January 2, 2014

Another day gone. And nothing to show for it. I briefly looked into graduate school stuff again but that went nowhere. Such a waste. I watched a bunch of YouTube videos and played video games. All while wishing I could find the motivation to be doing anything productive. Wonderful.

I played a bit of Battlefield 4 tonight, until the servers got DDOSed and knocked offline. I'm probably just as awful as I was with the last game, maybe a little worse because I'm such a low level and don't have any decent guns unlocked. Who knows what my excuse will be when I do have decent guns unlocked.

I also played a bit more Far Cry 3. I didn't progress the storyline any but I did climb a couple watchtowers and killed a bunch of animals so I could craft some better gear. I think I'm up to four out of eighteen watchtowers unlocked. This game is way too big.

Today is the last day of the Steam winter sale. Throughout the sale I voted on the community choice game, which would change every six hours based on community votes. For every three votes, I got one winter sale trading card. By collecting all ten you could craft the winter sale badge. Based on the randomness of cards earned, I ended up with several of a few and missing two of them. Then I stumbled across a winter sale trading card group where you could put in what you had and what you wanted. I made a post but got nothing from it and then tried initiating a couple trades that didn't work out. Finally I when to the very last page of the most recent thread and initiated trades with people who had posted only a minute or two before, so I was almost certain to catch them still online. And it worked. In less that two or three minutes I was able to get the two cards I was missing and then craft the badge. There is really no point to the badge but it is cool that I did it. I was more interested in getting the cards because they looked cool and the pictures are big enough that they can be used as desktop wallpapers. In fact, I have a different trading card picture for the desktop on each of my monitors right now. I am now a bit tempted to try and get the one card I am missing from the summer sale so I can craft that badge.

Now I am going to try and go to bed. My sleep schedule has been completely screwed up over winter break. Staying up late, sleeping in, and taking naps is all well and good but I am going to be screwed next week.