Work Quota

Put in my 2 days at Ternbridge gatehouse working security.  It was a pain in the ass as usual.  That place has a lot of traffic, and management wants security to enter the driver's name or company name if it's a contractor, then the guest's name, then their vehicle color, vehicle type and finally tag number.  That's way too much information, stupid, unnecessarily complex, doesn't make people any safer and pisses me and guests off to no end when they're stacked up 3-4 cars deep trying to get in.  We should only have to enter the guest's name and tag number.  So I found myself fudging the procedure, only entering their name and tag number, or guessing their vehicle type, to quickly get them on their way.  I don't care if I get fired from that place--I hate that place.  I've been doing a good enough job at other places, actually showing up on time, unlike other lazy slug-heads, that the security company I work for won't fire me completely.
Now, with those infuriating, miserable 2 days completed, and a bit of a pain in my gut from that sustained stress and aggravation that I'm trying to relax and nurse back to health, I can now get back to my core brilliance, editing this beautiful wedding video I shot on Saturday.  Part of the edit, which I've already done and enjoy immensely, is doing the audio premix.  I bought a Tascam 4-channel digital audio recorder, which is useful for plugging into the DJ's sound system while at the wedding to capture a direct feed of music and anything captured by his mic.  I then mix that direct feed track with the stereo ambient sound captured by my camera's internal mic in whatever levels I feel sound good.  This has improved the sound quality of these videos greatly!  With a little treble boost, voice and music sound crisp and clear, with a presence that makes you feel like you're right there! I'm at the mercy of the quality of his sound board and mic of course.  He was using a Shure mic which sounded spectacular.  He liked to scream into the mic a lot at the part to get people excited, so naturally, there was some reducing the level during his screaming.
The editing'll take 2 days, which leaves 3 days to exercise and take pictures for Shutterstock.  My Canon 5D Mark III arrived.  It didn't take my old Canon EF-S mount lens, so I had to buy a new lens.  I wanted a lens that, in full-frame, is the equivalent of the focal length of the 18-200mm lens on my old .6x crop Canon Rebel XT camera.  After doing the math on calculator, I determined that a 28-300mm lens comes the closest.  28 x .6 = 16.8.  300 x .6 = 180.  After forking over $2,000 just for the body of the Canon 5D Mark III, I couldn't afford another $2,400 for the Canon 28-300mm, so I went with a Tamron 28-300mm, which Amazon user reviews said is a razor-sharp lens, with the proper EF mount, which set me back $490.  This lens should be arriving today or tomorrow.  Then, finally, I can resume shooting stock photography as well as weddings, portraits and any other work that comes along.  The Shutterstock portfolio is up to 166 active images and already there have been probably 8 downloads which has led to a whopping $5.26 in commissions, yippee.  I want it to be well up over 1,000 images by the end of the year.  With more images, many of those images now from the 5D Mark III in 22.3 megapixel instead of my old Rebel XT's 8 megapixel resolution, commissions will be higher.  I'm going to upload video clips as well, which pay around 10x what stills pay in commissions.  The Canon 5D Mark III is also a great HD video camera, so I can simply flip a switch and shoot video of anything I'm shooting stills of when on location.
I'd love to get into the Miami commercial video production scene in cinematography or field sound recording if I knew someone down there.