Rough Weekend!

Sorry for being a bit late…the 11 Oct was a bit rough; my daughter 23 was laid up in the hospital this weekend.  It started Saturday morning, got her to the emergency room by 5pm, and ran several tests to rule out kidney stones and appendicitis.  But it was her gall bladder that was the culprit – inflamed & infected.   So by 2am Sunday she was admitted to have an operation around 10am Sunday to remove it.  She doing well and should be released today.

In other news, Heather finished filming this weekend – and WOW does she have some stories to tell!  I told her she needs to write everything done, because they’re too many and too rich!  Things like an extra asking if he could sneeze when the director called “action” but was politely told “no” so he coughed instead.  When they said “cut”, Heather pipes up; “I’ve been upstaged by an extra” and everyone laughs because Heather is the one who should be coughing because it’s her character – in fact Heather dies in this film.  The director gave Heather great praise for bring her “A” game every time.  So much that she was given an actors dream – to improv (ad-libbing) a scene with her young (about 6-8) son to establish a relationship with him because there was nothing in the script.  The script did establish relationships with all her other “family” members before she dies, but not with the young son.  So without anything to go on or guidance/direction, she pulls it off to the point that when they finally call “cut”, there in not a dry eye in the place!  I wish I could tell you what the dialogue was because it would choke up anyone, I mean I’m getting choked up just thinking/writing about it – but because of movie confidentialities, I cannot – not until it’s released – sorry.  O’ and her death scene, when they finally finished filming, the director said she literally “died” on camera!  She dies from what we’ve gathered is tuberculoses.  She evens got to cough up blood as part of her sickness leading to her death – kind of what Val Kilmer does in “Tombstone” as Doc Holiday.

My son is heading off to St Louis later this month to record a demo-CD so his manager can “shop” it around in the music industry.  In the meantime he waits tables at a high-end restaurant that opened last month – good food!

Still working for Rockwell, but there is a great temptation to go over to Global Strike Command – they are throwing a lot of money around and sucking up all former B-52 crewdogs.  I had to put my German 88mm Flak gun, somewhere in North Africa 1941-43, on hold for the moment.  I needed the half-track that towed it but it’s still in production from Dragon/DML – it was supposed to be out last month but for some reason it was delayed until this month – we’ll see.  So I began work on an Army M1A1 used in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

O’ BTW…I like the BoB Blogging…not much into Facebook yet.  Glad to hear about Chuck & oldest daughter!  And let me know when you do get published, I’d be first in line to buy your book(s)!

Until next time, fly safe!

Andy

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