Either that or it seems less significant after spending most of the day hanging 30' in the air by a caribeener.

Another reason I just couldn't take more lighting classes. Skeered of heights makes it difficult to get into those hard to reach places.

Hippo Birdies to MM!!!!

Hope the world domination lessons for the wee sprat are coming along well.

The subject of Demon in the Freezer fascinates and horrifies me, but I hated the way Richard Preston wrote it.

I remember liking The Coming Plague [link] much better, but that was almost ten years ago. I should go back and re-read it to see how it holds up.

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Heh. Lighting focus at Steppenwolf. The set is mostly raked platforms at various heights, so everything overhead was done from focus tracks. So...I was in a seat strapped to a carrier in a curtain track for much of the day.

While I'm working and for a few hours after, it seems to loosen up the muscles a bit. I'll know in the morning if it helped or hurt my neck.

Ah. I'd wondered if you'd taken up climbing or S&R.

but I hated the way Richard Preston wrote it.

I had no previous work of his to compare it to. It was reportlike with a few personal observations thrown in, which I'm ok with considering how much of my time is spent reading academic journals. It pulled you through enough, which is always an issue with writing of this sort.

Skeered of heights makes it difficult to get into those hard to reach places.

The heights don't bother me, but I am firmly against falling from heights.

I tended to be more tense back in my arena-rigging days when the drop was 80 - 100'. You just don't ever relax in that situation.

Wait. The Hot Zone was the Richard Preston book that was in the bookstores at the same time and about the same subject as The Coming Plague.

The Demon in the Freezer is about smallpox. I still hated Richard Preston's writing style, and the subject still fascinates and horrifies me.

I lived in Pakistan and India from 1974 through 1982. I met people who had survived smallpox.

I was vaccinated against smallpox in 1974 and then again in 1977. My immune system didn't react either time. If I'm ever exposed to smallpox I am SOL.

The Coming Plague was a great book, if very scary. Unfortunately, I loaned it to some low-life scum who didn't return it.

In my case the non-returner is my Dad. I would pester him to send it back, but it's probably lost among all the boxes of books in his basement.

Today's discovery (this morning's conversation had me thinking of it): Vince Vaughn has aged better than Jon Favreau.

As Vince Vaughn hasn't aged especially well, this is kind of sad. And I need to watch Swingers again.

Also, without the hat, Dwight Yoakam's head looks really, really large and weird.