April 27th: Bad Day,,,
2007-04-27 · letter vlog · Hank · 3:51 · watch on YouTube
Topic: Personal life · mode: Personal update · tags: community lore
Hank has a bad day: strangers are touring his house, a website deal disappointed him, and a web-design client hasn't paid him for months; the good news is a weekend trip to Helena to see Neil Gaiman and new jobs for Katherine and the Yeti.
What is said
The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).
00:00:00 — Greeting; a bad day: prospective buyers walk through the house; leaving town with Katherine
- ★★ Hank's day has been bad: people he doesn't know are walking around upstairs, interested in buying his house. — 00:00:11
00:00:39 — Snippets of the house showing; a disappointing conference call; web design pays for Brotherhood 2.0; a client has not paid for months
- ★★ A conference call that morning with one of the websites Hank works for went worse than he'd have liked: they didn't offer him lots of money. — 00:00:39
- ★★★ Hank designs webpages for a living; it pays his bills and lets him do Brotherhood 2.0 because he doesn't have to leave the house for work. — 00:00:39 · Brotherhood 2.0
- ★★★ One of Hank's clients hasn't paid him for a long time and has emailed that it is having trouble coming up with the money for months of his work; he needs it. — 00:00:39
- ★ Hank jokingly asks anyone who knows 'a professional' to email him their contact information. (joke) — 00:01:20
00:01:49 — Joking ask for 'a professional'; good news: Helena trip to see Neil Gaiman; the Yeti and Katherine got jobs; Missoula houses are expensive because it's the best place
- ★★ Hank and Katherine are going to Helena to see Neil Gaiman and visit friends; he will try to get Gaiman saying hello to John, no guarantees. — 00:01:49 · Katherine Green
- ★★ Hank heard the Yeti got a job; so did Katherine, who doesn't have to move to Indianapolis to get it; she will be doing weed research. — 00:01:49 · Sarah Urist Green, Katherine Green, Indianapolis
- ★★ Hank says houses are almost free where a place is not the best place; Missoula houses are expensive because it is the best place. (playful) — 00:02:20 · Missoula, Montana
00:02:47 — A Nerdfighter made an album of their songs; a new song next week; packing, EcoGeek and writing before leaving
- ★ Hank says a Nerdfighter made an album of their songs, and he is thinking of a new song for next week (week of 30 April 2007) because songs are fun. (hedged) — 00:02:47
- ★★ Before leaving Hank must get EcoGeek ready, pack and write a lot so as not to lose his job, the only one he has now; Katherine is arranging care for the cat and garden. — 00:02:47 · EcoGeek, Katherine Green
00:03:19 — LA Times Book Award results on Monday; John's smuggling skills; sign-off
- ★★ By Monday (30 April 2007) they'll know what happened at the LA Times Book Award, whose winners are announced at 8 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time; Hank hopes John smuggles in a camera. (hedged) — 00:03:19
Threads in this video
- update · Hank's rented house goes up for sale (2007) — Prospective buyers are walking through the house Hank lives in, to see if they want to buy it and kick him and Katherine out. (00:00:11)
- told · A web-design client doesn't pay Hank (2007) — A web-design client hasn't paid Hank for months of work and says it is having trouble coming up with the money. (00:00:39)
- told · Hank and Katherine's weekend trip to Helena to see Neil Gaiman (2007) — Hank and Katherine leave town for Helena to see Neil Gaiman and visit friends. (00:01:49)
- promised · Hank: get Neil Gaiman saying hello to John on video (2007) — Hank says he will do his best to get Neil Gaiman saying hello to John on camera, with no guarantees. (00:01:49)
- callback · John's wife Sarah as 'the Yeti' (2007) — Hank calls John's wife Sarah 'the Yeti' when reporting she got a job. (00:01:49)
- told · Katherine gets a job doing weed research (2007) — Katherine got a job, doing weed research, without having to move to Indianapolis. (00:02:20)
- told · John attends the LA Times Book Prize ceremony (2007) — Hank says that by Monday (30 April 2007) they will know what happened at the LA Times Book Award, which John is attending; they have no expectations, just curiosity. (00:03:19)
Where the stories that moved here went next
- Hank: get Neil Gaiman saying hello to John on video (2007) — kept; last: recalled, 2007-05-02
- A web-design client doesn't pay Hank (2007) — followed over 2 videos (2007); last: update, 2007-05-01
- Hank and Katherine's weekend trip to Helena to see Neil Gaiman (2007) — followed over 3 videos (2007); last: update, 2007-05-02
- Katherine gets a job doing weed research (2007) — followed over 2 videos (2007); last: update, 2007-05-03
- John attends the LA Times Book Prize ceremony (2007) — followed over 3 videos (2007); last: update, 2007-05-01
- Hank's rented house goes up for sale (2007) — told 2×, last update 2007; last: retold, 2007-08-03
Mentioned
People: Katherine Green · Neil Gaiman · Sarah Urist Green
Projects: Brotherhood 2.0 · EcoGeek
Organizations: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Places: Helena, Montana · Indianapolis · Missoula, Montana
Later videos replying to this one
- 2007-04-30 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 30: Hellos from Los Angeles (John) — answers (update on John attends the LA Times Book Prize ceremony (2007)) — John shows surreptitious footage of the LA Times Book Prize young adult award: five finalists including An Abundance of Katherines; he congratulates Coe Booth. (00:01:02)