Thursday, October 14, 2010

 

If Richard were a cheeseburger, he would be a really good cheeseburger.

Listen Up!
Sorry about the delay, being sick really does suck. It's odd how you only really remember that when you get sick XD. I got the flu right before heading off to Philly Jugglers Fest on the 2nd and 3rd, and then got better just in time for it, then got sick a few days later and that was worse, then I finally got better yesterday.
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Well my classes are doing fine, parents are paranoid about me getting there late and making sure my assignments are done, but I have stopped expecting anything different from them. Still annoying as hell though. But either way, the class is pretty basic and simple so far, and I'm breezing through the assignments, I expect it to get harder in a few weeks time though.
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Work at the Meadowlands has certainly been fun as hell, especially the last game I worked on the 10th, where there were typhoon winds and rains pre-game when I was out scanning tickets, which I'll talk more about later because it was way fun and interesting.
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And this week's title is actually my new favorite quote to put on DVD's an Posters of me, is what someone said bout me on facebook after I posted a video. I would be a really good cheesebuger if I were a cheeseburger XD
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Daily Life:
Monday night, which I just found out from my cousin who is a supervisor there is a holiday that I am getting paid double time for (Woo!!!!), was the night of the Jets vs Vikings game, and the night when it hailed in New York City just a mile and a half away. Toi be blunt, this was a fuuuuun night. I'm coming off of the flu, and I've still got soem soreness and a cough but that was all thankfully, and I'm headed off to my usual post at the Verizon Gate as a ticket scanner. Of course I am switching around between handing out playbooks and taking tickets the whole time which is usual and good because it keeps things interesting, but then I come back from my break and go on ticket scanning duty right around an hour before kickoff. They said 20% chance of rain.....

Suddenly about a half hour before the game was to start a few drops of rain fall, nothing bad at all, and then a few more, and within a minute it's done and dry again, and for a few minutes it stays that way, until suddenly, with absolutely no warning at all, it is raining enough to flood the parking lots, literally! That was plenty fun, especially having everyone suddenly crowd in as the scanners and security checkers moved under the gate's roof to stay dry, until a few minutes later the wind picked up, and I was on the left side of my section, getting pressed and blown into the railings of the gate by typhoon winds as the rain blew sideways straight under the roof. There was NO dryness anywhere save for inside the stadium, and then the winds picked up even more right as the lightning watch went into effect and delayed the game. Literally right after they started the lightning watch, the tents, tables, chairs, and all the other signage that was placed about on the plaza outside the stadium, tore apart and began blowing down, nearly mowing people down on the concrete if not for the "LOOK OUT!" warnings me and other employees were shouting at them. I was just having a blast the whole time.

Then of course the game began and I was redeployed all over the place, first I took over the space of a guest services rep who had been punched in the stomach by a guest after trying to enforce the policy that noone can carry more than 2 beers at a time around. Next I was redeployed after he returned to the escalator area, which is the most open to the air part of the stadium, and hence where all the smokers thought their area was, which in reality was down the escalator on the plaza/ground level. I barely even got to watch the game on the monitors I had to run around so much politely telling people to just go down the escalator to smoke. it was quite the fun night indeed...

Juggle This: PHILLY FEST 2010
Philly Jugglers Fest this year was really quite a good fest to go to, like it always is. I got a friend who lives about 20 minutes out of Philly since last year, and so I invited him to the con at the same time as I stayed over his place for the night instead of hassling the local jugglers like I do every year XD. So I get there early in the day to find he's gotten a stomach bug of some sort right before we were to head out, literally I was ready to go and so was he, we waited through a quick breakfast and then as I was waiting in the car for him he ended up hunching over the toilet with nausea. It sucked but we figured tomorrow he'd get to go see everything, just not me performing, as I left for day one by myself.

So I was prepared to perform 2 routines this year at the stage show, Android Hell, which is my angled surface apparatus, and then Muffin Clutches. I was all ready to perform both like I said I would until I got word from the headmaster around 4 PM or so that he'd not let me do Muffin Clutches. I was a bit bummed and confused as it's not at all a tasteless routine, and all the other jugglers/performers/staff were excited to see it too, but hey, if the headmaster says no...

So after 4 rolled past and I'd spent the first few hours in rehearsal (which was going on the moment I got in) and then said hello to everyone again, happily surprised to see Jason Garfield was there this year, it was time for some of Jason's Combat Games. I teamed up with the other random guys that were left and readied to try out a few new strategies I'd thought up and observed since playing them last at WJF6, and they worked well. Zombie Combat my team won handily and then Kill The King was even better as I tried out my strategy of 'Less defensive players, strongest survivor as king, and the second best survivors going in and flanking the king, just trying to get past the defenders and not attack them'. We won that hands down and then Sumo we managed to edge out as well before finally came the 360's combat, and NOONE on my team could do 3up 360's well enough to compete XD so that made for quite the fun round as the only person who could do them was pitted against another and just tried like hell to stop him from spinning. It was so much fun to watch.

So when that was over we advanced to the finals against the BEAST team of Joe Showers, Josh Horton, and Anthony... We lost before we even started let's just say, despite their intentional handicap of 3 on 4 players throughout. I was a bit bummed as I didn't give Jason as much good footage as i usually give him, but hey, can't have everything, I was too focused n being psyched that my team was doing to well in the first rounds, making my win count in MLC 2-3 in Zombie, Sumo, and Kill The King. Not a bad record I'd say.

So then it was time to perform, and I was a bit worried about Android Hell, not because I couldn't do the routine, I could nail it ever time, I was worried about the presentation of it, as it can only be seen well from the front, and the seating at the Philly stage is pretty wide, so unfortunately people on the sides either got a view of the back of the apparatus or of my back, and not much else. Hopefully I can improve the apparatus with a plexiglass surface instead of a stiff cardboard one so I can change the visibility of it, but overall it went well despite the setback in visibility. Then it was time to leave for my friends place to spent the night.

Day two began with me managing to coax my buddy back off to the fest and most of that day was spent at the left side of the gym playing around on the projection screen, getting all sort of awesome rolling patterns going along with showing off and getting other people to try out my angled surface. Got a lot of good footage of the rolling juggling, and hopefully I'll be making a video with that footage sometime soon.

The games went good as I played a lot of them, doing my 4 ball body fountain to one on the head stall for best trick and go a fair bit of votes, of course I was going to do that and Muffin Clutches if I could, but I found out only after I went that you could only do one trick out of the three attempts, which is crappy rules but oh well, I wouldn't have got it anyways as I myself was voting for the through the legs whip catch of a diabolo, just amazing. I also made a big run in the 5 ball endurance of 2 minutes and third place, of course the winner went on for a full ten minutes even after winning going for a personal best, which is just insane. And I made a good shot too at the handicapped standing on one foot juggling, where I got third as well if I remember right.

Overall a great convention and I got to have my good buddy experience a juggling con for the first time, my first performance going well on the Philly stage, and just an all around awesome way to spend a weekend.

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

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