The best of intentions

January 29, 2009 in Work

Our show’s ad revenues are way down (actually, it’s not just us – advertisers seem to think that since no one’s currently buying anything there’s no reason to waste money on ads), so the powers that be are on a drastic cost cutting mission. Since they can’t cut from the top (where, of course, much [...]

Lefty Loosey

January 22, 2009 in Non-Work, life in LA
Tags: flush, Los Angeles, rain, toilet

Normally, all nuts, bolts and damn near everything else that must be twisted to be tightened follows a rule: Righty tighty, lefty loosey – meaning that twisting to the right (or clockwise) tightens, and twisting to the left (or counterclockwise) loosens.
This rule is so all-encompassing that it’s never even occurred to me that anything could [...]

Tuesday photo

January 20, 2009 in Non-Work, life in LA
Tags: day, democrat, happy, inauguration, Jan 20, obama, politics

A day I honestly thought I’d never live to see.
I went downtown to watch the inauguration on LA Live’s giant televisions (the best use of the silly things) – and in the company of other people. For some reason, this just seemed like something that was too big to fit into my living room.
Everyone in [...]

Agrizoophobia*

January 14, 2009 in Work
Tags: animals, elephant, emu, giraffe, green screen, tiger, zebra

Two alternate spellings of ‘overtime’ are ‘animal’ and ‘baby’.
Animals, even the best trained ones, are unpredictable and only sometimes do what you want them to do when you want them to (babies, of course, never, ever do anything on cue).
So when I got a call to work on a green screen unit, I figured it [...]

For once, I desperately hope it’s Monday.

January 12, 2009 in Work
Tags: monday, overnight, weekend, Work

Working an all-nighter over the weekend threw off my sense of, well, just about everything. Mostly time, though.
I’m not completely sure what day it is today, but I’m off to work in the hopes that it’s Monday and when I get to the end of the road, there will be a shoot there.
And food. My [...]

Finally.

January 6, 2009 in Non-Work
Tags: car, dashboard, shopping, sucks, used, Wordpress

Although I’m  not thrilled about the prospect of having a payment right now, at least the car-shopping portion of the program is over.
I didn’t get what I wanted, but I got a newish (‘06) domestic wagon-y thing, that, aside from being a godawful color (I don’t tend to like flashy colored cars. No bright blue, [...]

A soul-destroying New Year’s Day

January 1, 2009 in Non-Work
Tags: broke, car, chevy, German, poor, sales, shopping, want

I started out 2009 by calling in a favor and having a good friend drive me all over town to look  at used cars.
I do not recommend this as anything other than an exercise in futility – unless, of course, you simply have too much hair and would like to thin it by tearing it [...]