Kevin, what ever happened to the mythical handshake?
I never hear about it, and as a matter of fact I can't find the episode it was featured in! :(

Thank you!

Thank you so much, Kevin.

Hey Kevin,
I asked my brother what material was used on the 3D print and he simple replied, "BPS"
I asked him to further explain but he said anyone who knew about 3D printing would know what it means. Hope this helps.

You'd better hire un Abogado de Lesiones Personales to see if there is any recovery available for name infringement . . . this looks like a Squirrel Rights issue if I've ever seen one.

 . . . and not to mention those darn SIPPY CUPS, although I guess I just did . . .

http://www.pandora.com/sippy-cups-childrens/electric-storyland/magi...

Just so you're aware, your amazing youtube covers are worthy of playing for my whole drawing class.

Dude, with your talent, you have no need to worry. We get to take turns playing our own music, so it was running in the background as everyone was drawing. I think my teacher actually really liked them!

I've been doing just fine! Considering I dropped my math class this semester, I'm less stressed now (awful teacher again). :P Drawing is great. I'm finally getting back into it and I feel like my skills have really developed! :D Got to try all kinds of new media for the first time.

And how is Kevin? Seems I'm terribly inconsistent and allow too much time to go by.

Kev-chan!

I promise I did not forget. I promise.

So here's a 20 minute belated birthday wish (at least in CA time, which is still the correct time zone)! I do apologize for my tardiness, it's been quite a rough couple weeks and I have too many things to think about. :/ Regardless, it's no excuse to not say happy birthday within a reasonable time. Really hope it was a great one, and I'll have to catch up with you soon!

Anyways, talk to you soon, uniseal~

Happy belated birthday Kevin!

KEVIN.

I think it's actually happening.

I'm leaving the walls...

...of California....

To be continued.

Lake Tahoe. That's the destination. Why? Because I think it's about time I break my nearly 22 year record. I told you you'd be the first to know.

I've actually never been and I've never seen this much snow in my life. It's insane. Currently at a McDonald's. 

The adventure continues.

Wow, what a title! I'm sure you're the administrator of such an important group of people.

Literally just went up for the day! Got a late start and hit so much traffic because of the flooding here, so I only had about 3 hours to explore. It's a long drive, but I was back in good 'ole California by the end of the day.

I've been to the snow several times, but Tahoe is different because you're not as surrounded by a forest of trees like you are in Yosemite, for example. It's mostly freeway driving, so you have a better view of how far the snow actually extends. Plus THE California girl is always in love with snow, so it's easy to impress me. haha

Proof I was actually there:

It was pretty much the best way to break the streak. Oh of course! If I can't keep my 'stay-in-California-for-the-rest-of-your-life' honor alive, then maybe I can keep the new title of 'leave once every 22 years'. And you, sir, will be the first to know again. Who knows, maybe I'll go to Oregon next. I have a lot of time to plan after all.

Reminder :D
To take a photo for my project 

thank you for the advice!:)

I appreciate that! I re-signed up for it on my personal account, so I guess I'll find out next month whether that worked or not. I've experienced a weird progression with these newsletters -- first they just arrived about an hour later than most people, then I stopped receiving them at my personal email and only had them auto-forwarded from the Komm email, then both accounts stopped receiving them altogether. Oh well.

Nooo, wait, really? I thought I snuck in via the time zone technicality! I should've known you wouldn't fall for such tricks.

Are you on the east coast now, or something? Suspicious...but I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, so I'm glad my birthday wish to you has been accepted after all. Phew! I was really on edge there for a while.

Aha! Blaming Gumbo seems perfectly reasonable to me. I always get the feeling he's up to something... ;)

FYI - - I'm watching you two. 

I've got enough issues on my own without taking blame for someone else's

A Frontier Story - Buddy System S2 (Ep 6)

NOUGAT!

I went back and rewatched the segment of the nougat story with closed captions turned on. No less than 40 utterances in the last 15 minutes.

It's a total

NOUGATFEST!!!

Here we go again, Kevin.

I'm officially traveling by plane...for the first time ever.

Of course, it's only to San Diego, which is still in good 'ol CA, but it counts! Maybe?

Thought I'd keep you up to date on my (almost) out of state adventures!

The plane ride was actually amazing!! Pretty much ideal weather conditions and I had empty seats next to me on the way home. I definitely get motion sick, but the views were fantastic.

I was out in San Diego for the 2018 JMM! Which is short for "the largest math conference in the world." My school flew me and a friend out there for 4 days and basically paid for everything haha. I can't even tell you how beautiful the city was and all the things we did. We barely slept because we were taking advantage of our time there every minute of the day.

Naturally, we enjoyed our last day at Coronado Beach (which is the prettiest one I've seen so far) and had the most perfect weather. Plus apparently it makes sense to go to the beach during winter in CA. :P

I could keep going on about it (I did take like 800 pictures), but I'll stop here for your sake. 

Quite accurate! I'm really a world-renowned mathematician and everyone loves to hear me talk about math for hours. (Haha yeah right.)

It's actually funny you say that because one of my professors is trying to organize us going to Colorado this summer for Mathfest! I'm also applying to an internship thing that could potentially take me to Ohio as well. Out of country is the eventual plan, but I'd like to explore a lot more of the US first.

Sunny, nearly 80 degree beaches are great, but my heart will always be with the mountains and snow! And it's sad because we barely got any snow this year. No snow trips so far. :( It'll probably sound funny to you, but I don't even know what 10 degrees feels like. The coldest I've experienced is about 26 from my old work freezer. Haha It rarely gets below 30 in the valley.

The convention center is massive, and we only used about 1/4 of the building for this event. Thank goodness too, because I've only been walking for 6 weeks from a bad foot break. (I'm horribly clumsy in case you were not aware.)

Any of the northern states would be so amazing to see! It's so much wider. It's totally bizarre to me that there can be so much distance between towns or cities. I mean, put two Stocktons (where I was born!) together, and you already have a population size larger than Wyoming.

Maybe SD has bipolar weather like CA too? It's actually hilarious to see us wimpy Californians face the "cold".

As far as my foot, I was skateboarding. Down a flat, wide sidewalk. No one around. At about 2 mph. Call me talented to not only fall with no outside factors, but also manage to break three metatarsals. My doctor did: "Yes. Congratulations, Jessica. You actually managed a very unusual injury.  I've never seen someone do this from skateboarding." This is my second break from wheeled contraptions, so maybe I should just stay away from them. Needed surgery to correct my bones and I'm finally mostly healed. The scars at least look pretty gnarly, which is important. Haha But the whole story is far too long for this comment though, so I'll save it for later.

Impressive! I don't know if I could handle weather that sporadic. I can't imagine it gets that hot though? My town is known for.....almonds. Not exciting, and only causes unnecessary debate for the "correct" pronunciation of almond. Modesto (10 minutes away) is known for some cool stuff though! Jeremy Renner went to my JC and George Lucas is from there. Macklemore even filmed a recent music video in downtown Modesto. But it's also like the second highest car theft capital of the entire U.S., so that's fun. 

Perhaps I did deserve it because I was wearing sandals after everyone kept telling me to wear shoes...

You are so lucky. Summer is terrible here, and it really doesn't even get as bad as it could. Upper 90's and 100's is the norm for mooonths -_- Summer is by far the biggest gripe I have with living in CA.

I have heard almond pronounced at least four different ways:

1.  ALL-mund

2.  AW-mihnd (What I say)

3.  AHM-ind (Like the A in cAt)

4. ^Any of the above choices without the "d" at the end

The A, L, and D are the letters up for debate. It's a complicated word here, apparently

I'll have you know that I'll be traveling to a whole new state soon.

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTRY.

I will have my proof in January! The destination: Baltimore.

My school is sending me to the JMM again, what I did in San Diego earlier this year. Not only will I have an *official* out of state experience, but I will also be in a different time zone for the first time ever. For once, you will actually have a better time zone over me!

I would really like to visit a more conservative state for once because California annoys me, but I'll take what I can get!

Here's my proof! While only a minuscule amount of time,  I can now add "Time zone traveler" to my resume!

Baltimore was good, but I definitely missed home. I spent one day in D.C. but everything was closed because of the government shutdown. :( However, I did meet the nicest group of Australians there so that made it better! Plus it snowed a lot!

Right! I will say the terrain is pretty different than California's, there are irrigation circles everywhere lol. But it's so beautiful and I love flying. 

Oh goodness yes, I'm an absolute wimp with the heat. And I can't imagine the humidity! We only have dry heat here and that's awful enough. I love the cold, but I'll admit I was absolutely freezing in Baltimore. It was only 3o on average, but it was definitely a different kind of cold. Although I did enjoy it, I was glad to leave right before it dipped below 20!

Also, while I was in DC, I walked right into Virginia (before we got kicked out)! So that brings my grand total up to 4 states now. 46 more to go.

-2?? I don't know how you do it. Even now it's 40 and I would say it's cold haha. I mean, I absolutely prefer colder weather, but my definition of "cold" is pretty pathetic comparatively. But I also can't handle anything over 80, so I have a very small range of comfort.

YES YES AND YES. I need to see the hobbit houses!! And Yellowstone. That's a must. And the Grand Canyon. Actually, just one huge road trip is a dream of mine.

Woah woah woah. I'll have you know that I'm actually ABOVE the country's average! Don't pick on the lowly (pun intended) and feeble! Besides. I would win a fight, I grew up in Stockton. *kinda tough*

I mean, if this doesn't say violent and intimidating, I don't know what does. 

Lol, I actually couldn't though. I just like to pull out the Stockton card once in a while because it's totally not me. I'm a loyal Riponite these days.

Happy Birthday!! *Not even gonna make an old joke*

Regardless of whose time zone you go by, it is still the 17th. Hope you had a fantastic day!

California is just fine (enjoying my extra hour)!

I got two new jobs this month so I've been working a ton. But! Somehow I've had enough time to play Breath of the Wild for the first time! My friend is letting me borrow his switch and I've spent an embarrassing amount of time on it. It's amazing.

I thought you, of all people, would be able to figure this one . . . especially given the day of posting!

Ahhh, I am so late wishing you a happy birthday, yikes. I hope you had an excellent one! (Birthday wishes count for a full week, right?)

Totally! I keep feeling like I'm close to beating it and then I get distracted with all the side quests.  But I like that the storyline doesn't feel "constricted" and I can do whatever I want haha. And the mechanics feel more realistic. Like, if you're in the desert, you can find shade or water so you don't overheat. 

But otherwise yeah, it's an incredible game. Definitely up there with Twilight Princess, which was the first Zelda game I beat. 

As you should!

Thank you, my mythical friend. Your contribution is most appreciated!

Let's just pretend I'm not a terrible person and forgot to wish you a happy birthday in a timely manner...

Happy belated birthday!