There are some days when I come in to the office and get so into a project that I don’t pull myself away from it until I’m near exhaustion.  It doesn’t happen often, but it happened on Wednesday night.

When we put our control room together back in November, we didn’t really have much structure as far as file sharing between the Macs (we run an Apple control room, y’all).  There was no set location for incoming media files to go, and every machine was wide open, always logged on as Admin.  After taking some time to plan out what computers needed access to what, I headed upstairs on Wednesday afternoon to start re-tooling things.  Somewhere between 3:30 and 4:00am Thursday morning, I finally had things working how they needed to be… shares are being auto-mounted at login, the machines automatically log into accounts that don’t have admin privileges, and all the software (Final Cut, Pro Presenter, Keynote) all seem to be working fine.

On Thursday afternoon, we were able to put the new setup to the test.  Cindy and Jane headed to the control room to assemble song lyrics and message graphics.  So far, everything seems to work great!

This is probably the most important thing that happened for me this week.  The more I learn about systems and how they need to function (and I’ve got so much to learn), the more I realize that these systems need to work their best when I’m NOT around!  The Macs in the control room are a huge part of what we do on the weekend, and I’m feeling pretty good that Wednesday night’s project turned out as well as it did.  It was worth every ounce of lost sleep (which I didn’t start to regain until late Thursday afternoon).