Day Ten: Near Death Experience

6/21/13, 9:04 AM PDT

Woo! We've hit double digits on the day count! Which may or may not be a good thing because it means summer's roughly 1/8 of the way done. God, it's going a lot faster than I realized.

Dropped my sister off at school. Was a little more irritated than usual this morning since dad woke me up at 6:30 even though my sister's school starts at 7:48. I'm not a morning person, realize that. So if you have to wake me up early in the morning, please do so gently. Don't take the route my dad did and knock violently against the other side of my wall like the police trying to enter a drug house.

Played a bit of SSBB. Getting better at using Zero Suit Samus, but still have a long, long way to go. And no, I'm not using her because I'm a pervert. It's because she's ridiculously fast and has so many options that she's unpredictable. Promise.

Wow, I can't believe you think I'm using ZSS because she's hot. I could just as easily use Falco, but the second that player selector lands on Samus, you're all "WOW, MICHAEL, YOU JUST WANT THAT ZSS, DON'T YOU."

Well I don't.

*ahem*



Same day, 1:14 PM PDT

Ridiculously tired, so I napped for a good two hours right then and there. Seriously have to keep track of time and stop sleeping at 2 AM, it's not healthy running on five hours of sleep when I don't need to.

Anyway, now just kind of wasting time before I have to pick up my sister. Brawl, half-chatting on Skype, mostly trying to wake up and get out of wooziness from the nap.

Also, you might have noticed that I didn't run today. I wanted to, but my sweatpants are in the laundry and I don't have another pair. I don't want to run in jeans, so I kind of didn't run today. I can hear your jeers already, but I'll make it up with parkour tonight, promise!



Same day, 3:44 PM PDT

So went to pick up my sister from school. On my way there, I forgot that I had to deliver something for my mom to someone in the school, so I practically sprinted home to get it.

I don't really know what the thing is. They looked like styrofoam on rigid plastic straws, like styrofoam lollipops. Upon inquiry, mom said they were sponges, and that it was for cleaning someone's mouth, but I don't know how you could use it as that. Whatever.

Played a bit more of SSBB. Practicing against randomized level 9 characters. I win roughly 40% of the time, usually against mid and low-tier characters, but I managed to beat Falco once. It's pretty difficult to control ZSS's spacing and I keep thinking that her down air's just a downward kick that spikes, like most other characters. Apparently not. I've learned that the hard way through a handful of suicides.

ZSS's grapple recovery is also pretty difficult to get the hang of. For some reason, I keep thinking her Zair grapples to the edge, but it's really sideB/upB that does it. So killed myself a few dozen times with Zairs as well.

...Terminology flying over your head again? Sorry, I can't help it, I'm a Smash nerd. Sort of.

Also, parents bought tickets to a Big Time Rush concert at the Del Mar Fair, so I'll be going tomorrow again. Not to the concert, mind you, but I get to explore the fair again. Should be fun, bwahaha.




Same day, 10:55 PM PDT

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Parkour. Wow, I'm tired.

Tried a few things. Ran up a tilted wall, made it pretty high. Got a piece of chalk, wrote a few lines at the highest I could reach. Well, I reached a little higher, but you can't see it amidst the sea of handprints on the wood. I'll upload the picture I got tomorrow for technical reasons which I will get into later.

Also tried a distance kong, roughly 15 or so feet. Aaaand landed on my neck.

It hurt a lot, and I'm pretty lucky to not be paralyzed from the neck down. But holy crap, gonna be taking a break from parkour for a bit.

Well, gonna be taking it a little easy from now on. Don't want to die in my teenage years and bring down the national average life span.

And the worst part? When I got home, I was on my computer, headphones in, casually browsing Facebook when THE POWER GOES OUT. Thought I died right then and there.

I think it's a message from whatever deity exists, telling me to appreciate life. And dear god, do I appreciate it.

It's gonna be a bit problematic now though, since I have to shower in total darkness. Wish me luck.




RFotD: The only female mammals to undergo menopause (natural cessation of menstruation) are elephants, humpback whales, and humans.

SGAT: None really. Almost died. So there's that.