Grandpa's Bday 095

Grandpa's Bday 095
Originally uploaded by teksalot

This is my grandfather, Ramon Rosas. He is 95 years old, and suffered from a stroke last night. One of the most stubborn people in our family, especially when it comes to relaxing. He still works for Boeing, and even learned how to use computers just so he wouldn't have to retire.

Needless to say, sitting in a hospital room right now and being forced to rest is what's killing him. He was changing the engine on his beloved 1970's era ford pick-up when my aunt saw him, put his tools down, then kneel and lay down. She ran to him and his slurred speech prompted her to call 911.

My father visited him this morning and as expected my grandpa was furious. He hates being so dependent on other people and he absolutely hated having people see him in this condition. I decided not to go and instead fix my halloween lights that burned out.

I think I won't visit him for a few days, I know that if this happened to me, I wouldn't want people to see me like that either. And considering he has come so far, and they expect him to recover, I don't think I'll be losing him soon. And if I do, I'd rather not have my last memory of him be in such a bad condition. My last memory of my grandmother struggling to breathe was enough to make me never smoke again.

Las Vegas Bachelorette Weekend

Andrea's Bachelorette Weekend 013
Originally uploaded by teksalot

Las Vegas was awesome! Despite the blisters from wearing unfriendly, but very cute, high heels, we had a great time. I learned going to Vegas with nothing but girls is great for getting into clubs for free. In fact, several of us girls on WOC (world of color) are planning a celebratory Vegas trip after the show opens.

As for the picture, we at Stack the first night. I snapped a pic right before I ate this little spicy crab appetizer. It was so amazing! I wanted to just order a large one as a meal, but it wasn't the only thing we had on the table so...

Anyways, the food was great. We wound up at Revolutions and then Jet afterwards for more drinks and dancing. Bottle service at Jet was wonderful. Like my friend Corrine said, once you do bottle service, you'll never want anything else at a club again. It's so nice having a reserved table and couch in the club for taking a break.

Anyhoos, that's it for now. I saw the Nightman Cometh at the Paladium last night, maybe if I'm not too lazy I'll blog that too.

OC Fair 2009 605

OC Fair 2009 605
Originally uploaded by teksalot

This was my recent trip to the OC Fair with friends. We had such a blast and I had to post this pic. I loved the colors and was having a lot of fun playing with the manual mode of my Canon Xti.

We got to see a lot of fun stuff. The hypnotist show was packed so we watched from afar, there were tap dancers and guys juggling flaming pins.

I started up a flickr. pro account so any public pics will be available on...

www.flickr.com/photos/teksalot


My photoblog finally hit its cancellation because I would always forget to update it (kind of like this blog). But it's not like I have a subscription base of readers so ... :-P

Keeping Busy

So with this faltering economy, I've been trying to find ways to keep myself busy. Lately I'm getting about 3 days a week at work. And that's not the number of days I'm scheduled. On average, I am scheduled 1 day a week and the only thing saving me right now is the number of call-in's to work. A lot of full timers are being scheduled in shifts they wouldn't normally be on and rather than do the work, they are nice enough to call in and let part timers take the shifts.

But in the mean time, I'm trying to keep busy. USITT is just around the corner and I've already booked my hotel and tickets for Cincinnati, OH. I'm also getting certified in CPR and looking forward to hitting the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland before we leave.

We (as in the FCCT crew) are also gearing up to help out at the Theater Festival at Fullerton College for local High School students. My friends and I will host a mini session for techs in the afternoon. Something we are modeling after attending USITT last year. Zach and Steve attended a mini-session on light focusing and found it to be lacking true organization.

Our hope is just to get this started, it may turn out to be an Question and Answer session this time to find out what we can offer the students in the future. Maybe we can start the first high school version of a USITT session weekend?

It's amazing what we can come up with when we just have a lot of free time on our hands. And the funny part is, the only thing that has left me feeling really accomplished in the last few days was fixing the TV reception in the follow spot break room at work.