Well, Hello and welcome to the first of July!

The month I mentioned in my last (and only of the year) State of the Master Blog that I would be reborn. I plan on living up to that.

A good first start is this post is up, on time, on the 1st of the month. A second good sign is the upcoming first story post to RAW FLESH in a few months – on time as well.

I mentioned in my last State of the Master that two important changes I am working on are focusing on projects and the right things, and not trying to get everything done at one time.

Well the good news is that I have succeed on focusing, I’ve streamlined a lot and on now focusing on the priority projects. On life in general I’m doing the same, focusing on the good things, and cutting out the negative. 

Where I have had less success, but not failure, is in the idea of not trying to do everything at one time. I’m still trying to get too many things done at the same time, and am working to break this habit.

Because I have taken specific steps I achieved most of what I wanted to do in June projects wise and have set up the second half of 2018 for reaching more goals than I did in the first half.

As I said – REBORN.

My only real concern is my nagging skin infection – I have now seen a specialist who has given me a different diagnosis then my primary Doctor – and who echoed something the Pharmacist mentioned to me – that the steroids my Doctor put me on only made things worse.

Great.

But I’ve been through worse.

In another note July is a special month – on the 27th I celebrate my Birthday! Old enough to know better, and NOT CARE!

Okay, that’s it for now. I am hoping next month to have a little more to say and some info on projects.

Later

Ace.

This is my First State of the Master Blog for the year of 2018! Only five months in!

So far, this year’s mostly been good, but also has been a rollercoaster.

In life and in my many projects I am caught up on some things and way behind on many others. Way behind.

I kept meaning to write and post a State of the Master piece monthly as originally planned, but there has always been one problem: As much as I love to write, I hate writing about myself. I am my least favorite subject to write about. That’s one reason I have never kept a journal.

Though this blog was never 100% planned to be about me. A mixture of me, my projects and my ongoing blogs. Truly my attempt to keep, or make myself, more active on Social Media. Mostly a fail there: 

Three things have prompted me to sit down and right this piece: Seeing a new Doctor, reconnecting with a few people and reconnecting with old friends I haven’t seen in years.

The common thread? My Aneurysm. (Though I do wish it wasn’t.)

With the Doctor, I’ve known him for a while, he is my mother’s Doctor, but I have only just started seeing him. Since it was my first visit with him, he went through my medical history, focusing on the Aneurysm for obvious reason.

With a few people I have ran into and reconnected with (acquaintances and former co-workers), that I haven’t seen in while, but knew about the Aneurysm, the Aneurysm became the first topic of conversation.

Same with three old friends I have somehow ran into in May: one an old girlfriend, another my best friend from college. None knew about the Aneurysm, but it became a topic anyway – along with my father’s death (it has been a long time since I had seen these friends.)

I am very glad to reconnect with a few of these people. I don’t mind talking about the Aneurysm, my father’s death not so much.

But this is what prompted me to write this State of the Master for 2018 finally!

I am going to touch on a few topics here: Me, because so many people asked about me; Changes I am working on personally and Projects.

First off, I want to thank everyone I know, and especially Facebook friends and twitter followers I don’t know, for showing care and asking me how I am doing. At least once or twice a week I get a message from someone I have never meet in person, who asks how I am doing in relation to the Aneurysm. For that, again, Thank You. Sorry to anyone I failed to respond to.

The answer to how I am doing in relation to the Aneurysm? Great!

That is not even my answer! It is the answer from the Doctor, whose name you wouldn’t believe, who did my last checkup and helped perform my surgery. Doctor SunnShine told me everything is great, there’s been no growth in the Aneurysm area, the repairs and healing of the blood vessel are great and I don’t need another checkup for three years.

I still have his voicemail on my phone. 

My health is excellent, despite being a little sick in January (which put me behind on writing) and fighting an infection right now.

Never believe anyone when they say All Natural products can’t affect you negatively – and many people do say that. I am currently on some heavy duties meds to fight an infection caused by a reaction to a new All Natural soap I started using.

Hypoallergenic my ass. An ingredient in this soap can cause Contact Dermitis – which it did, along with constant itching, burning, boils, rash and finally full bore infection. Bad news I have been dealing with this for the last few weeks.

Lastly, with the Great all clear and my tendon shoulder injury finally getting better, I have finally started and kept to a workout routine for more than a week. Since the Aneurysm, I limited my exercising and weightlifting by Doctor’s order for the first two years, then just got lazy.

My Six Pack is a thing of the past, and hopefully will be a thing of the future again. Current goals are to drop weight, tone up, then bulk back up. I use to go about 235 to 240 with about 20 inch biceps and around 15% body fat. Right now, around 250, higher body fat and 17 inch biceps. That needs to change.
Getting into better shape is not the only change I am working on. There’s ME as well.

I’m someone that always strives to be better – not just at doing things, but at being. As in being a better person.

There are things I am working on changing about myself this year – and I am really trying. Many of these are things I have become lazidasical about over the last few years, and not just since the Aneurysm.

Some things I am working on are just me: personality wise, mood wise . . . attitude wise. Certain quirks that I know are iffy at best and I want to change, but it takes time.

Other things I want to change are such things as: priorities, focus, working on projects, getting things back on track and getting things done. Being more reliable.

There was a time when I was “Mister Get it Done.” There was no question about, I got things done, and I had the drive, motivation and passion to do things, especially when it came to my one true love – WRITING.

The Aneurysm had no effects on that. But my father’s death did. After he died I started slacking off, just didn’t feel like doing things. I didn’t deliver articles on time for the Burning Mind when it was at Comic’s Bulletin. I didn’t follow up on opportunities like I should have.

Yes, I still got stuff done - a couple of short films, Web Series, short stories – but not as Go To as I was. My Dad had been a big part of many of my projects, especially Masterpiece Comics.

I just slacked off, I know many people would disagree, but I know how I was before and how I became.
Then the Aneurysm hit and I allowed myself to slack even more.

That is one of my biggest changes I am working on: To Refocus on things. To being the guy that gets things done. Not just on time, but ahead of time. Being the guy that gets things done others don’t.

So, here is the long and short of it. Over the last few years I know I have done and achieved some things. I also know I could have done so much MORE.

I had a lot I want to get done in the first half of 2018, and maybe done around 40% of it. Mostly because of a bad habit I have of trying to get EVERYTHING done at the same time. That is part of what my refocus needs to be: Prioritizing and focusing on getting projects done one or two at a time, not ALL of them at one time.

I took May off from any projects to just relax, look over all my plans and decided on what needs to be done now, and what can wait.

In June I am going to prep for the second half of 2018. I have chosen to focus on my Blogs (BURNING MIIND, RAW FLESH, THIS IS A TRUE STORY, WHAT I WATCH I REVIEW and WRESTLEMENTARY) as continuing projects and four other writing projects I will work on one-at-a-time until each is finished or as near to finished as it can be.

It may sound big headed, but I know that at 43 I am a more mature and better person then the hothead I use to be. I also know that hothead was more driven. It’s time for me to combine those two natures NOW.

I have always lived by this motto:

I NEVER FALTER, I NEVER FAIL, I NEVER LOSE

I LEARN, I EVOLVE, I GROW STRONG

It’s time to start living that what again.

JULY 1ST – I will be reborn.

ACE MASTERS

State of The Master - August 2017

Hello All – and by All I mean Friends and All Others.

Well, it has been a while since I wrote a State of the Master, in fact this the first of the year! I figure it’s about time, considering I have received a lot of Happy Birthdays this past week (Wonder Why 😋?!), and people asking me how I am doing.

First, thank you for the Happy Birthdays! If I haven’t responded to you, sorry. I Will.
As for how I am doing? The Answer: GREAT! Really.

I’m doing great and 2017 has been a great year so far and the rest is shaping up nicely.

This past January marked three years since my Anyersum, except for yearly – and soon to be bi-yearly – checkups, it is mostly a non-issue. The only other issue I have had, an injured shoulder, is finally mending as well!

All in All I am doing great. Except in one area where I have been slacking off: PROJECTS!

Especially my Blogs. I haven’t written much for This Is A True Story, What I Watch I Review or WrestleMentary in the last few weeks, and barely at all for the Burning Mind. I am looking to change that this month and get all my blogs back up and running. I am not going to try and get caught up with lost posts, just start from scratch.

In truth I haven’t done much writing at all. Going forward (for the remainder of 2017 at least) I am going to focus on Articles, Freelancer Writing and my poetry. I am also prepping some comic book projects for submission soon.

In addition I am back to working on a HUSH HUSH Project that I hope will be making round in 2018.

Well I think that is all for now. I won’t take so long to write again. (I think. Maybe.)

Later,

Ace.

State Of The Master - December 2016

Hello All,

The first thing I want to do now is be a little Stereotypical:

Merry Christmas to everyone.

And Happy Hanukkah to my Jewish friends.

Even though I am not religious, don’t celebrate or like Christmas, I hope others have a safe and happy holidays.

Myself I am looking forward to the New Year. Right now I can’t do much, writing wise. Because of Christmas film studios, publishers, magazines and most places I usually deal – or try to deal – with shut down submissions and acquisitions. So it’s a no go time for me. :-(

In terms of my ‘day job’ (aka how I pay my bills for now), this is the true busy time of the year for myself and my mother and our work. My schedule is going to be in overdrive for the next few weeks.

Right now, I have made the decision to put my blogs on hold for December, even though I just caught up on all of them.

What I Watch I Review, Burning Mind and This Is A True Story will return in January, kicking off the New Year and maybe new formats and schedules.

For Wrestlementary, I will post a Year End piece sometime after Christmas. Other than that, it will return with a new format in January as well.

I am truly looking forward to 2017 and finally going hard into my writing, publishing and filmmaking again. My main focus will be writing, but I will be looking to raise funds for comic projects, feature films and hope to shoot a short film in the second half of 2017.

Well, here is to ending 2016 soon on a good note and start 2017 with a bang!

Ace

State of the Master - 11/27/2016

This is probably going to be a very brief State of the Master, given that I really one have one thing to say.

I am caught up on all my blogs! My goal this month was to get completely caught up on Burning Mind, This is a True Story and What I Watch I Review, not to mention Wrestlementary, and I have done just that.

I am still posting on Burning Mind through Wednesday, but am basically done.

Other than that, I have been working on side projects I hope to have done soon.

On a personal level, things are really good. My little health scare a few months ago is non-existence and I am suffering no ill effect from my brain aneurysm.

For all those who ask me about that, I am good. Thank you.

Right now I am turning my attention to 2017 and gearing up for what I want to accomplish this coming year.

Later Ace.

STATE OF THE MASTER 11/13/2016

Well, look at this a State of the Master Blog right on time! Can you believe it? I barely can. ;-)

So far, November is going along very smooth, and life is good.

Why? Because I am getting things done. I laid out a schedule for myself and laid it to bare in the last ‘State of’ blog . . . and I have kept to it!

Wrestlementary is caught up, and What I Watch I Review is on track – This is A True Story is coming up, with Burning Mind to follow.

My week long catch-up for What I Watch I Review – posting daily – is done. What I Watch I Review is almost caught up. This week I will post the last of my catch up reviews on Wednesday, Thursday and What I Watch I Review’s normal day Friday. With this, What I Watch I Review will be completely caught up!

Starting this week (today in fact) my focus turns to This is A True Story through the 19th. To be honest though, I didn’t realize how far behind I was on This Is A True Story, so blogs on that will continue daily or bi-daily well into December to get caught up. The same goes for The Burning Mind, once I start posting those on the 20th.

This may not mean a whole lot to anyone, but it does to me. Getting back on track and getting these caught up is good for my psyche . . . I’m finally getting back into writing, and more will come from that.

Later.

Ace.

STATE OF THE MASTER - OCTOBER 2016

It has been a while since I posted a State of the Master blog, so here we go.

Well, it is one day till Halloween (my favorite ‘Holiday’) and the next to last day of October.

October . . . October. A very hectic and busy month for me . . . but an exceptionally good one.

I finally got the house renovations done my mother asked me to do (both bathrooms), made headway on writing projects, attended five (5) wrestling events, including a Smackdown show, and made a new close personal friend.

I will write about the wrestling shows for upcoming Wrestlementary Blog posts, and will talk more about my new close personal friend in a This Is A True Story blog post. But, I do want to mention something here though.

This was the highlight on the month; meeting my new close personal friend: Jamilyn.
My business part and best friend Dave and I first meet when he approached me about being in a scene for a film he was making. It was to be with an actress named Jamilyn. Dave and I went on to make other films, but this one has yet to materialize. For the last few years Dave has told me about Jamilyn (and her about me).

About two weeks ago she was here in town and we finally meet. There is no doubt that she is a lady (in the truest sense of that word), and a kind and gentle soul. The event we attended that evening was terrible, but the night was good.

I’ll discuss the event (Extreme Midget Wrestling) and the night in more detail in upcoming blogs.

That was October. November is coming in two days. And speaking of Blogs, my blogs are going to be my focus for November. Big surprise that I am behind on my blogs, again. By the end of November I should be caught up though.

I plan on posting all previous blogs that were supposed to be posted by the end of this month. The idea is to focus on one blog per week – posting daily.

WRESTLEMENTARY
Nov 1 – 5: Wrestlementary is going to be the first focus, posting my EOM and thoughts on recent indie events.

WHAT I WATCH I REVIEW
Nov 6 – 12: For this week I will post one movie review a day.

THIS IS A TRUE STORY
Nov 13 – 19: True Stories from my life coming daily for this week.

BURING MIND
Nov 20 – 30: This is the big bad I am behind on. To that end it gets the most time: 11 days, 11 Burning Mind Reviews.

I will have my next State of the Master up in two weeks. I hope at that time I can write that I have kept to this schedule. Even more so I hope to say I am having another good month.

Hope all is well, with all of you.

Later,
Ace.