last two weeks

Well, I haven't blogged a lot in the last two weeks, just busier than normal I guess.. and probably a little lazy too.

Since my last entry my dad has gone into the hospital. He had a bad cold and the doctor gave him antibiotics but the infection still continued into his lungs and now he has pneumonia. This is the second time he gets pneumonia but this time doesn't seem to be as bad as last time. I think he may actually get out of the hospital today .. or very soon. Yesterday they took off his I.V. so that's a good sign. Also he is getting feisty and snarky again..which although I hate, means he's feeling much better.

Last night when I went to see him I had a weird thing happen with the elevator. It almost felt like a April Fool's joke done one day ahead.

I arrive at the hospital, take the elevator to the left. press Floor #3.

I get out of the elevator, walk straight forward, pass a nurse's station and then to the left.. As I'm walking down the corridor, I have a sense that something is not quite the same.. I look at the room numbers .. and geez-Louise, they say 412- 411- 410 .. I'm on the wrong floor!

Get back in the elevator. Press Floor #3. Watch it descend.. slow down close to floor #3..but keep on going all the way down to Floor #1.

Nutso..right? So I get out.. feeling pretty stupid... then get on the second elevator which brings me up to the 3rd floor finally.

While I'm visiting, my dad would like something cold to drink.. so I offer to go to the cafeteria and get him a gingerale. I take the same elevator as the first time.. press 2.. no problem.. it brings me down to 2.

When it's time to go back up.. I get back in this same elevator and yes, again.. press #3. The door closes I watch the numbers rise and whoa.. I'm on four.. press again.. I'm now on 5. I get out with the intention of getting on the other elevator.. but feel foolish as there are nurses watching me .. so I get back on the same elevator and try my luck again.. I just know it's not going to work.... but I press 3.. it brings me down to 2. Now I have just about had my trip (mon voyage!! ) Now I don't care how dumb it looks, I 'm not getting back on that elevator.. I 'll wait for the next one. I finally get on the second one and back to the 3rd floor but I must admit I was almost waiting to hear someone scream out: Smile!! you're on candid camera.

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Wednesday I was pretty pooped.. the night before there was a database glitch at Worth and jax, jago and I spent a few hours manually putting things back where they belonged.. Heck.. even hbomb came by and gave a helping hand. It was hectic but exciting at the same time to try and get things fixed quickly. The jurors that were online were a huge help. They responded to tons of live helps.. of people in angst .. where is my entry? .. I can't see it in my stats!.. my text entry is in photography.. what's going on?

Next day, I had a photoshoot to do, deal with the tax people for a problem (yes.. again the dumb taxes) go see my dad at the hospital and then rehearsals at night.

Rehearsals were fun as always. We have finally gotten past the atelier stage and work the whole practice together. There is one song we did together that James said something about being fast.. so.. after we did it once .. we thought it was fast but heck..not so bad.. we could pull that off easily... then he's says.. consider that as first gear.. well.. he brought us up to 4th gear... It was crazy and fun. We are having a blast.

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I didn't like the results of my photoshoot and decided to do it over. It's a panoramic shot indoors.. so you probably see theproblem that I'm going to have to keep the light consistant. I set up a huge bench .. 8' feet long.. covered it and set up a mobile horizontal blind thing that I made last summer. It isn't wide enough .. so I had to take a picture.. move the bench a few inches.. take another picture.. move the bench again. I took several pictures.. and would have to stitch and blend them in photoshop.

I didn't like the effect at all.. I changed my props.. did it again.. this time the props were better but the stitching of the blinds was horrendous..it just wouldn't work. I then took off the blinds. put up vellum paper..and set up lights behind.. which gave a wonderful glow.. and redid the shoot. 4 Photoshoots for 1 photograph.. yep.. I guess I am crazy! lol