March 21, 2008

  • Live Blogging My Day...

    Exciting day...here's the play-by-play...stay tuned all day for continuous updates:

    4:15AM--Alarm goes off. It's my iPhone playing "2000 Years" by Travis Cottrell. The ringtone always starts at the chorus..."Will I fall down and worship..." Good stuff.
    4:33AM--Drive out of the Midway parking lot with Nathaniel asleep in the back and a bag of snacks on the seat next to me. I'm headed for West LA.
    4:55AM--Massive fog near La Jolla. I slow waaaaaaay down to about 60mph.
    4:59AM--Fog clears after a few miles. Phew...
    6:07AM--Starbucks stop in Irvine. Nathaniel wakes up and is as sweet as a button. I buy him a bagel. He asks, "Is this the one that comes with cheese?" (cream cheese? yes...)
    6:25AM--Arrive at Christy's parents house in Placentia to drop off Nathaniel. He instructs me to say goodbye to mommy and Noah, and tells me that he'll miss Noah and us tonight when he goes to bed. Awww...
    6:35AM--Poop stop. Chevron. Fill up gas tank...
    7:30AM--Arrive at Big Time Studios in West LA. No one is really here yet...I'll wait a bit.
    7:35AM--Someone shows up and lets me in, but they don't have a key to the office I need to get in to. I meet a nice person named Rogina. She works for "The Company". Yes. There's a company called "The Company". I think she has an accent...British??
    7:36AM--I read a devotional book.
    8:00AM--Susan, the owner of the studio arrives and lets me in to the place I need to be...she looks concerned and asks how I got into the building..."I followed some people in???" Shhhhhh...she doesn't look happy.
    8:32AM--Logic crashes. I pause to blog. Back to work now. (It turns out I'm orchestrating "Gabriel's Theme" from this movie. It's a pretty theme--and then I see this little window with the video it's going along to--BEEEEAUTIFUL!! Man, this is cool...

    10:30AM--This is taking longer than expected. Getting used to someone else's setup is kinda hard, even for a smarty pants like myself. I figure some stuff out...these sounds sound good!

    11:12AM--Snack break. Hmm..out to the car...what do we have here? Yum. FiberOne Bar, Sour Skittles, and Vitamin Water. Yep! Good enough...back to work...less than three hours until I have to leave.

    1:05PMP--Less than an hour until I have to leave. Not good...I'm making great progress--in fact, I had an idea out of the blue to try something (in order to accomplish something the composer asked for) and the crazy thing is--after working on two bars for about 20 minutes...it worked!! I'm encouraged, to say the least...

    2:11PM--Heading out! Back to San Diego! Pray for me for safe travels and light traffic...thanks!

    3:30PM--I finally make it from West LA to Downtown LA. At this point my blood pressure is pretty high, as I start to feel like I may never make it to San Diego. If there was any time in my life where I could say I was praying without ceasing...it was this drive.

    4:10PM--I make a stop in Fullerton to pickup Heidi and get a pretzel and a cliff bar. With Heidi I can now take the carpool lane...phew. Blood pressure calming down slightly as the freeway starts moving faster...

    6:00PM--Jack in the Box stop in National City. Blood pressure back to normal as we are only 15 mins. away from Midway.

    6:20PM--change into dress clothes.

    7:00PM--Orchestra rehearsal (I made it!)
    8:00PM--Final dress rehearsal with everyone (great job to all...)

    9:30PM--McDonalds run for hot fudge sundaes. You can't buy a better dessert for a buck anywhere. Same price it was in 1997...I know because my freshman year of college I used to save up that $1.07 for a once a week trip to McD's...what a treat!

    10:30PM--bed. Goodnight.

    Stay tuned!

Comments (11)

  • miss you- sorry my phone is dead and I have no car to go anywhere- coffee!!!!  It's good to make me work on my paper, though.

    Noah woke up, looked around him in the bed and whispers "where's Nathaniel?" "Oh, he's in bathroom". 

    When I could not hook up mario world/nintendo...noah found a cord in the basket and said "here it is- I did it!" and plugged it in to the tv. He was right.

  • our son is a genius!

  • The Company?!?!? That's who operates Airwolf!!

  • The first rule of The Company is that you don't talk about The Company.

  • Do you carry a flash drive with your key commands on it?  It's way easy
    to load them in while you're using it and changing back to their
    settings when you're done.

    Please make sure you get some sleep at some point...

  • you really had to tell us about your poop stop?  really, though, Daniel.  REALLY.

  • Hey. This blog pulls out all the stops to bring its readers the most accurate and up-to-date information. ALL the stops.

    Even poop stops.

  • My whole life is a poop stop.

  • LOL. I still can't believe Christy didn't understand Gap bag, especially if her whole life is a poop stop.

  • About the APU job thing?  Been there, done that.  Didn't even get a callback.  Got a place for me in the Registrar's office?  I'm *so* there.

  • There is such a thing as cramming too much into a day.    JD says I do it all the time.  It drives him a little crazy.

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