Spoils

Spoils

Finally on my vacation. I've had my fill of umpteen-hour flights to the various corners of the globe/nation, so I've decided to go for the exact opposite of 'getting the most' out of my vacation time this time around, and will be spending my time visiting the fabulous San Francisco Bay Area. I'm planning on doing a few Wushu workouts, doing a few jogs up to Lake Temescal, taking a long drive around to places that will help clear out my head, and spend time in coffee shops on my new MacBook stealing some poor sap's Wi-Fi to make...Read more

Spoils

Finally on my vacation. I've had my fill of umpteen-hour flights to the various corners of the globe/nation, so I've decided to go for the exact opposite of 'getting the most' out of my vacation time this time around, and will be spending my time visiting the fabulous San Francisco Bay Area. I'm planning on doing a few Wushu workouts, doing a few jogs up to Lake Temescal, taking a long drive around to places that will help clear out my head, and spend time in coffee shops on my new MacBook stealing some poor sap's Wi-Fi to make...Read more

Labor Month

FINAL-ly! First real weekend I've had all month -- there must be something ironic about having worked every single day since Labor Day in September. Appropriately enough, though, most of the crew has been enjoying a real windfall in wages precisely because of our embattled labor union contract, rendering material the otherwise intangible physical and psychological tolls of mis...Read more

Labor Month

Labor Month

FINAL-ly! First real weekend I've had all month -- there must be something ironic about having worked every single day since Labor Day in September. Appropriately enough, though, most of the crew has been enjoying a real windfall in wages precisely because of our embattled labor union contract, rendering material the otherwise intangible physical and psychological tolls of mis...Read more

It won't always be like this

It's 5am, and I'm at work.

From the day before.

It won't always be like this

It won't always be like this

It's 5am, and I'm at work.

From the day before.

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 closur...Read more