This job sucks!

Well, not really, but we all have days like that I'm sure. Most often my days are filled with interesting assignments (heck, maybe even a little adventure). Most days, I can't wait to get home and share a picture or two and a kind word with anyone who happens to wander over to my blog.

Not this week.

I think I'm seriously suffering from a little news action withdrawal. I've worked the lead story for a couple of newscasts, but I haven't been on a really big story all week. It's all been newsworthy, but after missing out on the Katrina coverage, it all just seems a little mundane.

Hardly worth putting up the mast for a liveshot.



I'm not complaining. . .uh, maybe I am, but I don't mean to. There's always going to be plenty of news to go around. It's just been a tough week and right now, it's somebody else's turn to cover the big news.

Really, I got a kick out of seeing "Big Blue" our satellite truck roll onto the lot on Wednesday. The two guys who ran it had a long hard drive back from New Orleans. As much as I would have like to be there too, I don't envy their road time in Big Blue.



Nice bug collection they picked up along the way. It's not a comfortable ride for man or bug apparently.



The only other thing I've covered so far this week that I've found even slightly interesting was the Los Angeles City Council meeting on Tuesday. Some suits from the power company had a lot of explaining to do about the big power outage on Monday. They got grilled by the council.



Not chewed out, just questioned pretty thoroughly. I had to stand through the whole thing. That wasn't fun.

I admit, it was a pretty good explanation. Without a lot of sidestepping, the power company guys explained it all came down to one guy who snipped a couple of cables.

Nobody really got chewed out (we don't know the status of the guy), but the gist of it all was pretty much, "oops" and "our bad, we'll try to make sure it doesn't happen again."



The two things I learned while standing behind my camera for nearly three hours. First of all, owww!



Second, Councilwoman Hahn has a rubber alligator at her council seat. I thought it was cute. The park where the wild alligator nicknamed Reggie, who has been evading capture for over a month is in her district.



I've been home every night this week for dinner. That's unusual for me. I'm never looking for reasons to be away from home, it just seems to work out that way. When I can be home, it's a treat and at least for that I'm happy.

I know it's the quiet days that I'll appreciate and wish for when I'm in the middle of a big breaker. Just between us? I'll take the breaker.

That council meeting was killing my back. I can't keep doing these easy days.