Episode 162 of the Scarydad Podcast
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SDP EP 123: Back on Track
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SDP EP 91: A Show About Nothing
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SDP EP 75: Catching up with Scarydad
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Happy Birthday to Scarydad.com
Hello there yon Minions. A happy Monday to you all. Tonight we celebrate the birthday of Scarydad.com: The Website.
A lot has happened this past 365 days. We had a baby, I had surgery on my knee (on Halloween no less!), I’ve been writing a book- a few pages every night, in fact. I’ve also been regularly writing for Dumb White Husband. On the personal side, we’ve had events and adventures seemingly every weekend and when I have had a chance to get out into the lab, I have a list of things needing to be done that makes off-season Halloween prep a hard sell to the ever-patient Bride of Scarydad.
But that’s all about to change. The other day as we talked over a nice bloody steak, she mentioned that the year was already half-gone and what were my plans for Halloween because I hadn’t been talking about it much.
Well, I’ve been slowly buying parts and pieces to have plenty of raw materials for projects. I’ve bookmarked several really cool ideas on Pinterest and other places around the web and have some pretty nice projects in the works. Halloween is on a Friday this year so I plan to have an epic party as well. Spawn of Scarydad has been asking for Halloween since November 1, so that should be fun. I will have hopefully finished my book by then and will have freed up time for writing in my little piece of the internet more often than I am able to do now.
So, things are looking great. I’m busier than ever and have great plans for the second half of the year. Thanks for sticking around!
Scarydad News, Updates, and More…
Hello again everyone. It’s been a while since I’ve done regular posting so I figured it was time I let you all in on what’s been going on here at Castle Scarydad.
First up, the family. Spawn and Sequel are doing well, thank you. Sequel is already almost 5 months old! Time flies when you are extraordinarily busy.
Spawn’s cheap yaffa-block book shelves finally collapsed under the weight of too many books so I went ahead and built her a real one. She asked if she could pick the color so yesterday we went to yon Home Depot and she picked out a dark purple. Here’s a picture of her purple shelf in progress:
Next, I’ve been retooling the shop a bit. I only get a few minutes here and there to do extracurricular activities and lately those activities involve reading anarchistic philosophy tomes and watching Care Bears. However, when I do get a minute, I’ve been adding storage and improving access.
A week or so ago I was home sick from work and in addition to getting some much needed rest and a little bit of writing done, I also managed to see V/H/S 2.
I liked it overall. Will do a review of them both in the next few days. And finally,
If you haven’t seen Captain America: The Winter Soldier, you need to go see it. It is probably not quite as badass as the Avengers, but that’s only because there’s no Hulk in this one. It is a really, really good movie though.
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Scarydad News, Updates, & More!
Hello there all you happy people. Scarydad is coming to you live this morning with all the news that’s fit to print and lots that probably shouldn’t be. I’ll let you decide which is which. I wanted to catch you up on all the happenings here in and around the castle and what to expect going into the holidays.
A gentle rain falls as I…
…sit down to write tonight. It seems as if autumn has finally arrived. It’s cool and grey and the perfect weather to place letters one in front of the other. The only problem has been the drugs. Over the past few days I’ve been affected by the pain medicine and I think I haven’t fully recovered from the anesthesia. So basically whenever I sit down to write something I cannot type. Then, if I manage to make the fingers behave, the words on the page have been the ramblings of a second-grader with ADD and spelling problems. Not my normal way of doing things.
So October is 5-days gone now. The Halloween decorations have all been taken down to make way for Thanksgiving and Christmas stuff. I’m really excited about the holidays this year. Less than three weeks until Spawn of Scarydad Part II The Sequel is released and I can’t wait.
Spawn of Scarydad loved Halloween, by the way. She dressed as Snow White and charmed all the neighbors out of their candy and goodies. Then she ran around the cul-de-sac about 15 times before passing out cold in her costume. I manned the candy bowl. It wasn’t too bad for having had major surgery earlier in the day. Given the circumstances, Halloween was actually pretty good.
So, I’m announcing something of a hiatus but not really. See, writing for the blog is something I really enjoy and something I look forward to doing each day. But at the same time, I’ve sort of built up this expectation of myself to stay disciplined and write stuff several times a week, even if I’ve got nothing going on. That is totally not a problem. Some of the more fun posts and projects have come from evenings where I sat down with no idea what I was going to write about. It’s not that, it’s that very soon, I will be dealing with a newborn and a 3-year-old and a recovering Bride. It’s not that I don’t want to write several times a week, it’s that I don’t know if I’ll realistically be able to.
But what I don’t want to do is announce a “hiatus” and intentionally not write for however long. I’d rather just keep it open-ended and do what I feel like. If I feel like writing every day and I am able to, then that’s what I’ll do. More likely, however, I think you can expect one or two posts per week or longer times between posts. I don’t know. We’ll see what happens. I just felt like warning you that posting frequency might get inconsistent and that’s why.
Well, that’s it for me for tonight.
Take care.
Scarydad News, Updates & More
Hello my beloved Minions.
It seems as if every time I sit down to speak with you something else comes up. I have to say this year has been pretty busy so far. In addition, we’ve been getting a lot of rain lately which is good for the plants, not so good for decorating Castle Scarydad. But, we’ve had pumpkin this and pumpkin that, candy, and overall the season has been pretty good.
That is, until I discovered I have to have knee surgery and the only available date is, you guessed it, Halloween.
I’m pretty bummed about it. It sort of took all the wind out of my sails for adding decorations, knowing that I’ll be handicapped when it’s time to take them down. But I need to get the knee fixed and I certainly don’t want to do it with an infant in the house.
In other news, over the weekend I helped a buddy of mine build a pair of swords for his kid’s Legolas costume. Chris from Austin Hot Mods filmed the project and it will soon be posted on YouTube. As we move through and past the holidays, I plan to begin taking custom orders and commissions for things such as this. If you are interested, let me know and I’m sure I can make something for you.
I am also refinishing a guitar. It was old and beat up and I thought I could make it a lot scarier. This one is a work in progress but I’ll certainly share the results with you when I’m done.
Well, that’s about it for tonight. Sorry to leave you so soon but the internet keeps going in and out and making things difficult for me. We’ll talk soon. I promise.
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Scarydad News, Updates, and More
Hello there all my wonderful minions!
Well, July is almost gone and that certain trick of the light is there to tell us that Fall will soon be here. I cannot wait. The shop has been essentially shuttered since early June because it is simply impossible to work. I sweat so much the tools slip from my hands. And all the experiments are grumpy too. No good.
I did get one of these Skeletor Vinyl Figures and he’s about as cool as he looks.
And if you haven’t already, you need to get over to Southern Gothica and order one of Amber’s custom felt dolls. I got one of them and I can say that the quality is nothing short of amazing.
In other news, I’ve been working on a couple of stories. One was supposed to be a short story but it kind of got out of hand so I have to see where it goes. Another is a children’s story that isn’t scary but is pretty fun. As soon as I’m finished with it I will be looking for an illustrator, so if you know somebody please forward me their information.
Well, that’s about it for tonight. Tomorrow we have a really great interview with Marshall and Kat from the Boys and Ghouls Podcast, so please make sure you catch that.