5/10/15 Mothers Day

Today was a pretty good day. I woke up, derped around online and tried to upload my impressions of splatoon, considering that it failed to upload, again. I encoded it using live movie maker to wmv and it uploaded fine. Watch it here.


Happy Gamer's Impressions of Splatoon Global Testfire by catholiccontriversy

Then I also had the lets plays up.

After internet stuff, I went to church. It was good. After some more relaxing, it was time for Mothers Day dinner with my parents, grandparents, and their friends. There wasn't any big thing this year, but there was my grandma insisting that I have a glass of wine with my dinner. I have a glass of wine occasionally after a day of work to help unwind, but not normally with dinner. Well, it wasn't just that I normally don't drink with dinner, but it's also because the wine costs $9 a glass. I don't have a very refined pallet, mostly drinking either $1 single servings or $6 bottles. That $9 glass tasted exactly the same as the cheap stuff  and wasn't even as much as in the $1 single servings. Oh grandma, but she was happy, and since she was the one who was insisting on it, I wasn't carded. Additionally, my grandparents needed more sweet ramooth for their Manhattans. They poured some more and were offering it to their friend who also had a Manhattan, but she didn't want any more. My 20 year old brother jokingly said "I'll have it," and my grandpa was ready to give it to him. My mom and I were quick to say "NO, grandpa stop right there, you're going to get him arrested." Oh my grandparents.

After dinner we cleaned my hamster's cage. He's all clean now. Later.

5/7/15

Today was quite fun. I did a little work to take care of my college stuff. I also hung out with zeldamaster93 for a couple of hours. We played Rayman Legends and Yoshi's Island 2, and talked. My family had Little Caesar's for lunch, but the hot and ready took 15 minutes to get ready. Then after eating, we met my nephew for the first time. Read about the fun here. Later.

5/5/15

Today went pretty well. I watched some episodes of Archer and a Sabrina the Teenage Witch movie. I went to the Salvation Army to see if there was anything new; there wasn't anything, but I saw a new Otaku store on my main street. I hung out with zeldamaster93 and we checked out that new store. It's pretty cool. I think I might regular it. I went to the band concert. Later.

5/4/15

Today was alright. I went to WOW! to return some equipment I don't need. I went to the mall to check GameStop and FYE for stuff. Didn't find anything though. After that we went to Toys R Us to see if we could find a little gift for my nephew. Didn't find anything there though. I also checked out the videogames because I'm me. We then went to Best Buy to check for stuff. My brother got computer cleaning stuff, aka a can of compressed air and monitor wipes. After Best Buy we went to Target and we found our nephew a stuffed Thomas the Tank Engine and I found an 80s movie triple collection; The Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Yay. After Target we went to MicroCenter. My brother bought a cooling pad thing for his laptop. I checked to see if they Pikmin 3, they didn't. I did a little cleaning up of my college stuff after the shopping. I took some dry cleaning to the cleaners. I used some of that compressed air on my laptop and blew out some dust clouds. later

4/21/15 Senior Design Finished

Woo hoo, senior design is done. The big, end of college career, presentation is done. Yay. My parents and grandparents came to observe, and it all went well. I got my souvenir for this year, one of the pucks that we performed an experiment on. It's great. After the presentation, all the members had a celebratory half shot of bourbon. After that I went out to lunch with my family. After that, I crashed after a week of running on adrenaline. I did a couple of things after that. Later.

4/13/15

Today went well. I had a meeting with my senior design, and things went well. Got more feedback and will have to be ready by Friday. It'll be ready. I also got 3 hours of much needed community service. Later.

4/10/15 Crazy safe ride story

Hey, sorry I've been neglecting this blog. I've just been really busy and this isn't a top priority. I'll probably be gone again until the end of the semester. Projects man, just projects. Well, here's a little story from probably my craziest time doing the safe ride community service. I had some interesting patrons and saw some crazy things, like a drunk girl running towards the party house, try to jump over the curb, miss, fall on the ground, and then chose to stay on the ground because then she didn't have to fight gravity. But that's nothing compared to these patrons.
We picked up I'm guessing a grad student and his friend. They were new age hippies. Well, the lady was, the man I'm not sure. Now when I say hippy, I mean hippy. She was convinced that vaccines cause autism, and that the government wants to control the food you can grow so they can control your mind, and "we need to march against the man," and "I've lived on the streets, I know who I can trust." Not only was she very vocal in her opinion, she was also quite plastered. Her sentences were not very coherent. Her friend was also quite plastered, and oblivious to social norms. Like, he said we were taking him to his brothers house where his brother killed a guy. WHAT???!!!! We normally drop people off in places relatively close to campus. There's different apartment complexes and rented houses. Well, we drive to a neighborhood that's outside the city limits, and is a little sketchy. Like, not inner city hood sketcy, but red neck "there's probably a meth lab in one of these houses" sketchy. It was rather uncomfortable. Not "I'm afraid for my life" uncomfortable, but "oh what did we get ourselves into?" uncomfortable. I didn't think they had any weapons, and even if they did, they weren't with it enough to use them effectively. Well, after all is said and done, they tipped us really well. We got $36 from that ride, so there's that. We won the tip contest of the night.
I've done the safe ride thing for 4 years now, and have had probably over 100 people, and they were the most interesting. Later.