We’re starting to understand how the new building works. This is the first week of classes. Everyone is lost. You quickly learn the facial expressions. And then you have to figure out where they are going. Sometimes they know. Sometimes they don’t. It is a confusing building. Sometimes you don’t know where they are going, either. Sometimes you’re finding your own way. But there’s good cheer through it all. It is a fancy building.

The big nano patch. The oversized little connector set up:

This controls the volume to the control room monitors. Engineers

My first bike-in-the-building sighting:

And that is how you know classes have begun.

I’m sitting in the studio, see?

This is one of the devices that allows you to talk from the control room into the studio next door. The engineers are pulling together the last few days of their details on this beautiful new facility. Soon the studio will be open and we’ll be making television shows.

In the control room of the television station, where today I learned how to use the new Telemetrics system. This one station controls four robotic cameras — tilt, shift, pan, focus, set shots and variations. If you’ve ever used a joystick I can teach you a bit more than the basics in a hour or so:

I had lunch at Dat’s, which is an almost-Cajun joint. The food’s fine, but we’re a little too far away for it to be authentic, according to my own arbitrary rules. But, hey, I had lunch with Frank Sinatra:

And tonight I’m hanging out with Allie: