I haven't posted anything on here in a while, so a few things have happened I guess.
I kinda sorta got a promotion at work. I now have a lot more stable hours and most of my weekends off. Its a 7-4 m-f job just have to go in Sundays for 30 minutes or so to order. I'm an assistant Meat Department Manager now, technically I guess the position is Endcase Manager. Better hours, better pay, weekends off... I can't complain.
Not a whole lot has changed with my mobile DJ business. I've picked up some misc adapters, a couple of new lights, a few hundred more feet of speaker cable. I finally got a battery light for inside my trailer that lights the whole thing up on the inside when its dark out. I got tired of my old LED spot light on the door only 1/2 way lighting up 1/2 of the trailer, this thing lights the whole thing up and is also a LED light so it should last many many hours. I picked up a spare one for my house also since it's capable of running strait for several hundred hours on one set of batteries and makes for a wonderful power outtage light.
About a month ago I tried giving my Chinchilla some treats called Dandelion drops, she absolutely LOVES them. I give her a vitamon on even days, and the Dandelion drop on odd days. She's almost too spoiled at times and is a picky eater... oh well, I still love her. I also for the 1st time let her go outside in her ball. The grass didn't let her move around at all, so I let her run around on the sidewalk. She had a blast, she ran/rolled up and down the sidewalk a few times. I just had to watch her when she came near the driveway since there she 'could' roll into the street, also had to watch her when she got to the corner on the other side of the house as she could get into the street the same way. Quite a few people went past, and it drew the attention of a couple of my neighbors but it was all good. I had to laugh as 2 kids went past on bikes, they looked at her and said "oh, just a rabbit"... I didn't even bother correcting them as I was about ready to go back inside with her.
Sometimes I get a little agitated at drivers. I have on several occasions watched as someone swirved to try to hit a squirrel. I've watched as moron drivers have swirved going up on the curb, to try to hit a cat or a dog also. They were just lucky I didn't have my cell phone as I would of found some way to report them to the police if anything just for drunken driving...
Mid August (15-18) I went to anime iowa. There was about a 2500 person turnout. I wore my Ninja Gaiden- Ryu outfit on Friday and my Blue Master Chief costume on Saturday (I have a picture of each in my pictures on here). It was a lot of fun. Friday a friend of mine was teasing me "can't you go 50 feet without people asking for your picture"... and Saturday it was more like "can't you go 5 feet without people asking for your picture?" I kept track of the number of pictures for a while but managed to lose track... it was somewhere over 4 or 500...
Just 2 more months and it'll be time for Anime NebrasKon. November 14-16. I'll be DJing there again for sure on Saturday night, and not 100% certain about Friday night yet as I'm not sure when I can slip away from work. I mentioned I picked up a couple of adapters, the adapters will allow me to connect into the house pa system for hooking up microphones. This year I'm going to only allow the contestants to use cheaper wired microphones incase they get dropped or slammed down...
Its been quite a few years since I was in 'fighting condition'. I've been thinking about getting back into my Karate training. I'm still very limber compared to all of my friends, but I am far from being able to do the splits like I used to be able to. I figured I would try to find an agility/streching machine. I've found a couple of them, its just a matter of finding a used one I guess. Now I have incentive to visit those Play it Again used sports equipment shops. New the 2 that I was looking at run 200-300$, so here's hoping I can find a used one within the 100$ range.
Back in my prime condition I could run a mile in under 4 1/2 minutes and 2 miles within 10 minutes... I don't see anything like that happening again as I'm not going to work on running conditioning, just agility for now and I will go from there.
One of my best friends, Andrew (his wife and daughter), moved to Japan. They moved early this year. She's Japanese, they met in college. My good army friend Chris has finally decided that the army life isn't for him. He had reinlisted at least a year ago, but has decided he will not be reinlisting again.