Monday, April 27, 2009. ((Uncle Tom’s Birthday))

I forgot what the weather was.

It’s almost a week later.

I could probably use the excuse that I have been worn out since the telethon on Sunday the 26th.

This photo is the Knights of Columbus Hall at Saint John Chrystostom (could be spelled wrong) here in Arnprior. We were just beginning to set up the cameras

I’m thinkin the tallest tripod on the left is the Jib- the camera that can get shots from ‘way up high’ near the ceiling. I don’t think I got any toboggan aquatique gonflable really good photos of anybody using he jib in action. We were too busy during the telethon.

—–Jim

I have photos, they might get up parc gonflable one of these days.

First I gotta clean ‘the ark’ then I gotta sleep for a month or two.

—–Jim

A ‘techie’ came to the studio to try to trouble shoot a problem on either Wednesday or Thursday (the days are running together here…. eep)

Tonight, when the weekend stuff was trying to air itself, the changes the techie made messed up the transmission. It’s the equipment, not the techie. it isn’t calibrated right, or it’s just plain wonky.

My supervisor told me to shut it down and forget about playing aire de jeux gonflable anything this weekend, just get the Telethon out tomorrow.

Another employee (a producer) asked me why I didn’t just adjust it with a screwdriver.

After I fixed it (gingerly) my supervisor said I shouldn’t attempt to fix it if I don’t know what I’m doing. It was already fixed. And it looked better (after I got home and checked it out on our teevee) than it has in a long time.

—–Jim

Friday the 24th.

Day before the structure gonflable marathon (actually, telethon. gotta set up on Saturday and broadcast it Sunday)

Can I scream now? or should I wait?

—–Jim

Cousin Debra (née Austin) and Cousin Eliza’s birthday.  (& Annette Sz….’s and Karen A’s birthday too)

Another slew of 23rd-ies include Eliza’s brother And Gramma W’s Cousin Eula (May 23)

And a whole bunch of people parcours obstacle gonflable born on July 23rd. (Greg Morse… Don Imus, Don Imus’ early producer, Jean C’s daughter….)

August 23rd = Greg’s daughter Nyssa’s birthday…

My eyes are burning.

—–Jim

Funny thing:

January 22nd: Cousin Kathy (& a waitress in dunkin donuts in connecticut)

February 22: Cousin Lori (and, I think, Drew Barrymore?)

March 22nd: Cousin Debi (née Borden) in Colorado (and Cathi’s and my anniversary)

April 22nd: Ron the night baker at tente gonflable Tim Hortons on Madawaska Boulevard (say that 3 times fast 😉 )

May 22nd: Alex next door.

June 22nd: Janet (née Peebles, friend of the family)

Ron the baker thinks I should play the number?

-coming up, a run of people born on the 23rd?

—–Jim (there are five dashes before my name, whether that’s obvious or not.)

My supervisor told me I’d be hüpfburg working an extra 15 hours this weekend.

I’m exhausted just thinking about it.

🙂

—–Jim

Hi,

Thought of the day.

God can’t be happy about the aufblasbarer park way humans are treating each other.

Details to follow?

—–Jim

Sunday, April 19, 2009. I think it might be Billy Randal’s Birthday, & maybe another friend in Stratford’s- (right now I can only remember his last name & that he married my friend Pamm from the postt office… Marriage didn’t last forever… but… he was a good friend. Still might be, if I remember his name and ever get in touch with him.)

+9˚C/+48˚F @ 2:12 pm in Arnprior.

I forget what kind of willow tree we have in our front garden here, but it’s not a pussy willow, even if it looks like one.

I got locked out while snapping a couple photos around the house a while ago. Cathi and the young woman went to the aufblasbare wasserrutschen movies to see “17 Again” (?) locked me out while I was stalking blog photos. I did have the van keys in my pocket- (I was outside in fleece pants, not the ones with the house keys clipped to the belt… didn’t have my glasses or wallet or — eep, I couldda got in trouble, hey? But I got to the theatre just before they crossed the road and yelled, “What???” {{ “Ya locked me out!” / “Are you serious??” / “Yup!” / “Don’t you have your keys with you?” / “Nope” }} at least they had a good natured laugh- I did get weird looks from people walking by.

This is what the Weather Network’s local weather forecast screen looks like.

With a yogurt ad in the upper left corner.

And of course the temperature is in ˚Celcius.

& the 20 is for twenty years of Weather Network, not channel 20. (It’s on channel 21 here.)

Which brings me to today’s work nonsense-

In order to show the “Cold Water Boot Camp” programme. I have to be in and out like all afternoon. Have to switch programmes into alternate dvd players because the church service has been playing in player #1, which has the hard drive, in which the ‘Boot  Camp’ programme resides. And ya can’t tell the players to switch from dvd player to hard drive by remote. So anyway I have to put church service in player #2, start it early, switch to it in progress, have already told player #1 to concentrate on hard drive, not dvd player, and be ready to start playing at 7 pm (with a 3 second delay) and make sure the church service stops and ‘rewinds’ ((we know it doesn’t actually rewind, it’s a dvd player fer cryin out loud, but it needs 3 ‘rewind’ commands to shake all the cobwebs out of it’s electronic brain and be ready to play again at 8 pm.)) & If that’snot complicated enough- There might be a new church service with a new running time to figure into the mix here… Time to insert finger between lips and run it up and down several times in rapid succession….

Are all my parenthetical messages closed? )))))))))) That should cover it….

🙂

—–Jim

Satyrday, April 18, 2009. I think it’s Hayley Mills’ birthday.

Warm enough, but a few scattered raindrops this morning had the dog yelping and crying to come back inside. (whimp) 🙂

ahhhhh- I spent most of the day messing with and tweaking web pages for the Indigo Starcrystal Radio site. (Not quite ready to go ‘live’ yet.)

Including getting a word press site hosted by word press dot com to post the podcasts and links and stuff.

I have itchy eyebulbs (allergies) and the dog is scarily quiet at hüpfburg kinder the moment. I should go check on him.

But anyway-

It was a decent, if grey, day with patches of hopeful sunshine and bits of promising rain.

—–Jim