Holy Cold Batman

I've been in some cold but, this winter it just hasn't hit me yet, until I walked off the bus yesterday and today, its 26˚ outside, yesterday I went out to the bus after lunch, and this is what I found.

Yup ice from the bus that had been sitting there for like a couple hours during the middle of the day! Thats stinking cold.

I broke

Well I broke, the other day Patti and I were in a store just looking around cause we were bored, and she started playing guitar hero, well she loved it, and for 3 days she was like "lets get it". So we were at the mall and there it was. We bought it, and well to say the least thats all we've done the last 2 days. So last night we played until our figures were soar.

Then we ate some serial, and watched the new Futurama Movie
Hers


Mine yea mine was better!

Well I guess its time to hit the old dusty trail

Gobble Gobble

Ok so I know that this is what most people are going to be blogging about today but, I don't care I haven't blogged in a while and I'm going to do it!

First we start with the cook, she was just making sure that there wasn't anything wrong with... well I'm not sure what she's tasting?

Thought I would show the table contents, since we paid I'm sure a penny or two, I'm not really sure but the wife made it look so nice, and if your paying attention you'll notice that we're already get setup for Christmas we just couldn't wait! (the fire place makes the picture look like an optical allusion)

Patti also made some appetizers that Schwarz found appetizing. (notice the fruit dip on the lips)

Farns and Jenkins were part of the crew at our holiday adventure ( sorry Farns about the butt shot)


Jay was a part of our Thanksgiving day, and he brought his new handy dandy $2 Polaroid Camera wouldn't reload pictures but he got it figured out.
Its all almost ready..

and the after.. now lets eat some pie.. in about an hour after we pass out

I do love this time of year

What I don't love about this time of year is getting a cold, that stinks.

I haven't felt well all day, soar throat, stuffed up etc. but i was able to step out side and catch a quick glimps of how nice it is to have seasons.

And a freaking awesome rainbow

Its cold

I'm excited about Thanksgiving, and Christmas!

9000 LBS, 1 Gigawatt!

Each morning we get up and go in side the building that we're playing in, mark out points much like the ones you see below, then we discuss with the riggers who rig to the steal in the air about weight and placement, then they hang our chained motors, and try to hit the "X" on the floor, again example in the photo below.

Everyday I come in and mark my 5 points on the floor and write 9000 LBS next to the points, making the statement that my wall is heavy.

On this particular day we had one real rigger and a couple other riggers that were employee's if I may call them that of the place we were at. So to say the least it was taking a while, and the one real rigger was busy trying to get all the points done, mean while the venue big wigs come in and start freaking out about how heavy my wall, granted they knew how heavy it was for weeks our PM calls in advance and talks about this stuff weeks before we're even close to being there and goes over all this stuff. So after much arguing about weight placement and me stressing out to no end at the idea of the steal in the roof not being able to hold the LED wall. we finally get it up and safely. (Thought I would throw in the "safely" part)



At what I think was 330pm (we're usually done by noon) I finally get the wall built and its sitting on the ground. I look up and see something wrong with 2 of my points (thankfully) so I ask the rigger to go up and fix them, so he hops back into the trusty lift, we make a path behind my wall and up he goes.


He gets about half way up to the steel and the lift dies, he looks at me, which I'm on top of my wall trying to land a motor on top of the wall, so he can fix the rigging, can any of you figure out why the lift died half way up in the air??

YUP out of gas.


But we got some gas and fixed the points, everything got up ok and the show happened but its just one more example why I live the dream.
Thanks for listening stay classy.

Hazard

I don't have much to blog about today, but I thought I would share some hazards from my day today there not a big deal but its still kind of dangerous.

First is the water fountain, It's not the idea that its gross, but more the the power outlet
thats at your head while trying to get a drink.



No ventilation

Catering
I can't say to much about this, other than it was actually pretty good.
But most days its scary.
Bless there hearts.