2011: In Review

The "Final Year of Civilization" is among us, So what I thought I'd do was, I thought I'd reflect on this year for the sake of reflecting on this year.

January: January started gloriously with the Green Vs. Purple Fight, in which the most wonderful Green won by a landslide in a voting competition. Then I turned PTE into Cafechan 2.0, which was a parody of a forum I once ran known as cafe-chan, famous for next to no posting, me being a try-hard trying to make it cool, then deleting like half of it because I thought that

would fix it but managed to only make it worse. It's been removed since 2010. After the troll, Exams started, and more famously, this was when my sister planned to escaped New City and fled back to hometown, planning to never return. This was also when I had my famous Sim City addiction, the longest and most powerful video game addiction that I've ever had. The month ended with me becoming obsessed with a stupid flash thing, I dunno lol.

February: The month began with the final semester of High School finally starting. This was the only time when I liked advanced drawing, in a few weeks, I would learn to hate it. This was also when I had a Transcript crisis, which was simply me not having my transcript sent to the University I'm going to now. As you might have guessed, it was resolved. Following this was a rather dark period, as not only did I get stupidly sick, but the famous Bandit bit yet another person, this time a dog groomer. They basically told us that as he is a liability, we can either put him down or they will. So El Bandito was put down. However, What followed the dark period was some of the greatest two posts on PTE in a long time: The Hardcore Chicken Post and the Ric Olzow Chick Magnet post. Then I made progress on flash stuff, took some quiz thing, tried laser tag for the first time, and that's about it.

March: March began with the announcement of the usual spring break trip to Hometown, named 'March Madness 2'. (Because March Meet 2 sounded silly.) After I whipped out Charnames.swf (The Characters of Ric Olzow), which ended up being submitted to Newgrounds months later for the decent score of 2.3/5. (For a movie with 7 frames, I'm not complaining.) Then Japan got rocked by an Earthquake, the nuclear crisis broke out and I was worried it'd kill me over here. LUCKILY IT DIDN'T! :D Then I made a terrible K-On/sons of butcher mash-up that snowfire hated. I also created the Ric Olzow Company logo thing, which has already been updated now. Though the company (if it can be called so) really isn't doing anything different than OBP or Internetwork. Same crap, different name.

April: It started with reflection on MM2, most famous for the K-Day 2010(2011?) Party.(Thanks to Snowfire!) Then I pondered privatizing PTE, (KK-N also pondered doing the same much later, ended up with same result as us) planned more flash projects that never happened, and got addicted to Cityville. After, another big thing happened: The Great Riccy-18. I went to a strip club for my 18th birthday, and there was much disapproval, in which I didn't really care because it was a great time. :D After it though, not much else happened for the rest of the month, other than the PTE logo incorporating Riccy, Amy, and Jenny.

May: The major highlight here was me voting in a federal election for the first time. Who I voted for lost, but its the fact I did that counts. Then another Brutal Week popped up, but then it didn't because I missed the whole thing being sick with bronchitis. I then attempted to set myself due dates for Jennys Quiz which was a fail. WORTH A SHOT THOUGH AMIRITE. Then Graduation was drawing near and school was turning annoying with a bajillion things I didn't do due much too soon.

June: The Final Week of High School was quickly approaching and I was in a short animu phase. Then PTE got destroyed with Party Hard Mode, Final Week Happened, and perhaps one of the most important thing to happen in 2011 happened: I got accepted into the University in Hometown!! The other most important thing was the end of the 1000 days countdown, a countdown that had made New City's terrible beginnings more bearable. As it turned out, 1000 succeeded as both PJ and I achieved what we really wanted at the end of 1000. However, we still failed on BEING IN THE SAME DAMN CITY. C'est la vie. After, the big 7 was introduced, which was the day of when I would be MOVING back to Hometown: 7/7/11. June was certainly the most epic month of the year. December is a close second.

This was also when youtube finally started banhammering the Random Crap series and when I found out the hard way that I don't handle gore too well.

July: 1000 ending post, and the final post from New City. (Fun fact: This is being posted from New City!) Then I had a week vacation at a lake with family was a nice time n stuff. Then I came back. Then I went on another short vacation to the US. Then I came back. Then it was August.

August: So it started with me going away again, this time to a friend's cottage. Then I came back, finally to stay. I got a certain old memorabilia back, after a friend had held on to it for 3 years. (He's threatening to take it again if I move back to New City again) Then I made another great PTE logo (This time with more ladies~) and then I got hit with a nice batch of homesickness. Then Snowfire 'hacked' PTE and turned it more purple than my hands on a cold winter day. I threatened a counter but I'm lazy and Green already won anyway so whatever. If anything I'm impressed by Snowfire's trolling skill.

Following this was a PC vs Mac thing, me beginning to handle new responsibilities, the beginning of the Rules Of Riccy, my first football game, and the epic bike ride which backfired hilariously.

Though it wasn't funny at the time but I laugh now. :D

September: University began and right away things went crazy. A math course that seemed daunting became the bane of my existence, til my eventual dropping of the course. Then Riccy-18 [REDACTED]. Then I trumped KK-N with finally mastering a code which enabled Flash movies. However I have yet to make use of this...

Then I started on Pegvlog, helped paint a wall (Ok I didnt but whatever I helped with inspiration and camerawork :P) and raged as my computer messed up with an msn error that is yet to be resolved.

October: The reality of how much I suck at essays came through, with the first essay being a bombshell and a half and leading to a nice 3am stay up period. The second one was worse though. Also I should mention that September was when I had my first experience with relationshippers, as my sister tried to fix me up with one of her friends. Such didn't work out at all. Then October came around and I admitted to liking a certain girl which caused an even bigger influx of people trying to force me into a relationship. After the first relationshipper mess I wasn't too keen on having the same thing happen twice, so I did nothing til the hype blew over. Now things are calm and that certain girl is my girlfriend :)

November: Stuff happened mostly Snowfire's Birthday, me dying from an essay, Amy Day, me pondering why I continue to fall on my face with animation and other stuff, and Barbecue Chips are Delicious.

December: First semester and all its magicalness came to a close, I had my first date, Things turned ultra chaotic right before my trip back to New City, especially with my ALL NIGHTER SUPER ESSAY #2 which turned out to be my best essay ever made. Then after a christmas party with peeps, I returned to New City, for a relaxing Christmas break. I also checked out a small town near here for animation reasons, though its not looking too likely at this point.

I'm here for 3 more days then I'm back to Hometown for SEMESTER 2! (Uni Edition)

And that's 2011. Next year is but as unknown as this one was, as we shall see what happens at the end of Project Here For A Year, AKA the moving back to Hometown Project.

Here's to hoping 2012 is even more radical than this year!

Also I deleted most of my crazy folders like the gary folder, the Ritsu folder and the Animu folder is half its size. PROGRESS