In the movies

Last week they filmed a movie where I work. We closed the gym and cancelled all therapy ahead of time to let the movie have the place for the day. I still had to work with one other coworker. We mainly stayed in the back office. The production was pretty crazy. They moved everything in the gym including the machines and there were lights, cameras, power cords, equipment and tons of crew everywhere. It was hard to walk from the back office to the front doors. They also had a ton of stuff outside the building including lights shining in and several trailers. They were supposed to be finished with interior shooting on Thursday and simply come back on Friday to do exterior shots. We knew that'd never happen but our boss didn't want to close another day so we booked a full day of therapy as usual. As expected, they didn't finish everything on Thursday and asked to come back Friday and "work around us and our therapy". Ha...yeah right. They came in and completely took over the gym again. We had to cancel a few hours of therapy. I found this all rather amusing despite having a ton of work to do cancelling/rescheduling and dealing with confused and upset patients and gym members. They asked if I wanted to be in the movie. All I had to do was sit behind my desk and pretend to talk to someone in the background as the main characters sat outside the gym then walked from the outside to the inside. I wonder how much you'll actually be able to see me after it is all edited together. I sat with the producer for a while. I took that opportunity to mention Rob and his facility for the post sound. It would be neat if he took my recommendation. Here's a link to the movie on imdb. Click.

On another topic, last weekend was our friends Brian and Amanda's son Zander's christening. Rob and I are his godparents so we went along with Brian's parents. It was really cute. Then back to their house for some really good steak and potatoes. Yum. Also last weekend, Rob and I went shopping for some furniture for his mom's apartment. We found a nice table, chairs and a bookcase. We've got 2 weekends now to set it all up.