Archive for October, 2006
Last night was frustrating – we can’t just loosely drape the lights over the hedges – they have to be passerby and gardener (oops, I meant “landscape technician”) proof and they’ll have to stay put for weeks – some of our shoddier work has already been knocked down and we’re going to have to do [...]
My days off are Thursday and Friday, and while it’s nice to have a weekday free for certain things that aren’t open on the weekends, this schedule makes it difficult to remember what day it is.
Saturday is my Monday, so last night I kept forgetting it that not only was it Saturday night, it was [...]
We spend the first couple of hours each day prepping the strands of lights that we have to use – we have to cut the tags off (because the white tags are visible in the greenery of the bushes and trees) and it’s better to do it all at once. That way there aren’t [...]
For the next five (or six, I’m not sure anymore) weeks, I’m going to be putting up holiday lights at a studio*.
I’m working with a bunch of guys whom I’ve never met before, but who all are really cool and it’s a fun group, but basically I’m a glorified gardener right now.
A gardener who’s making [...]
Taken at the Los Angeles Sports Arena (slated for destruction soon, which is probably why they didn’t really care that we were rolling cable carts across the basketball court), October 2006
On Saturday, I’m starting a job that will have me in splits (half day, half night – about 4 pm to about 3 am) for five weeks.
When I’m given a chance to fall into a consistent sleep pattern, I tend to be a fairly early riser – I’m almost always up before 8 am. This [...]
Yesterday’s work was preparing a set for a TV show – we were getting it ready for first unit to shoot and I don’t think it’s been used in a while, because a lot of the power had been re-routed to other sets and some of the lights had been taken down.
My job was [...]
I got a late start today, due to my having had way too much fun at Carly’s book party last night, so here’s something to keep you amused while I’m recovering:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ru-GyJHfuc
I’m not sure if I should be proud or ashamed of the fact that I’ve burned the nerve endings off of my fingertips through years [...]
When rental houses start sending out really old equipment that normally sits on the shelves and gathers dust.
This is a lug connector:
Since lug ends can’t be connected directly together, they’re clamped onto a bus bar (a big metal plate made of copper, because that’s one of the better electrical conductors) which is inside a distro [...]
Late-night call times somehow seem just wrong – first off, there’s the drinking coffee at 10 pm. Then, there’s going home and going to bed at 6 am.
Then, there’s the aforementioned sleeping all day (okay, not all day, from about 10 am to 3 pm, but it’s that time of year when the weather’s not [...]
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