Update #8

Okay so since my last post I've been busy I guess.

I did in fact watch wanted yesterday with some friends as I said I would. I would say to someone who is going to watch it to just suspend your belief in anything scientific and reality. Once you do that this movie is so pretty good. Car cases, guns, and a plot that sounds funny when you think about but then you realize you suspended your belief in reality and its kinda cool. I would say 4 out of 5.

After that I played some Rock band which is nothing new. went through a bunch of songs. Then when people left for dinner I had nothing to do. I had a late lunch so I decide to play Portal for the first time ever. I got the Orange Box for like 20 bucks and since its 3 games in one I figured it was worth the money. I played through the whole thing. I haven't done any challenges only the main game.I had really high expectations for this game due to the hype that there was about it when it came out. It was fun and a very original take on the puzzle genre. there was only one spot where i had really no clue what to do so it is not extremely difficult in that aspect. now again I haven't tried any of the challenges yet so those may be harder. over all I would give this game so far 3 out of 5.

after that I just hung out with people til like 12:45 which was a bad idea because I was planning on getting up at 7:00 the next morning. now why would I do that on a Friday when I don't have class until 3:30? well I went bouldering (like climbing but you stay close to the ground and don't use ropes. these routes are shorter but quicker and a great way to get more advanced techiques down) with my friend. We took the 7:55 bus and went to Petra. Surprisingly this was the first time I have used the public transportation buses up here. but in short I now know how to get to the climbing place from where I live using the bus. while I was there I was origonally going to work a route I hadn't finished yet that looked really fun, I think its a V2. but then my friend Kieth showed me the route he was working on, a V3. He was trying to get it down and hadn't figured it out yet. He has been going a lot lately and buldering a bunch and has done a bunch of the routes they have there and was now focused on completeing this one. We both tried it for a while and had an idea of how to get it done. we could do the first half easily but then we had to transfer to a different wall at an incline then go up past it to the more vertical part. we ended up getting it after a while by using a heel hold. When I was watching him do it I was thinking wow that looks cool. it was a fun route... I never actually went back to the route I had started on that day. my hands were killing (and still are) and I'm going back to climb tonight and wanted to be able climb a bit before my hands gave out.

waking up so early makes the days go by much slower. they are so long. I feel like its the weekend but have to leave for class at 2:00. things are going good. and as I type this I am making plans to go snowboarding tomorrow. this is a good start to a semester. Okay its time for me to eat...