Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Work, Commentary on Locals. and My Drive to Work
Today I went into work an hour early to finish what I was working on yesterday, and that was getting call sheets and production reports ready to be updated.

So today, I finished them all. All 87 of them.

Now all we have to do is add in everything and they'll be set and ready to show to whoever is in charge of this snowboarding documentary.

No, this documentary is not like that snowboarding movie that just came out a few months ago where they went off into areas no one had snowboarded before, this one seems to be better.

For one, it has a very diverse location list:



The famous Winter Park in Colorado.



Mountain Creek in New Jersey. What the hell? New Jersey? New Jersey has something nice enough to put in a movie? Wow, I guess things have changed.


Carlsbad. Wait, Carlsbad? How do you snowboard there? It's right in the middle of San Diego and Los Angeles. Do they snowboard at Legoland? Because, Legoland is in Carlsbad. I've always wanted to go to Legoland and then intentionally fall into some really complicated piece of "Lego Art" just to see what would happen.

But I digress...

Salt Lake City is another location.

Lake Tahoe, which I've always wanted to go to.

Then there are loactions that I would have never thought of that are great places to snowboard.

Like one segment of the documentary is on a rider from Japan. Sapporo to be exact. Pretty cool to me.

Another rider is in Russia. Yes, every James Bond fans nightmare. I don't think I've ever said it before, so let it be known to all: I have to be one of the biggest James Bond fans that I know of, so there.

Then a location they haven't shot at yet, but are next week: Oslo, Norway. Sounds like fun, eish I could go.

Then a location that came as a complete surprise to me: China.

They allow it over there? I was surprised.

Tomorrow I'm being let into the editing room to watch some of the stuff, so I can't wait.






Well, my drive up to Mandaly is fun. About 18 miles of pure bliss for a motorhead like me. 7 on the I5, 7 more on the I10, 4 on surface.

One problem also comes up for a motorhead like me: Traffic.

Yes, I have to go right by Downtown Los Angeles. I mean, like where all the really tall buildings are is where I have to go by. That's about my half way point to and from work.

So due to the nature of freeways in Los Angeles, I never get to get about 50mph while heading off to work. Uusually I'd average about 22mph. I timed myself today, and to travel those 18 miles took 52 minutes, 33 seconds. Welcome to Los Angeles style traffic. What am I going to do when I get my Red Line Edition '08 Saturn Sky?

Coming back I at least get up to 65mph if I'm lucky. But hey, this style of driving in traffic is fun. It's highly technical, working your mind, instincts, predictions and abilities.



One thing I noticed about where I work at, is that it seems to be the pot-hole capital of the world.

Seriously, like every 5 feet, there's a pot hole. The sidewalks have the occasionaly pot-hole.

And for some reason, I hit every damn one of them.

I wouldn't be surprised is one day, when driving by one, I see several old cars that have fallen into a pot hole many moons ago still there, waiting to be found.




Also another thing: Porsches. Everyone up where I work at seems to have a Porsche or a Benz. It's unsettling for a BMW man like me. Honestly, just because you get a Porsche or Benz or even a Bemer donesn't mean you've made it.

Now that guy in the parking garage who owns the Aston Martin Vanquish, you've got it made. You've also got my envy.
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