[Al] The Return to the District

So I’ve been working hard and heavy on the pilot, and I like where it’s going. When I hear a show on Public Radio, it’s really easy to forget all the people that make it happen. Working on the pilot makes me appreciate them even more. There is so much that goes into making a show work, and without people like my mentor Taki, I don’t think I could do this.

Taki is great cause he knows what it takes to make a show. After we talked about my vision for the show he set the tone in creating my vision. I couldn’t be happier with my choice. So tomorrow I head back to DC to finish up on some segments. I’m excited because this time out I have a really feeling for the show. I know exactly who I need to talk to, and timing it all out has worked out pretty well. Once again WAMU is helping me do some of the heavy lifting.

But all is not well in AL’sville. This weekend as I was working on the pilot had a lot of work to do, and suddenly my beloved Sarah (my powerbook) died on me. Dead screen nothing. I took it in to the Apple store to get their prognosis, it’s offical. She’s gone. I’ve lost a TON of stuff. So much so, I don’t even know what the hell I’ve lost. The good thing is that I saved the pilot stuff on an external. The bad thing besides losing data is having no work tool. All I have is my son’s old imac, and it will do, but when I’m traveling it doesn’t help much.

I broke the bank to order a new comp, but that means the family will be eating beans and rice for the next two weeks. This was the worst possible time for the comp to die on me, so much to do in the next couple days before the deadline. I had a little meltdown Saturday, but that’s all I had time for, too much to do to sit around and cry about it. The future is bright, I just gotta push on to get to it.

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