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After unloading two trucks direct from Colorado, Sheila and Shauna started in on creating 8, 10 and 12 foot tall light boxes that would surround the area.  DMac began assembling the stage and setting up a sponsor's booth.  Gene and Andy started to set up the first few miles of pipe and drape.  My task was simple: grab a lift and start hanging silk columns from the thirty foot high ceiling.  (Careful schliefkevision readers would remember my first experience in a lift thirty feet high, which also happened to take place in Houston) 

With our hands full of our own jobs, the other facets of the party started in on their jobs as well: teams of folks setting up lights, electricity, and sound gave the 50,000 square foot hall a buzz filled with cords, wires, heavy machinery and an ever increasing aire of frantic worry.

 

Houston Trip Index

Road Trippin

Strolling Through Houston

Stories from Hotel No Tell

A Day at the Office

Hey Mambo

Changing Places

Woe is Woolery

The Laziest Way to Lose Weight

The Finished Set

The Aftermath

Dinner with the Stars

IKEA

As one task ended, another began, soon we were putting the decorations on the stage and I was moving furniture into the dressing rooms.  I also caught the emphatic warnings to the performing artists explicitly stating the prohibition of drugs, including marijuana, and all firearms from the premises.  As we set up pipe and drape throughout the complex, metal detectors started to camp out by every entrance.  It was Friday, and the event was only a day away.