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Good day to you! I am once again writing a blog post, now on the other end of the holidays and back at university. So, I'll fill you in on what I've been up to.

University work has been most plentiful. With it being the summer term now, exams are looming, as well as the deadline for my report. In fact, my first exam is on the same day that my report is due! Ultimate despair... Please, wish me luck. I shall need it.

Over the holiday I did go to a Tarkir: Dragonstorm prerelease event which was most exciting. I managed to get a box with a Sultai seeded booster, and I did cobble together something... I ended up getting way too many payoffs for Renew effects, but not enough things that actually had the Renew keyword. So, I went 2-4, though I blame two of those losses on luck because I didn't draw any lands.

In the previous post I mentioned I had started replaying Pokemon White. Well, it sort of spiralled out of control and I'm in a big-time Pokemon phase again... I finished Pokemon White just a few days ago, and now I've been thinking a lot about Pokemon Sun & Moon again, so I'll probably replay my copy of Pokemon Moon soon. I've just been having so much fun revisiting some of my favourite games ever.

One last thing I want to talk about is my birthday. Firstly, you should behold the majestic monolith of a cake my mum made for me:

It's not one I've got the recipe for, but I thought I might as well put it here since I post a lot about good baked goods here. And, my birthday was very nice. I just got to hang out with my family and friends, and that's all I need to be satiated, really. I did receive some great presents, too. I got a pair of Koss Porta Pros, which are some very portable retro looking headphones with exquisite audio quality. And, I also got an iPod, which I took apart to give a new battery, screen and hard drive. I've been thoroughly enjoying using it to listen to my gigantic hoard of MP3s and I'm glad to have properly ditched Spotify.

That's about all I have to tell. Mainly I just need to keep soldiering on through exams. When I'm on the other end, though, hopefully I can make more blog posts. I've been meaning to get back to making them more regularly for a while, but year 3 of university has just been too tough.

Salutations, all. I hope this log post finds its readers well. I've not really much to tell, I'm simply checking in, mostly. So, here's the brief laydown of what's been going on with me.

Work has been going well, as plentiful as it is. I've finished the software for my dissertation and now I need only write the final report. This will be a ghastly and grueling task no doubt, but I'll survive. I always do.

Gaming has been going well. I felt the Pokemon itch recently and I've picked up my old DS Lite to start playing Pokemon White again. It is so fun. Playing this game again for the first time in, what, 6 years? has been making me incredibly happy. So far my party consists of Gregson the Oshawott, Agnes the Lillipup, and Butter the Munna. I shall be sure to give updates on their status next post.

Now that I'm free from uni, I'm working on a new deck for MTG centred around Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis which aims to satisfy my primal urge to draw a ridiculous amount of cards. It'll be fun. I've been meaning to build something mono-blue for a while.

In particular, I'm really excited for Tarkir: Dragonstorm. I really like the wedge colour sets, being a massive fan of Sultai and quite liking all the others (except for stinky Mardu). I am verily intending to invest in the Sultai Arisen precon, and I shall use it to construct the fastest turbo-mill deck the world has ever seen. I've wanted to build a turbo-mill deck for a while now, and, after trying one in Golgari, I definitely want to try building one in Sultai. I think the new lore for the Sultai is awesome, too. I really like the look of Kotis, the Sultai Fangkeeper, so hopefully his cards are cool so I can build a deck around him.

Last, but definitely not least: my latest bake.

That's about everything. This term of university has been very work filled and quite arduous. But, nonetheless, I press onwards for the sake of survival. See you next time.

Hello all. Here's a brief blog update.

Today (or, well, now yesterday) was Pokemon Day. The Pokemon Presents livestream was very good. I am pleased that the leaks about Unova or Johto games were wrong. It was very nice to have something not predicted by leaks. A lovely surprise indeed.

Though I've not been playing it, I've been listening to a lot of the Splatoon 3: Side Order OST. Splatoon music always goes hard, but man, this is another level. And I'm a big fan of dedf1sh too. It's cool that the game properly commits to them being non-binary, cause that's not something that gets represented properly nearly enough.

Also, here's some blondies I made last weekend: Recipe is here.

Lastly, university is going pretty ok. I've just got to wade through the end of term turmoil induced by having two big programming courseworks to do now. Then, on the other side, all that awaits me is the further despair of revision. Such is university indeed... See you in the next blog post.

Today has been a very good day for me, mostly on the merit of the fact that I finally managed to move all of my Pokémon off of my DS and onto my Switch. This is very important to me because I have a lot of fond memories of playing Pokémon when I was younger. I poured hours and hours into it, and being able to transfer that to the newer games is simply wonderful.

Me and my babies having a picnic together: