I was very nervous about my travel schedule this year, not because I would be flying on Ethiopian Airlines (well, not ONLY because of that,) but because I would be arriving only 3 1/2 days before we started taping the first show. In years past I have arrived 6 to 8 days before taping and it has always been a challenge to get all my stuff ready on time. I don't remember having much free time to sit around and goof off. I was worried that 3 1/2 days wouldn't be enough time, and with my travel delays I only have 2 1/2 days.
That being said, things have gone very smoothly so far. Yesterday on arriving at 4:30 in the afternoon I had only 3 1/2 hours to be ready for the practice run-throughs of the show with John Sibi-Okumu, the host of our show. The gods smiled on me and everything fell into place and I was ready with 15 minutes to spare.
But just when you think everything is going smoothly, the unexpected happens. 15 minutes ago I was sitting at my station in the control room working when I heard the pleasant sound of frying bacon. Bacon? No that's not the sound of frying bacon, it's the sound of falling water, and a lot of it! 20 feet away from me a torrent of water was pouring from the drop ceiling from 2 or 3 different places. Lucky for us it was falling onto the stacks of equipment cases stored at that end of the room and not the hundreds of thousands of dollars of computers and television recording equipment only a few meters away.
Pray for the best and plan for the worst. That's our motto.
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