Well there’s never a day I’ll be done with ministry amen? But in this case I’m done with official title given ministry at my church. I’ve been working for NFBC on staff as Director of Media Production for over 3 years now, and it’s time to say goodbye. We’ve sent DVD’s all over the world, starting things in my bedroom with a crappy old PC and a 1 to 1 burner. Determination goes a long way, and man did God Bless. I’m sorry to say that my last day there (last two actually) were pretty bad. I’ve been really sick lately…worse than I normally get. It’s rare that I get sick but I think in the last year especially with so much business and stress with the film, my body just hasn’t been up to par. That said I’m down to 210 now steadily which is good news. I got another 20 to go before I think I would be happy. My face is fat, every pic shows it…YUCK. Either way it’s nice to not just lose weight but have it pretty much kept off no matter what. When I got to the church today I was a zombie. I immediately got something running on my office computer before Shaun showed up (Gaffer on Standing Firm) so I could shoot his interview. It went really well and I was glad to get it done. Shaun has a tremendous heart, especially once you give him some time to open it up and really speak what is on it. Things went well and we packed up, and I honestly didn’t stay very long. I packed my car up as fast as I could and went home. I was so exhausted only hours after getting up. I really needed to come home and crash, but that was after I unloaded my car of course which didn’t help much. Maggie and Katy came over to finish ADR and that took a few hours but we got it done. Glad to have that out of the way now and not just before I leave. After that later at night I went outside to get a quick shot of my mom I needed for the film. We needed a shot of her cutting her wheel over in the car as some car lights get bright on her face. It was simple but the bugs were annoying as all get out! We got the shot quickly and got inside, those bugs suck! I finished off the day with Terminator 2 on Bluray, which I had bought but hadn’t watched since then. It looked pretty good although the movie shows its age. The film really needs a remastered image, the 80s film stock and some of the mistakes in the FX are clearly seen in 1080p. I got to bed early to make sure I got another good nights sleep, after pounding down some medicine.
Glad to be done with my job, it’s been long and tedious. Something else I forgot to mention was of course on my last day something was bound to go wrong. Not me being sick, no car problems, etc….but the server for the NFBC site took a huge dump the previous night. Nothing was on it, it was totally gone besides the videos folder we had. Turns out the server crashed and we lost tons of stuff. I’m not sure how we’ll get it up and running again, especially since I’ll be leaving. I hope everything works out…I predict some chaos after I split.
