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Sure enough, Sound Guy/Boss was late for yesterday's rehearsal.
Sure enough, he was trashed.
Long before I stopped drinking, people showing up to work plastered makes me crazy. If I was more familiar with his computerized sound board, I might have been able to do something more productive than just unmute the instruments and give the guest entertainer singer some reverb. When he showed up, I probably wouldn't been able to tell he was as far gone as he was if he didn't tell me, but once he told me I could see the signs everywhere. I like this guy, I like working for him, but it just made a bad day worse. He was fine for show time, but that's not really the point.
On a side note, I'm finding people's reaction to the fact that I DON'T drink - at first there's a sense of disappointment and "are you crazy", but then they do a 180 and say "Wow - good for you, good for you - I wish I could stop."
I find myself then saying the opposite of what people with addictions say : "I can start drinking any time I want to - I can, I just don't want to."
And it's true.
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Last night my foot was so bad that I resorted to taking tylanol and sleeping pills just to get some semblence of rest. I've gone back to icing it at the end of the day, but relief only lasts a few minutes and then I can no longer feel the cold but the pain comes back. It's the ship's rocking that makes it so bad at night and I'm dreading the trip from LA to Hawaii because of just how nasty the Pacific can be this time of year.
Sure enough, he was trashed.
Long before I stopped drinking, people showing up to work plastered makes me crazy. If I was more familiar with his computerized sound board, I might have been able to do something more productive than just unmute the instruments and give the guest entertainer singer some reverb. When he showed up, I probably wouldn't been able to tell he was as far gone as he was if he didn't tell me, but once he told me I could see the signs everywhere. I like this guy, I like working for him, but it just made a bad day worse. He was fine for show time, but that's not really the point.
On a side note, I'm finding people's reaction to the fact that I DON'T drink - at first there's a sense of disappointment and "are you crazy", but then they do a 180 and say "Wow - good for you, good for you - I wish I could stop."
I find myself then saying the opposite of what people with addictions say : "I can start drinking any time I want to - I can, I just don't want to."
And it's true.
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Last night my foot was so bad that I resorted to taking tylanol and sleeping pills just to get some semblence of rest. I've gone back to icing it at the end of the day, but relief only lasts a few minutes and then I can no longer feel the cold but the pain comes back. It's the ship's rocking that makes it so bad at night and I'm dreading the trip from LA to Hawaii because of just how nasty the Pacific can be this time of year.