Laundry

When packing for a trip one must have enough clean clothes to actually pack in the first place. I have been so busy lately I haven't completed my laundry in about five weeks. I have been doing the obligatory loads so that I have the necessities of the clothing world but I have not actually had all of my clothes clean for about five weeks now. That, I decided, is completely unacceptable. I have vowed to not let laundry go uncompleted past any given Sunday. I have done 13 loads of laundry in the past 36 hours. Mom was right, the more you do sooner the less you will have to do later. I am proving that one for sure.

I am going to some friends house for Thanksgiving dinner. It will be interesting. I am the only one who will be there who is not a member of the family. I am curious to see you that will work out.


I need to buy a plane ticket to go to Mom and Dad's for Christmas. I can't believe how expensive tickets have become. It is ridiculous. Oh well, I guess that is the price of inflation.

Tomorrow morning Mike and I leave for Miami so you will not have anything new to read for a while. There will be plenty when I get back for sure. This will prove to be one eventfull trip.

b'de, b'de that's all folks

Truckin'

So, I passed. Yup, I passed my CDL class "A" test. I can officially drive big-rigs now. It's kinda cool. Mike and I leave for Miami at 6:00am on Friday morning. We are stopping in Kansas City on the way to check out a new mobile stage (A semi that folds out in to a 40'x50' stage). Then we are on to Miami, straight through. The show loads in at 8:00 on Monday morning. Tuesday we have rehearsals ALL DAY. Wednesday is the show and we will load out on Wednesday night.

This next part is for all of you I left behind in Arkansas.

We will be leaving Miami on Thursday morning. That means that we will have enough time to stop by NWA and most likely NLR to hang out for a few hours. I am trying to arrange everything right now. I will call as many people as I can when I know when I will be there.

That's all for now.

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