Archive for September, 2006
Saturday, September 30th, 2006
Rocky Ripple Neighborhood Festival
I performed in Rocky Ripple today. It’s the neighborhood that is just a little south of Broadripple… since I’m sure that you all know where Broadripple is. And yes, that’s it’s real name.
It was a fun little fair. Very cozy, very comfy, with maybe 15-20 vendors and a small kids area. They [...]
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Friday, September 29th, 2006
I Just About Did It All Today
Today I woke up, took a shower and ate breakfast, ordered my new prop case, went to the dog park, had lunch, worked on the Model A Ford, had dinner, and made cookies. That’s almost the full spectrum of my life, and it was all packed into one day. I didn’t realize until [...]
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
Wikipedia is Fun
I just did some editing on the yo-yo page in the wikipedia. I’m not sure if I should be proud or ashamed.
Who am I kidding? I’m totally proud! Wikipedia is AWESOME!
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Monday, September 25th, 2006
New Prop Case
For about a week now I have been working on a cardboard mock-up for a new prop case to carry all of my performing gear. I think it’s finally finished.
In these photos the mock-up is sitting on top of my current prop case so you can see the size difference. It may seem [...]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Christmas Used to Come After Thanksgiving
As a kid, the way I remember it, was that on the day after Thanksgiving all of a sudden you would see the Christmas stuff appear in the stores. Then, as I got older, I remember being offended when the Christmas stuff started appearing before Thanksgiving. Recently, Christmas stuff has made its debut [...]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
Unintended Bonus Skills of Entertainers
In any career people develop unintended bonus skills that are not a part of the job description but are still a very important aspect of what you do. Teachers learn to listen to (and understand) multiple people talking at the same time, bartenders learn to read lips so they can still take drink orders [...]
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
Denver Wedding
I just got back from a nice trip to Denver for my cousin Brett’s wedding to the lovely Diana. They asked me to perform at the reception and of course I agreed.
I love performing at weddings. It’s great for several reasons:
everyone is happy and in a good mood
there are ususally people who are worried that [...]
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
New Shredder
Bought a new shredder today. What could be more fun than a little personal security? I haven’t actually plugged it in yet or anything, I was just sick of the entire adventure after I took a wrong turn (and then a whole series of wrong turns) that added an hour to my 20 minute drive. [...]
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Thursday, September 7th, 2006
Time to Play Catch-Up
Now that my busiest time of year for performing is over I have to catch up on everything that I have let slide, or partially slide, for the last three months. Ug. There’s a lot of it. I dubbed today “Efficiency Day”. Nothin’ but workin’ fast today. I set a [...]
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
New Trading Card Already a Big Hit
I was performing up at the Wisconsin State Fair last month and after my show I was handing out my new super-hero themed trading cards. One kid got his, took a few steps away, and stopped to look at it. After a minute or so he came back over to me and said,
“In [...]
