Graduation Season

Hello everybody!

I hope you all have been having a wonderful week. My week was okay a little frustrating but ultimately informative. It’s really starting to hit me that I need to write now and focus. Not saying I haven’t been, but I haven’t been taking my career in writing as seriously as I should and that’s my fault. I’m planning out a new schedule to help me focus on my career and building my portfolio. I’m looking to learn coding and keep working on myself. I did have some cool stuff happen this week though as well. I’m getting ready to start Curse of Strahd on Tuesday. Curse of Strahd is one of the classic D&D campaigns and I’m excited to finally get to play it. My oldest sister also graduated college and we celebrated that today.

It’s super exciting to have my sister graduate. I’m extremely proud of her and what she’s done. Her future looks bright and I’m looking forward to witnessing it. My other sibling are also making progress in their school and careers. I’m pumped by it all. It was weird being the first one done with school. Having gone to Full Sail where everything is accelerated made it weird to see other graduation season’s come and go. To see what paths people have taken is really exciting to me. My path was quick and direct, but others have taken a longer more circuitous path, and both can lead to amazing results. Hopefully, my siblings and I are all on our way to our own definition of success.

Well till next week you guys. I hope you have a wonderful week, and I hope to have something exciting to talk about next time. Once again congrats to my sister, and I look forward to seeing what you do.

Beginner D&D and Family in Town

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I hope you all had a good week. My week was pretty easy and nice. Work went pretty easy and I’ve been able to figure out a good route to take to take home. This new route sometimes helps me get home at least a half hour earlier than my normal route. I also had a half day on Friday as the lab had been closed in the morning. It was nice to just hang out with my coworkers a bit and chat. Then the second half of the day was fairly easy and chill, at least for me. Earlier in the week my Grandpa from Texas came up to visit and hangout with us, so on Tuesday I went to my Dad’s house to have dinner with them. There were a lot of people there that I hadn’t seen in a long time, so I had fun chatting with them and getting caught up with them. I sadly didn’t chat with my Grandpa much, but he seemed busy chatting with everyone else. It was still nice to see him and eat food he had spent so much time on.

This weekend I also had a little tutorial session in D&D for a player that had never played before. It was kind of interesting to plan out. I’m happy I had come up with some backup plans as well as people had cancelled on us. The interesting part for me as well was I had to figure out a simple thing that would teach the basics as well as be entertaining. I think it came out well and the player at least now has the basics down. I had also made to guides for them as they are a level 1 Warlock and it would be difficult for them to kind of learn the basics without having someone with them. My main goals were to teach them combat and exploration. They learned the basics of combat with some of the fights I had set up, this included a pseudo-boss battle. The exploration aspect was given by the secrets and traps I had left hidden around including: Hidden doors, traps, and loot. The third important aspect that they would learn is communication. This one I didn’t have a lot of, but I still gave them opportunities to learn through communicating with their foes. In future they’ll have to rely more on it, but for now it wasn’t a big thing I need to teach.

Well till next week you guys. I hope you have a good week and that I have some good stories to share.

Busy Halloween Week

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I hope you guys have had a good two weeks. I apologize for not posting last week but I was very busy. I got to spend a lot of time with my Aunt as she wrapped up her time up here in Seattle. Last Saturday we had a get together with a bunch of our family friends. It was a lot of fun to hang out and eat good food. We had all sorts of snacks. It was a lot of fun to hang out and chat with them. Then on Sunday we spent time getting prepped for her to leave. It was nice having her in town. I look forward to seeing her next time and hopefully, spend more time with the rest of her family.

The rest of this week was strange. It went both fast and slow. Every day at work it was slow and while at the end of each day I’d look back and it was surprising what day it was. It was also fun because we were preparing for Halloween at work. We had a costume contest at work which was also a lot of fun. There were some amazing costumes we had someone dressed as Carmen SanDiego, a female Pennywise, an Officer Jenny, and more! I look forward to more events like this and hopefully we’ll get around to doing more office events. Maybe have an ugly sweater party or something. I love trying office events and things to improve office morale.

Well till next time you guys. I hope you have an amazing week and I hope to have good stories for you next week.

Aunty in Town for Two Weeks

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I hope you all have had a good week. My week has been very good, it started a bit slow but got better as it went. We also got some new people at work recently. I was given the opportunity to train some of these new employees. I’ve missed training and teaching new people. I used to help train and teach the new employees for BTS and Daily Tours. I always enjoyed teaching people about the process and route we would run. Getting the opportunity to train and teach new employees at this work is a lot of fun for the most part. I’m excited to have been trusted to do so and am hoping for some more opportunities to do that.

This week my Aunt also came up from San Diego and has been staying with us. I have a lot of family in San Diego that I haven’t seen in a long time, so it’s always wonderful when they come up and I can see them. I’m hoping to fly down and visit them once my contract is up, but we’ll see if I’ll have the ability to. I always love spending my time with my family. It’s been nice to see her and spend time with her. We went to a Punk Flea Market and explored the various booths. There were some really cool things being sold there. My favorite booth was selling some lamps they had made to look like the Space Needle and a lamp that looked like the Death Star. It’s been a lot of fun to do these different activities and I’m looking forward to another week of shenanigans.

Well till next week you guys. I hope you have a good week and I hope to have more stories next week.

Labor Day Week and Seeing Family

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I hope you guys have had a good week. I apologize for no post last week, but it was a bit hectic. These last two weeks were pretty fun. Labor Day weekend was my stepbrother’s birthday so we spent it celebrating. One day we went out to this laser tag place that was pretty cool. It was made to be a bit more realistic, so the guns were made to look like real guns and the vests were like ballistic vests. It was pretty intense and by the end of the hour we play we were all sweating buckets. We also saw Hobbes & Shaw, which was a fun movie, but really over the top and sometimes hard to suspend disbelief. All in all, it was a good weekend and good week.

The last week was also nice. Some of my relatives traveled up from San Diego and I hadn’t seen most of them in years. It was really cool to hangout and catch up. We discussed my new job and how they’ve been. The only bad part was my glasses broke and I was uncertain of if they broke when they fell of my face or when my uncles dog bit them. Not a big deal but it was a bit of a downer. I fixed my glasses with super glue and now they’re usable all though a bit crooked. I'm hoping to travel to San Diego and visit my family down there sometime next year, but we’ll see what happens and how the year progresses.

Well till next week you guys. I hope you guys have a good week and I hope to have some interesting stories next time.

Last Few BBQ's of Summer

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I hope you guys have had a good week. My weeks have gotten a lot easier as I’ve grown more comfortable in my work and my anxiety has dropped for the most part. I’m getting more into the flow of things more and more. This week I also got a day off which was nice to just relax at home for a bit. Work is continuing to grow exciting and change. I hope that it stays constant in its growth and change as I meet new people and continue with the game testing. Hopefully, I’ll also figure out a way to continue on my side projects or work on other things. I’m trying to figure out what projects I want to work on in the spare time and the directions I want to take. I have a lot of projects in my head that I want to figure out and then move forward with.

This weekend has been pretty nice. I went to two BBQ’s this weekend and got to see a lot of people I haven’t seen in a long time. One was a BBQ with friends that we hung out and caught up. It was pretty fun to see them and meet new people. The second BBQ was with extended family which was really interesting. I met a bunch of family members I had never met before and spent time at a beautiful lake and tried fishing again. It was also kind of funny because one of my family members works for Microsoft as well and even works at the same campus as me, so maybe I’ll see him around the campus.

Well till next week you guys. I hope that your week goes well. I look forward to letting you guys no what’s going on next week.

Continued Expansion of my Hunt

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I hope your last week has gone well. This last week was a strange one for me. There’s been a lot of family drama and craziness. It’s not fun and has been adding onto my family’s stress. It’s something that we must push through and make changes for, but it is what it is. I know I’m stressed about it and most of it isn’t close to me in particular. I’m hopeful that everything will move towards the better, but realistic about it as well. The rest of my week has been spent working on my typical stuff. I’ve also made progress on some of my side projects and I’m excited for it. My D&D stuff is moving forward so far and I’m excited to run people through it.

My job hunt however has hit a bit of wall. Several of the jobs I’ve applied to I simply haven’t heard back from. It’s frustrating as the job is still up and I’m still not hearing anything. I’ve had the help of some amazing recruiters though that are helping me out greatly. I may have some new opportunities coming soon. I’ve also been expanding my hunt to more areas. To try and improve my chances I’ve been continuing to expand my portfolio and skills. Slowly I’ve been learning more of code. I’m hoping that I’ll be hearing some good things soon.

Well till next week you guys. I hope you have an awesome week and I have some good news for you all.

New Website!

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            Welcome to my new website. I'm excited to let you peruse it and explore the different aspects of it. These past few weeks have been hectic I had spring break and then a whole lot of class work. This was in tandem with my capstone work. Today I worked BTS and got to chat with all sorts of awesome people. Yesterday and Friday, I was at the Mega Health Jam showing off the studio I work for and the different games we make. We've released a lot of games lately.

          For Spring Break, I traveled back to Seattle. It was a lot of fun to be up there and hanging out with my family. I also got to celebrate my birthday with them. It was an amazing time. Being so far away from your family and hometown can be draining. It's very revitalizing to be able to see them and do stuff with them. We played new board games, ate awesome food and went to explore new places. I'm excited to see them again in August for my graduation.

          Well till next week my friends. It is always a pleasure and I hope you all have a wonderful week!