Early next week, I have to get in a 24' truck with a pile of gear, and drive it to Colorado... For the moment, I don't want to go in to the logic of me shipping gear I could rent down the road from the venue... I'm not even sure if there is logic, but at any rate I have to do this now... The vent of the day involves the lack of information I'm getting on this one...
I stumbled on the minor fact that load in is not in fact 8am as the producer informed me... It is in fact 10pm of that same day... Let's just for a moment ignore that there is a meeting in the morning I need to be ready for since I can probably do the in, and make it happen... The killer here is the labor I booked for 8am... If I hadn't caught this one, I'd have a number of crew members waiting there at 8am to load in this gear... I'd be stuck paying them for the day, and sending them home, and who knows if there would be a way to get a crew at 10pm that night... While I could probably swing that miracle here, I don't know anyone out there... Nobody owes me any allegiance out there, nor would I expect them to go out of their way to help...
I swear, if I don't fall asleep driving across the plains and die, this client may not make it through the show week if I get hit with any more surprises... (any tips for staying awake on those long straight roads folks? they're going to be a first for me... the roads on the east coast meander like spaghetti, so its easy to stay alert)