Anecdotes: Logic games and a nice Saturday

Lately, I've been into logic puzzles or what not. I've been downloading a bunch of riddles and puzzles apps on my phone, been playing them on my spare time. I started properly playing this video game called "Antichamber" too. I just recently unlocked the yellow gun, which enables you to drag puzzle pieces. Unlocking that gun made me went: "oooh! I can now easily go back and work on all those other puzzles that I couldn't before!" That game has no direction whatsoever, which at times, makes me extremely annoyed. Even now, I am stuck at some places.

There's these puzzles called "climbing the tower", where you kind of climb a tower but not really? Anyway, strangely, I have unlocked puzzle 1-5, and 7! There's no 6! Strange! I couldn't solve puzzle 5 and 7 so I think maybe that's the next gun?

I've always liked all these logic puzzles and what not, that's why I even bought all those "Sherlock Holmes" puzzle books. But now, I don't know... I like it.

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On Friday, I had my third attempt on cinnamon rolls. Somehow, this attempt was way worse than the first two combined. The dough was too sticky. It stuck to everything. It stuck to the bowl, my hand, any surface really. I don't know what went wrong; maybe I added too much milk?? When the thing was really sticky, I added an ungodly amount of flour. I kept on dusting it. It became un-sticky for a moment then it went back to sticky. I couldn't lift it up from the chopping board without it breaking, so at the end I just made "cinnamon biscuits".

The next morning, I woke up early because I signed up for a sushi-making tutorial. The morning wasn't too sunny, it wasn't too cold, it wasn't too breezy, it was a lovely morning. I walked all the way to the restaurant, where the lessons will be held at. My friend was there, and I met a colleague there. I'm not sure if the lady he was with was his mom or his girlfriend, and I was too afraid to ask. Basically, there was 24 pairs of chairs and tables. Everyone else is basically a couple. I think this was a couples thing. Maybe it was a mom and son thing too, I'm not sure! But they come in pairs of 1 male and 1 female, while my friend and I comes in 2 men! Wooooo!

I was horrible. My hands were not made for sushi. It was super messy, I stuffed too much ingredients into it, everything was overflowing, there was rice everywhere aaaahhhh! But it was fun! Are my hands more fine now? Judging from Friday's horrible cinnamon rolls fiasco and this sushi making failure, I think I'm not cut out for delicate handy delicacies. But I guess gotta keep on trying! I didn't take any pictures, but my friend did, so I'm just gonna show his photos here then!

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Jerry and I are learning to make sushi and inari 🍣🍣🍣

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After that, he gave me a ride back home. I rushed to my kitchen, grabbed my cinnamon biscuits, and walked to a friend's house. We were going to play a board game! There were three of us, and we played Arkham horror. It's a cooperative board game, where you must team up to stop eldritch horrors from taking over the world! There are many different types of eldritch horrors which imposes different types of penalties on your character. This time, our bad guy was the all famous, C'thulhu! His very presence boosts all cultist from regular humans to serious threats, while also lowering all of our base stats, which made the game extremely difficult. Since there were three of us, I played as Indiana Jones-man, where I get to start out with some random artifacts. One of those artifact was an enchanted blade which stuck with me the entire game. It basically gave me a +4 boosts to attack. The other 2 fellows were mafia-man and magician-man.

There are two stats used as "hit points" in this game. Sanity and stamina. Stamina is the traditional hp, while sanity is a bit more special. The magician was an extremely balanced character, with equal max sanity and stamina, while Indiana Jones-man and mafia-man were more of a fighty kind of people. This specific game was not for us. Every monster we faced basically drove our characters insane because we have so little sanity to work with. Our magician friend started out using so much magic, until he slowly got all his spells taken away. He was constantly being beaten up by monsters until... he found a shotgun. He spent the rest of the game shotgunning past monsters. It's pretty funny to see his character going from this master of the mystical arts to just pew-pew-ing past enemies.

Figure 57.1: IKEA dog plushie in the background!

The game lasted a whopping 6 hours! We took a 15 minutes break in between, that's all. It was my first time playing, it was everyone else's third time playing. We won the game! The glasses guy (our host) was super happy! After the game, we basically talked about the geeky pop culture things. We talked about books, authors, artists, anime, video games, board games, and all the other geeky stuff! They said they really liked my cinnamon biscuits too! I got a legit criticism though, and that is: "it's a bit burnt."

Well, after 6 hours, it got pretty late. The host's wife basically came back. She's currently participating in this "National Novel Writing Month", where those participating tries to write a novel in a month. She made us all dinner. Some kind of squash risotto, and then we basically all chit chat until they basically kick us out because they need to sleep. So, in all actuality, the only time I am in my own home this Saturday is: