La Mancha Publicity Photos

howbearca, who is directing the show, posted some of the publicity stills on his LJ, including one very nice one with me in it.. Clicky clicky

My Son The Support Guy

Just before Mom & Dad moved, Earthlink, which they use for their Internet connection (yes, dial-up) managed to nuke the passwords for my account. Half an hour on the phone with a woman in India managed to change the account's password to "welcome", which got Dad online, but I forgot to try his Eudora, and he forgot to tell me till after I'd left that he had been unable to get email since the 9th.

They had nuked his email password too - it's an address managed by my account.

Last night I logged in and changed my email password and his to their appropriate cryptic strong passwords.

This morning he was unable to get online. Even though Eartlink's web site clearly states that I was only changing the email password, and not the dial-in password, it changed the dial-in password. Fine with me, because (a) I want my email and dial-in passwords to be the same and (b) my password is a lot harder to crack than "welcome".

So this morning I walked dad through changing the dial-in password, and we fired up Eudora, and it worked.

Last night I'd logged into his email account and nuked more than 500 pieces of spam. But my parents are subscription junkies (mom gets onto recipe, nutrition, travel and diabetes mailing lists and Dad has brokerage reports from maybe 12 reputable sites. Bottom line: 447 message from 4/9 to 4/23. By dial-up. Less than a dozen are from friends & family.

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Baby sister called to thank me for the state quarters proof set. I've been sending them to her since the first set, it started out as a birthday present but over time the Mint has gotten more efficient and they come out almost two months earlier. I also sent the box to hold the collection - all 10 years have been completed, all 50 states have quarters.

The next program is Presidential dollars, four a year, which started last year. I will not be buying those. They also have politically correctly for 2008 changed the First Lady coin program name to First Spouses. Those also started last year, and are $10 half-ounce gold piece replicas, but sell for about $600 each (each coin, not each set!). A little out of my price range. Which also describes First Ladies, come to think of it.
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Rehearsal in the Nursery

Very productive rehearsal tonight, but we stopped just before a section which I have not been blocked into yet. It's two lines, BFD.  We are using a space way down in the southernmost reaches of San Jose, it's a 45-minute drive from work, mostly because there is no way around the rush hour traffic. Nice big space which looks like it was built to be a basketball court but is now the nursery school for a Lutheran church. They put textured, possibly rubberized carpet over a cement floor, and painted the basketball court lines on top of that. There are large, very low round tables and lots of little chairs which I don't think I would have fit into beyond kindergarten. But it also has a full catering kitchen and lots of folding chairs and tables in the back closet, it's surely used for banquets and such. Maybe wedding receptions too.

Good rehearsal, with all but one cast member. He was missed - he doesn't have a lot of lines but the ones ha has are important. And he's a fine pro-quality actor as well. Some of my entrances and exits were changed, but that's what this partial run-through was for.

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Productive end of the day at work, too. Found three bugs just killing time waiting for tomorrow - when we're due to start the final round of tests before product release.

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CC26 tomorrow after work. It looks like the only event in the evening is the Victorian Underwear Party. Sounds like a photo op. Room parties afterward, I guess. I should be able to spend all Saturday and Sunday till about 5. If you see me with my face stuck in a black notebook, I'm studying lines. We need to be off-book by the 29th, I think.