Amiibo Hunting and Final Loads of Free Crap Bash

(This is a little late. Events happened on September 11th 2015)

Hey everyone. Today is a rather dark day in history. In respect, all flags around campus were flown at half mast, and members of the military stood around one flagpole in reverence. As I passed that flag pole, I took my own moment of silence, and remembered how the world would never be the same after that day 14 years ago.

Coincidentally enough, this was also the day for my college's "loads of free crap bash" as I've come to call it. In previous years I've spent pretty much the whole day there, going to different booths, seeing what organizations are available on campus, and getting loads of free crap; pens, magnets, coupons, lanyards, and just out there stuff. It was great freshman year because that's how I figured out how to get involved, and sophomore year was kind of the same but to a lesser extent. But after sophomore year I know the clubs I had time for and could be in, so it just became about the free stuff, but I made sure to see everyone, and then last year I helped out with one of my clubs.

Well this year I wasn't able to have the level of fun I normally had. The bash was from 3-7, and I had class at the engineering campus from 4-6:30. This meant I would be able to wander around for about 30 minutes before I had to leave for my class. I also had class from 2-2:50 so that meant I wasn't able to help the clubs I'm in get set-up. Well, I was able to help my film club set-up some at 1:40 since their booth was right outside the building I had my class in, but not much. After the class I headed out with my singe sack and went grabbing. Most of the good stuff you have to play a mini-game for, and wait in line. While I enjoy the mini-games, I wasn't about to wait in line, so I just went to the open booths. I picked up a bunch of pens and magnets per usual, and a couple cups.

Instead of just listing it, I'll show a picture.

I have flyers, thunder sticks, a Frisbee, a hat, a micro USB cable, and some other things as you can see.

I was a bit surprised with how much stuff I got in the period of 30 minutes. I went to class, and the cool thing was that since this was the first week, and it's not a traditional learning environment, we were done at 5:15, which meant I could head back to the bash. Most people packed up, and I already got the good stuff, so I went to my Pokemon club and sat at the booth for 15 minutes. Then they decided to pack-up, so I went to my film club's booth and sat there for 30 minutes, and helped them pack up afterwards. They had balloons to draw the eye, and I claimed them. Lets see how long they last.

Another point of mention is Amiibo Hunting. Wave 5B I think we're calling it was released September 11th 2015, and normally I'm not able to Amiibo hunt the day of release because I had to work or didn't have a car. Not this time. This time, I went to Meijer at midnight to get what they had. I picked up Zero Suit Samus, Ganondorff, and Olimar. I was going to get 8-bit Mario, but something was wrong with my card so I was only able to get those 3. Besides, I was going to go to Target at 8AM to get Dr. Mario, so I'll try to get 8-bit Mario then as well. Neither store had many units available, so I'm glad I was there when I did. I was missing Bowser Jr. but I didn't know of a Toys R Us around my campus so I was going to let him go, but on Saturday I googled Toys R Us in my area, and I found one a couple miles away. I called them to see if they had Bowser Jr. in stock, and they did. I picked up Bowser Jr. and since they also had Smash Yoshi, I picked one of those up as well since all I can ever find is Mario Party Yoshi. It was pretty cool doing a midnight and store opening release. At Meijer people were just lining up and hanging out at the electronics counter, and at Target people were lining up outside the store. I was pulling in when they were handing out "line numbers," so I didn't get one, but I made sure I made it to the front of the no-number line.

Well that was my Friday and Saturday. It's weird that this will be my last "free crap bash." The closest thing I will ever have to this again will be a business convention and job fair, but it'll be professional instead of recreational, or maybe a convention, but the vendors charge for their stuff. But hey, Amiibo hunting was fun. Well, this has been Pokematic, signing off and bu-bye.

Little Caesars Pizza Bowl and the Before Party

Hey everyone, my family went to the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl with Western Michigan University and Purdue University. I'm not a big football fan but my grandpa is and as a student I get discounted tickets. So for his Christmas/Birthday gift my family took him to see the game. Before I go into details of the game, I need to talk about Bronco Bash, the before party.

With the tickets I got passes to the Bronco Bash, a pre-game party held at MGM grand casino and hotel in Detroit. Unfortunately I forgot my phone in the van so I don't have any pictures. It was really cool though. We got these VIP badge things that got us in.

It was cool. I also saw 3 of the many gold people at the entrance. I wish I had a picture of them. It's a full body suit, gold color with a brown W on the chest, and they wear sunglasses over their eyes. They also mime everything. They're quite interesting. So inside there is a buffet of hot dogs, nachos, burgers, and pizza. I had a hot dog, some nachos, and a cheeseburger. Outside they had bars with free pop, I had a sprite. This was held in a theater/conference room thing. On the stage there they had various performances. What we were able to see was a band that did covers of a bunch of different songs and some original pieces. They were pretty good. After them was the marching band. They played the fight song and the almamatre and what not. After that we went over to the stadium. I got my phone from the car at the stadium so there are pictures.

The game was at Ford Stadium in Detroit. The doors didn't open until 3 an we got there a little early, and so did other people. There was a news van getting B-roll footage. I recognised the call station, it's the CBS at my school. They saw me in my swag and I may end up on the news. They did do a close up. I took this because I thought it was funny.

Please note how the sign says no standing and look at what we're doing.

I walk in and it's just amazing. It's quite creative all the names and presentation and everything. But instead of describing, here are pictures.

Please note the interesting ways of saying where things are.

They had stands like this everywhere. They separated by having a different address. All other concessions are just cool looking.

 Cant see in pic but it says loaded

Now for some cool signs and ads.

These I just found interesting

 The faucet controls are just like a flusher and function the same way.

Cool looking recycling bin.

It was a great neon sign but alas, my bad camera.

Little Caesar and eveyones favorite garlic bread.

Some stadium and sinage shots

 Western Michigan Broncos

 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl

Purdue Boilermakers

We got these pom poms fro walking in. Somehow we ended up with 6 and had 4 people.
That's all the pictures. Now for description. Like usual, look up on myspace to see what I left out.

So we find our seats and get ready for the game. There was an usher that I'll refer to as Ticket Nazi where to get to your seat by the aisle, you needed your ticket. I'm pretty hard to forget, but every time I needed to show my ticket. She refused some little kids, like less than 10, entry because they didn't have their ticket. She also made sure you sat in your seat. And it was just our aisle, not others. To get to my seat I crossed the entire row to avoid her. She did take breaks which made it a little easier. I wouldn't bring this up if it weren't for the way we bent the rules.

As a student, our seats were student section seats. As we soon found out, student section is standing section. We couldn't see. My grandpa and I went to the section on the other side of the aisle, where people were sitting. Sure, they weren't our seats, but the people who had them weren't there and Ticket Nazi wasn't looking. We move over and now we can see. I made sure to be as inconspicuous as possible. Definitely not easy with a safety vest.

It's a college football game, and my college is no where near Ford Field. I guess I wasn't expecting to know anyone there. But I ran into a guy I know from Students For Life, my Fall Welcome Leader, and I think I saw my RA. I'll have to see if it was him when I go back.

This little incident, it takes serious balls to do this. I'm seated with the one group of student fans and these fans from the opposing team come over in costume with these signs that said their team was better. One was really creative. The sign said "you may lose Waldo but [school name] won't lose to you." while wearing a where's waldo get up, with the striped hat and shirt and glasses. The other guy was thing 1 but I didn't catch his sign. Everyone was booing them and telling them to get out of here and other less polite things. I don't remember the threat, but it had to do with "if something were legal." That was either the balliest or stupidest thing I've ever seen.

Half time was decent. Western did a Lady Gaga thing and all the dancers were wearing Gaga wigs and sunglasses while dancing to telephone. I left to the bathroom since I don't care for pop fodder. Purdue did Popeye the sailor man. I like Popeye.

We left about halfway through the 3rd, because by then we were all done. The game started at 4:30 and we left at 7. We were done and not much was happening.We got out easy and caught the end on ESPN. Purdue won. Well this has been Pokematic signing off and bu-bye.

Loads of free crap bash

Hey everyone, I had a great 2 hours from 3-5.

Get your mind out of the gutter, I'm talking about Bronco Bash, or as I call "loads of free crap" bash. As my nickname implies, there is a lot of free stuff. A lot of it is fliers for various organizations and businesses. The main reason is to promote themselves through free stuff. Some of those fliers are worth wile, and others are not. But hey, it's free.

But then there is stuff free stuff.

• In the world of writing utensils, I got 9 new pens, 1 pencil, and 1 highlighter.
• 3 plastic cups.
• Metro PCS mouse pad.
• 2 free key chains.
• 2 "beer pong" pin-pong balls. Won't be using those for their promoted use.
• 2 free planners, making my grand total 4 planners.
• Some free candy.
• Some bank gave me a free thing of ramen.
• A free sample of Crew 3 in 1 shampoo, conditioner, and body wash.
• 7 magnets
• $1 coupons for the local video store. Yes they still exist.
• A pin for a free driving service.
• A windshield ice scraper.
• An aluminum water bottle
• Coupons and coupon books
• Codes for free games or something through psn. Wonder if it'll work with my psp
• Stickers
• A book of matches
• A kazoo
• Sticky notes
• Chop Sticks
• A memo pad
• Some literature on pro-life
• 2 "comic" books, they aren't that good.
• And a small little student news paper.

I wish I took a picture of the singe sack that I put all the free stuff in. It was crazy full. But I did get a picture of all the stuff when I took it out of my bag. Here it is.

Lot of free stuff. Obviously some stuff is buried under other stuff. Well that was my fun time at Lots of Free Crap Bash. Well I need to get back to cleaning it up. Until next time, this has been Pokematic signing off and bu bye.