Teflon the Sword of Damocles to the ceiling...
So I shipped off the old lemony computer yesterday, and will hopefully receive the new one tomorrow.
Last night the juggling club had a gig, which didn't go all that well. Delta Force was having a talent show kind of thing, and specifically contacted us, before sending out their mass-mailing asking for anyone to come forward. So we kinda threw stuff together and ran with it.
We started with a Duelling Banjos thing, with two of our guys continually one-upping each other with ball tricks, which was a big hit. Then at the end of that, the Labyrinth theme comes on, and the guy who's left on stage kicks into some contact juggling, at which point I come on and immediately show him up (though I did drop once, when I moved up to doing two balls). Then I trade out the contact balls for poi, having replaced the normal ends with glow sticks. That got a great response too.
The second act started with one guy doing solo club tricks, and then I come on, we pass, and then build up to five people passing in a W (or M, depending on which way you're facing) configuration. That sucked. We'd been able to do it well enough, and consistently enough in practice, but between our other primary guy having gotten no sleep the night before (dumbass!), which meant that he'd been dropping consistently throughout his solo balls and clubs, and one other guy who apparently just choked, it took us at least four tries to get everyone together and keep it going long enough to be decent.
So now I'm done with juggling for about a month. Not because of the show - if it hadn't been for the show, I would have quit a week ago. A few weeks ago now, something started in my wrist. It's just a twinge at the distal end of my ulna (just before the wrist, pinky side), which isn't usually painful, but it's still annoying, and indicative of something else being wrong. And it's been getting stronger and more often, despite wearing a wrist brace since shortly after it started, and augmenting it with an Ace wrap bandage a week ago.
It feels like it happens most when my wrist is loaded under tension (as opposed to compression), and more often when extended rather than flexed. So, like pushing on something with the knuckles of a closed fist is fine, but holding up a textbook from above wouldn't be.
So I need to get it checked out sometime in the near future, but until it's back to normal, no more crumpets, and little to no juggling. We've got a festival the weekend of the 31st in Arkansas, and unless it's gotten significantly worse at that point, I'm most likely going anyway. But I've got to control the damage.
Last night the juggling club had a gig, which didn't go all that well. Delta Force was having a talent show kind of thing, and specifically contacted us, before sending out their mass-mailing asking for anyone to come forward. So we kinda threw stuff together and ran with it.
We started with a Duelling Banjos thing, with two of our guys continually one-upping each other with ball tricks, which was a big hit. Then at the end of that, the Labyrinth theme comes on, and the guy who's left on stage kicks into some contact juggling, at which point I come on and immediately show him up (though I did drop once, when I moved up to doing two balls). Then I trade out the contact balls for poi, having replaced the normal ends with glow sticks. That got a great response too.
The second act started with one guy doing solo club tricks, and then I come on, we pass, and then build up to five people passing in a W (or M, depending on which way you're facing) configuration. That sucked. We'd been able to do it well enough, and consistently enough in practice, but between our other primary guy having gotten no sleep the night before (dumbass!), which meant that he'd been dropping consistently throughout his solo balls and clubs, and one other guy who apparently just choked, it took us at least four tries to get everyone together and keep it going long enough to be decent.
So now I'm done with juggling for about a month. Not because of the show - if it hadn't been for the show, I would have quit a week ago. A few weeks ago now, something started in my wrist. It's just a twinge at the distal end of my ulna (just before the wrist, pinky side), which isn't usually painful, but it's still annoying, and indicative of something else being wrong. And it's been getting stronger and more often, despite wearing a wrist brace since shortly after it started, and augmenting it with an Ace wrap bandage a week ago.
It feels like it happens most when my wrist is loaded under tension (as opposed to compression), and more often when extended rather than flexed. So, like pushing on something with the knuckles of a closed fist is fine, but holding up a textbook from above wouldn't be.
So I need to get it checked out sometime in the near future, but until it's back to normal, no more crumpets, and little to no juggling. We've got a festival the weekend of the 31st in Arkansas, and unless it's gotten significantly worse at that point, I'm most likely going anyway. But I've got to control the damage.