Cruises are fun! Right?

Wednesday, 7:50AM: My first alarm clock goes off. Still in my sleepy stupor, I slam it off and continue sleeping.

7:55AM: My second alarm clock sounds from accross the room. I drag myself from the bed, flip the switch to "off" and retreat back to the bed. Back to sleep. (Mental note: Why do I even set my 7:50 alarm??!!)

8:15AM: Olivia takes a break from applying her makeup long enough to fuss at me to get out of bed. I peel myself from the bed again. A shower, clothes, and a bowl of cereal follow shortly.

9:15AM: I arrive at work 15-20 minutes late, as usual. (Mental note: If I arrive this late every day, is it considered "late" anymore?)

9:30AM-12noon: I run various desktop support calls, fixing problems ranging from PowerBooks with batteries that don't charge to people stranded in OS X that can't find their way back to OS 9. I also continue to play with my OS X mysql server that may (one day) become the CustomTacos database server, if I can ever figure it all out.

12:30PM: Lunch at Padow's Deli on Main St. consisting of a chicken salad sandwich, Grandma Utz chips, and Mountain Dew.

1:15PM: Return to A/V editing room where I continue working on getting the footage ready for burning some presentation DVDs for a large New Business cruise that a few of our new business honchos will be leaving for Thursday at 9:30AM. 45 AVI movies must be opened and then saved as Quicktime movies. Good thing I'm using a dual-800mhz G4!

2:30PM: Begin constructing menus for presentation DVD.

5:15PM: First complete DVD burned. Looks great on the portable DVD player and Eye-Trek glasses that they will be showing the DVD on.

5:45PM: New business' Chris Shumaker arrives to preview the completed DVD and bestow his blessing on it. He loves the format, but wants "a few small things" changed on the DVD. He wants a few "highlight reels" from existing movies, join similar spots together to make a single movie, etc. It appears as though the changes he asked for will require an additional 5 hours of work. I promise him that I will have it done before he leaves in less than 16 hours.

6:15PM: I leave The Martin Agency and go home. Woof down some leftover Trak's food and find out how Olivia's day was.

7:45PM: Arrive at Jennifer's apartment with iMac in tow. Install iMac, transfer data from old computer, install new apps, and give quick tutorial on MacOS X, iTunes, and iPhoto.

11:00PM: Drop Olivia off at home and head back downtown (in her car) armed with magazines, movies, and quarters for the drink machines to keep me awake.

Thursday, 4:35AM: Complete editing video clips and begin process of encoding and compressing video for DVD. iDVD estimates 161 minutes to encode the videos into MPEG4 format.

4:45AM-5:45AM: Assist Amy and Kevin in burning 60 CD-Rs..also for the new business cruise. Nervously pace and continue checking time remaining on iDVD's timer. Just under 100 minutes remaining.

6:15AM: Sun definitely coming up. Realize that Olivia will probably need her car to be able to go to work in an hour or two. Drive home, drop off car, and return downtown in my truck.

7:15AM: First (revised) DVD finishes burning. Check it with player and glasses. Looks great, although everything is kinda fuzzy right now.

7:30AM-9:30AM: Continue burning copies of the DVD with each burn taking 21 minutes. Eyes very heavy and napping occurs while waiting for DVDs to burn. Coworkers find humor in discovering me passed out waiting for DVDs to burn. Photos are taken and my boss sends out a company-wide email commending the efforts of all employees who worked on this cruise project.

9:30AM: I leave The Martin Agency and arrive home. A shower and a bowl of cereal follow. I hit the bed and enter into a deep coma.

5:45PM: I wake up to the sound of Olivia coming home from work.

I guess it's back to business as usual tomorrow.

Oh yeh..and my Airport Base Station died tonight. It's a good thing that it's a known issue at Apple. The phone support guy had no problem with getting a new one sent out to me tomorrow. :)

Posted by Jeff at May 10, 2002 1:03 AM