Busy...

Things have been pretty crazy these past few months. Since June i've covered the College World Series in Omaha, the search for Steve Fossett in Mammoth Lakes, and The New Mexico Bowl in Albuquerque.

It seems like i'm moving up at the station, but i'm not really making what I feel i'm worth. In the past year I feel that I have proven myself in valuable by learning everything I can do, and doing it well.

I'm finally to the point where they are asking me for advice and the best course of action. I really hope things get better by the end of 2009. If i'm unable to negotiate for what I feel i'm worth, i'm either gonna have to settle for 2 more years and try again or move away. I'd like to stay here, but I feel it's time to move on.

That's how this business works, you have to move away to move up. Even though that means I lose my seniority, I can get more benefits and more pay from a new station. I'm really hoping I can just get the station to match/beat the new place's offer(if there even is one) and just sick around.

Here's hoping I have a job in a year!

Back to work.

I'm still trying to remember how to do my job. Things are so different now.

Some people were let go, others were moved around.

It's really starting to hit me that these guys are exppecting more from me. Especially after this trip, they are starting to give me more respnisbility. There's a sort of new guy I have to look after. He's been woring here for almost a year, started out as an editor and could barely do that. Then they started having him fill in every once in a while as a shooter.

....they seemed surprised when I told them he can't shoot...this is after they promoted him and are now letting him work half a shift 5 days a week.

He's only shot like 2 things this week, but both of them were blue. He atleast called me once and asked what filter he should be in, but it was still blue.
< to white balance and what color temperature is or even what a kelvin is over the phone....but they won't give me or anyone else time to train him.

Oh, and even though he can barely shoot, we are supposed to starting teaching him how the live trucks work.

Kinda like climbing mount everest before crawling

Rain

Well I thought we were going to get another rain delay, but it looks like we are going to luck out. From the weather channel it looks like the worst part is passed us.

When we got up this morning I took a picture of the forecast which looked pretty grim. Like we were going to be here through the weekend.

We have either 2 more wins, or 1 more loss tto go before we can head home. What sucks about these rain delays is that they want 3 stories from us, but only 1 if the game is on.

So we have to start working early to get ready for the chance they might not play, or we wait as long as possible to keep us from having to shoot stories that will never air.

This has been an awesome week, but i'm ready to come home.

Editing video...

Watching him edit video is like watching someone mow their lawn with a pair of scissors.

Dogs Win!

The Fresno State Bulldogs are 2 games away from winning the college world series.

That means that we are still in Omaha until Thursday.

As much as I want to be home, this is so awesome to be here covering this. There is no way these guys could come all this way, make it this far, and not win it all.

Way to go.

Arrived in san francisco

Now we get to hang out for another 2 hours before the next flight. Coming into the bay was wicked, we passed through this really thick cloud layer that was really low. It was like gliding across a sea of cotton balls...

George was out right away, but i'm wired, new experiences and all. I should be able to sleep on the next flight to denver.

I just found out the hard way that the copy of hot fuzz I put on the ipod is in russian....

Leavin fresno