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It was a good day on set!

No, that’s not the set we were on.  Pretty fun shot though.  I think we own the same steadicam rig.  Naturally I do not have permission to post the image, so just send me a cease & desist and I’ll take ‘er down.

This is a fun shot of the set we were on.

Three cameras passed into the Tricaster so we can rip a rough edit as we go.  Very nice.  Also, easiest colour matching ever.

Anyone who has spent any time on set can tell you (and Marjorie would) that there can be a lot of hurry up and wait.  Sometimes it’s a model’s hair, sometimes it’s a script issue.  There are all sorts of ways to bring production grinding to a halt.  The hallmark of a veteran is that production is never waiting for you.  You do not want to be the reason everybody stays late.  That gets expensive.  Also grumbly.  Nevertheless, we had a good day.  Radios help.  Matt knows what I’m talking about.  The difference between working locations, living on channel 1, and hating your life, to working special effects, living on channel 9, and enjoying another peaceful day of telling dirty jokes and making sure the smoke machines don’t run out of juice.

Not to give the wrong impression – we’re working with great people on this shoot.  We really are having a good time building a great product with them.

But I did mention that there can be a certain amount of waiting while stuff happens off set.  So, you pass the time.

I spent ten minutes trying to get a nice spinny shot of my face.  Fun, right?

I was a little sulky this morning because I left home long before the sun had even threatened the horizon, and Avery wasn’t up yet/again/still.  I didn’t get to kiss her goodbye.  So Marjorie, love her to death, sent me my kiss.

Well, close enough to a kiss for me.  She was probably pooping.  Shut up.  She’s still ridiculously adorable.  The kiss made me miss my girls way more, but it made my day, too.

Tomorrow, production call is 8am.  That is awesome.  Still, time for this camera jockey to get to sleep.

Happy Friday, in case that’s where you are when you read this.  If not, well, that’s something to look forward to.

Avery got her first shot today.  She didn’t like it at all – at all at all.  But she recovered quickly enough.  Fell asleep on me on the walk home in less than fifty feet.  I think her leg may be aching from the shot though.  Bit of work getting her to go down tonight.

Speaking of, I’m off as well.  Call time tomorrow is 7am, and the studio is two trains from here.  If I were made of money I would just book a car.  We’ll see how I feel this time tomorrow.

So, I wish I could chat more, but a man’s gotta work.  Be well.

After Mum returned from her well-deserved massage, Dad headed into town to meet with Lee.  By the time he arrived, he was Adrian.  Being Dad still would just have been weird.  They had a lot to talk about – pre-pro for the two day shoot this week.  Lots of other stuff needed talking about as well, but pre-pro meetings can take up some time.  That’s why it’s important to have them.  Anyway, a couple hours into the meeting, Adrian reaches into his pocket for his ever-present Burt’s Bees, and finds this:

Now, he didn’t panic right off.  Maybe Avery had been asleep the whole time?  Wary, he messaged his darling wife, whom he dearly hoped was still feeling massaged, and not assaulted by a crying baby for lack of a soother.  Perish the very thought, too nightmarish to bear.

But all was as well as could be expected.  Marjorie couldn’t find the backup soother (eep!), but had managed to find the backup’s backup.  Saved!

This is the life we lead now.  When three soothers are the bare minimum.  Just squeaking by.  Too close for comfort.  We’re going to acquire a couple more, I gwarantees.

I missed my girls this afternoon, but work must be did.  With the pre-pro sorted to an appropriate level of preparedness, we are set to get the full value out of tomorrow’s TabletBiz Expo, the first-of-its-kind convention devoted to tablets in business.  8 hours, 25 speakers, 15 demo booths.  Wha?  25 speakers?  I dunno.  We shall see.  I’m really hoping it’s not a bunch of Point Of Sale stuff we’ve already mastered.  We want to be wowed.  Show us stuff we haven’t thought of yet.  We shall see.

Then, Wednesday is gearing up for the shoot, but hopefully there will still be time in the morning for some writing with the fellas.  I believe we are ready to look at the next Chaos project.  Exhilarating!

Thursday-Friday, shoot days.  Wall to wall.  I’m expecting 12 hour days.  Day one will probably be a little shorter, but day two is tear down and gear return.  Definitely the suckiest part of the job.  Though we have been talking about getting a PA…

Saturday, we are shooting again, but this is for CBcom.  The content must flow.  He who controls the content controls the universe.  Anyone?

Sunday… Sunday I would like to rest.  Where the heck did the week go?

If I miss posting at some point in the next few days, please forgive me.  I may choose sleep over you.  Just this once.  Maybe if you leave a comment telling me how much you love reading my blog, and how thought provoking you find it all, then maybe I will skip another hour’s sleep.  But probably not.  But maybe yes.  But no.  Yes.  No.  Maybe.  I love you.