[Music: Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - Crimson and Clover]

Saturday, April 13th, 2002

I have some things to share right now...

Over the past few months, I've been looking into some SNES games I missed when I was younger. SOme games I've already boughten include Super Metroid (Yes, this game kicks so much bootay, it could probably KO about 50 Sumo wrestlers), Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, Chrono Trigger (actually, this is gonna be received on my Birthday... WITH everything it originally came with), Metroid, and the R-Type series. Well, I've come to realize that a lot of these games are dubbed as 'rare', and thus, cost too much. That's where ROM's come in handy. The ROM's I'm currently playing are Final Fantasy 3, EarthBound, Evolution: Quest for Eden, amd a few games I've played through many times on the SNES back when you could rent them at Blockbuster (Kirby's Super Star, Kirby's Dreamland 3, Super Mario World 2, and Kirby's Dreamcourse). I've come to realize that many of these games are the most fun I've had. Even in comparison to games on the PS2, N64, and GameCube. These games had it all, in my opinion. Tons of replay value, lots of depth, among many other things. My mind is at a complete stop right now, though. For now though, this is what you get.

I'm hoping in the upcoming weeks, I can post a list of all the games I own, or have played a decnt way through (and note, I am only 13. Some people would be amazed by how long ago I started gaming. At the very young age of 4. No joke).

In fact, I may actually just start posting games I own right now. (Games in italics are the oens I've gotten in the last few months over eBay or at FuncoLand, or games I KNOW I will be getting for my birthday. This only applies to SNES and NES games)

SNES Games
Super Mario World
Super Mario All-Stars
Super Mario RPG: Legend Of The Seven Stars
Mario Paint
Mega Man X
Mega Man X2
Mega Man X3
Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie's Double Trouble
Tetris Attack
Super GameBoy
Super R-Type
Super Metroid
Super Metroid (Best sellers)
Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest
PGA Tour 96'
Taz-mania
NBA Showdown
NFL Quarterback Club 96'
Chrono Trigger
The Lion King

Most of THESE, I got fairly around the release date.

NES Games
Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt
Super Mario Bros. 3
Mega Man (1-5)
Golf
Kirby's Adventure
Back To The Future
Legend of Zelda
Legend of Zelda II: Adventure of Link
Metroid
Dragon Warrior

I'll post my other games some other time. RIght now, Final Fantasy 3 calls me.

AND AWAY!

Quote of the Day:
"Mexicans!!!" - Beth Anne Roberts. Hey, what can I say? I haven't done much today, so I just grab a quote I've know for who knows how long.

[Music: Billy Joel - It's Still Rock And Roll To Me, The Beatles - Come Together]
April 11th, 2002

Two songs. Yay.

Well, today was a good day. I was able to actually finish Gray Shading Makuny, and it turned out quite well...except the hips. Oh well. I'll scan it in over the weekend possibly.

Ya know, I actually got two compliments on it earlier. Justin Kujino (yes, I bring him up...again :-P) and Matt whatever-his last name-is were criticizing it. I followed a few suggestions. "That's actually pretty good..." said Matt, as Justin followed with "Yeah, i'll admit it. You did a pretty good job on it." So that's good. Ms. Jorgensen and Mrs. Burlison didn't like it because she had a gun and sword. I'm still boggled by that. Oh well.

Feet suck, especially for an artist like me. Nuff' said.

I can't really think of anything else to post, except how I think that The Beatles and Billy Joel are some of the best music artists to exist. Ryan has helped me realize that. John Lenon and Billy Joel are both very good songwriters, in my opinion. Too many people these days, mainly my own generation, underestimate them. It's too bad. they really don't realize what they are missing out on.

For the weekend, I think I'm going to be doing special Globs of Nothingness posts. Those are kind of like rants, game reviews, or the like. Nothing really happens on the weekend, so I'll have more time to do that. But during the week, the only thing I really feel are loaded guns in my face. I can't handle pressure. (That was a quote. Whomever guesses what it was from gets a hypothetical cookie.)

Maybe I can make a little game. What i could do is for every Main Blog, I put in one quote from one song. Whomever e-mails me with the quote, and the song and artist gets a point (and multiple people can get a point in one day. Don't worry about being the first.) At the end of the week, I add up the points, and the winner gets mentioned on the site and wins a hypothetical cookie. Sounds like a plan, doesn't it?

I'm quite curious whom I know has visited the site. I got that site meter thing. It says country every IP is from, but not state. Oh well, but i can get tons of info about people. I know what operating system you run, I know your IP address, I even know your mom's friends room mate's boyfrien'ds aunt's maiden name! I win! You lose!

Well, I don't have much to say now, so I'll get to playing Final fantasy 3 for one hour until tomorrow (I promise I'll hit the hey at 12. It's 11 PM on the dot as I say this).

Quote of the day:
"Feet Suck." - Stephanie Brown. Pretty self explanatory.

[Music: Sister Hazel - Change Your Mind]
April 10th, 2002

Let me remind you that MY MP3 library on the iBook (and the iBook ONLY) has been the same for about... I dunno, a month-ish?

Well, today was a cool day. At school we started off Math class with MAP testing. I finished the 12 problems in about, oh, 10 minutes? I abolutely LOVE math! It's the simplest subject! As my dad puts it, "Monkey see monkey do." I noticed that even after 80 minutes, kids were STILL working on the test! What really cut some time off was number 3, which stated the first seven numbers of the Fibonacci sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13...), and we had to find a pattern and apply it to find the next 2 numbers. I was the ONLY one who instantly knew the pattern. I had read it once in a book called "The Joy Of Mathematics." It was on Mrs. Kelley's book shelf during reading time when I first joined her class. So I chose it. The pattern is that number plus the previous number in the sequence, or the previous whole number on the number line if there is no previous number in the sequence. 1+0=1. 1+1=2. 2+1=3. 3+2=5. 5+3=8, and so on. I easily knew that the next 2 numbers were 21 and 34. HAH! I WIN YOU LOSE!


Mrs. Kelley is not one of my favorite teachers, when it comes to working. Our poetry folder's cover must have our own original artwork, not traced (meaning looking at anything not yours and redrawing it), and not from the computer. Heck, she won't even allow me to draw something and make a copy of it and use the copy for my poetry folder cover! I would LOVE to make a professional looking cover on the computer. I'm not sure if she fully understands the concept of computer artwork. Maybe she thinks that it won't have a lot of effort put into it if done on the computer (my foot). Maybe she thinks that if it really isn't in it's original pencil or pen form, there's a possibility it could not be ours. I'm not sure. It's also possible that she just has a certain idea for the poetry folder itself and just wants it in it's fully original form just for style purposes. I'm not sure, but she won't tell me her reasoning. If it's choice number one, I would say she's wrong. TONS of effort go into making a really high quality image on the computer. You really have to know how to do it. Learning different style techniques and how to put PhotoShop 6 to it's top capabilities is something you don't just see everyday. Or even if it's not taken advantage of all of it's capabilities, real artists like me want to put forth all the efoort they can, even if it means it could turn out crappy. If it's the second reason, well, I know I would NEVER plajarize on someone elses work. But how does she know that? meh... If it's the third reason, then she should just tell me so I'm not thinking badly of her possible reasoning.

While in Language Arts, I just decided to stop Cel shading Makuny. I'll save it for some other time. I'm working on redrawing her onto normal paper in mechanical pencil with really cool gray shading. But i realized I had a Pen, and I very rarely get the image result I want when using a pen. I needed a mechanical pencil, and I wanted to start on it in german class today. I knew where to go, but I didn't have the money. I was going to ask Mrs. Kelley. I began talking about it, and Justin Kujino (from how he acts, i can tell he hates my guts. :-P) stands up, reaches into his pocket, and pulled out 2 one dollar bills, and gave them to me. Of course, he accompanied it with something along the lines of "Now will you PLEASE shut up?" but despite that, I thought it was really great of him to do that. That's where today's music came from. It was kind of amazing at first. But in all honesty, I really think how cool it is when someone who really hates you gives you $2 for something you need badly (yes, I ONLY had a pen) just out of the ordinary. I'm thinking about paying him back or something. Who knows? Maybe he'll eventually change his opinion about me if I stop acting the way I do (yes, I can act like an annoying imbecile sometimes...I regret when I do). But i do know I'll start thinking differently of him from now on.

BIG thanks to him. I've already finished drawing the main part of Makuny's upper boddy, shaded her hair and sleeve and sword, and am begining to draw her lower body. I have many boring classes to do that through tomorrow, a bit of time after school, and 3 periods (4 if Gym was in Health class) on Friday, before Language Arts. I only have 3 more poems for the notebook, and I also have to retype every poem and add a bit of pictures inside of it. All my own artwork, whether it be computer generated or not.

Something interesting happened also. German class today, we were watching a video tape with 50+ someodd German commercials. I was kind of surprised to see a Pokemon Puzzle League commercial in German. I realized this when I heard Steven Moxley say "POKEEMON!" in a loud fast voice, in which I looked up from my Makuny drawing, and watched as the same commercial I once saw in English played out before me in German. I felt like mentioning this because it was interesting.

I left every CD which had Billy Joel stuff OF ANY KIND not with me, when I went to church. I WAS going to show some Billy Joel stuff, but then I realized where I left it all. That sucks. I also introduced WinMX to the girl at my church whom I have a crush on. Let's just call her... Church Girl for now because I don't want to be announcing to everyone her name. I don't know if she would like that. If any of my visitors here is 'Church Girl', then you probably know who you are and if you don't want me mentioning you, even as an anonymus person, please tell me so I don't mention you from here on out.
...Oh yeah. But, I also discovered she doesn't have Instant Messaging (which is a first for an average teenage girl), but oh well.

Daylight Savings Time makes you feel funny. It feels very weird to be sitting in your Disciple Skills class at Church (the last part of my SOS youth group, ending at 7:30) and having light coming through the windows still. Indeed, I felt very very funny. It feels even odder that my iBook adjusted itself for DST. It was set at some date in 1970 with time and date totally wrong (it does that occasionally) and then all of a sudden, DST comes, and it's time becomes correct. Odd...

I was looking through some of the Fanstuff over at www.rpgworldcomic.com. Some of it is pretty good. Other stuff isn't. I thought I'd mention that.

I don't have much else to say for now. Maybe tomorrow, I'll discuss music.

Oh yeah. On Friday, we have one more MAP test. Mrs. Schmarr said that I can bring my iBook and when I finish the test, I can play my games on it, so long as the volume stays down (staff members at Crestview, please disregard that last comment. Thank you). I can admit, it IS better than sleeping on your arm for 80 minutes and seeing marks from where you slept on both hands. The top hand has marks from your face and the bottom hand has marks from the top hand. Hoo boy. I will have a chance to advance the plot in Final Fantasy III (that games kicks total bootay...For a Super NES game). It could NEVER, NEVER, NEVER (hide, your, self!) compare to Super Metroid, as could Chrono Trigger. But it is pretty damn tight. The thing that made Super Metroid awesome was the fact that no matter how many times I replayed and failed at getting a faster time through, it's STILL fun!

My birthday is this month. Happy da.
I think (meaning if I don't procrastinate whenever I do post this MBlog) I've updated the links.

I'm out of writing material. Tomorrow, expect to see something on music.
I'm not entirely sure about if I'll have weekend updates, but if I do, be happy and read them daggummit!

I'm done for now. Ryan, can you tell me how you can check site statistics, such as info about the visitors? I'm interested in how many Missourans have looked at my site, and how many of those were me just looking at my site on an ego trip.

End transmission: 11:33 PM

4/10/02

Good job Charlie. Very nice job. I have my own word of the day and quote of the day. Here it comes!

*looks*

Ruminate (Verb)
1. To chew

I'm leaving the definition at that for now because i'm lazy and I want to get this post up rather quickly so that it will be processed before I must leave.

Quote of the day:
"I do gave someone something!" - Justin Kujino, when Mrs. Kelley was talking to him about Given and Gave.
and...
"Wlel: The call letters for a Lebenese Radio Station :-P" - Ryan W. (see sidebar), messing around with my typo on Well.

*looks* And there it goes!!!

I have some things I'm anxioues to post for tomorrow, so It'll be pretty cool.

*is done for now*
*waits for next week so he can have a turn on the PS2*

[Music: The Beatles - Yesterday]

Tuesday April 9th, 2002

Today was a good day. I started my Blog up. I even hired a new member: Please give a warm welcome to Charles Brumley. He even accepts cold welcomes too. It's all good in his eyes. So long as the welcomes don't damage his body temperature is all he asks. Charlie is going to be doing a (hopefully) daily post. He may even post his own Blog's, but he's also going to be doing something similar to my word of the day. He's going to do a Bible Verse of the day. Also known as God's Daily word, or whatever. It's his update, so he gets to name it.

I have a goal. I plan on making these Blog's using very minimal emoticons. The reason is is if I allow myself one emoticon, you'll be barraged on this site by gazillions of ":p"'s, and that will be bad. So like I said, minimal usage.

Today was an early dimissal day at school. It's more or less known as staff development day. It doesn't matter. We still get half the day. I had 2 periods of Language Arts (I finished reading a good book: The Pigman by Paul Zindel). Then I went to Orchestra, then German. In German, we had a sub. It's the Crestview-famous Mr. Shea. Yay.

I planned on playing Final Fantasy X. I've been through that Kimahri VS. Biren and Yende thing twice. After the second time, I had battled in the area beyond that a bit, was going to go save, and got killed by the Red Hammerhead shark like dragon and the two other guys that appear with it. BAH! That's what I say! Bah!

I also discovered a sound warping program called SounHack. Hopefully it works better than my first attempt at it. I also got rid of a few OS 9 programs on my iBook and replaced them with their OS X counterparts. I still only have about 500 Meg left on this thing. I just absolutely must delete that really long evrsion of my blackbelt test. Maybe that'll speed this thing up. My SNES9X is starting to skip and move really choppily, as is a bunch of other programs of mine. Hopefully deleting that hugeass file will help solve that. I'll see what i can do.

And I even invited a few people to check out this site.
To Steve Martin: Get AIM at aol.com. I want to talk to you more man. My screenname is on the sidebar.
To Justin: Umm, your my best real life friend who's around my age. I think you deserve a Hi. :-P Don't worry, You know I think more of you than that. I'm just kidding around with you.
To Grandpa: You're awesome. I don't have any reminders for you, so Hi.
To my teachers: From now until the end of the year, my goal will be to get my homework in tomorrow. (think about this one for a second and you understand...ah heck, I can't help it. :-P)
To anyone from school: Friends, enemies, people I don't even know, whoever you are, just....Hi. (I think this is becoming a pattern).
To anyone from PA!: I know you guys fairly well. You're all exempt from the next thing I'll say, or actually, it's optional. Most of you have AIM, so if I know you fairly well, you'll probably see me advertizing this place to you soon (which was probably how you got here in the first place).

I know that probably not even half the people I mentioned here will see my site in the next week, but for those who do, just e-mail me saying what you think so far. Or even just saying "I see your site". Even an F' You will do, just let me know who you are and that you've seen my site... IF you are in any of the groups above except those from PA!. My e-mail or AIM is in the sidebar. I think you can figure out the rest.

You can tell I'm new here at the bloggers community, or maybe you can't. But I feel like saying these first. I'll eventually get to rants or whatever you want to call them. I'll just call them MBlog's, which means Main Blog, the one with all the content, the one wirtten the night before,

Yes, I'm weak. I used 2 :-P's in today's MBlog. I couldn't help myself. Oh well.

I gave my quote of the day earlier. I have an entire day tomorrow to get another one for tomorrow (or today, if you're going by the time you read this).

Well, it's 10:06 PM down here in Missouri. I'm going to try out that SoundHack a bit more, then hit the hey.

All you need remember about my site is that most MBlog's are written a day or so before being posted. The updates will generally be around 2:30 to 3:00 Central. Other stuff, like word of the day and so on, is just updated whenever.

Tomorrow, I plan on putting up some more links in the link section, mainly comics.

Oh, and tomorrow, I have a plan involving games, namely ones on the NES and SNES, mainly being emulators, which will mainly be the SNES games, in which I'll mainly end this run on sentence now.

Have a good rest of the day.

-Steve

Tuesday April 9th, 2002: Word of the day, quote for the day (long blog to come up later)


I have a word for the day:
Shunt (verb)
1. To turn aside
2. In railroading, to switch, as a train or car, from one track to another
3. Electr. a. To connect a shunt in parellel with. b. To be connected as a shunt for or of.

That's my word. It has more definitions, but I find the first one more useful in my vocabulary. I swear, I didn't choose this on purpose because of it's sound. But whatever. I'll see if I can use it today.

Quote for the Day:
"If you were any slower, you would be going backwards." - Neil Zundel (fellow violist in first chair). He said this after I had told him that I recently found out the artist of Born To Be Wild was Steppenwolf, which is only one letter and a space and a capitol off from my real name, which is Stephen Wolf (I prefer Steve though.)

[Music: Bon Jovi - It's My Life]

This song seems appropriate, don't you think?
I'll give a quick introduction then I'll start my first blog.
I'm Steve Wolf (aka, Anime Steve). I finally decided to start blogging on April 8th of 2002. It may yet be one of the best decisions I've ever made. I'll see if I can create a bio page or something along those lines someday.

Now for the main part of my blog of April 8th, 2002 (my blogs will be updated 1 to 2 days after being written, for my own reasons. Occasionally, I'll update my blog on that day), I'll start out with some background as to what just recently happened (Discussed with Ryan W via AIM) in my life.

Over the past weekend, I've been trying to convert some athiests over at the PA! UBB in the Politics/Debate forum (I'm Divantre). I am a Christian and am not afraid to show it, and am generally a very nice guy. But what my attempts at a conversion actually ended up being was a war over who was wrong, right, and who was really the close minded group. I'm still not sure who won, let alone if it even ended. But whatever the result, I did get something out of it. (Don't leave yet. This whole blog is actually a changing point in my life, not entirely about Christianity.)
I've realized that atheists are just the same as Christians. I could imagine Gooblecow, actually, not believing in God. Now that I think about it, under the same circumstances, I would have probably told whoever would be trying to convert me, to just leave me alone because I'm happy the way I am. I've realized I'm not a great preacher of the gospel who can make millions turn their heads towards Christ. I think from my actions, God's been trying to tell me something. So i didn't make myself look like a total jackass for nothing.
It only started at the begining of 8th grade which I began growing more and more in my relationship with God, thanks to a youth group my friend invited me to: CRASH. The summer before that will be described at a later time, but I'll stick with the fact that in 7th grade, I was just lost, empty, and thinking I should be accepted by acting the way I did online (random insanity. We've all encountered it. We may have even done a bit ourselves. It's not bad, mind you). By the time I really discovered Christ, I was feeling worked up about it. I was showing it like crazy (and you can really tell how I let my graphical capabilities really fly when I made this). Over the weekend, as I said before, I went a bit too crazy. In fact, over the weekend, my expression of my christianity came flying out of me like 500 cubic yards of water (too much) at top velocity (too fast), and it left me with a depressed feeling, as if I was wrong with what I did. I felt hurt.
Today, however, I realized it was a sign. God sent me a sign. For a while, I haven't been showing much passion towards my true interests, like gaming, art, creativity (including writing and thinking, which go hand in hand), and especially music. I think God's been trying to tell me that now that I know his word and truly have faith in him, I should leave it at that. He's been trying to tell me I've been overdoing expressing my beliefs about his word, and haven't been showing it in my actions like I should be. So I should try and ease up. Yes, I'll still have faith in God. My relationship with him is going to stay the same. I'm just going to not let it completely interfere with a normal life. I know I can't be TOO Christian in God's eyes, but overdoing it beyond MY limits would be bad for myself. I think what I'll do from now on is concentrate less on showing the religious part of me. I think (and Charlie Brumley helped me to realize this more) that I should let people like Eric Larson (youth pastor at CRASH) to spread God's word and use the gifts God gave me to show my Christianity through my actions. What this means is that I'll respect everyone as a human being, and try and help people and the like, and using my own gifts to make my life a better experience for myself. I have a really talent for gaming, so I'm not going to go out and try to make a talent of getting girls if I fail at it over and over and over again. I'll just do what I can with my natural talents. I failed miserably, but God still loves me. I'll use the lesson he's told me and apply it in my life here on forward. Sounds like a plan.

Some final notes I'd like to say. I do have a couple of things I'd like to and start.
-Vocabulary Increasing. A girl at school, Beth Anne Roberts, has lately been reading a dictionary daily. Maybe I'll do something similar. I think I'll just daily, take a dictionary, open to a random page and pick out a random word (moving finger technique). I'll read it, and see if I can use it. I may even make that a daily thing here. Or just a 'however-often-I-end-up-updated-this-page'ly thing.
-Do the same thing with Bible verses.
-Scan more of my artwork
-Finish Final Fantasy X. I WILL DO IT! I have a goal that I can make every character get to every node on the Sphere Grid, get every character's final weapon, get all Aeons, learn all Overdrives, and then use those aquired skills to beat Sin's ass so many time, he'll be the one crying instead of Tidus. I can see it now... "Tidus! Son! I wanted you to stop me, not brutally torture me when my HP is in the negatives!" (RPG/FFX joke. Play a lot of RPG's and get your character really strong, your surprised eventually you cant strike into the negatives.)
-Do more artwork
-Create some more game ideas
-Focus on school (only a miracle can make this one come true)

Well, so ends the reading of the first Blog. This is Steve Wolf, signing out. (time is 11:56 PM Central. 4 minutes until tomorrow, which is when I'll post this hopefully.)(Oh... I'm still surprised I managed to write this without using one 'silly' emoticon. It's a semi Colon, a dash, and a P.) (and somehow, I want to go on typing. I must learn to pace myself.)

Quote for the Day:
"How do you push the enter button on this thing!?"
-Justin Wandell, trying to figure out which button worked as the start button on my SNES9X emulator on my laptop. It's a classic quote that should be remembered. He's never going to live that one down. I'll make dead sure of it.