October 14, 2013

Not having to work today turned it into a pretty lazy day. Kind of like a Sunday. By mid-afternoon the plumbers had fixed plumbing so I was able to use my own shower again, which was pretty nice. They filled in the giant hole in the backyard but there is still a big mound of dirt where the hole used to be because the dirt isn't packed down. We were told to shove a hose into it and let the water fun full blast for six to eight hours a day. In theory that will get the dirt to all settle down. Sounds more like an incredible waste of water and a really high water bill. And have you ever tried to shove a floppy hose into a pile of hard dirt? There are also two big pipes sticking out of the pile of dirt. My guess is they are for easy access if future problems occur. At the moment they are both sticking several feet out of the ground but the plumbers said they would come back and cut them off when the dirt had settled.

My main accomplishments for the day involved Minecraft. I made a good amount of progress on my TARDIS swimming pool. I instantly regretted deciding to use hundreds of torches to represent stars but I have fully committed at this point so the project continues. And then tonight I went download crazy. Every so often I'll download a bunch of mods and play them for a little bit and then forget about Minecraft for awhile. And inevitably when I come back several updates have occurred and all my mods are out of date. Tonight I downloaded the new launcher for the latest version of Minecraft and downloaded a texture pack that makes the game look like a child-friendly RPG, if that makes any sense whatsoever. I like it. I also downloaded a harvest mod so I can grow a whole bunch of different food things and the mo creatures mod so there are all sorts of new animals that I can eventually tame. To help with installing everything, and sometimes it was required, I downloaded an installer that makes everything really easy. For the most part I just need to drag the downloaded mod zip folder into the mods folder in my Minecraft folder. It took me awhile to get some things to work but I almost got their eventually. The harvest mod, craft guide mod, mod installer, and texture pack were fairly straight forward. The mo creatures and mini-map mod took awhile longer to work out. For mo creatures, one of the files downloaded as a zip when it was really a jar, so I had to fix that. And for the mini-map mod I had to get the latest updated one off of the Japanese forum because it hadn't been added to the English forum yet. I was unable to figure out the shaders mod, timber mod, or single player command mod but I might continue looking at that tomorrow.

Now I am listening to Seether and writing this. I heard a Seether song on the radio the other day and it made feel really nostalgic for high school. I listened to their CDs on repeat for so long. And it is currently way past my bedtime and I actually have to go to work tomorrow so I am going to end this here.