Ok, I know I just made a post yesterday, but I forgot to tell a story I was meaning to put in, plus I got another story today. So this is a complete story post, for your interest. All goes back to my Nuetrality Theory, that one day of absolute suckage must be balanced by an equal and opposite day of Awesome.

(also, I have moved my blog to http://reeses2150.blogspot.com/, check there for future blog posts.  They will be posted there on mondays, and then here later in the week.  My site will be updated with the blogger blog on the same day.)

Daily Life 1:
Ok, so flashback to Wednesday the 22nd, I've finished my morning classes at MCC, and I go into the corner and pull out my juggling equipment as I usually do and hang out for a little while. I haven't eaten at all that day, I didn't have anything for breakfast, so after about a half-hour, I'm hungry as hell, so I run across the hall to the cafeteria to grab myself a cheese-steak. As fate would have it, I see Craig T. there, who I haven't seen in a while and he doesn't have any classes or anything. So we get to the cafeteria and they're out of cheese-steaks so i grab a meatball sub and less than 20 seconds after I sit down to eat it, the fire alarm goes off. I'm thinking, "I am not getting up. Until I'm on fire, I am going to sit here and eat, and Craig felt pretty much the same way about his fries, but the nice police man showed us out the door, subs in hand.

Now, I'm going into what actually happened with the fire alarm and what I did NOT see. So, apparently, as soon as I left the corner, a group of kids came in with a football and started playing a game there (yes, inside. The corner is pretty big). Apparently, there was a missed catch and the ball bounced into the fire alarm down in the hallway, setting it off. So then everyone left the corner, my stuff still laying there where I had put it. So, as the alarm had been physically pulled, it lasted about 20 minutes and the fire dept actually came to the building. Apparently, the staff realized that the football was the cause of the alarm, and thus they confiscated EVERY LOOSE OBJECT IN THE CORNER, INCLUDING MY EQUIPMENT (worth a grand total of about $170.00 worth. I later found out from the other people IN THE CORNER, that the staff really didn't like any kind of sports being played indoors, and they happened to include juggling in that group. Finally, some non-jugglers who think juggling can be a sport and they use it to my disadvantage. The thing is, they never directly, or even INDIRECTLY told ANY of the residents of the corner, including myself, that they didn't want us playing sports or anything else of the like, nor did we see that anywhere in any set of rules. They just decided to take my stuff and THEN have someone ELSE tell me afterwards. I hate authority.

So jump from there to me coming back in after the alarm, having finished my sub, expecting to head back into the corner and continue juggling where I left off, only to find my stuff was gone and a janitor was sweeping the corner floor. He tells me and a few others who's things were gone to head down to the police station on campus (the OPPOSITE CORNER of the campus) and reclaim the confiscated items. I was the lucky one of the three, I got my stuff back, but the other two's things weren't there. SO I got out of that, and NOW to try and drive physical activity and people in general from the corner, they've removed all of the furniture for the 3rd time. So everyone's going to bring in folding chairs and stuff for the next few days to send them a message.


Daily Life 2:
Ok, today (11/27) was awesome. First awesome thing to happen was the launch of this new blog. Speaks for itself. The next awesome thing to happen was that my business cards finally arrived! They look AWESOME. Here's a link to a pic at the bottom of the post. Third piece of random awesomeness was my 8 catch run of six balls I made during my 2 hour break between classes. Four was finally revamping the podcast page of MX, which I've been meaning to do for a while. Five was my last class letting out early. Six was the food today at the Hess Express where I stop for dinner, simply magnificent.



Seven was also at the Hess station where I was doing some quick ring practice next to my truck before running off, and some lady coming up to me with a request. So it was her daughter's fifth birthday, and they had to stop to get gas and a few other things in the store, and she asked me if I could juggle for her for a few minutes as a birthday present. Being the real nice guy that I am, I say "sure". So I just do a quick improvised 3 ring routine, and they liked it, she didn't need to tell them to clap or say thanks. So her husband came back out and so I gave them one of my new business cards, bidder her a happy birthday, and then they left, giving me probably one of the best feelings I've had in a long time. Pride and Joy. Haven't felt that in a long time. Felt good. It's moments like that that make the years I've spent on juggling just all the more worthwhile. I really hope they do contact me back, her son's birthday is coming up around New Years Eve, so that'd be great.

I'll end on that high note. Call me an emo, call me whatever you want, I feel good after a day ending like that...

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

Random title yet again.  Ok, so I was going to make this post yesterday nigth, but then I remembered that i had work today, and though I would get an interewsting story from it, and I didn't.  Thus is the downfall of most men, when their plans blow up on them (that's why i don't make plans, I barely even like routines).  So either way, I did get an interesting stroy from working on sunday, so here's the lowdown on my world at Shoprite.

Sunday, yet another Hell Day.  I arrive at normal time, around 4:00.  I go to my first register, #13, I believe it was, and I get a bad omen, my first item of the day was not scanning, and the code wasn't coming up either, took us about 4 minutes to find out the price so I can put it in manually.  Not 3 orders after I finish my first one, the PIN pad breaks, and it takes at least 2 dozen tries for it to take a credit card, much less any other type of card.  So I then move down to #16, where the next customert I get breaks a full glass jar of pickels (the type that's filled to the brim with juice).  That was fun, after about another 10 minutes of cleanup and pissed of customers waiting in line and yelling at me because they need their free turkeys, I start getting a migrane.  At this point, it's only about 5:00, I'm only a quarter through my shift, and Mountain Dews somehow weren't working on this headache.  So I throb through another two hours of more pissed of free turkeyers, coupon horders and expired WIC checks that I didn't see they were bad until I already completed scanning the order, as they sent me on my break late that day.  So I go punch to break about 8:45, leaving one hour in my shift after my break was over.  Meanwhile, the headache didn't go away, until I almost fell asleep on my break (that would've made the managers happy), then it got a little better.  Not much happened from 9 to 10, just a few more free turkeyers, and the rest of the day was quiet.  It definitely helped that I was on register 5 (my favourite register, the 20 item express lane.  It's an express lane, meaning less customers, but they still have the ability to bag their own order, or help with it.).  I went home, took some Nyquil, and proceeded to post on some forums.  Oh, and I forgot to mention that I volunteered (I don't know what was going through my mind at the time) to go in to work Tuesday from 12:00 to 5:00, knowing full well I had classes at MCC from 6:00 to 9:00.  Yes, I know.  Stupid Me.  Either way, that turned out fine, no real hassles at work today, and the pizza was awesome.  Whatever.

Ok, what the hell else do I talk about now.  Ah, I've signed up for Google's Adsense in a desperate attempt to generate money from the few hit's I'm getting to my website.  I've also ordered myself a set of buiseness cards.  They've been waiting to ship for well over a week now, and that sucks.  Don't use overnightprints.com if you WANT overnight prints...

What else, Ah, I didn't get a Wii on launch day, because my parents said they're getting that for Xmas for me.  Good luck with that, also I found out that my Gamestop had no free consoles available without a pre-order, and I missed getting the preorders.  So I was screwed there.  Whatever, I'll get one eventually, until then, I'll enjoy my DS thank you.

In juggling news, you know, the news that everyone just skips over when they see the words "In Juggling News", I've finally managed to master my showers (for those who don't know, a shower is a pattern where everything gles in one direction through a loop).  I've actually managed to do not only a three ball shower, and a shower inside a shower, but even a four ball shower.  Shower's are really quite easy once you get past the whole toss blocker that developes after 2 years of nothing but toss juggling.

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

Ok, so I've been feeling nostalgiac recently.  As I've basically completed ALL of the projects I've been working on recently, and have just run out of stuff to look at in the present and future.  So I've taken a bit of time to revelate and look back.  Wow, I'm only 18 and I've already achieved my goal of fame, had at least 3 major hobbies (with enough skill to almost get a job with each), helped start a major website, had 2 jobs, and started a freelance performance job.   I've done a hell of a lot, especially remembering that I have ADHD, am fat, and have a C average throughout High School.  But enough about that, onto what's going on in the present.  I'm not writing my autobiography yet...

Ok, so Saturday at Shoprite, was the frirst day I had worked the food court register for a full shift.  It was just as i expected it, about one customer every 10-15 minutes on average, and they all wanted pizza.  Which by the way, the guy in charge of making pizza had left early that day, so we ran out of pizza (except for mushroom) about an hour and a half into my 5 hour shift.  That was fun.  Otherwise, it was absolutely boring as all living hell.  I usually have no problems with boredom for short periods, but for the last hour of my shift, I basically had 2 customers.  I was just sitting there, trying not to look busy and ready, for a full hour.  I did come up with a few good ideas for my juggling act during that time though, which I'll get into later.  So all in all, it was good.  And ending my shift around 8 was great as well, because the old SOT gang was in the area and we just kinda hung out in that area for about an hour and a half.  Going between Petsmart, Shoprite, and Taco Bell, and then just sitting in the parking lot.  It was good to see them again.

Ok, so I've started working on my latest juggling act.  Picture frame juggling.  it's still in the working phase, and I'm still coming up with ideas for it, but so far, it looks like my first real act is going to be pretty good.  I'm doing a first for this act, I'm making a video blog of my progress, and I'm going to edit the entire thing together and release it once I finish the act and launch it.  Other than that, I'm not going to let anything else out.

Also in more juggling news, I've released my latest video, Upgrade.  I talked about it last week, and I released it about 2 days after that last entry, and it's already got over 180 views on youtube.  More views than I got for Tri-Bx!  I've gotten nothing but a positive response from it, everywhere.  On forums, youtube, and even in real life (Thanks Contini and Dennis).  I even got some help from Joe Showers with working on the Picture Frame Juggling act I just talked about (thanks Joe), and I was contacted by another guy who was looking for help with his video's, after seeing Upgrade as an example.  This rocks.

I think that's a pretty good blog post.  Cya next Tues...
...I've been thinking recently, I've got a lot more to talk about on either Sunday or Monday, as that's the days right after work, where most of my stories come from.  Maybe I might start posting on those days instead of tuesday, I really don't have much of a schedule anymore.  Whatever...

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

Okay, so it's finally time for my next blog post.  It's strange, all of the sudden, this week, things started happening!  I actually have stuff to talk about!  So I better get right into it.

The Prestige - 9.1 of 10
Simply put, this movie rocks.  It's a bit long (2 hours 15 minutes to be exact), but it's good all the way through.  It a little hard to keep track of for the first half, since there is really no tell when it's a flashback or present day (as the first half is one reading another's journal), so that brought it down a bit.  Otherwise, the plot was great, the twists didn't feel like cheap twists, and they were actually done very well.  It was everything I wanted it to be, plus a horror style ending, which was awesome.  I wanted to say more about it, but I saw it on wednesday, and thus it's hard to remember all the details after 6 days.  Bottom line though, go see this movie, it rocks.

Next item of buiseness.  My next Juggling Video, "Upgrade", will be a showcase for all 4 major types of juggling, Rings, Clubs, Balls, Bounce.  I've already finished the editing, but I'm going to hold it until the 10th, to try and get some more views.  Until then, the preview is below.  And to keep everyone occupied until the 10th, here's a video of me tightrope walking at the Philidelphia Jugglers Convention.  Link

My parents say I'm too old for trick-or-treating.  You're never too old for free stuff, and my neighbor, who's 4 years older than I am, still goes out every year.  Not much else to say about halloween, other than it's awesome and I'm not going to be part of it, whatever.  Got more stuff to get to anyways.

Shoprite - Friday Hell Day:
First, I'm a little tired when I head in, which is always bad, but as I usually do, I manage.  What really sucks is that there was NO cold Mountain Dew left in the store, at least not in the front.  So I had nothing there to keep me awake, so I decided to try that "Rockstar Energy Drink" that I've been meaning to try.  I will never drink it again.  Sure, it woke me up, but that was from shock as to how horrible it tasted.  So far, the only good energy drink I've ever had has been MDX, and that was marginal.  But I'm getting off topic.  I ended up switching registers 3 times throughout the day, and having a full 4 hours before they even let me on my first break.  So I get done with my break, and I get sent to #3, the 12 item express, and it's busy as hell.  Thank god about 20 minutes in the managers tell me to go get more plastic bags, as we're running very low on them by this point.  I get done with that and then over to bring up all the CD and DVD racks upstairs in the opposite corner of the store with 5 minutes left in my shift.  Thank god I wasn't on cash control.  Oh, andf Contini and Corey dropped over while I was in the middle of handing out plastic bags to all the registers.

Ok, here's what happened today at MCC.  For the past 2 weeks, the small couches from the corner that I reside in had been MIA.  Noone knew where they went or why.  Until today.  The others got fed-up with not having a place to sit down, and they went scouring and found all of them upstairs almost directly above the corner on the next floor.  So they just took them and brought em back down, and we now have places to sit again.  I just hope the janitors don't move them back before we get back tomorrow.

More crap you don't care about.  I've uploaded another batch to DeviantART.  Go check that out, and I've started on my 5th juggling video.  Still filming it all.  Otherwise, yet again, nothing else to talk about.  At least not that i can think of in my sleep deprived state.

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

The title means nothing.  Disregard it.
News Flash!  I got a 100% on my English MIDTERM!  Hellz yeah.  Still waiting on my other midterms to come in.

Okay.  Mobius-X is basically dead, especially now that I've finished version 3 and have basically NOTHING LEFT TO DO THERE.  Granted, I'm not going to stop posting anytime soon, I'm just going back to the Thrillnetwork forums and posting whatever.  As it's the most active forum I know of.  Otherwise, I just feel like I'm not socializing enough, whether it be online or in real life, and I don't know why...  I guess I'll figure it out sometime...

Juggling, yes.  My grandmother is staying at our house for a while, which is a great thing, as I love her to all ends.  It's just that now my parents are sleeping in my sisters room, which is right next to mine.  Thus, they can hear everything I do, especially juggling.  And they're pissed at that now, so they took everything, well, they think they did.  They took 3 clubs, 3 rings, all my boxes, and 5 of my balls.  I've got more stuff, and I could piss them off, but I'm being nice, AS I WAS BEFORE.  Here's the thing that pissed me off, they're acting as if I was not caring at all about them in the other room.  I know they're going to read this, so here's the deal.  I AM BEING VERY NICE TO YOU.  I'm not blasting my music (as I could be doing), I'm not trying hard tricks (where I would drop and make noise), and in fact, the balls that they took away, were my tennis balls, which are the quietest of them all.  They don't even realize I'm trying to be nice.  Whatever...

Story, to keep this post from being boring.  This is my favorite campfire story btw.  Ok, flash back, way back, to when I was only 11 years old.  I'm on only my 3rd camping trip, and it's as the new leader of my boy scout troup.  I'm bored on day 2, the day after all the competitions and stuff, and we've got a cool half-gas-barrel setup as a fire pit.  I find a nail in the ground.  I get the great idea "It'd be cool to watch this thing melt in the fire!"  I was 11, so shut it.  After it sitting in the fire for about 5 minutes and not melting, I pull it out with a stick, and then pick it up off the ground, yes, with my bare hands.  Can you say, 3rd degree burns?  The nail actually stuck and was burining into the skin on my middle finger before I realized it, and I spent the rest of the day with a cup of ice and my finger in it.  Thankfully, it was right on the line between major second degree and minor 3rd degree, so it was fine after about 2 or 3 days.  Needless to say, I have a slight fear of hot metal now.  I'm always wary whenever I roast a marshmallow using a metal poker.  And that's my burn story.

I dunno what else there is to say.  Not much else is happening.  So next tuesday, as opposed to wednesday?  Perhaps?  No?  Okay...    ...    ...I'm so alone...

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

Lot of shit to cover and not much time to write.  Ok, first off, Mobius-X's 2 year party went off without too much problem, except for the fact that I couldn't access powweb at all!  I have no idea why, but neither the webftp or regular ftp servers will work with my computer, thus, I am unable to edit anything on either my site, or Mobius-X's site myself.  I had to instruct Dan on what to do and edit in order to get everything running on the 14th.  Thank god I had already gotten everything basically DONE, otherwise, we'd have had a LOT of fun.  Ok, so I was originally planning to release everything on Midnight on the 14th.  But Dan posted the topic on the MORNING of the 14th.  So, that gave me the idea to release everything one bit at a time throughout the day, and iut turned into a prty-like situation, with the skin launching last.  We first put up the T-Shirts, other forum modifications, new splash page and finally the skin.  Everything worked out fine.

But enough about MX.  I finally decided to hook back in by Gamecube for no apparent reason.  I've left it unplugged throughout the summer, and I finally put it back.  For no reason.

As for the aftermath of being featured on Diggnation, I had my 15 minutes of fame, and now it's back to normality.  I really thought I would get more messages than I did.  All in all, I got about 18 messages from about 9 differant people.  Thing is, I met one of them at the Philidelphia Juggling Festival just a few days before, so that was awesome.

Other than that, I'm busy at home studying for midterms.  So whatever.  Cya later.

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

Today is awesome.  I have been shown on Diggnation, episode 66.  A lot of the people who are reading this already knew that though, as that's probably how they found me.  But still.  It's definitely a wierd feeling, with a pretty short half-life.  You should have seen my face when I was listening to the audio version for the first time.  Kevin says "Richard", as I'm typing and I stop cold and look unbelievingly at the screen, thinking "There's no way".  Then he goes on and says "Kohut" (which is pronounced Kowe-hut btw), and my face lights up.  I've gotta practice more on my rings now though, because I was only doing 4 and he said I was doing 5.  Whatever works.  It's awesome, one of the better things to happen to me in the past few months.

Another of the great things that happened in the past week was that on Saturday and Sunday, I was in Philidelphia for the Philly Jugglers Festival.  I know, there's a lot of juggling in the past week.  So I drove down to Philly on the 7th, expecting it to be a small gathering of maybe 20 people maximum.  There was about 100, including Joe Showers and Vova Galchenko.  Day One: I get there and start with the Box Juggling, I meet with another 2 box jugglers, who are much better than me btw, and spend some time that way.  Next thing I did was go over to the Kinetic Juggling Store table, and buy the last 3 of their thick rings, which I've been looking to buy for a while.  After that, I find a father-son team of ring passers, using the same rings that I just bought, and ask if I can join and do a 3 person ring pass.  I've done ring passing, as I couldn't do club passing before, so I was lucky to find them.  We do some 3 way ring passing, and it works for about 30 minutes, and then I go off, as I was starting to get a little tired.  After a short break, I then went to a guy who was teaching club passing, and learned from him how to pass clubs.  After some more stuff, followed by lunch around 3:00 at subway, someone brings in and sets up a portable 10 ft tightrope.  I have to try it, and after a huge fall on the 3rd try, I manage to make it all the way across by try #6.  So that was awesome.  Next was the Jugglers combat which was setup in the corner.  For those who don't know, jugglers Combat is where a bunch of people start juggling 3 clubs, and try to knock the other people's clubs out of their hands, until they are the last person left juggling.  So I did that for a while, which was great again.  And then I start getting a headache, after all, I had just juggled constantly for about 8 hours.  So now it's time for the show to start in the theatre, so I get a bit of a break.

After that ends, then the convoy to who's house I'm sleeping over is going to leave.  I, as I usually do having the convoy experiance that I do, get the second car space in the convoy.  It starts out as 5 cars, plus the leader, and somehow ends up being just me, the leader, and the 3rd car in line.  I guess those Uhaul Truck runs were good for something eh?  So either way, I get to his house and crash there on the couch with about 8 other people in the house.  The next morning I wake up and the convoy heads back out to the gym.  And pretty much the only thing differant was that one guy brought out his rolla bola (the plank sitting on a large pipe section, and you balance on it), so I tried it, and got it immediately.  The rest wasd just more club passing, and other stuff.  I really did surprise myself there, I never knew I could tightrope walk, rolla bola, 3 person pass, or pass clubs until this trip.  It was great.  I would almost go as far as to say it rivaled the WJF trip is you took out the fact that it was in vegas.  The next day when I got home was when I got sick, so thank god that it didn't happen sooner than it did.

Wow this is a long blog.  Ok, Ok.  I've got one last thing, then I'm done.  Mobius-X.  We got hacked on the 5th, and the entire board got fucked over with pictures of an extreme nature.  Also, some members got deleted and others got renamed.  Either way, it was hell to stop the hacker and even more hell to fix and clean up.  We're still looking for what he fucked with.  Also, we're about to have our two year anniversary stuff, and it's almost nowhere near done overall yet.  So I've got some hell to do in the next 3 days.  Otherwise, that's all I'm going to post, I've got more, but this blog is long enough...

~A Day In The Life Of A Peaunut Butter Cup...  ~Reeses2150

Ok, so it's Wednesday.  Myspace was screwing up and I couldn't post anything yesterday.  Not like there's anything to really report on.  We finally released Radio Blue episode 9.  After a friggin 2 weeks delay due to both Teamspeak AND Ventrilo crapping out on us, and then me having to BUY a $15 recording program for skype.  Either way, check it out on Mobius-x.com .  Also, I'm about to submit a new batch of art to DeviantART, so check that out in the next day or two.  Ok, enough with the plugs.

I don't think there's really anything left to talk about.  I met another juggler today at Middlesex County College.  On my weay to english class, there was someone standing outside on the grounds juggling 4 balls.  I've found another member for my juggling club.  I got his cell, and hopefully I'll see him at one of our club meetings.  Also, someone else from a Clown/performance company was on the grounds and gave us both her card.  Awesome.  Oh, and I don't think I've mentioned this anytime recently, but I'm founding a juggling club at Middlesex County Collage, "MCC Juggling Co." I'm calling it, and it'll meet every monday and wednesday.  All I need is an instructors endorsement on it.  I'm getting a bit of a runaround through the ranks of the performance arts professors, but I'll find one soon.  Also, in other juggling news, my set of airflite clubs just came in on Monday, they feel MUCH better than my Duncan clubs, which are starting to fall apart now anyways.

Otherwise, there is absolutely NOTHING left for me to talk about.  So I'll see everyone back on Mobius-X.  Outa Here!

~A Day In The Life Of A Peaunut Butter Cup...  ~Reeses2150