Today a 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit Washington, DC. I was in my 9th floor office when the quake hit around 1:51pm, gathering up some tapes to go down the hall and digitize video. Suddenly the whole building began to shake. It felt just like when you’re stopped on a bridge and you feel it bouncing [...]
This past Friday I went Whitewater Rafting down the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers near Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia. This was a work excursion with co-workers. It was a lot of fun and the weather was perfect. We ate lunch by the side of the river, halfway through. I got to see a Bald Eagle in [...]
My birthday was this past weekend but you’d never have known it. My original plans for this past weekend was to be in Charlotte to for the Panthers game on Saturday. But open-heart surgery for my mom changed those plans. On Thursday Amy and I took a bus up to New York. At 5:00 a.m. [...]
Last week I had a long extended visit to Charlotte over the Independence Day holiday weekend. This weekend I had to take a very short and unexpected trip back to Charlotte again. I had to do some testing at a workplace that shall not be mentioned. I tried to do it last weekend when I [...]
Yesterday was exactly one year since the untimely demise of CMS-TV and my last day working at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. And today is exactly one year since I became unemployed for the first time in my life. It took nine months but I eventually got a great new job in Washington, DC. This had got me [...]
By the end of the month I will move to Washington, DC. Patty and the kids are not coming with me… yet. Nearly a year ago, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board of Education voted to eliminate my entire department as part of a recession-based Reduction In Force that included more than 500 teachers layoffs too. Our [...]
Today was the last day for CMS-TV. Back on May 11th the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education voted 7-2 to cut all funding to CMS-TV, effectively eliminating the station in a single amendment vote. In addition to operating the school system’s cable PEG channel, CMS-TV also served as the media services department for the entire [...]
A few days ago I posted the Graphics section of my demo reel. Here’s the Promos section. It’s three Andy Griffith promos (all award winners), 2 news image promos, and a station image. All of them are from my time at 64.
As I continue to put together my demo reel, last night I completed the graphics montage section of it. This weekend I’ll combine this with promos I wrote/produced/edited at my previous employer to finally complete my demo reel DVD.
Yesterday I asked friends on Facebook whether a two-page resume is acceptable if you have enough experience to warrant it, or is the old notion of one-page-only still valid? I got a lot of replies and as I expected, opinions were split about 50/50. But then I noticed a surprising trend. It wasn’t random at [...]