Errand Day in Leith

I really love where we live. I love living in a neighborhood! Just now Bob and I ran out to do errands and bring home lunch for everybody. Here's our errand list:

• The Marie Curie Cancer Care charity shop (that's a tongue twister), to give away some clothes that the kids have outgrown. 
• The Post Office to mail postcards. From Paris. Sorry everybody!
• Just Sew, to have them sew new buttons onto my black coat. It's old old old, and in the past two months all the buttons have fallen off but one. I've

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Robert, The Guard At Windsor

Traveling with kids is the best! Especially our kids. They're constantly forgetting things, loosing things, wandering into places they shouldn't, and most of the time that leads to some of the most memorable times of the trip.

We met Robert the Guard when Ella realized that she'd left her hat

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I'm Calling In a Solid

Hey Everybody,

Thanks for being here. We can't tell you how amazed and delighted we are that you come around from time to time. 

We're calling in a solid. Part of our master plan to take over the universe involves having a website that has an overwhelming and exploding population. It also would really help us get a publisher interested. So we're asking you to tell a few friends about us. Send a quick email. Drop our name at lunch, or dinner. Maybe at lunch and dinner, providing you're having those two meals with different people.

Or, if you're a rabid fan, you could host a What! You Don't Know About This Fabulous Site Yet?!? party and invite a few hundred close

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Spare Change

Killing two birds with one stone is one of my absolute favorite things to do. This morning I did just that. I poured a small mountain of coins in front of Ella, and announced that today for math she was sorting and counting the coins. It was a big pile of Euros and Pounds from my wallet, and I was tired of fumbling through them at the market every day. After a few minutes she came to me saying, "What's this?" It was a Polish groszy.

"Why do we still have groszy?

"Just put it on the desk." 

She came back a few minutes later, "I can't figure out this one."

"Oh - that's a Swiss Franc. Put it with the zloty."

She came back with some Serbian dinar, and a little later with two big silver coins. "What are they. They look the same on one side, but not on the other side. I don't think they're the same."

"They are the same," I said. "They're both quarters. You know - American money"

What on earth are we doing to our children?!

On the bright side, Eleanor can make change in several different countries.

Golden Reel Awards: I'll Be Missing the Party

Brenna and Bob at the Golden Reels last year. Note the lack of shiny statue.One of the last TV shows that I worked on before we left Los Angeles last summer was the final season of "ER." It was a huge honor to have worked on the series, and I was lucky to be part of a great crew. We were recently nominated for a Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Award. That's a mouthful -- Brenna just calls them the sound geek awards. The ceremony is tonight, and I'm sad that I won't be there to dust off the tux and hang with my pals (banquet food aside). Brenna is missing the excuse to search out the perfect vintage gown. Good luck Walt, Darleen and Bruce. We both miss you guys, and hope you take home a shiny trophy.

For those of you who don't work in post production sound, and might be wondering what the day-to-day activities of a sound editor really look like -- It's, frighteningly, a lot like this video!

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