Busy Day

I was out of the house the whole day yesterday; I left at about 8:30 to take Jessica to a doctor's appointment. While waiting for her to get done, I hung around the hospital's cafeteria where I had some coffee and a pastry, and read the paper and some magazines.

After Jessica's appointment, I dropped her off at work and went over to Mel Cabang's house as part of the crew shooting a segment for my friend's cable-tv show. The shoot went well; Mel is a very funny and demanding guy, but as it turns out, he and his girlfriend are one of the nicest people around. I was "boom guy" for the shoot, that is, holding the microphone attached to a long, telescopic pole in order to get the subject's voices clearly without handheld or lavalier mics.

Then after a short after-shoot break, I grabbed a quick late lunch and did a shift at the public radio station until midnight. The guy who normally does the shift had a family emergency, so since I'm still trying to get myself familiar with all of the station's equipment, I figured this would be a good opportunity to get some extra money and get up to speed.

In any case, it was a long day yesterday: I didn't set foot in the house at all until I got home after 12:30am (the shift was from 6pm - midnight).