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March 18th - April 14th, 2013

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Watched
Netflix - Star Trek The Original Series, Psych, Aquabats, Phineas and Ferb, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Robot Chicken, Beakman's World, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Adventure Time, Chowder, Fanboy and Chum Chum, America's Funniest Videos, Eureka, Life's Funniest Moments, iCarly, Funniest Pets and People, MAD, and The Problem Solvers

YouTube - Minecraft MOD reviews, Minecraft "Adventurecraft" Text Adventure MOD review, The Way Games Work, How Nintendo 3DS Works, and special effects videos

Let's Play videos - Minecraft, Minecraft - "Shadow of Israphel", Fracuum, Happy Wheels, Scribblenauts Unlimited, Sphere, and Luigi's Mansion

Web Series - Vsauce, Mind Blow, Minute Physics, AsapSCIENCE, VlogBrothers, Yogscast, Table Top, and Vi Hart


Played
3DS - WarioWare D.I.Y.

PS3 - Little Big Planet 2 (LBP2), Assassin's Creed II (watching W play)

WiiU - Scribblenauts Unlimited

Computer - Minecraft

Online - Fracuum, various games on nitrome.com

Read
Magazines - ASK!, NatGeo Kids, Ranger Rick, LEGO Club

Researched
Teeth: how many teeth do humans have (baby, children, adults)? When do we get/lose teeth? Why do we have to lose teeth?
Canine Teeth

Discussed
E's loose canine tooth
Bartering/Trading
Freestores
Flu, Bronchitis, and Laryngitis
Light refraction

Wrote
Notes, Plans, and schematics

Created/Built
LBP2 - created a popcorn popper, recreated Fracuum, and created objects

D.I.Y. - microgames

SNU - sprites

Snap Circuits "Motion Detector" Kit: completed projects #1-7 and free experimentation w/ alligator clips

Calculator Tricks w/ addition


Went/Community
Cuckoo's Nest Magic Shop
Double Wide Grill
Schell Games
Taj Mahal Indian Restaurant w/ the Gyres

Health/PE/Safety
Stretching and squats
Grocery list
Lost bottom left canine
Dealing w/ the Flu, Bronchitis, and Laryngitis (W & M have been sick)

Other
E got to be a game playtester for a top secret game still in its development phase w/ Schell Games, a local video game company.
The last two weeks have been kind of low-key with W & M being sick.

Quotable
"Wait, that's your sarcastic voice!"

Upon asking E if he enjoyed being a video game playtester & whether or not he'd like to do it again, he replied, "Yeah, I could pencil that into my schedule".

"Industrial Farming MOD for Minecraft? They have factory farming in Minecraft? What the hell, yo?"

"Did you know that we were all female once? Yeah, that's weird, but cool."

"You remember how I said I wish everything was free? Well, it would be so great, because then people wouldn't mug and rob other people, because they could just take whatever they needed, whenever they needed it. That would be so awesome. People would be so much more awesome if they just had what they needed."

E: "I have an urgent matter to attend to."
M: "Oh, do you require my assistance?"
E: "Um, no. I got this covered!"
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