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Sunday December 9
Sunday, the kids put us to work... After breakfast at Perkins again, we met at their house early (about 8), dropping off the Christmas and birthday presents and picking up the Christmas, birthday, and anniversary presents they had for us. Once Lee got up, he opened his birthday present and seemed quite pleased with what we had gotten him (the bronze shield from the movie 300). We chatted for a while, then drove across town to the Science Center, where Titanic will be a traveling exhibit for the next two years. They've been converting the space for the last two months and are way behind. In fact, the owner had just fired the scenery company that had been dicking around and hired another to work double shifts (they are scheduled to open on Saturday, Dec 15!!!). The new company is much, much better. By the time we left that evening, the change was very noticeable. They had done more work in that one day than the other company had done in the last month. Saturday almost looks doable now. There wasn't a lot Carl and I could do, but we helped pull cable - spool coax off of the cable spools to specified lengths that ran from the control room to the speakers dotted around the large room. And I helped Kelly with some of the costume stuff that needed to be done on site. Lee wanted some software installed on the one computer on site, so Kelly and I sat down to work on that. After an hour of frustration, Kelly left to work on something more vital and Carl took her place. Between the three of us, we spent over four hours trying to convince this computer that it was no longer attached to a network, but the installation program kept wanting to install the software on a network drive!!! #$%^&* We finally gave up. Three weeks later, we finally figured out the key to convincing this computer it wasn’t on a network.... The owner couldn't pay us (union rules or something), so he authorized dinner anywhere in town for the four of us. We had dinner at The Melting Pot, a fondue place. With wine and drinks and everything, the bill was almost $250. It was good, but I ate waaaaaay too much. And we were up waaaaaaay too late - we closed the place. The kids headed on home and we headed back to the motel for a very late night. |