So much to say so little time.

Time flies when your having fun... Just a party weekend considering it was Memorial Day and all. I worked a few hours in there but mostly it was hammock time, pool time, and lazy time... Oh, I guess we did go to the flea market and the guitar store... jammed out with a few people, and socialized but all in all just a relaxing week before the work starts again. Already booked for Tues & Wed, let's see what the rest of the week holds?

A whole days worth

I love rearranging the apartment in a day!!!!

You better have them take a look

Sarcasm?


What do you think they will find next?

We're getting UFO's

UFO's

I can't wait!!!

I got the Mott's

Thanks again but what are the other ones for? And I'm not a diaster...

So close

It started out almost being what i wanted... So we hit star wars... Do I really need to comment? Anyway, who do we run into but a bunch of other stagehands... Mouse made a few trips... Great food at the Hard Rock Casino... And then








home.

Does the Full Moon Really Change Things

So, last night while my friends were over... Things were not as usual. The computer freaked out and the mouse would only move side to side... Nothing would open or close and there wasn't any conversation either... Did we have a fight? Who knows? But I think we're finally gonna celebrate my bday today by party tonight and watching the sun rise in the jacuzzi with margaritas in hand... Welcome to Vegas.

Karma rides again

So Ryan is taxing me around to pay some bills when we happen on a street with a broken watermain... Course we hit the puddles... but as we did, he told me the story of splashing people at a bus stop. On the next left turn, karma rode again when a wave crashed over his window... A moment of silence.... HA HA and laughter all the way home.

Rock on DUDE

So in the time that I was away... My health insurance finally kicked in so I went to the eye doctor in the morning forgetting that they dialate your eyes... I had no color in them when I left... Lynne had to come rescue me because I couldn't even focus on anthing... and to top it off I had to go to work... But thankfully it was with friends... And jokes were abundant!

Burning a hole

So, with my winnings I had a bit of birthday shopping considering that I was at work on my birthday. So, I got the new Oddworld for XBOX. The 5 minutes that I've got to play it were really cool... I also went and got what I needed for my computer so soon (if I figure out what I still need to do) I will be scannable, printable, and IM-able. COOL, huh?

Back and Forth

So they try to get rid of me... HA! I'm back again only to be pulling 4 ot... and do I remember being told that biologically I can't lift deck?

Country Music Awards

Well since the start of May, I've been working mad hours... Today was no exception. It all started last night or should I say yesterday when I finally got a chance to pay my cable bill (As we all can see... And I'll make up for those bats just try and keep up... OK?) Steve, Lynne (formerly brunette), and Ryan (Lynne's guy) were suppose to stop over early to hang out a bit and pick up some repairing I did for Lynne's show pants. Here I'm waiting and waiting... and then the phone rings... I have to go work the live broadcast of the country music awards... So, I tell Lynne I'm going to bed and just come over and get the stuff... I'm not sure what time they came in but all I remember is Lynne saying that we need to wear long sleeves... Oh shit. Well, I'll get up early and run to Walmart. Get to Walmart @ 6:30 am (already up an hour) and they're closed because they have no water.

SHIT

So I walk to the gas station to pick up some smokes, batteries for my mag lite (which I didn't even use), and COFFEE!!!!!

Now it's about 35 minutes till Lynne comes to pick me up and I know if I would wait for the bus to go back home I would be watching them drive along side me. So what do I do... Stick $5 in the video poker machine at the gas station... I walked out with $205.00. Ok so my morning is not going so bad... Cool....

I sweat my ass off at work moving band platforms around for rehearsal and the show. Bumping into stars and not even knowing it... Tee Hee... Lynne gets cut before I do and goes home... I have to stay another 2 hours after the show is over. So, I get out of work and win another 150 bucks... Cool I have half my money saved for a trip to Chicago... Not a bad day considering the way it started.

Now I'm finally home after a 12 hour work day, and I'm gonna relax!!!!!!!

It's the first of the warm nights

So I would say it started close to Wednesday, i picked up the phone at about 8:30 am and when I heard "OK, I'm on my way..." my response without even thinking, but mostly because I was still sleeping was, "ALREADY????!!!!!"

"Ok - Ok - The door will be open"

After a shower and fianlly waking up it was coffee by the pool and agenda ideas for the committee.

Next was a run to the hall to peruse contracts for stuff we needed for the committee

A run to Lynne's house for lunch and then back to mine for a dance class.

After class, I whipped up some dinner and the three of us hopped in the hot tub for a bit, dessert, and then South Park.

The next morning I woke up early cause I was finally off to work. got to work with the old man that day. It was pretty simple stuff but I was told we were gonna take our sweet time.

6 "T" trees, 12 Source 4, 6 dimmers, a bit of cable/tape, and a board... in total 8 hours - and a call back for the next day. After that came a ride home from the old man, and as I was walking from the corner I saw Kat. Jumped in the car and she's got a ton of news. Gossip ETC

Jackman spotted us going through the contracts and noticed our little army. It was a nice round of giggles. The pair stopped by and then it was a nap for me. I got up ran to pick up a check, stopped to say "HI" to Matt, and then back to bed for a little bit. the old man got to me a little early but I still had time to pick up a cup of coffee and off to work to notice how popular I'm getting... (Not egotisitcal, am I?)

42" plasmas for 9 1/2 hours. First it was hugs from the old timers I was working with. then I passed Radar, Sully, Charlie, Gary, Roy, Carole, and a few others. M & M responded in stereo

"How many people do you know. "

I just smiled. A whole stream of people stopping boom lifts to give me a hug. Then I was inadvertentl showing someone up putting up a plasma. I get a poke in the back and it's Bullet there to give me a hug.

Yeah so back to this plasma - not that hard... So it came in this road case with desk stands already attached. The guy i was working with I've seen around before but today we just weren't clicking. he was trying to shove pieces of the stand together while they were out of line, I was trying to help but i wasn't about to lose a finger for this.

"Slow down and I'll get it in line"

Amazingly, he listened.

Usually the next thing you do is to take out the plasma, set it on top of a road case and put the hanging brackets on them.So I was clearing off the top of the road case and he was putting stuff back on.

"Which direction you going in now?"
"THE STAND"

So I stopped what I was doing and put on the stand shelves and hardware. We finally pulled out the plasma and he sits and holds the hanging bracket up to it.. Now remember, I said it was set up to sit on a desk.

"It won't fit"

As i peak around to the back... "Sure it will just take out the screws for the desk stand part and it'll slap in right there."

Everything is finally hung and speakers are wired, the only problem is we were only getting sound out of one speaker input. I rechecked what I had plugged in but didn't look at anything else because the poor guy was listening to the clients showering me with compliments. "Thank goddness you're here. We wouldn't have been able to get this together if you weren't here"

REALLY -- NO SHITTING

Well now it's 6 pm and already an hour into overtime when the account/employers come over and I go through a quick what's not working because they want us to sign out. "DID YOU GUYS CHECK YOUR PLUGS?"

I checked the ones in the plasma and they're fine

I checked the ones into the DVD player & they're ok

But low and behold apparently someone plugged the RCA cables into 2 video outs instead of audio.

What can I say.

I get home and sit down to eat dinner and realize...Shit, my Illinois taxes

So thinking it was like back home, I called to make sure the post office was open down the block so I could walk there & get back for dinner. But vegas is a 24 hour town only there's one post office open for the whole valley.

Six hours later, I'm finally walking up the drive to go to bed.

Ring after Ring after Ring

I'm not answering that telephone tonight - and I fall back asleep.

At about 8:30 pm, I wake up and figure it's time to call everyone back, as I clean up. Find out we're all going out dancing and I've got an hour to get ready.

It was the coolest country bar I've ever been to. I just wish I was a beer drinker cuz it's $20.00 for a refillable glass. But the dancing was fun and I yet again proved the theory wrong.

I was so shocked when I didn't wake up with a hang over. I had a truck loading call at 5 pm. So I got to have my cup of coffee at a leisurely pace. i also got to start a new myst game I just got for XBOX.

It was just one truck - 1hr 15min with an annoying know it all (and no, it wasn't me) because this dude came in late and then was trying to run the show. But then it was over to a co-workers house to relax, a walk home on the nice warm night and then I couldn't decide what I wanted to do first. That's how it was the rest of the night. I'm not even sure what I did do that night.

And finally today will be a first in the fact that I'm going to quit a class in the training dept.

My first flying lesson

I don't remember much about this day but the following...

The group all had a call at the convention center and we were laughing on our way into work... It's was taking down the plasmas that i had put up...

We got split up

I had a guy tell me that people are out to get me.

And I got my first flying lesson....

After we had finished one section, the safety man (who makes a speech at the start of evey shift) was going to take me and someone else to a different location. 3 of us hop on a two man scotter. Just as I'm about to say don't take turns so fast, He cranks the scotter about 90 degrees, catipolting me off the back... After I finished rolling on the cement floor, he flipps out and asks me if I'm ok...

My response:
"Can we talk to security and get a tape of that... It had to be halarious!"

The Recipe for Geriatric Hell

So picture this road case with 4 wheels on it and one of them is fucked up.

Add a:
∑ Wood floor
∑ Tourists who don’t know or aren’t paying attention to where they are going.
∑ Slot machines
∑ Chairs
∑ Sweepers who insist on standing in the doorway to get everything that blows in cause it’s not windy in the desert at all.
∑ Lastly 200 lbs.

Now as I weaved my way through all of this, I stumble upon the worst of worst in unloading trucks.

Letting the momentum of the box turn the corner cuz I wanted a break from that fucked up wheel, there it is. The walker being shuffled by a 3’5” person.
Oh fuck! is what I’m thinking. And with my superman muscles I proceed to try and stop this 200 lbs box rolling with one fucked up wheel straight at the walker. I think of the scene in Prisoner of Askaban. Just like that. Before it slams and runs over this walker. But of course, just as I clench all those muscles, I remember I’m on a waxed wood floor. Great now not only is this box gonna smash this walker to bits but I’m gonna be included in this crash too. Thank God for that fucked up wheel or maybe my foot, not to sure on that one, but my foot turned into the break right underneath that wheel. Good so I’m not gonna crash into that walker. Well I was, just from the other end. The crash that you remember is gonna happen just split seconds before it does and there’s shit you can do about it. Everyone is behind you with boxes just as big. Yup just as you guessed it, Brunette (see other post), Talker, b’s guy, Tim and Debbie… One right after the other, right into the back of my heels. We were just way to close to stop on a dime like that. (Oh, by the way, I’m OK).

As the chuckles started I heard…
“hmmpf, people are crazy out here.”
“She came outta nowhere”
“I thought she was going down dude.”

So as I get ready to limp the box in… a midget on a scooter drives by us. And we all watch in utter silence.

“Well what do you say to that, damn.”

Next is tetris with all the boxes backstage. After you win the game you get to go home.

The ride was great. Sunny warm. Driving on the highway, above, where you can actually tell you live in a valley. I could look out past the green ( It’s a false oasis remember but that’s a rant for a whole other day) to how brown it was by the mountain. There’s where I could sit and pretend. But no, I got sidetracked by a trip to the mall, a stop by the hall, my apartment, to eat, wait for an hour, then back to…
Are you waiting for the band too.
Yeah, I am.
That’s great. I’m here to get their autographs
As he holds up his plastic bag with a guitar in it and then stares at me.
Oh, nice, yeah, um… I’m here to take the band out.
Oh, what, you drive em to the airport and out to the bars
No, I put their equipment in boxes and put it on a truck
Oh wow wow that’s incredible... that’s really hard work wow
And the guy walks away…

Hey guys!!!

After it’s all over, I find myself trying to disprove a theory with someone on the phone and as it stands right now – I’m winning!

I'M BACK

Ok I have a ton of stuff to catch up with so... here goes slowly and surely.

Birthday

Have you ever been smacked so hard on the ass that it still stings hours later?