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

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...