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15_the_circle) wrote2006-06-28 08:40 am
sensory deprivation in the studio
[OT from cottage renovations]
I haven't really said much about this week's project, which is happening in a video production facility in Salt Lake City. fortunately what I'm doing is all off-camera, a mix of technical support, providing content and sanity checking in the control booth. a bit outside the normal daily routine but interesting though the days start early and end late without any stopping. I had been anticipating 12- to 14-hour days but so far they have been running a bit longer than that. it's not immediately clear how long the shoot will run (we are, of course, behind schedule and over budget) nor how long I will be needed here.
yesterday also featured an unexpected complication in the form of a temporary visual impairment on my part. the ability to alter font sizes in Windows came in quite handy. by the end of the day self-treatment with eye drops had managed to get things under control but it was one of those reminders of the ephemeral nature of those functions and capabilities that one tends to take for granted.
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Make sure you give yourself a little break here and there. I once ignored the discomfort for too long and woke up the next day with one eye not focusing properly. It went back to normal after about ten minutes but it was a very freaky and sobering experience.
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thank you.
as far as I could tell it was triggered by the change in ambient conditions rather than eyestrain, though there was also a certain amount of tempting fate -- Monday evening while walking back to our lodgings I had told my UK collague that adjusting to the lower humidity was no big deal.
so of course the next morning my eyes don't want to open and there's a shooting pain if I try to move them, expose them to any light or touch an eyelid. this was, unsurprisingly, accompanied by irritation and swelling which ever so slightly altered the geometry of my eyes, thus decalibrating the focus of my glasses. the first recovery step was to apply a wet compress for a while, followed by eye drops repeated throughout the day. I have no way of knowing whether any sort of maximum recommended/allowed dosage would have applied because the information would have been printed on the bottle or its box in tiny little type. they might just as well have printed it on a piece of paper left conveniently at the bottom of the sea or in low earth orbit.
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Take it easy on the eyes; I imagine you have people depending on you for inspirational photography.
And, by the way, what DO you DO? Sounds mildly interesting. Either that, or I'm just hyper-curious.
what I do ... as little as possible
actually, neither I nor anything I do is very interesting. I'm just another computer guy, drifting through the techno floating world.
as for the day job, I run the tech support function for part of a small internet security company. before last year's bankruptcy and subsequent merger into another company I had a staff. nowdays it's all sort of a DIY operation. as things progess (see entry for 15 May (http://www.livejournal.com/~15_the_circle/2006/05/15)) we seem to keep on letting folks go, and I often inherit functions from the departed. this is not, however, a progression that can be sustained.
so perhaps I need to be doing something else. am looking into setting up a lap pool service, with sidelines of used Corvettes, fork straightening, comida mexicana and star maps (the latter makes sense only for those who have lived in or visited Los Angeles).