Well Almost. ...I left my house at 8:30 a.m. Got home at 1:50 a.m. last night. So more like 17.5 hours, I have not had a day like that in a long time. Worked a 50th anniversary for a Elementary school. The event was originally suppose to be outside, and I was going to supply a mic and stand for a community politician, and a few other prominent people to make quick speeches.
However, the event was moved inside due to the cooler weather. ...It could have been outside, but it was about 17 to 20 degrees too chilly. I ended up being the DJ for an obstacle course in the gym for the kids I just played a lot of kid friendly music. Had all the young kids singing along to "Let it GO" at one point. Not much dancing occurred as the kids were too bust with the obstacle course. They had everyone go into the cafeteria for the speeches, and used the school sound system in there for the presentation, and the raffle towards the end of the event.
One of my extension cords to one of my speakers died on this gig. It was a black mono price 10 foot cord I got of off Ebay when I first went powered speakers about 5+ years ago. Threw that in the trash!
2nd Gig Was a wedding in D.C. I had to supply 4 mics for the ceremony. 2 different color schemes with LED Up Lights (I brought 21 lights in total). ...Wedding Planner told me I am the first DJ to offer having the LED Up Lights beat to the music with all the weddings she has done. Good Crowd that wanted to keep dancing, but dinner went about 25 minutes longer than expected so they only got about 1 hour 35 minutes of dancing. I had a lot of people shaking my hand telling me I did a great job tonight. ...I also received a $100 tip...I guess I'm eating Steak at some point this week
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Oh, I also had a 2 foot long IEC power cable to one of my moving head wash lights die as well. 2 cords in one gig! So I threw that one in the trash! ...I also had mic batteries die on me in my Shure PGX mic. That mic just eats batteries up ...Had to replace them...Luckily I had extra AA batteries on me! It was a strange day in that aspect!
This was a long day. The wedding felt rushed for load in even though I was on site 2 hours 19 minutes before start time. . I had a delivery truck driver in a box truck for the building next door ask me to move my car. Then a parking valet guy wanted me to move my car again...I was getting very irritated with it as I was under a time crunch to get set up inside. I also don't know why I walked up 2 flights of stairs to put 3 up lights on the 3rd floor just for cocktail hour. ...I realized that was a waste of my time and energy. Very few guests walked up 2 flights of stairs to hang out up there. ...It was just open during cocktail hour. ...I just thought I should have some up light coverage up there, but if I am in that situation again, NO way I am putting up lights on the 3rd floor for only cocktail hour. Nobody asked me to put lights up there, just for some reason I thought there should be some lights up there. ...Cocktail hour was on the 1st floor, and upstairs.
Today, I hustled. Between events, I did not have enough time to stop off somewhere and get lunch. I had to keep driving because GPS was telling me traffic was thick today. And it was right. I had to take an alternate route into D.C. from my first gig. I had printed up directions, but that was completely pointless today.
All in all, it was a solid day. Worked hard. Pulled off 2 gigs with no help. I originally was going to put another DJ on the first gig today, but decided not to, and glad I did. Earned a long day's pay today!
...It looks like It's about time to order new extension cords and replace most of the ones I have! All my extension cords are all 5 years or older at this point. That's my next expenditure. New extension cords
I need to load out back into storage today, but my body is so not in the mood for that. I really just want to eat pizza and watch Football today...It's feeling like that kinda day for me.
However, the event was moved inside due to the cooler weather. ...It could have been outside, but it was about 17 to 20 degrees too chilly. I ended up being the DJ for an obstacle course in the gym for the kids I just played a lot of kid friendly music. Had all the young kids singing along to "Let it GO" at one point. Not much dancing occurred as the kids were too bust with the obstacle course. They had everyone go into the cafeteria for the speeches, and used the school sound system in there for the presentation, and the raffle towards the end of the event.
One of my extension cords to one of my speakers died on this gig. It was a black mono price 10 foot cord I got of off Ebay when I first went powered speakers about 5+ years ago. Threw that in the trash!
2nd Gig Was a wedding in D.C. I had to supply 4 mics for the ceremony. 2 different color schemes with LED Up Lights (I brought 21 lights in total). ...Wedding Planner told me I am the first DJ to offer having the LED Up Lights beat to the music with all the weddings she has done. Good Crowd that wanted to keep dancing, but dinner went about 25 minutes longer than expected so they only got about 1 hour 35 minutes of dancing. I had a lot of people shaking my hand telling me I did a great job tonight. ...I also received a $100 tip...I guess I'm eating Steak at some point this week
...Oh, I also had a 2 foot long IEC power cable to one of my moving head wash lights die as well. 2 cords in one gig! So I threw that one in the trash! ...I also had mic batteries die on me in my Shure PGX mic. That mic just eats batteries up ...Had to replace them...Luckily I had extra AA batteries on me! It was a strange day in that aspect!
This was a long day. The wedding felt rushed for load in even though I was on site 2 hours 19 minutes before start time. . I had a delivery truck driver in a box truck for the building next door ask me to move my car. Then a parking valet guy wanted me to move my car again...I was getting very irritated with it as I was under a time crunch to get set up inside. I also don't know why I walked up 2 flights of stairs to put 3 up lights on the 3rd floor just for cocktail hour. ...I realized that was a waste of my time and energy. Very few guests walked up 2 flights of stairs to hang out up there. ...It was just open during cocktail hour. ...I just thought I should have some up light coverage up there, but if I am in that situation again, NO way I am putting up lights on the 3rd floor for only cocktail hour. Nobody asked me to put lights up there, just for some reason I thought there should be some lights up there. ...Cocktail hour was on the 1st floor, and upstairs.
Today, I hustled. Between events, I did not have enough time to stop off somewhere and get lunch. I had to keep driving because GPS was telling me traffic was thick today. And it was right. I had to take an alternate route into D.C. from my first gig. I had printed up directions, but that was completely pointless today.
All in all, it was a solid day. Worked hard. Pulled off 2 gigs with no help. I originally was going to put another DJ on the first gig today, but decided not to, and glad I did. Earned a long day's pay today!
...It looks like It's about time to order new extension cords and replace most of the ones I have! All my extension cords are all 5 years or older at this point. That's my next expenditure. New extension cords
I need to load out back into storage today, but my body is so not in the mood for that. I really just want to eat pizza and watch Football today...It's feeling like that kinda day for me.
