Late last night when we were all in bed.....

Greetings from SUNNY, HOT, and FIREY California! It's official - these fires are 'State of Emergency' worthy and they are EVERYWHERE. It's crazy how much has burned and how much more is projected to burn. The firefighters only have a small handle on the huge blazes, so fingers crossed, their luck will change soon!

Anyways....outside of crazy fires....what else is new?

The other evening I worked overtime at Universal Studios til 4 AM! Talk about being tired... Then, on the way home, I was driving and came across a road block on the freeway. All lanes of traffic were blocked for a really bad accident, so I sat on the freeway (with 500 of my closest car friends) for 45 minutes before moving. On a POSITIVE note, the person next to me was Mr. Jackson! No, not the drama teacher from High School. And no, not the crazy singer... This was Samuel L. Jackson coming home from a late night shoot. We chatted for the majority of the time and I even shared a mint with him. It was pretty cool and he was a very nice and down to earth guy. :) Definatley something good that came out of something yucky.

Today was yet another good day. I met with Mr. Bill Ratner, who is one of the main guys who does voiceovers for a TON of different TV shows and Films. It was great getting to meet him! He's an awesome guy and very fun to talk with. I think I'll have a great paper published soon that people will be very interested in reading. :)

After the interview, I stopped by the Empire Business Center to pick up some packing materials (I'm starting to sell on eBay again) at Staples. While there, I noticed they were hiring for techies! I think I might have a good chance with them, so I am going to give it a shot and see how it goes. Fingers crossed this could be a cool, fun job. :)

Other than that, not much else going on. Tomorrow is Day 1 of pyro training at Universal Studios. Check out the pictures below that I took today stopped at different stop lights, etc... on my journey to meet with Mr. Ratner and on the way back home. You can just see the smoke drifting over the sky (and you can feel it if you were here) - and it's quite the sight. Let me know what you think!!