Sudoku life lessons

Sudoku life lessons:
After playing this game for awhile now, I am convinced that many of the principles used in this simple game of logic can be applied to everyday life.

• Take things one step at a time, and don’t expect to solve the entire puzzle all at once. Savor each step and delight in its order, like the courses of a meal.
• If you want to solve the puzzle, you need to have a consistent strategy that works. If you remain consistent, everything else will fall into place.
• If you find yourself stuck and unable to make progress, take a 5 minute break and relax. When you get back, you may find that the solution was right in front of your face the whole time!
• Learn from your past mistakes so that you can finish things faster and more efficiently.
• Your “gut feeling” is not always the best thing to go off of. If a move “feels” good, that doesn’t mean that it is the correct one. Wait for the rest of the picture to become clear before making any rash moves. The sure answer will always show itself in time.
• One mistake can cause confusion, frustration, and ruin the entire puzzle. One correct step tends to start a domino effect of goodness!

One more thing to note: Sudoku pronounced like it's spelled, SUDOKU (Soo-doh-koo). It's not SODUKO (Soh-doo-koh), mmk? Look up the pronounciation key for it on dictionary.com if you don't believe me. This seriously bugs the heck out of me, lol.

New stuff.

I've chosen to go to Wheaton college! I spent last weekend in California visiting APU, which was my other consideration. The thing is, I would still be okay with going to APU, but it just isn't as wow-ing as Wheaton is. I just know that this is a complete blessing from God that I'm able to go there. Wheaton will be my greatest opportunity to grow mentally, personally, and spiritually. For one thing, Wheaton has the reputation. I'm always hearing that Wheaton is like the Harvard of christian schools, so I'm going to be learning ALOT. It's smaller (a sort-of benifit, I'm just more used to a small school), and it has a very tight yet open and welcoming community so that I can make those lifelong friendships that will let me grow personally. It also embraces christianity in all aspects, so of course I will be able to grow spiritually. And heck, It's near Chicago! I don't think I'll ever get to live near Chicago at any other time in my life, so this is going to be an amazing opportunity for me. I can't wait to get out of high school!!!!!

Here's something funny that happened :). Last week my car completely ran out of gas. It was on a tuesday. On the firday before I had looked at my gas meter and noticed that it was almost empty. I thought to myself "ok, I need to fill it up this weekend". I never did. Even stranger though was that I neglected my gas gauge for 4 days. I had always noticed my gauge before it ran out of gas. So when I drove home from school the day before there with NO problems, no noises, nothing. The next morning when I got in my car and began to roll it out of the driveway, it died. I finally noticed the gas meter.
My question is, why did my car die on my driveway? It could have died on the freeway. I could've gotten myself killed. Yet it had the perfect amount of gas to get me home safely, without me noticing that it was out. If this is coincidence, it's a pretty creepy coincidence. But I think something Higher is at work ;).

I actually saw the Glendale off-ramp *empty* at 8:10 last week. That's like prime-time, it's ALWAYS crowded at that time. I couldn't see anything different, like no accidents or anything. It was just baren. How the heck did that happen??

My new favorite word is juicy.

Apple Jacks, breakfast of men.

I love Apple Jacks. They entice me to wake up every morning with their appley taste. If you've ever had them, you know that it's an experience to be remembered. I could go on about the taste, but I think it speaks for itself. Just look at its advertising in recent years, or lack thereof. Does it have an ad campaign or slogan? They had one cool commercial in the late 90's I remember based on an optical illusion. But where is the mascot? Huh? Where's the rabbit? Where's the bear? Where's the pedophilic leprechaun? Where's the friggin' eight-foot talking tiger, huh?? Oh, and who can forget that retired navy captain armed with Szalinski's shrinking ray. It has no mascot, it needs no mascot. Apple Jack's sells itself!

I think that Apple Jack's is a man's cereal. Yea, this is the revolutionary Kellogg's cereal that may seem geared towards kids, but it is in fact a man's cereal. Not necessarily in the "grownup" sense, but you can feel like a stuntman after eating this stuff. Has anyone tried it recently? Man, I was in pain today because my tongue was cut to pieces after eating Apple Jacks for two days. I can see it now: frat boys challenging eachother to down boxes of Apple Jacks, bleeding like Niagra falls. Boys everywhere being hospitalized with fissured tongues. It'll be the new trend, the new challenge, the new man-measure. Heck, Kellogg's could just say "are you man enough for Apple Jacks?" and they'd sell like, well, Apple Jacks. Yea, there's no beating around the bush with this cereal, no mascots or facades. Kellogg's has created the cereal of legend. Breakfast of champions? No. Breakfast of men. 'Nuff said.

It should be noted:
Wikipedia says around 1971, the official mascots became "The Apple Jacks Kids", a boy and girl simplistically-drawn as if by crayon. The commercials featured the children singing and tumbling around. Their reign lasted almost twenty years, making them the most well-known Apple Jacks mascots and most universally associated with the cereal in the public's memory. During this time, the Apple Jacks jingle became an integral part of the ad campaign: "A is for apple, J is for Jacks, Cinnamon-toasty Apple Jacks!" Since the late 1980s, the children haven't been printed on the box or used in the commercials.

So basically they caught on early enough and stopped the mascot masquerade. Just look where the man's cereal came from: check this out. It's a sad step to see in its early development process, but it should come as a lesson to all cereals striving to greatness: cut the mascots. They're freaking scary.

I made a random blog account

Hi. I'm Schteevo. See Schteevo run. See Schteevo create a random blog account.

Ok, enough of that, haha. I basically made this so I can post on another blog. I'll keep this around though, just in case I actually need to use it someday :D