Old City Jerusalem ( more local history here)

Notes: Photo with a bad camera. Took these on an old trip with professor and a few cohorts.

The recorded history of this place is a little too long for me to write about within a paragraph. Not my fondest place in Israel, maybe because I hated the tourists and the street merchants were very rude. I took a photo of some kid’ pimp ride while trying to capture the scenery behind it and he demanded I pay him. I just sputtered a lot of gibberish until he gave up. 

The city was settled during the 4th millennium by the Canaanites. From there, it was either occupied or turned into a vassal kingdom by all sorts of folks, from Egyptians, Macedonians, various Caliphates and the list goes on. The poor city has been besieged, attacked and captured at least one-hundred times since its creation. I had the luck of being able to go underneath the Old City into some ruins below the Western Wall and saw remnants of the past that was buried and built over. Unfortunately, I was unable to take photographs since it was too dark and it would damage the old structures. The current Old City has four quarters: Jewish, Christian, Armenian and Muslim. I was there for a few days so I was able enough to venture around all three of them and managed to get inside Temple Mount, a sacred site to both Jewish and Muslim traditions. There are two points of entry to the site, each owned by their respective religion. My cohorts entered through the latter and some ladies were bundled up quite extensively. Why, I am not sure, because the locals didn’t dress that way. Ran across a similar issue over the Western Wall. I’m assuming the extra emphasis on modesty is because we arrived on holy days.

I had the luck of coming here during the year 2009 when Ramadan and Rosh Hashanah ended around the same day (September 21st). I remember getting hopelessly lost in the crowd, but the festivities were worth it. My fondest memories were celebrating Shabbat on the rooftops with the entire view of Old City Jerusalem and watching the Ramadan firework. I guess another thing I liked about the Old City were all the alleyways and crannies. My fondest memories was jumping around the rooftops, heheh. 

I remember getting lost in an alleyway and a group of wooers were coming onto me, probably because I looked exotic. I thought, “Wow, heh, Josiah you are a pimp.” Then they asked me if I was Japanese, and I replied, “Nah, I am American.” Their reaction was : ( My reaction was : (

Fail.

uwaah. Volt Cougar graciously set this up. Hopefully it will make things a lot easier when inputting all those goddem animations.

Lake George, New York

Hrm … Yeah. This is the alternative rather than using the engine’s database. Its kind of a pain since I have to redo the sheets and then enter the coordinates to every frame individually. At first I had a minor melt down, but then I realized it wouldn’t be so bad if I use the same cell size and just reuse the same values over after calculating them on an excel sheet. 

Kind of a pain, but the issue with the default system was there was a limit of 999 spaces. Also, doing this is more efficient on the memory and process. Just kind of tedious. 

Fort Necessity, Pennsylvania 

p-pleaese sir explain to me “action points”

i just reaized his sprite hasn’t been edited with his ponytail welp welp welp gomen

San Jacinto Mountains ( more local history here)

The mountains were settled by various Amerindians years ago. Though the Serrano and Cahuilla people arrived and built villages near streams and springs. They were hunter-gatherers and they survived on small game and acorn. San Jacinto was the seasonal home to these folks. It’s fabulous hiking here during the winter because you’ll be trotting along snow, but if you look down you’ll be greeted with the view of this golden desert …

San Jacinto peak is close to 11,000 feet above sea levels. Luckily, there is a tram station that takes you far up. I’m kind of wowed how Amerindians made their way up here with moccasins so many years ago. The trails are covered with sharp rock, and from my experience at Ansel Adams Wilderness … I know how much that hurts with thin shoes.

There is a trail called Cactus to Clouds where you climb from the bottom of the mountain to the top. Most people opt to take the tram station to the near the top of the mountain, then proceed to the peak. It would be a whopping twenty-three miles to do Cactus to Clouds. I felt ashamed because as I was descending the peak, I met an old gentleman who was at least sixty and accomplished it. Apparently, he was a marathon runner. W-wow. Heh. I hope when I become an old man I’ll be as ace. Be careful about attempting the full Cactus to Clouds trail in addition to the peak. Some folks have died on that road from dehydration and cockiness.

I had to redo laying out all the sprites sheets because the engine database couldn’t hold the amount of sprites I had. -_- I cried. Luckily Cornix had a custom battle animation system he wrote. Though the pain is now getting it set up.

I also had to relay all of the Battle BGs.  I didn’t realize it until I plugged it in and thought, “Why is it displaying so weird? ARGH. Nooo.”

groans:

perfect perfect

yesss

(Source: noonward)

ok im done with these for now

New world map sprites.

My aunt paid for me to take a career exam. I was told I should be a religious leader. Is this … a sign. 

I am the Bishop for the Church of Alfredism.™

My second result was “cabinet maker.” She was very excited and asked, “Political cabinet?”

“No. Furniture.”

Ugh, last night I passed out on my desk and for some reason my computer shut off. I don’t know what happened. I had to redo a bunch of stuff I had because Photoshop doesn’t save automatically. I reformatted the GUI a bit and I think it looks nicer. The stars should appear below. 

marimo