Building a Set!!

Ok get up at 11:00 and get to the studio, find out our truck has not even left Jacksonville FL. yet. Mind you this is 3 hours away.push back rehearsal till 2:00 p.m. Next phone call, truck had a flat just outside of Jacksonville, need new tire, headed back to get one. It is now 1:00 p.m. Plan "B" is now in store. Producer asks if any one is a carpenter or know their way around a saw and lumber. Well of course I do! So instead of sitting around the Cracker Barrel and sharing stories with people I have never met, I went to the wood shop to help build out set. After a good solid 8 hours we end up with half of it done and it is awesome! After asking what happened to the old one, there was a long pause and then I got "the story" of where it is. I will share that with you now in two sentences. Had a gig in NY, left it there to be shipped, never was shipped, can't find it anywhere. Two days till show, need a set, build one today, put on truck tomorrow. Now this story took them a good 3 hours to tell me but I lost interest after 15 short minutes. Oh well here is what it looks like. Looks way better in person than in a photo! Tomorrow maybe I can pretend to be a monitor engineer! Wee that will be a great time!