You know what really grinds my gears? The phrase early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable. No on time is one time.

The reason is because this phrase was not used properly in my time during boy scouts.

Whenever I would clean up my tent and area I would be the first one done. While it’s a nice thing to help others out and get their tents setup it was extremely annoying to help the people that were purposely slow or just had a later start schedule to me. I would be the first one to finish yet the one to help almost everyone. I was disincentivize from being early because being early meant more work

However, when it comes to showing up to appointments it is extremely nice to be early. I have taken this to such an extremely that now I can leave a 10-minute buffer in my schedule and that buffer would almost always be used for either relaxing before an event or preparing more for whatever was going to happen next.

A message sent by my instructor during a difficult time of the season.

So round 3 of the same problems for the day. Exact behavior that ruins every bit of your marching and playing. So st this point I can’t even think of a single reason y’all even bother with the activity. Each one of you thinks your better than the next person and definitely NOT the problem …AND THATS THE PROBLEM. You’re either the cut up or the person enabling the cut up. We can’t get our feet together cause we never start together. We can’t hit our direction changes or even stand a chance guiding cause we never stop together musically or visually. We don’t guide, we don’t even listen to understand how to guide. We just wander around the field aimlessly thinking we’re right and everyone next to us is wrong. and Marching technique?!? What’s that…other than not worth your time. And it all really comes down to selfishness and zero care for anyone other than yourselves as individuals. The battery? The percussion section? The band? No it’s just a group of individuals faking it. We bicker and fight and throw each other under the bus or generally talk down to one another. How is that ever supposed to work?!? It’s all about HELPING each other, by bringing each other up and teaching each other how to March and play and helping each other know where to be when there’s a momentary lapse in paying attention…or a reminder to not talk and look/listen for direction. But no…I don’t get it. Have fun learning drill tomorrow…I mean, I have no clue how that’s gonna work given you didn’t learn where to start or how to fix facing or how to get off the boxes…and the list just continues. I honestly don’t know why I bother. From here on out just play the page and march the dot. Y’all figure out how to make it good. Or figure out how you’re going to convince me to come back

Do these sentences describe you? Hating YouTube, not getting notifications for my subscriptions, despite the recommendations. Then you have come to the right place. Will I be able to solve all your problems with YouTube? No, because they still need to get their act together in regards to copyright and censorship, and the dumpster fire known as the trending tab. However, I am going to be focusing on an issue that might affect you daily if you watch YouTube, the recommended box. This used to be one of the most frustrating things I had to deal with before I started figuring out how to tailor it for me. Before I start to bore you lets get into these rules.

Watch things you like and are interested in

This may sound pretty simple on the surface level but look at your history on YouTube, Is it full of different topics that you have no idea how you watched such as random cat videos or food asmr. This may seem insignificant but over the long run, the algorithm will start thinking you are interested in those videos instead of the ones you regularly watch that will slowly make the recommendations drift to completely random stuff that you have no idea about.

Never give in

Has there recently been a video titled “turtles like strawberries” well at least for me that was the case. Every single video I watched on the sidebar was the same video and YouTube saying “HEY YOU WANT TO WATCH THIS, DON’T YOU?”. Even if it does peak your interest just remember if you click on it then that is going to leak into your recommendations. So only click on those videos if you want more.

Don’t bother your time with ‘not interested’

With every single video box there are three little dots on the bottom right and one of the options is not interested. From all the time I have clicked this button, it does not fix the issue. You have to use brute force and just not watch the video or it will just keep staying in your recommendations.

Don’t hate it just because it is there

By having an emotional reaction towards any type of video thrown in your direction that is more data to be feed to polarize on a specific topic and be lead down that rabbit hole.

What to do to fix this?

• You are screwed if you watch on mobile (switch to places, like a PC were you have more control)
• Download chrome extensions to have control
  • SponsorBlock
  • Focused YouTube
• Engage less with the comment section

I actually don’t watch sports much at all. I like doing the activity rather than watching them. However, here is my list all sports by watchability from an interactivity, audience experience, and difficulty or easability of making the sport watchable from a production perspective.

Categorical Classification Rankings

1. 1v1 or Combative
2. Performative (I put this distinction as different execution style sports are a performance rather than pure skill such as with powerlifting. For example Figure Skating,acrobatics > Diving > Weightlifting)
3. Team based sports
4. Technical sports
5. Racing

Solid Watchability

• Tag Games - Competitive Tag
• Both physical and mind - Chess Boxing
• Dodgeball
• Combat Sports - Wresting/Martial Arts/Fencing
• Acrobatic Arts - Dancing/Cheerleading/Figure Skating
• Drone Racing
• Gymnastics - Balance beam/Pommel Horse/Horizontal Bar
• Parkour/Free running - Ninja Warrior
• Basket Ball/Handball
• American Football/Rugby
• Skating Sports - Ice Skating/Roller Skating
• Board Sports - Skateboarding/Snowboarding/Surfing
• Esports [heavy personal bias here, I really think it depends on the game]
• Hockey/Lacrosse

Medium Watchability

• Animal Sports - Horse/Dog [any sort of racing would be low in nature, look to my comment on motorsports]
• Athletics - Jumping/Throwing/Running
• Ball games - Baseball/Cricket/Longball
• Billiards
• Boules Sport - Curling/Bocce/Shuffleboard
• Soccer/European Football [slower paced hockey, if I were European this probably would be higher]
• Polo
• Climbing - Competitive Rock Climbing
• Flying disc sports - Disc Golf/Frisbee
• Sports that use a non-netted racket, or paddle - Table Tennis(Ping Pong) [Faster in nature]
• Sports that use a netted racket - Badminton/Tennis/Volley Ball
• Cycling - Bicycle
• Snow Sports - Skiing/Sled
• Stacking - Card/Duce/Cup Stacking
• Water sports - Water Polo/Competitive Swimming/Diving (water polo is a goal sport, swimming is a race, diving is a technical sport)

Background Noise - Low Watchability

• Mind Sports - Card Games/Rubik Cube/Excel [while they are all highly engaging to play I don’t think they’re as engaging to watch]
• Strategy Board Games - (I’m looking at you chess)
• Air Sports - Aerobatics / Parachuting
• Paddling Sports - Canoeing/Kayaking/Rafting/Rowing/Sailing
• Motorsports - Aircraft/Motorboat/Automobile/Motorcycle/Formula One/NASCAR/MotoGP (I feel like this sport is an excuse for people stacked with cash to have a tax write-off for marketing expenses by sponsoring a team. With the exception of Redbull because that seems to be their “philanthropic” business model that so happens to be marketing because if anything goes wrong their brand is directly attached to it.)
• Walking - For some reason race walking exist
• Strength Sports - Strongman/Arm Wresting/Weightlifting (While impressively technical in feat it’s really a solo journey and we are watching the final product)
• Golf
• Shooting - Archery/Gun
• Fishing (slightly less watchable than golf)
• Hunting (morally questionable at best)
• Bowling

Not Applicable

• Mixed Disciplines - Triathlon
• Orienteering - Geocaching
• Quidditch - Harry Potter
• Comment: Fighting is combative in nature and I would not classify it directly as a sport in this ranking. For example, fencing, sword dueling, or bull-leaping would be in this exception

Where I got the list from (the rankings are my own): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sports

Recipe

0. Make in small quantities, does not taste as good when leftover

1. Sweat chopped Onions, Carrots with Butter, Salt, and Black Pepper

2. Introduce vegetable broth

3. Slow boil chopped cabbage, zucchini, tomato chunks, potatoes, and small quantity of broccoli

4. Wait until desired texture is reached

Script for a video (I forgot like half the ingredients, lol)

Alright today we are going to making some vegetable soup

To get started just grab your cabbage and give it a nice drop

Then just put the cabbage in a bowl

Next thing you want to do is grab some carrots, give em a nice toss

Opps, let’s try that again

Just a toss

There we go, also put them into a bowl

Then grab some zucchini and give it a nice chop

Also just put that into a bowl

Then we are going to grab some scallions I used these because I forgot we had onions

Give them a nice slice

Moving on to the broccoli, just use the force I would advise trying this on smaller vegetables first

Then we move on to a yellow zucchini

Oh,oh, one second, it’s giving me some trouble

There we go, now just slice it up

Then there is the onion, it just exists, don’t worry about it

Then we want to grab a pot, put heat on to medium-high, add some oil

Once the oil is heated up you want to add the scallions, onions, and carrots to simmer

Once you have waited for a little, add the broth

Then the final step is to add the rest of the vegetables including cabbage, broccoli, and zucchini

Also, I forgot to add diced tomatoes and potatoes I would recommend adding them otherwise the soup will taste not so pleasant, and add salt and pepper to your desire

And that’s how to make vegetable soup