Monday, June 12, 2017

May 2017 Entry

May 2017 Entry 

Sorry for the delay. I simply forgot. 

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- This year marks the first year in maybe a decade that I did not go to the Japan Festival (05.07). I asked a couple of friends who weren't able to go and then I actually ended up getting sick the day I wanted to go. It was a nice streak I had going, but it was disappointing not being able to go.  

- Still buying new snacks every month. This time around it was Cookies and Cream Oreos (05.09). While it is redundant, it actually did taste different from normal Oreos. Not super great, but not bad. 

- Another random karaoke outing (05.28). It's always fun. 
  

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- Finally got all gold trophies in Mario Kart 8 for all the cups (05.14). I was not able to 3 star all of 200cc though as that was tough. 200cc is crazy fast. I actually had to rethink how to race certain tracks. I liked the speed, but didn't find myself enjoying it. 150cc is a good speed. 

- Got around to playing and beating BOXBOXBOY! (05.15). Similar to BOXBOY, I beat it in one sitting (with the help of an online guide). More of the same for a sequel. At some point I will play and beat the last game in the series. 


- My amiibo count is now 80 (05.19). The Alm & Celica amiibo from Fire Emblem are really good looking. Despite not playing the game, they are some of my favorite looking amiibo that are around. 

- Picked up Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers (05.26). It was cool to finally play a version of HD Remix. I tried all versions of control types and found myself liking the Pro Controller more. Weirdly I would use analog for charge characters and d-pad for non-charge characters. I made sure to beat the arcade mode with 2 characters a day and finally beat it with all of them in the beginning of June (06.04). Way of the Hado Mode...no thanks. 

- Tried out the ARMS Global Testpunch when it was running and I was free (05.28). The game works well, but I was not good at it. Got beat a lot. But I definitely got a similar vibe from when I played Splatoon's Global Splatfest. I think it will be popular and find an audience that will champion it.  

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- Another monthly meeting (05.02). We played Man Overboard for our activity. It was fun, but didn't last long as not too many people stuck around. 

- There are few families that come through HER that leave a great memory for me. A Colombian Family came through as I was training one of our trainees (05.05). Similar to another family I enjoyed, the grandmother was adorable. She always looked to us to help her and whenever she found anything, she would wildly exclaim it to her family. All around, they were fun. It was only after did I find out they were Colombian. That's when we started talking about my trip there and they recommended places to get good Colombian food in Houston. I immediately texted my best friend and she was happy about it.  

- We had another surprise wedding proposal (05.06). This one was definitely different as the proposer was not communicating a lot with us beforehand since he was from another city. We tried to get a friend of his to come by to check out the place and to give us the ring. None of that happened. We only knew who the persons involved were the day of and had to get things ready with little knowledge. Regardless, it went off fine. The proposer was incredibly nervous and was sweating a lot as the game went on. Even when it got to the scripted part of the proposal, he couldn't read what he was supposed and just asked "will you marry me." It was funny since the proposee was yanking the paper from him and was about to cuss him out as he was mustering the strength. Congratulations. 

- Our break room got a new coat of paint as well as some reorganizing (05.17). I actually did not take part in it. I knew I would just get messy and mess things up. So I took on the task of doing everything else to make sure our operations were still ready to go. The team did a great job. 

That same day, I also cleaned out our glue gun. It was not functioning and was actually clogged up. It took a long time to do. 

- We celebrated our 3rd Year Anniversary (05.19). We had food catered from Pappa's before all our activities took place. Our annual activity of writing questions and pulling them out of a hat happened. Shortly after that was time for my activity. I had been telling everyone that I was bringing a guest speaker. A lot had been asking about who it was and I could tell that some were not interested in listening to speaker. But that was all a rouse. I received calls from the "guest speakers" when they were walking to the building. I let them in and they relaxed in the lobby for a minute before I introduced them. To everyone's surprise, my "guest speakers" were Petite Porkers and they brought 2 piglets for us to have a piggy date for an hour. I've watched the video captured during that moment multiple times just to see and hear all the reactions as it happened. Everyone enjoyed their time with Charley and Sterling. 


After that, Agents Raynor and Majordomo had a game for us to play. Can't go into the details about it, but it was interesting. Then the last leg of our celebration was at Main Event. We played a lot of games; laser tag, bowling, pool, shuffle board, mini golf, and some arcade games. Very fun way to end the night and our anniversary. 

- We made a trade for some Astros tickets (05.22). Myself and Agents Yeti, Voxel, Incognito, Ca$h, and one of our Agents In Training all went. Some of us brought a guest. My friend and I went around the stadium to check things out. It had been a while since either of us had been to a baseball game. The Astros did score during our go around and that's all that happened, ha. Despite the low score, I had fun. 

- Had a little fun with our like/comment Instagram post (05.25). 

- To help drum up more activity on our social media, I posted an image that would reward the HER Community with an exclusive video if we received 25 Likes. We cheated a little and combined Likes from Instagram and Facebook. But the video of what happened to Agent Mo went live (05.27). Amazingly, it is now our most viewed Instagram video. It received over a hundred views in a few days. Proud of that accomplishment. 

- Last month we had 2 new Agents In Training. We actually brought one more aboard. Not only that, the first one completed training and is now known as Agent Blue Heeler.

- And our monthly blog post was penned by Agent Blue. 

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- SISTAR - Lonely (MV) 


It was disappointing to see SISTAR disband. They were always a fun group. At least they ending things on good terms. Their last week of performances were all great. 

- TWICE - Signal (MV) 


I'll admit, I did not like Signal that much at first. I'm usually like that especially with groups I'm more invested in. But I started to like it more as I saw more performances. 

Really enjoyed seeing them on more variety shows too. I wish they did more during their Knock Knock promotions, but this was better than nothing. Their appearances on Weekly Idol were so fun. 


- And that is it for May. Sorry for posting the update late. Being busy and tired is an interesting combination. Thank you for reading. Be healthy, safe, thankful, and loved. 


"Reprise the theme song and roll the credits." 

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