Sunday's over

[Edited to correct errors noted by Amy.]

Woke up before god on Sunday morning with my allergies in full flower. The antihistamine, though, took care of that. Left me with dry throat, but that's a small price to pay for being able to breathe.

Everyone showed up reasonably on time. :) A certain Cast Director who shall go unnamed was the last to arrive. Tom, Joe, Amy (Damn, named her), and me. The trip up was uneventful. Joe and I were in his car; Amy rode with Tom. We stopped for breakfast at a JB, then split up so Tom and Amy could pick up Joley.

We were at Disneyland by 9:15, I think. Joley and Amy were amazingly (well, not so amazing, cause it's pretty routine) beautiful in their outfits and makeup. The Park was not crowded at all. We were there until after 3pm and didn't have to spend much time in any line. (Veggiebelle says that Labor Day is also a dead day of the park, I might go back next week. :)

The Bats Day folks gathered at 2pm for a group picture in front of a tented Castle. I have some shots I haven't taken out of the camera yet. There were a damn lot of them!

We met up with Gregg and Danae, Kim and some cast members from SINS.

We had a great time.

Left the park for Joley's place. Hung out for a little bit, played with the baby. I finally got to meet Jolie's guy, Bill. All was good.

Then the trip home.

Little Shop rehearsal. Not a large crowd, but enough. We practiced a couple of scenes, then did a whole run through with the Amazing TaintedImage filling in for the missing folks. It went pretty well. I'm nervous, though. The blocking in a backyard will be different than blocking at La Paloma.

I've several small parts including the patient who spits at the end of "I'm a dentist" and the TV announcer. He has a nice speech. And a couple of other bits. Five costume changes (I think). This is a lot of work. Today, I'm on a shopping mission to find a nightgown and pajamas that are light colored and more or less matching. Ross and Mashalls, here I come.

Then to bed.

It was a good day. Filled with the people I love. Yes. A good day.

Oh, and flirting with Joley is any (non-Kinsey 0) man's dream. She smiles at the right places and laughs at everything. :) It was nice pretending to be king.

Great to Crap

Didn't complete a damn thing today.

Oh, that's not true. I fixed a couple of bugs in the new scripts I wrote and finished one I thought I finished. :)

But, then, my allergies really kicked in. It's been a VERY long, hard day.

I'm going to rehearsal tonight. That will have me feel a little better.

Love.

Tired and cranky

I'm not feeling very good. Allergies at one end and some seriously severe gas at the other. I'm not sure why I should be tired. I haven't done much today. Maybe that's enough.

Anyway.

I spent a couple of hours researching OpenBSD firewalls tonight. I'm having a problem on a machine that is NATing and Packet Filtering and bridged. No matter how I strip the rules down, pfctl tells me I need to debug urgently. And worst of all, nothing is getting through.

I KNOW this can be done. I just don't see what the hell is wrong. Tomorrow, I'll start over. But it's a case of messing with a firewall from outside, again. Sigh. I'll drive to the machine if necessary.

I'm off to bed soon. I hope I feel better in the AM.

I still want a magic wand. Sigh.

I watched the pilot (on dvd) of Dead Like Me. Quite good.

Bah.

When Eric left tonight, he quoted a bit of poem to me that I'm going to have him quote again.

There is something great to be said for willingness. There is also something great to be said for a line in the sand.

It's much harder to find the great place to put that line and harder yet to honor one's word in the matter.

I know how I want it to be. I know it will not be that way. Life is a daily exercise in letting go of the picture and committing to future.

I like marching to a "different drummer." I just wish mine had a better sense of rhythm.

There is a shadow on the wall. Where is Wendy when you need her?