Of Slashed Tires and the SNES

Hi!!! everybody. I hope everyone's weekend went well. Mine was not so great.... As you may have noticed I did not post last Friday. That was because I had a rough morning that day. I woke up to head to work and I discovered that my tires had apparently been slashed. This made me have to take the bus and be late for work. This unfortunately caused a chain reaction which put me behind on projects I had been working on which made me unable to find time to make my Friday post and I apologize for that. I have no idea who or why anyone slashed my tires, I'm assuming it was a bunch of teenage rapscallions with nothing more productive to do. Whatever.... I was able to get a tires to replace the ones that were slashed from a friend at a discount so it did not really set me back all that much.

One thing I would like to note that I learned from this event is that I am a lot more resourceful than I thought. When we are truly faced with a hard situation we tend to rise to the occasion and perform at a very capable level. So I guess what I'm trying to say is not to share yourself short we are capable of great things.
                     

One thing that happened today is that Nintendo announced that it was going to be releasing a Mini SNES with 20 games....May the odds be ever in our favor. I say this because last time they released a Mini NES they stopped selling them when they ran out and then discontinued them. Leaving many hopeful customers without a much desired Mini NES couple. I believe that now you can buy a Mini NES online for about 300$. The inflated price is due to freaking scalpers who bought a ton of the consoles and waited until they were in demand so they could sell them to others. Nintendo is claiming that they will create more Mini SNES this time around so I'm slightly hopeful this wont turn into another fiasco cause I will punch someone in order to play Super Mario RPG.

                            
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Hiking in Western Colorado

Hi there Everybody! How is everyone today? I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Mine was fantastic I went hiking in Glenwood Springs in Western Colorado.
                       
The name of the trail I hiked is called Hadley Gulch and it is a 14 mile round-trip hike. It is a rocky canyon trail located 12 miles west of Glenwood Springs and the hike leads you deep and high into the forest and mountains. It was quite a fun excursion and I saw a lot of people on the trail. The trail is dog friendly (as well as horse friendly if you happen to have a horse). The trail goes through oak brush, pinion and juniper growth. It is also a good place to see some wildlife provided your there during the dusk or dawn hours. One thing I also noticed was that the trail also had a lot of rock climbers on it as well. This was probably because the canyon walls had good rock climbing spots. While I may not be a climber myself I can see that everyone was having fun and it made me want to try rock climbing one of these days (I would probably have to gain more upper arm strength though). All in all this was a very fun trip and if you happen to be in the are I would recommend you give it a looksy. I have included some photographs so you guys can see what the hike and the area looked like.

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The Hippie's game pick: Fire Emblem Shadows of Valentia

Hiya! Salutations everybody I hope your week has been excellent. Mine has been pretty good it was a lot more calm work-wise so I was able to get more personal stuff done. I've been training for a marathon I'm undertaking in July so that has been fun. Today I want to highlight a Video-game that I recently got which I believe is awesome. The game I would like to highlight is Fire Emblem: Shadows of Valentia.
                   

This game is a remake of the second Fire Emblem game. It follows the story of two protagonists Alm and Celica and their quests and differing viewpoints of how to save their land. While this game is a remake it is not a simple rehash of its earlier incarnation. It has its own unique and new features to show-off. Besides new characters and story plots, which I will not spoil by going into detail, one new feature this game has is dungeons. Dungeons are new to the Fire Emblem universe and allow you to pilot your character and explore a specific area like an adventure game instead of the turn based strategy game-play Fire Emblem is known for. I believe they did a good job with this feature as they introduced it lightly and just enough so that we could experience it, but not so much it would change the fire emblem we know and love. Dungeons also help grind experience for your units so you will be better equipped to fight future battles.
                        

In this fire emblem game they also bring back casual mode. As any Fire Emblem fan will know regular mode is where you play the game and if one of your units die in a battle then they are permanently dead for the rest of the game. Causal mode makes it so that if a character dies in a battle you can still use that character once the battle is over they didn't "die" they just retreated. It's pretty much an easy mode for Fire Emblem games. Now many Fire Emblem purists will tell you that you have to play on regular mode in order to get the full experience and really perfect your strategy in order to not kill characters. However, I believe that if your not a great gamer or if your just getting into Fire Emblem type games then it's okay to play casual mode as long as you have fun. Later on if you want to experience a harder challenge then try out regular mode (trust me it does make your choices life and death).

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Monday Funday

Hiya there everybody! I trust everyone had a good weekend. Mine was amazing.  On Saturday I was in Snowmass, Colorado for the annual Snowmass Rendezvous Craft Beer Festival. It is an event in Snowmass in which local Colorado craft brewery come and give people samples of their beers. There is also a free concert at the foot of the mountain after you've had your fill of beer. It's a lot of fun and everyone gets nice and drunk.
                                              
I had a great time and enjoyed all the fine selection of craft beers. I really enjoyed the Golden City Brewery as I felt it's beer had a very full robust flavor which I personally prefer as I find it delicious. I also enjoyed the live band at the base of the mountain, because by the time the show started I was ready to sit down and just take it easy. What can I say? I'm a bit of a lightweight. Afterwards, I got on the bus back to town to get some Vietnamese food as I was feeling kind of tipsy. Don't Drink and Drive kids! Plus parking was an absolute clusterf**k. If you are ever in the area make sure to check if there are any events as they usually end up being a lot of fun! And make sure to check out the local Aspen Brewery for some good beer and fun atmosphere.

                      

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The Hippie's Friday Spotlight

Hey there! How is everybody? I hope everybody's weekend was fun. Mine was actually kind of hectic as I was running around a lot at work. However, it was still good cause I was able to be productive and get some important tasks done. This Friday I want to talk to you about a cartoon show and a toy series. Today I want to talk to you about the TV show Ninjago.
                          

This show is fantastic in my opinion. It's funny, adventurous, and sometimes has some serious heartfelt moments. Plus it involves Legos and the Lego universe which is a big plus factor for me. This show involves five ninjas who must learn to use their powers and how to work as a team in order to fight bad guys such as Skeleton Warriors and Serpent People. I really like this show and I am happy that they renewed it for another season. I know some people might say that the show is starting to drag a little and they should just finish it before it becomes unwatchable. However, I think its still got at least two more good seasons left in its running, besides I feel the new season is still ok. One great thing about Lego shows is the fact that they also make a variety of accompanying toys to play with. One such toy that I would like to put the spotlight on is The Golden Dragon set number 70503.
                            
This set is awesome as it includes a Lego dragon that fires a round projectile and it also includes some enemies to fight. Plus its freaking gold...How could you not like that? One of the great things about Lego toys is that they let your imagination run wild and you could play with this set with other non-story sets and make up your own amazing story. If the Lego Movie taught us anything, other than Lego Batman is awesome, is that we should let our imaginations run free and have fun creating amazing creations. Remember every idea sounds stupid until someone does it and it turns out to be awesome. If people don't criticize your idea it means it was not that revolutionary not that creative of an idea.

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Monday Ramblings

Hi there everybody and Happy Monday! It's me the 7 Year Old Hippie. I hope everybody's weekend was enjoyable. Mine was fantastic. On Saturday I went Rafting for a little bit and then ate at Taco Bell. Rafting was  a lot of fun I ended up falling into the river once but no harm done as I was wearing my helmet and didn't bash into any rocks. Its always good to do things with other people that way they can save your skin when you slip up.

While I was eating at Taco Bell one thing that came to mind and now I got to ask is....What is up with all of these fast food restaurants partnering up with chip companies to come up with new product ideas. We got Taco Bell and Doritos with the Doritos Taco. Now we have Burger King and Cheetos to come up with the mac and cheese Cheetos. Where does it stop? Is McDonald's gonna partner up with Lays Potato chips to create a  Potato Chip Burger. Not that I'm complaining most of the ideas have actually been good so as long as things keep being good well continue to see more strange and interesting partnerships.
            

One other thing I would like to note is the app game Magikarp Jump. Its this new phone game by Pokemon in which you must train the  Pokemon Magikarp to jump really high so that he could out jump other Magikarp in contest battles. You train Magikarp by feeding him and playing mini-games with him. This game is simple and a lot of fun. You can also catch a variety different colored Magikarps (even a gold colored one) which is one of the best things about the game in my opinion. One thing I will caution about the game is that your Magikarp can die. For example, it can be killed by a Voltorb pretending to be a poke-ball or some asshole Pidgeotto swooping in to catch it while it is jumping.  Also your Magikarp can be forcefully released into the wild if you evolve it into a Gyarados ( I won't spoil the surprise and tell you how to do it but it is possible). Overall I definitely recommend this game if you want to play around with a small and simple game.

                        

I hope you all have a wonderful week and if you're struggling with something my advice is to just forget who you're supposed to be and let go of all the fears and doubts.

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Wonder Woman Review

Hi there everybody! I am the 7 year old hippie and I am back with another blog post. I hope you enjoyed my last one shining a spotlight on the show The Loud House. I am back and I would like to do a review on the movie Wonder Woman. I watched this movie Today as I love superhero movies. I will now review this movie without giving away any spoilers for the people who have not seen the movie.

                           

I loved this movie. It was so refreshing to see DC pick up its game on the movie department. Its last movie Batman vs Superman was kind of disappointing and Man of Steel wasn't as good as it could have been.  Wonder Woman did an amazing job though. The actress Gal Gadot did an amazing job playing Wonder Woman. She did a much better job playing Wonder Woman than Ben Affleck did playing Batman. The plot was very interesting and I felt it worked well with the Wonder Woman character.

I hope that DC continues the example set in this movie and do a good job in their future movies with their future characters. I highly encourage this movie to any superhero fans and even if you're not a full superhero movie fan its still a good movie to see unless you're completely against the idea of superhero movies. I give this movie two thumbs way up! Finally my apologies to Ben Affleck for criticizing him for his acting in Batman vs Superman, he was a better Batman than George Clooney.

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