Forgotten Legend – Last Timelapse

Forgotten Legend – Last Timelapse

May 2014

Hello! Yes, it's been 3 months. :) All is good here. Since I have no idea what I've covered & what I haven't, I'll just tell you the highlights.

I switched to e-cigs. Best thing I ever did & SO much easier than quitting. No more stained walls, my sense of taste & smell is good, & I'm healthier. I'm a fan. I'm using V2, & have never had a problem with their products, so if you're in the market I suggest them highly. :)

Our daughter is coming to visit & attend our son's senior band banquet. She'll be here about a week & her flight will land in Dallas in just over 48 hours.

I finally got my hair straightened & it looks amazing! I found a GREAT place that does full service work. Hard to find these days because for years all they would do is spritz my hair & trim it. New place every time & that's all I could get done. Well, this last place I found does it all. Wash, cut, style, blow dry, & straighten. Not like I've had it straightened before. This won't come out in 2 days or 2 months. This is PERMANENT! Only the new hair growing in may be wavy & then I go back & have it touched up. All that amazing service & wonderful hair & guess what? It was CHEAP too! I'm now a customer for life & the guy who did my hair was exactly who I was looking for. I had 3 criteria for the PERFECT stylist & he hit 2 out of 3. I'm not sure about the 3rd because I wasn't about to ask him if he was gay. :) He's amazing though & I hope he never leaves there. If he does I'll have to track him down & hope he's still in the business.

Our son joined the Marine Corps. & ships out August 25th. Boot camp is in California & either he hasn't chosen a job yet or hasn't informed us if he has, so we have no idea where he's going after that. We plan on attending the graduation, so I get to see California for the 1st time in my life. :D

Yes, I'm still playing Minecraft ... a LOT & I'm going to ArcadiaCon next month! I have 2 servers now: lizc864.mcph.co & a Realms server. ALL of my work can be found on 3 different Pinterest pages:

http://www.pinterest.com/lizc864/minecraft/

http://www.pinterest.com/lizc864/lizc864-minecraft-realms/

http://www.pinterest.com/lizc864/lizc864-minecraft-server/

Hubby decided back in January that my truck was nicer than his Civic (duh!) & started taking it to work 6 days a week. Well, after 5 months of driving the beat up Honda (which I hate) I traded it for a Ford Mustang GT convertible! Straight trade, no cash. I KNOW I got the much better end of that deal & I'm loving my Mustang! Spring, the best time to buy a convertible ... I've been driving around with the top down & getting sun! Hubby told everyone it's the "Midlife crisis mobile", but I prefer to call it my "hubby stole my truck so I traded his car for something COOL mobile"

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/96827460713170653/

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/96827460713290353/

I stopped playing Sims for a while during my Minecraft intro, but have now started again & now play Minecraft & Sims equally. I don't screenshot in the Sims as much as I used to though as I'm not building there anymore. I save all my building for Minecraft, but that may change soon.

I was worried about losing power during this blog due to storms we're having today, but instead my computer crashed. I have issues with my video drivers & once in a while I'll get the black screen of death. The screen just goes black & there's no coming back from that. No Ctrl+Alt+Del, nothing. The only thing I can do is punch reset. Luckily though, Blogger is cool & saves your work as a draft often. I only lost about 1 sentence. Not bad!

The last of the news, but not least is a new puppy! Taz. Hubby, who is NOT a pet person ... especially when we already have cats & dogs, was coming back from a PC repair job at a business one night & while driving through downtown Dallas was stopped at a light & heard a woman crying. Sitting on the curb was a homeless woman crying & holding a TINY little puppy. She was promising the puppy that she would find him a good home. Hubby pulled over & asked her what was going on. She said that this little puppy (I mean he fit in the palm of my hand ... but was eating solid food) was lost & a bunch of mean people were yelling at him & scaring him. HOW can people do that?! How can people be mean to animals? Worse, how can people be mean to domestic animals? Even WORSE, a super tiny little puppy that was already lost & scared??? Sometimes I am SO disappointed in the human race. :'( Anyway, she grabbed the puppy & ran off with him. She was now on this street corner crying (I would be too ... people are so cruel!) & hubby did the unthinkable. He said he would be more than happy to give him a great & loving home & proceeded to tell her that we have other pets & that he would never be lonely. Well, he was going to surprise me but couldn't contain himself. He called me & told me. I of course did the girly "aaawwww!" thing over & over. When he got home & I saw this little guy, it started all over again. This was the CUTEST puppy I have ever seen in my life & we're talking almost 50 years of life here. O-M-G he's cute!!! It only took me a couple days to come up with the name Taz. He's got the wild energy of Taz! He's spoiled rotten & finally about the same size as the Chihuahuas but feels like he weighs 10X as much. He's one solid little guy. Out of control & destructive ... I have to watch him every second, but he bonded with me instantly & never EVER leaves my side. If I get up to walk into the kitchen (right behind me), he gets up from sleeping & follows me in there. Every step & he's right by my side. I'm not sure what he is, but I'm fairly sure he's not a mutt & also fairly sure he's a miniature dachshund. Everyone, meet Taz:

The full-size individual photos can be found on my facebook page @ facebook.com/LizC864

February 1, 2014

Good morning! I took yesterday off. I was too excited. I uploaded my 1st Minecraft map (6th pic) & I already had a rave review! If you'd like to download it, the link is: lizc864.com/Minecraft/2014_January_LizC864_Swampland.zip

After that I couldn't help it, I just had to start February's map! I welcome all suggestions as the maps should only get better with experience & your suggestions.

After uploading January's map I started February's. It only took 2 tries this time. The 1st try put me on the top edge of a mountain in an extreme hills biome. Not very useful for building anything. The 2nd try put me in a forest surrounded by trees & beautiful flowers. WIN! I created a Simple Suburban Train Station (5th pic) & then started building out from there. Unlike my 1st map, this one is more

organized. There are 4 tracks that branch out from the train station & the houses are spaced along the tracks starting out a bit from the station so you can still enjoy the biome. I didn't have to knock down every tree. The 1st house I created is the one I still live in, Alpine Retreat (2nd pic). Then I created the Candy Cane Cabin (3rd pic), a castle (4th pic), & 1007 (1st pic). Notice there is a lot of natural biome around each

house that's great for exploring & gathering resources. No matter which house you choose, you'll have space. The 1st map was more like being in a city, this is out in the country where you can barely see your neighbor's house. :) This is going to be a great map folks! It'll be uploaded on Thursday the 28th.

January 30, 2014

Good morning! Great day yesterday ... I hope yours was too. I made Eggos for our son & I for breakfast, cleaned the house, took the dogs out, made sandwiches for our son & I for lunch, then sat down & played Minecraft. The acgricultural Byzantine village I was playing completed their village (2nd pic). 1st completed village I've played so far. It looks great & I have a great small house in the village. Now it's smooth sailing ... mining, surviving, hanging out in the village ... it'll be great! When hubby got home I made Sloppy Joes for all of us for

dinner.

Almost everything is more complicated than it seems, but almost nothing is hopeless.

Give until your heart sings.

Spock: "Has it occurred to you that there's a certain inefficiency in constantly questioning me on things you've already made up your mind about?"

Kirk: "It gives me emotional security."

--The Carbomite Maneuver

January 29, 2014

Good morning! Great day yesterday. I had a boiled egg for breakfast, cleaned the house, sent the grocery list out & sat chicken out to thaw for dinner, took the dogs out, tried to sync my apps but there's something wrong with iTunes on my PC involving a C++ Runtime error. I added a storage unit to my 2014 January LizC864 Minecraft Map. Anyway, I had seen something on YouTube about a new mesa biome. It was beautiful ... there was a seed for it, so I typed it in & no mesa. Oh well. I deleted that & then started up a brand new game with cheats disabled to see if I could survive. I only died once & it wasn't in a fight, I fell into lava damnit. Guess what? The new mesa biome! What are the chances? Anyway ... good game. It took me a long time of living underground, but I finally started building an above ground home. No roof yet, but I'm getting there. Good game. When hubby got home I made chicken & rice & then we headed straight to bed. It was late & I was so tired. I overslept as a result, couldn't get up as early as I would have liked ... but it's all good. Less Minecraft time today, but that's OK. Cheeseburgers or Sloppy Joes for dinner ... not sure which yet. I'll decide when hubby gets home tonight.

Confidence is faith in oneself. It can't easily be given by another.

Magic happens ever day in a zillion little ways.

Man is what he does!

January 28, 2014

Good morning! Yesterday was a great day. I got everything done that I needed to before playing Minecraft. See, there's the trick. Do everything I need to do BEFORE opening Minecraft ... because once I open that game, it's all over. I don't look up again until it's bedtime. I can't help it. I've tried. The game is stronger than I am. NO willpower to walk away. I still refer to Minecraft as the crack cocaine of the gaming world. You can't just "try it" to see what it's like. You can't just play for 5 minutes. Well, I can't. Many can't. I cleaned the house, sent the grocery list out, took the dogs out, cleared out my iCloud e-mail & read an article about Siri & then instead of working on my hand knit afghan, I opened up Minecraft & started a new game which is a Byzantine Agriculture village. I spent 

much of the game collecting resources for them & then while on a mission out to the desert to find a lot of sandstone for them, I found a lucky box, opened it & a Wither came out! Scared the crap out of me. I had never seen one before & was sitting there saying "Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap! It's a friggin' Transformer!" It was flying around & blowing stuff up all around me. Luckily I

was far from home & the village was safe, but holy crap! I was inevitably hit by a strike & died. Oh well, there went all my experience points. I had made it up to about 20 & I had some cool stuff on me. I was way too far from home to respawn & run back & collect my stuff. I wonder if it's still out there flying around. I have no idea if it's a permanent addition to that world now or not. Probably with my luck. Occasionally, the lucky box is very UNlucky. Once before it spawned a crapload of spiders & I died instantly. I might have survived the Wither except I was just standing there staring at it trying to figure out what the hell it was & watching it fly around & blow stuff up. I never ran. I was too mesmerized by it. In between gathering supplies for the Byzantine village, I got tired of sleeping outside & created a nice home for myself out of the materials I had on hand from my expeditions. I made a nice looking home / station from coal blocks & sandstone (2nd & 3rd pics). I can't wait to see which game I'm going to play today. I have many. Not only 1 for each of the half a dozen cultures, but a game for each of the different types of villages for each culture (military, religious, etc.) I also have my multi-player, creative, & plain ol' survival games. Never bored! :)

Archer: "I really thought you were beginning to understand human emotions."

T'Pol: "Not when they apply to primitive quadrupeds who haven't evolved the ability to speak or use a toilet."

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

We cannot change the cards we were dealt, just how we play the hand.

January 27, 2014

Good morning! Yes, it's been a while. I've been busy. Let's see, what's new? My final results are in from the ancestry DNA. It's amazing how the final results are so different from the ones I got earlier. Northern European. Denmark mostly ... more than anything else. YAY! :) Other than that I've been playing Minecraft. Yeah, I know. Big surprise. I pulled an all-nighter last night & am getting tired. I'm going to try to stay awake today & reset my schedule that's been completely upside down, but we'll see. So how are all of you? Good I hope.

A book is a gift you can open again & again.

Admiral Leonard "Bones" McCoy was not initially written into the script for the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. DeForest Kelley's participation came about when Gene Roddenberry asked him over lunch about doing a cameo, fully expecting the actor to say no. Not only did Kelley agree to reprising the role of Dr. McCoy, he reportedly accepted SAG scale as payment for the appearance, instead of a higher rate more appropriate to his role in the franchise. Kelley's scenes in "Encounter at Farpoint" marked his final TV appearance.

All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy withing them.

Although the crew of the Starship Voyager had some interaction with the Alpha Quadrant early in their journey into the Delta Quadrant, their friends & family did not become aware of their plight until more than 3 years after they went missing. Starfleet had spent over 2 years searching for the crew before giving up hope & officially listing them as lost. 14 months later, the Doctor's program was sent over an alien relay network to make contact &, after a brief adventure, return with a message from home. (Message in a Bottle.)

Always present your front to the world.

Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.

Come on, it's not like we would have made an ideal couple. A Vulcan & a human? Romeo & Juliet probably stood a better chance. -Tucker, "The Augments"

Discipline yourself and others won’t need to.

Dream as if you'll live forever live as if you'll die today.

... Good words. That's where ideas begin.

High 5.

Human beings are superhuman.

I am a verb.

I believe in coincidences. Coincidences happen every day. But I don't trust coincidences.

I can't change the laws of physics.

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

I'm no writer, but if I were, it seems to me I'd want to poke my head up every once in a while & take a look around ... see what's going on. It's life. You can miss it if you don't open your eyes.

In traditional Betazoid marriage ceremony, the bride, groom, wedding party, & guests are completely nude.

It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Keep calm & carry gum.

Make the time to enjoy the simple tings in life.

Missing? The Captain is missing? It seems I've found myself on a voyage of the damned. Very well. Please advise the highest-ranking officer who is not missing to see me at his earliest convenience. -The Doctor, "Time & Again"

Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners … either to have it sterile with idleness or manur’d with industry.

Part of being a Captain is knowing when to smile, make the troops happy. Even when it's the last thing in the world you want to do. Because they're your troops, & you have to take care of them. -Sisco, "Rules of Engagement"

RAIN DOES NOT FALL ON ONE ROOF ALONE.

Right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

Star Trek: Voyager episode "Blink of an Eye" was originally titled "Wink of an Eye," until the production staff realized that was already the title of an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. Coincidentally, both episodes share a theme of alien visitors in a time-accelerated state boarding the ship to find the crew apparently frozen because they are moving at a much slower rate of speed.

Star Trek: Voyager's 2-hour pilot, "Caretaker," aired on January 16, 1995. Not only did it serve as the premiere for the series, but it also launched the new United Paramount Network (UPN). The fledgling network ran for 11 years before merging with The WB network to form the CW in September 2006. With the final episode of Star Trek: Enterprise airing on May 13, 2005, that made the 2005-6 TV season the only season in UPN's existence in which a Star Trek series did not air on the network.

Step into the light.

That which we call destiny goes forth from within people, not from without into them.

... To boldly go where no man has gone before. -Notto on the dedication plaque of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-A

Today is the day.

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

When do any of us do enough?

Whenever a group of people start believing they are better than everyone else, the results are always the same.

You are free to fly.

Your biggest debt is to your talents.

Your voice can change the world.