Rocking Out in the Control Room

Hey all. Just shooting Call For Help and I wanted to see if I could post while I work. So far, so good. Sean Carruthers (our Tech Researcher on CFH and Podcast Content Manager on Torrent) has taken some great pictures of both Torrent and CFH on his flickr account. Check em out if you like.

Red Sox are still in first, I am in second in the baseball pool and Kate and I are looking forward to our relaxing weekend. We have nothing planned, no one to hang out with and no work to do. I think there may be some hot tubbing, beer drinking, movie watching and, if the mood strikes me, some home made lasagna cooking.

Weekend Wrap

Well, it was quite a fun, busy weekend. My dad, Casey and Collart all came down on Saturday and we went to a Jays game. I would like to say we went to a Red Sox game, but they played so horribly, it definitely was a Jays game. In fact, I am starting to question what is worse, my sports fantasy pool record or my live sporting event record. Although I do quite poorly in almost every pool I participate in, I think I have only seen the Red Sox/Bruins win live about a combined 4 times in my life (and that is after about 22 games...no shit). This is not to say that the Red Sox/Bruins always lose to Toronto, I just seem to happen to pick the games in which they do lose to attend. Ah well, it was fun just to hang with them all on the weekend.
Torrent is coming along well, although the shooting/editing schedule kinda wears on me. Luckily I have managed to change our editing time from 5:00pm to 2:00am to 8:00 am- 5:00 pm. So hopefully the new sked will make things seem less chaotic. This week is a Call For Help week so I am looking forward to the change of pace. It is funny, I recall when I used to dread these weeks because my ass would never touch the ground, now I look forward to them as a vacation from Torrenting.
A good friend and co-worker, Mohit had his baby on the weekend...well I suppose Mohit's wife Katie did most of the work. Nonetheless, I was glad to speak with him today and hear that his new baby girl Maya Kate Rajhans and Katie are both healthy (the new baby is 1/2 Barrian...that's right, Katie is from Barrie...represent) Congrats again dude!

Update Time

Hey all, me again...yeah I know, I have been quite lazy with the blogging or perhaps busy with the real life. Things are good; Kate and I have been together for 1 year this Sunday (April 16th). And I can honestly say I have never been happier in my life. Many things have changed in the last year: roommates (not so much roommates anymore, kinda more lifemate), jobs, residence status, jobs, friends, passport stamps, but the overall thing that has changed is my happiness. On another positive note, (no the Bruins did not win last night, in fact they lost their 10th straight on the road) Kate has decided to take a writing course at Ryerson. I am glad because she is the type of person who needs to have her brain challenged or else she goes crazy. In order to get into the course she needed to have an interview with a Ryerson Prof. to make sure she was up to Ryerson standards (apparently it wasn't enough she was living with an Alum!) and after the interview I believe the comments on her little approval card said "Ideal Candidate". Now I don't know about you, but I have never been an "ideal" anything...nice work Babe I am very proud.
Torrent premiered last week, and from the emails I have received, people seem to like the show. We are going out tomorrow and shooting episode 4; it should be a lot of fun.
On the sports front, the Bruins still suck but the Red Sox are in first place in the American League East with a record of 6-1. The play the Jays tonight but David Wells is getting the start on the mound for the Sox so I am not anticipating a 7-1 start to the year.

Work is Good, but I am LOST Without my Crack.

Sitting at my desk, trying to get some work done and I realize I have not posted for a while so I thought WTF...why don't I post now?! And here we are.
The last week or so has been busy as I try and balance two shows. We shot 15 Call For Help episodes last week and Torrent premieres on Thursday April 13th @ 20:00 on G4TechTV...woo hoo! (we also have 3 episodes of Torrent completed). So enough about work...Kate and I had a relaxing weekend (got to use the hot tub and chill out) and we are FINALLY up to date with Lost. Now we must be at the mercy of our new dealer: the lovely folks at ABC. There is only so much BitTorrent can do to get you episodes; you can't very well get them before they are released which sucks because I need another fix. Perhaps my original addiction of 24 will settle me until Wednesday.
And it is official; the Boston Bruins are not going to make the NHL playoffs this year. Oh I know, big shock to you all now, but coming into the season they were picked by many prognosticators to be in the top 4 in the Eastern Conference. So much promise at the beginning of the year with new players like Zhamnov, McEachern, Scatchard, Isbister and Brian Leetch. Andrew Raycroft was supposed to be the answer to the goaltending question that has long been asked since the absence of Andy Moog (yeah okay, I suppose Byron Dafoe had a good year in there somewhere too, but alas he went to Atlanta after the B's wouldn't pay him what he was worth). But much like many of the underachieving Bruins this year, Raycroft got hit with the sophomore jinx and lost his starting job twice in the same year! Young goalies like Hannu Toivonen and Tim Thomas stepped up to ensure the Bruins were at least somewhat competitive but without any supporting cast, their efforts were wasted. I have ranted enough about the trades made over the past year, so I will leave that one alone, accept to say that I hope the new GM is willing to get good players and pay them what they are worth. Otherwise it will be another 25 years before the B's win the Cup as no one will want to play in Boston.
Tomorrow it going to be a fun day, get to go see the band Korn in Toronto. And yes I am aware I just turned 27 years old and I am going to a Korn concert. To be honest, I am more looking forward to spending time with my brother Casey than seeing the band. I don't see him enough and it will be fun to hang out with him and Collart. Perhaps now that I am 27, I will swerve the mosh pit...perhaps.