Once upon a time...

It's been almost a month since I blogged, but I have a legitimate reason for it.

School is swamping me!!!

But I think I'm almost caught up, so I decided to make a blog. I might even make a vlog tomorrow.
Sadly not much has happened besides school.

I failed NaNoWriMo miserably, which, in hindsight, was to be expected. This is my busiest period so far, but it is a lot of fun.

I'm learning about setting up a network, which is really cool to do. My favorite way, atm, is to create a static network. Because you really have to be careful with creating routes, otherwise it won't work. And when it doesn't work you have to find why and where and how. And in a big network it would be like looking for hay in a haystack. (Since a needle can be easily found with a strong enough magnet. I wonder why nobody figured this out yet? :P)

I also took up violin lessons again. I started yesterday (or technically the day before yesterday, since it just turned sunday.) and I already learned a lot. I have learned how to switch hand positions and an exercise for vibrato. It will need a whole lot more practice before I can implement it, but I'm getting there. Also, I learned that if you want to play D, A or E you shouldn't do it fingerless, but always with the fourth finger (in first position) of the previous string. When I feel that I know a piece good enough, I might even post it on my channel.

Also it was my birthday last week and I had a lot of fun. I went out with some friends in a local pub and I even met some new people.

That's about it for now.
Maybe you'll see a new vlog by me tomorrow, but I can't promise anything. It's 1:00AM now and I also have work tomorrow. My blog just took priority because it's been longer since I blogged then since I vlogged.

Day 5 of NaNoWriMo

Today is day 5 of NaNoWriMo and I'm a bit sad to admit, I'm running behind.
At the moment I only have 4819 words and I have during the weekends, so I can't really do a whole lot about it at the moment.
Lucky for me, I have most of next week off from school, so I'll be picking up the pace then. Maybe even work ahead a bit.
Well, that's all for today. I want to write some more before I go to work.

Preperation

It's the 1st of October, do you know what that means?!? Only one month till NaNoWriMo!!!
I started on my plot today and I made the main characters yesterday.
I 'm really excited about it. It'll be my first time to join and I plan on winning :D

I'm not sure what I will do with the story; if I like it I'll probably post it on my writing.com account, if I really like I'll have it proofread and try to get it published. But the latter is a major IF.

So my plan for October is to make a red thread for the story, maybe even a rough indication for the chapters to see what I want in them.

I feel like my mind is floating in a storm of ideas, now I only have to pick the right ones for the story.

Next saturday I'll be at my first Nerdfighter gathering, and I'm still really excited about that :D I'll probably blog and vlog about it, so stay tuned for that.

First blog, yeah :)

So, I've tried bloggin a few times before, but I never really followed through.
This WILL be different, for several reasons:

1. I want to write a book and blogging seems like a good way to practice. I will also start participating at NaNoWriMo in order to practice.
2. I have thoughts rolling around in my head all the time, to quick for me to catch. I will use my blogs to order my thoughts and remember my ideas.
3. Lastly, I also make vlogs on youtube and one of my... I'm not sure whatchamacallit, one of the reasons??? that I started vlogging, also blogs. And I really hope to become an open and forthright person like her.

Now a few things about me:
1. I'm studying computer science at the Hague University. It's been a lot of fun so far. I have had 2 project and am currently working on my 3rd. The first project was to build an application that has a connection with a database.
Although this was very interesting, I liked the second project more. This was because we had to make a game, in this case Sokoban, and it has become the basis for a game that I am currently designing (though not for school, just for myself and maybe later for you).
I am currently working on a maintenance project, which means that we have been given a pre-build application that we are supposed to improve through several releases. Alse we get several incident reports, which we are supposed to resolve.

2. I have started vlogging this year. I am still very new at it and I'm not sure what I really want to on my channel. So, for now I am making random videos. I have several ideas for things that I can do and I will try them out, hoping that I will find something that I really want to do in the long run.
I also really want to go to vidcon one day, but the soonest that I can go to will probably be in 2 years. Next year I want to go to Japan, which I am really looking forward to. After that I'll just have to see if I can save up enough money to go to vidcon the year after.

3. I play Warhammer, both Fantasy and 40K. It is one of the things that I can fully focus on and helps me clear my mind. I have collected several armies already, most recently Blood Angels and Warriors of Chaos. The next army that I want is Ogre Kingdoms. I have a cool (at least I think it's cool, and that's all that really matters in this hobby) to convert, base and paint it. I will probably vlog about the conversions and painting. But it'll have to wait 'till after my birthday, since by then I'll have saved up enough to buy it in one take.

Well, it's getting pretty late and I still have to finish some documention for my project by tomorrow. So I'll stop the blog here. I have one last thing to ask; I get most of my inspiration from other people when I do things, so if you happen to know a blogger that you really like and think I might like as well, please send me a link. I'll be sure to check her/him out.