Well then, hello one and all. Welcome back to your regularly scheduled programming. Been a long while since I posted one of these so lets see what I can come up with to tell everyone that is curious about my doings or lack there of in some cases. We will be covering these topics with at least a brief overview in recent doings in them all. These topics are Video Games (not that most care), Books and my Opinion on Them, Guitar Lessons and the New Teacher, My Slow Writing and Story Development, Cleaning and Helping With Homework (When it's Asked of Me). So let's just dive right into my first topic on the list of things I will blither on about like a total tard.
Video Games (Not That Most Care)--
So, recent games that have been released. Borderlands 2. Dishonored. These are what I have been playing the most recently. I did play Witcher 2 for a little while, but I wanted to play Skyrim so that ended up getting shelved. Then Borderlands 2 came out and everything else got shelved as well. I have already beat it on one character all the way through. So I guess that makes me pretty good at it, even if it did take most of two weeks to get there between helping Aly with her homework and watching Once Upon A Time with her. Now, in this game I play currently only two of the characters, which are the Siren and the Mechromancer. Yeah. I won't go into details. Most of you won't understand because I know you don't play games. I love you all but it's a lot of work to explain everything. And like the title says on this section, not that most care. Anywho, Dishonored has managed to pull me out of Borderlands 2 however it has not kept me from playing it at all. Dishonored is awesome. Period. Great game play but difficult no matter how you play it. Whether you play like you're freaking Rambo or you sneak across the map without being spotted like Ezio (<-- Main character of Assassins Creed 2 through Revelations) it is no cakewalk. Expect to be challenged and never ever expect to just waltz past the guards. It's not going to happen. Ever. But that's all on that front. Lots of stuff here and probably way less in the other sections. Somehow I get the feeling this is not right.
Books and my Opinion on Them--
So the books that I have literally read through in the last two months all include The Crippled God, Divergent, The Red Pyramid, The Fallen, Thirst, Glass Houses, The Dead Girls Dance, Midnight Alley and Feast of Fools. Now, The Crippled God. There isn't a lot I can say that I haven't already said about the author of this book series. Steven Erikson, author of Malazan: Book of the Fallen, delivered an amazing and truly stunning finale to his ten book series that captured me from the very beginning. He never disappointed and he kept twisting the story all the way through. As to all the characters that I loved that he killed, well, he had no choice but to keep the story moving right along. I can't say any more, it would take too long. Divergent, here's a book that didn't waste any time at all. It started and everything was going from page one. It kept you interested and it didn't slow down in the least. However in the keeping with typical stories of its group I was able to predict half of what occurred withing the first five chapters. Still, it was able to grab me and keep me interested by never letting off the accelerator. Which is amazing for the first book in a series. The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan, starts off slow but it doesn't stay slow for long. It takes about one chapter and it too takes off and doesn't slow down. The story is written in a different way too which made it an amazing read and Rick Riordan delivers amazing amounts of Egyptian mythology with very accurate details that make it an even more amazing book because you can actually tell he did research into the mythos of this culture. That said I was not able to predict anything that happened in his book which made it a refreshing change for a young adult book to not let me foresee anything that was going to happen. The Fallen, not the greatest after having read to books back to back that didn't slow down any from about page 10 on. Extremely slow to start and when it finally did it was at the end of the book. Not a bad read though because it is an interesting story. That being said it, like Divergent, had too many spots where I was able to predict certain aspects and even if I haven't officially found out who the Angel is that sired the main character, I'm willing to put money on the Angel being Lucifer. Who isn't made out as evil as everyone else makes him out to be. But this was only the first book so I will see I guess. Thirst, an interesting take on vampires, but also a bit of a slow read unless you have nothing else to do. There are some aspects that are predictable but mostly it's in which character is about to die. Past that it is a whole different look at vampires. Which leaves the last four books. They are all part of a series. They are a great read and very interesting, also about vampires, but once again a bit of a different twist on them. These four books all take place literally one right after the other, with maybe ten minutes to a week between when the one before it ends and the next one begins, which is startling to me because they are so short. Maybe it makes them easier to read that way but the point is that they are still very well done and grab your attention from page one. Nothing slow about these books either, which made them awesome books. So, that's all that I have read recently, though I already have another book ready to be read, just haven't started on it yet.
Guitar Lessons and the New Teacher--
So I am still learning guitar, and I have also managed to write a song. I wrote the lyrics and everything, but they are actually in German. Flexing those language skills. I sing better in German, don't ask why, I have no idea. Anyway, not the point. I have learned how to play Bob Marley's Redemption Song, which is a great practice, and I am currently working on learning Somebody That I Used to Know. Little bit trickier but still a fun song to practice at. Now, as you can guess I have a new teacher at the school I attend. Now the reason isn't because my old teacher left. I just wanted a teacher who would challenge me with songs and chords versus playing out of the book all the time. That said his name is James. He is awesome too. I will get a picture of him next time I am in class and will post it here for everyone to see. He's a nice guy, just a little older than me, five or six years I think. Either way, he has taught me some useful tricks and even helped me get better at playing chords. I can actually swap between them now without a pause in most cases and in some I still do but like he tells me, practice it til I don't have that problem anymore, and I practice on a daily basis about two to six hours. I'd say I practice a lot. Well that's all I have on that topic. Short I know but hopefully I can post me playing again soon, I know everyone will appreciate that. Onwards and downwards my friends and family.
My Slow Writing and Story Development--
So that story I told everyone about months back. Well it actually has a first chapter. Though I still need to edit that first chapter to be exactly how I want it I have actually written that much. It took me a long while to choose how to start the story and even if I would start it in the arena where my main character basically grows up as a slave. Interesting but I didn't start there. I won't say where I did start, because that's a surprise. As it is, I haven't done anything else with it so that will end this part of my update.
Cleaning and Helping With Homework (When it's Asked of Me)--
So we, Aly and I, have moved into the new place. Which is much bigger and much nicer than the old place. I also helped with the painting of the walls and the installation of a lot of the cabinets and bathroom stuff. Not the point. So I do focus heavily on the cleaning of the apartment, which involves sweeping and mopping every week or two, which isn't so bad. I also focus on washing the dishes and keeping everything at least somewhat organized. I do a horrible job cleaning up after myself still but I do still work very hard at cleaning up everything else. I usually end up cleaning my messes up after an hour of rest from doing everything else around the apartment. Now, with the homework I am mostly checking papers that are to be handed in for grammar and spelling errors. Not usually a lot of them but they do occur, not that they are major. I usually have to read through everything twice to catch all of them. I also help her with her phonetics homework, which is more complex and not really worth trying to go into explaining because it involves a lot of symbols and knowing what means what and how you use them and all this other crap that just isn't worth the effort. I have never taken a course on this subject and yet I can do it faster and without near the trouble she does so I usually end up helping her and explaining how I got the symbols that I did.
Well that is all. I have typed until my hands hurt and I have told you every little detail that has occurred in the last few months. I know I haven't kept everyone up to speed but obviously I just did it all in the last hour that I spent here typing this. Hope everyone appreciates all the new information and I will post again next week, though odds are it won't have anywhere near the content that this post does. Alright, stay safe and have fun out there, wherever your out there is.
