A Day In The Life Of A Peanut Butter Cup

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So I've noticed my youtube account recently, and seen that I'm barely putting up anything good, especially anything juggling related, so I got to work today. I'm going to be recording a video o some 1 ring manipulation ideas I've had recently. I've also finished editing the videos from my performances at the Iselin Fair. That video should be up by the end of the week at WORST. That and I'm still working on [Juggling] Video 15.
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Jugglers On Juggling. I just made the new intro and recorded episode 1. I'd like to set up and record a few more episodes before I start editing and releasing them, but I'll hopefully start rolling out season 3 before the end of August. Go Me.
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Work? Well, it's interesting right now, because officially I'm still freelancing on 2 jobs (Universal Talent agency and ACME Railing Co), though I haven't gotten anything new from them in about a month. HOWEVER! I just got hired at another place as a part time intern with a regular schedule converting paper drawings to autoCAD drawings. 12 bucks an hour for work that I don't mind doing seems fair enough to me. I'm going to be starting that as soon as they get the office computer fixed because the last guy who quit sabotaged the computer apparently, and I can't get it running.
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Oh, and I'm going to WJF5. I saw in the last WJF update that the price for registering was about to go up, and the big thing that I had to check on was whether the timing of the convention would overlap with any of my fall classes. Turns out, my classes end a full WEEK before the convention starts. I have enough time to DRIVE to Vegas if I felt like putting up with it. SO I'll be at WJF5, and hopefully competing in ring intermediates.
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Website updates. Still workin on them. The hardest part as I've learned is the ONLY part. Generating content.
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Tech.MCC what can I say about it. Wait, I know exactly what I can say about it. In fact, I'll make that this week's daily life segment...

Daily Life:
Well, last week was pretty boring. Not a damned thing happened besides today being asked to mow the lawn and wash the car, and I've already posted a rant about how much I hate mowing the lawn.

So let's talk Tech.MCC. Now, I had a couple ideas that I've been struggling with for a while now, and I think I've figured out what I want to do. One of my original big ideas was to offer free USB flash drives for EVERY registered member of the club this coming semester. I figured everything out down to that the drives should be 1 gig in size and no less than 512 mb in size, and that we'd even put a splash screen on it to make sure people just don't forget about it. The one thing I didn't figure out until recently was the cost, so when I went to order them and found out that even 30 1 gig drives would go through half the budget, I had to stop and re-think about it. Eventually, I realized that it is much more of a novelty than an attractant, and that people would forget about it even with the splash screen. So I've officially abandoned the idea.

To replace the USB drives, however, Danny came up with the idea at the last Panera Bread Friday to give out pens with the Tech.MCC logo or text on them. I immediately came back and built upon it, and how it should be that there's always a stash of Tech.MCC pens at every meeting and would be given out as needed, and that that would get much more attention for basically the same amount of work. SO that's the replacement, and I just need to figure out exactly what to do in terms of ordering.

The next big idea that Gordon had when I was talking to him a number of weeks ago in the truck, was that this years giveaway contest would NOT be another DS, but would be a GPS system. Because it's the perfect item, everyone wants one, but noone is willing to buy one. That's what I call a holy grail giveaway item. Definitely going to be huge, and Marv can supposedly hack it beforehand to display our logo onto the splash screen of the device. If we don't do anything else the entire semester, we're doing this because it's just such a perfect item.

Another big brainstorm me Gordon and Danny had at the last Panera Bread Friday was about advertising. We were talking about how to get people into the club, which has been the focus of my thoughts since I became president, and we came up with simply, advertise more. Because advertising worked last year, despite how shoddy and random it was, and it's basically THE way to let people know what's happening. I realized that when I was 14, is that unless you are advertising, there's almost no way for ANYONE to know who you are, what you're selling, or that you even exist. So since Danny is the one whose major is marketing, he took the idea and ran with it. He came up with that we should advertise not just with fliers like last year, but with the college radio station which plays on campus constantly. He even came up with the basic idea and outline for the commercial right there in the parking lot as we were leaving. The commercial would be just two girls having a dialogue about getting their pictures taken and learning to use their computer by going to the club, and then me at the end with my wonderful announcers voice giving the relevant info to when and where. I definitely like the idea, we just have to flush it out a little bit more before we go for it.

Ok, one more, then I need to move on. A big idea I had, was one that I was thinking about before last semesters meetings even ended. Basically, last semester was movie night every last meeting of the month, and the meeting before that was designated as the DJ meeting, where we'd have turntables and DJ equipment setup by Gordon and just jam and teach the entire meeting. I noticed that after the 3rd DJ meeting, it seemed to be getting REALLY repetitive and actually a bit boring. So I knew as soon as I became prez that I wanted to change that, and it came to me two or thee Panera Bread Fridays ago, that we should keep the schedule, but replace it with a LAN party, or more specifically, a lan game of Risk 2 (The most AWESOME GAME EVER). Basically, that game is PERFECT for the type of people interested in the club because it pits you against everyone else in the room for world conquest, ad it is an absolute brain melter. At the end of a 5 person game at one of the Panera Bread Fridays, I actually got a headache and needed an iced lemonade to get myself back. It's an amazing game that is more addictive when playing multiplayer mode than Halo was back in the day. I expect to see great things at those meetings.


Juggle This:
I haven't been practicing nearly as much as I should, and I'm not sure why. I am practicing enough that I don't get rusty, but it's a little bit concerning to me. I'm coming up with a lot of one ring manipulations and am getting really good with lower numbers, but not being at MCC every day really seems to be putting a stop to my practice of 97531, 744, and other high throw tricks. Because I'm unwilling to go outside in the blazing NJ heat, and gas is really expensive. I'm really not sure what's going to happen, but for now I can just keep practicing.

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