So it’s spring, and the temperature actually went above 60 today! It was like Tucson’s winter.
I had a really unproductive Spring Break. I was going to get lot’s of homework and studying done, spend some time playing my favorite video games. And then I discovered 2048. I found it on Monday and ended up playing it for about three hours straight, for some stupid reason. I ended up skipping working out again that day because of it. I’ve been playing it on and off all week, just wanting to be done with it. And finally, about four minutes ago I beat it (with a high score of 20,856, let me know how you do!), and now I want to never play it again.
I’ve also been watching a lot more of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars series up on Netflix. It’s really beautiful, I’ve grown to like the animation style a lot. Except for the faces, for the most part they are way too angular for me. I also love how the series does not fit in with the prequel trilogy at all, it just makes the universe even more nonsensical and free-for-all and let’s me enjoy all of my old school Expanded Universe content, the original films, all of the comics, and even the prequels for just being stories in the same universe, just not always told the same ways.
I had known the series was showing up on Netflix when it did a few weeks ago, but had originally planned on waiting until the summer to watch it. My nephew was here last week though and really wanted to watch an episode. So I watched one with him… and three more by myself before I went to bed. And I’ll probably watch it again this summer, or some time in the near future, because I’ve been doing what I do with most series and watch it while playing games or doing other things, so I haven’t been getting the full experience. The stories are pretty simplistic, and sometimes the Jedi are incredible and amazing, and sometimes bumbling fools, but it is some pretty awesome animation, and it’s in the Star Wars universe, so I can’t not love it.
I really enjoyed the rest of the Warhammer tournament last weekend and plan to get back into the hobby in full force. I’m going to start working on painting and putting my army back together again tomorrow with the hopes of getting it ready for a tournament by late summer/early fall. I was on Warhammer Weekly on Wednesday and we talked about the tournament and Warhammer in general, so if you’re feeling super nerdy go check that out!
I got back into my work-out pattern again starting Thursday, so here’s to hoping that I won’t mess that up again. I’m done with 2048 now, so that should help. I did falter on my 1,000 word quest, though. I made it 31 days straight, but haven’t really written since Sunday (coinciding with me discovering 2048 Monday…). I tried to make excuses to myself that I didn’t really feel my writing improving, and if I wasn’t writing things to share with people what was the point anyway? But it was honestly just a chore most nights, and I wasn’t enjoying it. I want to want to write, and I feel like I’m more likely to do blog posts when I can just write when I want to write, instead of trying to force myself to every night. So we’ll see where things go for now. I’ve still got my word count Excel spreadsheet going, and I plan to keep track of what I do each day, or whatever days I write, so maybe I’ll share some data and graphs at some point.
In conclusion, here’s my cat in a backpack. I was going to post this yesterday, because I don’t like doing hashtags on the correct day, but whatever. #caturday