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A day in the life of a college bartender.

2011, A Year of Accomplishment.

As I write here, on the last day of the year 2011, I”m hoping to find all of you with a great night planned ahead of you.  As well as hoping the past year was great for both you and your family.

For the last post of the year I’ve decided I’m going to list some rather important events/accomplishments from this past year that have affected me.  In no particular order.

  • Labrum/Rotator Surgery. I guess you could say this wasn’t an accomplishment but it was definitely an event that ended up shaping my 2011 and how it would turn out.
  • Smell Ya Later, Osama.  We finally brought Osama Bin Laden to justice, this in itself surely affected us all.
  • My First DJ Experience.  I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to share my music @ Johnny Kaw’s, here in Manhattan.  This would ultimately lead to my addiction to mixing and DJing.
  • Made Some Quality Friends.  A person can never have too many friends but never too little as well.  This year I’ve grown pretty close with some truly great people and I’m thankful to have all of them in my life.
  • My First Job.  Well other than my “hitting lessons” and what not in high school (which I didn’t consider a job).  In May, I started bartending at Allred Inc. and I never dreamed it would be this fun.  We’ve got an unbelievable staff and an awesome environment to go along with it.  Go check us out on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Aggieville-Bars/147566895265173-  
  • Created My First Mix/Video.  I basically sat down bored one day and mixed a couple of my favorite songs.  I posted on various social media sites that I had made the mix.  To my surprise there were quite a few people who wanted the file and amongst mostly positive feedback I realized that this is what I wanted to do.
  • My Youtube hits 40,000 views.  This is rather self-explanatory, but I had never imagined that my videos could’ve reached out to that many people.  Go check it out >>  http://www.youtube.com/user/CaptainRooke?feature=mhee
  • My First Trip To California, LA/Hollywood.  This was my first time being in California, not for a baseball trip.  It was awesome to be able to actually visit the different sites and all I know is seeing LA/Hollywood made me realize, MANNN I want to make it big.
  • Last But Not Least.  Created my first blog.  Sharing my thoughts that you could, or could not give two craps about, but at the end of the day I guess you still read it?  I enjoy this and hopefully you do as well.
Thank you for the support and I hope y’all truly have a wonderful New Year’s.