June 29, 2013

This morning I watched a bunch of YouTube videos, read for a bit out on the back porch because the weather was nice, and then took a nap because reading out in a warm, sunny place really made me sleepy.

I really wanted to play video games today but it took me forever to pick one because I was in the mood to play but not in the mood to play. It's weird. I ended up trying LEGO Pirates Of The Caribbean again, after putting at least a half hour into it awhile ago and then having it freeze on me. It has an auto-save feature but it doesn't seem to ever save and there isn't a manual save option. I decided to give it another try today and it froze up once again when I got out of the jail and onto the beach. So I uninstalled the game. At some point I'll try downloading it again and hope that maybe the problem was due to a bad download. I should go back and finish LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4. And then move onto the second game. Sometime. After that frustration I decided to try another game and went with Hotline Miami. It was pretty fun but also unforgiving. There was a lot of trial and error. I went through maybe the first act or something like that before admitting to myself that I really didn't want to play video games.

I really like video games but I am in the state of mind once again that playing them is such a waste of time. I could be doing so many other things instead of wasting my time playing a game. But I also know I won't do anything productive with that time anyway. It is similar to wanting to do everything and instead doing nothing. Which is frustrating.

My friend informed me today of her discovery that she could overcome her fruit and vegetable allergy by heating them in the microwave for 20 seconds. It turns out that it isn't really an allergy to the specific fruit or vegetable, but a protein in the produce that is found in weeds and grass. So your body initially thinks you're coming into contact with weeds and grass, which it is normally allergic to. And apparently body heat is enough to counteract the protein but that doesn't kick in soon enough so allergy-like symptoms crop up before that can happen. Fascinating stuff.

For dinner tonight I decided to have Sonic for the first time in a long time. I get drinks there maybe once a week but it has been forever since I had dinner. And it will probably be the last time for another long while. I always get the breakfast toaster with just the egg, no meat or cheese. Tonight they got the meat part right but they left the cheese on, which was gross. I also wanted to get a large raspberry cherry limeade and somehow ended up with two Route 44 cherry limeades. So I spent more than I wanted and didn't actually get what I want. And I don't think my stomach appreciated the cheese on my sandwich.

Tonight I watched more YouTube videos and then continued watched the episodes of Battlestar Galactica that have commentary. I like getting the little insights given away in commentaries. The most interesting so far being the fact that the actor who played Lee “Apollo” Adama is actually British. I had absolutely no idea.

I also worked a bit more on my cross stitch. I made decent progress and it is looking cool so far. I am excited to see the progress as I start to finish letters. I am also glad that I am still enjoying cross stitching. I am honestly surprised by that. I think a big part of it is the puzzle of trying to continuously stitch around a pattern with a long piece of string, not having to jump more than one square or stitch myself into a corner. And the math involved in centering patterns. It keeps things interesting.

Our neighbors have a history of being assholes with fireworks. They seem to always set them off before they are supposed to or after they are supposed to. On Memorial day they were setting off giant firecrackers and freaking out the dogs. Tonight sometime after ten o'clock they started setting off firecrackers, freaking out the dogs, and once again they are a couple days early. And then it stopped. So I looked outside and there was a cop parked in the circle, out talking to the neighbors. I don't know if they happened to be driving buy and heard the firecrackers or if one of the other neighbors called. Either way, I was happy to see that.