Merry Christmas!

 Third year in a row of (kind of) celebrating Christmas on the 25th of February 🥳🥳🥳

I'm Competitive

I'm competitive, fun fact of the day.

So, as of not this past week but the week before, I'm attending 3 different tournaments a week. Which is kind of ludicrous. And kind of a lot.

3 different tournaments for 3 different games. Thursdays there are Lorcana tournaments, Fridays is Smash, and Saturdays is Street Fighter 6.

And it kind of amazes me how competitive I am. I don't get overly upset or angry when I lose, however, so I don't think I'm unhealthily competitive. But I just want to win. Start playing Street Fighter 6 with my roommates and lose. Immediately want to grind until I win. Learn there's tournaments for it every week? Immediately want to grind to win. Start playing Lorcana with my roommates and lose. Immediately want to start building decks, looking up videos, learning how to play better until I win.

Granted, I will say my competitive desire for Smash, although definitely re-amped compared to this post, is starting to rescind again. I feel a part of that is definitely these other competitive outlets that I have, but also other stuff, although I don't care to write more about that right now (partially because it wouldn't surprise me if a week from now I feel completely different).

Regardless of whether I stop going to Smash tournaments again or not, it's all been a lot of fun. Lorcana is great (note: I don't actually recommend getting into it, however. TCG's are a money-hole) and I'm excited to see what random decks people bring to the tournaments once Set 3 comes out.
Street Fighter 6 has had a wonderful effort-reward cycle and I feel like I can be very competitive with the best in our small scene (8ish people per tournament (side note: Lorcana has been slightly smaller than that thus far)); I'm not quite there yet, but I feel I can be soon, and it's exciting.

Those three things pretty much encapsulate what I've been spending my free time on recently. Also been getting some reading done. Behind on some books but ahead on Stormlight Archive. And I've also still been following the Warriors. They have been cooking and have won 8 of the last 10, and it's been really fun to watch.

Two Paragraphs of My Short Story, "Auzzy Quite Liked Her Name"

(Title is a work in progress, but I do quite like it, so we'll see if it sticks.)

Wrote this post entitled "I Really Want to Write a Story", which is about, uh, how I really want to write a story.

I actually wrote that blog post before Christmas 2023, and since then the seed of a story idea has grown. As part of a Christmas gift to Hannah, I had her name the main character of this story I was crafting.

 

She chose the name Auzzy (Ah-zshe).

It still has a long way to go; don't expect any form of a finished product any time soon. But I wanted to post what I currently have for the first two paragraphs here because I like them and I wanted to share them. I hope you like them too:)

Auzzy quite liked her name. It was given to her by Hannah, after all, whom she was quite fond of. How does she know Hannah? You see, Auzzy was special and she knew it – in fact, the fact that she knew she was special was what made her special in the first place. Auzzy knew she was in a story.

Auzzy was 10 years old, was a very sweet girl, had red hair, and tried not to think too much about how her free will worked. She knew she had choices, even if those choices were technically written out by someone else. It was complicated. It was weird. She knew it. Her author knew it. But they were both content to simply be part of this fourth-wall-breaking tale together without too much fuss about what the heck is going on.

Sweaters, Sweat Shirts, Jackets and Coat (Updated)

Jacket: an outer garment extending either to the waist or the hips, typically having sleeves and a fastening down the front.

Sweaters: a knitted garment typically with long sleeves, worn over the upper body.

Sweat Shirts: a loose, heavy shirt, typically made of cotton, worn when exercising or as leisurewear.

Coat: an outer garment worn outdoors, having sleeves and typically extending below the hips.

Now you know the definitions. So, now when our friend calls their jacket a sweater, you can feel smart and correct them. (Don't be a jerk about it though) Then if you come to an argument you can just come here. If they're still pretty sure that they are correct, you can go to google.com and show that these definitions are the same.

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This is an updated version of Sweaters, Sweat Shirts, Jackets and Coat that I wrote 11ish years ago. Story behind why this update exists can be found in my blog post The Hilarious Moment That Has Been Building for Over 11 Years.

I kept as much of the original post as possible (including the hilarious, "(Don't be a jerk about it though)" (although the 'it' was added because apparently I forgot it in the original, haha)). I just updated the definitions, the grammar, and the last sentence is phrased differently (but the rough same idea gets across). I decided to even keep the name in its same form even though there should be a comma after Jackets and Coat should be pluralized.