It's hard to believe that my dad has been gone ten years today.  Because I'm on the west coast, even though it's morning here, we're already well into the time of day where I was on a NJT train trying to get home before he died.  While ultimately I didn't make it, he knew I was on the way, and that'll have to do.

Anyway, not much else to say about that one.  The week has started already, and I can't imagine how I'm going to get everything I have to do done.  Pretty much like every week.

I would very much like to post a picture or two, but the cable I brought is all wrong and the stupid Apple computers we use for this job haven't deigned to include useful storage access.  So you get more text.  Sorry about that.  Not that I've taken any particularly interesing pictures anyway - just shots of the gear and such, but still, it would be nice to be *able* to post pictures.

So I'm in Tampa.  I might write a review of the Intercontinental Hotel here.  I think I skipped Atlanta, which is fine.  I also can't remember if I mentioned the fact that I'm conflicted about joining a hotel rewards program.  It's strange.  If I'd thought of it at the beginning, I would have done it.  Westin would have to owe me *something* by now, but with only a couple days remaining, it's almost like a superstition - as soon as I join, we'll be let go.  Like washing your car right before the rain.  If you'd just held off, the storm would have blown over. Now, I don't actually believe any of that, but still - two nights added to a frequent guest program does not a maven make, right?

If we do Europe, I'll do it.  Assuming that we stay somewhere large and international.  If we don't do europe, I'll really have to scramble.  As it is, I'll have to scramble a bit anyway - what am I going to do for income once this thing is gone?  It's more a question of "whether" than a question of "how" in terms of resussitating my tech support career - it's been so easy to keep going for so long that I haven't had to think about it, but now that I'm no longer in demand in New York and the calls have fallen off in LA, it's a good time to evaluate my situation and decide whether continuing along my former path is the right idea. I don't know how I'll decide, but I'll figure something out.

Interesting thing about being on the road - I'd sort of forgotten why I used to like meeting and getting to know so many people.  As one of the newer guys here with nothing ostensibly interesting to offer (and, perhaps, with my tendency to talk about abstracts, something *uninteresting* to offer), I'm not in high demand here at all.  I don't feel like spending Friday night in my room reading Gaiman's NEVERWHERE was a waste of time, exactly, but neither was it living right up to the hilt, I guess.  It's starting to look like this is taking a turn for the absurd (with "what does it take to feel fulfilled" as a central theme and once we've defined that, determining whether that fulfillment is something reasonably attainable against the bounds of reality and the strictures of society) and I'm not interested in writing that type of entry just now.  As it is, this thing is long and meandering, and I apologize.   I guess it IS under the "Random Musing" category - I should develop a method for saving preferences so you can hide categories, but feh - the work!

Okay, it's almost 8, and, having finished NEVERWHERE, I should probably buckle down and write some screenplay, fully understanding that I won't be getting access to the already-wrote portions of it anytime soon.  Weak.  Let's hope for a useful global find/replace in Celtx, then, yes?  Happy Saturday, and let's hope you live every second of your life while I'm working for Bon Jovi and avoiding the temptation of an after-show drink, since we only have a short drive to South Florida and then another show tomorrow.