August 21, 2013

Today at work I did stuff but not a lot of stuff. Most of my time on my computer was spent messing with Access. The goal being to completely redesign my student directory from last year, mainly because last year I had Access 97 and this year I have Access 2010, which is way better but also way more confusing. I'll get it figured out by the end of the year. Or I'll give up and move onto other things. But I'd like to figure it out. My next step is figuring out how to edit code in 2010. It was way more straight forward in 97 but I'm sure it is just as easy in 2010.

I also spent some time finding giant pictures of keyboard keys that I could print out. I wanted to put up the simple way of logging of a computer because some kids have poor mouse control. So I found a Windows key, a Right Arrow Key (That I put my own arrow on because the provided arrow looked weird), and an Enter key. Then I printed them out, cut them so they were the same height, and taped them to the wall. It kind of looks like crap, and most of the kids probably won't ever use that technique, but I had a lot of free time and I was tired of looking at Access forms.

Tonight was Chipotle night but I changed things up. I did go to Chipotle because my sister wanted tacos, and I got a burrito because I was there and the rice looked really good, but I got the burrito for tomorrow. For dinner I got a sandwich at Jimmy John's along with the sandwich I got my mom. The burrito won't be as good tomorrow, but it keeps and reheats better than a Jimmy John's sandwich with a bunch of lettuce and avocado. At least I am pretty sure that is the case. I could be thinking of a Chipotle burrito with lettuce, which does not work out the next day. Either way, I could have just gotten one tonight and picked up the other one tomorrow, but I decided to do it this way and I am going to live with that decision. All that being said, the sandwich was good. It has been awhile since I've had one. I didn't feel all weighed down after it like I do after half a Chipotle burrito.

Tonight I played Saints Row 4 for awhile. And had a lot of fun for the most part. I am getting better at running and jumping in a superhero kind of way and I am slowly progressing through the story. But I spend a lot of time just getting distracted by all the little objectives throughout the world. The things that I did not enjoy tonight were the two times the game kind of half froze, where I could move the mouse around (and in one instance rotated the car I was customizing) but couldn't click on any of the buttons to get out of the screen. And what ended my gameplay for the night was either a glitch or some gameplay mechanic that I am completely missing. I am on the ship and trying to start the mission where I get the dubstep gun but when I try to go back to the simulation the city map comes up and I can move around it with the mouse and hover over stuff, but I can't go back into the simulation. If I click on the back button I go back to the ship. And if I click on 'return to the game', I go back to the ship. I have run all over the ship but the checkpoint markers is right in front of the simulation thing and I'm almost certain the mission takes place back in the city. At that point I had gotten tired of alt-tabbing out of the game to close it and restart it so I just called it a night and quit. Hopefully when it reloads next time everything will be fine and dandy.

My other accomplishment for the night was starting my XM radio back up. When I bought my car I had a three-month trial and I listened to it almost exclusively in that time, getting my free fill. I didn't renew it because I was kind of tired of it after that three-month period, and I wasn't going to pay $15 a month for it when I don't really spend all that much time in my car. Since the trial ran out I have been getting offers in the mail to get me to come back. And after my trip to Colorado where we listened to a lot of XM, I decided to take them up on the latest offer of six months for only $25. And I put a reminder on my phone to cancel it before it automatically renews.

Now it is only a little bit after ten o'clock and I am going to attempt to go to bed. I have not been getting enough sleep lately and it is incredibly hard getting out of bed in the morning. Fingers crossed tomorrow morning will be different. And that maybe I will exercise when I wake up. Even just a little bit. I would be happy with anything. My hand and back still hurt from yesterday so I would probably just use my stepper thing. But I'm totally cool with that. Anything thing is better than nothing.