Author: Ryan

I don’t know if anyone shares the love I have for guns and airsoft, but either way though, I was out for 12 hours on Saturday (VERY PAINFUL) and I went to an airsoft store. I didn’t think there was a store for airsoft but there was, somewhere downtown named “Camouflage” and when I first went in there, it was pretty boring, and there was just shirts and some ammo pouches and grenade pouches. BUT THEN, we went upstairs and oh my god when I say the place was filled with amazing stuff, I MEAN it. They had guns EVERYWHERE and KNIVES, and ATTACHMENTS, it was literally my dream store and I will gladly go there any time. I asked them if I could try the pistols and I tried the Glock17 and the M&P22 and they were perfect. When I ejected the magazine from both guns it was so smooth and putting the magazine back felt like I was in the army. and the handling was pretty light and cocking the gun was the easiest thing ever, it was absolutely beautiful and I really should have bought a gun but they cost $200 or over haha. I was walking around the place and checking the knives and they were actually pretty real-looking. And when the person was teaching me parts of the gun attachments, I knew most of them and I’m actually so happy.  I was even walking around and just naming as many guns as I could hahaha. They had MP5, Fal, M16, M4 Carbine, Glock 17, Mosin, Barret, MP4, FN57, M&P22, Classical hunting rifles, Uzi, Vector, P90, Makarov, Tarkarov, 1911, and even more. I have pictures and they look so good. It was paradise land I look forward to going there again.

Is it just me? Or do others like watching sunsets too? A few days ago I was sitting out near Save On by the school, and the sun was directly in my eyes. Some would find it irritating but if you only close your eyes, then it feels amazing. The amazing warmth of the sun on your skin and the bright light of the sun peeking through your closed eyes, I love that because to me, it’s so calming, and having days like that mean that the scenery around you will always be beautiful, Which it was, the sky was a beautiful bright blue color, the trees were calm and still and everything looked the purest color it could’ve looked. Another thing that I like for some unknown reason is fishing. Even though it takes a damn long time to actually catch a fish, I just like sitting there with others, I can’t ever find time to go fishing though, or even anyone to go with that would keep things calm and nice, but if I ever do, I will write about it. Even when I’m fishing, the time I get to just sit there, maybe even with headphones and some calming music like “That’s the way it is” it just feels so nice and then eventually you will catch a fish and then your day gets even better knowing that you succeeded on a task that takes intense patience. I’ve only really wanted to go fishing again like a month or two ago, except the last time I actually went was I’m pretty sure around 4-5 years. But I will keep dreaming.

The book The Lonesome Gun is a old written book that takes place in the western time, since the book is old it does have some mistakes like missing a comma, missing quotations, or sometimes a period. These mistakes don’t happen very often but they do confuse me when they do happen. I like this book because I love the western cowboy times, I like how they talk, how they dress, and I like revolvers and standoffs (two people quick-draw their revolvers and try to kill one another) which brings me to my quote:

“One!” Rafer counted.

“Don’t do this” Perley pleaded, and turned to walk away.

“Two!” Rafer counted.

“I’m warnin’ you, don’t say three”

“Three!” Rafer exclaimed defiantly. His six-gun was already halfway out when he said it–and he staggered backward from the impact of the bullet in his chest. Deke, shocked by Perley’s instant response, was a second slow in reacting and dropped his weapon when Perley’s second shot hit caught him right in his shouder. He stood, helplessly waiting for Perley’s fatal shot, and almost sinking to his knees when Perley released the hammer and returned his pistol to his holster (pg. 6)

Rafe, the guy that was threatening Perley to draw his gun, was some mean feller that was making fun of Perley’s name, so Perley asked him to get out of this diner they were eating at and that’s when Rafe started to demand a standoff. I adore this quote because I love standoffs in the western time, there’s just so much satisfaction with the tension of who will shoot who first, and even if you are quick enough with your gun, would you be able to hit/kill the person? The thing that makes the book 100% better, is seeing how the first standoff happened at page 6, meaning there will be some pretty amazing events in the future.

Sometime near the end of December, my mom thought is would be an amazing idea to go up to Mt. Washington. We start to drive up there and like five minutes into the drive I fall asleep with Free Bird playing in my headphones, and I fell asleep for probably about two and a half hours, so I can proudly say that I listened to Free Bird, on loop, for two and a half hours. Once we got up there we were getting dressed in the car, preparing for the cold, and while I was getting dressed, I noticed that I’m missing a glove. I asked my mom where it is and she couldn’t find it either, then she told me that she was opening the back window (where our clothes were stored) throughout the car ride, and the glove must’ve flown out the window. Soon enough I get a new pair of gloves and we gather our ski gear, and we head outside (we had a scheduled private lesson with a guy named Daniel that would just follow us around and give us tips). We started going down some hills for a bit and then we went up the ski lift. I don’t know if any others experience this but when I’m in a very cold place, I can’t breathe, and the wind on the higher part of the mountain was strong, and the snow in the wind was like ice spikes stabbing into your skin. Once we get to the top and we get off the lift, We start heading down the mountain and while heading down, I tumble a bit (Blake you were right it doesn’t hurt, it’s amazing), but then I get to a part where I was meant to turn left but the wind was so strong it was pushing me right. I took off my ski’s to make sure I don’t get pushed down the wrong path but the wind was almost too strong, after a second Daniel showed up, and I swear, with the ice spikes hitting hard on my face, the intense wind, me trying to put my ski’s back on, and trying to breathe, I had a few panic attacks haha. If it wasn’t for Daniel, I probably would’ve been stuck up there hah. After a while I finally reached the bottom and I found out that putting ski’s on, are a pain in my butt. I praised Daniel and then went back inside. Soon my mom came back in and she told me she broke her phone when she tumbled down on the hill (funny thing, I told her not to bring it while on the mountain). She also told me my brother went back up the lift, and I can’t imagine how much that guy likes to stare death in the eye. After that I went inside with my mom, had a burger (it was amazing), and when my brother came back, he said that he might have broken/cracked his rib, and gotten whiplash. Good job Aidan. (Ps. the next day I was not at all sore but everyone else was)

As everyone has to know by now, I love games, and this personal writing is gonna be about… GAMES. There is a cowboy game called red dead redemption 2, it’s a sad game and a very long game, it’s very easy to get attached to. I was doing a mission where I had to rob a bank to get money to escape from people that wanted to kill me and my gang. while robbing it, the law showed up, and Hosea, an old guy in our gang, was being held at gunpoint by these Pinkertons, Another law from a different place that wanted our gang dead, and their leader, Milton, said that he wanted our gang leader Dutch. Dutch didn’t give himself up and then Milton put a bullet through Hosea’s head. Everyone that was robbing the bank with me went on a rampage and started killing everyone, then me and Dutch made a plan to escape to the roof. When we got up, everyone split up in groups, I went with Lenny, a boy in our gang that was around 20 years old. While he was running he look behind at me and yelled “come on this way!” but then two Pinkertons came out from a corner and shot him dead. I spent a whole 10 minutes grieving his death and eventually got off the game but I haven’t finished the mission yet. One thing I’ve noticed from this game is that you don’t miss anyone from your group until you see one of them lying on the ground dead. Even if it is one of the most annoying people ever, you don’t miss them until they go.

While I was away last week I was sick with a stomach bug and just liked to sit around and do nothing, watch some TV, sit on my phone and sleep, but there was one other thing I could do, play games. I played one of my almost forgotten favorite games, Uncharted 4: A Thieves End.

It’s all about finding treasures, solving puzzles to find the treasure and fight people (fist or gun) to find the treasure. I had such a fun time and to be honest, I probably played it a bit too much. I started a new game on the hardest difficulty to get an achievement… probably shouldn’t have done but I like challenges. At almost every encounter with enemies, I died.

There was one part further into the story I was worried about though, when I’m in a old pirate (Captain Avery) mansion searching for a friend that’s being held captive, I get ambushed. On my first playthrough on the 3rd hardest difficulty, doing this encounter with a bunch of the enemy’s was already hard enough, but when I did this on the hardest difficulty… it was painful. At the start of the fight I had to get rid of a minigun brute, two snipers, an armored gunman and a few normal gunmen just in one hallway. I died at least around 63 times trying to figure out the perfect pattern, and while dying this much, I got a little angry, I mean, who wouldn’t get mad?

After dying countless times I went and took a break planning out my every move, where to go, how to do it and what to grab because ammo for guns were limited and after a while of thinking I went back. probably around 26 deaths later I finally beat the encounter, hit every headshot, collected all one-shot sniper ammo and planned out where to go and after encountering four juggernauts and more gunmen I finally beat it. All of this probably took me around 2-3 hours, it was tiring, but it felt good when I finished.

When I have nothing better to do at home I like to sit down and relax to one of my favorite shows in the whole damn world, The Walking Dead. The walking dead: Daryll Dixon. Every Sunday, I watch a new episode of Daryll Dixon that just got released, and I love every one. Daryll, from America, makes a bunch of mistakes by trusting a group that allows no fighting. He made friends with a scared person, and then when that person goes and with others they come back with him as a walker (zombie) so he gets mad and punches one of them and both Daryll and the guy he hit gets kicked out and taken to a boat to be made into slaves. Daryll starts to puke blood in the cell to make the guards let him out and when they let him out they try to kill him but Daryll fights back, he then gets keys and unlocks all the cells, raising hellfire on the boat. While they are trying to escape by boat the line holding it breaks and drops the boat. Daryll turns around and sees a weird walker that was running up these stairs to get to him. The walker, or, runner tore apart his friend and started to eat him and started to charge towards Daryll. The reason their called walkers is cause they can’t run so I’m guessing when Daryll saw that he was quite shocked. Daryll jumps off the big boat onto the one dropped in the water and eventually ends up in France. He makes his way around trying to find people and stumbles across a place with nuns and a boy, the nuns think Daryll is the one to take the boy, Laurent, to a safer place so Daryll goes through a lot of trouble trying to find a way to get him to that “safer place” while being hunted down by a gang named the Guerrier or something because he killed the leader’s brother. I just finished I think episode four? It ended with Daryll and Laurent getting caught by the Guerrier and being brought to an arena where he’s going to have to fight a very fast, dangerous, adrenaline injected zombie. I’m going to have to wait till Sunday to see what happens.

August 18th or 19th, I went to Mission (a place in the Mainland) it’s near Fraser Valley. I went there to visit some family on the first day we settled in and chilled inside.

On the second day everyone at the house (maybe 14) went to Cultus Lake Waterslides. I went on a waterslide with 3 other people inside a tube and it was amazing, I kept on going on a few different ones then I sat down at our bench and ate some food and chilled then my brother told me I should go with him on a waterslide and I asked him “which one” and he pointed at one quite high up and apparently you go all the way down on your back. I went with him cause it looked alright and once we got up my brother said you’re gonna have to take off your hat (I usually wear hats to either look good or I just haven’t done my hair) when I was near the top though I didn’t have anywhere to put my hat so I saw how people were going on their backs so I put my hat on my stomach while going down. Right before going down I didn’t think much of taking a deep breath because I thought I could breath. Short version: I couldn’t. Near the bottom I started to struggle from not being able to breath. once I got to the bottom I tried to open my eyes from the water and could barely see, I took a deep breath and got out and then I put back on my absolutely soaking wet hat.

The next day we had even more family over (around 25 people) my grandpa made a baron and beef roast on the barbeque and others made some broccoli and got buns ready and made some cake and cupcakes. When I finished I asked for the cupcakes and I guess people were waiting for someone to ask because right after I did the cupcakes were gone in less than 5 minutes. I had some fun with the kids Odin and Bjorn, Bjorn was not quiet. some people even went in a pool in the back, I didn’t though. that night was very fun though, I was being stalked and followed by Odin, Odin’s clumsy but amazing. I probably stayed up around 12-1 am.

I stayed there for one more day and then went back on the ferry. I walked on the Ferry for the first time and went with no parent for the first time (and almost lost my luggage at the end). The way back was pretty fast and it only seemed like 20-30 minutes. I somehow knew we were close from looking at a specific tree though, I don’t know how but I guess that tree looked familiar?