A Day In The Life Of A Peanut Butter Cup

God, where to begin with this post. I said last week that nothing was happening worth blogging about, and thanks to an offshoot of the Neutrality Theory, which I like to call the "Jinx Theory", I have at least 2 big stories to cover, plus a DVD review. I guess I'll stop making this longer and get to the sections, as you're getting tired of reading already, and I haven't even started.

Listen Up!
My 7th Juggling video is coming along nicely, I've already gotten a good20 minutes worth of footage, and I think about a minutes worth of final-cut worthy stuff. What I have to do next is find a day, where I can go someplace that won't kick me out and get as much footage as I possibly can, then I can start editing. The WMP project is progressing, slowly. Actually, I haven't touched it since the last post, simply because of how busy I am with everything else. And Finally, the MX overhaul is one of those 3 big projects that's about halfway done actually. It's all just fine-tuning and implementation from here.

Daily Life 1:
Shoprite. Saturday. Wow.
4:00, punch, go to the registers and get sent out to one of the "not special" ones. After a while of that, they send me to the food court for his lunch break. I spend a half-hour there in bliss, using the awesome knee-operated sink to keep my dry hands from cracking (which has been a big problem for me recently at Shoprite, the air is too dry), and then I head back and they send me on lunch. I'm in the juggling mood today, so I head over to the dollar store (where all the good juggling supplies are) and juggle until my break is over. I come back and they put me on returns.
About an hour later, Shoprite has the equivalent of a fire drill. The alarm starts going off, and all the customers look around confused. It goes away after about 30 seconds of mistimed beeps. Then Mr. A******, store manager #3, gets on the intercom and orders an evacuation of the building. I have no complaints, it's not that cold, and I don't mind getting paid to stand outside and do nothing but entertain customers with my broom balancing and flipping antics. As you can tell, I had a good time, meanwhile, the guys over 21 had the best idea in history, to go to the liquor store next door and get some beers. Even the receiving manager got in on it. I wish I was 21 sometimes. The best part is, 10 minutes after everyone's supposed to be outside, and some of the registers we can see through the window, STILL HAVE CUSTOMERS WAITING ON LINE. "I don't care if I'm on fire or not, I'm going to pay for these artichokes!"
After about an hour or so of standing outside, we come back in and go to work again, and I go on break, so now, I've got only about an hour and a half left before I leave, so I go do all the random front-end tasks. Take the garbage to the back, cardboard, paper towels, return collection, and front-end blocking. Then I've still got 30 minutes or so, so they send me to go get plastic bags, D'oh! The best part was that I had to wait 10 minutes to find someone in the back who could pull the palette from underneath 2 other palettes of unrelated stuff. So bottom line, I hauled ass, spread them out, and just managed to punch out on time. Definitely a reminder of why I love this job.

Daily Life 2:
This happened just yesterday. Presidents day, and the college is closed, so Contini decides that it's a great day for the SOT clan to do something. Indeed it was. He never actually emailed me until the day before, but I heard from everyone else about the plans. So I got to his house around 1:30 or so, and Dan and Alpha were already there, playing with the Wii. This time, Dan actually brought all of his controllers with him, and I brought mine. We spend not even 15 minutes of that before we go out to eat, and me being the short-thinking idiot that I am, had a bowl of mac-and-cheese before I left. So we're at Bennigans, and everyone's enjoying their meals, and since now I'm going to try cutting back my food intake, I grab a thing of mozzarella sticks as a meal, and then have some fries. I don't want to talk about it too much because it's making me hungry. So we leave Bennigans, which was right on Route 1, so we decided to head to some electronics stores, as we're known to do. I just want to say, Electronics Expo, unless you're shopping for a new TV, don't go there. After wasting about 20 minutes comparing plasma's, we went to Best Buy. I bought Wario Ware, which I thought had multiplayer and that we could play back at Contini's house, but it didn't. It's ok though, that was the next game on my list of games to buy for the Wii. So we browse around there for say, a half-hour, then over to Funcoland, then Staples. I have never seen anything more awesomely pathetic in my life, when an advertising campaign takes over a store, to the point of selling Easy Buttons. They were literally just big red buttons that said "Easy" on them, like in the ads, and when you pushed them it said their slogan, "That was easy", it just speaks for itself.

Ok, so we're done with that, and we get back to Contini's house and play with Dan's Wii for the next 2 hours. Yes, don't say anything. It's amazing though, and the one time that Nintendo almost let me down, was when we went through all the games we had (Wario Ware, Excite Truck, Rayman, and Wii Sports), only to find that it was single player (WW), 2 player (ET), or required unlocking (Ray). We ended up playing a 4 player game of tennis on Wii sports for about an hour. Which is awesome in itself, mind you.So either way, that was my Presidents Day. George Washington FTW, bitches.


Reeses2150's DVD Reviews For The Intelligent Human:
The Departed. - 9.4
Note to self, never get involved in the Boston Underworld, or the Boston PD, or Boston. Where the hell to start with this movie. I thought it would be good, seeing as it got nominated for god knows everything, AND best picture, and it sure as hell was. As many great twists it had (the twists, as much as I normally hate twists, were placed so perfectly in this one), and the 3 big ending shockers (which you know I am NEVER going to reveal), I still think the Prestige was better. So here's my breakdown of the movie, as there's just way too much to cover by ranting about it.
Acting: EVERYONE hit home runs on acting in this movie. I became completely involved with their characters, and even forgot that D-Cap (as I call Dicaprio) was playing a starring role. Jack was insane, he almost made it hard to hate Costello. The acting was the best I've seen in a LONG time.
Story: Hard to follow at first, because it all starts off so quick, but once you figure out who's who, this story rivals much anything else. It has that type of sick and twisted humor that only mob movies can pull off, and brings it to another level. By the way, this movie had more F-bombs than the Japanese had BOMBS at Pearl Harbor.
Effects: Not much needed for this movie, but a lot of fake blood. Can a person really bleed that much in 1.2 seconds? There were at least 8 occasions where someone got a bullet in the head, I guess the special effects dept was really satisfied with the rig they came up with to shoot fake blood from the side of a guys head. Did I mention there was blood in this movie?
The Bad stuff: Ok, now to blast the movie. It was long as hell, 2 hours felt like 2 hours. I don't want to see what other people do in an adult film theater. The DVD extras I thought were a little lacking in variety, it all felt like a history class, including the "ripped from TV" Scorsese feature: no real behind the scenes anything.
I think that about covers it. Bottom line, if you haven't seen the movie, at least rent it and watch it once. It was definitely worth that much, but it's not the type of movie you want to see over and over again, because it was really all about "what happens next".

Juggle This:
Well, my video post about overheads was taken pretty negatively, I guess I forgot to mention in it how little I do overheads. Hey, give me points for trying here. I'm trying to get a few tricks on command, so that when I go back to Six Flags again, it'll be an easy job. I'm currently trying to get my 5 ball half-shower more solid, my club balance flips, and even more club moves. Luckily, they use Airflites there, so I'm with my preferred prop.

Oh, and the blog title (if you didn't figure it out) came from Wario Ware: Smooth Moves, The Departed DVD, the Shoprite story, and the Presidents Day story. Thank you, that is all.

A Day In The Life Of A Peanut Butter Cup ~ Reeses2150