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Monday, September 27, 2010

Catching up.

Okay, I thought I'd actually blog more often, but I haven't.  So here I am catching up.  Since I last posted, I've quit my job at Target, am joining a charity costume group (more on that later), started taking a class on Oracle Databases so I can become certified as an Oracle Database Administrator Associate, which will eventually lead to my becoming a Certified Oracle DBA Master and hopefully a big paycheck.

Okay, the charity costume group.  I am working on becoming a member of the 501st Legion, 70th Explorers Garrison, 149th War Wolves Squad.  We are a group of Star Wars geeks who like to dress up as characters from the Star Wars Universe and raise money for charity.  Yes, we also go to Comic Conventions, and to Star Wars Celebrations, but most of the events are charity based.

Just this past weekend we "trooped" at three events starting with KC Light the Night on Friday night where we raised money through donations for pictures with us for Lymphoma and Leukemia research.  Saturday morning bright and early we made our way to Arrowhead Stadium (home of the Kansas City Chiefs) for the Step Up for Down Syndrome Event.
Just some of our group that morning.  We were there for Team Evan as one of our members has a nephew with Down Syndrome.  Prior to the event we had raised $600.00 for our team and we raised more money through donations at the event.  It was a lot of fun, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat.  At least it wasn't 95 degrees with 96% humidity like it has been at other events.  We also got a chance to pose with the Children's Mercy Lifeflight Helicopter and the crew.


We also went to Build-a-Bear at the Oak Park Mall because they released the licensed Special Edition Star Wars Bear for the 30th Anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back.  We had Boba Fett, Darth Vader, and a Jedi Knight to help draw attention to the store and hopefully influence people to purchase the bear or some of the costumes.  The costumes they had included Vader, Han Solo, Princess Leia (including a wig with the double buns), C3PO,  Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker (from the Clone Wars) and Captain Rex (Clone Wars).  All in all we had a lot of fun.  I was the photographer handler for that event.


I discovered something really interesting.  I don't mind standing around with my feet hurting when I'm doing it primarily for charity, but when it came to the Build-A-Bear event, I really couldn't wait for it to be over.  Yes, we were getting a donation in our name to a charity, but our primary goal was to draw people into the store to purchase the SW Bear/Costumes.  So I think I learned something.

Okay, I'm going to post again later.  Need to finish working on my resume and a cover letter for a job I'm applying for. 

TTFN!  Ta ta for now.