11:31 am - Heh
Just one more for the collection ...
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Just one more for the collection ...
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I had a dream last night ...
Where I took becky to the disney shareholders meeting and it was held in fargo this year and no one showed up but me, becky, lillian disney, and michael eisner because it was so cold and so far away, and since it was so small lillian had the meeting in a small room with a tv set in the corner and we all sat on the floor indian style while lillian took charge over the meeting and everyone was amazed at how frank she was and michael eisner didnt say a word and she gave us all little candies to suck on, and while she was giving the state of the company address i was gluing pieces of paper to this little piece of cardboard decopauge like and lillian kept looking at me in curiosity to what i was doing and then she had us all take a break as we watched tv ...
and then the alarm went off and I woke up
The Commerce Casino!
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Which would be a lousy excuse to jump off a cliff, by the way.
Ten things I've done which you've probably not done (or something to that effect)
1.) got Stevie Wonder a cup of coffee with "natural" sweetener (I used cantaloupe juice)
2.) survived the crash landing of a small aircraft which at first had its engine on fire
3.) sold puppies to Marlon Brando and Anson Williams (that's Potsie to you and me)
4.) got poked at with a cane by Orson Welles
5.) hung out in a steamy sauna for weeks on end with Jennifer Aspen
6.) survived a head on collision on a desert highway where other people died
7.) had my name on the Mars Pathfinder rover and the Cassini Spacecraft orbiting Saturn
8.) flown in both the goodyear and fuji blimps
9.) met neil armstrong
and ...
10.) over the years, have peed alongside Michael Jackson, Don Henley (twice now!), Sting, James Cameron and Dustin Hoffman
Eight cameras, eight tape machines, eight times the work.
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Kind of a Chuch / Chuck thing going on this morning ...
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Mmm, World Poker Tournament taping today and tomorrow.
Some games go for six hours, sheesh. Wish I knew a little more about the game, it might just be actually fun to watch.
Just took this a minute ago, looking down to Downtown L.A. From Pine
Cone Rd.
Why? Beats me.
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Just shaking out a few audio buzzes before we start tonight, we
tape around 5:00 and hopefully we won't go too long, I want to see Mom
at VHH before she goes to sleep tonight, she's getting pretty depressed
being there since early January. Poor Mom.
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The excitement never stops around here.
While I was at work yesterday around 3:00PM, Becky was in the office on her iBook, it was raining, hailing, and occasionally she could hear thunder, when she heard a loud CRACK and saw a giant flash of white light as the power went out.
Lightning had struck a transformer on a power pole one house up our street. The neighbors found broken pieces of porcelain below the damaged transformer, but luckily it didn't explode or catch fire. I got home around 9:00PM to a darkened street, and five or six Edison crews working away on the poles above, their megawatt floodlights casting eerie shadows on the mountains behind us. Apparently all three transformers were damaged on our cul-de-sac, as each had to be replaced.
And I was hungry, but I'm not about to let a little missing electron action ruin my day. Since our stove is electric, I had no way to cook anything in the house. so I fired up the barbecue and boiled some water to make oatmeal. Found my trusty Coleman gas lantern and hung that on the patio roof, and between its light and the lights from the Edison crews overhead I made myself quite a nice little supper!
We got our power back on around 4:00AM, but these minimalist Webster Wiley homes get cold quick.
I love the rain. I really really love watching the rain fall, when I'm
home, when I have a hot cup of coffee, when I DON'T HAVE TO DRIVE
THROUGH IT AND SHARE THE ROAD WITH KNUCKLEHEADS.
Thank you.
Today has me at the Commerce Casino (sigh), engineering yet another
taping of the World Poker Tournament. The fun meter's pegging zero on
this one.
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Yumm.
Here's the flash flood advisory the National Weather Institute just released about 25 minutes ago for the Foothills where I live...
"Intense rainfall of between three quarters of an inch and one and a quarter
inches per hour are expected to become more widespread across
the warning area through midnight... then continue through the
night. This will produce dangerous and life threatening flooding...
especially in areas of steep terrain. Many mudslides and
Rockslides will occur overnight... and there will be mud and
debris flows near and below burn areas."
I'm going to crawl under the covers, turn out the lights and listen to the rain fall!
... while I was driving 80 MPH in the pouring rain with my sunroof open
from Northridge to La Crescenta.
Sorry for hogging the bandwidth.
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Hunter S. Thompson is dead?
Man, that sucks.
Just a test to see if I've fixed a little lj upload problem.
(And a shot looking towards Pasadena and Pomona from the 8th floor at
VHH this morning)
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For the first time in five days, we have sun! Just a little patch
directly over house, not much, but it's a start. And the Davis station
measured around two inches of rain last night, which just stopped about
90 minutes ago.
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(click for a bigger image)
I've never had so much coffee from Starbucks in my life, but now every
day I stop by on my way to visit Mom at Verdugo Hills Hospital, and I
pick up a coffee for my Dad and for myself.
This caffeine habit may have to stop soon, 'cos it's ... well ... what's
the problem again?
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Thanks to John Waters' movie Pecker, I now know what tea bagging is.
I think I'll ponder the film a little more while I'm at work.
(but I really want to find a cheap camera at a thrift shop now!)
It’s 5:30 AM and I’m wide awake, tossing and turning under the covers. Why fight it, so I got up and I’m making a pot of coffee as I listen to the rain come down on the flat roof of our house.
Exciting, isn’t it.
Cool.
I'm on hold for tomorrow, when I might be working with Sea Launch to provide video for a booster launch Friday afternoon.
The scheduled launch is hinging on the weather, if the seas are rough in the Caribbean, the launch is scrubbed.
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