Film Society

just finished up the new email for the film society. I don't know that
I'm completely happy with it, but I think it might work a LITTLE
better than the old version. We'll see though. In the meantime, I have
to be at a meeting at 6am so it's off to bed for me so that I can get
a QUALITY 4 hours. MMMMM

Things that drive me batty...

two things have to be added to the list of things that just completely
drive me batty today.

#1... people who hear something I say completely differently than the
way I say it, agree and then upon clarification from me, agree again
and say that that's what they were agreeing with as they state what
they thought they heard the first time again.

#2... programming directors who don't air the correct program that you
took the time to drop ship to them with Saturday delivery with
explicit writing on the envelop that say it's for air on Monday. Why
go through the hassle and the expense of getting something to them if
they're not going to run it. Blah.

I rode a little over 40 miles this weekend and it felt pretty good.
Saturday I went out riding with my friends Russel and Cody. I usually
don't ride with Cody because he's one of those scrawny guys that
climbs hills like a Mountain Goat. Anyway, Cody decided he's going to
invite his friend Danny to ride with us. Danny's
a nice guy, but Danny's also one of the best riders in the state.

http://www.teamhealthnet.com/team/dannypate.html

I've dubbed the ride "Punish the fat man" for the fat man (me) was
severely punished as we did a few thousand feet worth of climbing. The
flats? I'm fine. The hills? sucking wind. Of course, I didn't realize
at
first that I was climbing one of the main climbs in my big ring up
front... but it was still a lesson in humbleness.

Sunday I was excited about going riding with the cycling club, but for
some reason I completely spaced out what time the ride was and arrived
an hour early to (unsurprisingly given it was an hour early) not find
anyone there. So, thinking the ride had been cancelled, I rode off on
my own and climbed through Garden of the Gods for the second time in
two days. This time, knowing what the climb was like, I was able to
pace myself a bit more and not stop nearly as much. Of course, I
wasn't chasing after some pro cyclist either.

But anyway, back to editing, which lately seems to be what my
existence at work is. I do love my job though.

-B

News from Florida...

Hiya. We just got internet access at the house. It's been three days of
absoulte grunt work cutting down trees (Banana, Mango and Grapefruit)
hacking apart aluminum Lanais frame(s) and living in powerless, hot, muggy
southeastern swampy Florida. There's been a strictly police enforced 8:00
curfew so we've been heading to bed early and getting up with the sunrise.

Today, about noon, the power came on. A couple hours later, we got cable
(and internet!) It looks (we didn't turn anything on) like the production
equipment is alright, but the church we had everything in is just trashed.
It looks like the roof was a sardine can, just peeled up, rolled and
thrown off the roof into the parking lot. Once we walked in you could just
smell all the mold that's quickly popped up into the dank shredded
interior.

We're finishing some minor cleanup and then wrapping up. We leave
tomorrow. I'm surprised at how much stuff is still here, Almost every other
house in the area survived intact, the boss' house seems to have taken the
brunt. There's no real good reason, I guess. Anyway, that's the scoop. I'm
anxious to get home, though I look forward to showing up when I'm not
entering a state of emergency area. Everyone we've met is just completely
shellshocked with the thought that Ivan might swing in.

I can hear Larry (the boss) calling everyone off to go grab dinner (and
beer!) so I should run, but I'll have more later.

off we go into the wild blue yonder...

Yesterday night I was convinced that I was going to be at our first
Refuse service on Tuesday night, but this afternoon I got a call from
Larry (one of the company heads) asking me to head down to Florida and
do grunt work. So, I fly out tomorrow and come back on Friday. We were
going to leave everything for a little while and come back to it, but
with Ivan potentially tracking into Florida, we didn't think that
would be a good idea. So, I'm going to miss the first service. I know
there'll be more, but I'm really bumming about this. Your prayers
would be appreciated.

Oh, we've also gotten reports that our studio equipment probably is
trashed. When someone at the church picked up one of our cameras,
water poured out. I guess it means we'll be able to get new equipment,
but it's frustrating.

Bri

Prayer request...

just talked to one of my coworkers. The conference we were going to be
putting on next Friday is off indefinitely. The roof of the church
we're connected with in West Palm Beach was completely ripped off and
the building's been condemmed. In addition, we've got at least
$100,000 worth of studio equipment in the building. Cameras,
switchers, production lights, monitors... oh well, thankfully it's
insured if it turns out to be completely destroyed (which is what I'm
guessing). My bosses house, while surviving, didn't completely stay in
one piece. The enclosure over their pool was ripped off, some of their
hurricane shutters were destroyed and they lost their grapefruit tree.
I don't know if any windows blew in yet.

This storm moved so slowly that it kept 100+ mile an hour winds in the
area for over 40 hours. I don't know whether I'm still going down
there next week, though I'd like to. I guess part of it's voyeuristic,
but I'd really like to be there to help. Who knows if that's going to
happen. More later as I find stuff out.