The Last Man

I read this book and it was weird, hard to understand but still was good. The book was published in 1826 but that does not make it a bad book, the introduction is set in 1818 when the author says that she, I know a she in 1826, found these painting in a cave detailing one man living alone in the end of the 21st century. He is basically like the last man on earth.

Now the story gets a little tricky because tit talks about monarchy and kings and queens but talks about current events in 2096 so I was a little confused but the story follows one man, Lionel, as he is a boy through the end of the world. He and his sister do not have a father so are pretty uncivilized and rowdy, and continue to live like this for ever. A lot of stuff happens and a lot of people die plus their are so muntintys and pirates and fights. So overall it was a good book, three and a half out of five.

Limericks

There once was a kid in an ufa
who was working in a loud groupa
the teacher came out
and gave quite a shout
now they are all stuck on the roofa

There once was a little Minecrafter
he sat huddled in a corner filled with laughter
then one, very cold, sad day
he was caught, to his dismay
and he never played Minecraft ever after

FIRE

After being drained of its pasty white stuff

I squeeze the carton, releasing a puff

I position it lightly on the ground

With my head straight up I look around

I see no faces starin at me

So I start the countdown at a magical three

It goes two to the one and ignition

The pop was louder than a kitchen

I see faces as white as a cracker

Everybody so surprised they wanted to smack her

I take a turn and see what I have done

Then take a bow because it was fun

Let it be known I am a rapper

And will not hesitate to pop an attacker

The Road

This was a very cool book, set in a post-apocalyptic world, a man and a father who go unnamed must survive together. They start out in the north but the head south because they believe that they can not survive the upcoming winter. They have a revolver with two bullets and the father had to use one against a crazy cannibal, people like this are some of the only survivors remaining on the planet. During the said encounter, they loose all of their stuff and are about to die when they find something. If you want to find out please read the book.

Occasional

We will Never forget those years

Because we Choose to remember

Long were the days in the past

but how Bitter we still fell them today

When Culture, Race, and Life

Were Persecuted, Tortured, and Starved 

And still, we have never reseted

Nor given up a resolute way of life

Because we know, no nation

or group or single will knock us down

this has been overwhelming evident 

in our decades as a nation, and centuries as a people

And as the sirens play over Our

rich and bountiful land

we remember all that have gotten us here

and all that will keep us here

Because now we choose to remember

because now we will never forget

Hockey

And ode to championships

and wining first place

An ode to the steam

which rises from a face

An ode to the players

who make a living chasing a puck

An ode to the skill 

not just blind luck

An ode for the blood

which flow from an open wound
An ode to the cup
whose appearance will be soon
An ode to the losers
an impending fate
An ode for the winners
who make no mistake
An ode to the game
let us all hope, it remains the same

The Death Cure

This book picks up at the end of the Scorch Trials, not to be confused with the Kill Order. We find our heroes believing that their pain and struggling are finally over, when they are seemingly kidnaped by WICKED and are forced to have their memories put back, if you remember, they didn't remember anything when they entered the maze. Some people are revealed to not be immune to the Flare as well as all kids from the boys and girls group escape to Denver, I know pretty exciting that were in the story, but any who, you just have to finish the story,

HaIku

The sky and the ground

Equal in sound and calmness

dances around me

The little black puck

Gracefully glides around

Over icy blood

Max is a fat tool

Nate does not have very many friends

Was that enough

The Kill Order

Leading up to the events of the Maze runner series, the book sheds light on the events that are the flare and how the earth gets all messed up. The story takes place in New York and the surrounding areas the book begins with Mark, Trina, Alec, and Lana as street urchins. They have banned together and fled to the Lincoln building to escape a large tsunami. After chilling there for a while they get rescued by a yacht whose owners end up just trying to kidnap them. Just like all of the other books, nothing good ever happens, and if it does, do not expect it to last more than two chapters, or in this case, six pages. I liked this book because it answered a lot of the questions I still had after reading The Death Cure. So if you have read that book, then at least finish it off with this one.

Shooting Tiles

Yesterday, my brother and I decided to shoot pucks at the remaining tiles from my shower renovation.  So in my garage, we set up a whole bunch of ceramic tiles in the corners to use as targets, that way when I hit the corner I would get a huge of explosion of shards everywhere. My brother had a cool idea to get slow motion videos of the plates exploding. You can see the puck fly by in a couple of frames, the next frames you can see the puck make a hole and the cracks appear, finally the shards exploding outward.

I have never had the will power to go out into my garage and actually shoot or stick handle. However, today I threw on my headphones and just hammed out to various pump up songs while watching my reign of tile smashing terror begin. I used to different sized plates, at first I started out with larger plates so I would break the easier, but once I got confident, I moved down to smaller plates which, when smashed, made me feel a lot better.

Sadly there was some collateral damage, I tore a puck sized whole in a painting, luckily my mother was sleeping so I went in and told her, she didn't seem to mind that much, though...

Making Dinner

Tonight literally my entire family made dinner, well if you count entires as my mom, sister, and me. I, of course, did most of the heavy lifting, by making the steak and the peppercorn sauce. My mother made asparagus and some pretty awesome little midget potatoes cut in half, I added a little parmesan cheese because I thought it would compliment the flavors well. Finally My sister made some mushrooms and I poured myself some of the fines 2015 grape juice there was.

We sat down to talk and the first thing my sister does is get up and rush over to the sink to get some water because she threw in way to many peppercorns, but it was still good. The meal could have gone much better if it was served with some fresh chibatta but a man can dream, and observe passover.

The meal concluded with my sister whisking a way my computer to do homework, leaving me to help my mom with the Albertsons monopoly games. We did get to enjoy some chocolate covered matzah...

sol 27

I nearly died, I was swimming in the ocean off the pier of Venice Beach, not Venice, Italy,  but the famed Venice Beach where Arnold would go to show off his manly muscles. It was in these waters, of those odd beaches, where I nearly drowned. The waves, which of course we do not have in Colorado, were so enticing that I eventually found myself nearly 100 feet of the beach. Right as I come into this shocking and scary realization I was pounded by a 12 foot wave. 

I was tossed around, badly, I got a ton of sea in my mouth, plus I did nearly three somersaults. By the time I was able to breathe again, I was pretty freaked out. I really realized how people drown, like I was so tired and going under every wave and holding your breathe just tires the crap out of you. 

So I just began to swim like a mad man. 

I just kept my head towards the shore and put all of my energy into not dying. Once I made it passed the point where the large waves would topple over, it became easier as the draw back was not nearly as bad, and I was also not having to dodge every wave. Even when I made it to where I could stand, I was not relieved, I literally dragged myself out of the water.

The best part was the fact that at the begging I caught the attention the attention of the life guard who looked at me and then just kept on going on as I struggled. I was sure of the fact that if I had actually started screaming waving my hands he would come and save me. But when I made it to the shore, he comes over and says, "I was going to go and get you man, by I felt like you had to earn it, you know, you got yourself over there, so you could get yourself back". That was when I slumped over and relaxed in the sand for the next thirty minuets

Scorch Trials

So, I read the second book of the maze runner book, and I think the entire series just likes really bad endings. The first ending was trash, although it made me want to read the second so in reality was it bad, just like this one. However still a great book, we find our heroic friends in this weird place when they have Teresa taken away and replaced by some shank named Aris. They are then told they have to make it across a barren dessert called the scorch which is basically a giant dessert but worse with crazy hail and even crazier people, in two weeks to get the cure for the disease that they had been infected with. This book was just like the maze runner, and if you read the first book and thought, well I know a little bit more, read this to know a little bit more, but have much more questions