ELEVEN: On Sunday, we celebrated CJ's 11th birthday. He was born on Easter and this year, April 20 fell on Easter again.
All day Saturday, Annabelle helped with CJ's cake. We made a herd of My Little pony character cookies, which adorned his cake.
CJ seemed to like them.
The bottom three-layer cake was a rich brownie chocolate with malted milk filling. The upper part was a luscious vanilla with apricot filling. Per CJ's choice, we celebrated with dinner at Wingdome, and gave about 2/3 of the cake to the staff. They were SO HAPPY. :)
All day Saturday, Annabelle helped with CJ's cake. We made a herd of My Little pony character cookies, which adorned his cake.
CJ seemed to like them.
The bottom three-layer cake was a rich brownie chocolate with malted milk filling. The upper part was a luscious vanilla with apricot filling. Per CJ's choice, we celebrated with dinner at Wingdome, and gave about 2/3 of the cake to the staff. They were SO HAPPY. :)
After dinner, it was time for Barney (pinata) to meet his doom. We strung him up from a soccer goal at Greenwood Elementary, where Rick spent many hours working back in the day.
The birthday boy got the first whack, of course. He gave Barney a good body shot, but the dino remained intact.
Annabelle was up next. She inflicted some damage, too.
Before long, big brother Rick went ninja on Barney, completely decapitating the purple critter. That was awesome! Afterward, we played soccer with his carcass to get the rest of the goodies out.
The birthday boy got the first whack, of course. He gave Barney a good body shot, but the dino remained intact.
Annabelle was up next. She inflicted some damage, too.
Before long, big brother Rick went ninja on Barney, completely decapitating the purple critter. That was awesome! Afterward, we played soccer with his carcass to get the rest of the goodies out.
SMILE FOR THE CAMERA: To celebrate Earth Day, NASA is promoting a #GlobalSelfie social media campaign.
They're asking people to share photos of themselves with picturesque places on Earth. You can download a #GlobalSelfie sign here: http://bit.ly/globalselfie. Or, as they point out, "If you don't want to use a sign you can tell us where you are by writing in the sand, spelling with rocks—feel free to get creative!"
Once you snap your #GlobalSelfie, post the photo to Twitter, Instagram or Google+ using the hashtag #GlobalSelfie, or post it to the #GlobalSelfie event page on Facebook or the #GlobalSelfie group on Flickr. You can also join the #GlobalSelfie Google+ event page.
The #GlobalSelfie campaign is just part of NASA's attempt to make 2014 a big year for Earth science with a campaign called Earth Right Now. While NASA is perhaps best known for its work off planet, the fact of the matter is, he space agency studies no planet more closely than our own. In fact, there are 17 Earth-observing missions orbiting our home planet right now, plus several more launching this year.
EASTER DELIVERY: First thing Sunday morning, we checked the news to see if SpaceX's Dragon capsule had been captured by the ISS while we slept. We were happy to see that it had!
Image credit: NASA
On board are nearly two-and-a-half tons of supplies and scientific payloads to the station with the arrival of the third SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo spacecraft. Wonder if it included any chocolate bunnies or Cadbury creme eggs!?
TINKERING: Now sure where, but CJ found out about a way to modify one of his Wii games, Super Smash Brothers, so that it supposedly would be more fun. Once he learned about it, he became pretty obsessed with doing what it took to make it happen. It was a several step process. He outlines it for you here:
They're asking people to share photos of themselves with picturesque places on Earth. You can download a #GlobalSelfie sign here: http://bit.ly/globalselfie. Or, as they point out, "If you don't want to use a sign you can tell us where you are by writing in the sand, spelling with rocks—feel free to get creative!"
Once you snap your #GlobalSelfie, post the photo to Twitter, Instagram or Google+ using the hashtag #GlobalSelfie, or post it to the #GlobalSelfie event page on Facebook or the #GlobalSelfie group on Flickr. You can also join the #GlobalSelfie Google+ event page.
The #GlobalSelfie campaign is just part of NASA's attempt to make 2014 a big year for Earth science with a campaign called Earth Right Now. While NASA is perhaps best known for its work off planet, the fact of the matter is, he space agency studies no planet more closely than our own. In fact, there are 17 Earth-observing missions orbiting our home planet right now, plus several more launching this year.
EASTER DELIVERY: First thing Sunday morning, we checked the news to see if SpaceX's Dragon capsule had been captured by the ISS while we slept. We were happy to see that it had!
Image credit: NASAOn board are nearly two-and-a-half tons of supplies and scientific payloads to the station with the arrival of the third SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo spacecraft. Wonder if it included any chocolate bunnies or Cadbury creme eggs!?
TINKERING: Now sure where, but CJ found out about a way to modify one of his Wii games, Super Smash Brothers, so that it supposedly would be more fun. Once he learned about it, he became pretty obsessed with doing what it took to make it happen. It was a several step process. He outlines it for you here:
Project M is a modification for Super Smash Brothers Brawl to make the game more like its predecessor, Super Smash Brothers Melee. While Super Smash Brothers Melee was more focused on skill and appealing to hardcore gamers, Brawl was meant to make the series more appealing to casual gamers and those who relied more on luck than skill.
Project M adds back the characters Mewtwo (http://www.ssbwiki.com/Mewtwo_(SSBM)) and Roy (http://www.ssbwiki.com/Roy), who appeared in Melee, but did not return for Brawl. This pleased several people who had mastered Mewtwo or Roy but were disappointed to not see them in Brawl. KoreanDJ is a smasher who is notable for maining Mewtwo in Project M.
The way dad and I got Project M on to the Wii is by:
1: Getting a 2 GB memory card2: Putting the 2 GB memory card in dad's computer3: Downloading the Project M zip file on dad's computer4: Copying the Project M zip file to the hard drive5: Copying the file from the hard drive to the memory card6: Putting the memory card in the Wii
Following that, we went to the stage builder in Brawl, where you could make your own battlefields for fighting. The game would check the SD card for battlefields you have made, but there is a *BIG* security hole in the checking system that allows you to mod the game with whatever happens to be on the SD card.
I managed to get Project M started, and that, my friends, is how you play Brawl *MELEE STYLE*
CJ's instructions are quite thorough. I could follow them right up to the "security hole".
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