December 2, 2013

So, it turns out I'm an idiot. I bought Skyrim on Friday but haven't been able to play it because it never showed up in my library. Yesterday I finally emailed Steam Support and this morning the emailed me back. It was a generic reply with several possible fixes but the main thing I got out of it was the line: The Legendary edition of this game will appear in your library as “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.” Whoops. The whole time I was down in the 'S' section of my library. Never even crossed my mind to look up in the 'E' section. I am an idiot.

Today at work I was super productive in terms of storybook editing. Thanks to only small amounts of edits needed to be made on most of the pages I made it through nine or ten pages. I only have one left in the book I'm working on, which I can hopefully finish tomorrow. I think I am going to stick with scanning and resizing and stitching the pages together and adjusting the colors, for the entire book before going back and doing the erasing thing. It is nice being able to get all of that out of the way and then focus on making white areas white and any text edits.

Other than that, not a lot going on at work, hence the amount of work I got done on the storybooks. I had a couple classes in the lab and helped with second grade reading groups. During which we had a fire drill. It was the first time we've had one when I wasn't in the lab so I got to go out a different door. So exciting. It was verging on freezing this morning but thankfully it was fairly nice out by the time the drill happened.

After work I stopped and got a windshield sun visor thing for my mom because hers doesn't fit and her birthday is on Wednesday. The last couple of years I have asked her for a Christmas as a ploy to get ideas for a birthday list. It seems to be effective. But then I have to get her to come up with more things for Christmas. I also briefly stopped at home to get my headphones and a pair of pants, so I could take them to the UPS store. I am sad to see the headphones go because I liked them but it just wasn't meant to be.

So there was that loss but my Amazon stuff started arriving today, including my Chromecast and Animal Crossing: New Leaf. The first thing I did was set up the Chromecast in the living room. I didn't try it with my phone but it worked perfectly with a laptop. I was able to look at different websites as well as watch videos while browsing other tabs. Pretty cool stuff. Now when I show videos on Chipotle nights I can put them on the big screen.

I spent way too much time getting started in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. I had my name, town name, and map picked out but then I mistakenly hit the power button and closed my 3DS to go eat dinner and lost everything. And then I learned that there are a crazy number of different map layouts, given four at a time. I really liked my first layout and none of the new ones were doing it for me so I kept restarting the game, I don't know how many times, getting four new options every time. I eventually found one that wasn't quite as good as my original but it will do. The town of Macaroni lives. I don't actually have a house yet because the realtor place closed by the time I got my location picked out, but I did pick all the fruit and dug up all the fossils I could find. Not a bad start.

I also took a random nap in my chair tonight, with my hands behind my head so I woke up with both hands asleep. It was one of those naps where you're just going to rest your eyes for a second and you wake up several minutes later. Or twenty minutes. I don't regret it because it was nice and I still think I'll be able to fall asleep tonight with no problem. Hopefully.