Hello peoples. Today I am writing about back to school. Here it goes.
I am in eighth grade now. This means a lot of things but mostly, more work. For the first half of school I am learning Spanish instead of reading. This is good because I get high school credit. Although Spanish has been a little annoying because when you are learning a new language it get's stuck in your head and you want to answer everybody in Spanish.
When I do learn Spanish it would be fun to talk to some of my friends that were from Spain or Mexico and already know Spanish. I like all my teachers except for maybe one. I may not like him because he seems like one of those teachers that are kinda lazy. Now that I am in eighth grade I have WV history instead of world history. I am in all honors too.
Recently I have wanted to do track at the new high school I'm going to next year. First I am doing cross country and then track in the spring. Because I'm an eighth grader I won't be able to participate in any meets but I can still practice with the team. One of the seventh grade teachers lives near the new high school and is going to take me and another student there when the school day ends.
Bye.
By Ashton
The Grey Jack Frost
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Gym
Hello people. Today I am talking about the gym. Here it goes.
My family except for Alex all goes to the gym to workout. Alex normally plays on his iPod in the lobby. We go to the wellness center at the hospital. It uses a computer system to keep track of your exercise program so you know if you are getting better and you can keep track of your progress. We all have digital keys that you plug into an exercise machine so the machine knows what is going on.
When you first get there you plug your key into a computer and it tells you what your first exercise machine is. I have running on the treadmill first and I run for fifteen minutes and walk for ten minutes. The machine tells you how many miles you ran, how fast the treadmill is going and your time. At the end it says your next machine. After that I have weights.
The weight machines tell you if you are lifting at the right speed, if you are lifting the weight high or low enough, how many you have done, and how much weight you should lift. I do weights to work my legs, chest, shoulders, biceps, and abs. Then I do the bike. I do it for fifteen minutes on effort level two or three. Lastly I get on the rower machine until Dad is done. When you are done you plug your key in and it tells you how well you did. The gym also has a pool but I have not used it yet.
By.
By Ashton
My family except for Alex all goes to the gym to workout. Alex normally plays on his iPod in the lobby. We go to the wellness center at the hospital. It uses a computer system to keep track of your exercise program so you know if you are getting better and you can keep track of your progress. We all have digital keys that you plug into an exercise machine so the machine knows what is going on.
When you first get there you plug your key into a computer and it tells you what your first exercise machine is. I have running on the treadmill first and I run for fifteen minutes and walk for ten minutes. The machine tells you how many miles you ran, how fast the treadmill is going and your time. At the end it says your next machine. After that I have weights.
The weight machines tell you if you are lifting at the right speed, if you are lifting the weight high or low enough, how many you have done, and how much weight you should lift. I do weights to work my legs, chest, shoulders, biceps, and abs. Then I do the bike. I do it for fifteen minutes on effort level two or three. Lastly I get on the rower machine until Dad is done. When you are done you plug your key in and it tells you how well you did. The gym also has a pool but I have not used it yet.
By.
By Ashton
Sunday, August 11, 2013
My Minecraft mod
Hello people's. Today I'm going to talk about my own Minecraft mod. Here it goes.
Recently I have tried out a few different Minecraft mods but they were missing a few things I would really of liked. I have decided to try and make my own minecraft mod and try to make a mod pack. A mod pack is a group of mods you can download together to improve Minecraft. I really like last stand type moments in Minecraft. So part of one mod would be sort of a last stand game where you have to build a castle and defend it from oncoming waves of more and more difficult monsters.
The monsters goal is to kill you or to kill all of your kingdoms civilians which are hiding in your castle. Every time you kill a monster you get more gold. With gold you can buy things like archers, knights, cannons, or even drawbridges. You are not allowed to build anything during the mini-game except for things you buy. Monsters are not the only danger because as the game keeps going things like tornadoes, tidal waves, and even earthquakes will continue to spawn near your location with increasing frequency and intensity.
You can only stop the game at the end of every wave so make sure you are ready to continue. Another thing my mod would add would be better physics so if an explosion destroyed the bottom of your tower, the tower would actually fall and destroy more blocks rather than just floating in the air looking stupid. I also plan to put in more dimensions, bosses, generating castles, magic, and skills. If you find a castle it will be filled with a race of intelligent monsters and often you will find yourself leading an army to raid a castle or defending your castle from hostile people. You will also be able to build medieval battleships or even air ships.
They are many more things I plan to add as well. Bye!
By Ashton
Recently I have tried out a few different Minecraft mods but they were missing a few things I would really of liked. I have decided to try and make my own minecraft mod and try to make a mod pack. A mod pack is a group of mods you can download together to improve Minecraft. I really like last stand type moments in Minecraft. So part of one mod would be sort of a last stand game where you have to build a castle and defend it from oncoming waves of more and more difficult monsters.
The monsters goal is to kill you or to kill all of your kingdoms civilians which are hiding in your castle. Every time you kill a monster you get more gold. With gold you can buy things like archers, knights, cannons, or even drawbridges. You are not allowed to build anything during the mini-game except for things you buy. Monsters are not the only danger because as the game keeps going things like tornadoes, tidal waves, and even earthquakes will continue to spawn near your location with increasing frequency and intensity.
You can only stop the game at the end of every wave so make sure you are ready to continue. Another thing my mod would add would be better physics so if an explosion destroyed the bottom of your tower, the tower would actually fall and destroy more blocks rather than just floating in the air looking stupid. I also plan to put in more dimensions, bosses, generating castles, magic, and skills. If you find a castle it will be filled with a race of intelligent monsters and often you will find yourself leading an army to raid a castle or defending your castle from hostile people. You will also be able to build medieval battleships or even air ships.
They are many more things I plan to add as well. Bye!
By Ashton
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Minecraft mods
Hey people's. Today I'm going to write more about minecraft. Here it goes!
This blog is mostly going to be about my favorite Minecraft mods ending with my most favorite. Here are 3 relatively small mods. The first one is called the monster biomes mod. A biome in Minecraft determines, the grass color, the trees, what lives there, and how flat/mountainous it is. The Monster biomes mod makes most of the biomes very mountainous and the huge mountains with jungle trees makes it look amazing. It still has the flat plains biome though to balance it out. The next one is called the Archimedes ships mod and it let's you create your own ship and pilot it. This one is called Mine and Blade battle gear 2. It gives other weapons than swords such as, maces, battle axes, daggers, and spears. Mine and Blade also adds a dual wielding feature. It also adds 2 new armor sets, shields, and you can customize one set of armor, your flag, and banners with different medieval style emblems. I like it because it adds an awesome medieval feel to Minecraft.
Here is one mod that I like a lot. This one is called The Clay Soldiers mod. It adds the ability to create little gray figures using clay for the body and souls and to create life. You can add every dye to a figure to change it's color and all the clay soldiers from one color will attack other colors and fight to the death! Many items in the game can be added to clay soldiers to give them advantages. You can give them a gold nugget to designate the king, gunpowder so they explode upon death, an iron core to strengthen them, sticks for clubs, flint to sharpen their sticks, diamonds to create super soldiers. You can even give them mounts such as, horses made out of dirt, a snow Pegasus to fly, geckos to climb the walls, and even turtles to float on water. They can even build tiny houses if you give them wood. The clay soldiers mod is awesome for when you just want to make a tiny arena and have clay civilizations battle it out. This is something I have dreamed about when I was younger and I love it.
These next two are HUGE mods and are great for having a massive fantasy adventure in Minecraft. The first one is called Divine RPG and is the backbone of these two mods. It adds in a TON of new, monsters, ores to mine, weapons and tools, blocks, dimensions, and bosses. It basically takes everything you love about Minecraft and multiplies it times 10. I say it is the backbone because it gives you the long term adventure/RPG feel to it but the next mod called Thaumcraft 3 adds in a lot off new concepts to the game. Thaumcraft is a mod that adds in kind of a "science is magic" feel. It bases around the concept that If you take an item and study it long enough you find out about certain aspects about it like, flint and steel would probably have at least a tool aspect and a fire aspect. After studying things long enough you begin to be able to tinker with magical inventions using different aspects you discover. This process of creating magical items using science is called Thaumaturgy It is a pretty complicated mod but it is amazing for those who want to add Magic to Minecraft.
So that was some of my favorite minecraft mods. I do plan on doing more as well. Bye!
By Ashton
This blog is mostly going to be about my favorite Minecraft mods ending with my most favorite. Here are 3 relatively small mods. The first one is called the monster biomes mod. A biome in Minecraft determines, the grass color, the trees, what lives there, and how flat/mountainous it is. The Monster biomes mod makes most of the biomes very mountainous and the huge mountains with jungle trees makes it look amazing. It still has the flat plains biome though to balance it out. The next one is called the Archimedes ships mod and it let's you create your own ship and pilot it. This one is called Mine and Blade battle gear 2. It gives other weapons than swords such as, maces, battle axes, daggers, and spears. Mine and Blade also adds a dual wielding feature. It also adds 2 new armor sets, shields, and you can customize one set of armor, your flag, and banners with different medieval style emblems. I like it because it adds an awesome medieval feel to Minecraft.
Here is one mod that I like a lot. This one is called The Clay Soldiers mod. It adds the ability to create little gray figures using clay for the body and souls and to create life. You can add every dye to a figure to change it's color and all the clay soldiers from one color will attack other colors and fight to the death! Many items in the game can be added to clay soldiers to give them advantages. You can give them a gold nugget to designate the king, gunpowder so they explode upon death, an iron core to strengthen them, sticks for clubs, flint to sharpen their sticks, diamonds to create super soldiers. You can even give them mounts such as, horses made out of dirt, a snow Pegasus to fly, geckos to climb the walls, and even turtles to float on water. They can even build tiny houses if you give them wood. The clay soldiers mod is awesome for when you just want to make a tiny arena and have clay civilizations battle it out. This is something I have dreamed about when I was younger and I love it.
These next two are HUGE mods and are great for having a massive fantasy adventure in Minecraft. The first one is called Divine RPG and is the backbone of these two mods. It adds in a TON of new, monsters, ores to mine, weapons and tools, blocks, dimensions, and bosses. It basically takes everything you love about Minecraft and multiplies it times 10. I say it is the backbone because it gives you the long term adventure/RPG feel to it but the next mod called Thaumcraft 3 adds in a lot off new concepts to the game. Thaumcraft is a mod that adds in kind of a "science is magic" feel. It bases around the concept that If you take an item and study it long enough you find out about certain aspects about it like, flint and steel would probably have at least a tool aspect and a fire aspect. After studying things long enough you begin to be able to tinker with magical inventions using different aspects you discover. This process of creating magical items using science is called Thaumaturgy It is a pretty complicated mod but it is amazing for those who want to add Magic to Minecraft.
So that was some of my favorite minecraft mods. I do plan on doing more as well. Bye!
By Ashton
Tremors 2
Hey peoples. Today I am doing another movie blog. Here it goes.
This time it is on Tremors 2. There is around five different tremors movies. It is probably true that they get worse with each movie but Tremors 2 isn't that bad. It is missing Kevin Bacon though. It extended our knowledge of the graboids. It had the elements of a great movie but didn't quite make it.
(Spoiler)
Trying to replace Valentine with Grady wasn't a very good idea. He did to many stupid things without dying or being funny. The whole rock paper scissors thing didn't really work with him either. I did like how the Graboids changed into 3 of the smaller 2 legged creatures. At least they did have Bert come back with all his awesome overpowered weaponry.
I also felt like the movie wasn't very scary. In the original most of the death scenes were a little disturbing but if you were to dumb them down a little in this movie most little kids could watch it without being very scared. Giant fat worms coming out of the ground and eating you is much more scary than those little things. The little things were to easy to kill as well. Overall 5.5/10.
Bye.
By Ashton
This time it is on Tremors 2. There is around five different tremors movies. It is probably true that they get worse with each movie but Tremors 2 isn't that bad. It is missing Kevin Bacon though. It extended our knowledge of the graboids. It had the elements of a great movie but didn't quite make it.
(Spoiler)
Trying to replace Valentine with Grady wasn't a very good idea. He did to many stupid things without dying or being funny. The whole rock paper scissors thing didn't really work with him either. I did like how the Graboids changed into 3 of the smaller 2 legged creatures. At least they did have Bert come back with all his awesome overpowered weaponry.
I also felt like the movie wasn't very scary. In the original most of the death scenes were a little disturbing but if you were to dumb them down a little in this movie most little kids could watch it without being very scared. Giant fat worms coming out of the ground and eating you is much more scary than those little things. The little things were to easy to kill as well. Overall 5.5/10.
Bye.
By Ashton
Sunday, July 28, 2013
In the basement with my Gramps
Hey people's today I am going to write about something I used to do with my grandfather. Here it goes.
My grandad A.K.A. Gramps has an office in his basement and I remember when I was younger we would watch shows like the Lone Ranger and Hop along Cassidy. We would turn the lights off and bundle up in coats to watch the shows from his television. It seemed like he always had a plastic tub of cookies we would get out to munch on. Down there I watched a few movies too, like Harvey and It's a Mad Mad world. Harvey is a movie about a man and his friend, the giant invisible rabbit, called a Pookah. It's a Mad Mad world is a movie about a bunch a people finding out about a bunch of hidden money from a dying man. The information sparks a crazy adventure where more and more people find out and it turns into a mad race to get to it!
Recently the new Lone Ranger came out and I took Gramps to see it. It was enjoyable but very different from the show I watched as a kid. The Lone ranger wasn't much of a hero. He made all the right choices but he was not the hero type. Most of the time it was Tonto leading around the Lone Ranger, Tonto riding Silver, or Tonto saving the Lone Ranger's but. It was an okay movie but it wasn't the real Lone Ranger. The real Lone Ranger was almost dead, and he got up, Tamed a Horse, forged silver bullets, and put the bad guy in jail. That's why he is considered a classic.
Anyway I just wanted to write about an experience I enjoyed from when I was younger. I also wanted to mention that my Dad's good friend Bill is in the hospital and to please keep him in your prayers. Bye.
By Ashton
Sunday, July 21, 2013
My Minecraft world
Hello people's. Today I am doing another blog on Minecraft and I know some of you are groaning right now but I wanted to say this for some other people out there. Here it goes.
Recently I was finally able to get the full version of Minecraft on to the computer. Currently I only have one survival world and one creative world. This part of my blog is about creating things in Minecraft. The seed I am using (how the world will look like) has a really cool mountain in it with many cool overhangs, craters, tunnels and other things weaving through it and I think it would make a great place to build a medieval style castle/home. They are many monsters in Minecraft and many necessary things to do build so this (my current house) just will not cut it.
My pitiful house.
Zombies are breaking down my door!
Bye the way it is raining in some of these pictures if you were confused. This is the front view of the mountain and as you can see I have already built most of the castle bridge.
I have wired it to work when I flip this lever.
Ta da! So when I remove the walls water will cover the bridge until I flip the switch pushing up blocks to form a path.
This will be the front of the castle and I am thinking that I will have boats lined up here for passage through the castle like the streets in Venice.
I'm sure I could make another cool water feature with this waterfall.
Here is a tunnel going through the mountain that could be a cool hallway.
I could have a spiral staircase going up through this hole.
Perhaps a guard's lookout over the bridge could be here. This would probably be where the main tower will go, up and through the mountain. A beautiful view showing just how amazing this mountain is. I also plan on adding an alchemy tower for potions an enchanting station a lookout, and many different farms including a big trap for monsters.
Another waterfall.
In Minecraft your character normally looks like this.
Minecraft permits you to change how you look so that on multiplayer people look different. How you look is called your skin. The official app for creating your own skin is called Minecraft skin studio. This is my skin which is almost done.
He is styled after some kind of God that exists in Minecraft and his home will be my castle. He has blood red gauntlets and sword in a white sheath.
He also has light leather armor and a gray robe. Right now I have named him The Hunter.
This is a Template I made for a bow and quiver. I realize the bow is ridiculously small but due to space I cannot make it any bigger. I have not decided whether or not to keep the sword or replace it with this. I like how his sword looks more but I want my character to have a bow.
So that is my Minecraft world so far. Please comment with any advice on my castle or my skin. Bye!
By Ashton
Recently I was finally able to get the full version of Minecraft on to the computer. Currently I only have one survival world and one creative world. This part of my blog is about creating things in Minecraft. The seed I am using (how the world will look like) has a really cool mountain in it with many cool overhangs, craters, tunnels and other things weaving through it and I think it would make a great place to build a medieval style castle/home. They are many monsters in Minecraft and many necessary things to do build so this (my current house) just will not cut it.
My pitiful house.
Zombies are breaking down my door!
Bye the way it is raining in some of these pictures if you were confused. This is the front view of the mountain and as you can see I have already built most of the castle bridge.
I have wired it to work when I flip this lever.
Ta da! So when I remove the walls water will cover the bridge until I flip the switch pushing up blocks to form a path.
This will be the front of the castle and I am thinking that I will have boats lined up here for passage through the castle like the streets in Venice.
I'm sure I could make another cool water feature with this waterfall.
Here is a tunnel going through the mountain that could be a cool hallway.
I could have a spiral staircase going up through this hole.
Perhaps a guard's lookout over the bridge could be here. This would probably be where the main tower will go, up and through the mountain. A beautiful view showing just how amazing this mountain is. I also plan on adding an alchemy tower for potions an enchanting station a lookout, and many different farms including a big trap for monsters.
Another waterfall.
In Minecraft your character normally looks like this.
Minecraft permits you to change how you look so that on multiplayer people look different. How you look is called your skin. The official app for creating your own skin is called Minecraft skin studio. This is my skin which is almost done.
He is styled after some kind of God that exists in Minecraft and his home will be my castle. He has blood red gauntlets and sword in a white sheath.
He also has light leather armor and a gray robe. Right now I have named him The Hunter.
This is a Template I made for a bow and quiver. I realize the bow is ridiculously small but due to space I cannot make it any bigger. I have not decided whether or not to keep the sword or replace it with this. I like how his sword looks more but I want my character to have a bow.
So that is my Minecraft world so far. Please comment with any advice on my castle or my skin. Bye!
By Ashton
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