Having only returned twenty-four hours ago, I get just a few days off to unwind and rest from the trip ... ... except not. I'm finally starting on the BIG THING that Pablo and I have been talking about for a while, but - and this is SUPER EXCITING NEWS that I literally only had confirmed earlier this week - I must practice and prepare all of the pieces that I've ever written for solo piano because I'm having a RECITAL DEDICATED TO THEM. A RECITAL DEDICATED TO MY COMPOSITIONS AND I'LL BE PL
Alright, so I'm going to have to finish up being sick, play baseball thrice a week until May, prepare for the end-of-season awards day/roast for the team (I'm in charge of making dumb videos for the roast portion), and finish up my course work for this semester. I was going to compete in a piano competition in Charlotte but that fell through - even though I passed the regional with flying colors, the state tournament conflicts with a home game for us against the toughest team we're due to face
Good grief, I hear you think. What the heck is Sumiks getting into? I'm resisting the urge to ask that of myself. That is a valid question, one that I hope to elucidate as I introduce this new, special segment of Blogarithm. Ever since I was small, my parents and I wanted to take a big trip "out west" - a trip where we'd just hop in our car and ride out, seeing all the major (and some minor) sights of the American West - specifically, the southwest. It was continually put off until next summ
HATPILE REACHES 66 HATS MY NECK STILL HURTS BRICKEENS TOUR NEVER MATERIALIZES (SORRY BRO) PABLO DRIVES THE FARM ANIMALS TO THE TYSON'S CORNER LEGO STORE A TERRIFYING EXPERIENCE TO SAY THE VERY LEAST XAERAZ ARGUES IN FAVOR OF THE AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE OF DEFENSIVE DRIVING WE LAUGHED, WE CRIED, WE FELL OVER XAERAZ LEAVES EARLY TO DEAL WITH HOUSEHOLD EMERGENCY NO ONE WINS ANY DOOR PRIZES VALENDALE WINS THE GHOSTBUSTERS SET AT ATTEMPTS TO HACK A SMALL TV BLACK SIX: "Galidor 2018!" DEEVEE:
A very last-minute entry to the Titans vs. Monsters contest. To my knowledge this is the only System-Based Creations entry ... which could prove to be interesting once the votin' time rolls 'round. (--c--l--i--c--k------f--o--r------t--o--p--i--c--!--)
IT'S THE END OF THE FARM AS WE KNOW IT SUMIKI'S DAD APPEARS THE FARM ANIMALS AND FRIENDS CONVENE AT THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT COLOMBIAN MIME AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL THE SEARCH FOR FOOD TRUCKS ft. SEVERAL WRONG TURNS FOOD TRUCKS FOUND, LUNCH CONSUMED AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM, LADY K'S BROTHER IN AWE THIS ISN'T A CAR WALKING AROUND EVERYWHERE PETTY ESCALATION ft. PAT AND MADDISON VIA FACEBOOK GROUP SELFIES! AT READS EVERYTHING GET FUSSED AT BY OVERZEALOUS ANTI-RELAXATION SMITHSONIAN VOLUNTEE
My grandmother is making excellent physical progress; she's far beyond where she was a week after the first surgery. The physical therapy the rehab center is making her is above and beyond what we are capable of assisting her with. The painkillers have made her equal parts loopy, groggy, and irritable. Her loopiness makes her forgetful and willing to say things in her sleep worthy of my status updates (my personal favorite is "baby fig, baby fig, oh, baby fig ... CHICKEN"), her grogginess make
In first place, with eight votes: PALEO! In second place, with four votes: REZNAS! In third place, with three votes: PALEO! (again) Your prizes will be autographed selfies, featuring exclusive snippets of wisdom. (I may or may not have ripped off this idea from Windrider.) Congratulations to the winners and big thanks to all of the fantastic entries - although no one guessed correctly.
DAY FOUR BRACE YOURSELVES, THE PUBLIC IS COMING LASER TAG GOES SURPRISINGLY WELL (NINTH AND FIFTH PLACES) FILMING FOR BRICKFAIR FUNK (FEAT. KEVIN HINKLE CAMEO) LAST-MINUTE WALMART RUN WITH 55555 KANYE, DRIL, OR HAMLET: PABLO MODERATES, LETAGI JOINS THE FARM ANIMALS I WIN CARDS AGAINST HUMANITY (SIX BLACK CARDS) DAY FIVE BRICKFAIR FUNK COMPLETES FILMING TWO HATPILES THE SECOND MAKES IT TO FORTY HATS HAT TRANSPLANTS MOSAICS BREAK TOENAILS PABLO AND AVOHKAH TAMER GET A TA
I feel like I've fallen off the face of the earth BZP for a while and that's not a fun feeling. I knew I'd be busy when college started but I didn't expect to have so many things going on in the summer before. Anyway. It hit me a little earlier today that in one year, I'll be twenty. That freaks me out more than just turning nineteen. Nineteen really isn't that much different from eighteen, if you look at social privileges. But twenty? Man, that's a whole new first number. 10 was fun because
Okay, I kind of realize why BIONICLE had female sets. Kind of. You could argue over the romance implicated in 2001 (heck, I still consider it canon), the personalities programmed into the Matoran Universe by the Great Beings, as a way to generate sales, and so on.
But with the advent of Hero Factory and their females, I question why LEGO chose to add a female onto the team. They're robots, people. They might have artificial intelligence, they might have awesome weapons, but in the end they ar
Ah, the fish camp—a beloved institution in the southern United States. Just about anywhere there's enough people, you can find—tucked away, no doubt—a rickety old building packed with a large clientele. These fish camps are not chains, but a kind of restaurant, and their sole purpose is to take the fruits of the sea and deep-fry them until any semblance of flavor disintegrates. I generally try to avoid these kinds of places, but as I am still with my grandmother during her surgical recovery, s
-----Alaska has always been a very romanticized place in my mind, as there are very few places in the world that are like it. I've been fascinated by it since I knew of its existence, although at first I just thought it was cool because it was on the same continent as the 48 contiguous states but remained staunchly separate from its kin. Both Alaska's scale and ostensible nothingness intrigued me, especially when I first saw it overlaid on the familiar US outline. It seemed almost too good to be
For the past few years, my sole request for this holiday is to experience one where the floor doesn't vibrate from nearby fireworks. I doubt I'll ever experience that.
Blogarithm Contest #1:
Strange PMs: Results!
Winners
And the winners are...
-Toa Lhikevikk-
Herculesss
ChocolateFrogs
and Lolwut Meso Spaegefefrwewr
Due to the nature of this contest and the wide range which can be considered "random", I have picked four winners instead of the planned three. Also, because of that, there are no first-, second-, and third-place. Each of the winners has won equally.
The winners' PMs will now be revealed; the other entries will be revealed tomorro
We explored our Mount Washington hotel thoroughly. We saw the Gold Room, where the setting up of and signing of the International Monetary Fund took place, and a few old fuses - well, I thought they were old. It turns out that the fuses, part of the original wiring put in by Thomas Edison, were actually still partially in use. Honestly it sounds like a fire hazard, but I'm not an electrician. We decided to skip the treacherous Mount Washington Auto Road due to the fact that it's a private ro
