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This morning, after returning an attempt to buy (on line at REI) a suitable sleeping bag for my replacement cot in my bedroom, I found the one that arrived via UPS Thursday was not only too narrow, it had only a few buttons holding it together rather than a traditional zipper (BUTTONS???!). Having returned that and a proper bag selected in REI, I drove on to my shop. I arrived at the parking lot in the back of the building where my shop is. There were road cases lined up along the long narrow driveway to the parking lot and in my parking space outside the rear doors, and, as always ticks me off, the double doors into the hallway were wide open again, with no activity thru them. AIR CONDITIONING BURBANK AGAIN! No doubt whoever does that repeats the same at home living in the hot San Fernando Valley in the summer!
My shop is just inside the door, and not having direct air conditioning ducts into my room, I rely on the hallway and the shop door open to stay cool. No idea how long the doors had been wide open, but that is a daily task to contend with....prop both doors open, shuffle the gear thru and go on about your business. Doors? What doors?
Then, after getting my coffee made and starting up with my record-keeping at the computer, open door behind me, I then hear the casters of one of the road cases from my client's Vox amp rolling away. Turn to see the absence of that amp, eyeballed the roady making off with it to elsewhere, and stopped him....WHERE ARE YOU GOING WITH THAT AMP? oh..into Studio 1. BRING IT BACK...THAT IS NOT YOUR GEAR! Really? I was told to bring all the gear along the wall into the studio.
And, as there are NO CenterStaging staff members in this building as there used to be, I seem to be continually selected as the knowledgeable supervisor for the complex to any/all who come thru those rear doors. Truck drivers with their clip board trying to make a deliver to me, clients trying to find so and so with a particular session, food delivery people trying to deliver hot food to so and so, inquiry for eating utensils and cups, water, etc. After some days with constant interruptions as those are, the question is asked of me "do you know where the bathroom is?" YES.
I've lucked out all the years I've been here. That's always been a fear of mine. There's no security at the studios, and thankfully nobody has taken advantage of that. More than once, in my haste and NOT thinking at the end of the day, I've gone home while leaving client's gear in their road cases outside the shop across from my shop door overnight, and discover my mistake coming back in the next day. So far, I haven't had to replace any client gear from that or what nearly happened.....gear taken and rolled into a client's room, and perhaps kept as it's a cool piece of gear, and can easily get loaded onto the cartage truck when load-out occurs.
My shop is just inside the door, and not having direct air conditioning ducts into my room, I rely on the hallway and the shop door open to stay cool. No idea how long the doors had been wide open, but that is a daily task to contend with....prop both doors open, shuffle the gear thru and go on about your business. Doors? What doors?
Then, after getting my coffee made and starting up with my record-keeping at the computer, open door behind me, I then hear the casters of one of the road cases from my client's Vox amp rolling away. Turn to see the absence of that amp, eyeballed the roady making off with it to elsewhere, and stopped him....WHERE ARE YOU GOING WITH THAT AMP? oh..into Studio 1. BRING IT BACK...THAT IS NOT YOUR GEAR! Really? I was told to bring all the gear along the wall into the studio.
And, as there are NO CenterStaging staff members in this building as there used to be, I seem to be continually selected as the knowledgeable supervisor for the complex to any/all who come thru those rear doors. Truck drivers with their clip board trying to make a deliver to me, clients trying to find so and so with a particular session, food delivery people trying to deliver hot food to so and so, inquiry for eating utensils and cups, water, etc. After some days with constant interruptions as those are, the question is asked of me "do you know where the bathroom is?" YES.
I've lucked out all the years I've been here. That's always been a fear of mine. There's no security at the studios, and thankfully nobody has taken advantage of that. More than once, in my haste and NOT thinking at the end of the day, I've gone home while leaving client's gear in their road cases outside the shop across from my shop door overnight, and discover my mistake coming back in the next day. So far, I haven't had to replace any client gear from that or what nearly happened.....gear taken and rolled into a client's room, and perhaps kept as it's a cool piece of gear, and can easily get loaded onto the cartage truck when load-out occurs.
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