42 Day 3

We scaled back to a 14 hour day today. Running on 6 hours sleep for 2 weeks would eventually take it's toll. As it was, I lashed out at someone today for doing something incredibly stupid, and exactly what I told them not to do.

The day started out fairly innocuously. I got some of my alone time that I desired (I found that turning the lights off in transmission kept people out. They probably thought no one was home. I was able to make the changes to the routing on the audio console and actually found I left some things out of the plan. They were easily added back in.

While looking for something else, I ended up in the VIP room and found Jerry there listening to his iPod. I ended up showing him how it can be connected to and controlled by the stereo in the room and I think he was in heaven. Lenny was faxing the analog video feeds to the VIP room at this time and they all came up properly.

Back to programming the router, there were some name changes that had to be done and some sources had to be re-defined. This was no big deal. Next up was routing the inputs to the main switcher. During this time, Mike and Bryan were busy taking care of the needs of the tape guys and getting the final VIP installed. There were some problems with the installation, but moving it to a different slot fixed the problems.

They continued to work with the video guys, who poitned out that they'd need an extra set of scopes. Mike cleared out room for these, including moving the NCP panel from Video to D-Unit transmission. It was decided that we'd probably need to add another monitor in Video, so they made arrangements for that.

The pre-show A-1 had made a specific request for some patch cables last week. I passed this on to the office and initially it looked like this hadn't been fulfilled. We started cutting patch cables to get the A-1 what he needed, but right after the last patch cord was cut, the proper ones were found in a box.

While it was said that the company providing the Comms engineer would provide two people, they in fact only provided one. Nick and Bryan were both helping him run cable for intercom panels. While I'm all for helping out, this put us out a little bit. I needed to troubleshoot a problem with the phones in the D-Unit, but couldn't be in two places at the same time. Mike was taking care of things in Video and tape release, Mark was sorting cameras, Lenny was making everyone happy in the VIP room and Bryan and Nick were with the Comms guy. The work all got done, but not as efficiently as it could have. At this same time, I was alerted to a problem in the C-Unit with the KVM for the EVS in there. I couldn't find Mark (he was sorting cameras) so I troubleshot it and found that somewhere 2 cables are crossed. I crossed them back at the C-Unit I/O and all was well. As for the phones in the D-Unit, they all seemed to have lost their mind. Once they were setup again, everything came up just fine.

While programming the router in the evening, the GUI crashed several times, leading to a very annoyed Kevin. This can be an ugly thing. I went to take a break from the router and found that 10 hours later, they were still sorting cameras, and hadn't assigned any camera to anything, and hadn't even counted to make sure that they had enough of everything. I nearly blew a gasket. I feel bad for Mike because he was there when I vented.

There were some issues with wohler monitoring in tape, all of which Mike and I sorted out relatively quickly. The biggest was a high impedance air gap due to a lack of analog audio ties in tape. Mike ran a 4 pair to the I/O and this was quickly solved.

For the record, I didn't go LC yet, but it was close. It's a good thing we'll get a decent night's sleep tonight.