Minor stuffage.
Well, mostly minor. Work, same. That'll never change until certain people are gone. Life here, same. Still hoping mum can get some income where I have more in bills than I do in income. Things are slowly getting rearranged housewise into a better and more organized fashion (currently we live in a state of organized chaos. Hopefully soon it'll be better organized chaos >.>)
Only real biggest stuff since my last post is I've calmed down from the earlier rar over WoW destroying Azeroth (though if the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor are going to be destroyed and all zones reorganized because of Deathwing's breaking through the surface of the planet . . . why is Northrend going to be spared any destruction? Doesn't it seem logical that even there the destruction is felt?) Anyway, I'm not so against the changes even though I'd rather quest/grind the old way. If you want to change things, have it a separate game, then those who want old WoW can play that and those who want Armageddon can play that version. Now everyone's happy. (I mean Blizzard makes enough money they can set up more servers to handle that. Trust me.)
The other big thing is the fact that those of us who have formed the USS Don Aucoin went to the local TV station to help with the MDA Telethon. Well, in a nutshell they needed us from when we got there at 7 until about 2ish when Shaws Supermarket sent people to man the phones. We stayed until the end and then helped with clean up. Our Captain helped with food runs (places wouldn't donate like they used to so they had only donuts for breakfast, pizza for lunch and some cookies/brownies for late afternoon/early evening) in between helping man the phones. I think he set me up because during one time on the phones one of the TV reporters came over and stuck the microphone in my face and asked me about where we were from, how the club got its name and a bit about my stepdad and his battle with muscular dystrophy. Surprisingly I talked, put in things that should have been said about people dealing with MD and those around them and how the money helped for services and equipment and all that jazz without my normal OMG I'M ON CAMERA >dies<. It was like another person spoke for me. No shyness, only one stumble over words, and I even joked with them. Something totally different from the normal shy person I am. (Answering phones is easy, I talk on a headset at work, I can talk on a phone and get a pledge. No biggie. But an interview is something MAJOR. Trust me.)
All in all it was good. They even let us in later in the day so one of their people could get shots of us with their camera and one of ours on the phones. I made sure to sit at phone #1 in case it rang. They hoped those of us who had manned the phones would sit at 1, 2 and 3 where those were the most likeliest to ring. Sure enough, before they could snap the picture my phone rang. So I answered it and filled out the slip, no problem. That was the only phone to ring. As we were leaving and one of the others were coming in to man a phone, #1 rang again. The biggest thing is anyone who watched it will know I basically said the USS Don Aucoin was Bangor's only Star Trek club and that was where we were from and later when they ran my stepdad's memorial piece (that left a few of us in tears or nearly in tears/moved by it at least) they mentioned us again. That and the Region 1 Fleet Captain is going to work personally with us about becoming our own ship, and that'll go through Starfleet's chain of command until their local processing department is removed from duty (because it's currently being run by the so called acting captain of the Kasimar) and all hell breaks loose on that. Of course, if anyone from the Kasimar saw the telethon, especially what I said, then all hell is going to start to break loose anyway. But, as our Captain said, who cares. They no longer want to uphold the constitution or follow the laws nor do they want to uphold what is listed on their website about doing stuff for the community then so be it. They can sit at the computer and do internet stuff or stuff for Starfleet and we'll do what should be done, and that's community service. I think the telethon was a good starting place for exposure for our club. Lots of people would have seen it and know that it was the Don Aucoin, not the Kasimar that was helping the telethon out. I specifically left the Kasimar out of it where this wasn't sanctioned by them and basically all communication from them has been cut off. Their captain won't respond to ours no matter how many times we try to contact him.
And yes, I have pictures of the event (taken both on my camera until I ran out of memory space - I hadn't cleaned the memory stick and was pretty full considering the over 300 pics I had taken at the fair plus all at the campout and all the other miscellaneous pics I had taken - I have it set so I can take over 600 shots, that's how full it was. So I resorted to my DSi for the rest.) We got a new member while we were there and met a lady from Region 1 (she's their Fleet Captain) who talked with us a lot about their club/region and about Starfleet (from where they get their region, our region is 15) as well as how we can take the Don Aucoin and become our own ship even with the Kasimar still in existence. Well, it exists for now, in a few months, probably not where the current acting Captain is trying to kill it and doing a pretty damned good job at it too.)
And I guess that's it. I'm still working on the helmet. I have pics of the last of the plastic canvas frame and the cloth I used for the inner part of the 'ears'. I am currently on the foaming stage but have no pics of that. Once I get the foam done I'll snap pics of it then upload and tag them and post it here. I decided that the only places I'll use that costume is for things like outside fairs/festivals, parades and conventions. Other than that I'll use my Star Trek uniform for convenience.
Only real biggest stuff since my last post is I've calmed down from the earlier rar over WoW destroying Azeroth (though if the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor are going to be destroyed and all zones reorganized because of Deathwing's breaking through the surface of the planet . . . why is Northrend going to be spared any destruction? Doesn't it seem logical that even there the destruction is felt?) Anyway, I'm not so against the changes even though I'd rather quest/grind the old way. If you want to change things, have it a separate game, then those who want old WoW can play that and those who want Armageddon can play that version. Now everyone's happy. (I mean Blizzard makes enough money they can set up more servers to handle that. Trust me.)
The other big thing is the fact that those of us who have formed the USS Don Aucoin went to the local TV station to help with the MDA Telethon. Well, in a nutshell they needed us from when we got there at 7 until about 2ish when Shaws Supermarket sent people to man the phones. We stayed until the end and then helped with clean up. Our Captain helped with food runs (places wouldn't donate like they used to so they had only donuts for breakfast, pizza for lunch and some cookies/brownies for late afternoon/early evening) in between helping man the phones. I think he set me up because during one time on the phones one of the TV reporters came over and stuck the microphone in my face and asked me about where we were from, how the club got its name and a bit about my stepdad and his battle with muscular dystrophy. Surprisingly I talked, put in things that should have been said about people dealing with MD and those around them and how the money helped for services and equipment and all that jazz without my normal OMG I'M ON CAMERA >dies<. It was like another person spoke for me. No shyness, only one stumble over words, and I even joked with them. Something totally different from the normal shy person I am. (Answering phones is easy, I talk on a headset at work, I can talk on a phone and get a pledge. No biggie. But an interview is something MAJOR. Trust me.)
All in all it was good. They even let us in later in the day so one of their people could get shots of us with their camera and one of ours on the phones. I made sure to sit at phone #1 in case it rang. They hoped those of us who had manned the phones would sit at 1, 2 and 3 where those were the most likeliest to ring. Sure enough, before they could snap the picture my phone rang. So I answered it and filled out the slip, no problem. That was the only phone to ring. As we were leaving and one of the others were coming in to man a phone, #1 rang again. The biggest thing is anyone who watched it will know I basically said the USS Don Aucoin was Bangor's only Star Trek club and that was where we were from and later when they ran my stepdad's memorial piece (that left a few of us in tears or nearly in tears/moved by it at least) they mentioned us again. That and the Region 1 Fleet Captain is going to work personally with us about becoming our own ship, and that'll go through Starfleet's chain of command until their local processing department is removed from duty (because it's currently being run by the so called acting captain of the Kasimar) and all hell breaks loose on that. Of course, if anyone from the Kasimar saw the telethon, especially what I said, then all hell is going to start to break loose anyway. But, as our Captain said, who cares. They no longer want to uphold the constitution or follow the laws nor do they want to uphold what is listed on their website about doing stuff for the community then so be it. They can sit at the computer and do internet stuff or stuff for Starfleet and we'll do what should be done, and that's community service. I think the telethon was a good starting place for exposure for our club. Lots of people would have seen it and know that it was the Don Aucoin, not the Kasimar that was helping the telethon out. I specifically left the Kasimar out of it where this wasn't sanctioned by them and basically all communication from them has been cut off. Their captain won't respond to ours no matter how many times we try to contact him.
And yes, I have pictures of the event (taken both on my camera until I ran out of memory space - I hadn't cleaned the memory stick and was pretty full considering the over 300 pics I had taken at the fair plus all at the campout and all the other miscellaneous pics I had taken - I have it set so I can take over 600 shots, that's how full it was. So I resorted to my DSi for the rest.) We got a new member while we were there and met a lady from Region 1 (she's their Fleet Captain) who talked with us a lot about their club/region and about Starfleet (from where they get their region, our region is 15) as well as how we can take the Don Aucoin and become our own ship even with the Kasimar still in existence. Well, it exists for now, in a few months, probably not where the current acting Captain is trying to kill it and doing a pretty damned good job at it too.)
And I guess that's it. I'm still working on the helmet. I have pics of the last of the plastic canvas frame and the cloth I used for the inner part of the 'ears'. I am currently on the foaming stage but have no pics of that. Once I get the foam done I'll snap pics of it then upload and tag them and post it here. I decided that the only places I'll use that costume is for things like outside fairs/festivals, parades and conventions. Other than that I'll use my Star Trek uniform for convenience.