A Day In The Life Of A Peanut Butter Cup

Listen Up!
BIG News, I've landed a gig for 4 days performing at the Iselin Fair! More details later! :: I uploaded a new batch of photos to DeviantART, finally. They're pretty good shots this time around, and I've got another batch ready, so look for that in another week or two. Link :: The Tech.MCC club sumer meetings are starting to seem like a mediocre idea. Less and less people that are not officers have shown up over the past few weeks, and when I announce a new meeting place and time for members who can't make the Panera Bread Thursdays, noone shows up. That was fun indeed. I think I'll still keep having the Panera Bread Thursdays, if only so that the officers can get together face to face and hammer out the details about the fall semester. :: So now the only huge projects I still have to work on are JoJ Season 3, and my website overhaul. At least for the moment that's everything. We'll see how long THAT lasts...

Daily Life:
Well, let me explain the title of this post. Over the past week, I have gotten less than 20 hours of sleep total for the 6 day period. Why? Because the Acme Railings (the machine shop I work for), began installing two massive jobs that took up all of last week and part of this coming week. The first was a medical center where we were ready to install the glass panes into the railing frames. Sounds simple, right? Thing is, it was a 200 foot+ length or railing and required moving at least 30 panes of glass. To make things nicer, the panes were 1/4 inch thick, 4 foot by 3 foot panes which weighed 50 lbs a piece. To top it all off, the nearest parking space we could work with was halfway across the center, and we don't have a proper glass cart.

I know, that still doesn't explain why I suddenly went through a huge lack of sleep, I'm getting there. Basically, this job took 3 days to do, and I have to be there at 7:30 AM. Not a big deal for most people, but for me it's hell because my regular schedule is sleeping from 3AM to noon, and it's that way partly because I'm never able to fall asleep before 2:00 AM, even when I try. So basically, I get to sleep at 3:00 every night (or 2:00 and I finally lose consciousness at 3:00), and wake up at 7 to get there on time. Then I would proceed to heave half of the panes around for 9 hours or so, and leave at around 3 or 4.

That went from Monday to Wednesday with the big panes of glass at the medical center, and then what happens? Exactly the same thing at a veterinary center nearby for the next 3-4 days. Luckily this time though, there wasn't a hell of a lot of heavy lifting, seeing as how we were installing the main railings, and that's it. However, the schedule remains the same. So bottom line is that I'm down on sleep, I'm on edge a bit, and I find myself napping during the day when I get back from work. Granted, I love napping, but I know that it only screws with my sleeping habits even more, it doesn't help anything.

Juggle This:
So I've just landed a charity gig with the Iselin Fair here in NJ. Hooray for craigslist!
Basically, I'll be one of their shows that will perform on stage for every day of the fair, which lasts for 4 days. The timing was perfect too, seeing as how I was in the middle of coming up with some outlines toi double check my new routine and making new promo material including a flier and posters, not to mention my promo video and a new website for potential customers. The fair is on the 14th to the 18th, so I've got plenty of time to get everything set up and ready, and we'll see how that goes. I'd really love to, if I could, to have Joe Jaeger join me on stage for maybe one or two shows and we could just do an improvised show. That'd be great. Oh, and here's the website link BTW, WEBSITE!

Also, I have to mention, I hit another 7 ball milestone today, one that I'm not sure how many other people have done. I've qualified 7 balls again, only this time standing straight up underneath an 8 ft roof. I got that on camera, so it's going into the next [Juggling] series video. I was strangely surprised at how easy it was, it actually felt easier than the other 2 times I qualified 7 balls. Strange...

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And now, to lengthen this post even more, here's my recent response to a blog post by Mike Karas:
Karas: "Rings are an unpopular juggling prop because they have the highest chaotic potential. Basically, they wobble too easily and that makes them harder to logically catch than any other prop. This makes them unpopular." (obviously, I'm paraphrasing because I don't want to copy his 2 page post on the subject. You can read that here)

I'm not so sure about that. I'm definitely not disagreeing with your whole "chaotic potential" / wobble effect theory, but I have a different idea as to why "rings suck". They are a boring prop to audiences and to the unimaginative.

Take a club, any throw whether it be a helicopter, reverse, single, flat, or double are not that much different in how hard they are. They're all difficult throws to make, and there's no huge difference between them (it's not easier to do a 4 club cascade than 3 club helicopters, to illustrate my point. Don't take that literally)

Now switch to the ring. A standard vertical throw with a ring is very easy once you figure out controlling the forward/backward aim. However, any other throw with a ring is LUDICROUSLY hard. Pancakes, flats, intentional wobbles, they're all twice the difficulty of the standard throw. I can run a 6 ring fountain, but I can still not even qualify 3 ring flats, or 4 ring cakes.

That makes them boring, because most jugglers are turned away by how hard anything other than a standard throw is with a ring. And unlike balls which you can make any kind of body throws or strange manner of catches and throws with (including siteswaps), rings aren't exactly the best prop for making "strange" throws with. So most jugglers will only juggle rings with the standard throws, at least that's what I get when I see people juggling rings almost anywhere. Not being able to do any sort of "strange" throws and only one type of throw, leaves a lot of jugglers kind of bored and confused as to what to do with them besides go for numbers, pirouettes, and basic patterns. And that's MY theory, who knows if it's true or not.

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

Listen Up!
So I've got a bunch of things to do this week that I haven't done in a while, and of course NOW is when my buddies at the machine shop actually have installations they need me for. I love life... :: So I just realized I NEED to upload a new batch of stuff to deviantART, seeing as how it's bee way too long since I uploaded more than 3 or 4 things, and more specifically stuff that isn't exactly the same style as the other deviations, so we'll see what happens there. :: I've also got to speed up work on JoJ. The planning is not going anywhere near as fast as I'd like it to go, and more and more often I go the entire day without working on something related to JoJ. :: Juggling has also fallen into a bit of a lull, but I HAVE picked up something I haven't touched in far too long, the Picture Frame routine I've been working on for years. :: I have been playing Wii Fit, and so far, it has strangely been working! I am getting slightly lighter and more balanced. :: I'm trying to get gigs juggling now, so more on that later. :: Too much crap.

-- Music Release --
Intergalactic Pogo Sticks.
I wanted to add more to this one, but after listening to the base recording for enough time, I found out two things. Any more and it'd be just a bit too complicated (seeing as how the two tracks switch off the lead well enough by themselves), and that the ending of Intergalactic REALLY sucks. Well, you gotta deal with it...
This one came about because I was listening to the Animusic and trying to figure out which track actually had a steady enough beat to do anything. I found Pogo Sticks to be the only track that had a regular beat, and even better, it felt like it bounced. So I ran with that for a while, and after a bunch of listens, I figured out it'd be perfect when used as a background track to a hip-hop song. Beastie boys are my fav hip-hop group that are actually mashable, so this came together.
So yeah, I'm still working on that uber-mix I promised, it's just not working out as well as I wanted. Still, this is pretty good, and I've got a few more ideas that I need to find time to flesh out.
Animusic vs Beastie Boys - Intergalactic Pogo Sticks

Daily Life 1: Two Guys From Jersey
So. Out of nowhere on the 16th, I get a message on facebook from Joseph Jaeger, saying that he's free to go to MCC and juggle sometime, and luckily I catch him while he's online, so I chat with him and we agree to meet tomorrow at MCC around 4PM for a big session and maybe make a video. Little did I know what I was getting myself into...

Starting the day, I wake up and do whatever I normally do every day until around 3:00 comes by. I pack up all my juggling stuff, plus my laptop and camera, and off I go. Now, I believed that the raquetball courts you had to pay for, but it turns out that all I need is my college id, so that was the first great thing. Next, I'm able to find a power outlet close enough to use, so I can set up the camera and some music for myself while I'm waiting for Joe to show up. So he gets there a little bit later and the first thing we do, is get the idea to pass off the wall, and we get an 8 ball ultimates flash off the wall on camera, and we just keep coming up with wall bouncing stuff for the next 5 hours. It was pretty damned awesome. The problem is, after I got home and the adrenaline wore off, I found out exactly how sure my shoulders, back, feet, and body were.

Daily Life 2: A day at the races
So on Saturday, right after I worked last and the day I had planned to start getting everything I talked about in the announcements done, I wake up and the first thing that happens is my dad walks in and tells me that he's going to New Egypt speedway tonight because they have a sprint car feature. He asks me if I want to go, and I pause because sprint cars on dirt are the one thing that I will usually go out of my way to go to. So eventually, I say, "It's tempting", and he runs off. I figure he took it as a no, so I start working on my next deviantART batch.

Around 3:30, he jumps into my room again and says that WE're leaving in a half hour. So now I've got an hour ride with him to get to the track, and I manage to bring my camera to get a few pictures of things, and that was it. Overall, it wasn't a bad night, but it definitely wasn't worth the hour long drive. The last thing we watched was the sprint car feature, which was 30 cars and 25 laps. They went 23 laps before a single car spun out. A cautionless race. The worst kind. At least I got a few nice shots for my deviantART bacth.

Juggle This:
Yay, time for an update on what I've been doing with my summer gigs. Well, right now I only have one coming up. So what I'm doing right now is that I was going to redesign and update my website anyways, so I'll be making a better for hire page with a promo video and information so that people who I pass out flyers to at schools will get a better idea of what my shows are like.I got the promo video mostly done, and the flyers I'm working on right now. Not much else other than to spread the word, do a free show somewhere, and just start street performing somewhere.

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

Listen Up!
Work is still a little touch and go here. I've got 3 jobs that are all an on-call basis. The machine shop I've been working at is hitting a slow spot and as such can't pay me all the time, I'm still running as an extra for Universal Talent whenever they get jobs, and I'm waiting on calls for juggling gigs. :: I hate mowing the lawn. I just had to say that. :: I'm barely getting in enough practice juggling. The problem? I've only got a small window of time in which I can practice between the time I wake up and the time when everyone gets home and goes to sleep. That's the time I don't feel like juggling anyways. Damnit, I'm still managing to come up with stuff though. :: I HATE my ISP. They've still got bittorrent and p2p type connections blocked. So I still can't play any of my Wii Games online or download Revision3 shows without having to wait for their servers to catch up. I fucking hate Verizon Online DSL. :: Yup.


Reeses2150's Reviews For The Intelligent Human
Wii Fit: scoreless
Well, Wii Fit. The next in Nintendo's series of general Wii games (Wii Sports, Wii Play, Wii Fit), and another attempt at life-gaming (Brain Age). Does it work? Hard to say. It's an interesting game to say the least. It's a great idea, and it's been done really well with how it works and how hard most of the games in it are. It's definitely done something I thought to be impossible, make me motivated to work out and lose weight (more-so than I have been). Basically, the core idea behind the game was someone at Nintendo going "how can I make working out fun?" and somehow finding a way to make it work. It's a great thing, but the problem I can foresee is the same problem I had after a while with Brain Age. It's great and really motivating at first, and then it gets repetitive and you feel less and less like playing every day. But then again, how is that different than sticking to a diet, keeping a new years resolution, or some other form of long term plan? You just have to stay committed to it, and after a while, you will go back to it if you stop playing.

What I will complain about is the lack of games at the beginning, since I don't think that doing push-ups is exactly fun, the only real things I found to be more fun than just using the Bowflex down in the basement were the balance games and yoga. There's plenty of those to go around, but the problem is that you have to unlock a lot of them. Not to say that it's bad, just a bit annoying.

Another complaint I have about the game is about how it's simply the balance board and that's it. I don't have a lot of control over my legs and lower body so much, but thanks to the juggling I do, my upper body control is awesome, but that doesn't come into play in Wii Fit at all, and it's again, a minor annoyance.

One last complaint about it before I praise it, is that I found the board to be not wide enough. I've got a wide stance with my legs, and I just absolutely hate having to keep my feet close together. It's not comfortable for me at all, and I's have preferred at least another few inches in width. But since I can't customize the hardware, I just stand on the edges of the board off of the marked rectangles for the feet, and it seems to work fine. That's just me though, you probably won't have that problem.

Now, what I DO like about the game is how loose the rules really are. You start the game, and you set a goal immediately as to what you want either your weight and/or BMI to be by when. It doesn't scream at you "YOU NEED TO DO THIS NOW!", it lets you control the pace. Play for 10 minutes a day or 2 hours, it's completely up to you. What I found strange was that you can set your goal to be negative, or that you'd increase your BMI. Just an interesting thing.

I think the difficulty curve is absolutely perfect for this type of game. There is no gradual curve or slow progressing into it with easy games and tests, you smack the pavement face-first the first game you play. The games are easy enough to play and understand, a lot of them even showing you exactly where you need to move your center of gravity to to get the best results, the trouble is getting there. That's the beauty of it. It's not that some games are easier than others, they're all the same difficulty, and you get a rating depending on how well you do. You'll be frustrated for a while because the game is telling you the truth just after you missed 7 flags in the slalom course, you are unbalanced. So you're now even more determined to do well and more motivated to play. It's absolutely genius.

Another great thing about the game, and possibly the best, is that the game actually WORKS. Somehow, after a week I've actually managed to lose a pound off my weight, and I'm getting much better with my balance. Plus, after some of the games, especially the hula hoop game (which I recommend everyone who does not have female genitalia do in private with the shades drawn) you feel tired and a burning sensation. You actually feel like you've just done a huge workout, because you have. It's awesome.

Overall, Wii Fit has a few minor problems, that may or may not have been fleshed out given more dev time, but the bottom line is that it's a great game that does something even better, gets you working out. I'd say get it while you can, especially if you're in my position, 270 lbs and with a posture leaning somewhat to the right. It's worth it, trust me.

Juggle This:
So, for those in the know, I am working on two big juggling projects right now. The first to be finished is going to be a series of box tutorials that I'll put out to Youtube as soon as they're done. I recorded them all on World Juggling Day, and hopefully I'll record a few more before I finish editing everything so I've got more than 5, but we'll see what happens.

Next up is the third season of JoJ. I'm a little bit confused as to whether I should bring back a co-host or not. I thought I was sure of my decision to make it a solo cast, but then I went back and listened to some of my earlier episodes and an episode of Juggling Podcast, and I'm not sure now.

After listening to Luke's podcast, I almost had to stop listening, and I hate being confrontational, but I have to point it out, Pola is a bad co-host to Luke and the reason why I almost stopped listening. Sorry Pola, but I listened to a few episodes, and she seems to not only bicker about things that don't matter ("Luke, the topic of the podcast is supposed to be TRICKS for non-juggling audiences, the point about facing and looking at the audience is PERFORMANCE." followed by them arguing about it for a minute or so), but also sidetrack the podcast in the beginning. Usually, I could care less about who's being on TV for what or aspects of your life that don't relate to the topic of the podcast or the podcast itself. Granted, I'll admit that at the beginning of a lot of episodes of JoJ I talk about something other than the main topic for a while before we get into the topics, but I'd usually be talking about the podcast itself and my plans for it.

Looking at the other side of the coin though, the solo episodes where it's just me ranting about something, despite filling one of the basic needs of a podcast (thorough explanations of one's point of view), feels like it's missing something, and I am not good at injecting comedy into practically anything, so I don't bother trying and fucking everything up. Back in the beginning when Marty was co-hosting, I thought it was perfect because he was a good co-host to match me. He was the one that was good at comedy, but not the most technical juggler or concerned about getting all the facts right. Basically, I was the serious one, he was the comic one. A classic combination that's used EVERYWHERE. A great example is Monday Night Raw (wrestling), JR is the serious one, trying his best to keep the talking focused on the match and the facts, and Jerry Lawler is more focused on making jokes and keeping things much less serious. It's the fighting between them that makes for a good set of hosts, but only if they're fighting for the tone of the talking (a looser or more serious tone). If the hosts are fighting with each other, or about anything else for that matter other than trying to make the tone more or less serious, it just sounds like bickering, and people don't want to listen to it.

Wow, that was a nice rant. Bottom line, I'm not sure whether JoJ should have a co-host or not again. Basically, I'm going to be doing video podcasts from now on, bottom line. The thing is, There's really only 2 jugglers close enough to me that they can be at my house once a week or however often to sit down for an hour and be skilled enough to be knowledgeable. But the thing is that they also have to be that good co-host that argues the topic, not with the co-host. As you can see, it's complicated. Basically, I need to find someone that fits the criteria of being close enough to where I live to record episodes, be knowledgeable and experienced enough to know what's getting talked about, and be the right personality to match with mine where they'll have a different enough viewpoint and know how to inject (good) comedy and satire into a conversation. I have got a few people that I've met in mind, but I'm not sure. Ideally, I think the perfect personality would be Paris, but he's got a schedule to keep and he's got a bit of travel time between me and him. We'll see what happens, I'll probably end up going solo, or having a co-host somewhere else that will just be on audio only, but as you can see, I've still got a while before anything gets set in concrete.

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

Listen Up!
Yup. I missed last week's post because I knew this week's would make up for it. Wow, that's a lame excuse. Whatever, after this week I REALLY won't feel like writing anything, but it'll be worth it. :: SO let's start with my employment status. Universal Talent I'm calling for jobs, and there's a few of them, I'm just looking for one that will actually be on my schedule (as in when I'm in town, and not Thursday). Also, the Machine Shop I'm officially employed at has moved me to "we'll call you if we need you" status not because I'm a bad worker or anything, but they're really low on jobs themselves, so they have to keep a profit margin somehow. Also, I'm really looking for juggling gigs this summer, seeing as how I've finally got a planned show that will actually be good this year. My other performances beforehand basically being almost entirely improvised with no music or jokes (bad idea). :: Life isn't really all that exciting for me otherwise. I'm usually just sitting at home now and planning things for the CeC club over at MCC. No classes and little work = huge amounts of free time with nothing to do. :: What else, uh, I've got another batch of photo's for DeviantART coming up soon, so keep an eye out for that, no saying when it will be done though. :: Jugglers On Juggling is coming back. More on that later. ::

Daily Life 1: LIVE DIGGNATION!
So FINALLY Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht (plus Hippie Glenn, David Praguer, and Brian Brushwood) found an excuse to come to NYC and perform a live episode. It only took two years, but they made it. Well worth the wait. So let's go in a timeline of the day because I can't think of any other way to organize all the stuff that happened that won't sound like a hyped up chick on MTV.

Starting the day, I pack up all the stuff I need to bring with me, including my illuminated Dube clubs, 5 rings, 3 boxes, camera, and cell phone. Oh, and before I go forward, let me tell you that if you're looking for a set of illuminated clubs, don't get the Dube ones, they break way too easily and I spent the entire night before trying to get 2 of them working again for the show. I'd made plans with a bunch of the Computer Club members to meet at my place and then we'd all bus over to NYC and Subway over to Brooklyn for the show. So Nick shows up around a half hour early like he said, and we both figured he'd be the only one to bus over with "group 1", as Gordon and Marv were both taking the train in on their own schedule. So at 2:15, right as we're leaving for the bus stop right outside my house, I see another truck pull up and literally someone else (whose name I can't remember for the life of me right now) jumps out the passenger side and joins the group. He said he's just gotten to reading the email about an hour ago, and thus he barely made it.

So now, the plan (which took at least 2 hours to come up with a few days before) was that we'd grab the 116 bus from Sewaren right to Port Authority Bus Terminal, then grab the A or C subway line from there to the Hoyt terminal. From there, transfer to the G line and ride it up until the nearest station to Studio B (where the show was to be held). All in all, not an expensive route at all, in fact costing about 20 bucks total, but it took at least an hour of travel.

So we get there early, because I know that there was going to be a huge turnout, and since we didn't get a GIANT venue like either the Javits Center or the Hammerstein Ballroom, that it'd be packed and people may get turned away. So we got there about an hour and a half early for the show, and the line is pretty decent already. We hold the spot for Gordon and Marv, and when they show up, surprisingly, Danny (Gordon's brother) was there too. So now everything was done and we had a LOT of time to kill. So what happ3ens? Well, people ask me to juggle. So simple enough, I jump to the edge of the sidewalk and improvise a routine, which works out nicely. I get cut off though when the line has to be moved to the opposite side of the door, and Danny, being the photographer that he is, notices the absolutely BEAUTIFUL red wall across the street, and we both come up with the idea to do an improv juggling photo shoot next to the wall. That was probably the best thing to happen in line for EVERYONE. Because I was entertaining the crowd, which everyone could see me from across the street, and Danny and I were getting some REALLY great shots. The best part was when we went to get a shot of me jugglig 5 balls with the camera underneath. The only way to get the shot we wanted was for him to lay down perpendicular to the wall and me standing over him. THAT was awesome, seeing aqs how I know the crowd, I knew they'd think it was funny as hell, and I ham it up. That probably got as big a laugh as most of the jokes in the show, and we got some great shots from it.

But besides the line, I caught Mike there, as well as a few other guys from the Rev3 meetups, and said hi to them, plus a few people I hadn't seen in a while. Other than that though, there was a DJ in the club all throughout the night, and he was especially vital during the time before the show, and me and Gordon were sitting there for the most part cringing when he made a bad transition and applauding when he found a great mix. It was an interesting inside joke that I'm not sure whether I'm lucky or not to be a part of. I find I can't really enjoy a DJ anymore, but that's a rant for another day.

So now the doors are open and people start pouring in, and I find out EXACTLY how small the venue really was. It was just a standard lounge, and the only great part was that there was a few steps to the railings where the bars were, so some of the people could be there. But overall, we found that we could sit near the DJ booth on some of the subs and see just about everything. I never got to perform onstage like Mike said he might be able to have happen, but it didn't matter too much. I was juggling inside plenty and people saw me,and I started getting fans outside of the Revision3 meetup gang. One guy even bought me a drink (non-alcoholic because I still have 5 months). Awesome.

The show itself was great, and seeing Brian Brushwood do a fire eating performance + blockheading beforehand wasn't a bad deal either (even though I could basically do half of the stuff he did, but I don't mean to brag). Kevin and Alex managed to ham it up nicely and there were a couple great stories, and it was good. The only thing I regretted was that I couldn't get the chance to meet either of them because the show was supposed to start at 6 but actually started somewhere around 9, and we had to leave in order to catch the subway to the bus back to my place. I'll manage to grab them next time, because I know for a FACT they'll be back again, especially because of the success of the show.

Daily Life 2: Trip To Florida and Back
I didn't tell anyone about this, but me and my dad had a big trip to Florida to bring back stuff from my Grandma's house along with her car back to Jersey. THAT was an interesting 4 days to say the least. So step one, fly down to Florida on Thursday the 5th (the day after Diggnation, so sleep was in short supply). We took the train up to Newark Airport, and Maglev to the baggage check, where I learn that he's booked us on a JetBlue flight, Awesome! The second best flight service available right now (the first being Virgin America, but whatev). So I was pretty happy right there, we jump into the terminal, through security (which wasn't bad at all that day), and hang out waiting for the plane to open up. Now, my biggest apprehension about this trip was the same as any other trip. Not being able to get to the internet for more than 48 hours. That always bothers me, because I live my life through the internet, to put it simply.

So the flight was great thanks to Jetblue. I found a great new band while I was listening to the "Ethel" station on XM called "Metro Station". They rock. But besides that, we got to the airport and our ride literally pulls up right as we were exiting the building. So we get back to Grandmas old aptmnt in Florida and clean out the fridge, the jewelry and all the other stuff we needed to bring, and I get the sleep that I desperately needed.

Day two. Wake up and immediately we're off. We're driving up to Myrtle Beach and the new house that my parents bought to retire in, in a car that has nothing but good AC and an FM radio+cassette player. Needless to say, when I wasn't driving I was either sleeping, trying to fall sleep, or discussing my ideas for world domination with dear old dad. So we spend the ENTIRE DAY driving, and we get to the new house 14 hours later. It's night, so we immediately turn on the AC and electrics, eat a pizza at the place next door, and go to sleep.

The next day was the fun day, when I got the chance to check out the new Hard Rock Park down in Myrtle, and my dad went off to browse at giant HDTV's and stuff for the new house. Since I know you really don't care about the specs of the TV or how much of a pain in the ass it was to mount on the special mounting thing he bought, I'll talk about Hard Rock Park. It's a great place, especially for it being it's first year it's a really nice park. Single circle layout, with the classic lake in the middle, and a few really big standout things. First was the dark ride in the "British Invasion" part of the park. Normally I hate dark rides, but I'd heard a little bit about this one not being designed to scare you, and I was intrigued. What it does, it's basically a half dark-ride, half walk through, but it's all done while you wear 3D (polarized, not the cheap red/blue) glasses. It's basically meant to replicate an acid trip, and it was awesome. If you're ever in the area, you have to try it. The next big thing was the giant foam ball room. Doesn't sound like that big of a deal, but it was the best thing in the park. It's basically a giant room with a catwalk around the outside, which has pneumatic cannons designed to fire foam balls around. The only downside is that it doesn't sound anywhere near as fun as it is in text, you just have to try it. So the last thing that I thought was great, was the "stunt" show, which was really a circus show. It was a really well made show with trampoline acts, high wire stuff, trapeze, and a few other circus arts all blended into a show. It was good for me because it's something I like to talk to the performers about afterwards. And that's Hard Rock Park for the most part. The coasters were good, but nothing overly spectacular.

So the last day was the trip back home, and we'd decided that we'd leave early (like 4AM early) and hit Paramounts Kings Dominion (another theme park that I'd been itching to go to for years) for a few hours. Oh, but did I mention, there was 90+ degree weather and it's a HUGE park? SO the drive there wasn't bad, I slept a lot of the way there, and when we arrive, I step outside the car and nearly pass out right there from the heat. I did manage to get on a couple really good coasters before we had to leave because of the heat, including the "Stunt Track" coaster they had. That HAS to be one of my new favorite rides. Basically, it looks like a wild mouse coaster, so on the 1st run, my dad decides to jump on it too. It LIM launches straight onto one of the tightest and most intense series of moves I've ever seen on any coaster. I won't go into details, but right from the start, it had a hugely intense set of helixes right up to a bunch of banked turns that throw you around like you wouldn't believe, and then comes up to a braked section with a short fire show and stuff, then a big series of banks in a dark tunnel, finally ending with a couple hills for air time at the end. It's absolutely insane, and I'd definitely recommend that if you don't mind a nice headache, go for it.

So after that we manage to swing onto the highway and head back to NJ and get there surprisingly early, ending the trip and leaving me with 30 new emails in my inbox to take care of.

Juggle This:
So I've finally sold off my old Airflites. They've just been sitting in one of my drawers for way too long, and I figured someone else could put them to good use. We'll see how I do without them.

Not sure what's going on with my next [Juggling] series video yet, but I am working on a few things right now. One is a series of tutorials for Cigar Boxes and other tricks that I'll put up on youtube when they're ready, and the next season of Jugglers On Juggling. Yes, the podcast of doom you thought was dead. Well, I'm bringing it back, and this time I'm putting a LOT more time into planning than before. I've already gotten 2 episodes outlined and I just have to record them and do them, but I'll be holding off on the release for a while. Like I said, I'm really planning these out, and my big plan is that once every 2 weeks I'll have a new episode ready. I'll have a lot more details next week about the upcoming shows.

NEXT WEEK'S POST:
I'll be talking about the new season of JoJ coming up. I'll also be reviewing Wii Fit and maybe Boom Blox.

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