December 15, 2013

This morning while sitting in my chair, I moved my head ever so slightly, and ended up with a kink in my neck that has persisted throughout the day. Very annoying. What is the world coming to when I can't even turn my head without hurting myself. Shameful.

Today I was slightly productive in terms of Christmas stuff. I came up with a list for my mom, gave a few ideas to my dad, and asked my mom and sister what they wanted. My sister got back to me but I'm still waiting on my mom.

This afternoon I went over to my grandma's house to help her with the formatting for her Christmas letter. She wants to print it on paper with a fancy border that isn't uniform around the paper. I messed around with it a bit, with several test prints (and a break to replace her ink cartridges), and finally saved it as a template so she can just click on it in the future and not have to worry about messing with the margins.

Due to various things I missed most of the Yogscast livestream today but I did record it so I'm watching it now. They are/were playing a live MoonQuest, which is one of their current Minecraft series' where they are trying build a rocket and get to the Moon. From the bits I saw, there were a lot of technical difficulties in the beginning but maybe it worked itself out.

Throughout the day I played Animal Crossing off and on and made a whole bunch of progress. The shoe store opened and I was able to get the rest of the Santa costume. I also got to go to the island for the first time and spent the rest of the day going back and forth. I caught a bunch of fish and bugs, donating the new ones to the museum and selling the rest. I also took the various tours and was able to collect different fruit and planted those in my town so I have more than oranges. All-in-all, a whole bunch of progress and I made about 50,000 bells.

Tonight I played a bit of Skyrim, finishing up the quest I nearly started the last time I played. I had one jump scare when an undead something came out of nowhere, I learned a new shout (but I don't know if I can use it yet), and I upgraded my Archery and Sneak. I found it to be very effective to go through the whole dungeon in sneak mode so I could get shots on bad guys before they knew I was there. Which had the added benefit of 2x damage when I did manage to hit them while hidden.

I tried my new DVR on another TV today, with a different HDMI cable, and it didn't work. Just to see, I tried it with a composite cable, and it worked. But that kind of defeats the purpose considering I got it because the old one only had the composite cable option and I wanted HDMI so I could watch stuff in HD. So, I'm fairly certain the HDMI port is messed up. I'm going to take it back tomorrow and see if they can swap it out or tell me that I am doing something wrong.