May 19, 2013

Today was a good day. A relaxed Sunday. I didn't really get to sleep in like I wanted to, I was up by 9:30AM I think. But whatever. I did eventually take a brief nap thanks to the rocking of my chair and the sound of the rain outside. Then I spent some time thinking about how I would make an automatic rocking chair. I really want one now. I don't think it would be hard to make something that would attach to a rocking chair and make it rock by itself. There is probably already something out there. Someday.

I went over to my dad's this afternoon to hang out and finally get my birthday present. My brother and dad wrapped it. They wrapped it good. The outside was newspaper with duct tape. Then a layer of duct tape, then more newspaper with packing tape. It was insane. I used my pocketknife a little bit but then my brother gave me his machete to use. And I did. I wasn't expecting it to be so sharp but I barely had to touch the duct tape and the machete sliced right through it. And I eventually got to the present, which was a big, straight-edge clamp thing. You use it to clamp onto a work piece so you can run your saw or router along it to cut a straight line, or you can use it as a straight edge for drawing a line or something. I already have one, though I haven't used it yet, but the more the merrier. You can never have too many tools and accessories.

After I opened that, my dad and I went up to watch an episode of Woodsmith Shop where they were making a box with miter joints but they cut dovetails into the joint to make it stronger. I had never thought about that before but it makes sense and it looked pretty cool. I don't think we watched anything else after that, we just listened to music and talked about a bunch of random things.

Tonight I played a bit of Battlefield 3 singleplayer on the PC. I bought it the other day because it was super cheap on the Amazon sale. It was in a bundle with Battlefield 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and the Bad Company 2 expansion, Vietnam. So Battlefield 3 was basically $5. Over the course of the game on Xbox I think I have spent $100 ($60 for the game and $40 for the expansions). So $5 is impressive, granted I don't get all the expansion packs with that. But I don't really plan on getting too into the game on the computer. I have sunk 125 hours into the Xbox version so I would rather continue plugging away at that. I got the PC one because the graphics are better so I can go through the singleplayer (which I started on tonight) and enjoy the look of the game. And then hopefully get into some of the multiplayer a bit to see if maybe I want to get Battlefield 4 on PC rather than the Xbox. I like the accuracy of mouse and keyboard controls but playing with a controller just feels good. Minus the pain.

Now I am going to go to bed because I am really tired. And I will be able to sleep better tonight because the power is on and my room won't be devoid of sound. Fingers crossed the power doesn't go out in the middle of the night.