Team DFC: Fine Morning TV in Greensboro
There is this scene early in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension, where Buckaroo running behind from performing emergency brain surgery, arrives at the desert jet car testing grounds hops strait in the driver's seat and immediately changes the way the world thinks about matter just before doing a couple of TV appearances and winding the day up at Artie's Artery performing with the Hong Kong Cavaliers to a packed house. Everywhere he went he was surrounded by friends he could trust, so he didn't have to worry about small details. Come in, be great, and move on.
That was sort of like my morning, but instead of brain surgery I was trying to get Sara up and ready to go before time for me to arrive on site. However when I arrived, it was exactly like the movie. I roll in late, to find that the team knew what to do and did it exactly. The fencers were dressed out and ready to go, they were setting up a strip and Henri hands me a sausage biscuit before heading off to work. By the time I was dressed and ready, everything was set up and perfect. Cameron came in at exactly the right moment, glowing like the sun, and ready to be brilliant. We did our two TV live spots; my fencers were awake, alert, and smiling. They made fencing look as good as it feels, and they made me proud in the process.
Once the live shots were done, the fencers dressed down and headed off to school, while parents put away the strip, and Cameron prepared for her interview. By 8:30 Cameron and I were the last out of the gym and it looked for all the world like we had never been there.
All in all I'd call that a good day.
Now I am at work, and we'll see how the day ends from here.
A huge thank you to, Margaret, Summer, Phillip, Henri, Cameron, and the parents for a flawless operation. No matter where you go...
