Larry

I wound up reshooting the footage for Larry's commercial today. This time, I had engineers manning their stations so it got done the way it was supposed to -- with clean audio. Cesar passed me to Veronica, the television controller, who passed me directly to Larry. Every one was afraid to be in the same room with him. I politely waited for him to get off the phone and calmly showed him the commercial. He was fine with it except for the footage of the DJ's doing the on camera. He also wanted me to add the time of their morning show to the beginning as it is in the ending. I said "sounds good. Will do." and promptly left. After meeting with some sales people, he then came into my office and elaborated on an idea to reshoot them in their studio.

Larry said something about these DJs having a face for radio. To which I replied, "when we reshoot them, maybe we can put masks over their heads." Larry laughed. Now we both know we can joke with each other. I think he has a good idea of how I'm getting along within the ranks and is content with my work. He had made it clear that my work was fine, but it was the on-screen talent themselves whom he did not care for.

Today was also my first edit with a client. There was no voiceover. Cesar showed me how to use the scanner then I took over. The client, an agenct for Breedan McCumber, a local ad agency, will be back around 9:30 tomorrow morning to hand over the voiceover and to complete the spot. I'll also continue work on Crazy Buffet, an english spot being translated to spanish with in-house footage I started on today. I didn't have a script so I went to altavista.com to figure out the english to spanish translations. When I told him this, Cesar was pleased at my ingenuity. I wound enjoy it if he were just as pleased with the final spot once it's finished tomorrow.

I also sat down at the Avid Adrenaline to figure it out. I'm going through the online tutorials momentarily. It's a brand new program I've never, ever seen before in my life. I should have it mastered in a few days.

This evening at Calvary, the choir was impressed at my new wardrobe. They now expect to see me as dashing every day now. We'll see. The chorus was busy calling on church members to join the choir as there is a very short attendence this summer. Apparently, they should be getting five more people this coming Sunday.

During band practice I sat in as drummer and Scott, our interim music minister, motioned for me to make a drum flurish. When I did -- and surprisingly well, too -- he smiled. Scott later said "Let's all welcome our new drummer." Leorah, a guitarist, said "you rock." Scott later asked increduously, "and you haven't had much experience with the drums before?!" I said, "not since I was, like, three." I then asked we play the song He Reigns again and we had fun doing that.

I have comitted to buying a lunch plate for $5 at work tomorrow. Then I loaned a single to a fellow employee. He said he'll pay me back tomorrow. In the meantime, I have about $30 in my bank account so I'm pretty much broke. I wonder when I'm going to get my first paycheck from the new job.

Tomorrow evening is the Christian singles group from Baptist Temple's weekly get-together. I hope Eliza will be there.