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It’s January 12th. Time for 12 of 12:

8:33 am - Ironing the work shirt. Wasn’t planning on working today, but they called and waved money at me so…

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8:43 am - Breakfast

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8:56 am - Driving to work. My shift starts at 9:00, I think this is the closest I’ve ever cut it. I clocked in at 9:05, which is just within the 5 minute grace period. Whew.

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9:29 am - The T2 control console. Where I’ll live for the next 8 hours.

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1:50 pm - Close up of The Button

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3:01 pm - Took a walk around the theatre at lunch time. Here’s a view from the stage.

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3:04 pm - Doing my little turn on the catwalk. On the catwalk, yeah. I’m doing my little turn on the catwalk.

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3:06 pm - Birds eye view of the stage.

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5:39 pm - Sunset.

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6:31 pm - Stir Fried tofu and veggies over bulgar.

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6:54 pm - The screeners started arriving a couple of days ago and they’re piling up. Cyndi and I are both in SAG so we get doubles of all the screeners.

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10:15 pm - Saw I am Legend. These are the credits, which I think I can reasonably safely take a picture of. (I didn’t use a flash, don’t worry). I’m not quite sure what I thought of it.

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That’s it. I also cut together a video slideshow of this month’s 12 for Semanal. Two birds, one stone kind of thing. I’ll post it as soon as it finishes uploading.

I’m usually not at all political on this blog, but…

This election coverage is making me a bit batty. Chris Matthews is like a Fred Willard character in a Christopher Guest film. Occasionally, I’ll catch Keith Olbermann with an ever-so-brief “WTF are you talking about, Matthews?” look on his face.

And the way they’re treating Tom Brokaw. “Let’s go see what Tom Brokaw has to say”. They’re treating him like Grandpa at Thanksgiving dinner. Grand-daddy has something to say. Give him a minute or so, then we’ll continue our inane discussion. He’s Tom Freaking Brokaw. Stop interrupting him. For the love of Pete, he’s been covering elections since Kennedy, he might have more than 60 seconds worth of insight. What “Grandpa” has to say is vastly more interesting than the “analysis” drivel that continues to ooze out of Matthews and friends. In fact…Matthews, get up. Get out of here. Give Brokaw your chair. Olbermann, you can stay. But don’t talk. Just listen. Take notes.

As I write this the current democratic returns are 39% to Clinton and 37% to Obama. I’m sorry, 39% to 37% is far from a “decisive victory” or a “sweeping upset”. The only thing decisive about those numbers is that one of them will be the Democratic nominee. We’ll see what happens in the coming weeks and months. I know who I want it to be. I can’t say it any better than Zadi just Twittered: “When given the choice, I think I choose passion over experience. In passion, isn’t there truth, inspiration, and heart?“

The annual Christmas lights in Griffith Park. Courtesy of The Department of Water and Power.

Merry Christmas!

I missed the October 12 of 12, which is unfortunate because I traveled to Wisconsin that day. Taking the redeye seemed like a good idea, but then it got the better of me and I didn’t take many pictures at all. Here then is my 2nd 12 for November:

6:06 am - Up early for the bi-annual pyro seminar required at Universal in order to keep working pyro shows. Not that I’ve been loading pyro at all lately, but that’s a long story.

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6:19 am - Obviously thrilled to be awake and looking my best…

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8:26 am - Waterworld is still quiet backstage. That will change soon as they start blowing things up.

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10:38 am - The book learnin’ is in progress. I’ve probably been through a dozen of these seminars and the book hasn’t changed yet.

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12:06 pm - Ok, this is where the day really got creepy. During fire extinguisher training I captured the face of the devil in the flames. Top right of the flames,The Dark Lord’s face is in profile, horns and all. Proof that the apocalypse will begin at Universal Studios Hollywood. It may have already begun.

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12:35 pm - Ran errands at lunch, which required a refueling.

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2:31 pm - Checked out the new Kwik-E-Mart next to where the Simpsons ride is going to be. This one is nowhere near as cool as the 7-11 they converted a few months ago.

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4:30 pm - Stopped at Trader Joe’s to pick up bread for dinner.

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4:46 pm - A few loads of laundry.

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5:44 pm - Vegetarian Black Bean Chili, before

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6:04 pm - Vegetarian Black Bean Chili, after

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8:42 pm - I’m WAY behind on my video blogs (the ones I watch, we’re not even going to talk about MY video blog right now), so I did some mindless cubin’ while watching.