A few days to catch up on

Hi guys,
So I'm not sure what it is about my not being able to keep up with this every day, it's not like I'm extremely busy in the evenings...

As far as what I've done since I last posted, well I honestly can't remember what I did on Wednesday. But something I did yesterday was cool. I used the recipricating saw (jig saw). I've never done that before, that one always kinda made me nervous and I didn't like the idea of trying to follow a line while cutting at the same time. What we were doing was we were taking a sono tube (tall cylindrical tube made from cardboard) and we were cutting 3 feet off of it to make it shorter. To do this, we were using a circular saw and a recipricating saw. Jill used the circular saw to cut the line and I used the jig saw to cut the bracing inside the tube because the blade on the circular saw was unable to cut through the bracing all the way. It was cool, all I had to do was stick the recipricating saw into the space that had already been cut and guide it downward so that the bracing was cut completely.

Today was a relatively short day, or at least it seemed like it. When I got there today, I was given a 4x4 and Danny set the chop saw so that it wouldn't cut through the board completely. So what i had to do with this was starting about 6 inches into the board, I had to cut the board so that a big chunk was missing so that we could rest par of the board on top of something and the rest of it beside whatever it is that the board is being secured to. I don't know if that makes any sense but I have pictures.

We also screwed fence panels together and flew them. I got to work more with the hardware involved in rigging. It seems like here at Town we fly a lot of set pieces, just about everything that can be flown, is. So I've gotten good at attaching the pieces together for rigging, the shackes, the o-rings, the turnbuckles and the quick clips. I remembered something that Biff told my stage craft class about quick clips. "You always screw down, so you don't screw up." What that means is that when you have everything on the clip ready to be flown out, you screw the bolt downward. I'm not sure about this but I think that the reason you do it that way is because if you screwed it upward, over time it will get unscrewed, therefore a hazard presents itsemf, because the stuff on the clip could easily come off.

Oh and I remembered what we did on Wednesday, we finished painting the arches for the Daddy Warbucks mansion. We put the sono tubes on yesterday and Danny put the bases on this morning. It's almost finished. It's going to look great. The gold metallic paint looks really nice.

The picture at the top of this blog post is of the cut that I was doing this morning with the 4x4. I don't think it will let me put more than one picture otherwise I would post more.

Weekend ahead, got computer and cable, but the work order for the internet didn't go through and the tv's still not here yet, so it'll be another weekend of Netflix. Which is pretty cool.