Chuck Learn
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Just to let everyone on this Forum know, Ron Hebbard sadly passed away today. He will be missed.
Chuck Learn
Chuck Learn
To tie this back to your term "moon lighting": I lit my first production with the group to return a favor to a friend, found I really enjoyed working with folks who appeared to appreciate me, in an environment where I wasn't part of any of the politics and petty bickering routinely ripe within the majority of amateur theatrical groups and rapidly found myself enjoying working with the people resulting in my lighting both their productions, spring and fall, for some twenty productions along with lighting them from my second show onwards. I was never a member of their congregation although I rapidly became friends with the aging caretaker and was soon changing fluorescent tubes and ballasts for him rather then watching them flicker themselves to a long and painful death along with the nasty groaning of their ballasts. The church had soon given me my own key to their building along with my own alarm code when they eventually added an alarm. Had something deep within my skull not painlessly erupted in my sleep one Saturday night / Sunday morning, I'd still be doing lighting and sound with the group to this day. I spent many a long night in their building but primarily under moonlight rather than sunshine thus: "moonlighting in a church"; I'd never thought of it that way 'til you posted your term.
Guard your health at Strad'. My alarm's calling me to my mandatory 2nd sitting lunch, gotta go without so much as a proof read. Sure hope this doesn't vaporize when I hit the "Start a Conversation" button.
Toodleoo!
Ron Hebbard
Pretty much all my PM's are exactly this... says two things... I don't use PM's here... and Ron would always PM you before he posted publicly. He'll be missed. Lots of knowledge just left this plain of existence.A few fun things from my private messages with Ron:
There was an error in a post from 8 years ago...
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And 8 year old post, How about an 11 year old post!
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Also there was this post joking about the Queen stepping on an IED that I had to delete because it was just a bit over the line
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