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Skit: Shrinking with the Bugs

So I based this on influences from other skits. Shrinking machine, and an unnamed bug one that my daughter and her friend participated in – but i’ve never seen (only their vague description.

Shrink to Bug Size

Sorry the video isn’t the best (I didn’t have the original so this is downloaded from social media).

Text for skit:

Adult Wizard Part:

Adult Scout – Hello Wizard What do you have there?
Wizard – A container of Bugs
Adult Scout – I don’t see any bugs
Wizard – Because you are too big.
Adult Scout – well, I am not getting any smaller
Wizard – I can help with that. I have a Shrinking Potion

Wizard to the Crowd – We will need Some help with this from the crowd.. .and bonus, the crowd will shrink down too!
<Points to left side >– when I say go – this half the audience will close your eyes and softly chant “ONE shrink the living” ““TWO shrink the living” all the way to 10 times.
<Points to the right side> – when I say go – this half the audience will close your eyes and softly chant “ONE shrink the rest” “TWO shrink the rest” all the way to 10 times…
And when you open your eyes we will all be inside the bottle and see the bugs!

Adult Scout Part:

Adult Scout – Hello Wizard What do you have there?
Wizard – A container of Bugs
Adult Scout – I don’t see any bugs
Wizard – Because you are too big.
Adult Scout – well, I am not getting any smaller
Wizard – I can help with that. I have a Shrinking Potion

ACTIONS:

Adults hide and Bugs and Kid Version come out.
Bugs “fly” around (kids flap arms)

Kid Wizard Part (1 of 2):

Kid Wizard: Viola! We are bug size!
Scout: “Well, at least our people parts are….”
Kid wizard: “Well… we know who wasn’t paying attention…

Scout Part (1 of 2):

Kid Wizard: We are bug size!
Scout: “Well, at least our people parts are….”
Kid wizard: “Well… we know who wasn’t paying attention…

Kid Scout Part (2 of 2):
Bugs Fly back and forth
Scout: Oh look! I see the Bugs now.

Scout: What kind of bugs are you?
Bugs all together: We are Lightning CUBS!
Scout: don’t you mean lightening BUGS?
<Bugs Fly to audiance front stage>

Bugs all together: “Nope… we are CUBS with lights!”
<bugs shine their flashlights in the eyes of the audience…> (as cubs trend to do)

Kid Scout Part (2 of 2):
Bugs Fly back and forth
Scout: Oh look! I see the Bugs now.

Scout: What kind of bugs are you?
Bugs all together: We are Lightning CUBS!
Scout: don’t you mean lightening BUGS?
<Bugs Fly to audience front stage>

Bugs all together: “Nope… we are CUBS with lights!”
<bugs shine their flashlights in the eyes of the audience…> (as cubs trend to do)

Scout Part (1 of 2):

Kid Wizard: We are bug size!
Scout: “Well, at least our people parts are….”
Kid wizard: “Well… we know who wasn’t paying attention…

Kid Scout Part (2 of 2):

Scout: Oh look! I see the Bugs now.

Scout: What kind of bugs are you?
Bugs all together: We are Lightning CUBS!
Scout: don’t you mean lightening BUGS?
Bugs all together: “Nope… we are CUBS with lights!”

Bugs Part:

Scout: What kind of bugs are you?
Bugs all together: We are Lightning CUBS!
Scout: don’t you mean lightening BUGS?

<Bugs Fly to audiance front stage>
Bugs all together: “Nope… we are CUBS with lights!”

<bugs shine their flashlights in the eyes of the audiance…> (as cubs trend to do)

Kid Wizard Part (2 of 2)

Kid Wizard Oh! Thank you…looks like the shrink potion is wearing off…..thank you audience… The END

2022 Work-Life Balance

So you may have noticed I started posting about Powershell – and then Big Blank for covid. In 2019 I went from managing four people and supporting workflow automation in Service Manager (SCSM) to managing 9 people in an array of different operations positions. It’s been remarkable – and honestly I have managed to surround myself by 9 employees who are smarter than me – so I learn something every day. It’s amazing, I love my job and my crew.

Work-life balance is the state of equilibrium where a person equally prioritizes the demands of one's career and the demands of one's personal life.

Not only did my type work change during covid – my work-life balance did as well. My wife and I both now work from home – which means I got out of the habit of coming home from work and “decompressing” by talking about what I learned that day on a blog and social media.

Instead – I started going outside again with my Kid to decompress. It was a nice change.

And then Covid was … behind us. So my family got focused on other projects… and 22 was a great year. I lost 45LBS just from being more active.

“Stop and do it right the first time”

… so like any homeowner I’ve had to fix a toilet or two in my time. When a task comes up at work – I am the guy who is always saying “stop and do it right the first time”… so of course I am also the guy who doesn’t take his own advice on household chores.

So back to my toilet. The tank was constantly running. It’s a 15 year old toilet so I knew right away that the parts in the tank with the “5 year warranty” probably needed replacing… Call me “Powers of Deduction Man!” – my superpower is knowing the obvious.

So I run off to my local Home Depot and get a kit… do i get complete kit? nah. I grab the kit with just the most common pieces.

An hour later i’ve replaced the parts, and while things are better – I have a slow leak from the top tank into the bowl (not the floor thankfully). Which I attempt to patch. Six months later… my leak is back. And it quickly gets … worse.

So back to Home depot for the … other half of the kit. So kids – the lesson here..

“Stop and do it right the first time”

… back online after 20 years.

Sometime back in the 90s a friend and I ran a blog on this address. It was much more difficult back then – you had to code the website locally and FTP it up. The other guy, Matt, and I used this blog to talk about the best beer specials in town. I mean… what else do a pair of college guys blog about? We tried to collate the bars running sales and specials in one place – and we even managed to get 2-3 advertising sponsors. You know – old school advertisements, add their Image to your page with an <img> Tag and maybe they cut you a check eventually? I don’t think we ever even covered the $15 tag – but it was fun and we learned where to drink cheap beer. I was the tech guy, and Matt tried to locate specials. Matt is long gone…

..but I kept this site for email all these years.

So here I am a dad and husband, and I don’t drink like in those days – so I will limit these posts to my other passions. These days – 24/7 isn’t about beer sales – but rather, my life as a Dad, Husband, Son, Friend, Homeowner, and IT support guy..

So … Welcome back to Atlanta… 24/7