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the_eggwhiteToday, for the second day in a row, I am working from home. This is due to the fact that I'm lighting shows in the evening, and really I need to be present and conscious by around 6:30pm at the latest.
Last night was opening night, which went quite reasonably - it's a bugger of a show and rehearsal time has been short, so there were a few bumps... but that's to be expected. They covered the bumps well, and I reckon most of the problems were down to nerves... which shouldn't be a problem now.
Lighting wise, it's been going pretty well. It's supposed to be simple show to light, but I couldn't be doing with that, so I made it nice and complicated. Well... it's still kind of simple in many ways, but all of the lighting cues come in rapid bursts... So I get long periods of doing nothing, followed by short flurries of chaos, followed by more nothing.
On the work front I'm working mainly on bug fixes whilst I'm working from home... so far one of them's stumping me totally, and one's turned out to not actually exist. I'd already fixed it, but it got reopened by mistake and I spent ages trying to track down why it might still be broken for certain people... when it wasn't. Oh well... it happens. So now I'm working on a couple of related CSS / content bugs. They're minor, but since I have a splitting headache they're not going as swimmingly as they could. I suspect I'm making a meal of it and should find something else to do for the time being instead. Let my head recover for tonight.
However, my Ice-Crusher has arrived. When I was investigating them earlier in the week, I happened to look on ebay a little later in the day and found one with quick shipping, a buy it now option and where they'd ship same day if I ordered in time. So I ordered in time and got a £40 ice crusher for £10. Can't really argue. Now I can just get a bunch of ice and take that to the aftershow party with a crusher, rather than having to crush vast amounts of ice ahead of time and put it into tupperware containers in a coolbox... I can just take a coolbox full of ice and deal with it in-situ.
Last night was opening night, which went quite reasonably - it's a bugger of a show and rehearsal time has been short, so there were a few bumps... but that's to be expected. They covered the bumps well, and I reckon most of the problems were down to nerves... which shouldn't be a problem now.
Lighting wise, it's been going pretty well. It's supposed to be simple show to light, but I couldn't be doing with that, so I made it nice and complicated. Well... it's still kind of simple in many ways, but all of the lighting cues come in rapid bursts... So I get long periods of doing nothing, followed by short flurries of chaos, followed by more nothing.
On the work front I'm working mainly on bug fixes whilst I'm working from home... so far one of them's stumping me totally, and one's turned out to not actually exist. I'd already fixed it, but it got reopened by mistake and I spent ages trying to track down why it might still be broken for certain people... when it wasn't. Oh well... it happens. So now I'm working on a couple of related CSS / content bugs. They're minor, but since I have a splitting headache they're not going as swimmingly as they could. I suspect I'm making a meal of it and should find something else to do for the time being instead. Let my head recover for tonight.
However, my Ice-Crusher has arrived. When I was investigating them earlier in the week, I happened to look on ebay a little later in the day and found one with quick shipping, a buy it now option and where they'd ship same day if I ordered in time. So I ordered in time and got a £40 ice crusher for £10. Can't really argue. Now I can just get a bunch of ice and take that to the aftershow party with a crusher, rather than having to crush vast amounts of ice ahead of time and put it into tupperware containers in a coolbox... I can just take a coolbox full of ice and deal with it in-situ.
