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About Me

I'm Chris, but you probably already knew that. My life revolves around Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. I'm the lead sound engineer, and that means I get to climb around over shark tanks and thirty feet over a whale or dolphin stadium, installing things or taking them down. I engineer bands with a full concert set-up that I've scavenged all year from various places. I've gotten up-close with tigers and camels. I get to design the sound and lights for the haunted houses every october and special shows in December. I coordinate the camera people and operate the video switcher for the Shouka Show. One of my favorite things to do is just to sit in my bunker next to the backstage dolphin harbor, where they shot Adam Sandler's place in Fifty First Dates. I could sit there for hours just fixing things and working on projects while the dolphins swim around in the window. It's really cool. Basically, that's all I do. No social life. I work at the San Jose Event Center every now and then and I go to school a couple days a week for electrical engineering. I'm also a Venture Scout with my sisters. Currently I live for half the week on-campus at SJSU and take BART back to Vallejo every wednesday through Sunday. I'm getting really tired of that, so this year I'm going to buy a car and an apartment in Vallejo. In six or seven years I'll have a BSEE from SJSU, but I'll probably still be working for good old Marine World. My life is still sorting itself together, but it'll settle down eventually. I'll get a third job again and then I'll have enough money to support myself. All I need to be happy is my job, a lazy boy chair, and a big tv. One out of three aint bad, so I'm still workin on the last two.

My Interests

Theater tech, sound effects, rock climbing, camping, backpacking, skateboarding, engineering, legos, roller coasters, animals, knex, dramatic movies, singing, acting, calculus, bowling, billiards, juggling, tree climbing, magic, jigsaw puzzles, wood-carving, boyscouting, philosophy, scientific thrillers, politics, war history, mechanics, audio electronics, and exploring places I've never been at Marine World, even after four years.

I'd like to meet:

Nice people.

Music:

Brad Paisley, John Mayer, Jason Mraz, Beatles, Rolling Stones, John Williams, Dave Matthews, Elton John, Hootie and the Blowfish, Gypsy Kings, stuff like that. Paul Simon. Jack Johnson. Give me stuff to listen to.

Movies:

Man Down, Star Wars, memento, a beautiful mind, lord of the rings, young frankenstein, the island, honey I shrunk the kids, I love movies too much to rank them.

Television:

Penn and Teller's Bullshit, Mythbusters!, extreme engineering, My Name is Earl, Scrubs, CSI: crime scene investigation, anything history channel, and anything HBO, if only I had it.

Books:

Cat's Cradle: Kurt Vonnegut, Jurassic Park: Michael Crichton, and the whole X-Wing series by Kevin Anderson, Michael Stackpole, and others. Actually, the New Jedi Order and Legacy of the Force series' too. Star Wars just gets better and better. I like Isaac Assimov and Robert Heinlein too.

Heroes:

My Dad, my brother, Frank Mihelich, Rodney Mullen, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Kristy Juliano, the Wright brothers, Albert Einstein, Chewbacca, Rob Black, Sir Isaac Newton. Dave Miller. Captain Lee.

My Blog

nothing important

Today was an exciting day of work. Andrew's been telling me about a friend of his that wants the open position in show productions, and he came to visit the park while I was at camp. Well he came back...
Posted by Lambert on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:02:00 PST

Camp

So I just got back maybe 6 hours ago from my vacation. I went to camp with the two local venture crews up in Nejedly, a private camp ground way up by Graeagle. Short version: I had a blast. I shot a b...
Posted by Lambert on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:20:00 PST

it's been a while..

I don't know if I've updated since the summer started and I'm too lazy to check. I'm working at six flags, and that's all I'm doing. I actually like it. Beeing lead is a lot harder work than being a r...
Posted by Lambert on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:34:00 PST

It's 3 AM, and I just got back from work. Now I've got a dilemma...

I have a speech to give and a final to turn in in 4 hours. Is three hours long enough to sleep without any danger of oversleeping? I've slept through this class two weeks in a row, but that was becaus...
Posted by Lambert on Thu, 17 May 2007 03:18:00 PST

The craziest thing just happened!

I just got my academic advising session for the probation status I got ever since I let myself fail Humanities and jazz choir last semester. Now I find out that my academic status is excellent. First ...
Posted by Lambert on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:41:00 PST

I just worked 9 and a half hours, and it was pretty much one of the best days ever.

So I've been at the event center all day long and it was awesome. I learned how to rig up the chain motors and I did a truss walk! you all know how much I love climbing on things, and today I got to c...
Posted by Lambert on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:45:00 PST

New blog, upon request.

So I haven't spoken on here since November. That was what? 4 months ago? Not a very long time, but kind of a lot has changed since then. During my last blog, I was working King and I. Now I'm spending...
Posted by Lambert on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:20:00 PST

rising up in the world... hah

this morning I had my first union call, at 100 bucks for an hour and half of hard labor, putting up a 300 pound poster off the roof of the theater. I am now 1/25th closer to making the C List of...
Posted by Lambert on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:36:00 PST

My first visitors from vallejo!

Today was my first day of sleeping-in this year, pretty much. My day was just going to be cashing some checks and getting a much-needed hair-cut, and then my show at 7, but I got a phone-call fr...
Posted by Lambert on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 01:25:00 PST

okay, call me a dork, but this new software from LegoFactory.com is really great.

I'm making a skeleton pirate in celebration of halloween, and so far, I've made a foot. what do you think? haha...
Posted by Lambert on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:57:00 PST