Skylar’s Blog

So… I have been playing far too much Fallout 3.  I’m not really complaining, generally i have a hard time keeping interest in one game long enough to get very far in it.  Fallout is just soooo good.  Mixture of interesting subject matter (to me), and good gameplay.  It is just a very immersive game, it makes the hours disappear very quickly….

The game presents goals as a series of quests.  Some are vital to the main story line, and must be completed to finish the game, but many more present other interesting but unrequired goals with challenges and rewards.  In general they can be completed in any order, and one can be stopped midway while another is finished.  This presentation is very simple and unintimidating, even though the actual objectives can be very complex.

I have decided that this presentation might be an interesting new way for me to look at life.  I’m always having random ideas for interesting things to do, but my follow through sucks.  Yeah, i lived in the Caribbean for a year, and yeah i have some college under my belt; but there are many other things i would like to do, instead of just thinking about, and many of them aren’t very big, they just need to be remembered for more than 5 minutes.

So i wrote them down, and now I am going to present them to you.  Some of these might take a lifetime to get to and finish, others a day or less, but they all seem to reverberate in my head.  I might mention that putting up this blog is related to one of them, though I don’t expect any profit here.  Nonetheless a step in the right direction as far as experience with presenting a website goes.  Finally, i must add, some of this stuff might not happen at all, no matter how many times i look at the list.  Fine with me, better than just forgetting about it after daydreaming in the car.

Skylar’s quest list of interesting things to do:

• Bake bread from scratch
• Create beer/wine/liquor from scratch
• Backpack camping: hike in, hike out.  Long run, P(acific)C(rest)T(rail)
• Harvest firewood at Dad’s house
• Garden
• Turn old Saturn SL1 into an electric powered car (big project, who knows, fun idle talk though )
• Harvest electricity from small creek – microturbine
• Construct a homebuilt aircraft
• Learn Russian
• Get associates degree (need 1 credit, no joke, from UCC, I had transferred to OSU in ‘06 on a credit per credit basis, never got associates)
• Write a book
• Create and get a t-shirt listed on cameesa. check it: cameesa.com
• Make some white wings (really cool paper airplanes, easy, but fun!)
• Learn the night sky
• Create a profitable website
• Finish College
• Play guitar
• Write a song
• .

Ok, lots of this stuff is not going to happen anytime soon.  But i have started a blog since i created this list.  Also, i started learning the night sky.  Got out the telescope last week and looked at the moon and the stars.  Also found a sweet program for the computer called stellarium. Beats the crap out of using a star map. I will post more about that in another post. I think that will be the idea of this blog in the mean time, categorizing posts to which “quest” they might relate to, and sharing my experience along each line. I personally love the technical aspects of some of these projects, and I generally like explaining things, so that will be a purpose of the blog as well. Besides, the best way to learn material is to teach it.

Alright, not much else to say i think… and it is 2am, time to hit the sack.  Peace out.

I now own skylarmarvin.com.  And i just so happen to be Skylar Marvin.  So if you are another Skylar Marvin and you missed your chance for this url, too bad sucker!  We’ll see how much use i get out of this, the more the better.  Just publish my thoughts i guess.  I am always writing things down in books, so we will see what i can get out of this.  If you have any opinions or thoughts, you can reach me at skylarmarvin@skylarmarvin.com, I’m sure i will find somewhere else to post that on this blog in the future.