<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Absolutely welcome back Dave.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">I kinda feel similar to you - although my lighting design work was always part-time. I used to work 8 hrs/day in software, then put in another 8 hrs evenings (and weekends) working on designs and then installing, teching, sometimes running shows, etc. But work evolved w/ lots more responsbility and time, and I just don't have the energy for double-jobs anymore.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">But - yes - I do miss the work. Sometimes I gaze achingly at a concert or show, and re-design the lights or cues in my head. I did get backstage with major local band last summer, shadowing the LD and board ops for a festival gig, and loved it. I even made a list of notes to address a number of their design issues, and busking setup (but kept them to myself). Sigh.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 5:55 AM Stephen E Rees via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Welcome back , Dave. Good to see you here again. We’ve missed your musings and humor. Be well good sir. <br>
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> On Aug 2, 2023, at 10:57 PM, Steven Hood via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Happy to have you back, Brother. I'm happy to buy you a beverage any time.<br>
> Steven<br>
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>> On August 2, 2023 7:34:52 PM Dave Vick via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Um, hi. Remember me? It's been a minute... Okay, actually it's been<br>
>> around 22 months, but you know what I mean.<br>
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>> I was having lunch the other week with an old friend who's the Asst.<br>
>> House Manager of my old theatre, the Wharton Center at MSU (and a<br>
>> delightful young lady*, but that's another story), and it got me to<br>
>> thinking about how much I'd been unconsciously missing the backstage<br>
>> community. Then I got in a Zoom call with Kristi (among others) and<br>
>> the unconscious missing became extremely conscious missing. I'm NOT<br>
>> returning to work onstage; it turns out I actually like bus driving -<br>
>> hey, I never said I was sane - and the few times I did go back onstage<br>
>> in the past year or so were.... Umm... Weird. But it's a process.<br>
>> <br>
>> So here I am, hat in hand. It feels like I've healed up enough from<br>
>> the utter shyte that drove me out of the Craft two years ago-ish that<br>
>> I can at least come back to the Tavern, if y'all will have me back.<br>
>> I'll just curl up in the corner over here; don't mind me. Not sure<br>
>> who's barkeeping these days, but if you need some glasses washed, or<br>
>> anything else y'all need, lemme know.<br>
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>> * Younger than me, anyway...<br>
>> -- <br>
>> -DV<br>
>> (Yeah; *That* Guy)<br>
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