Weekly Whatevers
Investing with Robinhood
Have you messed around on Robinhood at all? It’s an easy way to start to learn how to invest. I’ve loved it. I just drop in $5 per month to play around with and become familiar with stocks.
The app is nice, though, because they don’t charge you. They earn their money on the interest your money accumulates while sitting in limbo (when you sell an app and leave money in the app without investing it for a while). It’s very popular with millennials in experiencing investing for the first time. It’s also sleek and has an easy user interface.
I’m sitting on 5 shares of Tesla ($TSLA) and 1 share of Zynga ($ZNGA). I picked up Zynga through the promotion they have: use my affiliate link, and we both get a free stock! (Go to robinhood.com if you don’t want to use my link).
I need to play around on /r/RobinHood more, too. Just happened across it!
Army Personal Fitness Test (APFT)
I’ve been working towards my Freedom Journal goal—max my APFT with a score of 300+ by 28DEC17—and I’ve consistently improved my score each time I’ve taken it! My latest score was a 283 on 13NOV17!
- Push-ups: 75 reps (score: 100 [max])
- Sit-ups: 79 reps (score: 99; personal record)
- 2-mile Run: 14:19 (score: 84; personal record)
- Total: 283
Gotham Seasons 3 & 4
Just before Stranger Things 2 dropped on Netflix, we tore through Gotham Season 3 on Netflix! It gets darker and weirder this season, but we can’t help but love it! We’ve been catching up on Season 4 on Hulu since we finished Stranger Things, and we can’t help but feel that it might be getting too gory. I love how they work in so many minor characters like Professor Pyg and Tigress. Also, they did a fantastic job incorporating Solomon Grundy. I love watching the show for how they’ll spin each new character.
Inktober
I’ve been much more active on Deviant Art as of late, and there’s been an October challenge—”Inktober”—floating around, that I started using to push me to draw more. It’s helped! I need to be better about it though. I’ve been so swamped lately. I’m still not done with the challenge and we’re about done with November! But nonetheless, it’s pushed me to draw things outside of my norm, and I’ve actually loved how it’s stretched my boundaries! You can find me on DA at ~jonnymhenderson.
StarCraft II
Well, Blizzard finally dropped SCII to free-to-play, so I deleted Heroes of the Storm (HotS), RuneScape, and Dungeons & Dragons Online (DDO) to make room for SCII! Oh man, I’ve freakin’ loved it. So fun. I love the universe it’s set in, the storytelling, and the familiarity with a modern twist. It’s lovely, and I’m only a few missions into the Terran campaign!
Katy Perry
Holy Hannah! Shalene surprised me with tickets! I didn’t think it would happen, since her concert in SLC was on Black Friday, and this is the year where all the extended family was in Idaho Falls for Thanksgiving (as in all our babysitters). She did it all behind-the-scenes, and we went! It’s one of the few concerts where our musical tastes overlap enough to enjoy it together. She finally told me beforehand because I wouldn’t let it go and kept trying to make plans so that it would happen. She was worried I’d be stubborn enough to work it out on my own!
The concert was fantastic, and I’ll be sure to clue you in on it more when I’ve got my video all stitched together. Be watching for it!
Purity Ring
They opened for KP, so naturally, I’ll “rave” (see what I did there) about these Canuks! I’ve been loving their songs. At the concert, it was really hard to hear what she was singing, because of the sound, but I thought it’d make for amazing background study music. Now that I’m home and can throw in headphones, they’re actually great! PS They also co-wrote 3 songs with Katy: “Mind Maze”, “Miss You More”, and “Bigger Than Me” (Wikipedia). Here are a few of my top picks by them:
Template
I think I’m going to start using the following template for my Weekly Whatevers from now on:
- Music
- Quote
- Productivity
- Picture
- Art
Thoughts?
Servus~