Hit and Run

Today I was driving a big ass truck for work doing returns for a Bud Light commercial and saw the fallowing:

1 someone hit a parked car and keep going.
2 someone fixing a flat in on coming traffic around a blind corner.
3 someone driving on BOTH sides of the road at once.
4 a truck full of sand spilled on the freeway.
5 4 out of five cars sitting at a GREEN light, drivers on the cellphone.

Be careful out there, it's not safe.

lead man II

Well I completed The Taco Bell job. It went well, everyone said I did a good job.

It was very stressful. I have no problem telling people what to do when I'm not responsible for the results, but when I am it makes it much harder. I found myself second guessing myself. I think that that will go away with time and expierance.

Fortunately I have a very good crew who know their jobs and do them well, I pretty much just have to get the boat out of the harbor and it pretty much and the set will pretty much run itself. I did some times try to steer it which makes for a fun but stressful time as to see where you end up at the end. I did make a few mistakes and my crew did not let them become a problem.

The main difference I found is after the job is over you still have to runaround town and tie up the loose ends of lost props, damaged props and fixing property damage done to the location.

Although I have not received the check yet I'm sure the extra $100 a day will be worth it.

The Mall

Yesterday I went to the mall to see if I could find a Harry Potter DVD. I had not been to the mall on the weekend for quite some time. It was a strange sight to see there were people walking around in a daze. It was like the mall air had put them into a stupor. As I passed the sleepwalkers and free range seven year olds I noticed two moms slowly pushing strollers they stop in the middle of the isle to talk. One was a double wide, this meant that the whole isle was blocked. Why would some one be so inconsiderate of others! One would not stop ones car in the middle of the road, would one?

After not finding the video I started back to my car and noticed that it was happening to me I was beggining to feel sluggish and dazed, thats when I noticed that none of the stores in the mall had anything that I wanted. It turns out I'm not in their targeted demographic 16-29. I'm getting old. WTF!

lead man

Tomorrow I start my first job a s a lead man instead of a set dresser. It will be interesting. Ill let you know how it goes.

what have you done reciently

The other day I was working on a game show where the contestants bet whether the betee could do a certain challenge. There was a guy who said he could ski over eggs. I spent half a day in the back of a refrigerator truck gluing eggs to egg crates so they could be put in place on a ski ramp in sections as oppose to one egg at a time. The riggers spend their day placing the egg crates on the ramp. At the end of the day the guy comes in with all his ski gear to have a go at it. He fails awesomely. He leaves two lines of broken eggs down the ramp. His skis are so covered in egg when he gets to the bottom he falls down. It was quite funny.

Today I made snow in 95 deg. weather. Fake snow is made from shredded plastic grocery bags (I did not have to shred them). I had to make it fall in front of the window. Its sticks to sweat.