Monthly Updates Start Now

Going to do monthly blog posts around the 1st of the month starting now.

Life Overview
Life is good.

Work
Working at Blue C Sushi has been good. Environment is much better than working at a retirement home, pay is over twice as much after tips, and it's located very close to home. Making between $20 to $26 an hour after tips and working around/over 35 hours a week.
People at work like me, I like the people I work with, sometimes guests can be pretentious ass holes but such is life in the University Village.

Housing
Living with Ashley has been awesome.
We love our apartment and it checks every one of my boxes:

• High-speed internet
• 2 gaming computers
• HDTV and xbox 360
• compact floor plan to allow easy access to kitchen, bathroom, and bed for minimal time away from gaming

Wish people would come over more often for game night/split screen but I did move farther away and my schedule hasn't been very regular so game nights have been hard to plan. Fortunately for the remainder of summer quarter Ashley and I will always have wednesday/friday off so maybe we can plan game nights again soon.

Ultimate

Playing pick-up every Wednesday in Edmunds with Chris, Zack, and Eric when he doesn't have volleyball practice.

Gaming

Was playing Guild Wars exclusively for a while, but got tired of the daily grind so stepping away for a month or so.

Moving more into console (360) gaming, but the problem is I don't have as many people to play with. But the thing is I wasn't playing with people that often before I stepped away from GW2. The mumble group semi-disbanded so it's hard to get people playing League now it feels like.

Ideally what I would like is for friends to play Call of Duty/Magic on 360 with and for the people that play League to always be online so that I can use them when I feel the itch to play League of Legends.

Gaming won't ever completely move to single-player though because I will always have Ashley to game with. Right now she is pretty engrossed in GW so if I get tired of playing solo I can always go back to Guild Wars and play with her.

Sounders

#DempseyWatch

Funny story about Clint Dempsey, USMNT Captain signing with the Seattle Sounders. I won't go in to it though you can look it up if you want. Looking forward to the Sounders new powerhouse attack and making a run for MLS Cup this year.

Anecdote

This part of teh blog will be a short story, likely the reason that made me want to make a blog post in the first place.

I was playing Magic 2014 on 360 multiplayer for the first time today. I am a white deck player it seems like every year a new Magic comes out I always prefer the white decks.

I got matched up against a guy using a black Zombie deck which I used to love. First couple matches i just rape him.

He switches to a blue deck, I start with one of the two legendary creature cards in my deck that costs 2 mana and makes all non-creature spells cost 1 more to cast. GG blue deck.

He switches back to zombie deck, I defeat him easily again.

We play one more match, his first turn he plays no land and I'm thinking what the fuck is he just like rage quitting or something? He has to discard a card to get to 7 and he discards some expensive creature I assume because he will never have the mana to cast it.

Second turn he plays a swamp and casts Reanimate, taking a creature card from a graveyard and putting it into play under his control. Holy fuck I have never seen this before.

Second turn and he has a legendary creature that is perfectly designed to counter my all Human deck.
Fuck me. I am actually going to drop a match to this guy..

.. or am I..

So with this white deck I am using a get a bunch of humans out by means of Gather the Townsfolk, Thraben Doomsayer, and Increasing Devotion. This isn't the way the deck always plays out, I just happened to get a zerging hand. I also had a Champion of the Parish turn 1 which obviously would be pwnage, but he managed to destroy it at some point being a black deck and all. I also managed to get a legendary of my own, in fact the exact opposite of his. So I have Mikaeus the Human Cleric and he has the Zombie Cleric version of Mikaeus.

Eventually using Mikaeus I manage to get a bunch of beafed up humans to all attack him at once, while barely staying alive after his relentless intimidate attacks from Mikaeus, the Unhallowed. I count up how much damage I will do and how much he will block, and I thought I had enough to finish him. Except I counted one of my humans with summoning sickness in my attack calculations and he ended up with 3 life instead. Oh and all my attackers died of course because they are Human.

Now he has 3 attackers, 1 of them has intimidate and deals 6 damage, the other 2 have 5 power each and I have 8 life total. I have 2 blockers and 1 tapped creature. He has to deal damage with 2 creatures out of his 3, and fortunately I can block with 2 so I think I am ok. I will just block, and then finish him off with my tapped creature on my turn because he is going all out leaving no defenders. He declares his attackers, I declare my blockers, all of a sudden he casts the last card in his hand, doom blade. Fuck I realize he can just kill my tapped creature, I won't be able to kill him on my turn, and he will just finish me off on his next turn.

BUT

for some reason he targets one of the creatures that I had already declared as a blocker. Maybe he thinks that if he kills the creature blocking his creature that his creature will attack me instead, but I already DECLARED IT AS A BLOCKER. Therefor his spell kills my creature, the creature that would have killed it attacks nothing, I survive with 2 Life, and my tapped creature becomes untapped on my turn and I finish him off.

I am laughing hysterically into the mic at this point. Trolling him and telling him I can't believe he fucked that up. Afterall he had 2 options, doom blade one of the creatures I had BEFORE attacking so I don't have enough to block with, or just doom blade the only creature I would have left and just finish me off next turn.

But for some reason he chose to do neither. And once again I beat him.

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It was a lot funnier if you were there trust me.

Diamond League!!

So I just got Diamond rank in League of Legends and now I don't know what to do.
I think I need to calm down a bit so I am going to make a blog post since wikihow told me keeping a journal is relaxing.

Life Overview
Life's good.

Work
Work is going well. Starting to get positive recognition for my work and being rewarded with more hours. Almost got overtime this week because I covered a shift for a co-working and then had an extended shift today because the new dishwasher quit and no one else is willing to do dishes.

Housing
Was looking forward to a "gaming house" concept but it seems to have died off due to multiple people not being able to move in yet. Might have to just get a smaller house and not be able to split the rent as many ways, or just wait for other people to be ready.

Gaming
Obviously going really well right now.
Stopping playing Guild Wars 2 once Diamond League rewards was announced prior to the League of Legends season 2 finals.
Dropped 200 elo very quickly and slowly got it back.
Last game I just played was really epic and might have to put it on youtube or something.

Get Carried
Our League of Legends team seemed like a cool idea for the first couple weeks.
We had a group of 4 core players that could regularly play together, but we needed a top lane-er so our "manager" Chris found some people on reddit to "interview" and we tried 3 our before deciding on Kuro. Unfortunately he has been sick for the past week so we haven't been able to play much.

New Phone
Just got my first smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S3.
Pretty cool it's nice having a phone that can do more than call/text. I didn't know how much I would use it but now that it's available I'm finding I use it a lot.

Relationship
Everything with Ashley is going fine as always. She is really busy with school/work/work so I don't see her too often, but we see each other enough to be happy and this way we don't get tired of each other at all.

Italy/Spain/Somewhere in Europe
My dad moved to somewhere in Europe because a friend of Andrea's got offered a job there by the company he works for, Boeing.
Haven't talked to him much which reminds me I still have to respond to his email.
Doesn't effect me too much since I didn't see him that often anyway, but now I have an awesome vacation planned in the near future.

Can't think of anything else right now.
Not playing any sports very often because I work on the weekends so it's hard to make it to ultimate games.
Yep that's it.


I kinda need a hair cut it's getting pretty long.

Sounders are 2nd seed in the playoffs so hopefully we can make it past our first round for the first time in 4 seasons.

Built 3 computers now, 2 complete and 1 helping Chris with his.
Probably should go back to college soon and maybe study CS.
Wouldn't be hard with my work schedule since I could still work dinner shifts from 4-8, just wouldn't get as many hours because I couldn't work any full shifts unless it was on the weekends so I guess I could get a good amount of hours.

Tetris is fun

Starting to use reddit

Ok I think it worked I feel pretty calm.

Been thinking about getting some kind of console, and now that I got my goal of diamond league I wouldn't mind spending some time playing a non-competitive single player game every now and then. But I guess I could also just get single player games for PC. But then I wouldn't have the comfort of relaxing on the couch.
Never mind can't get a console need to learn how to top.
Alright off to read some guides on top lane.

Also the next Starcraft 2 expansion still doesn't have a release date and the longer they put it off the less likely i am going to be to remain interested in the story.

Ok actually done with this blog post now.

Wow has it really been a month?

Time seems to be going by really quickly now.

Was playing some late night LoL because I finally don't have an "early" morning tomorrow. Weekends I work at 12-8 so I have to get up at a decent hour, and today (monday) i had to drive Kelsey back to Ellensburg and then get back before work at 4. So I had to get up at a decent time again. Tomorrow I finally just work at 4 and don't have anything else I need to do before then, so I don't need to worry about setting an alarm to wake up (unless I sleep until 2pm somehow).

Working 6 days a week now, two 8 hour days on the weekends and four 4 hour days during the week. Thursdays I get off, but of course whenever we have staff meetings it happens on thursday, so this week I will have to go into work every day. Also pay days are on thursdays.

Sounders season finally started, excited for what this season will bring. 2-0 so far with 4 goals for and 1 against.

I can feel myself getting better at LoL and am happy about that. My goal is to get 1800 by the end of april so I can get my stream posted on solomid.net and then maybe get some viewers and start a following.

Guild Wars 2 pre-purchase starts april 10th and that will get me access to the weekend beta events so that will be fun.. except that weekends are when I have the least amount of free time.

Generally happy with life, much more so than before I got the job at MG so I'm really thankful to Chris for helping me get that.

Pretty sleepy right now but feel like something is missing and I still need to do something.

I guess one thing that is still missing from my life is time with Ashley. Last week was spring break, which one would think would mean we could see each other more often, but really it just means she is going to work all the time in stead of have class to go to. We've talked about my interest in moving out and maybe moving in together or with a group of people, but right now she is worried about potentially not getting financial aid next year since she will be a 5th year senior and if she doesn't get financial aid than it might not be possible.

fuuuuuuckk tired but don't want to sleep haha.

everyone else went to sleep early because of class/work/idk what else and now I don't know what to do haha.

I guess I'll just find something to watch.

Buffet Brunch

Just got back from a Sunday breakfast shift, and my first brunch shift. Buffet's are pretty awesome to server during, since all the entrees and sides are out in the dining room and the only thing we have to do is get drinks, serve desert, and bus tables. We started off opening breakfast normally, but at lunch time we did buffet. I'm not sure why it was called a brunch since it was all the lunch/dinner foods and I associate brunch with breakfast and lunch foods, but regardless it was a nice break from the normal routine.

Saturday morning was an Ultimate double header, and then I had to work Saturday night, and Sunday morning. Not looking forward to another breakfast shift tomorrow.

My computer is not completely put together since I got the Crossfire cable, and now all I need to do is print out a couple copies of my Paypal receipt for mail-in rebate purposes and I'm all done with my new computer stuff. Might get another monitor soon, I've been getting a lot of hours lately.

There is a free Sounders pre-season game on the 29th at Quest Field that I want to go to, but I don't know if I will find anyone who can go with. Ashley doesn't think she can get that Wednesday off. I'm sure I can find someone though and if not I might just go alone.

Lost a lot of ELO in League. Going to try to stream regularly now that all my computer stuff is done. Might make some youtube videos if we ever do drunk LoL again.

Guild Wars 2 Beta sign ups were open for 48 hours a couple days ago.. and they managed to get 1 million people to sign up. I really hope I get in, but from what people are saying they are going to be looking for lower end PC's to test which systems will be able to play the game.