I don't post anymore. I don't know why. I am just too lazy. Posting is for my own benefit so that I can look back years later and remember what I was up to. For this reason, I'm going to start posting again. Occasionally. If I remember to.
Today I had an interview at Blue C Sushi. It went alright. He said he could probably give me two or three days a week, and that the other location in U-village might be able to give me other days. He being head chef Taka (if that's how you spell it).
Also I got a DS on July 3rd. It's sweet. I took it to Hoodsport for the bike ride with Orion and Davis, but they didn't bring theirs because Orion was being nice since I "didn't have one". Anyway, Brain Age is fun. I don't care what any of you say. I just pick it up for 10-30 minutes every day, complete the exercises, and then move on to something else. Also it has a ton of Sudoku on it which gives me something to do. I'm trying to get Tetris DS, but it's hard since they don't make it anymore. An ebay seller I'm tracking has 35 minutes left before I bid and hopefully get it. That will be sweet.
Life is... ok at the moment. Ashley and I don't hang out too much anymore, but when we do it's a lot of fun so I guess that's ok. Uhm, I kinda want to play Ultimate/Frisbee right now, but people seem to be busy/not calling me. Maybe Chris just gave up because people kept saying no. Oh well.
This is a lame post. Oh well.
Also, here is me training my brain:
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Life
Ok so, my life is kinda fucked up right now. School is going down the drain, and I am quite possibly throwing away my life every day. I am currently failing health, which means I will not be gradating high school if I don't make some changes. That being said, to all my fellow Starcraft players, I must ask you a favor... do not allow me to play anymore. I'm serious. No matter how hard I want to play, you must stop me and tell me that I need to be concentrating on school work. I'll try to stay on Ultimate, but idk how long it will be until Suckol finds out about my grades and I'm kicked off. But yeah, please don't mention this stuff at Frisbee because I really want to be able to stay on the team. Bleh this is kinda hard to do right now. Ok another thing, I shouldn't watch Starcraft videos anymore either. Lately those have sucked up a lot of my time, and maybe if I don't feel compelled to keep up with all the Korean leagues right now, I'll be able to focus on school. Wait forgot to add the point to that last sentence, if you see me watching Starcraft or loading Starcraft videos at school, somehow stop me, no matter what I say.
Alright well besides school life is pretty good. Ashley and I are really happy together, and I see this lasting a really long time, as long as I stay on path with graduation and SCC.
I got a road bike on Sunday, and I'm really happy with it. I hope I will be able to spend more time biking, and perhaps that will cut the computer/vg addiction. bleh I don't want to write anymore.
Alright well besides school life is pretty good. Ashley and I are really happy together, and I see this lasting a really long time, as long as I stay on path with graduation and SCC.
I got a road bike on Sunday, and I'm really happy with it. I hope I will be able to spend more time biking, and perhaps that will cut the computer/vg addiction. bleh I don't want to write anymore.
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Starcraft
I got tired of posting about Spring Break, so time to move onto Starcraft.
Sitting in Adult Living right now with nothing to do. I'm going to start being more active in TL (Team Liquid) again. I'm going to track Proleague and it's going to be really fun. I used up my 4 bets today, I'm still not sure how LiquidBets works. It said I had 4 bets open, so I bet on the 4 proleague matchups. It's the start of the season, so no games have been played yet. This is a great time to start betting. Btw you don't get anything for winning, just forum ranks I think. And by forum ranks I mean profile ranks that show under your name when you post on the forums.
Yesterday was my first day back to Starcraft in a loooong time. Keir is on Spring Break right now so I was able to play with him. We played something like 6-7 games, and won all but our last 2, which were both against teams of Koreans. I watched the replays this morning (Tuesday) and saw that one of the guys had over 300 apm, which is totally ridiculous. We could have done better that game to... had I not incorrectly assumed where my choke was =/. All our matches were played on Python 1.3, and were all really fun.
This paragraph probably should have come first, but w/e. So I got a new loader instead of BWL now. I now use the one I heard about from Combat-EX (Wasif1112). I'm not sure if that's the right link, but I can't check since I am at school and youtube is blocked. Anyway it is a really great program called Adv Loader that includes many features, including the all-important zerg mineral hack detection. That saved Keir and I from a wasted 20 minutes and pointless loss. Excellent program that is amazingly easy to use. There is one glitch involving Windows that I read about today, but it is easily solved.
Can't wait for more people to get back into Starcraft!!
**Edit: I will probably start making the montage again, so if you want to be in it, you better play with me. =P
Sitting in Adult Living right now with nothing to do. I'm going to start being more active in TL (Team Liquid) again. I'm going to track Proleague and it's going to be really fun. I used up my 4 bets today, I'm still not sure how LiquidBets works. It said I had 4 bets open, so I bet on the 4 proleague matchups. It's the start of the season, so no games have been played yet. This is a great time to start betting. Btw you don't get anything for winning, just forum ranks I think. And by forum ranks I mean profile ranks that show under your name when you post on the forums.
Yesterday was my first day back to Starcraft in a loooong time. Keir is on Spring Break right now so I was able to play with him. We played something like 6-7 games, and won all but our last 2, which were both against teams of Koreans. I watched the replays this morning (Tuesday) and saw that one of the guys had over 300 apm, which is totally ridiculous. We could have done better that game to... had I not incorrectly assumed where my choke was =/. All our matches were played on Python 1.3, and were all really fun.
This paragraph probably should have come first, but w/e. So I got a new loader instead of BWL now. I now use the one I heard about from Combat-EX (Wasif1112). I'm not sure if that's the right link, but I can't check since I am at school and youtube is blocked. Anyway it is a really great program called Adv Loader that includes many features, including the all-important zerg mineral hack detection. That saved Keir and I from a wasted 20 minutes and pointless loss. Excellent program that is amazingly easy to use. There is one glitch involving Windows that I read about today, but it is easily solved.
Can't wait for more people to get back into Starcraft!!
**Edit: I will probably start making the montage again, so if you want to be in it, you better play with me. =P
Monday, April 07, 2008
Spring Break
Best Spring Break ever!!
Ok so Friday was the field trip for physics, and that was pretty fun. It wasn't really that it was amazingly entertaining, but it was better than having to spend the last day before spring break in class. We still had to go to first period though, which didn't really matter since it was just sitting there receiving our check from The School of the Rock Contest. Meh, wasn't that fun but better than having to rehearse. We got out of band really late, after everyone else had already walked to the highland ice arena, so the few of us that were in band and physics had to walk there late. We didn't get there very late though, because there was still a line to the door for getting ice skates, so I guess it was nice not having to stand in line very long. We went to the rink 2, at least I think it was rink 2, and skated around for a while. I guess there was a worksheet some people were working on, but nobody really cared about it since it could be bsed anyway.
After ice skating we went to Spin Alley and started the bowling half of the field trip. Now ice skating I'm not bad at since I have pretty good balance, but bowling, bleh I suck at bowling. I found out later from my mom that I have been bowling like... 3 times or something when I was in elementary school. I suck. It's not that I don't mind bowling, it might be fun if I did it more often, but it's frustrating to know I could do better but still mess up more often then not. We played one and a half games, and Eric Chan was by far the best in our group. Our group consisted of Anton, Eric, Orion, Davis, David, Sai, Eli, and I. I might be forgetting someone but oh well. Eventually the pizzas showed up and we had to eat some crappy veggy pizza until more showed up. I only had like 2 slices of decent pizza, and 2 slices of crappy veggy that I wanted to throw up the second I swallowed. Oh well there were a lot of people and $40 only goes so far. Was it only a $40 class fee? For some reason I remember it being higher.
After the field trip I did the paper route with Orion, we played some DD, and started recording our times. I probably went on GW after he left, but that was over a week ago so I can't remember.
Saturday
Um, probably played a lot of GW... yeah I wasted a lot of my break playing GW. I'm glad I stopped using xfire... because it would be very depressing to see how long I played.
Sunday
Hung out with Ashley at her house, that was fun.
Monday
Ashley came over and we played ping-pong and did other stuff.
Tuesday
Played Guild Wars, then Ashely came over and we did stuff. Afterwards I tried to start getting into a workout schedule again. As of today, Monday April 7, I have not continued. I think I'm going to keep like an exel chart or something.
Wednesday
Still felt like being active after yesterday, so I went outside and played basketball. Ashley came over later and we shot some hoops, then I was reminded of how good jump roping is for endurance. That's something I can do on the off days that I don't lift.
Thusday
Too be continued....
Ok so Friday was the field trip for physics, and that was pretty fun. It wasn't really that it was amazingly entertaining, but it was better than having to spend the last day before spring break in class. We still had to go to first period though, which didn't really matter since it was just sitting there receiving our check from The School of the Rock Contest. Meh, wasn't that fun but better than having to rehearse. We got out of band really late, after everyone else had already walked to the highland ice arena, so the few of us that were in band and physics had to walk there late. We didn't get there very late though, because there was still a line to the door for getting ice skates, so I guess it was nice not having to stand in line very long. We went to the rink 2, at least I think it was rink 2, and skated around for a while. I guess there was a worksheet some people were working on, but nobody really cared about it since it could be bsed anyway.
After ice skating we went to Spin Alley and started the bowling half of the field trip. Now ice skating I'm not bad at since I have pretty good balance, but bowling, bleh I suck at bowling. I found out later from my mom that I have been bowling like... 3 times or something when I was in elementary school. I suck. It's not that I don't mind bowling, it might be fun if I did it more often, but it's frustrating to know I could do better but still mess up more often then not. We played one and a half games, and Eric Chan was by far the best in our group. Our group consisted of Anton, Eric, Orion, Davis, David, Sai, Eli, and I. I might be forgetting someone but oh well. Eventually the pizzas showed up and we had to eat some crappy veggy pizza until more showed up. I only had like 2 slices of decent pizza, and 2 slices of crappy veggy that I wanted to throw up the second I swallowed. Oh well there were a lot of people and $40 only goes so far. Was it only a $40 class fee? For some reason I remember it being higher.
After the field trip I did the paper route with Orion, we played some DD, and started recording our times. I probably went on GW after he left, but that was over a week ago so I can't remember.
Saturday
Um, probably played a lot of GW... yeah I wasted a lot of my break playing GW. I'm glad I stopped using xfire... because it would be very depressing to see how long I played.
Sunday
Hung out with Ashley at her house, that was fun.
Monday
Ashley came over and we played ping-pong and did other stuff.
Tuesday
Played Guild Wars, then Ashely came over and we did stuff. Afterwards I tried to start getting into a workout schedule again. As of today, Monday April 7, I have not continued. I think I'm going to keep like an exel chart or something.
Wednesday
Still felt like being active after yesterday, so I went outside and played basketball. Ashley came over later and we shot some hoops, then I was reminded of how good jump roping is for endurance. That's something I can do on the off days that I don't lift.
Thusday
Too be continued....
Friday, March 28, 2008
21 The Movie
Thursday was a pretty cool day, followed by an even better evening.
Went to school, 2nd period Psych took notes, 4th period Calc took notes and got a worksheet, 6th period health watched "Supersize Me" and Ashley came with me since her class was on a field trip that she wasn't going on. After school Ultimate practice was just like every other practice. We ran a couple drills and then scrimmaged. Not very many people where there this time... only like 14-15. After practice I got my hopes up because Ashley left a message saying she might be able to go to the movie at 7:00. After getting home I txted Chris and said I wasn't going to take him, only to call him back later and change plans again.
Got home and worked on... something... I can't really remember but I remember I had to take a fatty dump and I took my laptop with me to work on something =P. Uh, some other stuff happened... my brain isn't really working... like too good... right now. Uhhhmmm... yeah. Chris came over around 6:00, and we left around 6:30. We got to the theater in like... 6 minutes or something it was freaking amazing. It was a bit past Northgate Mall, and we didn't know where exactly it was. Google maps directions were pretty good though, but it took us to the rear end of the theater, which worked out since we saw the line wrapping around to the back side. I parallel parked on the street behind, and we walked right to the line. Stood in line for like... 15 minutes? I don't remember, and I forgot my phone in the car so I didn't have the time. We talked about stuff for a while, and then got into the theater. They took our ticket, then we had to go through security which consisted of 3-4 cops and a guy with a metal detector wand thingy. We didn't bring a camcorder, which was lucky since we never would have got in. It was funny though, because the wand kept beeping, but the guy using it was just like ok so that must be your keys... beeeeeep, that must be some change in your pocket... beeeeep, that's your keys again. There was no way they would have fit a recording device in their pockets, but it was just funny how he didn't even care that it was beeping on every single person, and he just let them in.
Inside the theater there was a poker table set up, with people playing, of course, Blackjack. The movie was good, and Chris and I had a great time. I hope I can get more of those premiere tickets again some time.
I'll post later about today (Friday) and the field trip that we are going to go on.
Went to school, 2nd period Psych took notes, 4th period Calc took notes and got a worksheet, 6th period health watched "Supersize Me" and Ashley came with me since her class was on a field trip that she wasn't going on. After school Ultimate practice was just like every other practice. We ran a couple drills and then scrimmaged. Not very many people where there this time... only like 14-15. After practice I got my hopes up because Ashley left a message saying she might be able to go to the movie at 7:00. After getting home I txted Chris and said I wasn't going to take him, only to call him back later and change plans again.
Got home and worked on... something... I can't really remember but I remember I had to take a fatty dump and I took my laptop with me to work on something =P. Uh, some other stuff happened... my brain isn't really working... like too good... right now. Uhhhmmm... yeah. Chris came over around 6:00, and we left around 6:30. We got to the theater in like... 6 minutes or something it was freaking amazing. It was a bit past Northgate Mall, and we didn't know where exactly it was. Google maps directions were pretty good though, but it took us to the rear end of the theater, which worked out since we saw the line wrapping around to the back side. I parallel parked on the street behind, and we walked right to the line. Stood in line for like... 15 minutes? I don't remember, and I forgot my phone in the car so I didn't have the time. We talked about stuff for a while, and then got into the theater. They took our ticket, then we had to go through security which consisted of 3-4 cops and a guy with a metal detector wand thingy. We didn't bring a camcorder, which was lucky since we never would have got in. It was funny though, because the wand kept beeping, but the guy using it was just like ok so that must be your keys... beeeeeep, that must be some change in your pocket... beeeeep, that's your keys again. There was no way they would have fit a recording device in their pockets, but it was just funny how he didn't even care that it was beeping on every single person, and he just let them in.
Inside the theater there was a poker table set up, with people playing, of course, Blackjack. The movie was good, and Chris and I had a great time. I hope I can get more of those premiere tickets again some time.
I'll post later about today (Friday) and the field trip that we are going to go on.
Monday, March 24, 2008
So, you want a blog post?
Whaa Baaam!
How's this for a post!
Wow my weekend was... very secluded.
I spent... many hours playing Guild Wars.
Friday after going to my dads... GW.
Saturday before the Ultimate games... GW.
Saturday after the Ultimate games... GW.
Sunday after going back to Shoreline, but before driving to Camano Island where my Uncle and Aunt live... ok well then I just talked with Ashley.
Sunday after getting home at 7:00 from "brunch" with family... GW for a little and then other stuff.
Bleh, so much Guild Wars... yet so productive. I made a killing this weekend! So many awesome drops. I got enough Golden Eggs + Keys for treasure hunter on my monk, and almost enough gold items for Wisdom title on my main. I can't remember if the Wisdom title has an inherent effect, but I know with treasure hunter you get +3% salvage rate on lock picks and materials. I don't think that was +3% materials actually... just +3% chance to retain the item you salvage an upgrade component from. Either way a useful title.
Alright so I'm going to focus on Ultimate more I think... because I am receiving very positive comments from the coaches. Hmm... Bruegger thinks I could play "professionally" or at the college level. That's exciting to hear... but I highly doubt that SCC has an Ultimate Frisbee team. Maybe I can find a league with openings on teams somewhere. Either way I need to train harder and put more effort into practices... since lately I haven't really been trying or cared about practices at all. Yay for Ultimate!
Hmm... my grades are shit right now. I really hope that I can keep my license... since my mom said that if I didn't get a 3.0gpa she might not let me get insurance, and thus get my license revoked. That would not be cool, especially since I really enjoy driving her new car.
Alright well STAR is over and I don't feel like staying in Psych class any longer. I might make another post soon with more stuff that is going on. Could be as soon as next period, could take as long as a month. We'll see.
How's this for a post!
Wow my weekend was... very secluded.
I spent... many hours playing Guild Wars.
Friday after going to my dads... GW.
Saturday before the Ultimate games... GW.
Saturday after the Ultimate games... GW.
Sunday after going back to Shoreline, but before driving to Camano Island where my Uncle and Aunt live... ok well then I just talked with Ashley.
Sunday after getting home at 7:00 from "brunch" with family... GW for a little and then other stuff.
Bleh, so much Guild Wars... yet so productive. I made a killing this weekend! So many awesome drops. I got enough Golden Eggs + Keys for treasure hunter on my monk, and almost enough gold items for Wisdom title on my main. I can't remember if the Wisdom title has an inherent effect, but I know with treasure hunter you get +3% salvage rate on lock picks and materials. I don't think that was +3% materials actually... just +3% chance to retain the item you salvage an upgrade component from. Either way a useful title.
Alright so I'm going to focus on Ultimate more I think... because I am receiving very positive comments from the coaches. Hmm... Bruegger thinks I could play "professionally" or at the college level. That's exciting to hear... but I highly doubt that SCC has an Ultimate Frisbee team. Maybe I can find a league with openings on teams somewhere. Either way I need to train harder and put more effort into practices... since lately I haven't really been trying or cared about practices at all. Yay for Ultimate!
Hmm... my grades are shit right now. I really hope that I can keep my license... since my mom said that if I didn't get a 3.0gpa she might not let me get insurance, and thus get my license revoked. That would not be cool, especially since I really enjoy driving her new car.
Alright well STAR is over and I don't feel like staying in Psych class any longer. I might make another post soon with more stuff that is going on. Could be as soon as next period, could take as long as a month. We'll see.
Monday, February 11, 2008
P a C 2!!
Friday was a pretty normal day. I went to school, listened to KZOK in band to listen for the results of the Battle of the Bands Contest we had entered. We got 2nd place, with Shorecrest taking 1st. 2nd prize is $5,000, half as much as Shorecrest's $10,000 grand prize. We were excited, but I think Harshman expected better. He called up Shorecrest's band director, his brother-in-law, during class and found that only 12 of their 72 students were in class, because of the Obama rally. Third period I sat in class and acted like I was paying attention while mindlessly copying down everything on the white board. Lunch was really windy and wet, so we decided to stay in the SAC. In creative writing we did some shit about figurative writing and using metaphors or something, and class actually went by really fast. That is going to be a decent class. After school Orion and I pwned up some houses, and did the weekly DD practice. I seem to remember us losing a lot, but w/e. Went to WS around 7:30, let the boredom begin.
Saturday started off fairly early for my standards. Woke up around 7, and did creative writing hw before going for some disgusting heart healthy cereal. After "breakfast" I went back upstairs and studied for the psychology test Tuesday. After lying around for awhile not doing much, I talked with Ashley and she suggested we hang out. I asked Andrea if I could borrow her car, since my dad was at work all day, and she was fine with it. So I drove the really nice Acura to Shoreline, picked up a disc and health hw, and drove to Mountlake Terrace. Driving a car for once is nice, but I've gotten so used to my dad's explorer, that I just like it more. Much bigger engine. Ashley and I walked to Mountlake Terrace High and threw a frisbee around, then it got cold so we walked back. Hung out at her house for a while... ok a long time. It was semi-awkward at times since her Aunts didn't know about me... and they were smart enough to assume things. Left around 12:15, and was really tired when I got home.
Bleh this post is already too long...
Sunday I woke up around 1:30 by my dad who came barging in with no knock telling me we had to leave at 2:30 for the funeral of my grandma's sister Lucy. I got dressed, went downstairs, and ate some French toast that was probably made hours earlier. I had to nuke it in the microwave, but it was decent. After Kelsey's shower I started to go into the upstairs bathroom, but my dad went downstairs and yelled "shit!" when he saw an enormous puddle in the kitchen below the bathroom. I had to use the downstairs shower, which was assembled incorrectly so that Cold and Hot are switched. Even though I already knew that, it was more like Cold and Cold were switched. After three showers, there was no hot water left. Took a 4 minute or less shower and got into my nicer clothes consisting of slacks and a button up shirt. We got to the funeral home in Shoreline, where we met my Cousin, Uncle, Cousin's mom (not my Aunt), Grandma, Lucy's daughter, and Lucy's daughter's... daughter (we call her my cousin but she is probably my second cousin or something). Funeral was short and small, we went to Marie Calendars afterwards because that was Lucy's favorite restaurant. We sat at the restaurant for a long time after everyone had finished, talking about various things. I learned about how much funeral homes try to take advantage of people by charging them way to much for anything they can think of. It's sick. Went home, worked on health hw, went to sleep.
So this week I am excited since I found out this morning that Soul Caliber, and Mario DDR (or w/e it's called) came over the weekend. Those will be fun. Also first track practice today, I feel that I'm ready, but we shall see. Still don't know what I'm going to do for Valentines day... suggestions?
Oh also, the title is P a C 2 because Pro at Cooking 2 came out friday. Can't wait until March 1st!!!
Saturday started off fairly early for my standards. Woke up around 7, and did creative writing hw before going for some disgusting heart healthy cereal. After "breakfast" I went back upstairs and studied for the psychology test Tuesday. After lying around for awhile not doing much, I talked with Ashley and she suggested we hang out. I asked Andrea if I could borrow her car, since my dad was at work all day, and she was fine with it. So I drove the really nice Acura to Shoreline, picked up a disc and health hw, and drove to Mountlake Terrace. Driving a car for once is nice, but I've gotten so used to my dad's explorer, that I just like it more. Much bigger engine. Ashley and I walked to Mountlake Terrace High and threw a frisbee around, then it got cold so we walked back. Hung out at her house for a while... ok a long time. It was semi-awkward at times since her Aunts didn't know about me... and they were smart enough to assume things. Left around 12:15, and was really tired when I got home.
Bleh this post is already too long...
Sunday I woke up around 1:30 by my dad who came barging in with no knock telling me we had to leave at 2:30 for the funeral of my grandma's sister Lucy. I got dressed, went downstairs, and ate some French toast that was probably made hours earlier. I had to nuke it in the microwave, but it was decent. After Kelsey's shower I started to go into the upstairs bathroom, but my dad went downstairs and yelled "shit!" when he saw an enormous puddle in the kitchen below the bathroom. I had to use the downstairs shower, which was assembled incorrectly so that Cold and Hot are switched. Even though I already knew that, it was more like Cold and Cold were switched. After three showers, there was no hot water left. Took a 4 minute or less shower and got into my nicer clothes consisting of slacks and a button up shirt. We got to the funeral home in Shoreline, where we met my Cousin, Uncle, Cousin's mom (not my Aunt), Grandma, Lucy's daughter, and Lucy's daughter's... daughter (we call her my cousin but she is probably my second cousin or something). Funeral was short and small, we went to Marie Calendars afterwards because that was Lucy's favorite restaurant. We sat at the restaurant for a long time after everyone had finished, talking about various things. I learned about how much funeral homes try to take advantage of people by charging them way to much for anything they can think of. It's sick. Went home, worked on health hw, went to sleep.
So this week I am excited since I found out this morning that Soul Caliber, and Mario DDR (or w/e it's called) came over the weekend. Those will be fun. Also first track practice today, I feel that I'm ready, but we shall see. Still don't know what I'm going to do for Valentines day... suggestions?
Oh also, the title is P a C 2 because Pro at Cooking 2 came out friday. Can't wait until March 1st!!!
Friday, February 01, 2008
Semester 7: Complete
Just finished off the first semester of Senior year. Whoopie. Soooo like what to do... (see poll). Sorry about not posting for awhile, not that anybody besides David cares. I got back into Madden '07, but idk how long it will entertain me. Steven Finafrock is taking the Steelers to the Super Bowl this year, and making an appearance in the pro bowl, but sooner or later I will get bored of it again. Uhhhh yeah. I feel like playing Starcraft kinda, but at the same time I want to get back into Guild Wars. Also I'm not sure I really want to be playing video games right now. I just finished a puzzle yesterday and that was fun so I might just do another one. Meh... so many things to do... so much time to do them.
Saturday, January 05, 2008
Hurray for driving!
Today I took my drivers test, and passed with a 96/100. I know, I'm pro. I missed 4 points on backing around a corner, but I'm not sure why... I think it might have been because I was too far away from the curb or something. My tester obviously just wanted to get through it, since my appointment was at 1:30, and we finished around 1:20. Just because I have my license doesn't mean anything is going to chance, because I still don't have a car. I guess this just means that I can drive when my mom is home.
Anyway, life is awesome right now. So many good things happening to me, I have a feeling something very bad is about to change my life... oh well. Almost 18! I can just about smell it.. it smells like porn and poker chips, though I have become less interested in both lately.
Anyway, life is awesome right now. So many good things happening to me, I have a feeling something very bad is about to change my life... oh well. Almost 18! I can just about smell it.. it smells like porn and poker chips, though I have become less interested in both lately.
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Winter Break: In Review
Overall, an amazing break. I'll start with the last day of school...
Last day of school before break I watched... 2 movies and played ping-pong. After school we wanted to play some frisbee, so David, Davis, Orion and I threw a disc around at Shorewood because Orion needed to talk to Mr. Noise, who was in a parent conference. We waited for awhile, but the conference didn't end so we started to head over to Shoreline A + B. We threw a disc around for awhile, then Sai got out of swim practice and we played a weak 2v2 game until David and Sai had to leave. Orion and I threw the disc around for awhile and then Ashley showed up after working on her project. We continued to throw around for what seemed like a really long time, though it was fun and good practice for the two newbies. It got dark, and I had to go to my dads house, so we stopped at around 5... though it was awhile ago so I might be off.
Stayed at my dads until Christmas. Not much happened, I was sick for a couple days, we went to the Men's Chorus with my grandma, got last minute shopping done. Christmas Eve dinner was at my grandmas with my dad's family as usual. It was nice seeing family again but... it lasted until like 1 am and we were all really tired. My dad let me drive back to the Shoreline house and I slept until 10:30 pm Christmas day.
Christmas was Christmas, my mom's family came over and we did the usually Christmas dinner, nothing special. Played ultimate a couple days after Christmas, and that was really fun. We had a good turn out that included Ashley, David, Davis, Sai, Bodon, Zack, Bjorn, and Melvin who is Zack's friend. Not a bad game, my team, consisting of Ashley, Melvin, David, and I, lost miserably, but it was still fun. Also I got hit in the face (see below).
Break continued, and so did my procrastination. Didn't get much done, but watched a few movies and played some Starcraft. Eventually Orion wanted to get in on some ultimate so we tried to get something together last minute, which failed and left Ashley, Davis, Orion and I throwing a disc around for awhile until we got bored. Davis was hungry, so we went to Taco Bell where Davis and Orion got some quesadillas... am I spelling it wrong or is it not in the blogger dictionary? We then went back to my house and played some Wario Ware for awhile.
Next day Jack felt bad for not showing up to the frisbee event the night before, so he planned a huge ultimate game at 10. Ashley was having internet problems so she came over early and she worked on her college apps for awhile and then we hung out. Jack came over maybe 20 minutes before the game and played some Wario Ware with us. Then we went to the Ultimate game, which was amazing. The teams were Zack, Chris, Jeff Bair, Mike (aka Big Mike), Adam and I against Jack, Ashley, Willa, Ryan, Ian, Nick (Chelsea Grossman's fiance), and Andrew Namkum. We won 13-2, it was amazing, so was I.
New Years Eve. Ashley was asking me about what I was doing, so I invited her to the GoW party saying she could come with the approval of David and Sai. I guess it was approved. She made up some excuse to come over early, so she was dropped off and got here around 1:15. I think we started off playing ping-pong in the garage. There was a lot of crap in front of the table, so we had to move everything to the side. Ping-pong was fun, I played easy on her but she was decent for someone who doesn't play. After a while we went inside, and Italian Job was in the DVD player so I decided I wanted to watch that. We sat on the couch and the movie started playing. Ashley isn't very good at paying attention to movies. We sat on the couch like two friends would do, but she eventually she leaned over and gave me a kiss on my cheek. I was pretty surprised by this, because I didn't know she felt that way about me. She said something like, "You know, I like you too. You don't have to worry." Some combination of those two sentences. At this point I got kinda nervous. My heart started beating, and I knew what was going to come next. She was waiting for something... but I wasn't sure I was ready to ask. She repeatedly said things like, "Isn't there something you want to ask me?" and, "Nothings different yet." Eventually I asked the obvious question, and she said yes. It was a very happy time. We lied together on the couch, and started doing things only now that we were in a relationship could we do. Hmm that sounds really bad... yeah we just kissed for a bit. I was very happy. It was a very happy evening. (If you are reading this, yes. I did edit this later and put most of the above in after the original post.) Around 6:50 or so we left for David's via the van my mom is borrowing from the Grossman family. The party was decent. Played some smash, 2v2 GoW, 3v3 Halo, and missed the countdown to the new year (>.<). Ashley said she had fun.
First day of the year. Played some Quinn, which transformed into Starcraft and our single game of Snowball Wars for the 2007 Winter break. Needless to say we pwned. Sai signed on so we played Helms Deep instead, then a 4v4 game that didn't go so well.
Today, the last day before school, I did my psychology homework having realized the night before that we had been assigned notes. That was fun1.
Yeah like I said overall this break was amazing. By far my best winter break yet, and probably the best of any of my breaks during the year. Not too bummed that it's over, looking forward to daily frisbee again. Also I think my life will start getting better. I'm going to try to be more organized and get hw done early, as my part of my New Year's Resolution always has to do with doing hw.
Dang this was a long post.... my bad.
Last day of school before break I watched... 2 movies and played ping-pong. After school we wanted to play some frisbee, so David, Davis, Orion and I threw a disc around at Shorewood because Orion needed to talk to Mr. Noise, who was in a parent conference. We waited for awhile, but the conference didn't end so we started to head over to Shoreline A + B. We threw a disc around for awhile, then Sai got out of swim practice and we played a weak 2v2 game until David and Sai had to leave. Orion and I threw the disc around for awhile and then Ashley showed up after working on her project. We continued to throw around for what seemed like a really long time, though it was fun and good practice for the two newbies. It got dark, and I had to go to my dads house, so we stopped at around 5... though it was awhile ago so I might be off.
Stayed at my dads until Christmas. Not much happened, I was sick for a couple days, we went to the Men's Chorus with my grandma, got last minute shopping done. Christmas Eve dinner was at my grandmas with my dad's family as usual. It was nice seeing family again but... it lasted until like 1 am and we were all really tired. My dad let me drive back to the Shoreline house and I slept until 10:30 pm Christmas day.
Christmas was Christmas, my mom's family came over and we did the usually Christmas dinner, nothing special. Played ultimate a couple days after Christmas, and that was really fun. We had a good turn out that included Ashley, David, Davis, Sai, Bodon, Zack, Bjorn, and Melvin who is Zack's friend. Not a bad game, my team, consisting of Ashley, Melvin, David, and I, lost miserably, but it was still fun. Also I got hit in the face (see below).
Break continued, and so did my procrastination. Didn't get much done, but watched a few movies and played some Starcraft. Eventually Orion wanted to get in on some ultimate so we tried to get something together last minute, which failed and left Ashley, Davis, Orion and I throwing a disc around for awhile until we got bored. Davis was hungry, so we went to Taco Bell where Davis and Orion got some quesadillas... am I spelling it wrong or is it not in the blogger dictionary? We then went back to my house and played some Wario Ware for awhile.
Next day Jack felt bad for not showing up to the frisbee event the night before, so he planned a huge ultimate game at 10. Ashley was having internet problems so she came over early and she worked on her college apps for awhile and then we hung out. Jack came over maybe 20 minutes before the game and played some Wario Ware with us. Then we went to the Ultimate game, which was amazing. The teams were Zack, Chris, Jeff Bair, Mike (aka Big Mike), Adam and I against Jack, Ashley, Willa, Ryan, Ian, Nick (Chelsea Grossman's fiance), and Andrew Namkum. We won 13-2, it was amazing, so was I.
New Years Eve. Ashley was asking me about what I was doing, so I invited her to the GoW party saying she could come with the approval of David and Sai. I guess it was approved. She made up some excuse to come over early, so she was dropped off and got here around 1:15. I think we started off playing ping-pong in the garage. There was a lot of crap in front of the table, so we had to move everything to the side. Ping-pong was fun, I played easy on her but she was decent for someone who doesn't play. After a while we went inside, and Italian Job was in the DVD player so I decided I wanted to watch that. We sat on the couch and the movie started playing. Ashley isn't very good at paying attention to movies. We sat on the couch like two friends would do, but she eventually she leaned over and gave me a kiss on my cheek. I was pretty surprised by this, because I didn't know she felt that way about me. She said something like, "You know, I like you too. You don't have to worry." Some combination of those two sentences. At this point I got kinda nervous. My heart started beating, and I knew what was going to come next. She was waiting for something... but I wasn't sure I was ready to ask. She repeatedly said things like, "Isn't there something you want to ask me?" and, "Nothings different yet." Eventually I asked the obvious question, and she said yes. It was a very happy time. We lied together on the couch, and started doing things only now that we were in a relationship could we do. Hmm that sounds really bad... yeah we just kissed for a bit. I was very happy. It was a very happy evening. (If you are reading this, yes. I did edit this later and put most of the above in after the original post.) Around 6:50 or so we left for David's via the van my mom is borrowing from the Grossman family. The party was decent. Played some smash, 2v2 GoW, 3v3 Halo, and missed the countdown to the new year (>.<). Ashley said she had fun.
First day of the year. Played some Quinn, which transformed into Starcraft and our single game of Snowball Wars for the 2007 Winter break. Needless to say we pwned. Sai signed on so we played Helms Deep instead, then a 4v4 game that didn't go so well.
Today, the last day before school, I did my psychology homework having realized the night before that we had been assigned notes. That was fun1.
Yeah like I said overall this break was amazing. By far my best winter break yet, and probably the best of any of my breaks during the year. Not too bummed that it's over, looking forward to daily frisbee again. Also I think my life will start getting better. I'm going to try to be more organized and get hw done early, as my part of my New Year's Resolution always has to do with doing hw.
Dang this was a long post.... my bad.
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Whap happens when you are playing ultimate and you run up to gaurd an inexperienced player?
...you get hit with a frisbee thrown at full force in the face.
it hurt.
Wednesday we played ultimate from 4:30 to like....some time after 4:30, maybe around 6? Ok well we didn't play ultimate that whole time, first we were throwing a disc around, we being Davis, David, Zach R, and Melvin (I think that was his name) who is a friend of Zack's and coached Zack when he was on SW ultimate. After awhile Zack decided we should do 2v2 with perma handler, but then Sai and Bodon finished their swim practice and they joined us. Oh also Bijorn (idk how to spell it, bee-yorn) a friend of Zack's I have hung out with many times showed up. that made it 4 on 4. we played maybe one point, then Ashley was dropped off and we played 4v5 for awhile. My team got pwned, but I blame it on having been hit in the face, and having more inexperienced players, our 3 to their 2.
Christmas was good too I guess, but that will take awhile to post about so instead I will add some specifically good gifts I received. Got a miniDV camcorder from my dad that my cousin said is really good. Got a $100 gift card to best buy. Got a poster of Transformers signed by cast. Got a ps2 game from my cousin, which is funny because I have gamecube in Shoreline and xbox in West Seattle, and he guesses ps2.
Shoot one more thing I just remembered I was going to post about, I had a very gay experience before christmas... my grandma wanted to go to the Men's Chorus at Benaroya Hall. It was gay.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Escape + Spring Reign
This weekend I was introduced to escape games, which can become extremely addictive. For those of you who don't know what an escape game is, they are point and click based puzzles that require you to interact with your room in order to escape. You click things, gather items, combine and use items, and ultimately find a way to open the door and escape. For a good list of escape games, look here :list of escape games
One particularly good room that I escaped with the help of Ashley and Nick, (a guy from Cali), was muselock, found here: muselock
Don't get too frustrated, just ask for some help if you need it. Also it makes it more entertaining if you try to solve together with someone else, making it easier and faster as well.
Try not to get too addicted, remember to take breaks and then go back with a fresh mind. I found it helps to work on a different room for awhile so you can get a look at different types of puzzles and styles, then go back and look at it a different way.
One last note, we need to play more ultimate. I found a video of Churchill's freshman team, normally called B division team, at Spring Reign 2007. We played them in the semi-finals, and you can watch clips of the game at around 3:30. Of course the clips are designed to make them look good and us bad, but we do suck, and they did beat us 13-3. Churchill is one of the better teams no doubt, and don't expect us too look like them this season. =P
Spring Reign 2007
One particularly good room that I escaped with the help of Ashley and Nick, (a guy from Cali), was muselock, found here: muselock
Don't get too frustrated, just ask for some help if you need it. Also it makes it more entertaining if you try to solve together with someone else, making it easier and faster as well.
Try not to get too addicted, remember to take breaks and then go back with a fresh mind. I found it helps to work on a different room for awhile so you can get a look at different types of puzzles and styles, then go back and look at it a different way.
One last note, we need to play more ultimate. I found a video of Churchill's freshman team, normally called B division team, at Spring Reign 2007. We played them in the semi-finals, and you can watch clips of the game at around 3:30. Of course the clips are designed to make them look good and us bad, but we do suck, and they did beat us 13-3. Churchill is one of the better teams no doubt, and don't expect us too look like them this season. =P
Spring Reign 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
What's up?
Here are a couple of things I found amazing...
first a random video from break.com that Chris showed me: http://break.com/index/sweet-move-in-wheelbarrow-race.html
Second a pretty cool starcraft game that I thought I would post:
Ok so we need to play more Starcraft, or people should send me replays, because honestly most of the ones I thought were good...make us look like shit.
That is all.
first a random video from break.com that Chris showed me: http://break.com/index/sweet-move-in-wheelbarrow-race.html
Second a pretty cool starcraft game that I thought I would post:
Ok so we need to play more Starcraft, or people should send me replays, because honestly most of the ones I thought were good...make us look like shit.
That is all.
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Starcraft Montage!
David, Sai and I were playing some Starcraft Sunday night and Sai made this hilariously awesome SCV rush that pwned this zerg player, when I realized I have a lot of good replays from games we have had. At this point I decided to make a montage of some of our great Starcraft moments. Not only would this finally put SOT on youtube, but I will have a lot of fun making it also. Uhh... I can't think of anything else to say right now so yeah. Oh btw sorry about that last post, I was obviously in a bad mood.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
FUCK.
fucking pissed god fucking damnit. fucking sitting at home after failing at trying to play a frisbee game yesturday. then at fucking 11 zack messages me and tells me i just missed out on a fuckign amazing frisbee game at richmond beach library. fucking shit. really pissed right now, cant thik of a way to blow off steam. feel like calling so many people right now and being mda at them for not calling me. oh well fuck. fuck fuck fucking pissed god fuckign damnit. and to add to this fuck fest, my mom just decided to tell me we are goign to my aunts all day tomorrow for a birhday party for my grandma. so fucking whole sunday wasted. fuckign shit. so pissed rihgt now i cant even think. i need to go fuck some ppl up in cs i think. FUCK. oh also read the post below i made earlyer today when i was in a good modo. adlfkjad fuck.
Mmmm Turkey
It's been awhile since I made a post about life in general, so I'm not sure where to start. I guess I'll just talk about this weekend so far since a lot has happened and nothing interesting happens during the school week. Oh, besides me winning HoH in Guild Wars again and this time opening the chest before the time expired. Ok so Wednesday after school.. I think that was the day I was going to take the bus so I wouldn't have to go to Top Foods but I missed the bus so I went and walked around Tops for 30 minutes or so. Got to get in on the future new product at the student store. By the way David, I was right you don't have to be in DECA to be in marketing, it's just an option. When I got home Zack told me about how Eastern has extremely sweet computers with very large monitors set up JUST for gaming. They have tons of games pre-installed and since it's a college the internet is like... lag-less. He then talked about how he started playing Starcraft and wanted me to play again, so I looked into getting that fixed. Also Wednesday I downloaded some new music.
Thursday was Turkey Day, and yes, I ate too much turkey and other traditional thanksgiving foods. After dinner I didn't even feel up to shoving down some pie into my already overflowing stomach, but I managed to find space =P. Started playing Starcraft again, and met up with Peter, Ben, Albert, Oliver, and most importantly Keir on Bnet. I could barely control my excitement to be back on the battle field, but I managed to control my childish joy in order to keep good composure in the Skype conference. Even though I think I went 1-2, with the only win being Keir and I vs. Ben, it was still a lot of fun.
Friday I woke up and immediately went from breakfast to Starcraft. David was playing Mass Effect, but since he is a good friend, he played some Starcraft with me, and the others that got on later. We played some ums maps and I got a few of the good ums maps we used to play from David through Skype file sharing. While on Bnet, Peter said he might be able to come up North to Shoreline for a day or two, so we started planning a frisbee game.. that never ended up happening. David came over around... 4:30 or some time around there because once again he is a great guy, and Orion wouldn't answer his phone so we could plan the paper route. By 5:00pm it was already really dark so David and I rushed to get the paper route done before Peter would hopefully arrive. It was really cold but I think we may have made a new record for paper route delivery time. After the route David and I pwned up some GCN and waited for people to arrive. Eventually Orion and Alex got here with still no sign of Peter. I was told at this point that we would have a good amount of people for a frisbee game, but I will talk about my annoyance with this later.
We gamed on the Cube/PC until a little before 9, then we headed over to Shoreline A/B fields in hopes of having a game of ultimate started soon. When we got there one of Zack's friends pulled up at the same time, and we threw a couple discs around for a few minutes until everyone else showed up. When everyone else got there, they decided, (or more Gerard decided), that they were going to play football instead. I really don't like playing football because it seems so skill-less and non-strategic when they play it. Alex, Orion, David, Chris and I continued to throw the discs around for awhile. That got old after awhile and we decided we should go make sheer pwnage. At this point it was 10:15 and we didn't have a video camera on hand. We drove to David's in hopes that his sister had the video camera at home, but she had lent it to a project partner for some reason.
We sat at David's house listening to Alex play acoustic, before realizing we were cold and some of us were hungry. On the way to my house to pick up Alex's wallet and keys, Orion tried to predict the change of the red light, but instead ended up looking stupid sitting halfway into the intersection with a red light. Right as he had crossed almost completely passed the cross-walk and he and I were laughing with random "shits" in there, a cop took a left turn coming from the opposite side in front of us. At this point the "shits" and laughs increased, and we saw him slow down as he decided whether or not to turn around, luckily for us he was feeling generous and kept going. We kept going down 185th towards Aurora, seeing another cop car on the way. Good times, too bad we didn't have the camera.
Sat at Denny's for awhile, probably made the "clumsy" waitress think we were all high and had the munchies. Orion's car had died when we got there and he couldn't start it, but luckily after we were done, it had enough juice to start. Afterwards we drove back to my house, but unfortunately the downstairs was taken by my mom and sister who were watching..ugh..Hairspray... We decided to go our separate ways, but Orion's car wouldn't start again. We sat in the basement for around 20 minutes on the computer, hoping his car would start given a break. No such luck. He left it here and jogged home deciding he would come back with his dad tomorrow (Saturday) and pick it up then.
So far not much has happened today. We (meaning I) put up Christmas lights on the house, and Orion picked up his car. No one was on aim/msn so I decided to make this blog post and hopefully by the time I was done people would be on and ready to play Starcraft. None of the Clan is on right now, but I'm not on Skype so I'll try that now. Sorry this post was so long, but you're the one who was willing to read it all. And besides, this isn't so much to inform others of what happens, but to have a record of things we did so that, with my poor memory, I can look back and remember all the good times we had. Ok time to go get my micro back. -pronoob5 is back!
Thursday was Turkey Day, and yes, I ate too much turkey and other traditional thanksgiving foods. After dinner I didn't even feel up to shoving down some pie into my already overflowing stomach, but I managed to find space =P. Started playing Starcraft again, and met up with Peter, Ben, Albert, Oliver, and most importantly Keir on Bnet. I could barely control my excitement to be back on the battle field, but I managed to control my childish joy in order to keep good composure in the Skype conference. Even though I think I went 1-2, with the only win being Keir and I vs. Ben, it was still a lot of fun.
Friday I woke up and immediately went from breakfast to Starcraft. David was playing Mass Effect, but since he is a good friend, he played some Starcraft with me, and the others that got on later. We played some ums maps and I got a few of the good ums maps we used to play from David through Skype file sharing. While on Bnet, Peter said he might be able to come up North to Shoreline for a day or two, so we started planning a frisbee game.. that never ended up happening. David came over around... 4:30 or some time around there because once again he is a great guy, and Orion wouldn't answer his phone so we could plan the paper route. By 5:00pm it was already really dark so David and I rushed to get the paper route done before Peter would hopefully arrive. It was really cold but I think we may have made a new record for paper route delivery time. After the route David and I pwned up some GCN and waited for people to arrive. Eventually Orion and Alex got here with still no sign of Peter. I was told at this point that we would have a good amount of people for a frisbee game, but I will talk about my annoyance with this later.
We gamed on the Cube/PC until a little before 9, then we headed over to Shoreline A/B fields in hopes of having a game of ultimate started soon. When we got there one of Zack's friends pulled up at the same time, and we threw a couple discs around for a few minutes until everyone else showed up. When everyone else got there, they decided, (or more Gerard decided), that they were going to play football instead. I really don't like playing football because it seems so skill-less and non-strategic when they play it. Alex, Orion, David, Chris and I continued to throw the discs around for awhile. That got old after awhile and we decided we should go make sheer pwnage. At this point it was 10:15 and we didn't have a video camera on hand. We drove to David's in hopes that his sister had the video camera at home, but she had lent it to a project partner for some reason.
We sat at David's house listening to Alex play acoustic, before realizing we were cold and some of us were hungry. On the way to my house to pick up Alex's wallet and keys, Orion tried to predict the change of the red light, but instead ended up looking stupid sitting halfway into the intersection with a red light. Right as he had crossed almost completely passed the cross-walk and he and I were laughing with random "shits" in there, a cop took a left turn coming from the opposite side in front of us. At this point the "shits" and laughs increased, and we saw him slow down as he decided whether or not to turn around, luckily for us he was feeling generous and kept going. We kept going down 185th towards Aurora, seeing another cop car on the way. Good times, too bad we didn't have the camera.
Sat at Denny's for awhile, probably made the "clumsy" waitress think we were all high and had the munchies. Orion's car had died when we got there and he couldn't start it, but luckily after we were done, it had enough juice to start. Afterwards we drove back to my house, but unfortunately the downstairs was taken by my mom and sister who were watching..ugh..Hairspray... We decided to go our separate ways, but Orion's car wouldn't start again. We sat in the basement for around 20 minutes on the computer, hoping his car would start given a break. No such luck. He left it here and jogged home deciding he would come back with his dad tomorrow (Saturday) and pick it up then.
So far not much has happened today. We (meaning I) put up Christmas lights on the house, and Orion picked up his car. No one was on aim/msn so I decided to make this blog post and hopefully by the time I was done people would be on and ready to play Starcraft. None of the Clan is on right now, but I'm not on Skype so I'll try that now. Sorry this post was so long, but you're the one who was willing to read it all. And besides, this isn't so much to inform others of what happens, but to have a record of things we did so that, with my poor memory, I can look back and remember all the good times we had. Ok time to go get my micro back. -pronoob5 is back!
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Household Hackers
So I was surfing youtube like I do every weekend I am at my dads, when I came across some really cool experiment type videos I thought would be interesting to try. I think I have all the materials, except maybe an extra mini jack audio cable and a RCA cable, but someone might have extra they are willing to spare, or I could just go buy one of each since neither would be very expensive. Next weekend for sure I'm going to try some of these out, so if you're interested leave a comment and we will set a time that is good for everyone who wants to check it out. The good thing about this plan is, even if no one responds, I can still do these on my own and film them or something.. except for my lack of a video camera..
Youtube profile: http://www.youtube.com/user/HouseholdHacker
Website: http://www.householdhacker.com/
I plan on trying all three and none of them should take long so there will also be time for gaming/poker/ultimate/whatever.
Also since the poll is doing well I think I'll extend it to see if any more votes come in.
Youtube profile: http://www.youtube.com/user/HouseholdHacker
Website: http://www.householdhacker.com/
I plan on trying all three and none of them should take long so there will also be time for gaming/poker/ultimate/whatever.
Also since the poll is doing well I think I'll extend it to see if any more votes come in.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
The Legend of Pi
For those of you who are not interested in Guild Wars, I would stop reading now.
Yeah so I'm pretty sure Pi is one of the best guilds out there.. other than the fact that we are not quite on the guild ladder atm. All of the officers/members are friendly and willing to help, and the leader of Pi is an all around great guy. I met up with him before I was actually in the guild, and he was gracious enough to give my monk - at that time unranked - a chance at LoD/infusing* for a ranked group. It was great times. We got great fame runs, and I gained a lot of experience in monking as he gave me pointers along our path the the Hall of Heroes. When our time to prove our selves at the top of the international tournament finally arrived, we were unfortunate enough to suffer a 3 way tie between two other amazing teams (yes I realize I am very inconsistent with spelling out numbers). After that day time passed on, but I would never forget that voice that led us to victory time and time again.
So another day, probably a month later, I am sitting in RA id1 waiting to join battle, when some officer of Pi spams a recruiting message for The Legend of Pi. Prior to this date I had already thought about leaving The Sacred Order of Teriyaki in the hands of Orion or David, but I had not yet given it up. It was at this point that I decided it was time join a guild that could take me places, instead of the dead-end 10 person - 2 people at any given time - max population of our guild. From here on out, it was smooth sailing into rank 3 hero.
So yeah, the day I was invited I hopped on the vent server and chatted it up with a couple of the officers who were there just talking about stuff. They were very inviting and I felt good about my decision to leave Teriyaki. The very next night, as we do every night, our leader got on and organized an ha run (I not amazing at grammars, but "a ha" sounds weird). When I got on the vent server after taking the role of N/Rt healer for a SWAY group, who's voice did I hear? None other than the gracious leader who had taken me in and given me pointers over a month ago. He didn't recognize me by voice, but when I mentioned the three way tie in halls, he remembered. Good times.
So now, what this post was all leading up too, the grand finale, the conclusion! It has almost been two months since I first joined Pi, (1 month and 25 days, but who's counting?), and I have been officially made Officer. Finally my skills and activity (as opposed to inactivity?**) have payed off, and now I can participate at a higher level within the guild. This includes participating in officer of the week, getting a vote for the next guild hall, having a say in what our guild cape should look like, have access to the "officers only" portion of the website, and most importantly.. Recruit new members! Heck, if SOT gets a bit better, I could get it in our alliance and perhaps go back to SOT and still be able to GvG and ha with Pi! Oh btw Pi is not currently recruiting because we have a lot of inactive members and we need to trim down the size of the guild.
Btw I have taken lots of fraps videos of GvG's and Ha runs for anyone who wants to see them. Haven't made them into videos but if you just want the raw videos put your email into a comment or email me @ pronoob5@gmail.com.
*At the time LoD/infusing was a very important role that prevented members of the part from being spiked down. However in the patch of Thursday, November 8th, 2007, LoD was nerfed and WoH took it's place as the WoH/infuser.
**I have no idea if activity can be used to describe the amount of time being spent on Guild Wars, but I know the root "active" describes whether or not you play often so I just assumed activity would work.
Yeah so I'm pretty sure Pi is one of the best guilds out there.. other than the fact that we are not quite on the guild ladder atm. All of the officers/members are friendly and willing to help, and the leader of Pi is an all around great guy. I met up with him before I was actually in the guild, and he was gracious enough to give my monk - at that time unranked - a chance at LoD/infusing* for a ranked group. It was great times. We got great fame runs, and I gained a lot of experience in monking as he gave me pointers along our path the the Hall of Heroes. When our time to prove our selves at the top of the international tournament finally arrived, we were unfortunate enough to suffer a 3 way tie between two other amazing teams (yes I realize I am very inconsistent with spelling out numbers). After that day time passed on, but I would never forget that voice that led us to victory time and time again.
So another day, probably a month later, I am sitting in RA id1 waiting to join battle, when some officer of Pi spams a recruiting message for The Legend of Pi. Prior to this date I had already thought about leaving The Sacred Order of Teriyaki in the hands of Orion or David, but I had not yet given it up. It was at this point that I decided it was time join a guild that could take me places, instead of the dead-end 10 person - 2 people at any given time - max population of our guild. From here on out, it was smooth sailing into rank 3 hero.
So yeah, the day I was invited I hopped on the vent server and chatted it up with a couple of the officers who were there just talking about stuff. They were very inviting and I felt good about my decision to leave Teriyaki. The very next night, as we do every night, our leader got on and organized an ha run (I not amazing at grammars, but "a ha" sounds weird). When I got on the vent server after taking the role of N/Rt healer for a SWAY group, who's voice did I hear? None other than the gracious leader who had taken me in and given me pointers over a month ago. He didn't recognize me by voice, but when I mentioned the three way tie in halls, he remembered. Good times.
So now, what this post was all leading up too, the grand finale, the conclusion! It has almost been two months since I first joined Pi, (1 month and 25 days, but who's counting?), and I have been officially made Officer. Finally my skills and activity (as opposed to inactivity?**) have payed off, and now I can participate at a higher level within the guild. This includes participating in officer of the week, getting a vote for the next guild hall, having a say in what our guild cape should look like, have access to the "officers only" portion of the website, and most importantly.. Recruit new members! Heck, if SOT gets a bit better, I could get it in our alliance and perhaps go back to SOT and still be able to GvG and ha with Pi! Oh btw Pi is not currently recruiting because we have a lot of inactive members and we need to trim down the size of the guild.
Btw I have taken lots of fraps videos of GvG's and Ha runs for anyone who wants to see them. Haven't made them into videos but if you just want the raw videos put your email into a comment or email me @ pronoob5@gmail.com.
*At the time LoD/infusing was a very important role that prevented members of the part from being spiked down. However in the patch of Thursday, November 8th, 2007, LoD was nerfed and WoH took it's place as the WoH/infuser.
**I have no idea if activity can be used to describe the amount of time being spent on Guild Wars, but I know the root "active" describes whether or not you play often so I just assumed activity would work.
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Life
So per request I am making another blog post. Okay well Halloween was recently... that's a good starting point. Ok so as 3/4 of the people reading this post already know about the Guild Wars events, I will talk briefly about it. So yeah it was a gamer weekend with a bonus PVP game which was costume brawl. I played it a bit, not as much as I would have liked. Also the main cities were decorated with Halloween attire, they looked pretty cool. During the event there were special items - or treats you could say - that give certain bonuses, or just get your drunk. I found a great way to farm* these items and other rare items and it was good times. On Halloween this guy comes and gives you free items and festival hats that are only available for one day. Ok enough of Guild Wars.
Lets see what else has happened.. worked on brain project with Sai, learned about Bloon Tower Defense, lost our soccer game, started watching Starcraft replays on youtube again, got very addicted to Starcraft replays again, and once again got asked to go to a midnight ultimate game which I had to turn down because of being at my dad's house. Yay being left out!
Other than having to be here, life is good. Chris got a 360 with his birthday money, (I assumed that last part), and I might have to spend more time over there now seeing as how it is two blocks away and just too convenient to pass up. I'm trying to recruit more people to ultimate, but our ratio of guys:girls is looking increasingly worse. Optimal would be 4:3 since we have to field 3 girls, look like at best we are going to get around 5:1. But other than that looks like we will have a good year, lot's of new players with promising attitudes and effort. Last year it was just sad because 3/4 of the team was new to the sport, and the other 1/4 was just okay (generally speaking).
Dammit I made a longer post than usual. I guess this means I will have to read everyone else's long posts. Off to surf blogs then.
Oh and Go Hawks! -- almost game time it was on my mind =P
Lets see what else has happened.. worked on brain project with Sai, learned about Bloon Tower Defense, lost our soccer game, started watching Starcraft replays on youtube again, got very addicted to Starcraft replays again, and once again got asked to go to a midnight ultimate game which I had to turn down because of being at my dad's house. Yay being left out!
Other than having to be here, life is good. Chris got a 360 with his birthday money, (I assumed that last part), and I might have to spend more time over there now seeing as how it is two blocks away and just too convenient to pass up. I'm trying to recruit more people to ultimate, but our ratio of guys:girls is looking increasingly worse. Optimal would be 4:3 since we have to field 3 girls, look like at best we are going to get around 5:1. But other than that looks like we will have a good year, lot's of new players with promising attitudes and effort. Last year it was just sad because 3/4 of the team was new to the sport, and the other 1/4 was just okay (generally speaking).
Dammit I made a longer post than usual. I guess this means I will have to read everyone else's long posts. Off to surf blogs then.
Oh and Go Hawks! -- almost game time it was on my mind =P
Friday, October 26, 2007
stuff
A lot of stuff has happened lately, but I just haven't had the motivation to post. Here are some of the things that have been going on:
1. HEROES OMFG!
I have become addicted to the show heroes in the span of like a week. I started watching the first season on tv-links since I could only find the second season on nbc. that worked well for awhile, until the guy who hosted the site was arrested, and the site shut down. this was a major drawback to watching heroes, and i watched lots of movies on that site. oh well.
2. GVG IS PWNAGE!!
In Guild Wars the guild i'm in recently starting gvging again, which is great because it is a lot more fun than anything i have experienced in guild wars yet. i could go on, but those of you who play guild wars will likely hear me talk about it often, and those who don't couldn't care less.
3. *UNDER CONSTRUCTION*
i can't think of stuff right now so i'll go back and edit this post later when i think of something. i definitely don't have anything else to do here (at my dads).
1. HEROES OMFG!
I have become addicted to the show heroes in the span of like a week. I started watching the first season on tv-links since I could only find the second season on nbc. that worked well for awhile, until the guy who hosted the site was arrested, and the site shut down. this was a major drawback to watching heroes, and i watched lots of movies on that site. oh well.
2. GVG IS PWNAGE!!
In Guild Wars the guild i'm in recently starting gvging again, which is great because it is a lot more fun than anything i have experienced in guild wars yet. i could go on, but those of you who play guild wars will likely hear me talk about it often, and those who don't couldn't care less.
3. *UNDER CONSTRUCTION*
i can't think of stuff right now so i'll go back and edit this post later when i think of something. i definitely don't have anything else to do here (at my dads).
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