Back to work...and BOOM

After a couple of weeks of vacation, I'm back to work. I have to say it was a pretty uneventful day...which is kind of nice. It enabled me to kind of "slide" back into the rhythm of things.

There was one thing that put a smile on my face, indicating things were the "same old, same old."

We had a new reporter at 11pm. She filed her report, but forgot to put down the times that she wanted her lower third name supers to hit.

So, we called her into the control room to help call out her supers.

By the way, for those of you not in the know, "supers" are the lower third graphics that name the people on the screen.

At any rate, when I call for a super, I'll usually say "downstream." This tells the technical director to insert the lower third super. Last night, we had good ole JW at the board. JW, James, is a master switcher! Seriously, James is one of the best technical directors I've worked with and can also be good at cutting the tension in the control room with his humor.

At any rate, when our reported indicated that she wanted her first super to air, all of a sudden we hear, "BOOM."

I looked at her, and then she said, "That’s the guy." It was her way to indicate to put the super in.

So for the rest of her package, I just told James, "BOOM."

...like I said, "same old, same old."

It's good to be back!

One last thing, while I was away, our night side reporter, Nancy Yamada, had a baby boy...congratulations, Nancy!