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"Oh, hey! Help arrived! Uh, I went down here with a friend and now they're... unconscious. They were using some kind of VR machine, they started shaking all of a sudden..."

Had a workout at the Y this evening. It'd been a long while since I last visited. While I was there, I met a helpful man who told me a few tips:

• Adjust the seat and handlebars on the bike machine so that your knees are just slightly bent.
• Put the bike's resistance (and push yourself enough) so that you're hitting a constant pace (200 RPM was what the man suggested) without stopping. Put it down a bit as you get tired, but make sure that you are always putting yourself at the point where you can hit that pace uncomfortably (see below).
• Bike hard enough so that it starts to hurt. You'll get stronger and feel better for it.
• Set goals like maintaining a pace of RPM.

Using these tips I was actually able to work out to the point where I felt like I accomplished something. I nearly got a cramp afterwards, but that just means I actually did something!

TREES KEEP KILLING MY DWARVES!

Seriously, how do I find and prevent this from happening??

In light of my oncoming "Graduation" from home school/end of first partial year at college/me complaining about my old one for six months, my father, who happens to have been a professional bike mechanic a few times, has stuck together a new set of wheels for me.

Very smooth gears, actual shifters, fatter road tires, and a more comfortable height. This thing is great, yo!

Very nice!

The only thing my own father could make would be...

Actually, a few things, I suppose. A new chair/piece of furniture, maybe even a new bike (he's no mechanic though so he might find a few difficulties), or maybe what he actually does at his job...

A semiconductor... You know, one of the many components of various electronics... Useful, eh?

Got all the way to Stage 5 before getting wrecked by Knoife Maid AND got a new high score of over 4 million points. Master Spark is so ridiculously good. If used right, it lets you power through almost an entire Spell Sign. Usually I don't use it that much because I like the bonus points you get for not using them, but this time my index finger kept spasming because of muscle fatigue and I ended up pressing "x" more often. And it worked out. Not that I didn't pull oodles of totally-not-accidental sweet doges[And several totally-accidental ones as well], but I used more bombs then usual.

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Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

Not that I didn't pull oodles of totally-not-accidental sweet doges[And several totally-accidental ones as well], but I used more bombs then usual.

sweet doges

doges

doges

WHAT IS THIS?

The only "doge" I know of in the Touhou series/project is Kagerou from TH 14, and she's a werewolf!

Trees are evil!

I've had my second tree-related death!

I'd kinda already realized, but music is really important to know what's going to happen next in a Touhou game. So, when the music starts glitching and skipping, it really throws me off, both because it's distracting and because I can't use changes in the music to anticipate when a big wave is going to come.

I mean, it was only my second or third time making it to level four, so there was no way I could anticipate anything, but the music skipping was still very annoying.

TH06: EOTSD.

You use music for that purpose?

And TH06 is EOSD. There's no "The" in the title.

So my father came back from overseas...

And he can get quite a temper sometimes.

Earlier this afternoon, he realized he had missed an important meeting (I think it was with his doctor). He checked the phone I lent him, and it was on silent (I hadn't turned it off), and he had missed a call he had been expecting. He started shouting and raised the phone in the air as if it to smash it against the ground, or maybe my foot (I was standing next to him when he was doing this). I felt bad.

When I asked Mom about it, she said that there was nothing I could do about it (one of the lines I hate the most, and one of the things I hate the most about Mom), and that it was something work-related. Earlier when Dad and I were talking, Dad said he was worried about us (his sons), and then said that I couldn't do anything about it when I asked how I could help.

When I pressed Mom on her problem and admonished/scolded/insulted her for changing the subject after her answer, as well as answering with that kind of attitude, she got upset at me for a bit too.