January 18, 2014

I reached level ten in Battlefield 4 sometime recently and today I finally got to try out Commander mode. This is where all you get a giant overview of the map and you can order squads around, deploy UAVs or EMP UAVs, drop resupply crates, and other stuff. When played on the PC you can also see the POV of individual players on your team but on a tablet it is much more basic. I ended up playing more on the tablet so I could watch YouTube videos on my computer, and I had fun but it was also kind of pointless. I didn't really feel like I was having much impact on the game. But it is a more “productive” use of my mobile gaming because the points I get go toward leveling up my BF4 character.

At work tonight it was day two of training the future manager. More stuff went wrong tonight (wrong movies being loaded, cues not working, preshows not working, manually starting stuff, loading just a movie without all the trailers or ads or cues, leading to manually turning everything off, and things I have forgotten). I also showed her how to check how many hours were on projector bulbs and how to adjust the lens. So almost everything that could go wrong, did go wrong in the last two days, which isn't great normally, but it does serve as a perfect learning experience. When we weren't fixing broken things, she continued reading The Fault In Our Stars by John Green, and I played Animal Crossing and continued reading Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, the Book Club book for next month.

Last night I was at the theater until after 2:30AM but tonight we didn't have any midnights so I got off at eleven o'clock, after the last movies had started. I much prefer eleven o'clock to two o'clock. Now I can make it to bed before one o'clock which will hopefully allow me to experience more of my Sunday. It is supposed to be nice out tomorrow so I would like to go get my car washed. We'll see if that happens.