{"id":2870,"date":"2010-11-27T03:39:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T18:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2014-03-24T11:23:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T02:23:27","slug":"thanksgiving-leftovers-arvale-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/thanksgiving-leftovers-arvale-updates","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Leftovers, Arvale Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/turkeysandwhich.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2876\" title=\"turkeysandwhich\" src=\"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/turkeysandwhich.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/turkeysandwhich.jpg 400w, https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/turkeysandwhich-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving whether you celebrate it or not.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a big eater, so Thanksgiving dinner isn&#8217;t my main goal (spending time with friends and family is), but I love the leftovers; which essentially means free food for approximately the next week.<\/p>\n<p>Personal Stuff (boring!): My overall health seems a bit better. I&#8217;ve been pretending to relax pretty well. I&#8217;m slowly gearing up for the \u80fd\u529b\u8a66\u9a13 (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) N1 which is on December 5th. I finally started reading \u65b0\u4e16\u7d00\u30a8\u30f4\u30a1\u30f3\u30b2\u30ea\u30aa\u30f3. New Harry Potter was awesome. I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themim.org\/\">Musical Instrument Museum<\/a> in Phoenix and geeked out (Yay! Phoenix actually has a respectable museum worth visiting!) which I&#8217;ll post about at another time.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese Stuff (really boring!): While I am still SRSing every day, I&#8217;ve been in a slump where I have a backorder of 800 sentence cards due in Anki, and I really haven&#8217;t had the time to beat them all out yet. Out of the 7300 cards though, there&#8217;s really no rush. Heisig is about the same with 400 cards due (out of 2600 or so, I haven&#8217;t checked), but I&#8217;m less worried as I know most of those are over a year old (stuff like \u4e00 and \u98df and when I get them right, I won&#8217;t see them for 3 years).<\/p>\n<p>Arvale Stuff (finally!): As far as Arvale IV, which is just around the corner, here are some shots of some upcoming levels:<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/aphote1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2872\" title=\"aphote1\" src=\"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/aphote1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/aphote1.jpg 610w, https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/aphote1-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Anyone who has played <a href=\"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/free-games\">Arvale II: Ocean of Time<\/a> may be familiar with the name of this island \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>It was one of the little gems from that game, with a small village of natives who spoke a strange language and tried to pawn off authentic glowing skull necklaces\u00a0 to tourists.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/aphote2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2873\" title=\"aphote2\" src=\"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/aphote2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/aphote2.jpg 608w, https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/aphote2-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>&#8230;Not that you need to have played Arvale II: Ocean of Time to enjoy <a href=\"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/premium-games\">Arvale: Treasure of Memories<\/a>, but&#8230; if you have want to tide yourself over until ATM IV comes out, well, it&#8217;s on the Free Games page for <em>Free<\/em>. And you can&#8217;t beat Free.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sytae2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2875\" title=\"sytae2\" src=\"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sytae2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sytae2.jpg 608w, https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sytae2-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>And some shots from the continent of Sytae, which has been hinted at and spoken about since <a href=\"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/premium-games\/arvale-treasure-of-memories-episode-1\">Episode I<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sytae1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2874\" title=\"sytae1\" src=\"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sytae1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"607\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sytae1.jpg 607w, https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sytae1-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>&#8230; Which is just as dark, creepy and desolate as its been described by Duncan so far. I&#8217;ll go ahead and added mysterious to the list of adjectives now too.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now, expect more stuff to materialize soon.<\/p>\n<p>Now go eat a Turkey Sandwich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving whether you celebrate it or not. I&#8217;m not a big eater, so Thanksgiving dinner isn&#8217;t my main goal (spending time with friends and family is), but I love the leftovers; which essentially means free food for approximately the next week. Personal Stuff (boring!): My overall health seems a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,39],"tags":[139,2642,74,2102,856,1112,166,2484,1739,133,41,55,863,1861,1009,2485,2483,1172,2422,18,138,2486,2482,2481,2110,1304,1984],"class_list":{"0":"post-2870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-arvale","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-anki","9":"tag-arvale","10":"tag-arvale-ii-ocean-of-time","11":"tag-atm","12":"tag-duncan","13":"tag-free-food","14":"tag-geek","15":"tag-glowing-skull","16":"tag-harry-potter","17":"tag-heisig","18":"tag-japan","19":"tag-japanese","20":"tag-japanese-language","21":"tag-japanese-language-proficiency-test","22":"tag-leftovers","23":"tag-museum","24":"tag-musical-instrument-museum","25":"tag-ocean-of-time","26":"tag-personal-stuff","27":"tag-phoenix","28":"tag-srs","29":"tag-srsing","30":"tag-strange-language","31":"tag-thanksgiving-dinner","32":"tag-treasure-of-memories","33":"tag-turkey","34":"tag-1984"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2880,"href":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}