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http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2009/04/10/dcl.bolduan.asu.obama.cnn?iref=videosearch

President Obama will speak at ASU's commencement, but reportedly will not receive an honorary degree. CNN's Kate Bolduan reports.

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Current Location: Not at work

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THREES:

THREE NAMES I GO BY
Chuc Avebeno
Uncle Ben
Fuzzy

THREE JOBS I HAVE HAD IN MY LIFE
Lighting Designer
TV Director
Motion Graphic Artist

THREE PLACES I HAVE LIVED
Tempe, AZ
Chandler, AZ
Phoenix, AZ


THREE TV SHOWS THAT I WATCH
The Daily Show
Star Trek
Scrubs

THREE PLACES I HAVE BEEN
San Francisco, CA
New York, NY
Gallup, New Mexico


THREE PLACES I WANT TO GO
Hawaii
France
Hiking around Sedona, AZ

THREE OF MY FAVORITE FOODS
Pollo Fundido
Chicken Tikka Masala
Curry Chicken

THINGS I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO
Visiting some Haunted houses
A California Road Trip
Feeling financially Secure

THREE PETS THAT YOU HAVE OWNED
Sandbuggy (Dog)
Kitty (Cat)
Unnamed (Sparrow)

THREE FRIENDS WHO WILL REPLY (for sure now)
glovercom
pathoffman
aztodd

THREE FAVORITE BANDS / RECORDING ARTISTS
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Bernadette Peters
William Eaton

THREE FAVORITE THINGS TO WATCH
Sunset through poofy couds floating by
Lightning!
Linebackers (in person, not on TV... OK TV too)

THREE FAVORITE DRINKS
Sacks's World Famous Market Spice Iced Tea
Iced Chai Tea
A&W Diet Cream Soda

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Current Location: Home Studio
Current Mood: accomplished

I love it when things come together...
In this case, it is a show...
I am recording a jazz performance tomorrow afternoon.
I borrowed 3 HD cameras (2-HDV, 1 XDCAM-EX and a small HDV camcorder)

the XDCAMS only have memory cards to record 1 hour per camera, so I wanted to feed video out via firewire and capture it on tape on the small camcorder...

I have been looking for the damn cable all night!

I finally gave up to go to bed, then it suddenly appeared. I tested it, and it looks like it will actually work!!

I had been scratching my head about placing the mic for the drum set where I wanted it to be, since I only had one mic stand and it was already being used.

..right next to the cable, I found my backlight stand and support arm. Perfect for holding the digital recorder I was going to use on the drum set!

20 minutes ago, I was going to go to bed worried, and now I think I can sleep!

Kenny Thames - Jazz performance 4pm - The Radisson on 2nd Avenue near Osborn in Phoenix. Come enjoy!

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Current Location: Off to bed
Current Mood: thankful

Created by Train Horns

(Sounds like 16k to me)

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Current Location: Home Studio
Current Music: tone

I go in at 7:30am tomorrow morning for my first steroidal injection...
Wish me luck!!!

Is it me, or has my back been hurting more today??

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Current Location: Home Sweet Home
Current Mood: curious

Went to the gym tonight at my usual time - 11pm! I've got 2 weeks to get in walking shape!

For Brian's birthday (March 1st) I got tickets for us to visit San Francisco!
He has never been there, and we are both looking forward to it!

BUT... I want to be able to walk around and enjoy myself without having to sit every five minutes, so I am back to my stretching routine (from Physical Therapy) and trips to the gym!

I have a strange side effect though... It is only 12:30am and I am tired and want to go to sleep.

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Current Location: Home again
Current Mood: tired

This evening, we had a fun time at Michael's birthday get together at California Pizza Kitchen...
I ordered the Chicken Milanese - Omnomnomnomnom! My favorite!!
It isn't Pizza, but it is low-carb and delicious!!

Maybe it was a little too low carb!

Later in the evening, I stopped at a friend's place and we looked at a cinerama movie on his huge HD-1080p screen! Some of the final shots made me feel a little dizzy, so I went on my way to drive into phoenix to drop off some DVDs at Karamba Nightclub...

Driving down the street, I noticed that I was still dizzy, but now I was starting to sweat profusely!
My hands were very very shakey too! My blood sugar had dropped to dangerous levels and I had not noticed it coming on!

I checked for my emergency glucose tablets, but they were not there - I didn;t think to look in the glove compartment, where I think they are.. but I was not thinking correctly...

If I turned left, I could go to Walgreens and get glucose tablets and juice too... But there was a Circle-K closer if I turned right... so I got to Circle-K, and got apple juice, and Strawberry Milk.. managed to drop my phone when it rang, and wonder if I broke it!
I downed the juice right away and made my way to burger kind to get food...

I waited int he parking lot until I left better, then dropped off the DVDs, and made my way home and went right to bed for about an hour. Then it hit me!

Never drink Apple Juice, Strawberry-Milk, and eat Burger King Sliders without expecting to have an upset stomach later!

It is 3am, and everything just stopped hurting. Time for bed!

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Current Location: Back home

I finally found out what has been causing my back pain for the past 15 months! A herniated disc. Actually 2 of them are there.

What's next - A steroidal injection - A series of injection, actually.

It's good to finally know what is going on. I know there are plenty of treatments.

I have to videotape a surgery once, where they were using an orthroscope tocut away at the extruding part of the disc, while the patient was conscious, to let them know when they had cleared enough tissue to allow him to be pain free. It was pretty cool.

I left work at 20 minutes to get to the appointment, which was near ASU at Tempe St. Luke's Hospital.
I went to the closest bus stop - a 5 minute trip max, I expected.

There was a big sign that said BUS STOP CLOSED (due to road construction). but there was an older lady standing there.
I asked "Is the bus stop really closed?" before I noticed all the small "CLOSED" signs on the bus route lists... Her answer wasn't clear, but she sounded to be East-Indian, and she asked me if the hospital was very far away. I told her it wasn't and we both started walking. 2 buses passed us along the way.

I pointed out the hospital when we got close... she continued on down Mill Avenue, and I turned right, down a side street to the building I needed to go to...

I met up with her at the door to the building... We each looked for the office we each needed to go to...
We both reached the same door at the same time... She was an hour early (she had taken 3 buses from Mesa) and I was right on time.

Funny thing about my back pain - Walking the 1/4 - 1/2 mile to the hospital didn't bother me, but standing at the counter in the office started to hurt after 3 minutes.

2 minutes after I sat down, I was ushered in...

They did X-Rays, and range of motion tests, and pushing and pulling to evoke a pain response in me were done, but none of them hurt.

They explained what was happening, and how they wanted to treat it, and what the risks were... It was all very familiar. A coworker of mine is going through the same thing I am... except he has a cyst growing in his back, in the same spot as my herniated disc.
Everything I am going through, he had gone through just 2 weeks before me - from the first exam, to the MRI to the steroidal injection...

When everything was taken care of, I started on my trip back to work, and in the waiting area I said goodbye
to the lady I had walked over with. My bus timing was perfect and I was back on campus 3 minutes later.

Now i am waiting for a call to schedule my injection!

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Current Mood: content

Fill this out about your SENIOR year of high school! The longer ago it was, the more fun the answers will be!! Thought you all who knew me back then might get a laugh out of some memories! Share yours!

1. Did you date someone from your school?
No - I don't count the 2 proms I went to after the girls asked me.

2. Did you marry someone from your high school?
No .

3. Did you car pool to school?
Bus/Bike/Drove.

4. What kind of car did you have?
A beat up Ford 150 truck.

5. What kind of car do you have now?
Toyota Matrix

6. It's Friday night back then...where are you?
Half the year - Working a concert at the ASU Activity Center - Now Wells Fargo Arena.

7. It is Friday night now...where are you?
Gay Bowling.

8. What kind of job did you have in high school?
2 internships - 1 at KAET-TV, PBS station in Phoenix, and 1 at Gammage Auditorium (and the activity center) working on concerts, plays, dance, skiing movies and music performances.

9. What kind of job do you do now?
I am a Producer/Director at KAET-TV, PBS station in Phoenix.

10. Were you a party animal?
Not really.

11. Were you considered a flirt?
Not at all.

12. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
No.

13. Were you a nerd?
Definitely!

14. Did you get suspended or expelled?
Never.

15. Can you sing the fight song?
No.

16. Who was/were your favorite teacher(s)?
Ms. Buffington. French teacher. She took us to see the Original "La Cage Aux Folles"
movie when it came out. (in french)

17. Where did you sit during lunch?
In the cafeteria with friends unless I rode my bike to Dairy Queen near ASU... BBQ Sandwich! Yum!

18. What was your school's full name?
Tempe High School.

19. When did you graduate?
Class of 1983,

20. What was your school mascot?
The Buffalo

21. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
Sure! This time I might go out for wrestling like they wanted me to!

22. Did you have fun at Prom?
Yes! My senior year a bunch of us went to a gay dance bar in a limo!
Go Figure - Paige hadn't come out yet, and I didn't know Jason was living in town at his gay uncle's place.

23. Do you still talk to the person you went to Prom with?
No - Last time I saw her, I introduced her to by partner at the time. She was shocked.

24. Are you planning on going to your next reunion?
YES!

25. Do you still talk to people from school?
All too often. Dave - every week, Missy - when we work on projects together at ASU, Charles - - when we work on projects together at ASU, Randy - When I go see a show at the Dodge, he is usually working security, Dub - out and about, and his brother Bruce at the Emmys every year, Joe - at the Emmy board meetings, Denise - When I do work with the Theatre department, Alan - Who I met this year and found out we went to High School together, Sandy - out at the bars, Heidi - out at lunch occasionally... and more... they are everywhere!

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Current Location: Home in the rain