So here I still sit in my office, where I spent the night because my apartment complex sucks when it snows... The snow is still falling a bit, and I had to use the forklift to push open my warehouse door to see what the outside world looks like today... The snow had drifted against the door... 4' against the door... The door opens outwards...
Anyway, the wind is howling outside, and I'm in a double layer sheet steel building... The building flexes a bit as the wind blows against the large flat surface naturally... The mezzanine and office I built in here sit tight up against the inner steel skin, but not tied to it in any way... So the steel moves differently than the wood... The rub and creak, and I swear it sounds like what I imagine one of those old full sailing ships must have sounded like...
The state of emergency should technically be lifted by now, so perhaps the cleanup can really begin... Hell if I know where I'm going to put all the damn snow in the immediate vicinity of my unit. All I have are shovels, and the 20" of snow out there would eat me alive if I tried to move it all by hand... My neighbors are landscapers/snow removal guys, so hopefully one of their crews will wrap up soon and come back to the barn... I could borrow on of their blowers then I imagine...
Why couldn't this crap wait until I'm in Miami on Friday...
As usual, its been ages since I posted anything... As usual, I've been busy... Let me sum up for a moment, and then I'll get to the point...
We're doing 4 shows this month. 3 Operas and 1 corporate job... The first opera is an established client, and the other two are new, but with many people involved from the other opera company... They're nice shows, that while we don't make a killing on them, they are always good filler events, and they run some payroll through to keep our regulars from defaulting on their rent... The corporate I mentioned before, so I'll just say that its insanely large and move on...
Here's the thing... The trucks pull out for the corporate gig on the 26th... All the other shows will be up and out the door before that... We're somewhat behind schedule for a variety of reasons... There is a blizzard dumping on us right now... I'm pretty disappointed in myself that I asked people to stay here as long as I did today... Most of them live close by, but when it comes right down to it, these are still just shows... I'd rather loose my main client and go out of business than see someone get hurt getting to or from my shop in whiteout conditions... Somehow the show will go up, and it will be ok if not perfect regardless of us working a full day today, and tomorrow... We'll see how the roads are around noon tomorrow, and make the calls then... Hopefully they'll have things cleaned up by then, but I'm going to drive around a bit first and see how they are before I ask anyone to come out in this crap again...
I'm not happy with what this show has done to me mentally... My friends and employees always have come first... Not to say we didn't work crazy hours, but I've never asked people to work through blizzards or the equivalent before... The number at the bottom of the invoice is bigger than what I've done in the past, but its not worth getting anyone hurt...