
Motorcycle Riding Adventures, Road Safety Rants, Theatre Technician Stories, Random Likes
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People (Over 50):
People (Over 50):
YOUNG PEOPLE THESE DAYS. GOT NO RESPECT. SO SELF CENTRED. NO CONSIDERATION FOR OTHERS.
Also People (Over 50):

Not even starting on the just... Grossness of dropping all your shit all over the carpet... This isn't a concrete movie theatre. We can't just hose wash this floor down...
Nevermind the godsawful noise unwrapping all your damn candies would have made, disrupting the people around you...
Kleenex biohazards? C'mon... You brought that stuff in with pockets or purses. Put it BACK in same until you pass a trash can, of which there are several.
Unacceptable.
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More Posts from Riderdrauggrim
One of the problems of being the only technician under 45 -
Is when one of the carpenters doesn't unhook enough coils off the air hose holder, and calls over to help him out, and I holler:

....
No one else gets it.
Ah well.

Michelle Clapton, the costume designer for Game of Thrones outfits
Things I learned last night:
The entirety of the Niagara-on-the-Lake region has ONE (1) gas station open after 11pm.
That ONE (1) gas station is a gaping hole in the ground while they renovate the tanks.
When the manual of your bike says the Fuel Reserve is about 3L. What it actually means is: The Fuel Reserve of your tank is about 3L.
You can't run on fumes with a fuel injected engine.
Pushing your motorcycle down the highway sort of sucks.
Pushing your motorcycle uphill down the highway definitely sucks.
My reflective safety vest works.
Getting escort flanked by a flashing Police SUV while pushing your motorcycle down the shoulder of the QEW is a bit of a hoot.
The back seats of Police SUVs don't have seat belts.
They also don't have door handles.
The Esso at Glendale and Hwy 81 is now a Petro-Canada.
The officer was just as surprised to see that as I was.
There's no point in buying 20$ of gas when you only picked the 10L jerry can.
Getting a lift back to your bike in the back of a cruiser is kind of exciting.
Next time you think "I'll fill it up before work in the morning..." punch that thought right in its dirty mouth.
Special appreciation also to the dear, kind old gentlemen with the kippah who stopped to try and assist me, though in that situation, I wasn't about to ask him to drive me around in circles because of my own hubris.
So the fire on the main stage was a LiPo battery on a charger off stage.
And now we've got the head ALD troubleshooting during intermission. While the operator unplugs eevvverrrythinnggg. And the audio guy sets up a new network access point.
25 minutes later and no progress.
Load the audience back into their chairs and let's keep goin'!
It’s Liiiiiivvve Theatre!
So I’m doing an understudy track for Glass Menagerie, everything’s good, preshow went fine, up in the booth behind the board operator, half paying attention since it’s just a “Go” show.
When suddenly…
“Console has lost control of the system…”
Thankfully we run a parallel backup.
Except.
It’s not advancing the cues?
And now it’s “searching for master console…”
And the lights still aren’t changing.
And I know it’s terrible. But there’s a part of me that’s like. “For once… This happened to someone else…” Because I’ve been dealing with system glitches like this in here for years.
So we announce to the audience. Please stand by. Technical difficulties. We will resume shortly.
Turn on the works. Except we can’t access the Paradigm system. So we pop on the emergency lights. And reset the boards. They look good! Except still not controlling the lights.
So we reset the dimmers!
Which does nothing.
So we reset the network!
Which does nothing.
So now we’re waiting for intermission.
Thankfully the dimmers locked on in the last cue, and it’s a bright stage look, so THE SHOW GOES ON.
Liiivvvveeee theaaatrreeee.
Total distance pushed: ~2.2km.
Best part of all was the officer standing nearby as I emptied the jerry can into my tank. "I hope it starts okay," he worries.
"Aw it'll be fine," I grin. "It's a Honda."
"Oh? Oh! Yah," he blinks, looking down at the wing logo. "Good point."
Fuck yah Hondas!!
Things I learned last night:
The entirety of the Niagara-on-the-Lake region has ONE (1) gas station open after 11pm.
That ONE (1) gas station is a gaping hole in the ground while they renovate the tanks.
When the manual of your bike says the Fuel Reserve is about 3L. What it actually means is: The Fuel Reserve of your tank is about 3L.
You can’t run on fumes with a fuel injected engine.
Pushing your motorcycle down the highway sort of sucks.
Pushing your motorcycle uphill down the highway definitely sucks.
My reflective safety vest works.
Getting escort flanked by a flashing Police SUV while pushing your motorcycle down the shoulder of the QEW is a bit of a hoot.
The back seats of Police SUVs don’t have seat belts.
They also don’t have door handles.
The Esso at Glendale and Hwy 81 is now a Petro-Canada.
The officer was just as surprised to see that as I was.
There’s no point in buying 20$ of gas when you only picked the 10L jerry can.
Getting a lift back to your bike in the back of a cruiser is kind of exciting.
Next time you think “I’ll fill it up before work in the morning…” punch that thought right in its dirty mouth.
Special appreciation also to the dear, kind old gentlemen with the kippah who stopped to try and assist me, though in that situation, I wasn’t about to ask him to drive me around in circles because of my own hubris.