Alucolor & Roksys: We Don't Know What We Are Doing

I liked the way Rok did his goals last time so I am going to copy that. I currently don't have loot tied to goals, I should probably change that soon. Fitness Based Attach Loot to My Goals I have just put this on here so as of current this complete. Reach Weight Goal (160 lbs) I hit my last goal of weighing under 200 recently, I have since gone back up over since, not by much though so I am still calling that one accomplished and am going to continue working toward a healthy weight. This morning, I weighed 201.4 lbs. Lift Three Times per week In the last week we have consistently lifted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Go us! Do Cardio Four Times per Week We haven't been keeping up doing as much cario as we should to go along with our lifting. We try to do yoga on Tuesdays, Do Wii Fit on Thursdays and Sundays and we go running on Saturdays. We have sort of done most of those these last two weeks. We are going to try harder to stick with it, plus the holidays d...

As many of you probably know, Century Link is having issues with their Internet servers right now. Making our job close to unbearable. I want to start by saying I don 't want to sound ungrateful or anything. I am glad I have a job I can complain about, and I know it is not a difficult job but sometimes you need to let some stress out by venting in a public forum. So here goes: our job sucks, that's why we are taking a class to get a new job.  First let me explain what our job is a little bit: We caption calls for those who are hard of hearing and need assistance on the phone. Which is a neat service we provide that helps people engage with the outside world easier. But it also seems like half of our clients don't use the captions and the other half think we are never doing our job good enough when we are trying our best to understand mumbling, through static, feedback and sometimes trying to caption two or three voices that all talk at once. So with that being said, our j...

Yesterday was pretty busy, but it was fun I got some really cool presents and had some nice meals. Overall I think this was a good Christmas, and I might even dare to say a good year. We started a class to help us get better jobs. We started this blog, had some rough patches and will hopefully have smooth sailing going into next year. I also got my wisdom teeth out so I won't have random horrible pain in my mouth for a week every once in a while. So I think we are doing alright. But today Rok and I are excited to do nothing today, after the last month of running around all the time. It will be a nice change of pace for us. We can sit down and play games and enjoy all the cool stuff that we got for Christmas! We don't have to make any food, we don't have to craft or wrap any presents, we don't have to leave the house if we don't want! Being an adult can be rad, but it is not inherently. But for now, as we are doing right now, please: Stay Cool.

It's finally here, the day before the merriest holiday. My moms side of the family however chooses to celebrate today, because it is easier than trying to get five independent families together who also have to plan around their other family members. So I am pretty excited for tonight, I can finally give my mom her present that took me several months to make, and that literally has my blood, sweat and tears in it. I can also give Rok a gift I think he will like a lot, but I am little sad I couldn't get the handmade gift made in time. But his birthday is next month so I can hopefully finish it by then. Also I get to open one of Rok's gifts for me, so that is exciting. He seems certain I will like them, and that he nailed it this year. We also have some plans for tomorrow as well, A brunch with Rok's mom and her boyfriend, lunch at my grandparents, and dinner with my mom and sister. So while we have a full day of stuff to do it is all pretty relaxed stuff and that is e...

So it's my first goal reflection day for a while and I've restructured some of my goals. I'm also adopting a loot system to hopefully help me stay on top of them. Ideally, loot for a goal is something related to the goal itself and that might help with similar goals in the future. At the very least, it shouldn't be detrimental. It seems counterintuitive, for example, to celebrate keeping up with your diet for a month with a trip to Golden Corral. Maybe instead get a new knife that might help you prep your food faster or a cool new set of gym clothes that you'll want to show off. Those are helpful pieces of loot. So lets begin. 　 Fitness Based Bench 100 lbs. (Bar+55) Alu and I have been lifting at the gym recently and we had to start with just the bar. It's my understanding that a regular barbell is 45 pounds on its own and we've been adding more to it pretty quickly, so we might hit this goal before too long! So I guess I'd better figure out...

Christmas itself is fine. It's a good chance to have fun with family/friends, have some good food, play games, whatever. It's a good time. Conversely and contrary to what some songs might tell you, the month leading up to Christmas is the most obnoxious time of the year. I'm not a big fan of the cold and snow to begin with, but combine that with the stress everyone feels, whether they admit it or not, from having to make everything perfect, and you end up with everyone in everyone else's way for a whole month. Between people rushing around looking for the perfect gifts for people, amassing their ingredients for the perfect Christmas dinner, and not knowing how to drive in the snow (it happens every year, you'd think people would figure it out by now, but nobody really does, myself included), God help you if you just need to run to the store for a loaf of bread for the week. I'm also not convinced that reserving 1/12th of the year for the spirit of giving i...

I've talked in the past about being impressed with the increasing level of detail in a lot of video games. As I've thought more about it though, I've come to the conclusion that, as technically impressive as it may be that the horses in Red Dead Redemption 2 have testicles which realistically shrink in the cold (and I'm assuming this is limited to the male horses), getting them to do that seems like a massive waste of time. It would be putting it lightly to say that I don't understand what things like that are supposed to add to a game other than unnecessary realism for its own sake. I understand that a higher level of detail can benefit a game greatly if applied well, but this really just feels frivolous (what a thing to say about a video game, right?). Granted I haven't actually played the game and I likely wouldn't have regardless, but I can't help thinking about how, in the 20 years since Ocarina of Time came out, I've never once noticed or ca...

I just read the book, Mind Hacking . I enjoy reading some self-help material because, if nothing else, it makes me feel like I'm making an effort to improve myself and my life, even if that often ends up not actually being the case. However, this is the first full book I've read on the subject and I found it pretty enlightening. The core concept, as I understand it, revolves around understanding the negative thoughts you subconsciously repeat to yourself (referred to as negative loops) and replacing them with increasingly positive ones, and it provides several methods for each step of this process. For example, once you find an undesired thought loop, simply ask yourself why you feel/act this way. Then once you determine that answer, ask yourself why that's the case, continuing to ask why until you reach the root cause. This is complimented by practicing gamified focus meditation and making a lot of goals, both grandiose, long-term goals and small sub-goals that act as ...

Hey! My teeth still hurt! Weigh in under 200: Completed(ish)! While I didn't hit this goal on the 9th, I have hit it by this Sunday so I am going to count it as completed! Stream on Monday and Fridays: Ongoing We have streamed probably. Lift weights on Wednesdays: Ongoing We have been sick my dudes and I had my wisdom teeth out, I am not actually sure when we will get back to this. It might be this Wednesday but I don't know when we will get back into our groove, hopefully soon. Do yoga mornings: Ongoing I am still unsure of how this will fit into our current schedule or if it will fit. I guess we will just wait and see. Today I weighed: 198.9 Hopefully this week is better than last. If it's not please, for my sake: Stay cool.

Once again sorry for not posting Wednesday and putting up a bad post Monday, but to be fair I had four newly made holes in my face that were trying to fill themselves with tissue. So anyway Rok and I started back to work yesterday, and it was pretty awful for the usual reasons of having to talk for 8 hours pretty much straight but I was still experiencing some jaw pain. So that wasn't fun, but luckily they have Tylenol in the medicine cabinet at work that did help me through my shift. Although there was still more jaw pain than I would have preferred while waiting for the meds to kick in. Today is going better at least, though we did get more sleep last night than the night before. On Wednesday we get maybe four hours of combined sleep. I say we because I accidentally woke Rok up every time I turned to start a new video to try and fall asleep to, or get up to go to the bathroom, or just toss and turn because I can't get comfortable. So last night was better, I at least stayed ...

The new schedule hasn’t exactly been working out, but I don’t want to get to much on Rok about it though because he has been taking care of me since Friday morning pretty much. I had all four wisdom teeth removed and have been laying in bed pretty much since. But Rok has been doing all sorts to help me out in this time of pain. This is probably also going to be a bit shorter than I would like it because of the jaw pain in combination with the pain meds for the jaw pain.  I will probably not blog Wednesday due to the Sam thing but wanted to get an update out today. But hey thanks for listening and don’t forget: Stay cool.

I missed blogging again yesterday, but this time it was totally my fault. We were just playing Timespinner most of the day, which was a welcome change. And that was after we got done with all the stuff we were supposed to have done on Monday. And then we got to go to class and learn to use an engine lathe, so all in all a pretty good day. We even made cookies. Alu's getting her wisdom teeth out tomorrow and we're off work until next thursday about it. It'd be a pretty good birthday for her except for that first part. Though maybe she'll like the painkillers and hopefully the birthday presents I got her will help distract somewhat. She gets to open the small one tonight, but the big one gets to wait until tomorrow. I'm pretty excited because this is the first year I really feel like I've gotten both her birthday and Christmas covered pretty well, but there is one more thing I might end up getting for her. I'll post more about that later, since she usual...

It's strange how things that seem like they should be simple and quick sometimes end up taking a whole day. I was supposed to start my blogging week yesterday, but we spent a good chunk of the day yesterday trying to take a bed out of Alu's mom's house, which I wouldn't have thought would take three hours, and because of where that ended up getting placed in between plans, we ended up having no time to blog or indeed clean up our house as we try to do on Mondays, which means we now have to spread chores out through the rest of the week. On a more positive note, we did get a Splatoon stream up in the morning before that whole debacle. We've resolved to keep the stream limited to lighter, less story-based games, which will hopefully make it seem less daunting and I think I'll enjoy it more that way. We also think we have a decent schedule worked out, which we should probably list on our twitch channel and twitter bio and stuff, now that I think about it. So ...

So it's been a while since anyone has done any reflecting of goals on this blog, so here goes to try and start it back up. Weigh in under 200: Due 12/9/18 I am starting to lose faith in this goal, I have been sitting around 200 for a while now but haven't been able to get below as of yet. I think we have made some bad choices with our diets recently, but I do think I have been making progress with going to the gym (Not this week because we have been sick.) Stream on Monday and Fridays: Ongoing We were talking about this on Friday as well when we were talking about if we should continue blogging, and we both feel we enjoy gaming more when we can sit back and relax and not have to worry about being entertaining. But we think we are going to give it another try since we have joined a community of small time streamers. Lift weights on Wednesdays: Ongoing We have been sick my dudes. Do yoga mornings: Ongoing We have been sick but even before that we haven't quite fig...

As those of you who read yesterdays blog already know, Rok and I were trying to decide what to do with this blog. We think we came to a conclusion: We blog every other day starting on Monday's. So we blog every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday (excluding the holidays for now). Switching between the two of us every week. This will hopefully give us more time to write better material for the blog and we can hopefully avoid "this is just to show I blogged today" type of blogs. Some other things will be different as well, we won't be posting food logs and we will only be posting our weight on our Goal Reflection Day. Which will still be on Sunday. We are also going to mainly stick to our thoughts on things, things that happen in our lives, and general life things. But we also might have a post that isn't related to us, we might write something more creative or something of the like. These changes will take effect tomorrow, and on Monday I will hand it off to ...

Right now Rok and I are questioning whether we should continue to update this blog daily, or if we should do it every so often when we can think of things to write, or if we should continue to write on it at all. Rok started this blog as a way to try and be more personally responsible about things. But he now thinks the blog was never keeping him responsible, that was just the kick he was on at the moment. Something that he knows far to much about. This endeavor, unlike some, didn't cost us any money. Nothing in the past has cost us lots of money but several projects did have a price tag along with them. It could be argued that any money or time is to much for us to both forget about something and never go back to it. Rok suggested only updating the blog when we have something cool or interesting to write about. But that seems like it would be rather inconsistent if the past is any indication. And that brings up the point who are we writing this blog for? Is it for ourselves? I...

Rok and I are still sick but we don't have any sick time left, so we are at work today. And it's mesirable. We can hardly think, out throats are dry, we have headaches, ech. Today I weighed: 203.3 lbs I think Yesterday I ate: I don't remeber dude Ech, I want to go home. Stay cool.

Rok and I have been laying in bed all day pretty much, so this is going to be another short blog. I’m sorry how often that has been lately but it’s a lot easier when no one reads this blog. Today I weighed: 205.9 Ysesterday I ate: > A baggie of cereal > Acup of Mac salad > A tillimool yogurt > one and a half potato grillers from Taco Bell > a cookie thing Bye guys hopefully tomorrow will be a better blog. Stay cool.

I am having more and more doubts about being a machinist. I can't stand for hours at a time, I am having trouble wrapping my head around measurements and the math necessary, and I don't feel like I'm retaining any information from the online portion of our class. It's worrying me that the career choice I made isn't going to work out. Which would suck because we dropped a lot of money on this class and it's the solution we have come up with to solve our unhappiness with our current job. We still aren't onto actual machines yet, the lathe and the mill are the ones we will be working with. We are still grinding the bits we will be using on the other machines. I definitely don't think I am cut out for grinding metal. I am just hoping once I get past the grinding part everything will start to fall into place and I will feel like this is the right move. Today I weighed: 206.5 lbs Yesterday I ate: >Half of a fake meat sausage patty > One and a half...

As I’m sure no one noticed, Rok blogged once last week and while I will give him some leeway because it was a holiday weekend he isn’t totally off the hook. But on to some other things, last Sunday I apparently didn’t realize it was Sunday and posted not my goal reflection day but instead I posterity blog to show I did. We had a good thanksgiving though, every year my family rents out a hotel and we no cyber Black Friday. We used to do real Black Friday but thankfully traded in being awake at five to be the first in the store to sitting in a warm hotel bad eating leftovers. And while I love that, I love getting home after the weekend is over and sleeping in my own bed, now only made better by having my partner their next to me. Anyway there are some things. Today I weighed: 206.8 lbs Yesterday I ate: > A baggie of Trix classic shapes cereal > About two cups of pasta > A Tillamook yogurt cup > A bowl of ramen > Two bowls of Classic shapes Trix cereal Yesterday ...

We started our machining course last week, but that was mostly orientation things and learning to read measurement tools. Yesterday we actually got to grind a tool bit and I've learned a few things already; most importantly, eat before class and the closer you get to being done, the less it's going to feel like you're making progress. Also, more specifically, try not to overheat your workpiece. That one feels more obvious, but I didn't realize it would be so easy to screw up, especially when you're close to finishing, but feel like you've been just as close for the last hour and you're trying to hurry up because you're hungry and want to be done so you can go to taco bell. I think if we had eaten beforehand, I probably would have been more proud of my work, but I was mostly just excited to leave. Thinking back on it, it's pretty neat even though it's pretty simple. All we really did was take a block of metal and sand a side down until it had a...

Today I weighed: 205.9 lbs Yesterday I ate: > Four small pancakes > A cup of Campbell's soup > A cheesy been and rice burrito from Taco Bell > Two loaded potato grillers from Taco Bell also Yesterday I drank: 64 oz of water Sorry, well kinda I would be more if I knew anyone was reading. Stay Cool.

Hello again! Today I took time out of my very busy schedule of sitting in a desk and doing nothing for 8 hours (Plus the extra two hours in OT) to draw some elephants. They are intended to just be rough sketches of paintings I want to do later on, but I think my skills are definitely improving from drawing dogs the last little while. I just hope I can actually paint them as good as I can draw them, I am not that confident though. I am thinking of buying some cheap canvas panels to practice on before I get to me real stretched canvas painting. I have come up with four ideas that I think will be really cool, if I can paint them that is. But canvas panels are cheaper than I remember so I do have some hope for practice. I just need the finished products before Christmas. Preferably dry, since I am planning on using oil paints on all four paintings. So we will see if those get done in time. Today I weighed: 207 lbs Yesterday I ate: > 4(?) small pancakes > 3 or 4(?) vegan chees...

So a couple things, I am writing this five minutes before we leave work. I am doing this because I was putting together collages of dogs all day so I can more easily draw them later. This is our first Friday working and we took extra hours. So I had more time to put together dog pictures. And that is why I am hurrying and throwing a blog together before we leave work and go to the gym. Because I will almost certainly forget after that. Today I weighed: 207.5 lbs Yesterday I ate: > A pineapple smoothie > A loaded potato griller from Taco Bell > Several pieces of orange chick'n > A bowl of ramen > A piece of vegan cheese pizza from the Pie Yesterday I drank: ~82 oz of water I would be more sorry about a short bad blog, but no one reads our blogs anyway so it's fine. Stay Cool.

Today started pretty rough, I woke up about 15 minutes before we had to leave and was tired all morning. Besides that, the program that I have to use to do my job wasn't loading. So I restarted my computer that didn't work, than I restarted and logged on as someone else (Something that has worked in the past) and that still didn't work. So I moved seats, but that made it so I was at an objectively seat. And it took me twenty minutes to get there. Then Rok remember how to fix the problem, so I had to hurry and move back to the spot I was in before, and the fix still wasn't working. So I reached out to a Team Lead to see how to go about fixing it since I wanted to avoid moving again. But while they were in the middle of telling me how to fix it, the program suddenly started and spooked me. By the time all this was sorted out about 35 minutes passed since I clocked in. Because of that I didn't want to risk taking a break and not have enough login minutes to goal. Rok ...

I wanted to try and draw more than I have been and I have done a lot of looking into dogs recently so they seemed to match up perfectly. I put together several collages with a couple dogs each and set 5 different ones each day to cycle every hour on my work computer. It was sort if a challenge I set for myself draw three dogs in an hour. Which turned out to be way easier than I thought. Several of them I am really proud of, but there were a few that took almost the full hour and I sill didn't get quite right. Some I didn't even get close to right. But it was all just an exercise and I think I can draw a little bit better about it now. Today I weighed: 206 lbs Yesterday I ate: > A solo cup of Unicorn Cereal > A strawberry Soylent > Two pieces of vegan cheese pizza from The Pie Pizzeria > Three vegan cheese pull aparts from The Pie also Yesterday I drank: ~64 oz of water I also found it a very therapeutic exercise to just sit and draw dogs all day. Stay ...

Our first day of machining class went well enough, we mostly talked with our professor about the class and how it works. We did get to see a milling machine in action in person and that was awesome, we saw some CNC machines in person to but none use. The class seems a lot more relaxed than we were expecting, which is cool to me and Rok. But with that figured out I have to address my wisdom teeth. I still have them and would like to not anymore, but the hardest part about that is getting time off of work. I have been trying to fill out a leave of absence form, but it is confusing. It also feels like a little bit of a waste because I am less than an hour short of vacation time to get the day of the actual operation off. Also this call is infuriating right now so I think I am done with this blog for today. Today I weighed: 206 lbs Yesterday I ate: > A bowl ramen > 2 15 oz bottles of Soylent > A bowl of pasta > Several taffy Yesterday I drank: 64ish oz I ...

Today is Rok and I’s first day of machining class. We are both nervous but ready. If you read this blog before, I assume you haven’t but regardless, you probably know that we have both been trying to think about what we want to do with our lives and neither of us are sure that machining is what we want to do or if it is a right step to get to where we are doing what we want to do. But we both think it will be a better step than staying at our current boring everyday office job. So with this step we will hopefully be closer to what we want to do. Today I weighed: 207.5 lbs Yesterday I ate: > A red solo cup of cereal > Fried potatoes and spinach > A simply balanced yogurt cup > Several pear taffies > A couple handful of potatoes chips > A large fry from Wendy’s > Some of Roks fries Yesterday I drank: 64ish oz of water I will let you know how our first day goes, we are excitedly and nervously waiting for it to be time to leave for there. So I my stead r...

I feel like I'm especially inconsistent with goal reflection day, which is makes it difficult to post about goal reflection day since I didn't post goals last time. Even worse, upon looking at my goals from a month ago, I haven't accomplished any of them aside from weighing under 179 pounds, and even then I'm backsliding. At least we started waking up early without much issue, so there's that I suppose. Anyway, tomorrow we start class, so that should provide a good new road to go down. 　 This morning, I weighed 179.5 lbs. 　 Yesterday, I ate: 　 ~ A bowl of cereal ~ A cup of stir fry ~ A cup of siggi's ~ A bowl of mashed potatoes ~ A morningstar chicken sandwich 　 Alu also has a consultation with an oral surgeon tomorrow about her wisdom teeth. We might even be able to get them removed this year, depending on a few things. I can't decide whether I want her to or not, since she'd have it done over her birthday since we already h...

Yesterday was, for all intents and purposes, Alu's and my last proper day off for quite a while. Tomorrow, we start a new work schedule so we can get off earlier and on our days off from work, we get to go to machining class. Well, I suppose since Thanksgiving and Christmas are coming up, we might have those off. I'm not sure what the class schedule will be in that regard. Anyway, it's exciting and intimidating at the same time. I'm glad we didn't have to quit our jobs to fit class in, but I'm kind of disappointed that we didn't get to quit our jobs and have a bunch more free time. As it turns out, we'll have far less instead. Hooray. 　 This morning, I weighed 178.6 lbs 　 Yesterday, I ate: 　 ~ An apple nutri grain bar ~ Two bowls of cupcake-flavored fruit loops ~ A small dish of mac and cheese ~ A small dish of mashed potatoes ~ A few pieces of dominoes cheese pizza ~ Three garlic knots and a cinnamon twist 　 We ostensibly ...

I don't really have anything in particular to talk about today, but I suppose I should still post something for the sake of consistency. At the very least I can do my food log. This morning I weighed 179.4lbs. Yesterday I ate: - A bowl of kix - Pasta - Yogurt with oatmeal - Three burritos from taco bell Hopefully tomorrow will be more interesting. Sorry. Take it easy!

I don't always cook as much as I should. As I imagine happens to everyone, sometimes life, laziness, roommates, etc. can get in the way, so more often than I'd like to admit, we resort to bowls of cereal for dinner. It can be especially bad when we get home from the gym and just want to collapse onto the bed, but at least we can usually see that one coming and can (not necessarily do) prepare accordingly by tossing a few things in the crock pot to make a chili of sorts. I figured out how a few months ago when we made stuffed peppers and I determined the stuffing for those peppers was basically the chili I'm talking about and just making that on its own is easier than stuffing peppers with it. The base ingredient (and a huge part of the reason it's so easy) is enchilada sauce. We use canned stuff usually, but I can only assume it would be better freshly made. We pretty much just line the crock pot, dump in a can of enchilada sauce, a can or two of beans, some rice and...

I don't know that I understand my relationship with caffeine. Sometimes it helps me focus, sometimes half the amount I drank yesterday that helped me focus just makes me gross and jittery, sometimes it puts me to sleep. I think the difference may lie in whether I can find something to focus my energy on, but I'm really not sure. I've been given to understand that caffeine works differently on people with diagnosable ADHD, but it seems to work normally on me half the time and abnormally the other half. What I do know is that on the days it does help me focus, it makes work much more pleasant since my conscious attention is mostly taken up doing something with my hands while the back of my brain generally does my job for me, so it can be extremely beneficial and therefore often worth the risk. In any case, coffee with some cream and sugar in it has grown on me in taste over the past year since we've started working earlier on Saturdays, so I'll have one every so oft...

Who wants to hear about my goals in life? Nobody? Oh, okay. Build my first PG Gunpla: Due 12/31/18 This one I am calling done my dudes, I built it. I may customize it later on but for now I have built my first PG Gunpla! Weigh in under 200: Due 12/9/18 I am still around 205, that is only 5 pounds away but we have been faltering more with our diet and I am worried with Thanksgiving coming up. But still I am hopeful since we have been going to the gym and lifting free weights. Stream on Monday and Fridays: Ongoing We are going to be taking a break from streaming we think because a lot of changes have been/are going to be happening. Lift weights on Wednesdays: Ongoing When we didn't go to the gym on Wednesday, we did on Thursday so I think this goal is completed these last two weeks. If my memory serves correct that is. Do yoga mornings: Ongoing Nope :T Today I weighed: 206.1 lbs Yesterday I ate: > About a cup of eggy potato > A bowl of Honey Bunches of Oats ...

I thought I would give my thoughts and advice on GMing, I don't want to claim to be all knowing or anything like that. This is just in my personal experiences what I think will help those who might be struggling or just looking for advice on how to run their first session. 1) My first piece of advice I think has to be: Know your players and their play style. I didn't realize how important it is to know your group. I didn't know my two starter groups and I as a result I had high expectations that were dashed by unreliability and a high level play style that I couldn't handle. Knowing your group also plays into my next two pieces of advice: 2) Always be ready for Hoshi's Wild Ride . Let me explain what that means: Hoshi's Wild Ride : You painstakingly handcraft a campaign for your friends to play and they immediately attack friendly characters, steal their stuff and proceed to do all sorts of rad messing around that furthers the story in a different di...

We have taken to calling the campaign I made based off of the rulebook "Gods of the Fall", Gods. I have tried to GM it two times now with two different groups, but if you have read this blog before you probably know that they didn't work out to well. The first time isn't officially over but our friends are so unreliable it pretty much is. No one has said it but I think we all know we aren't going to play it anymore and if we did we should really just start from the beginning because it will have been so long. The second group is officially closed, and will not be played with them again. It is possible that no RPGs will be played with that group. We haven't really even talked to that group since the incident I caused. But now we have plans to play it again with just the people we live with. I have worked hard to change things enough for the two people that have already played twice that it will provide a different feeling while still maintaining any previous c...

As I said Monday Rok and I took a test that we didn't need to, that was the Accuplacer, we actually needed to take the TABE test. We are going to try take that test tomorrow, it is the next step in actually doing something to better our future. I was practicing for it quite a bit yesterday and I feel more prepared than I did for the Accuplacer test. To prepare for taking the actual machining course, they reason we have to take the TABE test, we have also asked for a schedule change that will allow us to go to the two days of class that we need to attend. But by doing so we have no true days off, as the two days we have off of work we will be attending class. But these tests and schedule changes, and schooling are so we can get into a career that we won't sit in front of our work building for a while because we don't want to go into work today or any day for that matter. Something that isn't the most uncommon where we work now. So I hope that these changes will be for th...

We have said in the past that we go swimming on Wednesdays but recently we have switched to lifting weights as it gets colder. We have been doing this mostly every Wednesday for the past little while. We even more recently decided to switch to free weights for two of the three weight lifting gym days we have. I was a little scared about it but I can see that it is better for you than using machines. It has been going well, we’ve gone twice now and are planning to go again tonight. It was much more tiring despite not using any weight to do the exercises. I think that will be good overall for us. But for now I will leave you with how much I weighed and what I ate. Today I weighed: 207.5 lbs Yesterday I ate: > An egg and potato breakfast  > About two cups pasta > A small baggies of carrots dipped in ranch > A bowl of honey bunches of oat Yesterday I drank: 81 oz of water If anyone is interested in the workouts we follow or the logs of what we lifted and how many...

Every now and then Rok and I will realize how much our diet has changed. We'll eat a donut and think, maybe not another for a while. Or we'll take a lick of ice cream and not want to finish the rest of the cone massive cone. Or we will think about how we have gone down from using on average a big block of cheese, two loafs of bread and three boxes of pasta to using a small block of cheese one loaf of bread and one and a half boxes of pasta. Our diets are slowly getting better but I think the fact that it is so slow is going to help us keep the changes in the long run. Today I weighed: 208.1 lbs Yesterday I ate: > A partial bowl of Olive Garden fettuccine alfredo > A small bowl of salad from Olive Garden > The rest of the salad > The rest of the alfredo Yesterday I drank: 40ish oz of water I thought I gave too many examples of small changes but I could go on for a minute about the changes we've made without really noticing that we were making them. An...

I am feeling real down right now so this will probably be a shorter blog today. We went to take a test that took several hours that we apparently didn’t need to and basically told me I am dumb so that didn’t feel good. But we’ve also been invited to go to famous Dave’s for one of my aunts birthday, and as anyone who has read this blog a couple of times has probably picked up that we are vegetarian. So you know invite us to a barbecue place, sounds good. We looked over the menu and they have side dishes I guess without meat, but apparently they put bacon in everything so that’s cool. We don’t really want to go but one of my other aunts will be in town who lives far away so it’s a battle between being hungry and sad and being with family that I don’t get to see very often. I also keep worrying people are going to be rude to us as vegetarians in a steak house, so that isn’t helping us want to go. I don’t know if we will go or not, but if we do you’ll probably hear about it. Today I weig...

A few years ago, I watched a gameplay demo for a new MMO (I think it was Black Desert Online, but who can remember?) which involved a very meticulously created female player character nimbly dispatching a large group of monsters or barbarians or something on a mountainside. Once the enemies were all taken care of, the character sauntered over to a ledge and sat down with her legs hanging down over the ledge. I was quite impressed by the animation, but quickly began wondering whether someone who was less familiar with video games would be similarly impressed. "Well of course," this theoretical person might think, "that's what would happen if a person sat like that on a ledge." While I'm well aware that that's what it looks like when a person sits on ledge that way, I'm also accutely aware that Mega Man can stand just as comfortably with both feet on solid ground as with one foot halfway off a ledge and the other hovering over the abyss. My point...

I have a friend who's recently started watching Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans. He says he's been enjoying it, but as long as I've known him, he's had a problem with the Gundam franchise which, from what I can tell, is not altogether uncommon: he has a hard time suspending his disbelief in the viability of mobile suits. While this is not a problem I generally have, I can definitely see where he, and people like him, are coming from as I have definitely have experienced this to some degree when watching 08th MS Team. I think that's interesting, considering that's many people's favorite series, often lauded as being the most realistic, since it follows a normal military regiment as opposed to a Newtype main character and his (always his, but that's a topic for another time) supporting cast. This would be fine and could indeed be a very interesting idea if it wasn't so heavily predicated on guerilla warfare with 60 foot humanoid space tanks. For some r...

Our goal is becoming clearer, now the problem is the route we take to get there. We talked to a career counselor about welding and machining and as it turns out, those are growth fields, so we should be fine once we finish whatever program we take first. What we can't quite figure out is what to do while we're in the course. We've considered staying at our full time jobs, but the resultant 60-hour week would be horrible. We've thought of trying to go down to part time, but I'm not very confident that we'll be able to without quitting for three months and coming back. We've thought about trying to get a different job for the duration but we're not sure what we'd be able to get. We've even considered just taking out a loan to live on for the few months we're in school. Honestly the last one is where I'm leaning as it would cut our current work week in half, which would give us more time to work on other goals as well. We could stream ...

Hello fellow kids I am here with some updated goals: Build my first PG Gunpla: Due 12/31/18 Second verse same as the first, I still have not made any work and I am slowly considering not painting my PG and calling it done. Weigh in under 200: Due 12/9/18 I got to 205 this month, then promptly gained 2 pounds back, but I am still hopeful that I will be able to get under 200 by my birthday, and hopefully I will stay under 200 indefinitely. Stream on Monday and Fridays: Ongoing Oh! Oh! We did this one! This Friday was even a super long Splatooween stream! Go Swimming on Wednesdays: Ongoing We were sick recently so we haven't made it to the gym in about a week or two, but we are getting over it and hopefully we will go back tomorrow. (To be honest with you though I think I have been using the sick as a crutch to not do things that I really should be fine doing.) Do yoga mornings: Ongoing See above goal ^ Today I weighed: 206.4 lbs Yesterday I ate: > A cou...