Started out today going for my speed run in Minecraft with Mark. We had to find the Stronghold and we narrowed down the location, with the Eyes of Endor, to this one mountain. By digging down we found it but couldn't find The End portal that takes you to the Endor Dragon. We searched everywhere in there. It took so long that I eventually gave up because we'd passed the six hours i thought it would take us. I began to just mess around and build a long stairway down the mountain, adding some water to make it like a water slide.

Good morning Pixlbit Nation, how are you on this fine Monday morning? Currently here in what is usually sunny Southern California, it is overcast after a weekend of rain (we’re in a little drought) and there should be more rain coming later on today. I am excited because I get more opportunities to practice taking photos of water. Since the weather was a bit gloomy I decided to not go out and instead spend time with the PlayStation family along with some iPad gaming. It has been a couple of days since my family from Hawaii have left and this is the first time I played the PlayStation without having to load the second controller and wonder why the second controller has chicken grease and why the nub has a little piece ripped out (a 6 year old told me the bump was bothering him so he had to scratch it out…while eating a piece of fried chicken.) Anyways let’s get started with what I played

I started the day with Kirby's Dream Land for Game Boy. I played it on the big screen via Kirby's Dream Collection for Wii. This is a really good platformer. I really liked swallowing things and then spitting them out. You can swallow enemies to knock out other enemies and you can swallow objects that do special things when you spit them out; for example, a bomb will explode everything in it's path and a microphone will knock out everything in a room. You can even suck air to puff up like a balloon and then fly by flapping your arms. You can swim too, but you can't swallow stuff while submerged. I got into Stage 4: Bubbly Clouds when I stopped. I kept going off the clouds and getting killed. Stupid me. I'll be back to it though. Great game!

I was going to write this blog after installing new memory sticks to my computer but since I found out that the PC place that might have them is closed on Sundays I guess I should get with it. I’m just hoping that the computer shop doesn’t have the same views as Chick-Fil-a. Another note before I start writing the rest of this blog is that I’m dropping my current article plan. I had something going but then I came to conclusion that I have misinterpreted the movie. I tried to fix it but now it looks like a mess, so I’ll just be moving on to another opinion article: EXP grinding. Now for the rest of this blog.

So its been a busy summer for me in the School District, had a little bad luck my power cord for my laptop crapped out but fortunatly my fteind at work in Technology for the district had one for free yeaa one day without it and i was paniced lol!!

This is where I blame it all on Mothman...

I'm pretty sure I saw Batman Returns and Wayne's World that year in the theaters. Later I saw movies like Clint Eastwood's western The Unforgiven, Robert Rodrigez's El Mariachi, Ralph Bakshi's Cool World, and possibly Bram Stoker's Dracula staring Gary Oldman.

Good Friday Morning Pixlbit Nation! How are you folks today? It is a warm 85 degrees here in Sunny Southern California. I think we are getting some much needed rain in the next couple of days because there is a Hurricane off the coast of Baja than is pulling/bringing the wet stuff.

We’ll conclude Squid Week (it’s like Shark Week, but with squids) with a look at some of my favorite tentacled creatures in video games.  This includes both squids and octopi (octopuses is actually an acceptable plural form of octopus, too, I looked it up).  So hide the calamari and let’s begin!

I don't remember reading anything much in '92. Much later I read Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash. What I'd like to read now from this year are the following:

I may have played Wolfenstien 3D back in '92. I'm not sure. If not in '92 I did soon after with my friend Mark on some old Pentium 75 PCs we got from somewhere. I had no money then, so we must've gotten them free from someplace. In any case, that was the only game I played around that time.

Turns out I remembered wrong in my 1991 blog. I was still in New York in 1992, but that summer, I returned to live in Pennsylvania. I had a few credits remaining to finish the college I had left early in '90, and took them at a school in my hometown. I took pottery in the first semester and was told I should stick with it. I still remember the homage I did to Dante's Divine Comedy: a maw swallowing many small human figures. I still have one piece I did, a rendition of the American Indian style meeting house (I forget the exact name for it) we had at the summer camp I went to in my teens.

Anyone? Bueller?

I was going to play Sid Meier's Civlization Revolution today but I had to wait for the download, so I tried to find someone online to play Ticket To Ride. I waited a while in Quick Match hoping someone would pop up, but no one did, so I jumped back in my Minecraft game from yesterday. Well, that got pretty obsessive, and, after a while, Mark joined my game and then things got really crazy. I never did get back to Civ Rev.

All dlc regularly 14.99 for Africa Corps and Allied Corps is only $7.99 Panzer Corps base game is $10.00 And all dlc was $4.99 Here's your excuse to get it they won't be this price for long knowing the way Slitherine does. 

Good Morning Pixlbiticans! It is a nice, but warm Monday here in sunny Southern California and before we start I have to apologize for not reading and replying to blogs and comments over the past couple of days. The family is in town and we’ve been busy, but I will get to all of your posts ASAP! I’m going to have a quick catch up blog today to keep with my Monday/Friday schedule of posts.

December of 1987. It was cloudy, a thin layer of snow painted the dead grass of every lawn and every park. It's funny how we can remember the minor details of a single day. My parents took my brother and I to the Sears that overlooked the murky waters of the Illinois River in downtown Peoria. I recall my parents looking at VCR's, while my brother checked out the baseball gloves. I, at six years old, was at the first of many mid-life crises. A mid-child crisis? At six? Anyway, the video game industry was nothing more than that fun toy that my mom brought home so she could play a shitty game of Donkey Kong, something called Pitfall, and a weird game that consisted of playing as a bug that shot cardboard boxes at other cardboard boxes to get to the gooey swastika center. When Atari became a mainstay of the gated discount bin, I took up.....shitting the bed and drinking orange Kool-Aid. Come to think of it, maybe it was more an identity crisis than anything else.

Got a very late start. Felt like crap. Went to Mark's. Played a few games that knocked me around a bit. Had to break for a family dinner. Came back and was in no mood to be challenged or fight for my life in a game, so I turned to some low key board and building sim games the rest of the night.