A Day In The Life Of A Peanut Butter Cup

Listen Up!
So last week I didn't write a post because I had a MASSIVE flu hit me right on Sunday. I was sore, I couldn't breathe well, I couldn't do a lot of stuff, and on Monday I was just way too far gone to write anything. SO sorry for that, but hopefully now you're pissed off at the Church of Later day Saints for the shit they're spreading.
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TechMCC has finally hit a stride. I can't thank JT McGuire enough for what he did. Basically, he came in two weeks ago, and suddenly saw exactly where our problem was and why the meetings haven't been as good as they can be. They were not organized at all, and we really had no serious projects we were working on, or even meeting ideas that were anything other than ideas. He shook it up, kicked my ass into gear, and now we're really striving forward with two big projects featuring robotics and alternative operating systems. We're still a little short on quick projects to do while we're setting up the big projects, but we are dozens of times better right now than we were the weeks before.
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My job search, man, I really hate talking about this, because everything I've done so far has failed. NOONE is hiring ANYONE. The latest thing I've done is applied for a job with the US Census on Friday. I'm calling them back tomorrow to see where things stand, but I've already taken the basic civil skills test and passed with ease, so I'm really thinkling things will work well here, but after so many bad leads, I'm not getting my hopes up.
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Daily Life:
So I've noticed something recently, and that is that I'm getting a lot more political. I did a bit of thinking about this recently, and I think it's a good thing, because a lot of my close friends that I have talked politics and psychology with have said that I am "very profound for my age". However, I think I've got a bit of a problem in that I can't think psychology or politics when I'm alone, because I've said in earlier posts, I don't have the ability to believe that anything I think is wrong. In other words, I can't debate a point or idea by myself because I'll have one thought, assume it's correct, and run with it until I decide to do research. I always need to have someone with me to debate and bounce things off of, because they could see the errors in my thoughts and bring them up. It's a bit interesting for me, and I come up with a lot of interesting ideas because of it.

Now, this change isn't just in how often I talk politics, but in how often I get pissed off. I used to be (up to about 5 months ago), the most lax guy you'd ever meet. I wouldn't get pissed off over anything unless your idiocy directly affected me. I guess that's still the case, but that now I'm seeing as to how many more cases there are. I used to be pretty lax about things like the death penalty and the war on drugs. Then I started thinkign about most of them (well, actually I began watching Penn and Teller's Bullshit! )but either way, I started realizing how many stupid things are done by stupid people that directly affect me. The death penalty for instance, I used to say "Eh, if the person wants to kill the murderer, I'm fine with that. It will never directly affect me because I'm never going to commit a murder." Then I did some thinking and realized, ok, well what about the innocent people on death row and all the complexities of how prosecution is entirely hell-bent on winning and especially how once you kill and innocent person, you can't undo it. Then I thought, "Well what if I was framed for a murder? I'd MUCH rather spend life in prison and still have the ability to decide when I want to die instead of being killed off." And now I'm against the death penalty.

Mostly what I think has changed is two things. One ifs my ability to expand and see how direct certain things can affect me, which I already just gave an example of with the death penalty, and also I have grown to become a skeptic. I'm INTENSELY grateful for both. I love being a skeptic now, because I will notice things that I wouldn't have noticed before, and be more sure of my decisions. A great example of this was the last time I went to the dentist for a cleaning about 2 months ago. When I was about to go home from the cleaning, the dentist who did the final check handed me a flier and asked if I'd want him to do "a simple procedure to check for gum cancer". I immediately was skeptical, and as such, I looked at the flier for the ONE THING that would make me possibly consider spending the extra 60 bucks to "Shine a harmless light against my gums to highlight potentially cancerous areas". I looked for the number of people in America that had gum cancer. I saw nothing about what my odds of having it were, not even how many reported cases there were last year or whatever. I asked the dentist these same questions about what exactly my odds of having it are, and how many cases there were. As soon as I heard him say he didn't know, I turned down the procedure, checked out, and walked right out the front door, 60 bucks still in my pocket and my gums feeling fine. Careless? maybe, but I'm not going to spend money on protection that I have no idea whether I NEED or not. That's just one of my life ideas now. It's like charging a guy in a padded cell who's given 3 liquid meals a day life insurance in case he dies from an accident. IT'S POINTLESS AND A WASTE OF MONEY.

So I figured I'd just let everyone who reads this know about that little change in my personality, because it really has been a while since I was deep and personal here on my blog. I really don't like being pissed off about things, but I still wouldn't trade in my newfound clarity and depth of thought for ignorant bliss any day. Because now, I can notice the problems, which is the first step in correcting problems...

Juggle This:
So being sick last week, I couldn't do all that much juggling practice. As such, I'm rusty as hell, and can feel it whenever I pick up a ball, ring, or club. HOWEVER! Today I found a few magical things that should be wonderful for my juggling work in the near future! I heard from a friend that our local Office Depot was closing also (the circuit city a block and a half away already closed up), and that there was a ton of great stuff there. I decided to go there today on my way to the most useless class ever. What did I find? absolutely nothing worth buying in terms of products, but there were two pieces of furniture and equipment from the store that I could NOT pass up. One was a basic metal bin that was used to hold random things on display, it's about a foot by a foot in it's area, but it's about 2 and a half feet deep and elevated so the rim of the basket is about 4 feet off the ground. I saw it, and instantly thought, "PROP RACK!" I now have a nice looking rack to hold props in when I'm performing! The clubs go inside the rack, the balls will either sit on the bottom or in a bag off the side, and the rings will hang off a metal hook on the side. I'll post pics of it in the next blog maybe.

But the better thing I found, was that they sold metal poster displays. Sounds lame right? Uh, remember my ideas for the Picture Frame Routine? Well I FINALLY have the stand I need AND a non-breakable metal frame that I can unbolt and use on it's own! After years of thought and bad equipment, I can finally finish the routine and make a video for it! Yes, I just said a video for it! Now that I can finish the routine,I will be premiering it sometime around Juggle This or later depending on how it goes.

Speaking of Juggle This, I'm planning to perform something in the Renegade Show, and I may record another convention video because I haven't in a while. So expect to see me runnign around with my HD camera gathering footage and then doing something stupid and humiliating on stage at Renegade!

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