Trying to deal with someone losing it, sometimes, is like trying to rescue a drowning person who's smiling peacefully under the surface and trying to pull you under the waves with them, and who gets angry and thrashes if you try to pull them up. And there's no way to just save them, at least that I've found. I just have to hope they figure out ( Read more... )

Grr, Livejournal is for overdramatic ranting, right? Good. Ranting vent incoming, ignore if you're not in the mood ( Read more... )

Our house is full of kittens. Good. One of them peed on my ranger jacket. Less good.

Many ups and downs of late, but c'est la vie, no?

Santa Cruz Weekly is running an ad for Santa Cruz Decompression... and the picture they picked is the one of our fire conclave. Neat! It's on page 32.

Today was a day of feeling very competent, generally. My dance piece was praised by the director of a dance therapy program who specialized her studies in Indonesian dance. The heads of the Santa Cruz Follies keep going over how much better their sound is now that I took over (I've run it two years in a row now, and they're still raving!). A guy ( Read more... )

I think I might be about to get promoted beyond my level of competence here... I didn't even mean to end up in that job and now they want to put me in charge? It was an accident! *sigh* I guess it's a compliment.

Over a year in the making, really, if we include planning stages. I think it went well. Frankly, it was better than anything else we put out this year. So... joy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6uHLf2RKMg

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I spent the last two days working on what should have been a 7' cable pull. Due to some interesting pathing decisions on the part of the conduit guys, the cable ran down from the sound console, into the room on the left, up through that room to the floor above, back sideways, then down... to the rack 4' behind the console. Also, they only had ( Read more... )

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