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Tim McCulloch

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Re: Why everyone's home should have a basement
« Reply #50 on: December 16, 2017, 08:25:07 PM »

One of the Nutcracker crews?  This weekend is the last of three separate (local!) Nutcracker productions. I'm lucky to get the music out of my head by New Years....

Yeah.  We have 3 or 4 productions, 2 of which have IATSE crew.  If my cancellations had come a couple days earlier I would have taken a call.  I'd rather work than not.
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Re: Why everyone's home should have a basement
« Reply #51 on: December 17, 2017, 11:30:39 AM »

One of the Nutcracker crews?  This weekend is the last of three separate (local!) Nutcracker productions. I'm lucky to get the music out of my head by New Years....
don't worry Mark. It will all be "fresh and new" next year.  ::)
Chris.
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Tim McCulloch

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Re: Why everyone's home should have a basement
« Reply #52 on: December 17, 2017, 01:19:54 PM »

don't worry Mark. It will all be "fresh and new" next year.  ::)
Chris.

It takes powerful medication to erase those memories.  :-X
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Re: Why everyone's home should have a basement
« Reply #53 on: December 17, 2017, 05:37:23 PM »

It takes powerful medication to erase those memories.  :-X
Ya, no shit.
And yet, every year "we" regale the world with the same stories....  :o

Again.....

Chris.
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Re: Why everyone's home should have a basement
« Reply #54 on: December 17, 2017, 07:28:51 PM »

OK guys, quit yer yappin' about your nuts and the crackers thereof.  For real pain talk of those Little Miz Diva shows with all the stage moms who learned all the tricks from watching those Sureality TV shows on the dysfunctional family channel.
Not to get back on track, there is a down side with basements in oil refinery towns.  Where I live they buy up vacant houses and demo them so there is now a parkland buffer between the refinery and the town.
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Re: Why everyone's home should have a basement
« Reply #55 on: December 17, 2017, 09:30:21 PM »

OK guys, quit yer yappin' about your nuts and the crackers thereof.  For real pain talk of those Little Miz Diva shows with all the stage moms who learned all the tricks from watching those Sureality TV shows on the dysfunctional family channel.
Not to get back on track, there is a down side with basements in oil refinery towns.  Where I live they buy up vacant houses and demo them so there is now a parkland buffer between the refinery and the town.

One of the cheer/dance/diva events that uses our PAC was so overtaken by Stage Mommies that they moved all tech control to the judges area (where The Dearest Mommies are verboten).  The only good thing about most of these events is the challenge the tracks present for your Instant EQ skills and maybe practicing your mind-reading.

Same PAC, but youth musical theatre company - some of the least-intrusive parents I've witnessed at rehearsals.  Awesome adults that mostly behave as adults and tend to be genuinely helpful.  I wish every youth oriented company was so fortunate.

Obligatory topical tie in:  the PAC has a basement :o.  with a scene shop, stage equipment repair bay, dressing rooms, rehearsal hall, costume shop & laundry, storage... IOW almost like Bob's.  ;)  The upstairs is a little more involved.   ::)

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Re: Why everyone's home should have a basement
« Reply #56 on: December 18, 2017, 11:11:10 PM »

Basement/subfloor story from today:

I have having a pool put in.  The guys core drilled half way through my concrete slab to install the supports of the glass pool fence.

Each of the holes took about 2 cups of concrete.  Except for the one that they couldn't keep full, which took abiut 10 gal and still wasn't full.

Result = 10 gal concrete all over my power tools stored in the subfloor/basement area.

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Re: Why everyone's home should have a basement
« Reply #57 on: December 18, 2017, 11:52:12 PM »

don't worry Mark. It will all be "fresh and new" next year.  ::)
Chris.

Thanks. My 26th year working one of the productions....  I can pretty much do their pre-show announcement from memory (but I have the script in front of me anyway).
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Re: Why everyone's home should have a basement
« Reply #58 on: December 19, 2017, 12:48:07 AM »

Result = 10 gal concrete all over my power tools
I would be PISSED.  Events like that are what make it so hard for me to trust contractors.
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Re: Why everyone's home should have a basement
« Reply #59 on: December 19, 2017, 09:34:15 PM »

Jesus Christ, didn't they at least feel the drill go through when they punched the core. I would be wicked pissed.
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