Ramblings....

     So 29.5 hours till NaNo officially starts. I have a 60 point story outline. Which means I have a path from the start to the end. This should be fun. As far as school goes I am pretty much finished the Physics unit. That leaves 3 units in physics and 2 in Calculus. The dew date for Calc being Nov 22... so thats what's next thats for sure. I just wanted to get one of the physics units sent out because it has to travel over snail mail... :S
     Theres one more book review to catch up on, and I am reading another book right now... the thing is theres only so much I can say about diskworld before I start repeating myself. Each story is different but it's just a story...
     Been thinking about what to do with the NaNo novel. It's not going to be published... but I still don't want to just put it out here on the interweb for anyone to take. So if there really is anyone who reads this little place on the net and is interested send me a message however you are able to send me messages... :D If not... well when I win NaNo I'll will a get a physical copy of my book so you can read that!!

On the Edge of Darkness

So been thinking out my NaNo plot. Ideas on coming along it just takes a bit to get something that makes sense. This is what I currently have for a Synopsis. If anyone axualy looks at this tell me what you think.

On the Edge of Darkness

On the edge of darkness lies a pit so deep

On the edge of darkness lies a path so steep

On the edge of darkness between the black and white

On the edge of darkness one small step is needed to take flight.

     Alexa’s life is on the edge of darkness. She has lost that which once mattered. Now goes through the motions of action on behalf of others. The one part of her that once was her almost doesn’t care anymore. Till a flick of her past appears back into her life, and she takes over for once. 

Book Review, Sorcery by Terry Pratchett

Sorcery 

By Terry Pratchett

     Some people end up on all the adventures... it's to bad for Rincewinds that once again he's pulled into adventure. On diskworld there is an eighth color, great wizards are the eighth son of an eighth son... eight is a special number when you are dealing with magic. Wizards and women also don't mix. The why is nether really covered it;s just not done. So when a wild and diferent Wizard becomes astranged from the Unseen University builds a family has seven (wizard) sons then has an eighth things get complicated. 

     When Sorcery is let louse on the world dangerous things happen. Rincewind takes it upon himself to run away.  Trying to get as far away as possible only to find he cares and is the only one left to do anything about it. The world may survive (since this is book 5 out of 38 thats a safe guess) even if Rincewind gets stuck in the Dungeon Dimension at of it all. 

     Theres not much to really say about this book... the only question I had is where are the witches will all these wizard towers and magic being brought up from nowhere... I KNOW its not a story about them... but Diskworld is generally very good about covering all the options about people who might be able to have an effect on the situation and this was the first time I really questioned things... 

Book Review, Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

Note about Diskworld, I apologizes for the review being too full of book related words and references... but diskworld is a lot harder to review in a practical sense than I expected... I am not too sure I will have much to say about them since I don't really care to just the story. The characters are very important so as long as I haven't talked about them before I will talk about that but I think that when I am covering story's about the same characters that I covered before the review might become a bit smaller. 

Wyrd Sisters

by Terry Pratchett

     Witchcraft is not what you think it is. You don't need candles and flashy symbols drawn in blood, or dancing naked under a full moon (sometime though Margrat would like things it if the other witches would be a little more Occult like... though I don't think even she would want to see Granny Weatherwax dancing naked...).  Witches are mostly solitary people, but even solitary people like to be a little social once in a while... other wise how would the others know you don't need them. 

     Most of the magic that is done by Witches on the disk is every day things, things that just take a little bit more knowledge and a lot of headology. They may be a bit closer to the vale between life and death. Which helps when theres a ghost around who needs a little justice and they do happen to fly around on broomstick (which aside from being a little cold is just a practical way to travel when your the only one in the ramtops who really does travel). 

       The witches are enjoyable characters because they are as I said, very down to earth and honest old ladies. Very Real, Wizards are the ones who mess around with Magic on the disk. Nanny and Granny are two cute and intelligent old ladies who care for the country folk that live in there aria. Sometimes this requires a little magical help... sometimes things work out anyways.

Book Review, The Prodigal Mage by Karen Miller

The Prodigal Mage

by Karen Miller

     Hero's save the world. Its what they do. Then they get to live happly ever after right? Yet saveing the world changes it, and humans whether they are Olken or Doranen have trouble excepting that change. In the Kingmaker, Kingbreaker pair of books Asher saved the world from the evil of Morg and freed the Olken from the control of the Doranen gaining them the right to use the magic that they always had but were forbidden from using. The Prodigal Mage continues this story in the world that has been changed by his actions. 

     Asher's magic is different than a normal Olken's simpler earth based power, and because of the things he was forced to do with it he dislikes it greatly. His son is also in position of the same or maybe even greater amounts of power. Yet must grow up with a hero for a father, and hiding this power since it would frighten the world. But when the world starts to die and his father can't save it this time he steps up to the task. 

     Story's don't often cover the after part of things. How a hero may do his job but the great changes he tried to create... just make some things more difficult. Like what happens when a hero has children... And what happens if things go bad again and the hero's too old and worn out from saving the world 10 years earlier before anyone knew about it... This story though it takes the point of view of multiple different characters at different times is mostly about Rafel, Ashers son. The way he grew up and his taking on of the responsibility to help the world when his Father can't.  

     This book really does require you to have read the Kingmaker, Kingbreaker book's (in order The Innocent Mage is first, The Awakened Mage is second making this book three) first. I read them some time ago (1998 I think...) and it took me a few chapters to really remember the world and the way it worked. Especially because there are a lot of changes the world has faced since those books. This book also doesn't give you much of a reminder at all as to what happened (though in general I don't mind this it really didn't cover the past books at all). It jumps from character to character a little too much, and it took a bit to start realizing what family I was following.  But the two families you read about are important in there own way. 

     Rafel steps up to his place in the world. Becoming more comfortable with his magic, learning why it was so important to his father no to show his power to the world and that some things are worth taking a risk for. The story is continued in The Reluctant Mage. 

Book Review, (Faust) Eric by Terry Pratchett

     So as I mention earlier today there are a few books I need to finish reports on... and seeing how I currently planing to increase my goals of wighting to crazy I might as well try to keep up on the goals I already have. Over the past year I have now read 26 of the 38 diskworld books.... thats a lot of books since its not the only books I have read this year...

(Faust) Eric 

by  Terry Pratchett

     There is a world that is carried through space on the back of four great Elephants who stand on the back of a giant turtle who is swimming through space with an unknown destination. This world is shaped as a disk, a round circle peppered with mountains across its center (know as the hub), and great waterfalls that crash over the edge and shower the elephants below.
     Rincewind is a Wizard, he even has a hat that says so. He also has a way of getting stuck in the middle of things he'd much rather have nothing to do with. Through miss-adventure he ended up stuck in the Dungeon Dimensions (see my review of Sorcery).
     Eric is a demonologist, he may be only 13 and may be less demonoligist more lucky. After studying his grand father's books he opens a door to the Dungeon Dimensions and summons a Demon... well... Rincewind (though the Luggage is thought of by many as a Demon...).  Eric demands that his demon grant him three wishes and even though Rincewind tells him its not possible it seems to work. Well... as well as any wish granted by a demon would work that is....
     The disworld books are written in a different formant, there aren't any chapters, which other than not giving me a place to stop reading when I need to sleep doesn't really change much. I also like how even though this is one story that is part of a 38 book serous (and even though it directly takes place after another book) it doesn't matter one bit when you read it in relation to the other books. This can be said of every one of the disk world books. Each story you read developed the world more and more in my head, but none of them go in to extensive details about things that happened before (boring you if you have read it). It really doesn't matter to your understanding of the current story.
     Rincwind is very bothered by the laws of Nature that the world he lives on doesn't follow. He sometimes wishes that the world was a nice sphere shape with a center of liquid rock.... but the world just doesn't work like that.

NaNoWriMo... here I go again...

     So years and years ago I found this thing called NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), I like to wright (though in general no one is aloud to see it because most is nonsense) I don't really finish much. I tried it but was in the middle of school and got distracted. I tried again in 2007 but even less came of that try. So here I go again. I may have a Math class that must be done by the end of November and a Physics class that must be done by the end of December and I need/want to find and go to a job (hey two interviews this week!!) . But meh. It's fun... and it looks like I might have found a way to axially meet some people who live in this little town that doesn't do much... :P Since NaNo people generally like to meet and cheer each other on. Which I would kinda like more than anything at this point. 
     So here I go. 50 000 words in 30 days (plus a math class and a physics class :P)... will I give up... well the amount of posts on this blog might hint towards my dedication towards writhing wavers... and the fact that I have read three books and haven't finished the book reports on them... 
   :P So....Well....Ya...

Vancouver, Victoria and thanksgiving

Hey,
   About two weeks ago we went back to Vancouver again. We had coupons for a fancy Hotel so we stayed at the Pan Pasfic, which is an almost normal hotel on top of a conference center with a veuw of the Harbor, so it wasn't amazingly fancy(which I still really want to see) but it was kinda neat. The pool was nice and you can see everything so thats cool. It was a bit wet and rainy but it about the point where you point out that its not wet and rainy because it normally is.
   The Saturday that we got there (sept,18) we didn't do much. There was a dinner as part of the hotel deal which was really nice. We went and watched guys punch each other (I think it was a mixed martial arts of some kind) and watched a lot of Discovery channel.
   Sunday we went to The Science Center which is kinda neat because there was a lot of hands on things... though really there was just a lot of Puzzles... so less science center and more Puzzle center but they are in the middle of fixing it and they had Body Works taking up a large portion of the place (which we didn't go to because we've seen before). We then found food at a neat sports bar and Ice cream at a real nice gelato place (I think BC believes that ice cream is always gelato because they always call it that even if it's not really gelato... though this place is. They usealy only call ice cream bar's like the kind you get at gas stations Ice cream....). We then went to the cheep hotel we had that was near the ferry to Victoria.
     Took the first ferry to Victoria on Monday, it had a Farly good buffet and since your just sitting in it for the ferry trip its kinda neat. I like Victoria a lot... its really pretty. We went to the Museum which is a really cool one... kinda like the ROM, but really just its own thing.  Theres also a ice cream parlor... that has milkshakes and float's. Tastie!! We wondered around and I really want to come back.
     Now this past weekend was thanksgiving. We went to Rob's famalys house. It was a nice day. Went on the boat again and talked. Ya food and friends! I made Apple Pecan Cheesecake. I cut the recipe in half because its huge and I kinda think that the cheesecake should have some cinnamon in it or something it tasted to separate to me.
     Still no job... /sigh... But I finished the second unit of Calculus today and now just need to study so I can do well on the Functions exam!
     Thats whats been up the last little bit! So...Well...Ya...

The seasons tree

The is an animation I made at the Art Institute that I am really proud of. It was for a Dynamics project and consists of a tree which has the seasons change around it. Though I still have all the files that it took to create it I lost the final composite a ages ago. The only copy was on my Facebook profile. Now because Facebook created a way to download you information I was able to get it back!!