How to put up a shed? Maybe

My friend, we'll call him clayfoot, has this back yard and he apparently bought a shed to put up there. He asked if I wanted to help probably not all that serious in expecting it to come but oh well. So I am over at Clayfoots house.

Step 1 Level the ground!
Thats right I said it! Take a bomb and make it as flat as possible. We didn't have any bombs or anything so we took up shovels and bought some dirt. Why buy dirt? Well is comes in nice plastic bags of course! Geeze, any other way would have been just a pain. Of course then it starts getting expensive somehow, glad I wasn't paying for it!

Step 2 Take a break
Drink Clayfoot's tea often! You want to stay hydrated in the sun because staying hydrated is cool and stuff.

Step 3 Act like you are working
Pick up a shovel or hoe and move the dirt back and forth on the ground! Sometimes you may want to stamp your foot so that it seems like you are flattening and compacting the dirt.

Step 4 Take a break!
This may seem like step 2 but it is not! This step is very important! Make sure to give hints that it is getting late and that their daughter is hungry. Hopefully they will take you out to dinner! Clayfoot did and he paid for my MEAL!! YAY I think I should get a sign "Will work for food!", what can I say I am cheap.

Step 5 Put together the flooring
Okay this step is important to get right! Make sure you put everything together backwards the first time so that when you go back to the instructions you have to undo whatever you just did.

Step 6 Repeat, rinse, reuse
Once the ground beams are put together go back to step 1 and repeat the process to step 4 when you realize the ground covered was not wide enough.

Step 7 Put together beams
Um this one is straight forward... just do it! And watch what part number you have!

Step 8 ... Well it is late and the shed isn't made yet hmmm I guess no more steps for today!

Note: IMPORTANT! Document everything for the time lapse after the project is done!

That's all for today!

Singles Population Map

Right, so one of my fiends told me that the west cost has a lot less guys then women... Well okay that seems weird at first. However then I went on facebook and found someone had also found a map of singles in America! To my surprise this is what was the result! I really pity those over in Los Angelas.... Also look were daytona beach is. That is my school, kind of sad but oh well. However at least I have a map for the future or at least until I am not single. I can at least go job searching and have priorities for different places to live. Also, take that all you west coast, oh the west coast is so much better! YA right if your gay maybe it is better but that's because there are more guys! But New York!!! Who would have thought 185,000 more single women than men?? To bad I hate new york...

two things just two things!

Right!~~!! Welcome back to another episode of the Life Of Carcer! So I have a couple of things I want to blog about but none of them really deserve its own post... well maybe they do but they would be very short. I am not sure if people want an in depth long post or some quick short ones?! Anyway Topic 1 Happened yesterday while at Robogriff's house.. a long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away! Dun dun dah dah dundun da dah dan da da dah dan dan... you know the music that goes with?

Episode 1
The lawn was dieing! What do we do? I was on my way over to help save the lawn along the way I got side tracked by the post office. Well who knew they would still be open at 6pm! So I dropped off my magic cards I am trading to my friend Ben. Robogriff calls me while in line! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!?? I am sorry the even post office had a line! I am caught! Go to Lowe's with out me I believe you can do it! Have faith, trust your instincts. The line moves quickly all of a sudden I am the next one to go! DOH!
::Scene cuts to robogriff's house::
At robogriffs house! Stalking the yard out waiting for RoboGriff.. "Hmm the yard really is dieing!" I am bored lets try and break in the house. So I try all the doors. No luck. I try all the windows. All locked damn. I try the shed... locked too! Man, well I guess I will wait.
Carcer goes back to the car... tries to call robogriff! WHat happened why isn't he answering maybe if I told him I was here he would hurry up! No luck.
::Scene cuts::
Walking the yard with some fertilizer! Maybe this will save the day.. I mean yard. Lee puts up some cable runs, while stabbing himself in the hand. Not on purpose you sick freaks! Turn on the sprinklers manually because the power to them was cut a long long time ago in a wait last year sometime.

THIS IS BORING to the main point of this story!

I go in the house and come back out to find that Robogriff has tried to turn off the sprinklers but has turned the motor the wrong way and it has come all the way off! Holy crap! the water starts rising out of the hole and rising... Robogriff takes a cup and tries to bale it out! Not fast enough! WHAT ARE YOU DOING robogriff??!! put the motor back on! I try to put the motor back on. Robogriff rushes inside to try and find something to turn the main water off. He finds a pair of pliers and tries that. Doesn't work! He needs a wrench! I keep trying to put the motor back on and all the while getting the sprinkler shot at me. Oh man I get a bit wet. I almost have it on! Got it... crap I put it on crooked... some water is still jetting away. Robogriff finally gets a wrench and turns the water off. I pale out some more water so I can try and see where this freaking thing goes. I get it on easily without the water trying to jet out of it!! Robogriff turns the water back on. The water from the sprinklers turns on! CRAP IT DIDN'T work!! Then the water dies out of the sprinklers. Must have been just the water pressure left in the line. I go in the house, man did robogriff tear up the kitchen trying to find tools!!! Well that's that I decide to make my chicken and eat.

Episode 2
This one is a lot quicker!
Ever have left over taco meat from the week before? Ever want spaghetti all of a sudden and realise that spaghetti is better with meat? Well add these two together and you get one AWESOME MEAL! Just have to let all of you know on the secret!!

Go vs Magic

Magic
Well I suppose I should follow up my post on the prerelease... This weekend a buncha friends here in this Georgia area decided to go up to the prerelease for future sight. I had alot of fun. On Friday I give RoboGriff a call and he tells me to be there by 5:30... well I got off at 4:15 I can try and make it home by 4:30 or so. I need to pack and also travel over there, much less change out of work clothes! Well I get there and we head up, we stay at a friend of RoboGriff's, Anthony. Anthony was a cool guy. Anyway, most of the people that read this already know what happened over the weekend! Well this seems confusing so far... maybe I should read and think about what I write.

Go!
So what I gave up was a chance to play tons of games over the weekend. So this definitely means that now I have failed to meet my goal. However I do think this is the most games I have played in a long time. What was cool was that I was starting to get STRONGER again!! I was winning a lot of my games and I think I am about to move up a rank, for some reason 1k or 1d is taken a lot more seriously then a 2k.. Still people keep asking me to teach them what a hassle. I think I might restrict them to be stronger then 15k because I can't take teaching people who don't know anything anymore!! I tell them something and they never do it! Whether or not they understand what I was trying to say I have no idea.

Match 1 Money
Go costs $0 to play... Magic costs err well as much as you want to put into the game. However a minimum of $30 for the cheapest okay type deck. To win you might need to invest a little more. Match winner Go! For obvious reasons.
Go: 1 Magic: 0

Match 2 Time
A game of magic you can easily play in 15minutes. Though some games can take longer most games will be done by at least 30 minutes because matches only last for 50 minutes and you need 3 games! In go, however, the game lasts on average 45 min - 1hr... I mean this is obviously nothing like my 6 hours games of Axis and Allies but still a tough thing to accomplish sometimes. Another thing about go is that it is very draining on you mentally. After three games or so my head starts to seriously hurt, or one game if I am concentrating a lot on it. I think I will give this match to Magic!
Go:1 Magic: 1

Match 3 Strategy
This is a very complex issue. Both of these games and invoke a lot of strategy and because I am running out of time... I will give it a tie!

*Taps Mic*
"Hello Hello, okay... THE WINNER IS! WHAT?"
*holds hand to mic but you can still hear what is being said*
"what do you mean we don't have a winner! we need a winner... tell them to play again?!!"
*Mummble Gargle blarga*
"What do you mean we don't have time for that!"
*Takes hand off mic*
"Well it seems we have a tie! Congratulations Go and Magic!"


Anyone know what this blog was about? How did we end up with some kind of speaker at the end? This is weird...

Future Sight Prerelease

Well I went to the prerelease, it ended up being more fun then it started out as. I played two flights.

First flight- I was not very happy about this one... I opened a bunch of cards that were not so great... My first iteration of the deck I ended up with very few creatures so I went back a took a look at what I had, and I ended up taking out some cards and adding anything that could fly.

The Deck Number 1

11 Creatures
2 Whip-Spine Drake -- Pretty good as most other fliers were 2/2
1 Sprite Noble
1 Crookclaw Transmuter
1 Looter il-Kor
1 Aven-Augur -- Verdict is still out but the option to bounce 2 creatures and it also has flying is still solid
1 Sage of Epityr
1 Faceless Devourer
1 Deepcavern Imp -- Awsome! I would say this card did the most damage during my games
1 Rift Elemental -- Ended up sucking as I didn't have much suspend
1 Keldon Halberier

12 Spells
1 Molten Disaster -- this card is a house! "Umm ya okay I will wrath now and sense all my guys are flying well only ur guys die..."
1 Grapeshot
2 Foresee (I think this card is awesome others said it was slow, draw spell and I get to choose what I want to draw??!!!)
1 Snapback
1 Mystic Speculation -- I included this to test out how well it would do. I this it turned out well because I also had grapeshot.. but this card was really cool when I had extra mana to drop into it. I ended up putting 3 land on the bottom of my library in one instance...
1 Delay -- Only got to use it once but it came at the right time to stop something and win me the game!
1 Fallen Ideal -- Mistake not enough creatures but gave flying for when I molten disastered we all know this card though
1 Ichor Slick -- AWESOME, can cycle combo the madness. Draw a card and kill a creature??!! and because cycle can be done at anytime turns a sorcery into an instant.
1 Grave Peril -- I read this card wrong thought it said MAY but it doesn't so it sucks...
1 Minions Murmers -- I was told this card was good but in my deck it took to long to stabilize because I drew, scry, drew, scry most of the game and I am really low in life when I had more then 1 creature to use this. I had enough draw already maybe.. needed creatures
1 Mindstab -- err bad choice.. used twice the whole time



Matches I went 2-2, didn't like this deck at first but after I started all the scrying and deck organizing and drawing cards it turned out alot of fun. Wish I had gotten some kind of bomb though... last game I played we were evenly match, he won the first game, I won the second and he asked it I wanted to split the prize (2 wins got you 1 pack, 3 wins 6), I agreed and we played the last one to see who got the extra pack. I lost but at least I could choose that I died GO molten Disaster!!

Second flight I was alot happier with what kind of cards I got, still nothing too great in the rare area besides a call the herd!.. This deck was mostly green aggro with red splashed for removal and splash black to add some more creatures

Deck Number 2

18 Creatures
1 Thorn Shell-Dweller
1 Thelon of Havenwood (ooooo--ooo its shinny)
1 Thornweald Archer -- blocks fliers... kills anything it touches... sounds good to me
1 Ravaging Riftwurm -- pay the kicker or it kinda sucks
1 Nessian Courser -- 3/3 for 3 mana... the picture makes me almost like the new frames
2 Llanowar Empath -- Awesome, almost like card draw.. I never missed with the scry and reveal
1 Penumbra Spider
1 Imperiosaur -- 5/5 for 4 basic lands (SEALED DECK?? OKAY)
1 Savage Thallid
1 Nacatl War-Pride -- this card made me mad...every time i had it in my hand I was stuck with only 2 forests. Never saw play
1 Storm Entity -- probably could have been better but once I could cast it I did with 1 counter on it...
1 Skizzik Surger -- double red is bad for splash maybe... but it did see play and was awesome
1 Street Wraith -- this card hid from me until it was needed
1 Mass of Ghouls
1 Korlash, Heir to Blackblade
2 Deepcavern Imp

5 Spells
1 Lightning Axe -- Goodbye bogardian Hellkite! was great!
1 Sudden Shock
1 Orchish Cannonade
1 Call of the Herd
1 Sulfurous Blast

Runner up land - Keldon Megaliths.. never had hellbent :-(


Okay I really liked this deck.. I was really disappointed when I lost match 2 when my opponent was at 1 life... FOR 4 ROUND!!! Then I got really disappointed when my deck crapped on my the third match when I never got beyond 3 lands in both games... However, the guy was really cool and he was dropping to play the last flight and gave me the win without even telling\asking first me. So I had 2 wins again and played my last match. My deck started humming game 1. Flying haste for the win! Second game was really really close but I lost. Third game came me beating her because she attacked and didn't take into account a gang block... weird (she was cool though met her at the planar chaos release, she was kinda heavy set and her husband this skinny ass guy weird couple)

So was the day over? I happen to have bought 6 packs of planar chaos and 6 packs of timespiral the day before with the intention to draft with some people the day before. However they were lame and didn't want to because of time and wanting to sleep. But this was for the good because now I had 6/6/6!! Draft was on now with 2 more people that were invited... wait 3 more now?? we can't do that.. bah after we went and ended up doing a sealed deck after much controversy because certain people didn't like drafting... most of the other guys never drafted before and some didn't want to do rare pick prizes?!! So because we had tons of future sight from other people... 1 time spiral 1 planar choas 3 future sight sealed deck. Where the other 2 packs came from I dunno but some how with 7 magic players they were there.

So here goes my draft Deck.. I mean a sealed deck again! After playing with future sight all day I had a better feel for the cards. Besides we had planar chaos cards mixed in which made the set as a whole feel better. The packs I opened were awesome. Timbermare, Extirpate, Glittering Wish, Trickbind, Pact of Negation... not all for sealed but cool to open after not so great of a day. Better then Pact of Intervention anyway!!!

Sealed Deck number 3

13 Creatures
1 Timbermare (foily)
1 Serendib (combo piece number 1)
1 Ravaging Riftwurm
1 Kavu Primarch
1 Mire Boa
1 Llanowar Empath
1 Nessian Coursar
1 Pouncing Wurm
1 Crookclaw Transumeter
1 Merfolk Thaumaturgist (Combo piece number 2)
1 Riftwing Cloudskate
1 Aven Riftwatcher
1 Blade of the Sixth Pride

Spells
1 Grinning Totem (man this card is fun)
1 Logic Knot
1 Ophidian Eye
1 Venser's Diffusion
1 Foresee
1 Sunlance
1 Temporal Isolation
1 Petified Plating
1 Sprout Swarm
(also had the aura that tapped or untapped other creatures)

Notable lands
1 Llanowar Reborn (very cool! graft for free is sweet)
1 Terramorphic Expanse

The deck was fun when I got the combo to kill all the opposing creatures. Anyway that's all I have.

258 Games Failure

If you are new to my blog for this post you should check out this First Post on go. Okay this is not an admit of defeat yet. This is just stating the facts. So far it has been 15 days into the month right? So, I have only completed 70 some games which brings the total to about 150 after 30 days if I keep the same rate. This is very troublesome because not only do I have to play 258 games in a month I have to play at almost triple the rate I have been going at!! I don't see how I can do this and work and still eat and live. Blarga Blarga BLarga... May have to try doing some simuls. ~~~!

Classes Classes

Hello again! Hopefully I have some return readers now!! I know a lot of people I talk to are the silent reader type and don’t like to comment on anything. I say BOO to that!! If you want to type up a topic a put it up let me know I can give you access to this blog!! Its pretty cool… okay probably not so much but anyway onto the topic at hand!!

I have registered for my fall classes!! Here I thought I was done with labs, well I guess I was wrong.

AE 417 02 LB 184 TH 08:15AM 11:00AM Staff 1.00cr

AE 416 03 LB 369 W 11:45AM 12:45PM Eric Hill 1.00cr

PSY 101 04 COA 354 TTH 12:45PM 02:00PM J. Kring 3.00cr

MA 432 01 COA 143 MWF 03:30PM 04:30PM H. Khanal 3.00cr

ES 405 03 E 609 TTH 02:15PM 03:30PM Staff 3.00cr

CEC 411 01 LB 270 M 05:15PM 08:15PM T. Wilson 1.00cr

CEC 410 01 IC 103 MWF 10:30AM 11:30AM T. Wilson 3.00cr

Lets go through the classes..

AE 416 is S&I which is supposed to stand for Structures and Instrumentations

AE 417 is the lab that goes with 416… BOO, I here the reports are excruciatingly long.

PSY 101 is Psycology… hey I need some lower level humanities okay!! Don’t make fun!

MA 432 is Linear Algebra, I was told this class is essential for engineers to take and especially if you like math. The bad part is that it is taught by Khanal. I had him my first semester here and you could literally open the book and almost follow along word for word. Needless to say I slept a lot in Calc 2.

ES 405 is supposed to be Electrical Engineering II though I don’t know why it is in ES (engineering sciences) where EEI is in EE (electrical engineering)… This class should be cool if I don’t end up with this one teacher that people tell me not to take (Notice it says Staff).

CEC 410 is Digital Signal Processing, I was told this class should be pretty cool. It was recommended by a professor and then again by someone who graduated from a different school. I have no idea what I am getting myself into with this class. I hope it is easy but then again it is a 400 level course.

CEC 411 is the lab for the class. This is probably where the hands on part comes in. Hopefully I won’t have to work to hard here either as I am pretty lazy.

Other required classes I could have taken but didn’t

Spacecraft Detailed Design, well this conflicted with my Linear Algebra and I wanted linear algebra I can take this class next semester but they don’t offer linear algebra in the spring because it isn’t required by anyone.

Turbines and Rocket Engines, I really am not looking forward to this class but I need it so hopefully I don’t fail it next spring ^^

So it turns out I have again 15 credits for the semester which I think is a good thing. The max I can take for the standard tuition is 16 credits so I think it works out that I am not losing to much, at least it is not 14 credits… THAT would be annoying. The next thing on my list to do is get one of those graduate evaluations so that I can make sure I have everything I need. Looking to the future I think that Spring I am going to have a chore trying to fill up 12 credits. Maybe I will take another math course. I am looking into the GRE which is the SAT for graduate school. They have a one in Macon but I want to study first and look over how the tests are done before I sign up. Immediately I need to finish my internship paperwork so that I can get credit for it. Far into the future like 6 months from now… I need to decide if I want to go to graduate school!! I am not sure if it is anything like undergraduate where you apply in the fall but it probably depends on the school. I could always fall back onto going to ERAU… though I think I want to try and go somewhere else and meet different people again. Everyone I know at ERAU is graduating anyway.