I’ve been playing video games for quite a while. There are some games that hold a special place in my heart and will forever. What makes a game special to me is who you play it with and the good laughs you share. I never really played a “bad game”, just a game I didn’t like in my opinion. Today I’m going over my favorite games and a little back story to them of how they came to be and my experience with them.

There aren’t a few games I consider perfect, but Minecraft is the pinnacle of all games. It was my first experience to videogames and what a great way to start it off too. I started playing it at 8 and I still play it to this day at almost 16 years old. It’s a game where they can update it and it will never get too much, it only makes the game better and better every year. I’ve had many worlds and probably have thousands of hours into it but only a year ago after 6 years of playing the game I finally “beat the game”. There really is no end to the game, I’m mainly talking about the story aspect of it. Minecraft is a sandbox video game developed by the Swedish video game developer Mojang Studios. The game was created by Markus Notch Persson in the Java programming language. After several early private testing versions, it was first made public in May 2009 before fully releasing in November 2011, with Jens Bergensten then taking over development. Minecraft has since been ported to several other platforms and is the best-selling video game of all time, with over 238 million copies sold and nearly 140 million monthly active users as of 2021. In 2014 Mojang was purchased by Microsoft for US$2.5 billion.

I’m going to put a few games in the same paragraph because they will never beat nor contend with Minecraft. First, we have the Forza Horizon games. There are 5 to this date, with the latest edition Forza Horizon 5 being released on November 9th, 2021 for non ultimate purchasers. I haven’t been playing the franchise for so long, but I can say it’s an amazing open world racing game. The first game came out in October 23, 2012, for the Xbox 360. It is developed by Playground Games and published by Microsoft Studios. The next game which is one I probably have had the most fun in, is GTA 5. The first game I’ve played of its franchise, well because I was too young to. This game is so fun with a group of friends in the online mode. I have never played the story mode, only online. The base plot to online is you’re trying to make money either illegally or you can legally but it’s just going to take a lot of time and there’s really no fun in that. Grand Theft Auto (GTA for short) is a series of action-adventure games created by David Jones and Mike Dailly. It is primarily produced by British development house Rockstar North and published by its parent company, Rockstar Games. The first game came out in November 1997 and the latest in September 2013. Still no sign of GTA 6 after 8 years.

Finally, Fortnite battle royal. The game that revolutionized gaming as we know it. It was the first game to have the battle pass function and one of the only 100 player battle royal. Fortnite is a free to play game available on all platforms and was developed and published by epic games. It was released on September 26, 2017. It was also the first game to introduce seasons and each season being different and having a theme to them. It is currently on season 19 (or season 1 of chapter 3). There were 10 seasons in chapter 1 and 8 in chapter 2. The best season was chapter 1 season 5 in my opinion. Most seasons in chapter one was a banger. I’ve been playing since season 2 of chapter 1. I’ve stopped playing a lot of times, but I always go back to it.  

I know that was a lot but there could have been more to share too. And now my honorable mentions: Zelda Breath of the Wild, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2019, Call of Duty Black Ops 3. I hope you enjoyed reading, until next time, over and out.   

The thankful holiday also known as Thanksgiving, is an event where you have a feast and pray/say you thanks to whatever you are thankful for. But it goes much deeper than that. Today I will be writing about the history behind it and how it came to be, and as a bonus I’ll be sharing what I’m most thankful for.

There are a lot of things I am thankful for. I mean obviously my parents are number one, they brought me into this world, they give me food, a roof over my head (well they kind of have to or what’s the point of having a kid but I still appreciate it). But not just the necessities of survival, they got me this amazing computer, that I’m using to write this blog, and my iPhone. All those things aren’t needed in my life, but they got them because I’m assuming it makes me happy; we also needed another computer to do schoolwork other than my old one my brother is using now. They make a lot of things happen just so we can have a good childhood and grow up to be ready for the demands of the outside world. So what am I most thankful for, well you can probably already guess, but if you haven’t figured it out by now it’s my parents.

Thanksgiving is a national holiday in the United States. In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. Thanksgiving has been celebrated by individual colonies and states for more than two centuries. It wasn’t until 1863, during the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving to be held each November. In November 1621, after the Pilgrims’ first corn harvest was declared successful, Governor William Bradford organized a celebratory feast and invited a group of the fledgling colonies’ Native American allies, including the Wampanoag chief Massasoit. Which is now remembered as America’s first Thanksgiving, even though the Pilgrims themselves may not have used the term at the time. The festival lasted for three days. There is no exact record of the first Thanksgiving’s menu, but we know they ate dear and fruits because of a Pilgrim named Edward Winslow who wrote a short paragraph of what happened. Jump to more modern times, 90% of Americans on Thanksgiving eat turkey along with other traditional foods including stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie.

As I am writing this it is November 25th, Thanksgiving Day; hope you’ve had a wonderful Thanksgiving and good food like I had. Thank you for reading, over and out.

It’s been a while since I have done an animal fact blog. But I’m back at it again with the fastest mammal in the word. Since I was little this has been my favorite animal. Reason is because it’s the fastest living land animal in the word (it also looks dope). I hope to educate you more about it, myself included. So why not stick around, maybe by the end of this blog it will be your favorite animal too.

The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is a large cat native to Africa and central Iran. It is the fastest land animal; the fastest recorded speeds being 58 and 61 mph and for our metric users 93 and 98 km/h. It has several adaptations for speed, including a light build, long thin legs, and a long tail. The head-and-body length is between 3 ft 7 in and 4ft 11 in (1.1 and 1.5 m). Adults weigh between 46 and 159 Ib (21 and 72 kg). Its head is small, rounded, and has a short snout and black tear-like facial streaks. The cheetah is active mainly during the day and is most active during dawn and dusk. It feeds on small to medium sized prey. It prefers medium sized ungulates (this is an animal group which contains large mammals with hooves like zebras, and giraffes), springbok, and Thomson’s gazelles. They breed through out the year. Usually, a litter of three or four cubs is born. Cheetah cubs are highly vulnerable to predation by other large carnivores such as hyenas and lions. The cheetah lives in a variety of habitats like the Savannahs in the Serengeti, arid mountain ranges in the Sahara and hilly desert terrain in Iran.

I hope you learned something about The Flash of the animal world. Maybe you will use this one day, who knows. Thank you for reading, hope you enjoyed. Over and out.

As you can see in the title of this blog, I am going to be teaching anyone who doesn’t know how to calculate percentages without a calculator. I also have trouble doing these types of problems in my head. So, if you already know you can skip this, but if you don’t I highly encourage you to stay. This is something you will need if you want to go into business. Maybe you’re not, it’s a useful life skill nonetheless. I hope to see you at the end of this blog.

 First what is a percentage? A percentage is a fraction or a ratio in which the value of whole is always 100. For example, if I scored 30% in a math test, it means that I scored 30 questions out of 100. The following formula is commonly used to calculate the percentage of something. First determine the whole or total amount of what you want to find a percentage for. For example, if you want to calculate the percentage of how many days it snowed in a month, you would use the number of days in that month as the total amount. So, let’s say we are evaluating the amount of snow during the month of November, which has 30 days. As said in the last sentence, let’s say that it snowed 15 days out of the 30 days in November. You would divide 15 by 30, which equals 0.5. Then you would multiply 0.5 by 100. This equals 50, which would give you the answer of 50%. So, in November, it snowed 50% of the time. Another quick example, let’s say you put 400 dollars into a stock, and it went up 10%. You would have to multiply 10% to 400, and you get 40 which is one tenth of 400. Meaning you gained 40 dollars, and vise versa if it decreased 10%.

Now you know or I hope you do, how to find percentages in your head without a calculator. Thank you for sticking around until the end, hope you enjoyed. Over and out.

The Ford Mustang has come a long way from when it was first debuted. Today it is in its 6th generation and still going strong. If you were wondering, would I ever own one (you probably weren’t or maybe you are, this is mostly for me), yes I would. Some say it’s not a mustang some will say it is, personally I think it’s some of both. Well you are just going to have to wait and found out in the conclusion of this blog, so might as well keep on reading and when I do reveal it you will have learned a little something about the Ford Mustang.

The Mustang is a series of American automobiles manufactured by Ford. Its been in continuous production since 1964. The Mustang is currently the longest-produced Ford car nameplate. Currently in its sixth generation, it is the fifth-best selling Ford car nameplate. The Mustang was developed as a highly styled line of sporty coupes and convertibles copied from existing model lines. Originally well known by “long hood, short deck” proportions. Originally predicted to sell 100,000 vehicles yearly, the 1965 Mustang became the most successful vehicle launch since the 1927 Model A. Introduced on April 17, 1964, over 400,000 units sold in its first year, the one-millionth Mustang was sold within two years of its launch. In August 2018, Ford produced the 10-millionth Mustang.

The success of the Mustang launch led to multiple competitors from other American manufacturers, including the Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird (1967), AMC Javelin (1968), and Dodge Challenger(1970). The Mustang also influenced designs of coupes worldwide, leading to the marketing of the Toyota Celica and Ford Capri in the United States. The Mercury Cougar was launched in 1967 as a unique-bodied higher-trim alternative to the Mustang; during the 1970s, it was repackaged as a personal luxury car. From 1965 to 2004, the Mustang shared chassis commonly with other Ford model lines, staying rear-wheel-drive throughout its production. From 1979 to 2004, the Mustang shared its Fox platform chassis with 14 other Ford vehicles (becoming the final one to use the Fox architecture). Since 2005, Ford has produced two generations of the Mustang, each using a distinct platform unique to the model line.

Through its production, multiple nameplates have been associated with the Ford Mustang series, including GT, Mach 1, Boss 302/429, Cobra (separate from Shelby Cobra), and Bullitt. As said in the pervious sentence the Shelby cobra line is the model I would get for myself, more specifically either the Shelby Gt 500 or the Gt 350 (both 2020 models).

There you have it, the general history of the ford mustang; if you’re still interested I can go more in-depth if you like, just let me know down in the comments. As always hope you enjoyed reading along with me see you next week. Over and out.

Stormy hot summer,

epic dragon stands watching,

the furious storm

We all have heard of Halloween, but do you know how it came to be. I’m not so sure my self and can’t wait to learn the deeper meaning behind this spooky holiday. As always if you’re interested or have been wondering about it (because it’s coming up). Keep on reading, you won’t regret it.

  Halloween or Hallowe’en Is a contraction of “All Hallows’ evening” also known as allhalloween, all hallows eve, and Saint’s eve. Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago, mostly in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became one. On the night of October 31 they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. To celebrate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfire, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic gods. During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, mostly consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other’s fortunes.

 Jump to Halloween coming to America. The celebration of Halloween was extremely limited in colonial New England because of the hard Protestant belief systems there. Halloween was much more common in Maryland and the southern colonies. As the beliefs and customs of different European ethnic groups and the American Indians came together, a different American version of Halloween began to surface. The first celebrations included “play parties,” which were public events held to celebrate the harvest. Neighbors would share stories of the dead, tell each other’s fortunes, dance and sing. Borrowing from European traditions, Americans began to dress up in costumes and go house to house asking for food or money (I’m not sure who was asking for money, I’ve never actually heard of that, but I guess it was a thing back in the day). A practice that eventually became today’s “trick-or-treat” tradition. Fun fact: young women believed that on Halloween they could divine the name or appearance of their future husband by doing tricks with yarn, apple parings or mirrors.

 I just scratched the surface of what Halloween truly is and its origins. If your more interested in this topic leave a comment, and I may do a more in-depth blog about Halloween. That’s all for now over and out!

  Let me start this off by saying I am not 100% sure that the hawk I saw is the broad-winged hawk, it just looks like it the most. It also looked a lot like the cooper hawk if you were wondering. Ever think what a modern-day dinosaur eats or where it inhabits, well you’ve come to the right place. I’ll speak about that and more, so if you’re interested stick around and enjoy a roller coaster of facts into your mind.

The broad-winged hawk, also known as Buteo platypterus, is a medium-sized hawk. Its body can grow up to 13 to 17 inches and weigh in at only 9.3 to 19.8 oz, a little over a pound. As in most raptors the females are slightly larger than the males. Its wings are relatively short, broad with a somewhat tapered pointed appearance, I’m guessing that’s how it got its name. The broad-winged hawk’s population numbers are relatively stable, sadly they are declining in some parts of breeding range because of forest fragmentation. The other day I saw one of these majestic birds in my front yard. It caught a baby turtle and was trying to eat it, but it couldn’t get through its shell and dropped it off the tree it was in. It went down for it but just left it there. After it left my dad said to leave it there, but I wanted to help it back in the water. Its diet varies on the time of year in summer or nesting season they eat chipmunks, shrews, frogs, lizard, and sometimes even cardinals. In the winter they like to feed on insects, frogs again, snakes, crabs. Also, apparently turtles, if it can get through its shell.

  Well, that’s it for today if you want to learn more about these winged raptors, search them up and let me know if I’m wrong about any of the facts I displayed. Hope to see you next week over and out.  

There has been this bird that I’ve seen through out my life but never knew what it was called. Until recently I decided to look it up once and for all. As I recall it looks most like a great blue heron but my dad says other wise. Why you may ask, why we have different visions on what the bird looks like, you’ll just have to stick around a little longer to find out.

The great blue heron also known as Ardea Herodias is a large wading bird. If you wondering what wading means it is to walk with effort through water or another liquid or viscous substance. I didn’t know it my self and have never heard of it before, so I decided to inform you as well. It can occasionally be found near the shores of open water and in wetlands. It’s the largest heron native to north America. It can grow up to 45 to 54 in and accumulate a wingspan from 66 to 79 inches that’s almost 7 feet! Its diet consists of small fish but is also know to feed on a verity of shrimp, crabs, aquatic insects, rodents, and even small mammals. They have a very keen eye sight and use that to locate their food and swallow it whole. They don’t have many predators mostly because of their size, but bald eagles are the only known predator to attack every stage of their lifecycle. Great blue herons body colors consist of a grey with a slight hint of azure blue.

I usually don’t do a conclusion for my blog posts but today I’m feeling it. I hope you could have learned a thing or two about the great blue heron, I sure did! I’m just going to keep on expanding my animal library and hope you can too. Until next week, over and out.

Bluegill is the best tasting freshwater fish (don’t believe me search it up, you won’t). I don’t mean that by experience, but now that I know that I’m going to have to try some. I’ve caught a few of them some big some small and let them all go because we are trying to catch a bass to eat. But at that time, I didn’t know it was the tastiest freshwater fish. There are lots of interesting facts of this fish that I don’t know about and will be educating myself, so if you feel interested you can come along and learn a thing or two about bluegill.

The bluegill (lepomis macrochirus) is a species of freshwater fish sometimes referred to as “bream”, “brim”, “sunny”, or “copper nose” or “perch” as is common in Texas.  It is native to North America and lives in streams, rivers, lakes, and ponds. It usually hides around and inside old tree stumps and other underwater structures. It can live in either deep or very shallow water and will often move from one to the other depending on the time of day or season. Bluegills also like to find shelter among underwater plants and in the shade of trees along banks. They can grow up 12 inches and about 4 and half pounds. They typically have a very distinctive coloring, with deep blue and purple on the face and gill cover, dark olive-colored bands down the side, and a fiery orange to yellow belly. They are omnivores and will eat anything that can fit in their mouth. Trust me I know from experience!