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What I Did for My Summer Vacation (That Lasted Until October)

• July 18-30. Shot five spots for our largest client. In ten days of pre-pro and production, we logged 1500 miles and recorded ten hours of footage for what would become a combined three minutes of commercials.
• August 31-15. Vacationed with my girls, including a drive to Columbus to see our favorite Ohioans. (This shot from Skyzone.)
• August 16-October 8. Eight weeks flying to Toronto and back to edit the commercials. Amazing city.
• August 25. Arrived home from first Toronto excursion to find my car completely totaled by a hailstorm with stones the size of softballs. I had six payments left on that car. Now I have 59 left on another.
• August 28. Buzzed by a B2 Stealth Bomber.
• September 23. Put my Reverend license to work for the first time by marrying friends in a scale replica of Mount Vernon’s gardens. 
• October 1. Ran an 86-mile relay race with coworkers. I covered 11.7 of those miles at 7:58 per mile. Not awesome. But not terrible for a 41-year-old guy who’s been running less than two years and smoked more than twenty.
• October 3-7. Officially dubbed the Week of Poutine, wherein I ate poutine at least once a day during our final trip to Toronto. 
• October 7. First tattoo session in 17 years.