The mind has been working overtime again the last few days. Let’s do some catch-up: Spent way too many hours at the Matterhorn on Saturday. Arrived just before 5am and discovered that there were some problems with the wiring. As a result, it was well after 10am before we sent the first sled all the way through the mountain. After some more delays and discoveries,…
January 29, 2003Yesterday, I found out that despite my new found status as a westsider at the Park, there was actually a chance for me to do some testing on the Matterhorn. The catch? Tomorrow, I have to be AT the park at 5am. Which means leaving the house sometime around 4 in the morning. My dad shrugs it off since he leaves around that time every…
January 24, 2003Has been a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants week. Out of the blue, I get a call from a company that wants to interview me. The phone interview was scheduled for 1pm today was called off at the last minute when the HR person called me and let me know that one of the interviewers was called out of town. Shades of another interview from last year. Thankfully, I…
January 22, 2003After much stress, Granny passed her written test at the DMV and was able to finally get her new-to-her 2002 Mazda Millenia. It’s not a car that I would go out of my way to purchase, but it was very well priced and was in great condition. The final cincher was that the layout of the controls and the drive of the car was very…
January 15, 2003Roger informs me that the Tellme application has already busted. For some reason it is not reading the URL of the file output from Moveable Type. It is really weird since it worked just Saturday night. I wonder if there is something in the update parameters that is messing it up. I also noticed that the old version is not working either. I am hoping…
January 13, 2003I finally got the new Tellme site I mentioned in my last update. To access the new Club Josh Tellme Application just follow the following directions: (editors note: Sorry this site no longer works… and instructions have been archived) So far, the only bug is that when I post a link in the update, the Tellme app errors out and skips over the contents of…
January 11, 2003For the past week I have noticed that my left front tire has been losing air faster than a Winnie the Pooh ride vehicle trying to be pushed by a few Imagineers, some Attractions operators, and someone from custodial. I had suspected something was not quite right, but it wasn’t until I was coming out of Daniel’s house that I noticed the guilty nail. So…
January 10, 2003It’s been non-stop around here the last few days. the big story is the heat. It’s January right? Last time I checked the thermometer it was 85 degrees and I was wearing shorts and rolling up my sleeves at the park. All of my fellow cast members have been lulled into a zombie like state. After the cold-for-LA past couple of weeks and the record…
January 7, 2003The annual New Year’s festivities were almost derailed before they began. I had heard that on New Year’s Eve if not enough people show up, that legally, according to our fine union contract, they can keep us up to two hours on overtime. I was worried since my shift was from 1p-9:30p that a two hour extension would keep me at Disneyland until 11:30, not…
January 2, 2003Man am I ever glad I am at home with a day off. The days following Christmas have been non-stop exhaustion producing days. It starts out with record crowds at the park for the last three days. On Friday and Saturday, they stopped letting people into the park early in the day. Wall to wall people as far as the eye could see. It was…
December 30, 2002