February 9, 2010

• Not finding enough time

  Much as I'd like to update this every day, I'm not finding the time.  I've just started rehearsals for another show.  And this after I'd told myself I don't want to do two shows at a time, here I am doing it again.  But I was asked if I could do the 2nd show and I said yes.  It is 4 small parts in this 2nd show - and one of the parts I even get to read from the script while speaking into a microphone, so that's fine with me.  It's just that I'm missing that relaxation you usually have during the week once a show opens.  Luckily, the next show is at CVLT, so it's only a mile away.  And luckily tonight I don't have to be there, considering it's supposed to start snowing at 8am today and not stop until some point tomorrow evening.

  Got snowed in Opening Night.  Headed to the theatre on Opening Night and it was only just barely starting to snow.  By the time we got out of the theatre, there was about 4 inches of snow on the car.  That's almost 2 inches of snow an hour.  None of the roads were plowed.  We headed just a couple blocks away to a restaurant to all have drinks after the show and I knew then that I wasn't going to make it home.  I have a standing invitation at a friends' house to crash there any time during the run where the snow is bad, so I called her from the restaurant and she said to head on over when I was done.  I was only at the restaurant for an hour and had to brush another two inches off the car when I was done.  Just made it to her house and crashed there for the night.  Getting the car out the next morning was another story!
    I took some pictures with my cell phone of the snow outside.  It was at least a foot, maybe closer to 15 inches down there in Hudson.  These are just outside her front door.  Notice how high it's actually piled on the chairs.

  

  

  Out in her backyard -

  

  

  And my car on the right in this picture -

  

  They usually have a neighbor who gets their snowblower out and does their driveway, but the neighbors snowblower broke down, so nothing was off their driveway.  It took me going back and forth several times just to try and get her backed up and turned partway.  Finally, she and her husband had to come out with a snow shovel and many attempts with them pushing my car before we got it out of their driveway.

  I had an appointment that morning at the dealership to get my headlamp replaced and I wanted a couple other things fixed - the turn indicator would no longer properly reset and there is a kinda whiny rattle from the two lowest settings of the heater/air conditioner.  I wanted them done while it was still under warranty - or while I THOUGHT it was still under warranty.  Turns out my warranty is 3 years/36,000 miles.  3 years would have been May, but my car is at 38,300 so.... not covered!!  $200 later, and didn't even have them bother with the heater, she's better again.

  The show went fairly decent, even for not having a drummer Saturday night.  There were a couple places with dropped lines - I was guilty of one of those on Saturday night - criminy - but overall went very well.  Poor turnout for an Opening weekend though.  Don't know if the bad snow was to blame on Opening Night, but still only about 50 Opening Night and 80 Saturday night, in a house that holds 188.  Hope it picks up as the run goes along!

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