Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Four Good Days (Part Two)

I drove down to San Diego on Friday to provide a satellite link to a crew working on stories down near the border.

Piece of cake.  I wouldn't have thought twice about it, but early in the week I had already agreed to drive down to San Diego on Saturday to do the SNG work for a sports shoot.



Hmm, shouldn't be much of a problem.  I could simply stay overnight and kill both birds with one per-diem expensed hotel stay.

What?  In these tough economic times?  beFrank, are you crazy?



Yeah, the overnight stay didn't happen.  I'd have to give up one of the shoots if I felt like driving back and forth over two days was too much to handle.



Too much to handle?

Naw.  I drove down on Friday to Otay and worked to put Stacey Butler on TV.  She and her photographer had the tougher job.  They'd begun the day at 4:30am and were crashing two packages.  One was on the Swine Flu and the other was on the Mexico Drug War.

I decided to keep both assignments (because I'm greedy) and I'd just make the drive both days.



I could see the parking structure for the Tijuana Airport from the Naval Training Facility where we'd set up for the live shots.

Inside the Facility it looked a lot like the Fantasy Factory on steroids, but without the Olly eye candy.

On the other hand, the Navy had bigger guns.

Two down.

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