hopefully, this doesn’t turn into dixie trek 95

Posted on By Wil

So I’m planning to be in Austin this weekend for the comic convention with the rest of the cast of TNG, but I picked up something when I went to Seattle on Friday and it’s kicking my ass.

I have the stupid Epstein-Barr virus, and it gave me terrible mono a few years ago. My doctor told me that my immune system is weaker than average as a result, and probably will be for the rest of my life. I live with it by being cautious and practicing good hygiene, but all it can take is an errant rubbing of my eyes or nose with dirty hands for it to wake up and make me miserable.I think that’s what’s going on with me right now, because I’ve felt pretty lousy for the last four days.

I woke up Sunday night with a scratchy throat and stuffy nose. As Sunday turned into Monday, I got worse and worse, until Anne had to drive me down to OC for the FireFallFest thing I did.

Tuesday was a bit better, but I was still so weak and tired, I stayed home while Anne went to Book of Mormon last night without me (a real shame; I’ve been looking forward to it for months) so I could try to just rest and get better.

I woke up this morning feeling about 60% or so of normal, and I hoped that I was on the mend, as they say, but after a couple hours went by, I felt as lousy as I did yesterday afternoon.

For about the last three hours, I start to feel better for a little bit, and then I feel worse than I did before.

My flight doesn’t leave until 6 tomorrow night, so I have almost 24 full hours to see if I can kick this sinus/chest/cough/sneezing thing in the balls. I’m doing my best to get well in time for the convention in Austin this weekend, but it isn’t looking good.

in which I get #VandalEyes’d

Posted on By Wil

If I were to list all the things I love about my wife, it would probably break the Internet. This post is about just one of them: her sense of humor, and the joy and whimsy she brings to our lives.

Anne loves to put googly eyes on things. About a year ago, she started this thing on Twitter called #VandalEyes, which is pretty much what it sounds like. You can see some of her favourites at her website, VandalEyes.net.

Until this week, I’ve managed to avoid being VandalEyes’d myself, but that all changed on Sunday when she looked at my awesome Captain Kirk shirt, and declared, “I have to put googly eyes on that!”

“Okay, but I’m going to be McKayla Maroney about the whole thing,” I said.

I don’t think she heard me over her excitement to make this happen:

When you see it...

After she took this, I remembered that I have an original series Star Trek phaser in my office, and, well, one thing lead to another:

VandalEyesCeption

I love that picture so much, I’m having a few prints of it made today to take to the Austin Comic Convention this weekend.

This is, in my humble opinion, further evidence to support my theory that being easily amused is what’s best in life.

I’ll be having Fun With Flags on November 8th

Posted on By Wil

I spent way too long trying to come up with a clever title that wasn’t so damn literal, but here we are.

One of my many moles deep within the publicity department smuggled this picture from the episode out to me. Many Bothans were mildy inconvenienced to bring it to you:

Wil Wheaton and Sheldon Cooper have Fun With Flags on The Big Bang Theory

The Habitation Configuration airs on November 8th!

shirt dot woot is #Tabletop-tastic

Posted on By Wil

For the next seven days, shirt.woot is offering some awesome designs — including mine — as part of their Tabletop-tastic sale:

Roll +1 for fashion! This week we’re

featuring some of our favorite board game- and tabletop RPG-themed designs on hoodies, totes, and tees! Because how else is everyone going to know you’re more civilized than they are?

 

If you need a new How We Roll T-shirt, always wanted a How We Roll hoodie, or your very own How We Roll tote bag (I’m in for thee, because they are amazing and perfect for carrying my games to gameday), you have about 160 hours to make it happen.

Oh! Oh! Oh! And I just noticed when I was making those links that they’re also offering How We Roll Remixed, which is the same design but on a black shirt. So, you know, now Neil Gaiman can wear one.

 

in which the audience cheers

Posted on By Wil

We taped Big Bang Theory last night, and between scenes, I realized that I could check in from Stage 25 on G+, so I did because of reasons.

There were numerous requests for pictures, presented in the usual manner. Considering that I still had scenes to film, getting the fuck out wasn’t an option.

So I took a picture that I thought was unlikely to get me in trouble. It looks like this:

Behind the Scenes at The Big Bang Theory
Not bad for a cell phone picture, if I do say so myself.

The taping was a lot of fun. When I walked into my first scene, the audience cheered and applauded so loudly and for so long, it threw me off balance and almost knocked me right out of the scene. I mean, it was like Al Bundy Walks Into The Living Room In 1990 levels of cheering. I wasn’t expecting it at all. When we did the second take, the producers had to ask the audience to tone it down, even. I got to make a big production out of that, pretending to storm off the set and stuff. It was pretty funny.

The audience loved the show, and I’m super proud of the work we did. When the taping was over, I got a sad. But then Kaley told me that I’m like family to them and she hopes I come back for more episodes this season, and I had a happy.