Sunday 25 June 2006

Union Station, Java Time
WX: Sunny, warm, 80's
07:42

CODE YELLOW

I'm taking a brief rest between liveshots. I did a talkback live with the head of Union Station about the 1928 Ahearns Fox fire engine that was donated to Union Station by one of the casinos. We will do a talkback live on the shark exhibition in the theatre here.

Phew, whatta rough past coupla days. Last night I shot the roller warrior b-roll for a piece I'm working on on them. Friday afternoon, I interviewed "Princess Anaconda" (Amanda) at her place of work. We tried to use a camera on her as she skated, but it didn't work.

Friday night I went to a going away party for Tom, which turned out to be a going away party for all of the people we lost at the station.

Thursday, Suyen went to a job fair at Research. Then we did some shopping, and had dinner at Tanners.

Wednesday I worked with Steve on a story about a severe beating that took place at a basketball game in Wichita. We interviewed the dad of a teen that was beaten by another teen from another team.

Tuesday I worked with Steve on a story about an unsolved homicide in Bonner Springs, from last November -- the woman who managed the Dollar General who was found beaten to death.

On Monday, 19 June, I worked with Shelly on the Pit Bull ban effort in Independence. It looks like they will go through with it.

21:24
CODE RED
Balerina Mobile Home Country Club Community
Bates City
Puter room

Had a little fun on www.argumentmachine.com

http://www.argumentmachine.com/threads/2006-Jun-25/index.html

Just click on any thread with my name on it.

This mornings lives went ok. We did our talkbacks. They were ok, but it was a little hard to communicate. I shot some vo's, including the negro leagues players signing autographs at Kauffman. All of those guys are just inpirational, almost spiritual to be around, and Buck O'Neil is a very down to earth great guy. They were raising money for the Negro Leagues museum. I then shot the set up for the KC Classic Golf tourney down in OP. I tried to have brunch at Y.J.'s, but for some reason they were taking for ever. I waited about 20 minutes, and got a call from the desk telling me I needed to go to Kauffman. I waited 10 more minutes after that and asked if I could get a to go box. I found that somehow my order wasn't even started, even though I noticed some people who came in after me got theirs. I waited a little longer, until about 10:35, then I had to go. The people there were so busy that I couldn't even tell them that I had to go without my order. Bad thing was, I already paid. I will go back some time and ask if I can get credit. No problem, but man, I think I will avoid brunches from now on.

Today turned out to be a gorgeous day, which is rare for June to be this nice, usually it's hot as hell.

I tried to edit at home on the Roller Warriors. I spent an hour after work dumping the video into my laptop. I brought it home and had problems. It ended up corrupting my files, so I had to scrap it for tonight. Uhg, oh well, I vented my frusterbation on the argument machine. Hee Hee.