Thanksgiving Break

Wednesday, 11/27/2024

I've been at my grandparents' house since last night. The drive was horribly insanely long (7 hours). There were so many traffic slowdowns. The Google Maps navigation lady kept saying "There is a 27 minute slowdown up ahead. You are still on the fastest route." It was miserable.

Last night, my sibling and I played the Untitled Goose Game. I forgot how much I love that game. I kind of wish you could play it on two different Switches, because sharing a screen with my sibling is... frustrating, let me just say. Our geese kept trying to go in different directions. We are bad at teamwork. We are not drift compatible. But it was fun playing the game again because we remembered most of the secret quests but we couldn't remember how to do them.

Then earlier today, my sibling and I took a hike up to a nearby waterfall. It was loud but a great view. Rocks paragraph at the bottom of this. I would post pictures of it if I wasn't paranoid about someone hunting me down using said pictures. Anyway, I'm glad to be here with my family. As much as I love my college, it gets tiring being in the same place, no sibling to bully, no doggy to pet, for months like I do during the semester.

After the hike, I have been helping my grandmother cook and bake for Thanksgiving tomorrow. I don't particularly like the official Thanksgiving narrative, but I like the food and time with my family so I still celebrate it. Anyway, I was helping my grandmother peel some apples for an apple crumble, which is when I learned that I am absolutely terrible at peeling apples! I think I probably cut more apple than I should have just trying to get the skins fully peeled off. She didn't seem bothered, though.

Here's a description of the rocks we saw for any fellow geologists. Grayish red sandstone, breaks off in layers of roughly 2-3 inches. Pretty fine grained (might be considered a coarse siltstone). All outcrops had the same unconformity in the layers. Very mild dip. Weathers into a smooth, cool gray. Many were iron stained, possibly due to the iron rich waters of the area.

The Start of My Blogging Career

Wednesday, 11/27/2024

Let me paint you a picture: You just got to your grandparents' house after a six hour drive. The night before, you stayed up too late learning HTML because you wanted to make one of those ugly y2k websites. All you were able to think about on the drive was what things you might put on the website. You might be autistic. You spent the drive listening to Bo Burnham so you wouldn't fall asleep behind the wheel, because instead of filling your thermos with caffeinated tea, you filled it with apple cider and then it was too hot to drink anyway. Now you understand where the energy that drove the creation of this website came from.

Anyway, this is my first blog post. I'm going to post about Thanksgiving break right after this. I want to try to maintain this blog but I have no idea how much I'll actually do.