To celebrate the release of my latest project at work, I suggested that our team take a trip out to the Landa Park Golf Course. I suggested this despite not having played golf in at least three to four years and I wasn’t quite sure where my golf clubs actually were.

First things first: the search for the golf clubs. I looked around my ex’s garage fruitlessly for a while. After giving up, my daughter Gabriela said she thought she knew where they were. She pointed at the bottom of a pile of boxes, paint supplies, trash, bike parts, etc. Sure enough there they were - out of plain site.

Playing the game was fun - if by fun you mean laughing at how shockingly badly we were. I just managed to keep from driving Becky and I into the Comal river on a couple of occasions. The highlight of the day was watching Nick hurtle towards the front of my cart. I was racing at top speed towards the cart he was riding in when unexpectedly (to Nick), Jim swerved to avoid a head-on collision with me. The image of Nick briefly airborne while I ran him down will be with me for a long time.

Later, while digging around in my golf bag I found the subject of this post: my first pocket knife. I thought it had been lost long ago. My parents gave it to me when we lived in Panama sometime in the late 70’s. It needs some tender loving care, but I’m glad to have it back.

For a number of work and personal life reasons, I haven’t worked on a new short film of my own for over a year. I’ve been playing with a few ideas in my head and I have a couple of partial scripts in various states of incompletion. I have the advantage of no deadlines and no one waiting on me, so I can play pretty freely with ideas for as long as I want to. Without giving away too much, the main ideas are:

• YAHM - Yet Another Horror Movie. Vampire flavor. This one is my most complete script and I think it’s the best I’ve written.
• A story of a man attempting to redeem an act of violence when only the perpetrator holds himself responsible.
• A commercial for a fine product that doesn’t yet exist.
• A compendium of some of the more stupendously bad dates me or my friends have been on.
• A pure action piece
• YAHM - Part Two. The Guadalupe River Monster

Gentle readers, what do you think? What would you like me to work on first?

Once I have the first idea locked down, script written and a moderate amount of pre-production done, I will reward myself with a Canon HV30, Letus35Mini, and a few Canon FD lenses.