22 1/2

That is how many hours I have now been up.

I woke at 6:30 Friday morning, it is now 4:50 Saturday morning. This is not due to insomnia or some other ailment, but because I have spent the past 8 hours at my first film shoot. My friend Kate is one of the costumers for the movie, which is a short called Never. She needed pirates, and being the fuzzy type, i guess she thought I fit the bill.

Making movies is a lesson in hurry up and wait. The actors call was for 8pm and we did not shoot the part I am involved in until 3:30. Not that I am complaining, it was fun and everyone is great.

Needless to say, I am tired. You see, my beautiful wife is up in Iowa this weekend with the car. I have been riding my bike to and from work/gym for the past month or so, and so, it is not a problem to bike to and from the shoot. But riding the bike home at 4 in the morning is something else. There were a couple moments when I was a little more scared than I get riding downtown at rush hour. Mostly cabs who are stalking patrons, or arbitraily stopping in the middle of the road with no flashers or anything.

I did get a propostion form some sligtly drunk co-eds to ride my on my handlebars. I did hear a guys drunkenly yelling at someone on his cell phone. I did hear a couple trying to decided if someone was gay or not. I did see someone kicking some major butt air drumming in the backseat.

I did see, as I turned east on to my street, the sky fading from deep dark blue to a beautiful turquoise. I do hear the birds singing.

I am going to bed.

My two neices

nicky and hannah, originally uploaded by meggomae.

Here is a picture of Nicky and Hannah, my 2 neices.

Click the picture and it will take you to Mae's flickr site and you can see more pix.

Welcome

Everyone...your attention please....

Please welcome Hannah Isabel Nielsen into the world.

She is our new neice. The stork stopped by at 4:21 this morning. He dropped off a 7# 7oz 19 1/2" hairy healty bundle.

I will have pix as soon as dad gets home and uploads them.

[info correcetd per mae's comment]

That's The Way

Billy Preston died yesterday. He was known as the 5th Beatle for his work on Let It Be and Abbey Road.

Below are two videos.

The first is That's The Way God Planned It from The Concert for Bangladesh. The second is a cover of Georg Harrison's My Sweet Lord.

That's The Way God Planned It



My Sweet Lord