OOC # 39
Well...were it any other night of the week...or almost any other week this year...I'd already be home. We had a rental for one of our screens in the late slot, a no-show for another, and the third ended about 40 minutes ago, so I could have closed up shop and gone home. I've closed up shop...
But I still have a movie to finish copying from the hard drive, and then to the other screens (I think I'll just leave the servers powered up tonight and shut off all the lamps on the projectors, rather than stay until 3 am...) and another movie (Dune 2, so, a LONG movie which means a large movie file) that's copying to all the other screens. Were it another week of the year, I would have already done all of this...or I would have been able to take the time, earlier, to come in and start everything copying so it would be done by now.
But we're having an interesting time at work. Spent the day trying to troubleshoot yet another illusion that the director got from the magician who died. We were in the middle of working on it when his all-purpose-mechanic-type guy started griping about no documentation, no video, no information on what was supposed to work and how, and said the director should call the guy up and demand some answers. And Macyn and I both kinda grimaced, and said, "Well...he's dead."
"The magician's dead?"
"Yeah. And the guy who built the illusion for him retired, like, twenty-five years ago and doesn't do this stuff anymore."
"There's no one who knows this thing?"
"Well...Tim (one of the contractors that the director works with on refurbishing a lot of his illusions) was the magician's tech assistant for a while...but that was a LONG time ago. He's told us almost everything he remembers about it..."
Sometimes, when I stop and think about it, my job really does create some absolutely ridiculous scenarios...