Update of Doom
Feb. 15th, 2007 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reymonkeyIt is almost 9:30 and I am eating dinner.
Cut for excessive length, links, and pics.
Okay, first off the linkage. Gabe and Alex, this one is for you. Whatever you were thinking you are hereby absolved. So am I, even though I've been hunting everywhere for a copy of Snowcrash because I read it on loan from Alex and need my own copy.
Shiri is magnificent and wonderful and I wish we talked more these days, but in response to my last post about puppets eating my braims she drew me this. Go and marvel at its glory, and my hair really is at that length right now. Damn I need a haircut.
This is terrible and hysterical and must be shared with the world. Especially go read it if you're having a bad day, although it just might make you despair for the future of humanity. And koalas. They some little bitches.
kay, the reason this update is lengthy is because there's things I've been meaning to post, such as the above, but I am seriously busy. A sample of my day:
3:30 AM Wonder why I am still awake, staring at the walls.
4:00 AM Doze off
7:00 AM Wake to alarm and Bridgie asking me if I slept well. Doze off again.
9:30 AM Wake again and debate whether to make tea or just go get coffee already. Be unproductive due to complete incoherency for a while.
10:15 AM Go get the damn coffee and foods because Dunkin Donuts is a godsend.
11:00 AM show up at puppet studio for late rehearsal. No one else is there for another fifteen minutes.
11:20 AM Rehearsal and frantic puppeteering.
1:15 PM Leave rehearsal with hopes of getting a short nap in before work.
1:30 PM Get home, and realize there is no hope for both nap and lunch.
2:15 PM Head to work
3:00 PM Become only employee in the store
3:15 PM Have front register lose connection to server while customer one needs to be rung up, customer two needs fabric cut, and customer three wants help picking out fabric. Reboot server, reboot front register.
3:20 PM Reboot server and register again, because that didn't work.
3:25 PM Call boss's cellphone, because register still doesn't work. Get voicemail.
3:30 PM Reboot register again just in case, while cutting customer two's fabric.
3:40 PM Call boss at home, realize there are now five customers in store.
3:50 PM Boss shows up and has to do manual tickets on paper bags, because the manual ticket forms were lost in move.
4:30 PM Boss gets register working, and helps customer three who is apparently unable to pick any fabric by herself.
5:00 PM Co-worker comes in (fifteen minutes early, in fact), Boss leaves.
5:15 PM Try to finish display that is supposed to be done by 6, discover there is A)Not enough room, B)Not enough pegs.
5:50 PM Still working on damn display.
6:15 PM cram display together, 6 PM class is in swing, relative calm descends.
6:30 PM run to store next door and get food for self and co-worker.
7:00 PM Breathe. Yay.
7:40 PM Customers come in with antique quilt, insist on fabric that will match it.
7:45 PM Class customers leave on time and cheerfully, because they are all regulars and awesome.
8:00 PM Bridgie calls to say she is staying home for night, but sick.
8:05 PM Wish people with antique quilt would get on with it.
8:15 PM Get damn customers paid and out the door.
8:30 PM Get home. Work on dinner.
9:00 PM Play on net while eating. Because.
9:59 PM Wonder why the hell I'm still typing this.
Ah, the wonders of the internet, which is an ingenious and infinite method of wasting time.
Last weekend Bridgie came to a rehearsal and took photos for me, which is very cool because I cannot take photos of my own performance. I will now spam you with shadow puppet photos, because. I designed these last year and I still think they look okay, that's got to be worth something.
Color Kamba and grey Fisi talking
Giraffe shadow puppet, and 3D giraffe mask for comparison. That's Heidi's hand coming out the side there, and this was taken while sitting in a chair and getting a kid's eye view.
The celebration scene, where all the animals have been painted and are showing off their colors. This is pretty brief but my favourite part of the show, visually. Of course I also like it because nobody gives a hyena's ass what order the puppets go in for this.
Those springbok are totally pronking, which has been a term of much amusement for the cast when we are sleep deprived. That and god being an ashtray. No, really. The 'Great Spirit' is a glass ashtray with some water in it and saran wrap so it doesn't spill. Makes a great prismatic swirly effect on the projector.
Also, don't feel obligated to click this. I look like a dork. I have to wear sunglasses when I'm working because staring at the projector for that long would make me go blind otherwise.
Okay. That's... stuff. A lot of pointless rambling and enough pictures to kill anybody on dialup, like me. I want to add that I am so braindead that last night we were watching the Tick cartoons and Bridgie and I were RPing in a notebook, and the Tick asked a wish machine thingy for a BLT so my character, in a deeply serious scene, told his companion that 'being a mage is a dangerous sandwich.' I did have the brain cells to crack up right after I wrote it, instead of just passing the notebook back without noticing, but that was before the insomnia...
WTF of the day/week/January: This January, Henrico County issued a new decal we're supposed to have on our windshield. The old one was circular, about 3.5" diameter, but the new one is rectangular and about 4" big. I have one on my windshield, and I don't really notice it, but the minute they came out with these, people started complaining: They're too big, they're visually distracting, they're hard to see around, they're garish and obnoxious. Come on people, what are you doing, sticking it dead center on the driver's side of your windshield? But guess what, all the complaints brought it to the attention of the State Government, which apparently has dealt with this kind of thing before and passed a law years ago that the County decals cannot be larger than 3.5" which means that Henrico County has just made us all put something on our windshields that the state police could fine us for.
Jeenyus in government and your tax dollars at work folks.
Cut for excessive length, links, and pics.
Okay, first off the linkage. Gabe and Alex, this one is for you. Whatever you were thinking you are hereby absolved. So am I, even though I've been hunting everywhere for a copy of Snowcrash because I read it on loan from Alex and need my own copy.
Shiri is magnificent and wonderful and I wish we talked more these days, but in response to my last post about puppets eating my braims she drew me this. Go and marvel at its glory, and my hair really is at that length right now. Damn I need a haircut.
This is terrible and hysterical and must be shared with the world. Especially go read it if you're having a bad day, although it just might make you despair for the future of humanity. And koalas. They some little bitches.
kay, the reason this update is lengthy is because there's things I've been meaning to post, such as the above, but I am seriously busy. A sample of my day:
3:30 AM Wonder why I am still awake, staring at the walls.
4:00 AM Doze off
7:00 AM Wake to alarm and Bridgie asking me if I slept well. Doze off again.
9:30 AM Wake again and debate whether to make tea or just go get coffee already. Be unproductive due to complete incoherency for a while.
10:15 AM Go get the damn coffee and foods because Dunkin Donuts is a godsend.
11:00 AM show up at puppet studio for late rehearsal. No one else is there for another fifteen minutes.
11:20 AM Rehearsal and frantic puppeteering.
1:15 PM Leave rehearsal with hopes of getting a short nap in before work.
1:30 PM Get home, and realize there is no hope for both nap and lunch.
2:15 PM Head to work
3:00 PM Become only employee in the store
3:15 PM Have front register lose connection to server while customer one needs to be rung up, customer two needs fabric cut, and customer three wants help picking out fabric. Reboot server, reboot front register.
3:20 PM Reboot server and register again, because that didn't work.
3:25 PM Call boss's cellphone, because register still doesn't work. Get voicemail.
3:30 PM Reboot register again just in case, while cutting customer two's fabric.
3:40 PM Call boss at home, realize there are now five customers in store.
3:50 PM Boss shows up and has to do manual tickets on paper bags, because the manual ticket forms were lost in move.
4:30 PM Boss gets register working, and helps customer three who is apparently unable to pick any fabric by herself.
5:00 PM Co-worker comes in (fifteen minutes early, in fact), Boss leaves.
5:15 PM Try to finish display that is supposed to be done by 6, discover there is A)Not enough room, B)Not enough pegs.
5:50 PM Still working on damn display.
6:15 PM cram display together, 6 PM class is in swing, relative calm descends.
6:30 PM run to store next door and get food for self and co-worker.
7:00 PM Breathe. Yay.
7:40 PM Customers come in with antique quilt, insist on fabric that will match it.
7:45 PM Class customers leave on time and cheerfully, because they are all regulars and awesome.
8:00 PM Bridgie calls to say she is staying home for night, but sick.
8:05 PM Wish people with antique quilt would get on with it.
8:15 PM Get damn customers paid and out the door.
8:30 PM Get home. Work on dinner.
9:00 PM Play on net while eating. Because.
9:59 PM Wonder why the hell I'm still typing this.
Ah, the wonders of the internet, which is an ingenious and infinite method of wasting time.
Last weekend Bridgie came to a rehearsal and took photos for me, which is very cool because I cannot take photos of my own performance. I will now spam you with shadow puppet photos, because. I designed these last year and I still think they look okay, that's got to be worth something.
Color Kamba and grey Fisi talking
Giraffe shadow puppet, and 3D giraffe mask for comparison. That's Heidi's hand coming out the side there, and this was taken while sitting in a chair and getting a kid's eye view.
The celebration scene, where all the animals have been painted and are showing off their colors. This is pretty brief but my favourite part of the show, visually. Of course I also like it because nobody gives a hyena's ass what order the puppets go in for this.
Those springbok are totally pronking, which has been a term of much amusement for the cast when we are sleep deprived. That and god being an ashtray. No, really. The 'Great Spirit' is a glass ashtray with some water in it and saran wrap so it doesn't spill. Makes a great prismatic swirly effect on the projector.
Also, don't feel obligated to click this. I look like a dork. I have to wear sunglasses when I'm working because staring at the projector for that long would make me go blind otherwise.
Okay. That's... stuff. A lot of pointless rambling and enough pictures to kill anybody on dialup, like me. I want to add that I am so braindead that last night we were watching the Tick cartoons and Bridgie and I were RPing in a notebook, and the Tick asked a wish machine thingy for a BLT so my character, in a deeply serious scene, told his companion that 'being a mage is a dangerous sandwich.' I did have the brain cells to crack up right after I wrote it, instead of just passing the notebook back without noticing, but that was before the insomnia...
WTF of the day/week/January: This January, Henrico County issued a new decal we're supposed to have on our windshield. The old one was circular, about 3.5" diameter, but the new one is rectangular and about 4" big. I have one on my windshield, and I don't really notice it, but the minute they came out with these, people started complaining: They're too big, they're visually distracting, they're hard to see around, they're garish and obnoxious. Come on people, what are you doing, sticking it dead center on the driver's side of your windshield? But guess what, all the complaints brought it to the attention of the State Government, which apparently has dealt with this kind of thing before and passed a law years ago that the County decals cannot be larger than 3.5" which means that Henrico County has just made us all put something on our windshields that the state police could fine us for.
Jeenyus in government and your tax dollars at work folks.
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Date: Feb. 16th, 2007 03:34 am (UTC)And people who cannot make simple shopping decisions on their own should not be issued driver's licenses.
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Date: Feb. 16th, 2007 03:38 am (UTC)Heh, actually it was a couple, and the issue at hand is that there's only so well you can match 2007 fabric to a quilt made in the 1930's. There's thirties reproductions but...
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Date: Feb. 16th, 2007 03:53 am (UTC)I'm all for helping folks who need help, but I'm not their to be their instant best friend or personal shopper.
Anyways...you need to borrow a video camera. Or a cell phone with video capabilities, at least.
And I love your shades. :)
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Date: Feb. 18th, 2007 02:30 pm (UTC)I'll see what I can do, but I'm scrambling as it is just to do my day job and rehearsals, I can't video my own performance and we're doing the performances out of town so there won't be anyone I know there to do it for me.
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Date: Feb. 16th, 2007 03:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Feb. 16th, 2007 01:46 pm (UTC)Have a nice day! :D
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Date: Feb. 18th, 2007 02:32 pm (UTC)Yeah, the other part... heh. At least there's been some serious outcry over that too, but not enough. We don't want to stay in VA forever anyway.
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Date: Feb. 16th, 2007 07:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Feb. 18th, 2007 02:34 pm (UTC)