We rapped up our days in Oklahoma shooting dozens of commercials this evening around 9:00pm. I have had about 5 hours of sleep in the past 48 hours. It’s funny, things never go as planned when it comes to shooting commercials. Today, we planned on finishing up the last 5 shots between 10:00 & 2:00, but we kept shooting until 8:00pm…then we had to put humpty dumpty back together again (shooting commercials in a real office involves moving things around, lighting etc) so we didn’t leave until 9:00pm. I promised everyone in the office that I would cook dinner after we rapped up so the cooking for 14 people (T-Bone’s, Chicken Breast, Shrimp Cocktail, Spinach Salad, Grilled Asparagus, Grilled Corn, Grilled Pineapple, Grilled Onions, Guacamole, Garlic Smashed Potatoes) didn’t start until 9:45. By the time we were done eating it was nearly one o’clock.

After dinner, I hopped online to book the rental car I need for San Juan to Mayaguez; to save Summer the 4.5 hours of driving time between Rincon to San Juan and then right back to Rincon. The crazy thing is, the rental would have been $28 per day but since I was dropping it off at a different location the price jumped up to about $136 plus taxes etc. I thought that was crazy..so I surfed around online and found out that Cape Air, which offers service between San Juan and Mayaguez was only $86 after taxes….AND the flight only takes 25 minutes. The only problem was that my flight wasn’t scheduled to get into San Juan until 9:45 and the last flight to Mayaguez is at 6:30pm.

So, I called Continental, found out that the planes were pretty empty on the 6:30am flight out of Oklahoma City and got it in my head that I wanted to be home hanging out with Summer as soon as possible. I left the ‘get together’ around 3:15am, drove home, packed my stuff, took a shower, returned the rental car and arrived at the airport at 5:00am on the dot. Upon check-in, I found out that for an additional $25 I could turn my stand-by flights into guaranteed seats all the way into San Juan (arriving at 4:00pm) so naturally, I pulled the trigger on that one and then called Cape Air and booked an $80 ticket from San Juan to Mayaguez arriving at 7:00pm (right when our Monday night Poker Game starts). I am stoked.

The only bad thing about all this is that I had to stay up all night…and am barely able to keep my eyes open right now. Half the reason for this blog entry is to give me something to do while I am waiting for my flight….17 minutes and counting until boarding time.

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