No Time Like the Present

I was reading a multitude of Blogs today, most linked from The Harkey Blog, and I decided it was high time to start one of my own. I think that most of the people who know me know that I am horrible at keeping up with friends and returning phone calls. I figured there was no time like the present to start doing a better job of it and so here it is, a blog by Eric Roa.

I am a workaholic by definition. That means that I avoid everything for the sake of work. I will work before doing laundry, before eating, before sleeping, and the list goes on and on. Well, it just got easier for me to make that excuse. The entirety of the lighting departement at the producuction company that I work for (Richter Scale Productions, Inc) just walked off of the job last Thursday. That leaves four of us to handle everything.

I am leaving Friday for a show in Miami. It is a corporate annual awards dinner in which a theater group does a song and dance routine as a means of presenting the awards. I am not looking forward to the show itself but I am looking forward to travelling. We leave on Friday morning and drive a tractor-trailer around 30 hours to Miami. The great part is that I get paid 10 cents a mile while I am driving. I love it. Paid by the hour and then paid by the mile.

Tomorrow is the day of reconning. I have to take my practical test (this is the technical name that the government uses for driving test) at 11:00am. I absolutely have to pass because I need to have my CDL class "A" for Friday's trip. I already have my class "B" license and I am upgrading to a class "A" so that I can drive just about anything under the sun. Driving "Big-Rigs" is a lot of fun.

Everyone that I have talked to is asking for pictures of me since my move to Colorado. Here is the only one that I have run across to post. I am the one on the far left of the picture. This is the Starship/Survivor show that I did back in August. The stage is one of our semi's that folds out in to a 40'x40' stage. I am mixing monitors, the guy next to me was my assistant for that show, and the two on the right are the guys that were taking care of backline (instruments). It was really, really rediculously hot that day.

Anyway, that is the first post