Weather: It sucks sometimes.

Yet another night of an event that got rained out.  The Shiloh, Illinois Homecoming is tonight (9/7/2012) and tomorrow (9/8/2012).  Luckily only tonight is forecasted for some rain.  That's the way it goes sometimes.  Much like boomerangs, you can do everything perfect and something out of your control with throw you off.

Still have the O'Fallon Kiwanis and American Red Cross blood drive tomorrow as well as the Shiloh Homecoming for tomorrow.  Can't quite give blood this time around because of some poison sumac.  It sucks.  Still can help out with setup and tearing down and maybe a bit of studying for my midterm.

I found that the medicated body powder (Gold Bond has a version but I got the generic stuff) is good stuff for the oozing that you get with the poison sumac.  Seemed like it was oozing for a while.  A good cleaning and dusting of the powder and it just stopped right up.  Still have the itchies though and that totally sucks.  I have been using some of the Cortisone 10 for those and it's been helping for a little while.

Midterm wise, it's a basic finance class.  Interesting stuff.  Covers corporate finance and touches a  very little bit of accounting.  Pretty straight forward and covering the important topics.  Feel overall pretty confidant with it, except for maybe the essay questions but a little more reading should help out.

That's whats going on tonight.  Lots of volunteering tomorrow.

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Three out of four is not bad....

Busy day for March 31, 2012.... Started at 7:15am with a Kiwanis Blood Drive.  Got the room all set up and situated for the drive. Food table was stocked with snacks, food, and coffee.  The problem was that the supply truck for the Red Cross never showed up.  GRRRRR.  Don't know the details of what happened yet but I will let you know when I find out.  Early April Fools Joke?

Next up Toastmasters Division 6 contest.  Got to be the Sergeant at Arms and Ballot counter.  Escorted contestants to the sound proof booth and preparation areas.  Interesting experience for doing both duties for the first time for the Toastmasters at a contest.  The after contest hang out was cool at the IHOP too.  Tasty.

Also helping KDHX with their phone drive to collect funds for the station.  It's a 10 day process biannually.  It's a great station.  Member supported.  They can play pretty much anything, as long as it complies with the rules of broadcasting stuff.  You should give it a listen.  I'd bet there is something there for you, if you give it a sufficiently long listen.

Three out of four events that happened successfully is not bad at all.

Great concert at Sheldon Concert Hall with Hayes Carll

Got to hang out at the Sheldon Concert Hall with KDHX on March 18, 2012.  Neat show.  Got to see Hayes Carll and the opening act of Honey Honey.  Not a bad gig to put in a few hours of work for a show with awesome music.  There were funny stories, great music, and great people.

Should be an interesting start to the volunteering season.  Coming up next weekend is the FIRST Robotics Regional completion.  The following weekend of March 31, 2012 there is going to be a Kiwanis Blood Drive at the Public Safety Building in O'Fallon, from 9am to 1pm.  I then run over to the Toastmasters Regional Contest later that afternoon and a KDHX phone drive.  Looking forward to the madness.