August 24, 2013

Today was fairly uneventful. I was awakened earlier than I would have liked by dogs barking. But that has become fairly typical. At least a few hours of my day were spent playing Saints Row 4. It is still fun as hell. At the moment my goal is to get 100% completion. I got close with the first game but ended up starting another character instead so I could see what happened in the story when two choices were presented. Several of the main missions had you choosing between two different things, like saving one person or many people, or blowing up a building or not blowing up the building. Bunt then I got distracted by something else before I got very far into my second character. This game doesn't appear to have the same sort of choices (although it starts with you have to choose whether you want to cure cancer or end hunger, and the game pokes fun at so many different movies and video games, that might just be them poking fun at the last game). So there is less incentive to play through again, at least in terms of the main story, so I'm not going to kid myself into thinking I will start another character. But 100% completion is a thing that could happen.

I went to Hobby Lobby today to check out frames and found that finding a frame for my 6"x24" panorama is going to be an issue. If I want to get it at Hobby Lobby that is. I still need to look online and I've got my fingers crossed for that. If I can't find anything I'll have to have a custom frame made. It would be cool if that was a thing I didn't have to do. Although I might as well get used to it because my sister's cross stitch is more than likely going to need a custom frame.

On the way to Hobby Lobby I drove through campus because that is generally my preferred method of going across town. It is easier during the summer because during the school year my timing tends to suck and I get stuck at a crosswalk as an entire class is letting out. I got kind of lucky today because it turned out to be move-in day for the dorms but I managed to only catch the tail-end of it.

Tonight at work I wasn't in the mood to work on my cross stitch or watch Generation Kill. Instead I finished reading American Sniper by Chris Kyle. It was an interesting book and I liked that it was obviously written by him. It was also depressing to read, especially when he was talking about his kids or his future after the NAVY, running his business and helping war veterans. It is still hard to believe that he survived four tours, getting shot twice, and then was killed by sick soldier who he was trying to help. Sometimes life just doesn't make any sense.

I also started reading Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien. At the beginning of the year there was a bunch of random stuff in the workroom at school that teachers were getting rid of. Amongst all that stuff were several copies of Mrs. Frisby so I grabbed a paperback and a hardcover. I only vaguely remember parts of it but it was one of my favorite books as a kid. I have no idea where it ended up (somewhere in my dad's house probably) but I can remember the cover and that I got it at a small bookstore in Clay Center. I think at the same time I got Tomorrow And Tomorrow by Charles Sheffield, another one of my favorite books from childhood. As I get into the book, more and more of it is coming back to me and I am enjoying it. And not just because of the nostalgia.