I don’t know exactly how I came up with this or thought of it. But I knew my nephews Christening was coming up next weekend and that we needed to get a card. Some how this just popped into my head while driving all around this week. The inside is blank at the moment, but I was thinking about putting some helpful rules on how to pass the time in church. ie: “praying” is a perfect time to take a quick cat nap.
Just completed this little guy. He may seem happy, but really he wants your feet. I don’t know if it is human flesh he is after or if it is the toe cheese. Just be careful, you just might enjoy it!
I found this while trolling around the internet last night. A great lay out of a hoe entertainment center. I prefer to have everything hidden in a back room with minimal controls out front, but to each their own. The touch screen controls is pretty impressive!
Last night I was going through my apple sites and one of the images on a certain post about tethering your iPhone had this background. Well I could not fins that exacte wall paper any where, but I did find the monitor back ground that used the image.
So a little snip snip and a crop crop there, and presto, the iPhone wall Paper. If you like it and wish to use it, the image is not mine and I could not find any copyright info on it.
But, you can donwload it by clicking the image so enjoy!
My only question is this…
Are each of those on their own 20amp breaker?
I have some pretty exciting news to announce soon. While I would love to announce what the count down is, I want to wait till there is a good round number. Just know that something exciting is coming… I can bearly contain myself!
Again while at the tech table tonight, I have been thinking over the design process of the show and the surprising things that happen.
I have been design a show or two each season at LTA for a couple of years now and it seems like I am always “stuck” with the same stage manager running the show.
Around my first or second show at LTA, I was asked in the first production meeting by the producer, do I need anything for the show and I jokinly said a Hot Toddy each night during tech week.
Since then it has been a running joke with everyone involved with the show that I am designing that I require a Hot Toddy and that each night someone is designated as my “Bartender”. In the three or four years now that I have been working with LTA, no one has given gotten me a Hot Toddy.
Well last night was a bad bad run through for me. I just could not get my levels right and I found a gapping black spot right down stage. I was cursing to myself and just frustrated. Little did I know that my headset was still hot. Everyone on headset heard me basically chewing myself out under my breath. QUITE embarrising!
I arrived early today in order to start the system up and get the ladders out and fix my dark spot down stage. Once I had finish fixing the problem on the house electric and putting everything away, I headed back to the tech table in a dark house.
When I got back to row K where the tech table lives for one more night, I noticed a travel mug on my desk that was not there when I came in. Being the nut job that I am I tasted it to see what it might be and low and behold, A HOT TODDY!
Our stage manager comes out on stage to start wet mopping the stage for the run thought to night and notices me out in the house messing around. She ask me if I got my present, the Hot Toddy. MEJ, our stage manager heard me on the headset last night being hard on myself and wanted to know that she and the rest of the cast and crew “love” me and are here for me to help out, even if that means getting a buzz for the last night of tech.
Ladies and gentlemen, you know you have a great manager on your hands that she remembers your standing request/joke and see’s that you have been having a hard day and brings you a special present.
While the drink was delicious, it was more of the toughfulness and caring that RAERLY counted with me. If you get the privilage of having a great stage manager like this, HOLD ON TO THEM AND NEVER LET THEM GO!
I twittered about this earlier today from my latest design, It Runs In The Family at Little Theatre of Alexandria. While we are at I am taking time out of the actor notes to post a quick note about my tech table set up.
Here at LTA, we have setup up an ETC Ion on a closed wireless network letting me run the client software on my PC via wireless to have my “video node” out in the house. In addition to having the notebook screen, I have added a 17″ LCD screen so I have more information at my finger tips.
For a while, I was using the newest apple USB keyboard with the client key commands written on it. I just added the PI Engineering 58 X-Keys to the system so I don’t have to hunt and peck for a command such as cue or something like that. What I did find was that I had to change some of the keys on the X-Keys to suit my needs at the tech table such as adding a GO and STOP/BACK keys and crazy as it seems, FLEXIE and DISPLAY. What I find interesting about the default layout for the X-Keys for the Ion from ETC offered a mesh of options with the layout not being designed for any one use, such as either as a designer remote or programming remote or playback remote. Thus the change of layout to the X-Keys. Thinking about it more now, the X-keys does have “two layers” with a toggle button where one layer of keys could be setup as “programming” buttons and the second layer being “playback”. Something to keep in mind for the next show!
Also “featured” on the tech table are the usual items, Altoids, Production binder, with script, water, pepsi, (although I prefer coke!), notepad, cheat sheet, two littlites and of course, the iPhone.
The show opens Friday and runs for three weeks. One more night of messing with levels and then I can it done for opening!
There are little over two months left before the wedding bells ring and I become a married man. There has been alot of planning and things going on leading up to the August date. Here is just a check up on things I still have to do.
I am sure there are other things that I need to do and Renee will of course remind me sooner then later.
BTW: This is just another thing to knock off the 101 list!!!
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