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April 30th - May 27th, 2012

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Watched
Let's Play videos - YouTube.com
House of Anubis - Nickelodeon
The Avengers - movie
Special Effects videos - YouTube.com
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends - CartoonNetwork.com
Battleship - movie
Mythbusters - Netflix
America's Funniest Videos - Netflix
MAD TV - Netflix
Super Mario mod videos - YouTube.com
Cake - Netflix
Sgt. Frog - Netflix
Skunk Fu - Netflix
Reaper - Netflix
A.N.T. Farm - Netflix
House of Anubis - Netflix

Played
Nitrome.com games
Little Big Planet 2 - PS3
Lego
Wii Sports - Wii
Homemade Lego board game - board game
Dominoes w/ Michele - game
Mine Shift w/ Bethany - tile-based board game
Rory's Story Cubes - story dice game
Angry Birds - iPad App
Doodle Train - iPad App
Various Online Games - Internet
Minecraft - Computer

















Read/Researched/Discussed
Valve Employee Handbook (would be a fantastic place to work!)
Ranger Rick Magazine
National Geographic Kids Magazine
Homophone, Homonyms et al (quite the Pandora's Box)
"The Thinker" statue
Puns & Double Entendres
Pittsburghese
IPA for English



Wrote
Directions to a homemade Lego board game

Listened
Science Friday - NPR
Community music from LBP2 online community
Roll a D6 - music video
"TNT" - A Minecraft Parody of Taio Cruz's Dynamite - music video



Created/Built
Plants vs. Zombies in Lego
Drawing
Music w/ William
Music using LBP2 Music Sequencer
Comedy Routines
Homemade Lego board game
Level creation and design for LBP2
Made, broke and ate Candy Glass

Went/Community
Sushi Tomo
Picked up CSA
Bean-Thru
Half Price Books
Tokyo Sushi Buffet
DB Mongolian BBQ
AMC Waterfront Theatre
Taj Mahal Indian Buffet
New Dumpling House
Java House
Starbucks
Qdoba
Trader Joe's

Health/PE/Safety
Discussed exercise
Discussed visiting the chiropractor
Contemplated how much sleep we all needed
Decided to get and use an alarm clock
Walked around block w/ Michele
  
Other
Set up new alarm clock

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