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| When this comes in the mail so you continue to procrastinate your homework so you can be pumped |
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
When...
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Had a few minutes
Had a few minutes before I go off to bed, so I thought that I would write a quick blog post about whatever. Figured putting up something small would be better than nothing.
Random note: I was hungry this morning and I went to brush my teeth and it upset my stomach.
Anyways, Nedroid is still really good. Went back and read a few of them again and, man, they are pretty funny. The most recent one (as of 9/25/16) is really good. I've already shown my sister and parents that one. Hannah really got a kick out of it for some reason. She thought it was because she was so hungry that she was like "Crispy bikes sound good to me!".
And to think that all of the comic strips are canon in some way...
My birthday's coming up. 15 days from now I'll be turning 16 which is pretty crazy. Don't really know what I want yet. Haven't really had my eye on anything particular other that things We have already ordered (Seafall, DOW: A long night, Dominion: Empires).
Watching a lot of anime recently. Got into a new anime that is 148 episodes long, the first 100 episodes being on Netflix. Watched 123 thus far. The most recent story arc is dragging out a bit, but it's been really fantastic. Wish I would have recorded when I watched the first episode so I could see how fast I've gone through them.
Haikyuu!! season three coming soon!
Baby Steps season three confirmed!
Pretty pumped about those two. (although I already know what's going to happen in Baby Steps (I thought the anime would have finished the manga (obviously that is not the case since there is a season three) and I wasn't sure if season three was ever going to exist, so I caught up on the manga reading the new chapters as they come out) but it will still be fun seeing it go into the animation form)
Random note: I was hungry this morning and I went to brush my teeth and it upset my stomach.
Anyways, Nedroid is still really good. Went back and read a few of them again and, man, they are pretty funny. The most recent one (as of 9/25/16) is really good. I've already shown my sister and parents that one. Hannah really got a kick out of it for some reason. She thought it was because she was so hungry that she was like "Crispy bikes sound good to me!".
And to think that all of the comic strips are canon in some way...
My birthday's coming up. 15 days from now I'll be turning 16 which is pretty crazy. Don't really know what I want yet. Haven't really had my eye on anything particular other that things We have already ordered (Seafall, DOW: A long night, Dominion: Empires).
Watching a lot of anime recently. Got into a new anime that is 148 episodes long, the first 100 episodes being on Netflix. Watched 123 thus far. The most recent story arc is dragging out a bit, but it's been really fantastic. Wish I would have recorded when I watched the first episode so I could see how fast I've gone through them.
Haikyuu!! season three coming soon!
Baby Steps season three confirmed!
Pretty pumped about those two. (although I already know what's going to happen in Baby Steps (I thought the anime would have finished the manga (obviously that is not the case since there is a season three) and I wasn't sure if season three was ever going to exist, so I caught up on the manga reading the new chapters as they come out) but it will still be fun seeing it go into the animation form)
Monday, September 19, 2016
Games and Homework
Okay, what I don't understand is how Hannah somehow pulled us all (both parents included) out of our beds at 9:52 pm to play a game of Zooloretto. Of which we have already played twice the same day.
Anyways, didn't get to a blog post a couple weeks back due to homework, and should probably be working on it now instead of writing this, but I'll procrastinate some more. As I suspected the A.P. English and A.P. Psychology combo does hurt. With one or two modules due per week (each taking 1-3 hours depending on length) and a chapter due each week along side it (each taking .75-2 hours depending on length) it hurts. Especially because I wait until the last day to do things. Procrastinating is not a good habit to get into.
Depending on my workload you will see more or less blog posts in the upcoming school year, I'll still try to put out a post at least once every 2 weeks, but (obviously) that can change.
But, hey, who cares, right? Because Dominion: Empires came in a week ago, so I've been spamming that. Well, as much as I can. Only played 6-7 games thus far.
Fun story of the week about Dominion: Empires:
There's an event called Tax where when you buy it you can put debt tokens on a card. The first person to buy that card must take all the debt tokens on it. (Debt is money that you can spend latter. Ex. I buy a two costing card with two money, but it had two debt on it. The next turn I would have to spend two coin to get rid of the debt before I can buy anything). Thomas didn't really want to play, so he bought as many taxes as he could with extra buys etc. and put debt on all the good cards. The Provinces had 12 debt tokens on it at one point when I bought it. And then Joseph, who takes the turn after me, just picks up a province with none. It was terribly great.
Anyways, let's end on some bad and good news:
Bad News: Haven't played a game of Ashes in over two months :(
Good News: Seafall and Dead of Winter: A Long Night/Roberta Plum should be coming early October. :)
Anyways, didn't get to a blog post a couple weeks back due to homework, and should probably be working on it now instead of writing this, but I'll procrastinate some more. As I suspected the A.P. English and A.P. Psychology combo does hurt. With one or two modules due per week (each taking 1-3 hours depending on length) and a chapter due each week along side it (each taking .75-2 hours depending on length) it hurts. Especially because I wait until the last day to do things. Procrastinating is not a good habit to get into.
Depending on my workload you will see more or less blog posts in the upcoming school year, I'll still try to put out a post at least once every 2 weeks, but (obviously) that can change.
But, hey, who cares, right? Because Dominion: Empires came in a week ago, so I've been spamming that. Well, as much as I can. Only played 6-7 games thus far.
Fun story of the week about Dominion: Empires:
There's an event called Tax where when you buy it you can put debt tokens on a card. The first person to buy that card must take all the debt tokens on it. (Debt is money that you can spend latter. Ex. I buy a two costing card with two money, but it had two debt on it. The next turn I would have to spend two coin to get rid of the debt before I can buy anything). Thomas didn't really want to play, so he bought as many taxes as he could with extra buys etc. and put debt on all the good cards. The Provinces had 12 debt tokens on it at one point when I bought it. And then Joseph, who takes the turn after me, just picks up a province with none. It was terribly great.
Anyways, let's end on some bad and good news:
Bad News: Haven't played a game of Ashes in over two months :(
Good News: Seafall and Dead of Winter: A Long Night/Roberta Plum should be coming early October. :)
Sunday, August 21, 2016
Seafall, School exists
Seafall instructional video is out made by Rodney Smith (I mean, who else would it be?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJjoxACoVuM
Haven't watched it yet, but I plan to watch it a couple times and read the rulebook while I wait for a time to play it.
But how are we going to play it? My brother Eric mentioned this in his blog post: Bingeing Seafall.
And, yea, they did get gobbled up quick at GenCon. There were only a few copies left by the time the pre-hour was up. (pre-hour isn't the official name, but you can buy a special ticket thing that let's you get in an hour before everyone else, so you can buy games and stuff). They only had very limited quantity, however, due to the fact that they had to fly them in. They made very little money on that first exposure of Seafall.
Anyway, Seafall is not something that should be binged (at least according to Rob Daviau (the designer). But the problem is Rob also suggested (I forget where) that Seafall is a game where you want a core group. In Risk Legacy and Pandemic Legacy it was okay if you had a person or two switch out every game or every other game. However in Seafall it's best if we get the same 3-5 people to play every single game. That is going to be very difficult to get around since we don't want to binge the games. If bingeing the games was good. We would just wait for a Christmas Break where My brothers and I were all at home at once and the play all the games over the course of a week or two. Anyway, we'll see what happens.
Also, school exists. And man is it scary. I'm taking Spanish 2, A.P. English, Video Production 2, Honors Algebra 2, World History, Honors Chemistry and A.P. Psychology.
My easier classes are: World History, Honors Algebra 2 and Video Production 2. That doesn't mean they don't have work and stuff, it's just the easier work out of my classes.
But what I'm really afraid of are the other four: Spanish 2, A.P. English, Honors Chemistry and A.P. Psychology. A.P. English + A.P. Psychology = a lot of notes. Spanish 2 + Honors Chemistry = a lot of studying.
We'll see how it goes.
Haven't watched it yet, but I plan to watch it a couple times and read the rulebook while I wait for a time to play it.
But how are we going to play it? My brother Eric mentioned this in his blog post: Bingeing Seafall.
And, yea, they did get gobbled up quick at GenCon. There were only a few copies left by the time the pre-hour was up. (pre-hour isn't the official name, but you can buy a special ticket thing that let's you get in an hour before everyone else, so you can buy games and stuff). They only had very limited quantity, however, due to the fact that they had to fly them in. They made very little money on that first exposure of Seafall.
Anyway, Seafall is not something that should be binged (at least according to Rob Daviau (the designer). But the problem is Rob also suggested (I forget where) that Seafall is a game where you want a core group. In Risk Legacy and Pandemic Legacy it was okay if you had a person or two switch out every game or every other game. However in Seafall it's best if we get the same 3-5 people to play every single game. That is going to be very difficult to get around since we don't want to binge the games. If bingeing the games was good. We would just wait for a Christmas Break where My brothers and I were all at home at once and the play all the games over the course of a week or two. Anyway, we'll see what happens.
Also, school exists. And man is it scary. I'm taking Spanish 2, A.P. English, Video Production 2, Honors Algebra 2, World History, Honors Chemistry and A.P. Psychology.
My easier classes are: World History, Honors Algebra 2 and Video Production 2. That doesn't mean they don't have work and stuff, it's just the easier work out of my classes.
But what I'm really afraid of are the other four: Spanish 2, A.P. English, Honors Chemistry and A.P. Psychology. A.P. English + A.P. Psychology = a lot of notes. Spanish 2 + Honors Chemistry = a lot of studying.
We'll see how it goes.
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Scout Camp and Grandma's house
Fun Fact of The Day: in my last post every time I typed the word 'the' I put it there twice. Did you notice? Always wanted to do that.
Another Fun Fact of The Day: apparently twenty one pilots is normally not capitalized, went back and fixed that.
Anyway, right now I'm in a predicament where I just finished an emotional anime and, man, it was good. The ending was so perfect even if it made heart cry a little. And now instead of writing about how awesome it was I'm writing about Scout Camp and my Grandma's house (huh, guess we never do say grandpa's house, always grandma's).
Tis' fine though. They were a great two weeks.
This was my first time going to Camp Fleischmann for an actual scout camp. It was interesting week due to the fact that only two other scouts went with me instead of the normal 5 or more. But it was fine since we got the same campsite as two other troops. One from Fernley and the other from Silver Springs. I recognized several of the them and over the week I felt as if the young men all grew close together.
There were three major things I accomplished there (other than merit badges (of which I got: Archery, Art, Camping, Reptile and Amphibians, and a partial on Astronomy)).
Archery was one of them. I shot pretty good, I guess. I got the top end of the summer (top score with 6 arrows (I got 51, was latter beat with a 56)) and the top round of the summer (top score of 5 ends consecutively (but if you kept going you can replace a lower score with a newer, better one (I think I went 8 ends. The best 5 totaling with a score of 238 (I kept this high score))). So, yeah, that was pretty sweet.
Next up is when I got my Free Trapper. In order to get Free Trapper award you need to do five things: 1. Compete in the Blanket Shoot (I did so (obviously), however it was my first time shooting black powder, so I did not do so well).
2. Start a fire with flint and steel within a minute. Did this on my first try.
3. Tippee etiquette. Took about 15 minutes, and I learned some cool stuff about tippees while I was at it.
4. Teach a younger scout to throw a tomahawk properly. I taught my cousin Ben who got the hang of it pretty quick.
5. The toughest one of all. Stick 15 tomahawks consecutively. I think my entire chain history (other than the beginning when I was just trying to stick one) was: 5, 7, 5, 5, 8, 16. Your heart is beating rather fast when you're about to throw the 15th. It was a lot of fun.
I got this award:
And now my favorite one. The Seneca Run.
Start of with Tomahawk throwing. 3 Tomahawks. 3 points per stick. +1 point if you get all three. I stick two: 6 points. (except for the fact that they only gave me 3 points (probably because one wasn't stuck fully and was kinda of just hangin' around on top of a log (but earlier when we were practicing they said those counted, so....))).
Run over to Shooting. Do all proper procedures, but miss target. 8 points.
Go to fire starting. Goal: Start a fire in under a minute with Flint and Steel (and Char Cloth). This was the second time I have ever tried. My first was for my Free Trapper that I got on my first try, so it had to be easy, right? Indeed. 10 points.
Run all the way up the hill to Archery. (well, walk part of it, got to get my breath controlled for shooting) The day before I had gotten the top end and top round, so I felt pretty confident.... Wait a second these are re-curve bows, not the compound ones I was used to. Aimed in the same spot I did for compound. Was not a smart Idea. 0 points.
Run all the was down the hill, by all of the campsites, pass a couple of scouters where I make the joke that the Seneca Run was the only time I could run in camp, so I had to take it, right?, passed the medic shaft to the climbing wall. Which I hadn't been to before this week, so I had to ask for directions... hurt my time a little, but it should be fine. Scurry across the wall earning a solid score of 7.
Run down to the waterfront, where I paddle as fast across the river as I can. Followed most of the procedures earning a score of 9.
Then the long run all the way back to the ridge where I clocked in at a time of 20 minutes and 49 seconds. Pretty good. Turns out I made (time-wise) third place giving me 11 extra points (you get one point per person you beat including yourself (there were 13 kids participating)).
During award ceremony, I was announced as 4th place with a total score of 48 (would have 3rd if they counted that one hawk). I was pretty happy with myself. But there are two more cool nuggets. 1. The top 5 (which is what they announced) was all from our campsite. Go Triple Treat! The other cool nugget was that I beat Noah (the guy who came in 5th) by one point, but you see the thing was he had 7 more points than me from the activities. However I got 11 points from time and he only got 3, putting me at one point above, nice!
After hearing my exciting, riveting adventures at scout camp you get to hear my laid back adventures at Grandma's house. Yay!
Being in Oregon was also pretty different this year due to the fact that I was the only kid there. I kind of just did my thing each day. It was kind of like being at home except grandparents were there and I could watch TV.
I did several things when I was there including:
1. Playing Tennis. Although I did not have any siblings that actually played Tennis to face against, we got my dad a tennis racket. We hit a ball back and forth a little bit and after he got tired I would hit against the wall that was there. I knew that Tennis practice was going on back home and I didn't want to fall behind, so I went and hit against the wall by myself (with a parent reading/watching me) also.
2. Playing some games with parents / grandparents.
2. Finish Bands of Mourning. Man, this book blew my mind about the world of Scadriel, now it's time for Mistborn: Secret History to do the same.
3. Finish the last few episodes of Steins;Gate. This was the time travel anime that I mentioned I should talk about in my post: 'Anime'.
4. Start (and finish the next day at home) Your Lie in April. The anime that I mentioned at the start of this blog post. And, man, my wounds haven't finished closing yet.
5. Watched some new episodes of Cutthroat Kitchen. One guy actually played really well and saved his money until the very end while his opponent did not. He had, like, 22,000 dollars and the other person only had 5,000. In the last round for every single sabotage he bid 5,000 dollars giving the other person all three of them and still having 7,000 dollars left over. He won, obviously, and left with a good chunk of money.
Also there was a round/episode where the dish was French Fries. This guy got sabotaged with having to give away all of potatoes and getting only mashed potatoes instead. He was awesome and ended up making the best French Fries out of all of them.
Oh yea, and another round/episode where one person bought the exclusive right to salt/seasonings and yet ended up with the least seasoned dish out of all of them. Alton gave her a confused look when he was passing.
6. And of course, the ocean.
Another Fun Fact of The Day: apparently twenty one pilots is normally not capitalized, went back and fixed that.
Anyway, right now I'm in a predicament where I just finished an emotional anime and, man, it was good. The ending was so perfect even if it made heart cry a little. And now instead of writing about how awesome it was I'm writing about Scout Camp and my Grandma's house (huh, guess we never do say grandpa's house, always grandma's).
Tis' fine though. They were a great two weeks.
Scout Camp:
This was my first time going to Camp Fleischmann for an actual scout camp. It was interesting week due to the fact that only two other scouts went with me instead of the normal 5 or more. But it was fine since we got the same campsite as two other troops. One from Fernley and the other from Silver Springs. I recognized several of the them and over the week I felt as if the young men all grew close together.
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| All three troops group photo. We called ourselves the 'Triple Treat'. |
Archery was one of them. I shot pretty good, I guess. I got the top end of the summer (top score with 6 arrows (I got 51, was latter beat with a 56)) and the top round of the summer (top score of 5 ends consecutively (but if you kept going you can replace a lower score with a newer, better one (I think I went 8 ends. The best 5 totaling with a score of 238 (I kept this high score))). So, yeah, that was pretty sweet.
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| My dad and I posing with our amazing targets filled with arrows. |
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| Weekly scores pass from week to week meaning I beat all the other weeks' scores too. |
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| Off topic, but: slaughtering Ben in some Capture the Flag. |
2. Start a fire with flint and steel within a minute. Did this on my first try.
3. Tippee etiquette. Took about 15 minutes, and I learned some cool stuff about tippees while I was at it.
4. Teach a younger scout to throw a tomahawk properly. I taught my cousin Ben who got the hang of it pretty quick.
5. The toughest one of all. Stick 15 tomahawks consecutively. I think my entire chain history (other than the beginning when I was just trying to stick one) was: 5, 7, 5, 5, 8, 16. Your heart is beating rather fast when you're about to throw the 15th. It was a lot of fun.
I got this award:
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| Got a cool pin. |
Start of with Tomahawk throwing. 3 Tomahawks. 3 points per stick. +1 point if you get all three. I stick two: 6 points. (except for the fact that they only gave me 3 points (probably because one wasn't stuck fully and was kinda of just hangin' around on top of a log (but earlier when we were practicing they said those counted, so....))).
Run over to Shooting. Do all proper procedures, but miss target. 8 points.
Go to fire starting. Goal: Start a fire in under a minute with Flint and Steel (and Char Cloth). This was the second time I have ever tried. My first was for my Free Trapper that I got on my first try, so it had to be easy, right? Indeed. 10 points.
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| Fire soon to be. |
Run all the was down the hill, by all of the campsites, pass a couple of scouters where I make the joke that the Seneca Run was the only time I could run in camp, so I had to take it, right?, passed the medic shaft to the climbing wall. Which I hadn't been to before this week, so I had to ask for directions... hurt my time a little, but it should be fine. Scurry across the wall earning a solid score of 7.
Run down to the waterfront, where I paddle as fast across the river as I can. Followed most of the procedures earning a score of 9.
Then the long run all the way back to the ridge where I clocked in at a time of 20 minutes and 49 seconds. Pretty good. Turns out I made (time-wise) third place giving me 11 extra points (you get one point per person you beat including yourself (there were 13 kids participating)).
During award ceremony, I was announced as 4th place with a total score of 48 (would have 3rd if they counted that one hawk). I was pretty happy with myself. But there are two more cool nuggets. 1. The top 5 (which is what they announced) was all from our campsite. Go Triple Treat! The other cool nugget was that I beat Noah (the guy who came in 5th) by one point, but you see the thing was he had 7 more points than me from the activities. However I got 11 points from time and he only got 3, putting me at one point above, nice!
Grandma's House
After hearing my exciting, riveting adventures at scout camp you get to hear my laid back adventures at Grandma's house. Yay!
Being in Oregon was also pretty different this year due to the fact that I was the only kid there. I kind of just did my thing each day. It was kind of like being at home except grandparents were there and I could watch TV.
I did several things when I was there including:
1. Playing Tennis. Although I did not have any siblings that actually played Tennis to face against, we got my dad a tennis racket. We hit a ball back and forth a little bit and after he got tired I would hit against the wall that was there. I knew that Tennis practice was going on back home and I didn't want to fall behind, so I went and hit against the wall by myself (with a parent reading/watching me) also.
2. Finish Bands of Mourning. Man, this book blew my mind about the world of Scadriel, now it's time for Mistborn: Secret History to do the same.
3. Finish the last few episodes of Steins;Gate. This was the time travel anime that I mentioned I should talk about in my post: 'Anime'.
4. Start (and finish the next day at home) Your Lie in April. The anime that I mentioned at the start of this blog post. And, man, my wounds haven't finished closing yet.
5. Watched some new episodes of Cutthroat Kitchen. One guy actually played really well and saved his money until the very end while his opponent did not. He had, like, 22,000 dollars and the other person only had 5,000. In the last round for every single sabotage he bid 5,000 dollars giving the other person all three of them and still having 7,000 dollars left over. He won, obviously, and left with a good chunk of money.
Also there was a round/episode where the dish was French Fries. This guy got sabotaged with having to give away all of potatoes and getting only mashed potatoes instead. He was awesome and ended up making the best French Fries out of all of them.
Oh yea, and another round/episode where one person bought the exclusive right to salt/seasonings and yet ended up with the least seasoned dish out of all of them. Alton gave her a confused look when he was passing.
6. And of course, the ocean.
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