Okay...I'm not busy (AKA Update of the Week)

Time for this weeks update:

Christmas Production #1: DONE! (See amended notes for details)
Christmas Production #2: Standing by
Christmas Production #3: Also Standing by
Maya Project (UB): In works. Need to finish UVing and then translate them to other models.
Writing: Hmm...about that...
LAN Party: Being finalized.
Firefly Watching Party: In development


Christmas Production #1: They say that Murphy's Law is that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. O'Neill's Theorem is that Murphy was an optimist. O'Neill was right.

Okay, first: Snow. The big snow last week (well, two weeks now technically) canned the Tech Practice. Okay, fine...we're still good...

Next...The big Saturday one...many, many things go wrong on the Sound and light side (by the way, I do Video) and it's delayed for a bit. Oh, and one of our cameras isn't back from the shop. Okay, it's a pain, but we can live with it...

Tuesday/Dress practice. Apparently, the camera we were waiting for isn't back still...but it was a good practice. Things are looking up. Lights took awhile, but it's done. A new head (part of the tripod) for one of the cameras and a unipod (monopod) for the remote camera arrive (YAY) and they are working good.

Thursday/Make up Tech. Okay. We're in a bad situation. Camera is back, but it lacks the color green. For the non techies...that's a non good thing. An anti-good thing. Think Zombie vision. That's what it looked like. We're cut to two cameras, so we have to redo our tech script. Sigh. It's a pain, but we'll struggle through it.

Friday/First Show: We're hosed. Seriously. The lightboard's CPU (see life/heart/brain) burned out. So all the lights are gone. We rent a board and Adam spends the day redoing all the lights. Note that people have been driven to the edge doing lights with our setup. We managed to get everything reset for a fifteen minute delayed show. Sigh. Wow, you think.

Saturday was better but it was still out of sorts. This time though, we had drained the problem bucket dry. No real issues and a decent show. All in all, a nice Christmasy thing.

Thank God that's all behind me. Oh wait...two more shows (School and Concerts)...

-TT