Tune Up

Despite the end of the year closing in quickly, I'm going to post-pone the end of year assessment post, and make another one filled with random things. Anthology has gone well, mostly completed despite me having forgotten to bring my pin drive to school so Hill could get it printed double sided. Memoirs of a Geisha is nearly complete, closing in on the final twenty pages of Sayuri's tales, much better of a book than I was anticipating, pleasant surprise to say the least. Sayuri's thoughts as of late tend to confuse me, acting more heavily taken with the Chairman than with Nobu, despite the fact that Nobu has had interest in her for 10 years now.

In other, nerdier news, the Audi R8 5.4 Quatro set up I've been tuning for the past few days in my free time has come along nicely. Suspension is lowered in the back, putting more weight onto the rear tires and taking it off the front. I'm hoping to give it a better launch and handling rating by forcing the Audi's systems to react to the extra rear weight and put more power into those wheels, forcing it to act more like a rear wheel drive car than a four wheel drive, improving it's speed and acceleration points as well, all the tweaking aside, I freaking LOVE this car.

In other, even nerdier news Jacob and I have been experimenting with different slots on our LoL team. Swapping out champions that we regularly play in favor of more unorthodox champions and throw off the enemy team. While Jacob most commonly runs a sturdy and reliable mid lane champion such as Lux or Karthus he has lately been choosing counter pick choices such as Kassadin and Galio. While their counter to AP champions such as Lux and Karthus they lack a certain bang. Galio's role in the team is better suited to support tank, initiating the fights and taking all the punishment, and despite his AP Nuking ability, Galio is not a full on AP carry for the team. Kassadin is a it different however, his abilities hit hard and can disrupt other AP carries in mid lane, his early game is horrible. If the other players get aggressive in the least bit before Kassadin can hit level 6 it's more than likely Jacob will lose the lane. I've been messing around with a Pantheon solo top lately, his passive isn't the best, and I had my butt handed to me by a Riven last night, but good lord is he fun to play. Pantheon's ultimate, Grand Skyfall, can cover most of the map and hot-drop me into another lane for a gank with power and efficiency, letting me drop my stun not long after I impact as well, that shock and awe power helped Jacob and I secure my two hundreth win last night, looking forward to doing more of this Saturday with him at his house. Always good to throw around some dumb ideas and have them work beautifully.

Claws

Well, I dug myself a cozy little pit to tear myself up and out of. I'm desperately far behind in my anthology and my book review, considering that I've yet to finish Memoirs of a Geisha, despite being about 50 or so pages from completion.  To say it has enthralled me is an understatement, I love the book dearly, which is what is keeping me from simply looking up a plot summary of the end. Sayuri's conflicting thoughts of Nobu and the Chairman add a sort of life into the plot, despite Nobu being the clearly better option the Chairman's kindness all those years ago have are what pushed Sayuri (Earlier in the book known as Chiyo) to finally become a geisha. My iPod ended a playlist and as I changed it to another I lost track of where I was going to take this review, so moving on. The anthology can be completed fairly easily, I just need a push from someone to get me to finish this thing. Considering how easy of an project it was the book making process of it seems to be the hardest part of it, considering my crafting skills are horrible despite my dexterity of the hands and digits. I don't even know where I'm going with this anymore, might as well stop.