Update to my life

Hello all! Sorry been bad about posts, but I've been either way busy, or un-excitingly slow. I have the tour company I started still going, but limited calls. I applied for a local museum job as "Co-director of Education and events". Still not heard back however.
Now I do have LOADS of tours booked in October and I'm going out with a great girl now too.

Course the exciting things are that I'm getting in the local paper very often now, my photo from the CorinthCivilWar.com will be used by Mississippi tourism for adverts and I'm the education coordinator for the Corinth Heritage festival.

Ahhh, but the best is the filming I was in recently!


Well, on the 22nd through the 25th of September I did some filming geared up as a Civil War soldier. Chickamauga battlefield has what is really a rather horrible film, course Shiloh has THE worst one. But this year they are shooting new videos for both battlefields. I was very disappointed I missed out on the new Shiloh filming in March, but just over 2 weeks ago I heard of the other filming and got registered just a week before.

On the 22nd of September on the Thursday I started the long drive to the Chattanooga area about 4 hours away. I was able to setup camp at Dyer field on the battlefield and get a quick bite to eat. I found out I'd have to do Rebel Saturday morning, but otherwise I could be Federal the whole time.
After talking with some people I retired to my tent and woke up at 5:45 AM got kited up and then got breakfast, which gladly all the meals were provided by the film people.

We the boarded a bus to Snodgrass hill and sat around for many hours. Then we did 30 minutes of filming and got lunch, then sat longer. The Rebels got loads of film time, though for all I know that could have been related to them drilling poorly!
Near the end of the day I got to fire a Spencer and got a close up, on my good side of course.
Other than that, the Friday was boring. But $50 was in my pocket.

Saturday I.... was forced to dress as a Rebel for the first half! Now gladly the uniform was very nice, but the Cornfeds drilled VERY horribly. Thank god for my good training in the 18th Missouri! Drill is much easier if you know what you are doing.
Anyway, did loads of filming again and switched to Federal for the afternoon. Though we had to sit around loads again before being filmed as the 10th Wisconsin who ran away during the battle after being placed in FRONT of Federal cannon. We recreated that... the running bit.
After that we sat around longer and nothing happened. Can you see a theme yet?
Though I made yet another $50.

Sunday was the last day and it went pretty much like the others. Wake up early, eat, test weapons, then get fake blood, black powder and dirt put on. Fake blood does NOT come out easy by the way from wool. We got filmed quick, then sat around for 5 hours, filmed quick and that was a wrap! Not a bad filming and had some great guys there. I collected my money, broke up camp and had a nice long drive back to Shiloh Tennessee.

So if any of you are thinking of a film career, the big thing you'll here "Hurry up and wait!"... which it'll switch to "HURRY UP!" at any point too.