logan1_2000
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The last week of school last month, DS 9, a 3rd grader, brought home a request from his teacher for Dads to make presentations to the class. Talk about our jobs, an interesting hobby, a trip we've taken or place we've been. I presented my Commemorative Coke Bottle Collection last year to the 2nd grade class, so that was out. I'm a divorce lawyer, and even have some kids of firm clients in the class, so my career was not a good topic ("And sometimes we take out family violence protective orders against real whack-jobs, like we had to against Timmy's daddy...), so DCL was a natural suggestion of DW and DS. Spent long nights cruising links from the DIS boards to many photo pages from many fine photographers among the ranks of the DISers, and kept substituting and refining, got my themes all represented, revised again, got it down to what I thought 9 year olds would like. An awesome power point, even dubbed in the ship's horn from the CC music CD, and some of the Disney songs to play while showing shots of the shows.
Disaster. Home computer/notebook has major unsalvageable crash. still haven't gotten the geek squad to fix it. and no, i stupidly dont back up things because ... because i dont, and now I know better.
Stay up late at work the night before at work and try to remember the sites I went to during about 40 hours of work to do a quick and dirty re-do, get about 75% of what I wanted w/o the dubbing music, and then...
Disaster #2. There is no CD burner on my work computer, the burner software icons on my computer were because of the package of software our firm bought. Tried to email the presentation to another computer, or at least to a gmail account. Our outdated server couldn't handle such a large file, and I just am not good enough on computers to have broken this down into several smaller files, and it was late.
Go home. Slam things around and cuss big time (the upside to my cussing, by the way, is that DS 9 can go see PG 13's that earned the rating for language because there is nothing he can hear that he hasn't heard dear old dad say) and then throw the marketing DVD into the crashed home 'puter--and sure enough, it still runs. I figure I can kill the sound, do my own kid-oriented voice over, and they'll enjoy it.
So that's what I did. Somethings would have been better conveyed with my show, but that's water under the bridge. They asked good questions, and to my surprise the thing they seemed to latch onto most of all wasn't animator's palate, or the mickey shaped food (really could have used the slides for that) or the idea of scoops and pluto's and pinocchios or even the arcade...they LOVED the idea of "Who Wants To Be A Mouseketeer". (Which is something I skipped in recent cruises, actually).
I assume many of them went home and asked their parents to take them on a DCL cruise. Lots and lots of millionaires among the parent population (me not among that classification) so I dont feel too bad. The carton of chocolates i had from a recent alumni function and passed out at the end also helped the success of the program.
I finally got the replacement powerpoint onto a CD sometime later, the original is gone forever apparently, and maybe sometime I'll get to show someone.
Disaster. Home computer/notebook has major unsalvageable crash. still haven't gotten the geek squad to fix it. and no, i stupidly dont back up things because ... because i dont, and now I know better.
Stay up late at work the night before at work and try to remember the sites I went to during about 40 hours of work to do a quick and dirty re-do, get about 75% of what I wanted w/o the dubbing music, and then...
Disaster #2. There is no CD burner on my work computer, the burner software icons on my computer were because of the package of software our firm bought. Tried to email the presentation to another computer, or at least to a gmail account. Our outdated server couldn't handle such a large file, and I just am not good enough on computers to have broken this down into several smaller files, and it was late.
Go home. Slam things around and cuss big time (the upside to my cussing, by the way, is that DS 9 can go see PG 13's that earned the rating for language because there is nothing he can hear that he hasn't heard dear old dad say) and then throw the marketing DVD into the crashed home 'puter--and sure enough, it still runs. I figure I can kill the sound, do my own kid-oriented voice over, and they'll enjoy it.
So that's what I did. Somethings would have been better conveyed with my show, but that's water under the bridge. They asked good questions, and to my surprise the thing they seemed to latch onto most of all wasn't animator's palate, or the mickey shaped food (really could have used the slides for that) or the idea of scoops and pluto's and pinocchios or even the arcade...they LOVED the idea of "Who Wants To Be A Mouseketeer". (Which is something I skipped in recent cruises, actually).
I assume many of them went home and asked their parents to take them on a DCL cruise. Lots and lots of millionaires among the parent population (me not among that classification) so I dont feel too bad. The carton of chocolates i had from a recent alumni function and passed out at the end also helped the success of the program.
I finally got the replacement powerpoint onto a CD sometime later, the original is gone forever apparently, and maybe sometime I'll get to show someone.
