Jon Everett

Hey Everyone,

I am currently in the process of selling some of my analog to digital conversion equipment and supplies. Here is a list of the equipment I’m selling, and what I’m asking for it (negotiable). I’d like to sell it to someone I know rather than going through craigslist or ebay. Everything listed is in either new or like new condition. Please contact me if you’re interested in anything.

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Cassette Tape Advanced Repair Kit - $60

Tape Head Demagnetizer - $20

Panasonic DMR-EA18K - $180

Panasonic DMR-EZ48VK - $190

TEAC CD-RW880 CD Recorder - $200

Produplicator 3 Lightscribe Burner - $325

Verbatium Lightscribe CD-R (50 pack) - $20

Verbatium Lightscribe DVD-R (50 pack) - $25

Sony CD-R 40X (50 pack) - $20

Avery White CD Labels (40 pack) - $15

Avery White CD Labels (100 pack) - $25

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Feel free to pass this along to anyone you know. Thanks so much!

- Jon

This is a journal entry that I wrote the night of Jan 6, so it is the journal entry that was the freshest in my mind at the time I wrote it.

Today was my first day at Disney World on my road trip. First thing I noticed was that Kissimmee, and the area around Disney in particular, has very flashy architecture. Not flashy in the cool way, but rather flashy in the gaudy way. I remember driving down 192 and seeing a building with a wizard built on top of the building as the roof. There are also a bunch of other buildings in this area that are designed and painted in a way to really attract attention from everyone driving by. It’s way too much.

One of the other things about the area around Disney World is that it’s also very commercialized. I typically try to eat at local places whenever I travel some place, but I couldn’t really find any place outside of Disney World to eat that wasn’t a chain. Of the things along 192, probably 90 percent of them are either hotels/motels, chain restaurants, shops in gaudy buildings, or little strip malls. It’s definitely an interesting mix. So for dinner after the park, we ate at Olive Garden, and I feel a little sad about having to settle for that.

So now Disney World itself. Shannon and I got there about 9:30 in the morning, with the intention of going in, getting breakfast in one of the countries, and then continuing on with other areas of the park. Well, we come to find out that none of the countries are open yet, just the stuff near the main entrance. So that was disappointing. I guess people don’t tend to eat breakfast at Disney World…

In France, I saw a dad filming his daughter before the screening of the movie about France. It was really cute. I couldn’t hear everything they were saying, but she was trying her best to look cute. She was smiling for the camera and tilting her head back and forth, and seemed to be saying things to her dad.  Also in France, we saw a man doing a balancing act on some chairs, and I was very impressed.

We had lunch in Japan, where they performed the making of the dinner right in front of us. Some people who were next to us were a mother and son from Houston. She asked him what he has enjoyed the most so far during their trip, and he kept answering, “everything.” Well, she wouldn’t accept that as an answer, saying that it was an uninteresting answer, and she isn’t going to raise uninteresting children. She proceeded to name some experiences that she knew he didn’t enjoy, and he said, “no, I didn’t like that,” to which she replied, “then you can’t say you liked everything, can you?” Later on in the meal, Shannon asked me if I liked the chicken or shrimp I was eating better, and I replied, “I like everything.”

Overall, I’m surprised how unimpressed I was with Disney World, especially the Magic Kingdom. It had been a while since I was there before, and although I remember enjoying myself before—and don’t get me wrong, overall I enjoyed myself this time, too—I feel like I have become more jaded and cynical since my last visit. I was never really a Disney kid growing up, so maybe this plays a part in it, but I don’t really get that “magic” feeling when I’m there. Maybe tomorrow will be a little different when I go to the other places with Jamie, since she’s been here for a while and knows the best places to go.

Here are a couple quick comments that I wrote down in my small pocket travel journal on January 5, went back to for longer writing on Jan 6, and am now putting into my online journal for everyone to see (if anyone actually reads this, I don’t know).

On my way to the airport, Deana and I saw a helicopter that looked like it was sitting on top of one of the really big, master power line poles. We thought it was either stuck or was just sitting on top of the tower somehow for some reason. But as we got closer, it lifted away, and we realized that it was actually running the power lines from one tower to another! I was amazed, and shocked that it hadn’t come to me sooner that it was how those were run. It makes complete sense, and I can’t actually think of any easier or simpler way to run the power lines.

During my trip, when I arrived in Nashville, I realized that I was really enjoying myself just because I was traveling. I felt very comfortable, and the best way I can describe it is “at home” in the airport. I think I need to find a way to keep traveling as much as possible. It reminded me at times of “Up in the Air.” An interesting thing about the Nashville airport is they have recorded random country music stars, like Tim McGraw and the Bellemy Brothers, to talk over the intercom system and welcome you to Nashville.

But if I start traveling more, which I hope to do, I’m probably going to need to get a Kindle or iPad or something to keep myself entertained while on the plane and laying over at the airport. I got rather bored with the stuff that I had, and a Kindle and iPad take up much less space than the number of books that you can carry in a backpack. I also should look into getting a wireless hotspot from some company to keep connected wherever I go.

So, as usual, I haven’t been using this blog as much as I should.  But I guess you could call it my new year’s resolution to write in this more, and I think I’ll actually have a some success with it.  This is for a couple reasons.

First, I’m going to try to make this into more of a travel journal, since I’m going to be traveling more in 2011 (which I’ll discuss in more detail in just a bit).  I bought this book while I was in Seattle (see, I told you I’ll be traveling) by Dave Fox, one of the tour guides at the Underground Tour, called “Globejotting: How to Write Extraordinary Travel Journals.”  I’m in the process of reading it right now, but before I got really involved in it I figured I’d assign that journal space for myself.  So this is going to be it.

Now, travel journals won’t be the only things I write here, but I will try my best to write down as much about my travels in here as possible. It’s an “all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares” kind of thing.

And secondly, as I touched on briefly, I’m going to be traveling more in 2011.  My first planned trip of 2011 is coming up in a couple days, actually.  I’m flying out to meet up with my friend Jamie, who’s internship at Disney World is ending on the 7th.  So I’m going to visit her in Orlando, and then we’re road tripping back to Austin via New Orleans and a couple other smaller stops.  It’s gonna be a blast, and I’m going to do my damnest to keep a journal of the trip.

I’ll probably have a couple small trips during the next couple months (i.e LindyFest?), but then my biggest trip will come during the summer.  I was granted a Work and Holiday Visa to Australia for this next year!  I’m ecstatic about the opportunity that I’ll have to visit some place so foreign to me (literally).  I haven’t decided the exact dates when I’m leaving or coming back to the States, but I know it’ll probably be some where around late May or June when I leave, and late August or early September when I come back.  But we’ll see how that all develops.

Either way, trips will be coming, and that means a higher velocity of blogs and travel journals.  So stick around!  2011 is gonna be an adventure!

- JE

Once again, WAY too long between posts.  I need to keep this updated more often.  So much has changed between November and right now, and yet a lot of it is still the same.

First off, the big change is that my ESPN internship ended back in January.  I got busy with work at the PAC (I’m still calling it that.  I don’t care if it has a different name now.) from February through April, and then people got laid off/quit at the station after the merger, and I just never went back.  So that’s done.

Once I got done with that large amount of work, I started looking ahead at this open time in my schedule (that just started this week), and I decided that I would work on my business a little more.  I switched the focus of the business away from editing and more towards analog to digital conversion.  Right now I’m putting the finishing touches on it all before I start doing some promoting and advertising.  We’ll see how that goes.

Also, on a different note, I’ve made a decision to start going to different Lindy Hop workshops throughout the nation (and world?).  The is partly as a way to get better at Lindy, and partly as an excuse to go places and see things I haven’t had the chance to before.  I went back to LindyFest in Houston in March, and then went to a workshop called The Rhythm is Jumpin’ in Kansas City about a month ago.  It was a fun experience, and it made me want to keep traveling.  The next place I want to go, if I can manage it, is up to the Pacific Northwest.  I don’t know when that’ll be though.  I also want to go to Australia to visit my friend Nancy, and there’s an event down there that I might be able to go to, too!  That’ll be an experience!

What else…?  Other than that, it’s pretty much the same as it has been.  I’m staying in my apartment for another year, and trying to get it set up well for my business.  I’m planning to start looking for internships around Austin doing “sound design for the visual media,” as it is best described.  And then I’m still helping TA for the ballroom dance class when I get the chance.

Oh!  And the PAC has put their stagehand labor out to bid.  The deadline to submit just passed, and they’re going to make a decision about it sometime in the coming weeks/months.  It has to be decided upon no later than September 1, since that’s when the state’s fiscal year starts, but it’ll probably be sooner than that.  But yeah… that might cause some big changes in my life, if and how that happens.

That’s about all I can think of right now….  I’ll try to be back sooner next time!

- JE

I can’t believe I haven’t posted on here since June!  Almost 5 months of my life have passed, and I’ve got nothing to show for it (except, of course, the passage of time and the little “date posted” at the top of each post).

So much has changed since then….  I’ve moved into my new place in North Austin and gotten completely settled in.  I’m still working at the Performing Arts Center, but I’ve also expanded some of my work out to The Stage Alliance as well for a little extra something when I can get it.  I’m helping out with the ballroom dance class when I can, and I’m still interning at the ESPN Radio station on UT game days, and other days when I’m available.

Speaking of the radio station, they just finished a roundabout merger (which I won’t go into detail about, since I don’t really know all the details) that has given them an FM station, 104.9, and had them change their name to “The Horn.”  Overall, I think it’s a good move.  But it sucked a little bit during the time for people there, because so much stuff happened between when it started and when it finally finished, including some people getting laid off because of it, that it was just very hectic around there for a few weeks.  Luckily (or unluckily), I’m an unpaid intern, so I wasn’t in danger of that, too.  Hopefully it’ll settle down to something better at some point soon.

That’s pretty much everything that’s going on in my life these days.  I’ll try to update this more often than I have been.

Until next time,

-JE

I just put in an application for an apartment!  I’m extremely excited!  Once I have this place, I’ll be able to really start working on my video and audio editing skills in my own house.  I’m setting up a system in my living room to use my TV as a video monitor, and connect my speakers to both my computer and TV.  It’s all gonna be freakin’ awesome!

I’m excited.  I’ll come back and tell more once I get it all set up.  Maybe even post some pictures.

Until then…

I just worked on a couple fairly cool shows recently that I felt the need to share.

On Thursday, I was the deck hand for the NPR show “Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me.”  It was really cool because I got to see up close and personal all the in’s and out’s of how a professional, on location radio show is done.  It was an eye opening experience and hopefully I can take that stuff back to ESPN and we can make something work better than it has been.

On Friday, I had my first gig at One World Theater.  It’s a really nice theater out in the Austin hill country, right around the 360 and 2244 interchange.  I got to work with my old MediaTech instructor, Mac McDonnell, as his monitor engineer for the Steve Tyrell show.  For those of you who don’t know (and I was one of them until Friday), Steve Tyrell was a producer and good friend of Burt Bacharach back in the day, and now he’s going around singing some of the old standards that he helped produce.  It was a really fun show, and I learned a lot from the experience.  Hopefully I’ll get a chance to do it again sometime.

So yeah, that’s what I’ve been up to recently.  I’ll come back and say some more when another interesting thing happens with me.  Until then, farewell.

I can’t believe I haven’t updated my blog in this long…  I’ve been a lazy boy.  Or a busy one.  Whichever excuse you want to accept is good enough for me.

Anyways, work is going great.  So far, I’ve kind of been the musicals guy more than anything else.  I’ve had the privilege of working Legally Blonde, Spamalot, and Avenue Q.  Hopefully that work will keep going.  Also, in the coming days, I’m going to be working the Longhorn Singers (UT singing group) and Roustabouts (UT dance group) shows.

I’m looking to move out of my sister’s place in the next couple of months, depending on how long it takes me to save up the money and then find a place.  Hopefully it’ll be by June or so.  We’ll see soon enough.

So that’s my update for now.  I should be more active on this blog than I am.  Maybe it’ll change soon.

I really like my new job at the PAC.  It’s great experience for me and it seems like it has room for advancement and could be something I do for a while.  Right now I don’t have that much to do besides set up equipment, etc., but that’s what comes with the territory of being the new guy.  Right now is the time to just watch and learn from everyone.  More will come with time.  But I really like my new job.