The Recap

"Hello? Mr. and Mrs. Ashley? Yeah it's Dr. Shivengo. Your son just awoke from his 4 month coma."

I wouldn't necessarily consider this summer to be outright good or outright bad. It felt more or less like a preparation for after college than preparation for the upcoming year. Here's a recap:

Video Equipment

With the booming success of Chess Club in March there was no other choice but to make future movies on par with that one in terms of quality. With a recent scholarship I went out of my way to purchase it and result in one whole month of frustration trying to call a JVC center in New Jersey and get it fixed. It works fine now. I also purchased a TV box for the computer not only to transfer the tape to a digital format, but also record from DVDs, TV, VHS, and Playstation. Nice, eh? The last major purchase was a DVD burner since I plan to make a video compliation of all the stuff I've done up to this point as a portfolio for when May rolls around. And waking up to the real world from the college coma.

Achivements

I have a cell phone. No, it is not one of those fancy-ass ones that takes your picture and flosses your teeth at the same time, it's your free basic Verizon phone in full color. In an effort to retain public dignity I won't be buying any popular songs-for-ringtones to keep things nice and basic. Besides, your cell phone ringtone tells a lot about who you are. It may have taken 5 years and two tries at the DMV but I finally have a driver's license, but no car on campus. The reason for that being I'll need the license definately for the job, but as for the car at the time I got it (late July) the parking permit deadline already expired. There was no sense either in buying a new car when I was gonna be around for a month.

Golf

Stemming from my last post I did a fair amount of golf this year, shooting a personal best and worst and breaking a club in the process. Also successfully defending the Twin Lakes Showdown title. Tenatively there are ideas for 1 of 3 taped golf outings for next year: Twin Lakes Memorial Showdown (standard stroke play, 4 iron trophy), Twin Lakes Skinsdown (Skins game format), or Twin Lakes Flood Light Showdown (starting tee time 8 pm). Of course these ideas are tenative, since May will be very much a long ways away.

Revenue

Outside of factory work for one day, I did a bunch of eBay sales this summer making some figures in the black ink. Also won another art show with Road Storm and sold the photo to a woman moving to Florida. 2/2 and a sale with that one. Sadly employment didn't happen, since that would've probably made the summer gone by a little faster.

The Site

Oddly enough as this sounds I didn't make a whole lot more than I did last year. Then again Twin Lakes did take up about a good 3 weeks of editing, so it was more quality than quantity. You can vote for your favorite of the summer right here. There were some problems in July with the site exceeding bandwidth, but hopefully that won't be happening very much with the school year starting. Yet then again I could be absolutely wrong about that.

So now the recap done it's time to look ahead at the big final year. My main goal for this year, much like last year, is to plainly not fuck up. So far not a bad track record, but this year could be the way to finalize it. Secondly, stop getting pissed off over petty things. And here's a few more:

1) Ring announce for Fight Night.
2) Perform in Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat to possibly cap off the Colonial Theatre.
3) Shoot the top secret comedy-action film and put it on the site and on RMU-TV for all 20 people to watch.
4) Compile a TM2 Productions DVD before November
5) same as above, only an audio CD.

Of course these are all just ideas at this point. Well onto some packing and I'm out kids. finally.