7.13.2006
iz too long. . . let me sum up. . .
well. i had the day off today, so naturally i only had to start work 3 hours before everyone else. . . . but overall, only put in about 7 work hours. . . not bad for a day off. . .
it was completely craptastic though. if the dude from batteries plus hadn’t let me in on the fact that lowes- a grocery i’ve never been to, carries dry ice- i may have had to institutionalize myself on the spot. you see a few days ago we NEEDED dry ice to test a fog effect. there was none in santa fe. so i was sent to los alamos to get some. as it turned out, i really didn’t want to be at work anyway, so the drive was a nice change of pace, though i would’ve liked it more had we actually tested the dry ice effect by the end of the evening. . . .oooooopsie! oh well. c’est la vie. . . or rather. . . c’est MA vie.
the noon time shopping/ traffic in this town is getting to me. it’s about as fun as screwing a chainsaw. . . . sideways. someone cut me off in a target isle and i honestly thought about punching him. in fact i took great delight in envisioning the entire scene of me just turning around and decking him square in the jaw. then it occurred to me that that particular action may land me in jail. . . . *lightbulb* a day off! honestly, the only thing that troubled me was the thought that i might lose my pocket knife while being jailed. granted, they’d confiscate all my on person possessions. . . but would i get the knife back after being released?
i did have the evening off. . . and let my brain fizzle out over some indian food and project runway. . . yeah! season 3!
why doesn’t indian food grow off the leaves of my house plants. . . it would make things soooooo much easier. can we get the bio technicians working on that?
lets see. . . what else. forgot my aunt’s birthday! dammit, still gotta get out a belated birthday wish.
i spent a decent amount of time inviting people to a free dress rehearsal of the show that i think is really worth seeing this summer. and i’ve been severely disappointed in the turn out. though there are a few people who are completely excited about the opportunity. . . and maybe that would make up for it. . . . had i not had a side screwing chainsaw type day.
ummm. . . . our participation in the prop tart coronation was rather successful. since it was such a lame theme- ‘all that glitters is gold’- we finally landed on ‘showering the prop tart queen in gold’ physically, it was a light fixture made to look like a shower head with golden light and golden tinsel streaming out of it. . . . but combine that with the earl of electrics arriving in his fake monthly bath and a bunch of sexual innuendoes. . . . and you have the prop tart queen receiving a golden shower from the early of electrics. excellent response to a craptastic theme- i think.
my boss during the winter, the technical director, is leaving the company after this summer. what’s really weird about that is that he announced it at a production meeting on tuesday, and i didn’t find out till that friday. -that means that even the rumor mill isn’t doing a good job of moving information around. . . . pathetic.
there’s this guy from another department that asked to borrow an inductive ohm meter last night. and the group of us kind of sat at the table all collectively thinking. . . ‘what a tool!’ the guy. . . not the actual tool. surprisingly i put the words together in my head and realized that he would like to borrow an ‘amp clamp.’ no one who actually owns an inductive ohm meter calls it an inductive ohm meter- that’s like calling a ‘slinky’ a ‘wave motion demonstrator’. . . . people who actually own this tool call it an amp clamp. . . . only complete assholes call it an inductive ohm meter. then, after trying to use it, he had to call my boss and ask for help. not me- the owner of said amp clamp. . . but my boss. -asshole! note to reader- apparently people who ask for an inductive ohm meter -instead of an amp clamp- also have no idea of how to use one.
he asked to borrow it again today. . . . and i made him call it an amp clamp before i handed it to him.- makes me wanna punch babies. . . and i’m not even close to my period! if only i had some super hero powers and could make peoples’ heads explode just by staring at them hard. . . . i’d have to deal with a lot fewer idiots.
let see. . . oh, the paint apprentice in the prop shop quit. . . . making three people to quit from props, one carpenter, one paint apprentice, and the lead prop painter-, yes the girl who was our roommate.
wow, i’m about to fall asleep at my computer. . . so i’ll finish off quick like.
pros for the past couple of weeks- new camera to play with, and new video ipod. now i can watch zefrank’s podcasts anywhere i can carry the pod. . . yay. honestly. . . . it just makes every public restroom into my own private livingroom with a tv and a can. brilliant!
i shall leave you with the immortal words of a friend of mine who i’ve been pushing to start a blog.
“however, if you should find yourself disturbed by any of the things you find herein, take a deep breath, close your eyes, and simply do as i do--blame erika. this blog is totally her fault.”
i blame myself.
7.04.2006
6.27.2006
6.11.2006
last day off and such
our last real day off was last sunday, the 4th. instead of sleeping in, cleaning, grocery shopping, or doing nothing- like my penultimate last day off- i got together with a group of coworkers to make the most of it. we all hopped into a car and headed out to albuquerque for the hinkle family fun center! we gave ourselves something like 5 or 6 hours. . . thinking we’d get sick of it eventually. it was hot and sunny, so there’s no better place to start than the bumper boats, where we can soak each other and cool off a bit. my first boat had a bum motor, so lesley pushed me over to the edge where i switched boats. . . only to get one that didn’t spray. . . dammit. either way we all got sufficiently soaked. . .
hey, why not dry off while playing some put put golf? -last year, when a group of us went to the fun center, there weren’t enough people interested in put put, so we skipped it. . . i really thought i missed out. . . . i found out this time, that i didn’t. remember put put? . . .with the windmill, and the clown mouth, and holes that you had to sink in order to end up in a good area on the green, sand traps, hills, and other such obstacles? apparently the hinkles never saw these. the only ‘obstacle’ was water. WHA???!!! no windmill!. . . no closing clown mouth! for a couple of holes, using our own putters, we simulated windmill blades. . . or whatever- just to make it interesting. perhaps, this being the desert and all, water was thought of as enough of a exotic item that making it the singular obstacle was enough. there were two courses, the ‘lake’ and ‘stream’ course. . . hmmmmm. we started skipping holes, and just hitting the ones we thought looked more fun. and we finally finished it up.
then, onto go carts! yeah. . . a bit of action. . . finally. and around this time we kind of noticed that time may become and issue. we still had a lot of tokens for the arcade, and we had laser tag left. . . and a couple of us wanted to try this virtual game. we all hit the arcade for a little bit while waiting for our turn at laster tag. last time there was only a group of five of us. there were 7 of us on the trip, and we were joined by something like another ten people. . . maybe more, it was pretty damn crowded. it’s always a good time, and we even tried to have a bit of strategy- lie moving in teams and guarding base and such. hmm, maybe it’s my lack of strategy. . . . because. sad to say, i am particularly bad at laser tag. it’s possible that i redeem myself through the virtual robot war game, which i won. but the group of us squeaked that in even after the 10pm closing. so, the 7 of us now have this bucket-o-tokens if we ever get back.
10:30 on a sunday in new mexico is not a good time to want to eat dinner out. luckily the summer hours at some fast food joints have kicked in. so we grabbed some concrete outside the wendy’s and enjoyed our dinner.
so, that’s it till july 2nd. we ‘re actually just finishing up our first long week. sort of an exciting night. a light focus going on real slow and all. the raked deck has a split in it to open up and reveal a new scene. it’s half the deck, so it’s pretty large and heavy. it’s counterweighted by these large water ballasts below the stage. the ballasts are on arms and it will only take the strength of two operators to move the whole deck. well, last night, during focus- tomorrow being tech, one of the arms snapped and a part of the deck attempted to cantilever up. like a mini earthquake on stage. it was fixed toa point where we could continue the focus. . . but it will be interesting to see if and how it’s fixed for use tonight in tech. . . .
till later.
hey, why not dry off while playing some put put golf? -last year, when a group of us went to the fun center, there weren’t enough people interested in put put, so we skipped it. . . i really thought i missed out. . . . i found out this time, that i didn’t. remember put put? . . .with the windmill, and the clown mouth, and holes that you had to sink in order to end up in a good area on the green, sand traps, hills, and other such obstacles? apparently the hinkles never saw these. the only ‘obstacle’ was water. WHA???!!! no windmill!. . . no closing clown mouth! for a couple of holes, using our own putters, we simulated windmill blades. . . or whatever- just to make it interesting. perhaps, this being the desert and all, water was thought of as enough of a exotic item that making it the singular obstacle was enough. there were two courses, the ‘lake’ and ‘stream’ course. . . hmmmmm. we started skipping holes, and just hitting the ones we thought looked more fun. and we finally finished it up.
then, onto go carts! yeah. . . a bit of action. . . finally. and around this time we kind of noticed that time may become and issue. we still had a lot of tokens for the arcade, and we had laser tag left. . . and a couple of us wanted to try this virtual game. we all hit the arcade for a little bit while waiting for our turn at laster tag. last time there was only a group of five of us. there were 7 of us on the trip, and we were joined by something like another ten people. . . maybe more, it was pretty damn crowded. it’s always a good time, and we even tried to have a bit of strategy- lie moving in teams and guarding base and such. hmm, maybe it’s my lack of strategy. . . . because. sad to say, i am particularly bad at laser tag. it’s possible that i redeem myself through the virtual robot war game, which i won. but the group of us squeaked that in even after the 10pm closing. so, the 7 of us now have this bucket-o-tokens if we ever get back.
10:30 on a sunday in new mexico is not a good time to want to eat dinner out. luckily the summer hours at some fast food joints have kicked in. so we grabbed some concrete outside the wendy’s and enjoyed our dinner.
so, that’s it till july 2nd. we ‘re actually just finishing up our first long week. sort of an exciting night. a light focus going on real slow and all. the raked deck has a split in it to open up and reveal a new scene. it’s half the deck, so it’s pretty large and heavy. it’s counterweighted by these large water ballasts below the stage. the ballasts are on arms and it will only take the strength of two operators to move the whole deck. well, last night, during focus- tomorrow being tech, one of the arms snapped and a part of the deck attempted to cantilever up. like a mini earthquake on stage. it was fixed toa point where we could continue the focus. . . but it will be interesting to see if and how it’s fixed for use tonight in tech. . . .
till later.
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