A Day In The Life Of A Peanut Butter Cup

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So I'm down into the first week of my new classes, and WOW. So far, it seems like Photo2 is going to be AWESOME, I'm going to be learning new techniques I haven't tried before in both photoshop AND film. My Construction Materials Testing seems like it's going to be an epic hands on course that I am going to love, except for the math. And my Computer Applications In Business class is an absolute JOKE, I'm learning how to open and save files in Microsoft Word right now, lmao. I'm not sure what the last course is like because I haven't had it yet, but 2D Design should be an awesome course regardless because that's what I've already been doing for years.
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Well my job search has hit a snag. I haven't heard back at ALL from Fed-Ex (which I really thought would be a slam dunk), UPS, and Blockbuster, even after following up with them. So now I've got to find someplace that's still hiring now (with the alleged economy crisis and all), and that will fit my skills set. HOWEVER! My professor in Contruction Materials Testing, said on day one, that he's looking to hire someone who knows AutoCAD and has some electrical background, and me and only one other person come close to qualifying those requirements. So that I may end up getting, I hope... ALSO! I'm only one semester away from getting my CAD certificate, so if I don't get a job DURING the semester, it should be easy to get a higher scale job in the AutoCAD field after I finish this last class I need.
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Don't even MENTION Jugglers On Juggling. Good non-existent god, I literally cannot think of a single episode idea that I could do on my own and NOT sound like an asshole. I REALLY want to do more episodes, the thing is I've already covered all of the topics I think I'm qualified to talk about and that I think would hold the viewers interest for more than 3 minutes. I'm thinking about doing co-hosted episodes again, but more of an interview type setup, where I'd get someone like Michael Karas on talking about how to be creative with new props, and I'd be sitting back as the casual listener and ask whatever questions I have to him. Whatever happens, it's going to be a little while before the next episode I'm afraid. Unless of course I have a sudden brain-wave and come up with an awesome idea for a solo episode.
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Daily Life:
So let's see, a story, a story, my kingdom for a story. Well, I guess I can talk about today. SO! I knew thanks to Gordon telling me on Friday, that the semi-annual CCPP Club Picnic thing was happening today. Basically, this is where you set up a booth among a bunch of other booths in either outside during the fall, or in the cafeteria during the spring, and try to convince people to put down their email addresses so you can count them as having joined the club. Now, seeing as how I didn't think about it until Gordon told me 2 days beforehand, I didn't have a single thing planned, and I even forgot to remind the club members to show up for it. Whoops.

So let me get to my point, I knew it was today, and I had a general idea of when. I didn't bother to check, I just assumed it would run from 10:00 AM to 2PM. So I figured I'd have to show up a half hour early to get everything ready, and a half hour to get there, and 20 minutes to pack up everything I needed to bring with me, I figured I'd have to wake up at 8:20 AM. Which doesn't sound bad, but remember, my sleep schedule is off of the normal person's by 5 hours. 8:00 AM to me is essentially 3 AM for you. So I wake up, do all that stuff, and head over to find out, THAT IT DOESN'T START UNTIL 11:30!!!! DAMNIT!

Well, I use the time to drive back and pick up some other things I thought about while I was walking from the parking lot to the Cafeteria, and then by the time I got back and set up, it was already time to go, and there were TONS of people. Mostly they were there for the free food, which is tradition at the semi-annual thing. So I'm sitting there, for a while, trying to think of what the hell I can do to grab attention, and all I had was my laptop (playing shows from Revision3), my camera, my juggling equipment, and a screwdriver. So I spend about a half hour constantly taking apart and putting back together my old broken camera, and then juggling for people. Then it's 1:00PM, and all of the sudden, the crowd is gone and everyone else is packing up to leave. I'm sitting there dumbfounded at the horrible schedule. But I decide reluctantly to do the same, then go practice juggling and get a few awesome tricks in the process, which I will talk about later.

So I go back home once again and hang out for about an hour or two, and then it's time for my class at the Perth Amboy center. Now, it's been about a year since I mentioned it, so let me describe it quickly. It's a shorter drive to get there, it's a pretty laid back class structure, and it's nearly 100% Hispanic students. Of course, that means nothing to me, I could care less about all those details except for the shorter drive, but what I did care about was the class I'm taking. It's title is "Computer Applications In Business". Now, with a title like that, you'd think we'd be learning Linux or some sort of proprietary thing, right? Nope. Instead, today we were learning how to open and close files in Microsoft Word. I WISH I was joking. The class schedule says that the hardest thing we'll be doing at the end of the year will be making a power point presentation. Are you fucking kidding me?!

For the love of god, I REALLY hope that when I go talk to my adviser tomorrow, that there is a test I can take to instantly pass the course and get a partial refund on the tuition. I didn't say that much about it, because it is so stupefying that talking about how simple this class is just makes me lose faith in human intellect, so I don't want to talk about it. Bottom line, it's the easiest and most pointless course I've ever laid eyes on, and I'll leave it at that. That was the end of my day, and now I'm writing this. Hooray.

Juggle This:
TODAY WAS A GOOD DAY! SO WAS FRIDAY! Let's go in chronological order then. Friday, I've got class in the Tech Services center from 11:00 Am to 3 PM, and then after that I'm free. Now, I haven't had access to anything over an 8 foot ceiling since WJF5, and I've been just ACHING to practice my rings again. So I figure I'll go into the foyer as I usually do and practice a few 5 ring moves for a while. Then all the sudden, I feel the rings getting easier and easier. This happens to me pretty often when I don't practice for a while, whatever I haven't practiced becomes easy for a short while afterwards. So I felt this, and decided to try and make a few tricks I'd been thinking about doing. Since I was getting 3 ring overheads in one count somewhat easily and even getting a flash of 4 ring overheads one count, I figured I'd try for more than one throw of 5 ring half-overheads. I failed miserably, because the foyer's roof sucked something horrible. It's a glass ceiling and it was a bright sunny day, so when a ring would get between my eyes and the glass ceiling, it would disappear. I looked around for another place, and noticed that the massive lecture hall which is setup like a theater, is open, and has no class in it. I go in, and it is amazing how well it worked. After about a half hour of trying, I managed to get both 8 catches of 5 ring half overheads back to a cascade and 10 throws to a collect! HAPPY AM I! And then of course, having done that, I decided to try another move I couldn't do under 8 feet. A 5 ball cascade with a 6th on the forehead, dropping the 6th down into a fountain mid cascade. THAT I got, ON THE FIRST TRY! Absoluterly perfect, so I left that day happy, for sure.

THEN, zoom across the weekend to today. After having to sit in the college center for the club fair thing for a few hours, I then had 4 hours until my next class, and I've had another move I REALLY wanted to try. A 97531, with rings. I'd done it to a collect before, and felt like after getting 5 ring half-overheads, that I was ready to get it. So I go back and see if the Theater at the College Center is open, and it's not, but I find my way in through the side door, to find a class going on. Damn. Well, at least I know a place right next to the side door that has a high enough roof for a 9, but the lighting sucks. So after fussing to get it for 30 minutes, I find out that the class is over and I can go use the AWESOME lighting on the stage to get footage for my next video. I spend another half hour, and through pure sweat and determination, I make it. I see it go up, all the throws are perfect, and I catch the first 3, then see that the first two throws were in fact, NOT perfect, and that they were actually really low for what I needed, so I quickly tossed the other 3 out, and went into pure subconscious-save-the-pattern mode, and in a flash, save it and manage to reenter a cascade. I made a 97531 with rings, to a qualify. It sounds mundane only because there is no correct punctuation or way to express how excitingly awesome it is in text. Oh wait, there is...

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *Falls over, rolling around with joy

So after that incredible move that I don't think I'll ever get again before WJF6, I decided that now was a good time to try and break my 5 ring flat-front-reverse record. I beat it by one catch with 18 catches clean. The footage looks absolutely BEAUTIFUL, and I couldn't be happier than I was right then and am right now remembering how happy I was then. Wait, what?

(This week's photo's of my compliments of Ville)
A Day In The Life Of A Peanut Butter Cup ~ Reeses2150

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Well, nothing particularly amazing, I can assure you.
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So college classes start in 2 days. I'm a little bit nervous to see what hppens with these new classes, mostly because of me not having a job and being a little low on money. Sure I can afford a DSLR if I need to get one for Photo2, and I can afford all the books I'll need if it turns out I need all of them, but only just, and that's what's making me nervous. Otherwise, all my classes look like they're gonna be GREAT! Photo2, More Business classes, and the last class I need to get my CAD certificate, all I need is a D or higher and I can be proclaimed legally as a qualified draftsman! WOO!
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So the job hunt is hitting a little snag. I didn't realize that the market really HAS dried up as much as it has. I've already hit dead ends (or what seems to be) with Fed-Ex, Blockbuster, Gamestop, and other local stores. I'm right now running down and seeing if I can get something at Lowes (the cineplex and the hardware store), Best Buy, USPS, and Walmart. Here's hoping one of them goes through...
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I'm really not sure what else has gone on that I can quickly sum up. I've started using Twitter again, /Reeses2150. I got and beat a cold over the past week. It snowed, a lot, and often. Plus I'm still having trouble with episode ideas for JoJ. Damnit, this new format I'm using for the podcast, it's sure leading to a much better end product, but it's just so hard to come up with ideas for. Well at least I met my promise back in the summer to make at least a half dozen episodes before the season ends, so anything from here until the end of the season is gravy.
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Juggle This 1:
Uh, yeah. So I think I've pretty much refined and finished what I could do with "Club and Ball". I think I came up with a lot of good stuff, and the video looks great. I'm happy with it no matter how many views it gets, so yeah.

Because of all thew snow, I can't record my pot manipulation video yet, which I was so stoked to FINALLY be taking one of my old ideas and making a full on routine video out of it. I AM going to do this video, and I WILL also be making a routine video for the picture frame routine, although I can't say when that will be even CLOSE to ready. I'm still coming up with more ideas for it, and it sucks because I can't use the main method I came up with for holding on to it, which was to tape 2 hangars to the ceiling and hang the frame from them, because "It damages the ceiling too much". Ok, I'll give you that, but weren't we already going to repaint my room and the ceiling sometime this year anyways? So what's the point in trying to preserve it exactly the way it is? It's like getting a new TV, and instead of having fun with your old TV (like taking a sledgehammer to it or safely dropping it off a high building) you just throw it out. I NEVER understand that type of logic...

Ok, I've rambled on long enough about that, it's time to let you know what I've ACTUALLY been doing in terms of progress and props. Now, if you've been paying attention to me on Rec.Juggling, I lost one of my 5 penguin balls at WJF5. Before WJF5, I had given away/sold all of my old black and yellow Dube bags to people I was teaching how to juggle. SO besides my set of 5 Dube Illuminated balls, I now only have one set of good balls, and I've only got 4 of them. So I was in the market for some new balls. Of course, I still had hope because even though I had had a fiasco and a field day (at the same TIME no less!) with the penguin juggling 24 panel suedes, I was going to receive a set of 5 of the new 12 panel suedes of the same size. The short story is that I ordered the 24 panels while they were out of stock, waited a LONG time, contacted them asking what the status was, being informed by them that a week ago they had discontinued the ball I ordered and were instead replacing that product with a 12 panel version by a different manufacturer, I got pissed off about them not notifying me or putting out ANY kind of word of this to ANYONE, I complain, I get no response.

Then I remember that I'd tried out the jugglingstore.com Tangent Bags at Juggle This last year, and LOVED the way they felt. SO I go to order them on jugglingstore, and guess what, they have been discontinued as well! DAMNIT! Of course, I had to learn this by calling their office, the only thing that is shown on the website is that they are out of stock. Does any juggling distributor now anything about PR and customer service? Either way...

So I've really (thanks to the 24 panel penguins) become addicted to suede and want NOTHING BUT SUEDE. Then I look around and see that nothing else really fit my liking, and so I get an idea. If I sold all of my bags, and people are still trading FERGIES around inside the community, maybe I can find someone with a used set of Tangent bags that I can pick up! So I put the word on rec.juggling, and I get a response from a guy who's got 5 he's willing to part with. Of course, he can only find 3 of them right now, and so I say to let me have them and if he finds the other two, I'll buy them later. So skip ahead about 4 days for the postal service to work it's magic and here I am with a BEAUTIFUL set of 3 tangent bags. Could not be happier. So then, all of the sudden, about 2 or three days later, I get a message in my inbox from penguin juggling saying my order has shipped! WOO! New balls! Again, wait over the weekend to allow the postal service to move item A from B to C, and here I am, staring at a package that looks really big for only 5 balls. I open it, look at the receipt, and see a note on there saying that "here's 5 extra balls for the inconvenience". GREAT! Still doesn't entirely make up for the bad PR< but at least they've got the right idea to stop me from complaining in a blog about them, or wait a minute....

Well either way, so now I've got a set of TEN penguin 12 panel suedes, and, well, they are the worst bags I've ever used in my life. I have absolutely no idea why they wanted to change the bags in the first place, but these new ones feel EXACTLY like moss covered rocks. I'm not joking. The suede is really shallow, and the bags are overfilled with birdseed to the point of bursting. I thought, "crap. I'm going to have to return these and look for someone else with more tangent bags." But then I noticed something odd.

I put one of the tangent bags right next to the penguin bags, and somehow noticed the size of the panels on each. They looked pretty close to being the same size, so I measured them, compared them, put them up against each other, and guess what. The panels on Tangent bags and the new penguin bags are EXACTLY the same size. I'm thinking, there is no way this could possibly be true. Butthen I figure, I've got 10 bags, let me see what happens. So I decided right there, to see if I could remove enough seeds from the penguin bags, to make it feel the same as the tangent. I did that, and after a letting out nearly half a dixie cup worth of seeds, I sewed it back up, and they feel like EXACTLY the same bag. I could not believe my luck. Apparently, the same manufactures that used to make the tangent bags, are either now making the new penguin bags, or sold the design for the tangent bag to the company now making the penguin bags. Bottom line, they are the same material, same size, and after having removed a half dixie cup of seeds from three more, I have a set of 7 Tangent bags, and a set of 6 penguin bags (which I'm optimistically hoping I can get my college friends to break in for me. Because I have no idea how good they'll be when broken in). Good times.

Juggle This 2:
Damnit! I've told a great story there, but I still haven't said a damned thing about what I've done recently! CRAP! Well, after going to Laguardia Airport with dad to pick up my sis from her trip to Europe, I decided that while waiting for her 11:00 PM flight to arrive, I have a nice ceiling and these new bags with me to practice 6 with. Over the course of the hour wait, I managed 48 catches of 6 balls, 4 rounds of 66661, and came OH SO CLOSE to doing a 5 ball cascade with head balance, then dropping the 6th ball from my head into the pattern. I need to do that move again now. Besides my ball skills, which are amazing considering how long it's been since I practicing anything more than 5 balls, I've been working on my ring overheads.

Now, my ring overheads have been a thing of beauty for a while. The only problem? I could only throw right handed overheads, so although I could run it up to 4 rings, I still had yet to flash 3 ring overheads in 1 count. The short version is, after less than 3 days of practice, all under my 8 foot ceiling in my room, I've qualified 3 ring overheads on camera, and then in the garage flashed 4 ring full overheads with 3 throws. I'm amazed at how much progress I'm getting for how little practice I actually do.

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

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So after giving you an extra week to read the worlds longest blog post, it's time to get back to talking about stuff.
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I've uploaded a new batch of art to my deviantart page, I'd really suggest checking it out, for two reasons. All that stuff I uploaded is REALLY good, and because it seems like every time I upload a new batch of anything I get less and less views on it all, and it's really making me not want to do it anymore. So yeah...
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JOB SEARCH! Well, I'm focusing on three major places right now for jobs. Fed-Ex, Blockbuster, and UPS, in that order. I've already had an interview with Fed-Ex and am waiting on the final yes or no, but I'm 75% sure it will be a yes because of all the low requirements and the connections I had. Blockbuster I've yet to interview with, so I've got to call them back soon about that. And UPS I've got set on the backburner right now, because I'm waiting to see if I get a yes from Fed-Ex before I go there. Bottom line, I'll be working again this semester.
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Jugglers On Juggling. Yeah. I've gotten a few more episode ideas, and I had planned on recording an episode or two last week after coming back from WJF5, but somehow, as soon as I walked in the door, I caught a really nice cold and couldn't speak for all I was worth. So I had to postpone, and then I got better about 5 days ago. Then, after doing all the job hunting stuff and catching up on all the internet stuff that needed catching up on, I was going to record another episode, and I can feel myself getting sick again! DAMNIT! And Luke released another episode of Juggling Podcast, so it's good to know he hasn't stopped, but he's making less episodes than I am, and that's kind of sad.
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No college right now, so I'm happy there. Grandma's back in Florida for the next couple months too, so I'm happy about that. And to clarify, no I don't hate my family, it's simply that the fewer people are in the house at any time, the more comfortable I am. On days when my sister, grandma, father, and mother are all here in the the house, I get really nervous and uncomfortable. I have no idea what it is or where it comes from, and when I'm alone in the house, and I know that nobody's going to be back for a few hours, I am absolutely ecstatic. I guess it must be some kind of phobia I have or something, I have to look it up sometime...
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So I said last post I'd talk about some of the ideas I've had for new videos, so let's get that out of the way right now. Remember Pot Manipulation Ideas? Well, I've come up with a BUNCH more ideas for it, and will be making a routine video for it as soon as it gets warm enough to film outside for more than 20 minutes. I've also released Club and Ball, which was a video for a few ideas I was kicking around, and I've recorded some more tricks of the same type after a few suggestions, so expect Club and Ball 2 to come out sometime. I'm also going to make a few more ring tutorials, especially a flat front reverse tutorial, because I didn't get the chance to teach Sondre at WJF5 and it's a move that's so easy that not enough jugglers do.

Daily Life:
So! Having turned 21, I am now legally able to make a rant about alcohol. I've been in a ranting mood lately, and I've already had a bit of experience with alcohol (not in all the different tastes of different beers and such, but I'm talking about alcohol in general, not specifics), so I'm going to give my thoughts about it.

I don't like alcohol. Plain and simple. I like what it DOES to you, but that's the only real reason I ever want to get drunk is for those effects of being relaxed and uninhibited. I kind of look at it like I would look at cold medication. There's a time and situation when you need it's effects, and your choice of flavors ranges from crap to "It tastes ok". Simple as that. Wow, that's really the quickest I've explained my opinion in a while. Let's go a bit deeper.

Alcohol is GREAT for if you're the type of person that HAS to put up a facade and barriers around other people. Why do I have to do this? You guessed it, A.D.H.D. But it's not about the hyperactive portion, it's about how one of the things about the disorder is the impulsivity. It used to be, for the longest time, that if I had a thought, or an idea for a joke, or wanted to be in on a conversation I had nothing to contribute to, it would go straight from my brain to my mouth without me even realizing it. Or what's even worse, is that if I felt like doing something, regardless of the situation or who was watching, I would do it (well, to a POINT. I'm talking about wiping sweat from my head, adjusting my balls, picking my nose, etc). I don't think this is one of the reasons I was unpopular, but it lead to a LOT of embarrassing situations through middle and early high school. So to deal with a lot of that (the talking part), I had to develop inhibitions with my conscious mind. Basically, I had to learn to FORCE myself to stop and think before I said anything. Doesn't sound that tough, but that's because you know how to do that much more easily. So now I've got this barrier in my head that I have to live with constantly, whether people are there or not, because that's the only way to make it all work. So Alcohol demolishes that barrier, and it's very nice and liberating to just blurt. I like doing it, and the best part is, I can be myself, but have an excuse that people WILL UNDERSTAND. When I say "Sorry, I got ADHD", they don't believe me or don't accept it as an excuse, as where everyone accepts "Sorry, I'm drunk". That's the BEST thing about alcohol for me, of course the problem is that I have to get absolutely SHIT FACED before that happens. (Note: I'm assuming that the basics of this point, that alcohol allows you to be yourself and have an excuse, applies to EVERYONE, but I think it hits me harder because I do have to have a bigger mental barrier than normal folk)

Now, I really tried to think of something else that I like about alcohol, but I can't think of anything, so it's ON TO THE NEGATIVES! First off, I absolutely HATE how a few hours after you start drinking, it hits your digestive system hard near the end? You know what I mean, there are 2 things, you can't stop going to the urinal, and then when you have to go to the stall, it's warm and nasty. That's all I'm going to say about that because it grosses even ME out.

I already said I don't like the taste of alcohol, but let me clarify. I HATE THE TASTE OF BEER AND ALCOHOL. I only have found one beer that I can come CLOSE to liking, and that's Yuengling. Otherwise, I like Vodka especially Smirnoff, but either as a Shot, or flavored. That's IT. Give me anything else, and watch me wince as I drink it. I find it miserable to pretend to like alcohol at a bar or social thing, and the only other alternative is to feel like a pussy ordering soda or a wimp ordering water. I HATE social drinking.

Another thing I don't like about alcohol, is how much I have to drink in order to GET DRUNK. Yes, that has to do with my body weight, but even considering THAT I'm really resistant to the stuff. I once had 5 shots of straight vodka and couldn't feel a damned thing (and I hadn't even been impaired yet, I could still juggle up to 6 balls). And couple that with my first point of being drunk is the main reason to like alcohol for me, and then factor in how much alcohol COSTS, and I'm basically paying 10 bucks to get anywhere NEAR drunk and happy. Thinking about that makes me like it all even less.

I really think that's it for what I don't like about the stuff. So to sum it all up again, I LOVE the net result of being drunk and what it does to you, but what it takes to get there, especially depending on the situation, is absolutely the worst thing and I do not like doing it. Yup, next week I'll be ranting about how ADHD affects SEX! lol.

MY NEW CAMERAS:
Well, since The New Steve broke my camera at WJF5, I had to get a camera to replace it. As I was there, and seeing as how the ONLY camera's I could see were all these consumer models (basically cameras with NO manual settings, NO video mode worth talking about, not even high iso and F-stop ratings), I figured then that I would spend the money on something I'd been meaning to get for quite some time. A camcorder. So as I said in my last post, I spent about a half hour looking at the rack, until I had it narrowed down to the Panasonic and the Sony. And then i realized I was looking at Sony, and instantly went for the Panasonic.

Now, having used it for a few weeks, I've got some SERIOUS gripes about it, but first, let me get the great stuff about it out of the way. The screen is wonderful, I can finally see whether I'm in frame or not quickly by just turning the screen around to face the subject! So happy about that! Battery life seems to be awesome so far, it's lasting for about an hour constantly each charge without needing more. Finally, the sound from it's microphones are boss! I could almost record an episode of JoJ without using the external mics, almost.

The bad stuff. What burns me the most is that, despite recording directly to SD cards, which I specifically made a priority as I was buying to avoid importing clips (a completely arbitrary and useless process meant for IDIOT consumers), I NEED TO IMPORT THE CLIPS VIA THE SOFTWARE! GAH!!!!! HATE IMPORTING! JUST RECORD THE FILE AND CONVERT IT TO EITHER AN AVI, MPG, OR MOV INSIDE THE CAMERA SO I CAN PULL IT STRAIGHT OFF THE CARD!!!!!! It's the main reason I really am not using this camcorder that much. Another thing I hate about it is the pictures it takes. For the love of the non-existent god, it records video at 800x600, BUT IT ONLY TAKES 640X480 PICTURES! WTF IS THAT!?!? It's bad enough that the camera doesn't give you ANY control over manual settings in both taking pictures AND video, but you can't get good resolution pics anyways! ARGH! Another gripe, when I import clips recorded in 16:9 aspect ratio, which I was so happy to finally be able to record 16:9, the imported clips are squished sideways, making the 16:9 mode about as useless as an escape slide on a helicopter! FUCK!

Other than all of those, however, the video I get from this thing is WONDERFUL. It's clear, crisp, and is very good with maintaining it's framerate, so for juggling videos, the footage I get from this is awesome. BUT! It's not any faster of a framerate than my OTHER new camera...

Kodak Easyshare V803. After I'd used the camcorder for a while and realized what crappy stills it took, I knew I needed a new still camera, but I figured I'd go look on craigslist and wait for a good Kodak to pop up, because they record videos directly to SD cards as MOV's no converting or importing needed, and they usually have really good settings. So I wait a day, then this one pops up for $80, because the guy had sent it to Kodak to get the LCD screen repaired because it shipped broken, and during the wait time he bought a different camera, and then got it back and sold it to me. I am VERY happy with this camera. But I still have some major complaints about it.

Firstly, it has NO MANUAL SETTING CONTROLS. FUCK! Yes, I can change the shutter speed to a slower speed and manually choose the ISO, but it's completely unwieldy to get to through the menus, and it's shutter and aperture that I REALLY need to control. That and the F-stop only goes down to 2.8, which is dismal at best, but hey, it's a point and shoot, what do I expect. OH! And as to be expected, the video microphone sucks to all hell and back.

What I DO like about this camera, is that the flash works, for now. My old camera lost it's flash basically, a few weeks after I got it and the return policy ran out, it's not the "OMG LOOK AT THIS CAMERA IT'S AS THIN AS A CREDIT CARD" style that WAY too many camera's are being made as now, And I really love how quickly it boots up and is ready to take a shot. Excellent for my street photography. Other than that, it's got the same kind of stuff as my old camera, which was PERFECT in terms of what I needed, but a POS in terms of a camera. This one is exactly the opposite, it's a wonderful camera, but has only about 75% of what I need. We'll see what happens with these two later, but for now, they seem to be working well, so no complaints yet.......



So I was going to post about what my juggling skills are like now, but they really haven't changed all THAT much since WJF5. I AM going to rant about finding the right juggling balls next week. And I may still review Heroes Season 3, but who knows. For now, it's winter, I must go back to hibernating to try and fix my sleep schedule (still fucked up from PRE-WJF5 crap). Live long and prosper, but only if you really DO believe in logic and common sense.

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