Some Photos of Summer/Fall 2012 (Part 3)

More shenanigans.  The upper two are some images from Loufest.  While I was only there for the second half of the first day, it was a pretty cool event.  Lots of great music.  Would of been there longer but I did have the Tie Dye event just before this one.  Long day though.  You should check it out.

Next handful are from the U City Jazz Festival It was a good event with a few minor tweaks that could be made.  Lots of great jazz going on and good food.  It was also slim picking on food as well.

Should be caught up with photo's at this point.  If you got this far, I hope you enjoyed my summer.

Wine, DIne, and Jazz 2012

Past weekend was the Wine, DIne, and Jazz Festival.  Pretty good event.  Unfortunately the weather didn't fully cooperate.  Friday night (Oct 19th) was cold and the St. Louis Cardinals were in the NLCS playoff series.  But we did have a screen out there to watch part of the game that night.

Saturday (Oct 20) was busier.  Loads more people relative to the night before.  Seemed to taper off during the night.  The night went smooth though.  Certainly kept busy throughout the night helping folks out.  That's the way it goes sometimes.

Balloons, Peanuts, Jazz, and Sound Cloud

2nd weekend of selling peanuts for the Kiwanis but also made balloon animals for the kids.  Pretty good times.  Still much to learn in terms of making art with balloons.

Helped out at the  U City Jazz Festival with KDHX.  Overall a good event for it's second year.  Lots of jazz to be had there and giving out stickers.  Just needed a few more food vendors and lights at sunset.

Also can't forget to listen to Sound Cloud.  You should listen to the KDHX Sound Cloud Page.  Lots of hardworking people uploading 25 years worth of live performances recorded at the KDHX studio/station.

I'm up to 275.5 hours of volunteering.  It's not about numbers but still interesting number.

It's been a busy June... Part 1

I've been taking summer classes this summer.  One of the classes met three days a week for three hours for 5 weeks.  It was a public relations visual communications class.  Interesting, dense, and moved quick.  Think I learned a lot about analyzing visual communications and got some insight of the historical perspective of it all.  It's done now.

Still have five weeks of learning about Oracle Database management.  Meets up one day a week for four and a half hours.  Not bad but it can be a long day.

As for the weekends it started with the Wine, Dine, and Jazz on June 10, 11, and 12.  Did a lot for them.  Started on the 10th with setting up canopies for some of the food vendors.  There was a lot of sand bag moving but it paid off.  Got to explore one of the basements one of the old buildings that are in Belleville, IL, it was a dark musty basement.  Part of the reason I like volunteering is the chance to explore things you wouldn't normally see on a day to day basis.  Also help sort sponsor ads to prepare the folks the next day to set up.

The second day (11th), I got water into coolers.  I also got to be the parking assistant for the bands.  The bands had to park and unload their equipment somewhere and I was the guy that help them out getting their stuff out near the stage.  Got to hang out backstage and pass water up to the bands.

When that portion was done I got to help sell some wine tokens.  Got to feed the people handling people but I also got to sell a few tokens to the crowds.  Also rearranged some of the wine glasses that were being sold.  After the festivities I helped move stuff inside for the night like the wine glasses and papers.

After all of that was done some of us got to hang out and get a few beers while we waited for the storms to roll in.  The winds were pretty bad.  Some of the canopies were thrown pretty far.  Helped out with some of the storm cleanup in preparation for the workers that were going to hang out that morning and reset all the canopies and umbrellas that were knocked over.

On the 12th, the city and Mayor Eckert had some of his city teams out resetting all of the tables and canopies.  I helped pull the wine glasses, event papers, more sponsor ads, and more water.  Reset some of the sponsor ads.  Went back to parking and band assistant.  Got to sample some of the awesome bbq and wines.  After the event shut down we tore down all of the canopies and moved buckets and sand back to the trailers.  Moved picnic tables.  Helped tear down the stage and move some of the band equipment.

The following morning me and a few others put the last of the umbrellas, buckets, stands, tables, ads, and poles back into the trailers.  We moved water to its final resting place for the next event.  We loaded all of the leftover glasses into vehicles for storage elsewhere.  I moved event art into the Art On The Square Building.  Basically cleaned up after the event.

Overall it was a pretty neat event.  The Wine, Dine, and Jazz event and Art On The Square Events were both very neat events.