TV Producer: Day Three
So there I was - plunked down at my desk, at work, in my office, at the buttcrack of 6:00am.
I can't get over how early that is. I firmly believe that there's some form of crack being passed around so that some people can smoke it and come up with these weird times to start work.
The odd thing? Right now, for the three day's that I've been there - from 6am to 9am no actual work gets done. People talk, yawn...surf the internet. Eat some donuts, ect. It's the same thing for the last three days.
I'm working on us "evolving" to the point where it would be possible for us to work from 9 to 5 everyday. So far that's not working out quite as well.
In any case, we didn't finish our show on time today. That meant that I had to hop in my car, having had only 4 hours of sleep (I met a new friend, and we talked quite late)and drive to Syracuse. For those of you that don't live four blocks from me, It takes exactly 1 hour to drive from my job to the tv station in Syracuse. Then I got to drive back.
Of course, driving does give you time to think about other things. Like the fact that I'm really really tired.
Also, I just have one complaint that I will state again.
Please. When driving your vehicle, feel free to drive the SPEED LIMIT. I got behind someone on a 45mph Road (where everyone does 55) doing 30. Sure enough, when I drove past, it was a girl talking on her cell phone.
I'm so glad that she had noplace to be.
*sigh*
Road rage, here I come.
Time Shift
Well, It's 11:17PM EST where's I'm at, and in around 6 hours, I'm due to get up and go to work.
It fascinates me that my alarm clock actually works at 5:00am. I didn't know they could work that early. My cats haven't figured out what I'm doing yet. I wake up, and they're like "What? Where are you going?" Same thing with my car. I get in it, and slap the keys in the ignition.
That's the time that the car says "You better have had a limb ripped off by a rabid woodchuck, because I'm not used to driving this early!"
I think that my favorite part of the whole thing is that now I seem to have the job of showing up early - and waiting.
So far, not a single employee of this company has shown up before 6:15. Tomorrow? I'm not showing up until 6:15. I mean, come on! What's the point of getting up extra early to show up and wait? I know I can't figure that out!
In any case, I've got to go to bed now. In T-Minus 6 hours, I'm supposed to be at a computer.
Staring at the screen.
TV Producer: Day One
Well, yesterday was my official first day at my new job. It was loads of fun, except for the odd hours - 6am until 6:30pm. Being the producer of a tv show is certainly a fun job, but when I get up at 5:15am, my cats are like "What? What are you doing? You're joking, right?"
So, after having a good day, I went home to my cable modem on the fritz. It looks like a LasVegas sideshow on my computer desk. The think keeps bliking on and off. And - since I have an internet phone - I can't call anyone to get it fixed. I have to head over to Adelphia's main offices today and yell at someone.
In any case, it's 6:45AM now, and I don't have anything to do. Which is why I'm posting here. There are only two of us actually here, and I think that the "We start at 6am" was really a line they fed me. In the next few days, I'll figure out the real time that we start, and go from there.
Stupid Adelphia!
Holy Peanut Butter, Batman!
Well, here I am. Posting. Again. Why? Look - I told you last night I was back! It's your fault you didn't believe me!
As I sit here typing, it's 10:45am on a Sunday. There's a local roadrace here called "The Boilermaker" which is now the largest 15k Race in our country. Right now, less than one mile from my apartment is a party where there are over 30,000 people. When the wind dies down, I can hear them, and the music playing in the background.
I woke up today to a letter taped to my door - "To increase the safety of the runners, and those spectating, no cars will be allowed to drive on this street until 12:00pm".
That's so kind of them! To make sure that even if I want to, I can't leave.
In any case, they had fireworks - yes, fireworks. At 10:30 in the morning. I don't know what they were thinking. Who can see fireworks in broad daylight? Then, a few F16 Tomcats flew in close pattern overhead three times.
You think fireworks are loud? Try having the United States AirForce doing flybys over your house! It sounded like my house was going to collapse.
For what it's worth, I think it's a great event. We get a lot of people that visit this area from all over the world now. It's cool to think that there are people in other countries that train all year to come here.
And run 15k. In the hot sun. Or, if weather's not being nice, in the Rain. 100% humidity. Through a few rundown neighborhoods.
Yeah. Going on vacation somewhere to run for two hours?
Well, I guess that could be up to you.
Personally, I would never go on vacation someplace where all I'd be doing is running.
What's the fun in that?
I'm Back. For Real.
It's been 8 months since the release of Halo 2. My once frequent daily posts to this blog have been marred by my seeming inability to pull myself away from what is now possible for me to deem as an actual addition.
Why did Bungie have to make such a fun game?!? In any case, just to show how much I am working on making sure that I am once again a valuable part of the blogging community - as well as my old friends on here that probably think I've dropped off the face of the planet - I've built my own website - and invested a whole lot of time in it in doing so.
All the pages for the site aren't built yet, and even the color scheme and template for this blog are suspect to change, but for now, it's what I've got. Until tomorrow when I won't be able to take the robin's egg blue on the site. I know what you're thinking - "You should have picked a different template!".
Well...I would have. If the other templates weren't worse.
See, I'm someone that's built my personal and professional career on the fact that I'm different. I'm
NOT normal, nor will I ever be. Picking a template for my blog where countless thousands have the same one?
I shudder at the thought.
The simple fact is that this blog template will change. Just give me a few days to make some custom images, and re-color the template to get rid of "Slushy Blue".
Jeepers. It looks like someone pureed a smurf, and dumped it on the page...
