I made a big  update post..  for some i didn't add in, was because i was wait8ing for posts from PCs.

Closed the show last night...I've mentioned it before, but post-show letdown is serious.  Zombie Prom is a short show...we started just after 7, finished the show just before 9.  They decided they weren't going to strike the set or anything that night...they still have three weeks of classes, so they've got plenty of time to do it in class, so show strike was really simple...for me, it was just emptying the siphon bottles for my airbrushes, cleaning (kind of) the brushes, and packing everything up.  I was loaded up and we were leaving by 9:30 or so.  I had my car unloaded by 10...

Keep in mind, I don't normally get to sleep before 1 or even 2am, so when I say I went straight to bed after unloading my car...that's WAY out of character for me.  Started a YouTube video playing, fell asleep almost immediately (wasn't intending to...I had pillows propped up behind me so I was sitting up...), woke up almost two hours later, took care of the night-time necessaries and repositioned the pillows and went back to sleep.

Woke up today just before noon.

I did get almost all of the stage painted yesterday before I had to go to the show...the backstage area on the Stage Right side still needs the floor painted, but we had two illusions in that space, so it wasn't happening yesterday.  But it was also a little over 70deg yesterday, and most the stage floor was visibly dry by the time I finished off the sections I COULD paint, so we should be able to hit that on the next warm day and be good to go.

The other fun thing ('fun' being used in an ironic sense, here...)?  After it being 70+deg yesterday, it's SNOWING today.  Not thrilled with that, hope it warms back up a bit, because we're doing lighting focus tomorrow night and it sucks being up in the basket lift when it's cold out (it sucks more being stuck down on the stage, because at least when I'm in the lift, I'm up against the ceiling where it's relatively warm.)

snow..that sounds about  right. we had  track meets where  My kids  ran through a  sudden blizzard, that last  15 minus and the sun came back out. A few years  ago, my fr4iends' brother  died of Covid and some  other things...he  stayed over my houe and we threw i football around..he..um..isn't in as good  as shape as me, as far as being able to run, , I tossed hi a  hard liner upp the road, where there was snowand it  lifted him off the ground   enough for him to crasdh and burn... all i said was " See?  should have done this in the yard!"

but that was  like  Mat 11?.. it has  snowed on my B-day many times  in my life..track meets..and  the first Preom i took my wife to..so? yeah..Snow in may sounds about  right.

One of my neighbors posted something on FB about it snowing, and someone else commented, "Winter isn't REALLY over in northern Utah until it's snowed at least once during the first week of May..."

It's a little bit of an overstatement, but not by much.

I was talking on the phone with the assistant lighting designer, about prepping stuff for tomorrow night, and he kind of laughed and said, "Glad I looked at the FULL weather forecast before I packed to come out here..."  If he'd dressed for yesterday's weather, he'd be absolutely miserable tomorrow night.  Tomorrow's supposed to top out in the low 50s, Tuesday is supposed to be in the mid-40s...by Saturday, we're supposed to be pushing 70 again.  Spring in northern Utah...

And sometime in the last four hours, it stopped snowing and has warmed up to almost 40deg...

been wavering from the mid 40's to 60's here today.

Oldest Grand daughter has   Confrance  championships  to day...right now there is thick  fog and  supposed to rain today..they have to go over the  mountian, it  like a differant world there.. so maybe  they'll be dry..or? it5 could be worse!

 high 50's  right now. It was in High  50's when we played football yesterday and rain on us.... the two younger girls ran in the rain for their Little  kids  Running

63 degrees here (she says, counting on her paws - don't think in Farenheit) and set to get warmer over the week.

Time to consider shedding my winter coat. White fur everywhere!!!

Haley runs about: "Snowing!!  It's Snowi.. ack ack <spits a bit> dog hair?"

And then it turned around and snowed another inch after I left last night...

I think (I hope!) we're done with it.  Spent seven hours focusing lights and rewiring speakers at the stage, in not-quite-freezing temperatures...

Had the boom-lift get stuck on me in the fully-extended position, inside the theater (outdoor theater with a roof over it...) and it took us ten minutes of fiddling with it and trying this and that before we finally got it to start retracting the boom again.  Asked my boss to have the park mechanics come take a look at it tomorrow because I REALLY don't want to have that happen again.

But, hey...we've got almost all of the lighting focused...there are, like, four things that need to be checked and/or fixed, overhead, and all the lights that we disconnected on the deck so we could paint need to be moved back into place (now that the carpenters are done spraying sawdust all over everything!)  Need to get a curtain hung, rig a pipe for a kabuki drop, and hopefully I get a chance to paint the last section of floor backstage before the end of the week (we start rehearsals on Friday!)  We made good headway!

  I can see a movie  scene. Montage with  a song playing  with a heavy drum beat of determination as a clock in the lower   corner of the  screen counts down!

I'm sorry if I miss any posts if anyone is waiting on a specific response please feel free to DM me, but I'm gonna be working on catching up tonight on posts life has just been busy as usual.

most  its   just 'encounters' at the ball and RP.

Sam and Zob are dancing

almost any angel woman at the ball...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nGmvovr7VI

Imagining some 6' blonde Texas gal getting on stage singing these (any one of them)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULXnAKefJ8o

any version of 'you light up my life' (they are all bad)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUz2TNMvL0

::chuckles::  I didn't even listen to Rosanne!

nothing worse than nasal singers

she' more like an anal singer!

Working on catching up...been dealing with an injured pet that requires me to break my sleep...

utting this  in my games.

 Hey Folks. When i was a letterCarrier ( and  our  Union ..the NALC..shop steward),  I had our office  join in with  others across the Nation ( America) for the NALC food Drive.

This Saturday is the  day of the largest , one day, food drive in the world. Those in the United states   should have received  some form of notice in the mail. You put   Canned goods  and Non-perishables out  for the lettercarriers to pick Up . Helpers will also be  helping pick goods  up for the Food banks in their area.

If you are unsure, call you Post office  and  ask if they are taking part, and if they aren't ..ask them why!...

 before i made it to the Postoffice, i had a couple really bad years for the family  with Layoffs, thanks  to 'trickle down' crap. we had to use our food bank a couple times. It made me feel bad, But? I remembered where i came from..there were times  we lacked Volunteered, and My  late wife, Myself and my kids  would gather the  goods from porches  and from the letter carriers  trucks .

 Its a great way to help those in need, in your area.....now? back to our  regular scheduled  RP!

Okay...we've made it through light focus (in slightly-above-freezing weather...I think the wind-chill Tuesday was hovering around 35deg).  Got our extra stuff rigged and in the air (so far, at least...they're still talking about hanging four or five things but we don't have definite answers on what or where, yet), all the lights we had to remove so I could paint the stage are put back down and wired up again, and we're starting in on fixing up illusions (found out that two of them belonged to a magician who died under questionable circumstances and was found partially eaten by his pet tiger...made by a guy who used to make illusions for David Copperfield, and then when he started making variations of those illusions for other people, was sued by Copperfield and decided to just retire at that point...so two of the illusions that we have are the ONLY versions of those particular illusions that exist...some people have made knock-offs of the design (once you understand how they do these illusions, it's actually not too difficult to design your own version of them...a guy that used to perform for us at the park actually made his own version of one of them in his mom's garage...using wood instead of aluminum for the frame, so it was significantly heavier.  And it didn't have all the hydraulics and extra lighting bits and pieces.  But it was the same basic illusion...)

  I never  saw  a good Illusion in Real life...  i just wave off the stuff on TV ( a Tank vanishes  , while surrounded by  people  ect ect)

 and  never been to a place  where they had them.. Kennywood  had some kid of show, but my  late wife and I never bother to see it ,because  kids wante dto  do rides and games.

 Idlewild is smaller, and thier shows  are  singing  , dancing  with some jokes , so it would be neat to see something like that  in Real life.

Happy Birthday Don!!! from all the monkeys in your jungle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8XRtNltvT8

Thank You Nikki... it  figures  it would be a red head!