So it looks like Blogust has come to an end. This was much more successful of an attempt for me. I said that I would try to post a portion of my project for Communication on today's blog, so here's what I have written so far for my assignment.
I can remember the good old days before life got complicated, not to say I didn't live a good life. Back in the early 2000s I started college at Antelope Valley College in Lancaster. I couldn't think of what to do with my life so I just lazily took some classes until I fell deeply in love with Physics. I transfered to Cal State Northridge to get my Bachelor's degree and then I went on to UC San Diego for my doctorates in Theoretical Astrophysics.
I spent a good year on my dissertation alone. I'm sure if you looked hard enough you could find a published form of my paper, "Music and Blackholes" somewhere or another. In 2018, at the age of 29 I finally earned the title of doctor, graduating with top honors.
After graduating I applied at many universities across California in hopes to find a job with adequite funding for research. I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater UCSD in the theoretic physics department. Though it was a little strange going from student to coworker with some of my professors adapting to the environment came fairly quickly.
Ten years, I spent ten years working at my dream job before I had to set that aside for my other dream, one I thought impossible, to hunt zombies. It turns out that a particular theory for improving travel in space, something we worked on with the biology department, had gone tragically awry. We tried to put astronauts into a heightened level of self-sustanance when they were taken over by their primal desires.
The zombie outbreak was uncontainable, or so it seemed. The infection spread through 90% of the science department within the first hour despite all of our precautions. Within a week San Diego was lost to the infected, only a hand-full of us survived long enough to plan an escape. As time went on the government set up quarantines and scheduled bombings/military cleansings of the areas. The tragedy was almost unbearable, the only thing that kept me going was the only other surviving member of my team, Doctor Margo Sezville. I lost my arm during our retreat from San Diego to save her, from that day we were completely in love.
Basically from here the zombies are completely eradicated, save for a few that pop up occasionally, but thanks to precautions are dealt with safely.
It's been great and I hope you guys enjoyed my blog posts this last month. Until next time.
Notoriously,
Mandog
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
Penultimate
So this is the second to last post for my Blogust 2010. Tomorrow I plan to make a more significant post, maybe I'll post a portion of my Comm assignment on here to fulfill the one aspect of Blogust I had yet to complete. I'm getting ready to head off to improv, another great day in the great life that is the Mandog.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
ZOMG
Today was a great, nay GRAND day. Nickbot needed to go to the Getty Villa for a school project, so a few of us went with him today. The Getty Villa is a really nice place, I highly suggest it to anyone. We walked around for a while and saw a lot of really awesome pieces of art. It was a nice relaxed viewing of primarily Greco-Roman art and structures, with some Egyptian stuff in there too. After walking around for a while and Nickbot getting the picture he needed we head off for food. We stop off at Subway just because it's there and it's not as insanely expensive as the Pearl Dragon. What happened next is the true highlight of today.
We decide that we want to visit Riot Studios since we were down near their offices. So we find their address, or well two, and drive over there. We After finding the first address we go up to the building and find out it was locked. So we walked around to look to find the other building, turns out that one was probably their old building. We decide to go back to the first building just to check and as we were outside looking at the listing and saw Riot Games. At this point some guy walked out he talked to us for a bit and told us that he was on the third floor too. He asks us if we want him to go up and ask if someone would come down and we were like, "Sure, probably won't get us anything, but why not?" He goes up there and a few minutes later someone else walks out. We talk to the guy that works for Riot for a while and he's like, "Want to come up?" We're all, "HECK YES!" So we go up to the studios talking to him about the game and who we are, once we get there we meet Pendragon. To avoid making us sign NDAs he does a very swift walk around the office and then takes us back downstairs talking a bit more about the game. It was awesome!
Also, picture
We decide that we want to visit Riot Studios since we were down near their offices. So we find their address, or well two, and drive over there. We After finding the first address we go up to the building and find out it was locked. So we walked around to look to find the other building, turns out that one was probably their old building. We decide to go back to the first building just to check and as we were outside looking at the listing and saw Riot Games. At this point some guy walked out he talked to us for a bit and told us that he was on the third floor too. He asks us if we want him to go up and ask if someone would come down and we were like, "Sure, probably won't get us anything, but why not?" He goes up there and a few minutes later someone else walks out. We talk to the guy that works for Riot for a while and he's like, "Want to come up?" We're all, "HECK YES!" So we go up to the studios talking to him about the game and who we are, once we get there we meet Pendragon. To avoid making us sign NDAs he does a very swift walk around the office and then takes us back downstairs talking a bit more about the game. It was awesome!
Also, picture
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Winding Down
So my blogs as of late have been fairly inconsequential and just me rambling off to have a post for the day. I know that this sucks, but I've done a ton better than I ever imagined that I would be able to this time around. With my long posts on how to play Anivia, recipes and tales of woe I've exceeded the expectations I set for myself. The only thing I haven't done is posted a portion of a story, either an excerpt or a standalone. I hope to do this before Blogust ends, but there are a mere three days left and I'm going to the Gettyvilla tomorrow with some of the Nickbots. Now the chat on League of Legends is bugging out again, this is just awesome. I love that game, but the servers are seriously buggy as hell. Looks like it's back up, and I may be playing soon. Take care.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Yeah....
Blogging poop again today. Hanging out with peoples. Talking adamantly about console wars. Stuff and things. See you guys later.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
BS
I highly dislike being forced to read as I have stated, so most of the upcoming English 102 semester will be me BSing my way through everything. So last night I got enough IP to get Ezreal, this makes me happy. Ezreal was a character that when I looked at him I wasn't impressed but once I decided to actually try him out I had a blast. He's a lot of fun, you can spam all of his skills because of Mystic Shot's secondary effect of reducing cooldowns by a second. I don't think I'm going to be posting an Ezreal guide, mainly because I'm not that great as him yet. All I know is harass, harass, harass. Well I'm going to end it here, and I won't post it on anything either because this post is inconsequential, but I hope to make one last post of meaning before the end of Blogust.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
I Don't Want To
I have to read and post so much shit for my English class... I wonder if I can skim and BS the whole class. I really hate reading a lot of stuff just for the sake of reading. When I read I want to read for the sake of learning and entertainment. Most stuff I am force to read for classes teaches me next to nothing and is boring as hell. Well here's to a successful, hopefully, semester.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Blogust and Life
Looks like my posts may be getting wholly less significant for the rest of Blogust, aside from my few requirements I have yet to meet. I have decided, in an effort to make up for Spring, to take all Gen Eds this semester, of which most will require quite a bit of homework and writing. Once I hit college I decided that grades are important to me, so this hobby I chose to do is now going to be taking a backseat to my academics. I hope to be able to post more of my Anivia guide and the completed concept for my LoL champion. In fact, I have an hour I might as well work on the concept for Mao Shi.
Mao Shi: the Shaolin Weapon Master
Passive: I can't think of one that would fit... help?
Q: Jian Style / Heart Lunge - Mao switches from his current weapon to the Jian, increasing his dodge chance by a percent per level, maxing out at 24% at level 5. If already in Jian Style Mao will lunge forward at the target doing magical damage maxing out at 350 at level 5.
W: Twin Hooks Style / Severe Tendons - Mao switches from his current weapon to the Twin Hooks, increasing his attack speed by a percent per level, maxing out at 50% at level 5. If already in Twin Hooks Style Mao's next attack will hit the target in vital areas doing additional damage and slowing the target, maxing out at 200 damage and 35% at level 5.
E: Bo Staff Style / Iron Will - Mao switches from his current weapon to the Bo Staff, increasing his attack range to 150 and his defense per level, maxing out at 125 at level 5. If already in Bo Staff Style Mao will gain MR equal to the armor granted by Bo Staff Style.
R: The True Weapon is One's Self- Mao fights unarmed for 30 seconds retaining all of the passives from each of the weapons, and being capable of using each of the weapons' techniques.
I just threw in numbers that I felt were appropriate based off of other numbers found on similar skills on other champions. Leave some feedback for him if you would like.
Mao Shi: the Shaolin Weapon Master
Passive: I can't think of one that would fit... help?
Q: Jian Style / Heart Lunge - Mao switches from his current weapon to the Jian, increasing his dodge chance by a percent per level, maxing out at 24% at level 5. If already in Jian Style Mao will lunge forward at the target doing magical damage maxing out at 350 at level 5.
W: Twin Hooks Style / Severe Tendons - Mao switches from his current weapon to the Twin Hooks, increasing his attack speed by a percent per level, maxing out at 50% at level 5. If already in Twin Hooks Style Mao's next attack will hit the target in vital areas doing additional damage and slowing the target, maxing out at 200 damage and 35% at level 5.
E: Bo Staff Style / Iron Will - Mao switches from his current weapon to the Bo Staff, increasing his attack range to 150 and his defense per level, maxing out at 125 at level 5. If already in Bo Staff Style Mao will gain MR equal to the armor granted by Bo Staff Style.
R: The True Weapon is One's Self- Mao fights unarmed for 30 seconds retaining all of the passives from each of the weapons, and being capable of using each of the weapons' techniques.
I just threw in numbers that I felt were appropriate based off of other numbers found on similar skills on other champions. Leave some feedback for him if you would like.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Back to School
I have got to say that even though I had one class that lasted only an hour it feels so great to be back in classes again. I missed the environment of learning, being surrounded by hundreds of people I don't know yet could at any minute meet. I look forward to learning something, anything. My life has structure once again, I missed it so much. Some people might think I'm weird to feel this way, but honestly learning is one of few things that I thoroughly enjoy and will never get tired of. I have a sort of obsession with obtaining new facts, it's just part of who I am.
So it looks like creating a LoL Champion is the thing that's been going on lately amid the blogging group I participate in (or maybe just the Nickbots in general) so I'm going to be working on mine. I'm contemplating some stuff, though it's a little complex I like it. The concept is a Shaolin Weapon's Master.
So it looks like creating a LoL Champion is the thing that's been going on lately amid the blogging group I participate in (or maybe just the Nickbots in general) so I'm going to be working on mine. I'm contemplating some stuff, though it's a little complex I like it. The concept is a Shaolin Weapon's Master.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Gunna Get Heading Out
Going to watch Scott Pilgrim vs the World with Blakegetsbitches, Stanley and Joe in a bit. They should be here soon and then we'll head on down to Valencia. I don't think this is worth making a bitly url for and posting, so I won't. School starts tomorrow and I'm actually pretty excited. I'm looking forward to a good semester. Oh and I might post a review of the movie, or maybe more LoL. Take care Blogust.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Cutting it Close
Well it's just on the cusp of the deadline so let me briefly recap my day. I went to a good friends memorial service, though I was a little late, talked with people and exchanged stories remembering him(Tropical drinks... speaking of which, Marlon had come up with a plan for me to pee my bed in Jack's honor and well it involved drinking half of a gallon of Tampico, last time I had done this was when I was hanging out with my friend Brandi. I happened to see Brandi at the fair today for the concert). Went to hang out with some friends for lunch, came home and went right back out to go to the fair, looked around then watched Weird Al in concert (which I have done 3 times now and every time it has been phenomenal). Met up and hung out with some people from highschool, ate dinner and then left the fair. Now I'm preparing to head out one final time today to play pool and chill with some of the Nickbots before the summer ends.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Requiescat in Pace
Since tomorrow is his memorial service is tomorrow I figure I'll do a little memorial on my blog here. John T Hall, Jack, and I had met in improv I want to say in Spring 2009, but I'm not too sure. Jack was the old guy of the group, but that was only in appearance, he was one of us through and through no matter how old he truly was. The longer I knew him the more he worked his way into my heart. He was nice, fun, funny, smart and had many great stories to tell. Life was going well, he was pursuing something he loved, theater. I worked with him in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, me being part of the production team/usher/house manager and him being one of the Caiaphas the Elder, seeing as it was double cast. Shortly after the end of the play I learned that he was battling with cancer, but it didn't seem to dampen his spirits, at least outwardly. He would commonly make cancer jokes and laugh about it. July 18th (possibly the night of the 17th) he had lost his battle with cancer and had passed on. Jack is loved by everyone who he has come into contact with, I say is because we will never stop loving him no matter what. I will refrain from crying and try my best to not cry tomorrow, instead I will try to smile and laugh for all of the good times we had, I'm sure that's how you wish to be remembered. So my good friend Jack Hall, requiscat in pace.
Ok, now that I've brought the mood down I guess it's a perfect time to talk about the rest of my doings. I'm trying out the biscuit mix recipe scones, I've got to say, it ended up being a small ball of dough after I mixed everything in, so in an effort to maximize the number of scones I made them smaller. This whole thing is experimental, new scone recipe, candied oranges, orange glaze... let's hope that it turns out well. I plan to upload videos of my how to Anivia guide some point in the future but it's unclear seeing as my software is the trial version.
Ok, now that I've brought the mood down I guess it's a perfect time to talk about the rest of my doings. I'm trying out the biscuit mix recipe scones, I've got to say, it ended up being a small ball of dough after I mixed everything in, so in an effort to maximize the number of scones I made them smaller. This whole thing is experimental, new scone recipe, candied oranges, orange glaze... let's hope that it turns out well. I plan to upload videos of my how to Anivia guide some point in the future but it's unclear seeing as my software is the trial version.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Hoo Ha! Nerdfighters!
As many (or possibly just a few) know I am a proud Nerdfighter. For those that don't know what a Nerdfighter is, we are not people who fight nerds, we are nerds that fight against Decepticons (non-Nerdfighters that try to put us down) and worldsuck. We live by a motto DFTBA or don't forget to be awesome. The concept of Nerdfighters was created by brothers who decided that for one year (2007) they will cease all textual communication and make alternating vlogs back and forth every non-holiday weekday. The brothers are John and Hank Green, the former an author the latter a ecotech blogger (www.ecogeek.com)/musician/webmaster. If anyone is interested in being a Nerdfighter headover to www.Nerdfighters.com and check it out, you could also watch the videos made by the Green brothers over on Youtube under Vlogbrothers.
So soon is John Green's birthday and every year the Hank will do a project for John's birthday, and visa-versa. Well I'm participating in this secret project, basically it involves me taking a picture of myself mimicking Hank. Hank wears glasses so I decided to put on my pair of glasses, which I no longer wear because doing so induces dizzying nausea. I'm alright, but I do know that I still shouldn't wear said glasses. So yeah.
So soon is John Green's birthday and every year the Hank will do a project for John's birthday, and visa-versa. Well I'm participating in this secret project, basically it involves me taking a picture of myself mimicking Hank. Hank wears glasses so I decided to put on my pair of glasses, which I no longer wear because doing so induces dizzying nausea. I'm alright, but I do know that I still shouldn't wear said glasses. So yeah.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
I hate Farmville
I hate Farmville, it is the poop of the interwebs. I was destroying in solo lane, getting the first two kills of the game, then Farmville was loaded up and all of a sudden there was a solid 4 second delay between wanting to do something, and doing it. I was lagged so hard that my 7/0/0 lead was for not since I couldn't do anything. Once the interwebs cleared out we were already down hardcore, and they were at the level that their stuns tore me to shreds. So we lost and I'm blaming it 100% on the internet being slow due to the usage of Farmville. So in essence, Farmville is the worst thing ever invented. I ended up doing decently, but I couldn't assist my team when they needed me. Here's the result of said game:
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
SCHOOL!
I'm fairly excited for school to start seeing as I've been stagnant the last... FOREVER! I'm one of those really strange people like Marlon who, for some reason, enjoy going to school. I love learning, in fact I live to learn. I'm not 100% excited since a lot of my upcoming semester will mostly consist of annoying assignments that I'm doing not to learn, but just for a grade. I'm going to aim for a 3.78 this semester, that's an A in everything but English which is a B. We'll see how everything turns out. This semester puts me at almost completing my Gen Eds, I just need my majors now. Speaking of majors I'm feeling really unsure about what I want to do with myself career wise. Right now I'm set on a course to sit at a computer typing line after line of code. I'm really not sure if that's something I can live with for the rest of my life, so I've been contemplating alternatives. I really love math and science, it's just the type of guy I am, so I figured why not do something that is a blend of them and is a subject I love. Physics, it intrigues me and is something I can see myself getting a doctorate in, maybe. The problem is I'm not sure if I can stand to go through all of that to get a doctorate in the field and and try to establish myself. Also I had a horrid professor for my 101 class, so I learned nothing in that class, if that happened again I would easily fail in the field. Another thought, which is one that people keep trying to get me to do, is cooking. I love food, making, eating, smelling, being around... I just love everything to do with food. I don't know, I just don't see myself as a chef, plus just like in programming (and kinda physics) I don't see myself doing that for life. Music?... I'm not that good, plus every job market in music is insanely difficult to get into and in some parts (like composition which I would like) seems practically impossible.
So yeah, what do you guys see me doing for a career, it would be nice to see what you think.
So yeah, what do you guys see me doing for a career, it would be nice to see what you think.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Foodz Revisited
So I have yet to make them, but I'm looking at making scones once again, last time I made Blueberry Scones, this time I'm looking at making White Chocolate and Orange Scones, I'm even looking at an Orange Icing to go on top of the scones. I'm also looking at a marshmallow fondant recipe to try out so I can see if it's worth doing in times where I would need fondant. I can't stand how fondant tastes in almost every case that I've tried it in so I'm hoping that this homemade version will taste better to me. Also, I want to make my lasagna again, I haven't cooked a lasagna in almost a year and I kinda want to try to alter my recipe some. I should write up my recipe since I use one I found as a base and then changed it to my liking. There may be something to this whole quitting school and opening a restaurant with Matt, The Kaptain Mandog. I swear, if it weren't for the exorbitant cost I would go to culinary arts school just to learn how to cook better.
Since I'm talking about recipes I guess I can give you my (well I found it online somewhere and changed the amount of butter and garlic salt [maybe orgeno and not garlic salt] because I didn't think it was the right amounts) recipe for a copy cat of Red Lobster's Cheesy Garlic Biscuits. Mind you, this is from memory since I left my copy at Stanley's house... so if it's incorrect I apologize.
4 cups biscuit mix
1 teaspoon garlic powder
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
1 1/3 cups of milk
6 tablespoons butter (melted)
2 teaspoons dried or fresh oregano
3 teaspoons garlic salt (the last two amounts might not be correct, but it's close)
Preheat oven to 400° and prepare a (usually 2) cookie sheet(s)
Mix the biscuit mix, garlic powder and cheddar cheese in a large bowl, pour in mix and stir (I knead) until a biscuit consistency. Using a two spoon method (scoop with one spoon and then even it out with the other and scrape it onto the cookie sheet) set small lumps onto the prepared sheet, they will bake larger than they are prepared so make it smaller than you think they should be. Cook for 10 minutes.
While the biscuits are cooking melt the butter in the oven. Mix the oregano and garlic salt with the melted butter until homogeneous (evenly distributed).
Pull the biscuits out after the 10 minutes, brush with the garlic oregano butter and put them back into the oven for 5 minutes. Once they're finished cooking I like to give them a final brushing of the butter mixture. Enjoy, but try to let them cool a little first.
Since I'm talking about recipes I guess I can give you my (well I found it online somewhere and changed the amount of butter and garlic salt [maybe orgeno and not garlic salt] because I didn't think it was the right amounts) recipe for a copy cat of Red Lobster's Cheesy Garlic Biscuits. Mind you, this is from memory since I left my copy at Stanley's house... so if it's incorrect I apologize.
4 cups biscuit mix
1 teaspoon garlic powder
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
1 1/3 cups of milk
6 tablespoons butter (melted)
2 teaspoons dried or fresh oregano
3 teaspoons garlic salt (the last two amounts might not be correct, but it's close)
Preheat oven to 400° and prepare a (usually 2) cookie sheet(s)
Mix the biscuit mix, garlic powder and cheddar cheese in a large bowl, pour in mix and stir (I knead) until a biscuit consistency. Using a two spoon method (scoop with one spoon and then even it out with the other and scrape it onto the cookie sheet) set small lumps onto the prepared sheet, they will bake larger than they are prepared so make it smaller than you think they should be. Cook for 10 minutes.
While the biscuits are cooking melt the butter in the oven. Mix the oregano and garlic salt with the melted butter until homogeneous (evenly distributed).
Pull the biscuits out after the 10 minutes, brush with the garlic oregano butter and put them back into the oven for 5 minutes. Once they're finished cooking I like to give them a final brushing of the butter mixture. Enjoy, but try to let them cool a little first.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Wooing the Mandog
So I'm talking to my friend Batmanda about various things and a phrase I had just said to her is, "I'm fairly certain my heart is my stomach."
Well here's a few tips for all of you ladies out there who are like, "OHMYGODINEEDTOBEWITHTHEMANDOGHEISSOEPICANDAWESOMEANDIJUSTLOVEHIMSOVERYVERYMUCH!"
- calm down, I may be so awesome you can't breathe and forget how to space out your words, but being calm helps get my interest
- cook, just cook something, you don't have to be a culinary master and you don't have to be able to cook a lot of things but if you can cook one thing well or a few things decently it definitely helps
- enjoy and partake in art, it doesn't matter what form of art, be it dancing, music, singing (it is music but I'm separating instruments and voice), painting/drawing/etc. I love art.
- be smart, intelligence is fucking awesome... enough said
- be awesome, this can be achieved though a vast variety of methods I'll let you figure it out
- have a good taste, in everything... movies, music, tv, food and me...
Well I'm off to play some LoL.
Well here's a few tips for all of you ladies out there who are like, "OHMYGODINEEDTOBEWITHTHEMANDOGHEISSOEPICANDAWESOMEANDIJUSTLOVEHIMSOVERYVERYMUCH!"
- calm down, I may be so awesome you can't breathe and forget how to space out your words, but being calm helps get my interest
- cook, just cook something, you don't have to be a culinary master and you don't have to be able to cook a lot of things but if you can cook one thing well or a few things decently it definitely helps
- enjoy and partake in art, it doesn't matter what form of art, be it dancing, music, singing (it is music but I'm separating instruments and voice), painting/drawing/etc. I love art.
- be smart, intelligence is fucking awesome... enough said
- be awesome, this can be achieved though a vast variety of methods I'll let you figure it out
- have a good taste, in everything... movies, music, tv, food and me...
Well I'm off to play some LoL.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Nothing
As I stumble (probably the greatest invention involving the internet aside from the internet itself) searching for inspiration for my blog today I find myself drawing a blank. I'm up fairly early seeing as I went to bed at around 7 and woke up at 10. It's all good though, I just got my coffee (though when I wrote that last sentence it was 11 and now it's 1). We're finishing up everything to get ready for Alice's first birthday party, so I was frosting cupcakes and covering the frosting in a sand design (cookie crumbs and sugar). I've got to get groomed up and get heading out. I'll see you guys around.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Sleep
I've been sleeping later and later in the day, and yes I do mean day. I haven't gone to sleep before four in a few months. I'm hoping that in a weeks time my sleep cycle has rotated around back to the place where I wake up at a normal hour (for me, which is about 10).
So last night into this morning I, along with Dave, Rob and Joe were talking about parents and I feel lucky. A lot of people complain about how their parents are constantly on their case about staying out/up late and everything, where as my parents know that I'm responsible and are ok with me staying out late. I constantly say, though usually only internally, that I am really lucky when it comes to parents. Growing up I had a set of rules that were enforced, I had both parents to raise me with support and love. As I got older they become more comfortable with me doing my thing, though transitionally I had to be with my brother which is fair. Now they support me, love me, and help me out while letting me leave at ten and come back in at ten. If, perchance you are reading my blog, and even if you aren't, I want to say that I love you mom and dad.
So last night into this morning I, along with Dave, Rob and Joe were talking about parents and I feel lucky. A lot of people complain about how their parents are constantly on their case about staying out/up late and everything, where as my parents know that I'm responsible and are ok with me staying out late. I constantly say, though usually only internally, that I am really lucky when it comes to parents. Growing up I had a set of rules that were enforced, I had both parents to raise me with support and love. As I got older they become more comfortable with me doing my thing, though transitionally I had to be with my brother which is fair. Now they support me, love me, and help me out while letting me leave at ten and come back in at ten. If, perchance you are reading my blog, and even if you aren't, I want to say that I love you mom and dad.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Adventure
There, I said it. It's out there and I'm not taking it back. I'll even say it out loud for the sake of being thorough on my blog. If I suffer the repercussions, know it was for you. So I had stated that once a week I will take a topic someone suggests, if there are any, and write about it and it looks like Marlon has challenged me to write about the word adventure. I will explain our aversion to the word via my favorite method, anecdotally.
Stating the word adventure is a great tool with a high cost. You see when you say that you want to have an adventure, and mean it, you will have an adventure. The downside to saying the word, is cops get involved (we theorize that it could be something negative, such that if you want police to show up, they won't and something much worse would occur). To this point I have walked away from each situation unharmed and with no repercussions, but there will be a time where my luck will run dry. Here's where the anecdotes begin.
Incident 1: Marlon, Waldino, Roadie and myself were dropping something off at Waldino's house. After Waldino gets back in the car we notice not only is there a police helicopter circling above us, there seems to be an abundance of cop cars in the neighborhood. Roadie decides that he wants to check it out, that it will be "an adventure", and so we are partially to blame since we listened to Roadie. After seeing a few cop cars and getting our fill we decide we're done and want to leave, the only thing is we got ourselves lost. You see where Waldino used to live was one of those neighborhoods with a few dead-end streets and a plethora (yes, more than useful) of looping streets that will make it impossible to stick to our grid-like system in the AV. We start pulling up on a T-section in which a cop car is parked, we approach it with caution and as we get closer the cop pulls his gun out and points it at Marlon's head. We are sufficiently freaking out about now, but trying to stay calm, as we pass the car the cop yells out, "Got nothing better to do?" and we just leave.
Incident 2: Matt, Stanley, Bobby and myself are driving around town because Matt had a bad day, also to note the word had been said whilst driving around. After Matt starts getting into a better mood the guys decide they want some food so Matt pulls into McDonald's. They order their food and everything is fine, except it turns out Matt had bought a cap gun earlier and was joking about pointing at the cashier. The guys wrestle over the cap gun so that Matt doesn't do this absolutely retarded idea. At one point during said wrestling the gun is waved out of the window, the car behind us obviously sees it, backs up and drives the hell off. We get the food, pull around and park so they can eat. As you can probably guess the cops show up now, just one car at first. We're told to put our hands on the car and then we're frisked (cop fingers linger and Mandog's taint.....) and while being searched the situation was explained briefly. Two of the guys get put into the back while they look up our records and another cop car pulls up. Very shortly after car number two pulls in cars three through six also pull in. The cops talk over the situation while Bobby and I still have our hands on the hood, during this discussion a female cop is ranting, "I don't care if it's one time or a hundred times we should press charges!" After a few minutes the cops give us our stuff back, let the two out of the back and say, "Get out of here."
Incident 3: Marlon, Waldino and myself hang out for the first time in almost a year so we want to go on an adventure. This was roughly a year ago today because it was during the Perseid's Meteor Shower which is currently occuring. We drive out to a secluded part of the desert and watch the meteor shower for a while after trying to do so at a park and seeing nothing. Once we had our fill of staring at space Waldino tells us that we should go to Eastside Highschool to look at their campus. We pull up and decided to put on a random selection of extra clothing out of Marlon's car and grab instruments. We walk around in the parking lot for a while playing stuff (Marlon: Guitar, Waldino: Bongos, me: Cowbell) and come across a gate that isn't locked and decide to just walk around. As soon as we take two steps into the gate a cop car is behind us and flashed his lights, at this point I'm like, "SHIT RUN!" and take a pre-running step and think, "That's a horrible idea, stop and turn around." The cop asks us a series of reasonable questions, gets our answers, tells us what we're doing isn't a good idea and then proceeds to say, "Now get out of here before I freaking pee my pants."
Incident 4: I wasn't present for, so I don't know very many of the details but to summarize. Marlon, sisters and Hannah go on a roadtrip to meet an author for his birthday. Was mislead and realized San Diego is too far to go to meet him in time so they'll roadtrip elsewhere. They go to a place called 'Chocolate Mountain' and on the way back are stopped by border patrol. They answer a series of questions and come home afterwards. At some point in the night Adventure was said.
So this is a warning about saying adventure so freely. I am not saying that you should forever forbid the word from your vocabulary, but heed caution, adventure is a powerful word.
Stating the word adventure is a great tool with a high cost. You see when you say that you want to have an adventure, and mean it, you will have an adventure. The downside to saying the word, is cops get involved (we theorize that it could be something negative, such that if you want police to show up, they won't and something much worse would occur). To this point I have walked away from each situation unharmed and with no repercussions, but there will be a time where my luck will run dry. Here's where the anecdotes begin.
Incident 1: Marlon, Waldino, Roadie and myself were dropping something off at Waldino's house. After Waldino gets back in the car we notice not only is there a police helicopter circling above us, there seems to be an abundance of cop cars in the neighborhood. Roadie decides that he wants to check it out, that it will be "an adventure", and so we are partially to blame since we listened to Roadie. After seeing a few cop cars and getting our fill we decide we're done and want to leave, the only thing is we got ourselves lost. You see where Waldino used to live was one of those neighborhoods with a few dead-end streets and a plethora (yes, more than useful) of looping streets that will make it impossible to stick to our grid-like system in the AV. We start pulling up on a T-section in which a cop car is parked, we approach it with caution and as we get closer the cop pulls his gun out and points it at Marlon's head. We are sufficiently freaking out about now, but trying to stay calm, as we pass the car the cop yells out, "Got nothing better to do?" and we just leave.
Incident 2: Matt, Stanley, Bobby and myself are driving around town because Matt had a bad day, also to note the word had been said whilst driving around. After Matt starts getting into a better mood the guys decide they want some food so Matt pulls into McDonald's. They order their food and everything is fine, except it turns out Matt had bought a cap gun earlier and was joking about pointing at the cashier. The guys wrestle over the cap gun so that Matt doesn't do this absolutely retarded idea. At one point during said wrestling the gun is waved out of the window, the car behind us obviously sees it, backs up and drives the hell off. We get the food, pull around and park so they can eat. As you can probably guess the cops show up now, just one car at first. We're told to put our hands on the car and then we're frisked (cop fingers linger and Mandog's taint.....) and while being searched the situation was explained briefly. Two of the guys get put into the back while they look up our records and another cop car pulls up. Very shortly after car number two pulls in cars three through six also pull in. The cops talk over the situation while Bobby and I still have our hands on the hood, during this discussion a female cop is ranting, "I don't care if it's one time or a hundred times we should press charges!" After a few minutes the cops give us our stuff back, let the two out of the back and say, "Get out of here."
Incident 3: Marlon, Waldino and myself hang out for the first time in almost a year so we want to go on an adventure. This was roughly a year ago today because it was during the Perseid's Meteor Shower which is currently occuring. We drive out to a secluded part of the desert and watch the meteor shower for a while after trying to do so at a park and seeing nothing. Once we had our fill of staring at space Waldino tells us that we should go to Eastside Highschool to look at their campus. We pull up and decided to put on a random selection of extra clothing out of Marlon's car and grab instruments. We walk around in the parking lot for a while playing stuff (Marlon: Guitar, Waldino: Bongos, me: Cowbell) and come across a gate that isn't locked and decide to just walk around. As soon as we take two steps into the gate a cop car is behind us and flashed his lights, at this point I'm like, "SHIT RUN!" and take a pre-running step and think, "That's a horrible idea, stop and turn around." The cop asks us a series of reasonable questions, gets our answers, tells us what we're doing isn't a good idea and then proceeds to say, "Now get out of here before I freaking pee my pants."
Incident 4: I wasn't present for, so I don't know very many of the details but to summarize. Marlon, sisters and Hannah go on a roadtrip to meet an author for his birthday. Was mislead and realized San Diego is too far to go to meet him in time so they'll roadtrip elsewhere. They go to a place called 'Chocolate Mountain' and on the way back are stopped by border patrol. They answer a series of questions and come home afterwards. At some point in the night Adventure was said.
So this is a warning about saying adventure so freely. I am not saying that you should forever forbid the word from your vocabulary, but heed caution, adventure is a powerful word.
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