This upcoming weekend was suppose to be the Midwest WingFest (Aug 31 - Sept 1). Always a bummer when things get rained out. Sometimes its a few minute thing and be okay for going on but sometimes not so much. Local forecasts are predicting 3+ inches of rain over Friday and Saturday with the possibility of 10". May just get some wings from one of the list of participating wings places and that should cover me for wings this weekend.
If boomerangs have taught me anything, its that everything can be set up perfect but can still be thrown off by weather.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Finished my Competent Communicator
About a month ago I did manage to finish my Competent Communicator from the basic manual from Toastmasters. Did speech 10 with a "Retrospective Icebreaker" that covered where I've been since I've been a Toastmaster. I've gotten my advanced manuals, got the Entertaining Speaker and the Humorous Speaker. May possibly be a theme there. It's all good though. It gives a continuity to it. Should be able to play each book off of each other and learn more than the sum of the parts. Will be interesting to see where all of this goes.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Art, Tie Dye, LouFest, and Running Totals
Busy weekend over August 24-26, 2012. Hung out at the Midwest Salute To The Arts, The Shanti & KDHX Tie Dye Fundraiser, and LouFest. Pretty neat. Got to help out artists on Friday and Sunday and talk with them. Got to meet a neat lady that makes didgeridoos. Also tore down the event and consolidated rental equipment and electrical cords.
The Shanti and KDHX tie dye event was cool. Got to tie dye a few shirts for other volunteer events. Turned out pretty well. Pretty simple process of scrunching up your shirt and wrapping rubber bands where you want them. It's kinda cool knowing that I can now tie dye my own shirts. The "tie dye" shirts you can buy at the store seem so generic. They all look the same. When you actually do your own tie dye you get the imperfections and that's the way it should be. No two shirts should ever be the same. Similar at most but very unique and different. A lot like boomerangs in that regard. No two boomerangs should ever be exactly the same, as much as they look like it. Boomerangs should fly similar but different. All part of the fun in tie dye and boomerangs.
Got to hang out at LouFest. Saw Little Barrie, Son Volt, Phantogram, and Dinosaur Jr. Lots of great music at the event. Meet a lot of fans of KDHX as well. Gave away a lot of stickers, fans, and station info. Even wandered the crowds to give away stickers. The musician were very melodious and gave me an idea for a new KDHX give away. The idea has been passed up to the station folks and we shall see where it goes.
I do enjoy the process of spending a weekend volunteering at local events and radio stations. It gives people a chance to meet their community.
On a side note, it does get me to wonder about organized service groups. I am a member of the Kiwanis and frequently hear about Rotary. Seems like they are all in need of members but I still never hear about them, at least from members themselves. If I weren't a member of Kiwanis, I probably would not know about them, nor Rotary. Attendance policy is another story.
Think I will try to include stats of how far I've gone hour wise with volunteering as I do them. I'm not going to retroactivly update posts but I will continue them forward from here. Therefore I will give the stats as of the details of this post. Started logging at the 2011 Midwest Salute To The Arts last August. Moving forward I will only post the cumulative for 2012 and then at some point stand out the year end total.
The totals as of the completion of these events are:
Event year (Aug 2011 to Aug 2012 Midwest Salute To The Arts): 330 hours
Cumulative 2012: 247
The Shanti and KDHX tie dye event was cool. Got to tie dye a few shirts for other volunteer events. Turned out pretty well. Pretty simple process of scrunching up your shirt and wrapping rubber bands where you want them. It's kinda cool knowing that I can now tie dye my own shirts. The "tie dye" shirts you can buy at the store seem so generic. They all look the same. When you actually do your own tie dye you get the imperfections and that's the way it should be. No two shirts should ever be the same. Similar at most but very unique and different. A lot like boomerangs in that regard. No two boomerangs should ever be exactly the same, as much as they look like it. Boomerangs should fly similar but different. All part of the fun in tie dye and boomerangs.
Got to hang out at LouFest. Saw Little Barrie, Son Volt, Phantogram, and Dinosaur Jr. Lots of great music at the event. Meet a lot of fans of KDHX as well. Gave away a lot of stickers, fans, and station info. Even wandered the crowds to give away stickers. The musician were very melodious and gave me an idea for a new KDHX give away. The idea has been passed up to the station folks and we shall see where it goes.
I do enjoy the process of spending a weekend volunteering at local events and radio stations. It gives people a chance to meet their community.
On a side note, it does get me to wonder about organized service groups. I am a member of the Kiwanis and frequently hear about Rotary. Seems like they are all in need of members but I still never hear about them, at least from members themselves. If I weren't a member of Kiwanis, I probably would not know about them, nor Rotary. Attendance policy is another story.
Think I will try to include stats of how far I've gone hour wise with volunteering as I do them. I'm not going to retroactivly update posts but I will continue them forward from here. Therefore I will give the stats as of the details of this post. Started logging at the 2011 Midwest Salute To The Arts last August. Moving forward I will only post the cumulative for 2012 and then at some point stand out the year end total.
The totals as of the completion of these events are:
Event year (Aug 2011 to Aug 2012 Midwest Salute To The Arts): 330 hours
Cumulative 2012: 247
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