My Big Behind

Somehow I missed the tragic news a few years ago that Dan Fogelberg was done in by prostate cancer. And that he had recorded one last song for his wife. And it was turned into an album of mostly previously unreleased tunes. Which I am now listening to.

So, Monday. Started with a team meeting, boss announced that none of our team, including our two fellows in Belgium, will be part of the 4,000 folks whom Motorola Mobility announced would be set free. He said there were others in the building who would be. That sucks, because there is no reason for it other than appearances, and we need more people, not less, to make more $$.

After the meeting I picked up the bike, left it locked to the rack. Lunch was at Specialty's, their bad grammar, not mine. I keep forgetting how bad their food is, because they have the best sticky buns. And there is a lot of eye candy at lunchtime.

Home briefly, then BASFA.

Home again, processed the photo shoot pix, made a DVD for the model. Also used DVD Decrypter to rescue a commercial disk which developed some unplayable bits which locked up the DVD player, and Corel DVD Movie Factory to nuke the copyright crap, add chapters back in, and burn a playable disk.

By then it was too late to write anything.

Caught Up

Tuesday. Played some more with the commercial DVD, printed a copy of the original using Epson scanner and Print CD. These days I only use Inkjet printable blanks. And received a notice that I had rehearsals at 7. And tomorrow. And Thursday. I'm excused to go to band rehearsal if I want, but I need Anything Goes rehearsals far more.

Work, lots to do, a new build cleared the way to do a pile of testing which had been delayed forever. Lunchtime I tried Specialty's again, but after their iPad ordering system crashed twice on two different machines (after not being able to read a brand new credit card 3x each) I went to Sizzler across the street.

More work, enough to keep me till 6:30, and then the crawl through traffic to north San Jose's rehearsal hall. I was 15 minutes early, and nobody else was there. Weird. By 7 almost everyone who was called was there. And another surprise, I have two more lines and two more entrances which were not listed anywhere. The scene had been blocked when I was in Thailand, it would have been nice for someone to send a note or something. Easy stuff, and nicer to be at a rehearsal than sitting at home.

It was one of my favorite scenes in the show the two times I played one of the main characters, and it was sad to see how not comic timinged the guy playing that part is, but the lines are so funny that it's pretty hard to not get laughs. The rehearsal reinforced my impression that this will be a mediocre production. Not bad, but not on a par with most shows this group does, or with the two versions I've been in.

Done at 8:30.

Home, played on FB, had dinner (who would have thought Domino would love corn kernels I pulled off the cob?) and here I am.

Plans for tomorrow:
Work
Rehearsals
If they end on time, birthday Karaoke for another theater friend, real close to home.