....unemployed, again.......(2019 version)

After three days of wrapping up "Upload", it was over for me.  Also, being unemployed means I have lost my sweet cast car ride! Back to driving my little Honda Civic.

Nice to be appreciated. A very heartfelt thank-you card from one of the cast.

Well, there you have it! After beating me for the first time last year, junior was less than impressed when I was attempting to re-take the family tennis champion title.

Losing my cast car also meant cleaning it out. This was only part of the collection I amassed over the past year.

Lots of much needed down time. Today I was at Granville Island. (Float homes in the foreground.) My sister Judy and her husband Les came over from Victoria for the day. 

The kids and my niece Erin (not in this pic) also made the trek. We had the best table at the Dockside Restaurant. (Unfortunately, the service was very bad, forgotten drink orders, long wait for food, and the waiter was no where to be found when it was time to pay the bill. ) 

Still it was nice to get together, this family does not do it often enough!

I will give a thumbs up to the albacore tuna burger, though.

….hmnnnnn….. why is Ritsue so concerned about the travel times between the terminals at LAX?

… and what is she packing for?

I also had a chance to go for a beer with this fine young man,  Adam. Without getting into the whole story, we recently connected. He is my nephew, and I have not seen him since he was a young child. It was a wonderful time, and will not be the last time we get together.

On the web...…..

Cheeky!

….more evidence...… cats!

...time for a vacation methinks....

I saw this nice move on the news, in Kelowna on Okanagan Lake, close to my home town.

...and another That's a Wrap!

Heading down through Chinatown in Vancouver for a cast pick-up , I can't believe we are on the final week of shooting the new Amazon series, "Upload".

We spent a couple of days in the downtown eastside. It was an eye-opener. The homeless and drug problems in this area were so much worse than I realized. (They cleaned up this alley for this day.)

To the untrained eye, it looked like a very pleasant day at Victory Square. (I'll leave it at that).

We spent part of one day at the Dominion building on the corner of Hastings and Cambie. (built in 1910)

The back side of the building is not as pretty.

The locations department provided the maps for the day.

Interesting old buildings around the area.

…..looking back to Victory Square......

On the cable truck, Teamster peep Mike, and genny op Keith (in charge of setting up all the power needed to run the sets), are hard at work as I watch, lol.

Another view of Hastings and Cambie.

As I was awaiting wrap on this day, I noticed this water tower on top of the Koret building off of Powell Street. 

We filmed on Columbia Street, and this was my view for a couple of hours.

This guy was cooking up something. It was interesting, that as troubling as it was to watch, there seemed to be some purpose to their day.

Back to the Future, on the other side of the street, we kept filming while the craziness of the downtown eastside continued.

Parked closed to Chinatown.

This guy seemed like the head of the camp I was parked beside. 

Parked beside the Mah Society building of North America on Pender St.

Waiting to pick-up cast, another view of False Creek, close to Yaletown.

On this day, I had to pick-up and exec at the swanky Shangri-La on Georgia. (That's okay, I have the code to the private washrooms on the main floor!)

Standing by for a long time, this pillar outside of the hotel, is starting to look like something.

We spent a day at Stanley Park as well. This map from locations shows the set locations today. It was all around the Stanley Park Pavilion.

On this day, hanging out with fellow Teamster cast driver peep Jim, at the Jericho Lands.

We did a day at Deer Lake in Burnaby. As cute as the Canadian geese are, what a mess the leave on the beach!

It was the place to be on this beautiful day.

Not too bad of a moon shot.

Our last day of filming. Let me tell you this mushroom omelette prepared by our caterers was sooooooooooooo good.

On his last day of filming, one of the main cast, Kevin Bigley, was chilling in the shade.

...back to Deer Lake

Wait for it, ahhh, the sunset.

….one of the days this week we were at this house on a horse farm in Southlands...

Omg! 911 to get the wi-fi router to set.

Another temperature record bites the dust.... this was in Burnaby today.

…...and then it was over, all that was left was some crew tiding up and closing the main set in Coquitlam.

How about that, I'm out of a job again......

on the web...….brilliant!

So, uh, should we crown him king of the rednecks?