Catching up

As i have said before, keeping up to date with a blog is a job in itself. It been two weeks since the last post, or there abouts. I have been drawing like crazy. A lot on paper and not on computer, so not much to show, but i am happy with the improvements.
I have also been busy with the DJ/KJ work. Karaoke at Ron's Place it starting to get regular singers. Although there may have been a personal mistake or two in the first week (sorry) it is starting to get into a groove and I hope if you are reading this post, you will stop out this Thursday. Ron's place is the former Roadhouse and karaoke starts at 8.
Last sunday was the big spring forward clock adjustment. I was sitting at my computer, 12:30 and the phone rang. It was the Shuffleboard League to remind me that i was to start playing in 30 minutes. They wanted to know if i forgot. For the first and only time in a lot of years of DJ work, I had forgot!!! I made the fastest trip to the Mount Union Country Club ever made in a 1978 Dodge van! Sorry about that. I was to play from 1 til 4, i made it 2 til 5:30. Did some caricatures and had fun. Hope it was as much fun for those attending.

That brings us to the finals of the Karaoke contest at the Mount Union V.F.W. Friday night. A huge crowd on hands and a thank you to everyone who participated. There was actually a tie for the winner. Zeb and Shawn congrats. I am glad i was not a judge, whew. After the night of karaoke was over and i was finished cleaning up my gear, we talked at the bar about another contest down the road. Maybe toward fall. We are also going to look for ways to improve it next time. I gave a little speech when announcing the winner. I said that not everyone would be happy with the results and that is the way it is with every contest. No matter what happens if we do it again, somone will still not be happy. Just remember, it is a karaoke contest at the Mount Union V.F.W. it's not American Idol. :-)

Saturday night i was at the Mill Creek Fire Hall for an after the cash party dance. It was jammed as i knew it would be. Not because of me, but because it was a cash party. The night was a lot of fun. Had some great dance moves, but they were so fast i didn't have a chance to get them with the camera.
Toward the end of the night things got a little weird, but that stuff happens. I am looking forward to getting back there on the 11th of next month. It's a Friday night and that means KARAOKE!!! Hope to see everyone back then with singing voices ready to go.

This week i will have a little more free time. If you have lived in the Central PA area for more than a few years and you were a radio fan. You may remember Sean McKay, he was a radio, well god, with a small g, in the day. He is coming back to Altoona this week. He is going to do mornings on Q94 where i work. So that means the usual morning guy, my boss, will be taking my spot from 10 til 2. That also means i get the week off. Hopefully that will mean i will get more work done that i have been slacking on at home. I registered a domain carickature.com but haven't been able to do anything with it. That is n the list as well as many other things, including hours of deep thought :-) for now the end.....

Happy Birthday Caricature

You may know or may not, but at the time of this posting, I work at Q94 in Altoona. I do middays and have several regular callers. One is Warren. His wife called and said she was having a birthday card party. Where you send a birthday card and it's an automatic party, I think. Anyhow, I said why don't i do a caricature of him, So that's what you see here.

Another Weekend

The weekend started early again this week. Thursday at Ronnies Place (formerly the Roadhouse) (Formerly the Hill Valley Hotel). It was a light crowd but still a lot of fun. It was a Karaoke night and we had several new singers as well as some from the previous week. Wayne had em dancing as you can see in the shot here. I had no trouble with computers this weekend. (knock on wood). It will happen again, Karaoke, Thursday Night at Ronnies. Also, if i may ad, two weeks ago i was at Ronnies on a Saturday night after i had finished playing a party. There was a DJ there, i forget the name, but he was there again this past weekend. If you are reading this i hope you give this guy a chance and the new owners. They are very hard working and trying to get a good thing going.
On another point, i did a couple caricatures while there on Thursday night.
Friday night i was at the Mount Union Vets for the final round of the Karaoke contest. It was a nice crowd. A lot of regulars which we all love and some new comers. The semi-finalists for this friday are posted on my homepage.
Saturday........Nothing, i actually stayed home. I had a dj job cancel so i stayed on the low key.
Sunday a trip to state college to the art stores and then to draw at the local Barnes and Knoble.

Weekend Review

So this week the weekend started Thursday with a night at Ron's Place. The former Roadhouse, which was the former Hill Valley Hotel. History lesson. It was a mess because had computer problems, but a giant thanks for the understanding crowd. This week will be better, I dropped 90 bucks on heavy duty wires for the Karaoke, which was thee problem.
Friday night was another great night at the Mount Union VFW. Second week of qualifying for the contest which is now in progress. Even though the roads were not great, we still had a big crowd and lots of singer. Oh and just to clears something up. When i do karaoke, i make a list. As people say they would like to sing, I add them to the bottom of the list. I follow that list. If someone walks in and wants to be added to the list and i am on the last person in the list, they sing next. If i am on the first person in the list they must wait til i get to them in the list. That is the way i have always done it and how i will continue to do it. Thanks for understanding.

Saturday I was at the Rockhill Orbisonia Legion for a birthday part. I thought it was a 16 year old. NOT! Here are a couple pics from the event. The first picture is of the Birthday Girl! Thanks for having me and I hope you had a great time. As you can see from the second shot, there was a lot of singing going on. A special thanks to the Rochill Orby Legion.

Sunday i wanted to relax so i headed for State College. I forgot about THON going on until all the traffic started to get bad. It is the dance marathon and when it ended at 4 the traffic started to get bad. I was hoping to go see the end but i was busy drawing a restaurant. I did a bunch of little drawing, but as i was about to leave, my waitress came and ask me to do a caricature of her. As i explained, i was just learning this whole thing. She said it was ok, so i did a the caricature. By the way. If you look at her chin and look at the drawing, she told me to make sure i got the chin that looks like a butt, so i made it more like a butt and less like her chin. Here it is. She took it and a bunch of guys saw it. One of the guys wanted one done, so i took the challenge. I thought it looked better then than i do now, but getting over the fear of doing them live is going to take a while. I think it looks like him, but i would feel better if i would have done some things differently. Oh well, live and learn.

Speaking of that, i registered a new domain name. Carickature.com. Not much there yet but i plan on getting it going soon.

I almost forgot. I saw something as rare as seeing bigfoot. Vicki without kids in a restaurant.

The New Friday is Thursday

So I played the Roadhouse last night. Thursday. It was a good crowd considering the weather and it being the first time. Only problem was my computer. It would not send a signal to the TV. Marty, Wane and I worked on that thing for three hours before giving up. People came up where the computer was and sang off the computer monitor. Sorry about the problems. We'll work it out for next week.
When i got awake after the computer not working, I hooked it p here at my home. It worked! I did go and get new and spare wired to connect to a tv, just in case.

Oh and the trip home last night sucked! The picture above is what the roads were like the whole way from Mount Union to Huntingdon!