Thursday, October 22, 2015

Food and Gaming and Books

So I have gone from corn chips and salsa to taquitos and salsa to just pinto beans and salsa. I'm not eating meat at the moment, not even eggs, although I recently ate some shrimp and I might eat more of that later, I'm not sure. Today I had some of the best poop I have had in as long as I can remember. Soft and relatively big. The above and teff and yogurt have been all I have eaten, other than a mix of honey, royal jelly, and bee pollen. I might buy some more pearl onions since I probably am not getting enough protein from the small amount of onions in the salsa. Of course teff has protein as well but it's a different kind I think. I'm actually annoyed because as my colon feels great my face gets scales all over it. I know I could clear up my complexion significantly if I were to consume some chocolate, but I would imagine that doing so has the potential to damage my colon.

As for gaming...the new monitor seems to work rather well and the new mouse is fine I guess. I don't like the bright red light on top but it seems to be functioning fine. In Heroes of the Storm, I bought Abathur for 10,000 gold and won my first game that I played with him rather easily. I still have a little over 10,000 gold left and I'm thinking of getting Johanna, Kael'thas, Zeratul, or Thrall. And there are some cheaper heroes I'd like to get. In Dota 2, it seems like I can win if I make sure to pick the perfect support heroes to make sure my allies get an unfair advantage over our opponents. Every game makes me feel like I'm playing with total morons but if I apply my knowledge and am alert to what they need it's a lot easier. It's tough though since it's hard to be diplomatic and more often than not the clearest path to victory involves muting at least half your team. In League of Legends I tried playing Jinx but found it was hard to get a support for a team, so I checked in as support Jinx and went AP and won without much difficulty. A bit silly since she has only one ability that scales with AP and I didn't get the damage applied from it very often. I think perhaps the Essence Reaver is the best item for a support Jinx so maybe I'll try it next time. In Hearthstone I almost got Shaman to level 60 and I figure I might as well level up each class to that point. Tavern Brawl games seem harder than regular ones after the first day. This is mainly because a lot of the folks that play those Tavern Brawls seem to be higher ranking players with better collections. Perhaps as I try to level up classes I will start getting a higher rank? Eh, probably not.

I am almost done with the Star Wars book series I was working on for a while. I'm on the very last book now and to be honest it doesn't seem particularly interesting. It has a lot of fighting which would probably be more fun to watch than to read about, especially since there seems to be a lot of simple mistakes the author makes like calling columns rows and that kind of immature thing. It's a bit awkward how many mistakes I can spot in the average published book and how I don't always know for sure what the author really meant. As a reader, I don't like taking extra time trying to figure out what the writing should be, I should rather spend it trying to figure out what is being told. Such amateur work really makes one go through the process at a speed not desirable.