We are still on track for moving in on the 12th!  We're just waiting to get some final papers from the bank to the escrow company.  I've been working non-stop for this place down on Wilshire.  I worked longer hours this week, so I can cut out at noon on Friday to head down to the Siebers' for Easter.  What's new?  Too much.  We went to the Damah Film Festival Awards Night and saw some great shorts.  Two couples from NY that we knew from the Haven are moving out here in the next couple of months.  We went and saw a taping of Norm McDonald's sketch show pilot for Comedy Central.  Next week we're going to go to a taping of the new sitcom "Stacked" with Pamela Anderson, because Tony is doing a guest spot, and he got us on some list.  I've priced out all of the components of my new desk that Scott Coones is going to build for me.  I'm getting two pieces of glass for the desktop and having them sandblasted.  In my head, it's a sweet desk; let's hope it turns out that way.  We got a chair at Z Gallerie that matches our couch.  All we have left to buy for our new place is a dryer and a flat-screen TV, if we can afford it.  Jamie did her first official key position for the agency Zenobia.  She was the food stylist on a Johnson's brats shoot.  It was kind of rough, because the people in charge didn't provide near enough brats for Jamie to cook, and only had two tiny prop grills for her to cook on, but it was a great learning experience and very cool that the agency booked her for it.  There should be more than that after a 2 week gap, but stories about me sitting in front of the computer programming aren't too interesting.

There was a terrible car accident out in front of our place tonight.  Our neighbor came to get us, and we went out where a large crowd had gathered.  Apparently, a car that was driving much, much too fast tried to pass someone on the right while crossing an intersection, even though there was only one lane.  The car lost control and spun around while slamming into the cars parked across the street.  There were four people in the car.  Three of them seemed to sustain only minor injuries, but the person in the passenger seat was apparently killed.  Two parked cars absorbed most of the damage: a big truck that was knocked over the curb, across the sidewalk and through a fence, and our neighbor's smaller white car, which is probably totaled.  Our neighbor's car was knocked forward a couple of car length's and came to rest about 3 feet from our car.  I uploaded some pics to my flickr account.  Some of them are grainy because I had to lighten them up after the fact.

UPDATE: This happened at about 8:00 p.m. tonight.  I just went out there (about midnight), and the street is still blocked off, the cars are still in place, and detectives are investigating the scene.  I asked one of the officers if Jamie was going to have any trouble getting out at 6:00 in the morning to go to work.  He said they'd have it cleaned up in a few hours.  Apparently it is a criminal investigation, because I heard him ask over his radio what the status of "the suspect" was.  I suppose they meant the driver, and that he was in the hospital.

UPDATE: 1:00 a.m.--The street is now clear, and traffic is flowing again.  They towed away the red car and the truck.  The driver of the red car was drunk, and the passenger did not make it.

Jamie and I have been blessed with a ton of work of late.  When last I blogged, we were just finishing up Jamie's Irvine gig.  That next week, she started on another project that is with the same people and the same client that she did her first project for.  She's almost been doing this for a year!  This time, she's hired buddies Clinton and Scott Coones to work on it, too.  I also started last week on a new on-site contract with a company called Zentropy Partners.  It's a pretty cool company that offices out of a great building on Wilshire.  I'll be going in there until the end of April.  Hopefully, by then, I will have won another contract that Mark and I are going to work together on.  It's hard to tell what the chances are of getting the contract, though.

On the home front, I called Chatelaine a couple days ago, and the rain has not pushed back our move-in date yet.  Fourteen more days until the first people close and then we'll know for sure.  We bought ourselves a washing machine on Sunday.  (It won't be delivered until after we move in.)  We found a great Maytag machine on clearance at Best Buy, so we snapped it up.  I've designed a desk for my office, and the aforementioned Scott Coones is going to build it for me.  We've priced the wood materials, but I've still got to price the glass top I want.  It's going to be LOADS cheaper than the one that inspired it at Alan Desk ($3,400).  Jamie and I were picked to be in our builder's magazine.  Jamie was interviewed on the phone the other day, and they are going to take pictures of us out there next week.  On another home-related issue, though not our home, my brother Paul and his wife Christen finally sold their old home, just in time to avoid the sinister two-house-payment scenario.

I would like to announce for Clinton's sake, since there's something wrong with his blog, that he will be doing stand-up Thursday night at 424 again in Beverly Hills.  Let me know if you need info on how to get there.