Phew... What a Day

So I realized this morning that I forgot to talk about what I did yesterday. I hate to say this but I only remember a few things.
I was painting some windows for our set when I first arrived, then I assisted in the legging up and attaching the smaller 4ft tall platform to the already-existing 6ft tall platform that's about 24ft wide. We also had to build a step down from the 6ft tall platform to the 4ft tall platform. I honestly don't remember what else it was that I did yesterday. Ah but one big thing, the renovation to the fly system is complete.

As for today...
It was a weird day. Yesterday Danny told Jill and I to wear jeans because we were going to be up on the grid and it's dirty up there. So I wore shorts to the theater, it's Columbia, wasn't about to wear jeans and have to stand in the sun. Oh and the bus came much more on time today. I think I only waited about 10 minutes this time. Yesterday it was 15.
So I get there this morning and first thing Danny and I do is climb the 48 feet to the grid. This means climbing a ladder that's attached to the wall up 20 or so feet then almost another 30 feet to the grid. Needless to say, I miss Winthrop's option of taking the stairs.
Then after I got to help load weight onto the fly system, Jill arrived and she and Danny went up to the grid to do the same thing. The reason for loading the weight onto the system was because we were moving the lights from one pipe to the pipe directly down stage of it. (That means closer to the audience).
So while Jill and Danny were up there I was continuing to transfer lights. It's not hard, just untighten a bolt, unclip the safety and put it on the pipe directly in front of it. After we transfered the lights we plugged them into circuits. These have numbers on them. This is important when setting up the way the lights will look for a particular scene. You turn certain circuit numbers on and off to get different lights to turn off and on, it's not as hard as it sounds.
After we did that, a truck arrived delivering 4,500 pounds of stage weights. Not sure how heavy they are, but needless to say, they are heavy. Oh and all of this moving was done by hand. We took a lunch break then we proceeded to move the weights on stage. Well in the process the wagon (platform with wheels underneath it) broke. So the Pallett with 3,000 pounds had to be taken apart and every single weight moved the the still working wagon we had.
I'm not really sure how long it took us to do that but we had to take a break after we got the 1,500 pounds unloaded, then we had to transfer the 3,000 pounds to the other wagon, then take them off the platform and put the where the stage weights go. Thank God the pin rail for the fly system is on the floor. I don't even want to fathom us having to put them somewhere else other than the floor.
It was actually kind of funny, when myself and someone else tried to make the wagon with the weights on it move, I would push myself backward. Once we'd get it rolling it was ok, but that was the hard part.
After a 20 minute or so break to catch our breaths Jill, Danny and I put some collumns together to be used for a set piece then we put the hardware on them so that we could attach them to the fly system. The only problem was we had to go up to the area between the grid and the floor to load more weights, so up the ladder again. Then we came back down and it still wouldn't move, then we had to back up again. The third time we tried to do it, we realized that I had one rope and was pulling one way and Danny had the other side and was pulling opposite, so no wonder we weren't going anywhere, oops.

So today was a longer than usual day, normally I'm done at 5, today it must have been closer to 5:45 because I got back to my place about 6. Needless to say, I'm sore and tired.
That's it for now.
Oh and the picture is of the pallet with the 3,000 pounds on it.