Ammunition > Heroics

Yeah, I ended up not posting at all for a few days, as you can see.
This is because for three days in a row I was gone for at least half the day and too tired to come up with anything to post about.


Thursday: Arboretum.
It was Arbor Day, so it was free.
I don't really have anything to say about this. It was good to be outside because the weather was nice.

Friday: Uhhmmm...
Actually, I don't remember what happened on Friday. Maybe nothing. No, that's not right... I'm SURE it was something. Well... I THINK it was something. I'll... get back to you on that?

Saturday: Field Museum
We went to the Field Museum in Chicago on Saturday. We got to see old dead things and whatnot. It was fun.
That night our Sunday school class went to our teacher's school to see this musical. A Dr. Seuss musical. Several of his books arranged into one story.... It's a bit hard to explain. Very weird, and lots of fun.


...And now I'm back.
I had some kind of interesting thing to post about, but for whatever reason can't think of what it was!
Oh, now I remember!
This is a great article that every self-respecting gamer needs to read. And every not-self-respecting smoker who wants to stop. And everyone who hates video games and thinks they are no good. Actually, I think pretty much anyone would find this article interesting.
Read it any then come back to the post.

OK, now you're back, right? You didn't read it, did you...? Figures. Go and actually read it, this time.
Thanks.
Anyway. I liked this article a lot; it simultaneously proved that:
1. Video games are not a bad thing in any way.
2. Pokemon is not some "lame kiddie game"
And probably more things, too, but I can't think of them.
Addressing the first one, anybody who thinks video games are a waste of time just got pwnd. And you probably don't know what pwnd means, and I'm going to attribute that directly to you not playing video games.
Anyhow, this guy used video games to stop smoking. You can't possibly say that's in any way a bad thing. Video games have other benefits, too, and the biggest one is that they're FUN. Seriously, you haven't yelled at anyone for playing Monopoly lately, right? So give us a break!
Video games causing violence / frying brains is all a lie. Well, OK, playing video games too much will probably fry your brain. But too much of anything will fry your brain.
Moving on to point two, I highly encourage anybody with doubts about the Pokemon series to look into it. You may think the toys and card game and anime are silly, but they're actually just a cash-in to the game franchise anyway (true story; the games came first). They're great RPG games. And they never (or almost never) get old, because there's always more stuff to get and do.
Of course, if you hate Pokemon, you're not going to listen, but that's good, because you'd let your spite keep you from enjoying the game anyway.


Now I'll move on to talking about what I was going to in my last post.
Thinking about all the holidays on that one day made me think, "Hmm, I should make a calendar with a holiday every single day."
It can't be that hard. If there's no holiday anywhere in the world on a day, I'll commemorate some historical event.
I'll get back to you if I make any progress.

So this made me decide that I should use Wikipedia's "what-happened-today" feature thingy more frequently and blog about stuff I read in it. Maybe I'll make it a regular feature?
Well, I may as well jump straight into this.

Beethoven composed Fur Elise in 1810.
I find it slightly disturbing that it only took him one day. Of course, I do my best composition work when I do it all in one day, too, but my stuff is pretty simple, and plus, did he not have some kind of job or other obligations? Or did he just spend the whole day composing?

A march for the impeachment of president Nixon took place in 1974. 10,000 people participated.
Good riddance!

Cebu, the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines, was established in1565.
Well, I didn't even know there was a city named Cebu at all. But that makes me think of the animal, naturally, which, just as naturally, makes me think of the long associated therewith.

The Eastern Orthodox church celebrates Easter today.
Interesting. I wonder why they don't celebrate it when we do?


...Well, I couldn't find much else that was interesting / that I had anything to say about.
So it looks like that's it for today!

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