraded Neve board with the lastest pro-tools suite. I wanted to retire from the corporate world, and go with freelancing in my last working days, and now that opportunity is coming. I will mainly be working on mixing Disney DVD's and Blurays, and Disney's television programming out of this studio, as I do not think my boss would be willing to let me completely out of the Disney family. I am thrilled at all of this, and my days in the corporate world are winding down, and I couldn't be happier.
Life changes....keep um coming!
I am now an empty nester (to a degree), and I thought the experience would be horrible. My boys are like my left and right arms, and I thought their departure would leave me feeling lonely. Well, that is not the case thanks to two new additions to the household in the form of Pepper, a pit bull/lab mix, and Bodhi, a $hitzu/apso mix rescues. It has been a while since I had a dog (let alone two), and the fun I am having with these two is truly refreshing. The pit mix is a big baby at 1.5 years old, and the little bratty $hitzu mix is three. They get along so well, but the little $hitzu runs the pit, keeping him in line and under control. The pit is my new running partner, and boy can that dog run. We ran 4 miles yesterday, and when done, he looked at my like "is that all you got?". The shizu is uppidity, and will turn his nose up in a minute. I just got certified by Cesar Milan after spending a week at his dog crib, and these two are my first dogs in training.
I resigned as a reviewer at Blu-ray.com as I just do not have the time to keep up with the pace of reviews. As their music reviewer, I was doing a little more than five reviews a week, and a promotion at the slave house (my great job), and a burgeoning freelance work load (along with two dogs) killed my review time dead. Blu-ray.com was a great place to work, has great reviewers who are very, very cool, and was a great side job/hobby, and I will miss it much. The work was extremely stimulating, and really opened my mind and ears to a lot of music I would not have normally listen to.
After many years of planning and saving, and with the help of my friends/investors, I am going to finally be opening back up my post production studio in just one month. Having spent a year on design plans, auditioning equipment, and looking at spaghetti like wiring plans, everything has finally come together and the facility will be complete almost 8 years after demolishing my old studio. The complexity of this facility boggles the mind, but it is a state of the art studio complete with a Sony 4k projector, 10,000 watts of power, and beautiful custom made 4 way horn loaded screen speakers, and 3 way horn loaded surround speaker array. The mixing board is an old 96 channel custom upgraded Neve board with the lastest pro-tools suite. I wanted to retire from the corporate world, and go with freelancing in my last working days, and now that opportunity is coming. I will mainly be working on mixing Disney DVD's and Blurays, and Disney's television programming out of this studio, as I do not think my boss would be willing to let me completely out of the Disney family. I am thrilled at all of this, and my days in the corporate world are winding down, and I couldn't be happier.
Life changes....keep um coming!