General Update on my Livelihood

I'm going to Salt Lake City for the weekend, so that's exciting. I'll be able to see various people from my mission. There's a mission reunion on Friday, but I also have plans to spend time with a few specific people outside of that, which I'm excited about.

General Conference is also this weekend, which I'm excited for. I feel prepared and ready to receive revelation for things I want do develop a further understanding of.

The semester is almost done, and I am so ready. I am kind of exhausted of school/everything, so I am excited for the break. I have 5 more semesters after this one.

Just went to my last Smash Bros tournament of the semester last night. It's been a great season! I'll presumably make a blog post recapping it all. I'm still on the Player Rankings Panel (I'm actually the head of it now), so I've been working on collecting important stats and such this morning. It's fun, although draining by the end. 

This semester we have an interesting dynamic because spots 7-11 are all super close, and it feels bad that one of them won't be on the top 10 even though they're so close to the others. 

It's also interesting because I've never had so many people so close together. For example, in last semester it was smaller clumps. The top 4 were pretty clear, but the next two were super close. And then the next two after that were super close. And then the next 3 were super close. This semester we just have 5 people all super close, which definitely makes it a lot harder (albeit, more interesting) to figure out.

Next semester is going to be interesting. We have a couple key members of our core friend group leaving. The ward is going to be, like, half the size it was this semester. The Smash scene will probably be smaller.

Thomas and MaryAnn will be back up here though! And it's going to get warm again! So it'll be great.

Life is good, I think.

Ashes and Arkham

So I'm sitting in Web Development class right now. The teacher is going over an assignment I've already done, but I want to stick around for attendance points and such. I don't think I'd be able to focus very well on other homework, so I've decided to just write.

Ryan and I have been playing Ashes: Reborn, and it's been an absolute blast. Deck Construction games are so fascinating to me. Building a deck before the game is thrilling. 

Tweaking my deck is so fun. Coming up with new deck ideas is fantastic. I love looking at all the cards and pondering possibilities, constructing a deck, and then taking that deck and putting it up against someone else's creation. 

And I love so many mechanics in the game itself. It's so smart, and the gameplay is sharp. Quick, powerful turns. Fun interactions. Interesting decisions. 

It's been great.

Ryan, Angeles, and I have also been playing Arkham Horror: The Card Game as well, which has been great. I love how the struggle feels real, but I also feel powerful enough to handle whatever is put in front of me. Everyone gets to do cool things and we're all unique. 

It's been fun.

Anyway, our teacher said we could go home early, so I'm going to end here.

Made Yahtzee in my JavaScript Class

Made an in-browser Yahtzee game for my JavaScript Class final project. Thought I would share it here:

https://alexperazzo.github.io/CSE121b/Final_Project/yahtzee.html