Surprise!

HERE IS MY SURPRISE! I MADE A T-SHIRT FOR MY BLOG!



You might also notice that there are some neat new graphics in my video, to go along with the neat graphics on the new shirt! I’m trying to experiment with different ways of making future videos more “viewer friendly,” so let me know what you think of these changes!

Oh I almost forgot you can order the shirt here: http://www.cafepress.com/peterbearsden

A surprise is coming soon!

OH MY GOODNESS I AM SO EXCITED!

I can't tell you what it is yet, so stay tuned. I'll tell you this, I am going to be posting the surprise in a video very very soon!

Have you guys ever done anything on CafePress.com? Do you know how long it takes to get stuff you order from them?

Judy's old car

Okay I will be honest, I am writing this blog post to win a bet that Judy didn't think I could write a blog post about her car. I told her I could do it, and so I am.

You could see Judy's car a little bit in my "Bear on the Loose" outtake I posted last week, but it doesn't fully portray the truth. Judy's dad bought it for her a couple of years ago after she graduated high school and he apparentely got a good deal, but I am not sure its as good as he said it was.

I guess the color is okay (I think Judy likes it, but it is not my favorite), but that's just the outside. It has stickers on it on the back, things that are for bands and places I have never been. I think the original owner was someone who listens to really heavy music and probably has a bunch of different percings. The outside of it is okay, but the inside is just kind of rough sometimes when you look at it because there are stains and spills on the backseat and floor cloth. (Also Judy's dad never cleans it out, so there are soda cans under the seat from our trip to Tennessee still!)

I may take pictures some time or do a video on it, but I may have to do it when Judy isn't looking.

I win the bet!

We have a flat screen TV!

YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT I FOUND IN OUR DINING ROOM! A flat screen tv! My grandmother must have bought it when she bought her camera. I didn't notice it because it was in a big blue bag, but when I was looking for my game disc for "Civil War Secret Missions" again this morning, I found it.

I don't know why we didn't already open it, so I am going to open it and play my video games on it while my grandmother isn't here! It's going to be so cool. My videos and games are going to look SOOOO GOOOOD on it.

I have been asking my grandmother for a flat screen TV since they first starting showing up for reasonable prices in the sunday paper ads, which was so long ago I have forgotten. People my age need the newest technologies or we won't have the same learning oportunities as our friends and we will be left behind technologically. Every one has a table or a smartphone and we still have a tiny little tv I got in middle school. It played vhs tapes so I could watch rescuers or the fox and the hound on it, but  these days it has to be flat and play HD videos and blue-rays, and we are just getting it.

It can be frustrating sometimes, but at least we finally got a flat tv!

Do you guys have flat scren tvs?! Are they awesome!?

No more video game walkthrough of CIVIL WAR SECRET MISSIONS

I have bad news everyone, I was going to record the next chapter of my video game walkthrough series for CIVIL WAR SECRET MISSIONS, but something bad has happened. I can't find the disc.

I checked in my playstation and I looked all over. Maybe my  grandmothers' cat took it or something, because I know where it was but now I don't. I know I didn't move it and Judy promised she didn't. I have looked everywhere. I looked on bookshelves, under furniture. I made sure to double check the DVD collection in case it was hard to see, but I can't find it anywhere!

I am pretty upset about this turn of events, and I don't know if I can find another copy of the game. or if the game. Do you know if I can use the new copy and my old save files?

I am going to look for another game to play on my blog. Something that there aren't a lot of walkthroughs for. Give me suggestions if their is anything you want to see!

PETER BEAR 'DELETED SCENE': Bear on the loose

Hey guys, I was just looking around my computer a few days ago and found this video I made on the way to SaginMeOff's house to make his video "angry guy in my yard"

My computer died, so I was never able to finish this segment. It's a pretty cool insight into the travel process though!

It is just sort of a DVD special features thing. I thought you might like it.

Productivity tip # 2: make lists!

After last weeks tip about productivity (recap, don't use calanders) I wanted to follow up with another big one. Its sort of my big personal secret...

It's "making lists"!!!

How else are you going to remember what you have to do? I used to think of something I wanted to do but I kept forgetting all of my good ides. Then I started making lists and i have done everything i have ever thought of sense then!

I am going to make an example list for you to see how it gets done. This is general of course, and you should customize to fit your own task.

You can do a general day list and see how it makes your day go by so much faster

• Wake up
• Eat breakfast
• Take a shower
• Watch  30 minutes of TV 

Or you can make a longer goal list like this sample of mine

• finish video game walkthrough video series
• cook a chicken from scratch
• make sugar cookies
• write a blog post about lists
  

Some of those weren't on my list, but I put them for example.

I recommend keeping lists in at least 2 places: your refrigerator and your pocket. If you keep one on your reridgerator, you will always have it handy when you are cooking or reading the Sunday comics. But in your pocket is good for traveling. I sometimes for get to bring one in my pocket, but when I do I never forget it. 

Productivity tip: don't use a calendar!

Do you have trouble getting your work done? Do you wish you could just finish it up and not get distracted.

I have a simple tip for you, don't use a calendar.  That's right. I know some of you are going to disagree with me onthis. But Judy and I were talking about it. She feels like she never gets anything done and I feel like I am always working on the next big thing you know?

So what's the difference. Judy asked me if I use a calendar. No, I think that calendars are actually stifling. I do whatever i can do every day, and if it just so happens that i got it done before Friday, that's fine. I don't care if i get it done in March or Jun or whatever.

Do you see what I am getting at? What does the day or time matter when you are making progress. If you have a deadline, then do it by the deadline. But a calendar is just a grid of dates that can really just get you down when you need to be out there doing the work.

So, take it from me. Just get your work done and stop looking at your calendar. It doesn't make any difference.

Let me know what you think in the comments. I think I am onto something. 

My grandmother's cat

I changed my background the other day to a space background because I have been watching a lot of the discovery channel, and the stars are really awesome.

But i just had to take down my old background, a picture of my grandmother's cat. We have named him so many different times and so many different nicknames, i find it hard to keep up. He used to be Selvester the cat, like in the cartoons, and then we called him Tom (or Jerry? the cat, not the mouse), and then Judy called him Mr. Kitty until my grandmother said he was a cat not a kitty.

So I tend to just call him my grandmother's cat, since she takes him a bunch of places with her.

Here is his picture.

I haven't seen him around lately, but I bet he's staying with Ms. Harper down the street. She has a lot of cats and my grandmother is gone on her trip.