current mood: artistic current music: Earthsuit - Do You Enjoy the Distortion?

The Fourth of July was a bad day.

Not a bad show, mind you, and not an unhappy day spent. A bad day from a lighting perspective.

The rig was fine, focus went fast, even though I cut into the soundcheck a bit, so...

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We were in Manhattan, Kansas Saturday, opening for Rascal Flatts in what appeared to be the Cottonwood capital of the freaking world. The show took place in a valley that is lined - nay, infested - with cottonwood trees. Literally hundreds of them. The sheer volume of floating cotton floating in t...

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So, I'm going on tour.

Day one. Fly date. Clothing? Check. Cell phone charger? Check. Thirty-four page spreadsheet detailing every cue for every song? Check.

Passport? ::looks around:: Uh...passport? Oh, kronk. This would be the time for some...colorful metaphors.

Tear the apartment apart. It...

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(Or, The Numbers! The Fry My Brain!)

When moving from a comfortable hourly wage of $19/hr to a...less comfortable wage of $7/hr, budgeting becomes less of a nonchalant "Well, I guess I might check my account balance. After dinner." act and more of a necessity. So today, I shall examine and take bu...

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Just got a job offer from Bandit Lites.

For those who don't know, they're a huge lighting company.

This is good. And this is bad.

Good, because it's a huge step in the right direction.

Bad, because they're offering a starting wage of...$7/hr.

They say that you can advance quickly, and I ho...

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