Two weeks ago I had some crazy stuff happen at work. Okay - not exactly crazy, but fun. Here are some highlights:

Shauna's Lasik Surgery

Our anchor Shauna decided that she was sick of her poor vision - especially when it comes to reading the teleprompter - so she went in for some lasik surgery.

Our station decided to have her get her eyes 'lasered' live on our morning show. I went along with her for the check-up visit. Here's what we saw:


This guy showed us a surgery-in-progress on a 72" monitor. Every microscopic detail was right in front of our eyes faces on a giant projection screen.


We just sat and watched all the crazy 'eye poking' for about twenty minutes.At this point, many people would've passed out.



And, then there was the actual surgery we watched up-close. I've photographed enough surgeries not to get grossed out, and it didn't smell like the disgusting breast-job story I shot - pretty fun.


Of course, Shauna didn't find any of this the least bit enjoyable.


Later, we pretended to be stars of our own ensemble drama on NBC: Third Watch: Lasik Surgery


Pot Bust

Two days later I shot a story about tarantula venom, and how it helps stroke victims. It was lame, though: no spiders, just boring-ass doctors. Fucking lame.



Although, the next day I went to a house that the East Portland cops stumbled across. They found over 150 pot plants inside. We were the only TV crew there at first, but they wouldn't let us go inside. But, the detectives let my little digital camera go inside, and they shot a ton of photos for our news segment. How rad is that?



I later emailed some of these exclusive photos to the local paper, but they had to give credit to FOX 12 NEWS. Every little bit of branding helps, I think.