During our 12-day, Oklahoma extravaganza, we went to Tahlequah to float the river, went to Grand Lake to go houseboating, fishing, and seadooing, went to Tulsa to take the godkids swimming, bowling, and to the drive-in, and then we went to Lake Tenkiller, El Reno, and the OKC Zoo/Omniplex. We were never bored. It was nice to get to spend a few days with everyone this time. I especially had fun shooting pictures with both my photographer parents. I even had time to teach my step-mom the joys of uploading and emailing photos.
On the plane ride home, I read an inspiring book called "Rebel Without a Crew" about a student filmmaker that made a feature film by himself over a summer and only spent $7000. Then he turned around a sold it for gobs of money and became a big player Hollywood. Not exactly what I want to do, but I am making a low/no budget kid's film, and I know that if I can only coax this film out of my head the way I am envisioning it, it could take the festivals and kids by storm.
With the inspiration from the book, I had hoped to come home and delve immediately back into the film. But it turns out Mark and I didn't have a very fun home-coming. Half the power was out when we got home. We had to trash all the food in the fridge. It reminded me of the many times the power went out when I lived in an old garage apartment. I can't count the times the food went bad and had to throw everything out.
Anyway, back to today...it also turns out several of our new "smart" strip surge protectors blew. And now our TV is fried. I am bummed. We bought it for my last birthday. Now we are back to squinting at my old TV. But at least we had the sense to unplug my G5. I don't think I could handle loosing my thesis film files again.
Hopefully I can get back on track once I get an electrician in tomorrow. Until then, I am afraid to plug the G5 in.
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