Now they pay me for it

No excuses -- my life has been pretty dull of late. So when the announcement went out that we were cranking up to 60+ hour weeks for these last weeks on the show, I generally saw it as getting a huge pay bonus for not having a life. Long days + full Saturdays have been the rule for me the last three weeks, with about three more before we finish.

Including this one. Besides the huge bummer of losing the R&R of a 3-day weekend (we'll be in Saturday AND Monday), there's the added element for me of the Bay Bridge closure this weekend. I'd BART over, but I really don't want to rely on Muni over a holiday weekend when I get into SF. It's bad enough during weekdays. So I'll be doing the Bay/Golden Gate/RSR circuit at least twice this weekend. At least I'll have the opportunity to swing by the old Brew Co. and pick up some of that Blueberry stuff.

I haven't done this kind of schedule since the DR/RT days, and even then I don't think I ever did 60+ for longer than a week or two. And I don't think the stress I dealt with then even begins to approach what I'm dealing with these days.

It's pretty taxing, but I gotta say there's this urgency to it all that gives you a real sense of purpose. Military metaphors have long gotten trite in the work place, but we're happy to excuse them in such situations. You really do feel like you're on this mission, in it together with the show's crew trying to get it all done. Together. When it's like this it's remarkable how easy it is to push any judgments and opinions you develop about somebody far, far into the background so long as they can get the work done. And when they actually do get the work done, which happens the majority of the time, it's equally remarkable how insignificant and petty those judgments and opinions suddenly become.

The work really is looking spectacular. There's a sense that we might have gone a bit too conservative on the stereoscopy on our last project, so we're pushing it much more this time. I think you'll really like what you see.