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the good news is that tim here found a wig on the LSE free table that perfectly matches his hair color.
the bad news is that although i tried to not care about the craigslist person who seems to hate satchel’s and loves to write about how evil we are, he got me. i’m assuming it was this person who has been ranting about my restaurant on craigslist that signed me up for crazy amounts of spam email. i came home tonight to 50 or so spam emails. i have been signed up for all sorts of things… and that’s cold blooded. but, i guess i put myself out there you know. i try and open a place where people can have a good living and be creative and of course there will be enemies who hate all things positive. it’s one thing to rant on craigslist about it, it’s another level when you start messing with a man’s email. i hope this person reads my blog so they can get my formal “congratulations”, you have now started more than hating my restaurant, you have now starting hating me personally. you have succeeded in making my life harder.

i put myself out there though. i mean, i advertise and promote my restaurant like a maniac. i brand my brand, i probably deserve it.

we had a really busy night. i was surprised because it was so cold. but it was good. we got behind, we sent the wrong pie to the wrong table a couple times, we had to give away some food, but i honestly think we did our best. we need a third oven. we desperately need a third oven.

my movie is a roller coaster. i thought i was done but my wife kicked that idea out the door. she tried to watch my movie and she couldn’t. she needed to take breaks so she wouldn’t get dizzy. i know the movie has its flaws but because i am the cameraman and editor and all, i see it. it makes sense to me, but it made her sick. i am back to square one in a way. i am trying to re-structure and re-locate clips and scenes. i was pretty depressed today to basically start over in organizing the movie. i set a date of april 27th for the world premiere.

yes, it’s no wonder that some person out there hates me and decides to get me signed up for all kinds of spam… i should have a separate work and personal email. i should expect the ridicule. i am too big for my britches now. the restaurant is too popular for some. i understand that.

February 21st, 2009 | work life | Tags: | Comments Off

heart day

good weekend, hard sometimes but good. friday was out of control busy as usual. we did alright.
saturday day was out of control busy and saturday night was busy, but under control busy. probably the rain that slowed things down. but we need the rain so cool.

the movie is well back underway to completion. i will admit i have been obsessing over it for 8 days now. if all goes well, we could have an april release. the title changed, and the ending is shaping up. i must admit i haven’t been so excited about a project in a long time. and last week i thought i would never finish but now i think there is a chance. if only my computer can keep up with my brain…

my mom showed up at my house today with 3 cakes… one for my son, one for my daughter, and one for my wife… all of them homemade and heart shaped. then for me, i got heart shaped and iced sugar cookies, with red hots, my favorite.

now look at this… carrot cake for my wife… one of the few remaining cookies for me… can you believe this woman?
i tell you, if i turn out a success in life, you’ll know who to blame. my mother is an inspiration.

February 15th, 2009 | home life, work life | Tags: | Comments Off

danny and silas

i should have kept my mouth shut about the movie. i should have just not said a sacred word about it… because just last night, merely 25 hours ago, i did something to wipe the movie from my hard drive. i don’t know what it was, the program was freezing up and i panicked. it all remains a blur to me now, the questions the computer asked me, the answers i gave.. i did something real wrong and now it seems that my 6 years of work is lost… sortof.

i say sortof because i did find about half of the movie in another file and edited clips from the movie in the trash, so theoretically i could re-build the movie but…

today was one of the worst days i can remember having, and some really great things happened today… but i felt really depressed and sad, and it wasn’t until around midnight until that turned around for me.

i have a bit of new hope for the movie, i am starting to try and visualize re-making the second half and making it better. i am starting to think that i just need a new release date… i get to set the release date anyway… so what if i said, christmas 2009? no one would think i was a loser for wiping out half my movie if it came out at christmas right? to be honest, i’m not even sure at this time if i really do have the first 30 minutes… i had to work a lot at satchel’s and i didn’t have the hours to research what pieces i can find.

danny finished the new Lightnin’ Salvage stencil on the LSE chalkboard and brought it in tonight. i am using my wife’s computer tonight because i am mad at my computer, so you got lucky and i found this great photo on here. she gets a different set of photos than i do since we have separate cameras. it’s fun for me to check her photos once in a while, seems i always forget to look…

i’ve told you too much already… but tonight i came up with a new name for the movie which lets tammy and josh off the hook for their scene, and i think it might even have the potential to improve the final product.

thanks for tuning in, satchel

February 8th, 2009 | home life, work life | Tags: | 0 Comments

work and stuff

another week has passed by me with lightnin’ speed, and my project list has begun to hurt my shoulders. pictured are shitake mushrooms growing between satchel’s and LSE. you may have eaten some of these on your pizza in the last week. we are very close to being out now but i was impressed with the many customers who tried them. seeing that we are growing them one may get the mistaken impression that they are free for us, but that is not the case. we bought these logs from a farmer and we also pay to water them and for Joe to come by every so often to soak the logs in a trough. joe is spearheading the upcoming shitake workshop (march 21st i think) and we hope to innoculate even more logs for our own use at that time.
we’ve started to collect emails from customers so i can send out the occasional newsletter to inform about events and such, thanks to any of you who signed up. the list is in LSE if you want to be in the know. i can’t tell about everything here on the blog and the newsletter will be a different format anyway. eventually one will be able to sign up online, cory will be sorting out the details, although once his baby arrives the site updates will surely slow…

i am excited to announce the light brightening at the end of the tunnel that is the movie i have been making. it is about some people at satchel’s, about satchel, LSE and buying a home. i hope to be finishing it up in the next couple months if all goes well. i hope to talk to someone at the hippodrome about renting the theatre for an employee viewing…

i want to tell you really bad about a treehouse but will wait and let this creation unfold slowly. i am still looking for a source for red clay for the bocce court if anyone has any ideas i would love to hear them.

February 5th, 2009 | work life | Tags: | 0 Comments

happy thanksgiving (in january)

ok, so one of these individuals, was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and the crew organized to throw a thanksgiving dinner as a “we love you” to the person.
also raised was over $400 for the week of work the individual had to miss.

i’m telling you, this is a family! look at this fine bunch of people. how many office parties look like this?

we are definitely so thankful for all we have.

February 1st, 2009 | Uncategorized, home life, very nice, work life | Tags: | 0 Comments

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