Post #109218 by suicide_sam on Thu, Aug 19, 2004 5:09 PM

I'm finishing up some Superbowl work and the next job, has been delayed for awhile. Thats the one thing about working freelance, sometimes the down time comes unexpected. When I had allot of down time before the next big job I used to go to Imperial beach and park on the street and have lunch there, looking at the waves rolling in. Sometimes I would take my dog and throw a ball around for her in the sand. I'm getting sick of computers. I think I should have been a ship builder. Spending half my life in the ocean. You know I haven't been to the beach since last year's Tiki Beach Fest? And that time I didn't even get in the water. I used to love the beach. When I was a kid I would get in the water and start swimming out until I couldn't see the land anymore. All I could see was ocean all around me. Now I sit in front of a computer all day wishing I cared about what I was doing. I gotta call around tomorrow and line up my next gig. Maybe if I hadn't bought a house and a new car and if I still didn't have student loan payments I could have just moved to the a beach in Hawaii. Worked nights as a bouncer at a bar, and painted beautiful hawaiian girls all day long. I see college kids so desperate to get into the line of work I'm fed up with. Hard work never bothered me, my dad's a landscaper, I was going to work with him since I was a little kid. I can do concrete work, tree service, all that stuff. Once I did a job with my dad where I had to tie a rope around myself and hang off the side of an extremely steep hill, I guess you would call it a cliff, digging holes in the side of it to put these tubes in so that they could cover the whole side of the cliff with cement. This was to prevent landslides during the rainy season and the tubes were so water retained behind the concrete could still filter out. That was hard work. I never even saw the last two movies I worked on, probably won't see the last one either. Wesley Snipes killing vampires, yeah, that's a winner. I love returning to LA after going somewhere cause when I arrive at LAX I can always smell the ocean breeze a little. The ocean breeze lets me know I'm home. Well If I end up with allot of down time I guess that means I get to hang out with my dog more for awhile. Maybe I'll atke her to the beach.

Sorry folks just venting a little. Think I'll go home and do some drinking tonight. Might even light up some of the mean greens, do some drawrings.