Surviving the dog-dayz of summer once again. Flippin cactus flat heat waves are too much for a lowly kitty o' the mountains to handle.. Whew!! I miss the higher altitudes!!
Been a few changes in living of late, and the heat even makes the tolleratable adulting rl stuff a serious strain... And other than the occational hissing of my complaints, the place is filled with the constant sawing of zz's.... Its still better than it was in the not so distant past.. And its cooler as well.
I watched a fun movie.. brace of movies? That have given me a new favorite. Reminiscent of a big ol giant king of monsters with a horrid case of atomic halitosis.. Enough to make me squeal with fan-girl excitement, is Pacific rim. (1&2) The kaiju are on the rampage and it's up to the intrepid humans with their giant yeagers to stem the tide. Check it. Great movie. :)
Been playing minecraft modded 1.12 of late. Yeah, i know 1.13 is (finally) out now.. But i wanted a chance to see some of the newer(well, new to me anyway) mods for 1.12.. especially as I'm not sure when/if some of these mods are gunna update for 1.13... Considering ala changes. Hoping they do. Not that i have anything against the straight 'vanilla' update.. The additions of the drowned and the phantom are fairly exciting..
But since i have been woefully slow on learning the the different aspects.. (Very slow). Just getting started on enchanting and slowly getting brave enough to step tippytoe into the nether.) I figure i'll just take my time getting into the new update. Yeah... That's it... Just take my time.. Yeah. Loving the building aspect though. My only frown would be.. No changes to the window panes?? You like all those pixely gray streaks? I mean OK.. The 'preview' had a cruddy change to the cobble texture.. (And really,.. Still no stairs for the dorite?? Really?? Aww comeon, Mojang!! You put the purty white stuff in the game with the dorky-lookin patterned cobble... and andisite and..the pink granite! (That plainly goes with n a d a!). The least you could do is give it/them stairs, walls/fences and slabs like the cobble has! ) ... The changes suggested in the preview was a good one for the window glass. You could actually see through it! And here we are in1.13 and it's that grey pixelated glass texture again. Ok, fine.. So make that 'preview' resource pack work for the update then.. Ill live with the patterned cobble for a chance to actually see through the windows!
I reciently learned of the value for the mending and looting enchantments.. However did i live without them?!! What a wonderful addition to my fishing rod and sword!! Now.. Will mending work on my sword?.. Will looting.. Or is it fortune.. work on my axes? So exciting!!
How goes my japanese self-study, do i hear you ask? Well... Interresting you should ask... Kinda. A little discouraged, i think. Feeling once again that I'm not -really- getting anywhere. Can't seem to remember stuff i feel i should have, by now. So backing away a bit... Again. I have gone through this before, and managed to recover my motivation, so long as i don't go totally hands-off. (I got halted into reflection by a double negative sentence, which goes against the grain of -a lot of- growing up grammar learning.)
That is about it for now.. Think i need a cat nap... It's so ooo quiet here...
