Hi. Welcome to my first (and maybe only) blog on Canterlot.com. This blog is for the purposes of sharing my random thoughts about life, sports, video games, ponies and anything off-the-wall on my mind.

To start off, I've caught bits and pieces of the ongoing Games of the XXX Olympiad as well as related news. I've gotta say, this one's very interesting. Badminton players throwing matches, Michael Phelps becomes the most decorated modern Olympian, Great Britain finally sees one of its men win the 10,000m, terrible refereeing in men's boxing (5 knockdowns in the last minute and the aggressor lost!?) that was somewhat fixed (Errol Spence moves on to the round of 16 through winning an appeal), a Japanese gymnastics coach rushes to the judges' table with an American $100 bill in hand, quite the eventful games. And there is still much to come this week.

Life has been alright lately. I finally finished my Government and Economics classes online and did well on the finals, so I don't have to take those over 9 months and get an additional class slot to fill with Computer Science, probably more useful and transferable as credit to college than American Sign Language 3 Dual Credit from my community college. I'm kinda stuck without a car right now since my older sister wrecked hers on her way to work. It was $1000 short of totaling, and then they found $2400 worth of wiring problems when they started working on it, but because they agreed to fix it, they have to fix it. It'll be about two weeks before I get my car back to myself. I'll definitely have to have it Wednesday morning since I need to register for school and I might need it on Monday to go to a help session for All-District music (I'm in choir and have done Texas Music Educators' Association's All-State process twice before. Last year, I was the first alternate Bass 1 to Area) It's a bit hard to believe I'm registering for senior year. I start school August 27. I probably should read that book I have for AP English, "The Kite Runner." And find my graphing calculator to finish my AP Physics assignment.

My mom's having bariatric surgery on Tuesday and will be on clear liquids for the first two weeks after, then she progresses to thicker liquids, then to some solid foods over two-week intervals. It'll be October by the time she gets back onto a full-range diet. In the meantime, my older sister will also leave for the semester to study abroad in Scotland. She flies to London on September 2, spends two weeks there and then goes to St. Andrews to study British Literature. Her college's study abroad program is interesting. They have hieroglyphics classes in Egypt and a class over the history of the mafia in Sicily featuring live mafia members and family heads (Sicily doesn't have a hush-hush system; everyone knows who the mafia are).

Can't wait for Season 3. Everypony else can't, either.

I got NCAA Football 13 a few days after it came out, and it's really great. Some new features added in (at least from the last one I've played, NCAA Football 10) include the Heisman Challenge (pick a past Heisman winner, pick the school he plays for and win the Heisman) and Reaction Time (slow down the game for a little bit to react to the opponent. Get a pass off, juke an oncoming defender, slip a defensive lineman to crush the incoming running back, etc.) and, for Road to Glory mode, your created player plays out their entire senior season to earn scholarship points. Pick 3 schools you are interested in signing on for, then play one offensive and one defensive position and rack up scholarship points for each position separately. The higher a school's prestige as a football program, the more points you need to get in. Other colleges will take interest depending on your performance and offer you scholarships. At the end of your high school career, pick a school, pick the position you want to play (lemme guess...quarterback?) and go win yourself a couple of Heismans and four Bull Championship Series national titles (if you're an SEC school. If not, good luck.)

Lots of thoughts in this blog. To round off today's entry, here are three (probably) useless facts of trivia.

1) If you lay flat on your back with your legs above you, you cannot sink in quicksand. Bring a pole with you and put it on your back before you enter quicksand territory so you can easily get out.

2) Alligators and crocodiles are deceivingly fast on land. However, they are not very agile. If you have to flee from one of these beasts, run in a zigzag pattern to get away without them taking a bite out of you since they will just directly follow you.

3) The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

See you next time if you don't fall victim to A BLOODY DOMINATION!