February 19, 2014

Last night was another restless one. This time I was up at 2:00AM, running and dancing and bouncing around my room. The pain eventually went away but I was woken up by the aching several more times throughout the night. Waking up this morning sucked and I still ached for at least the first hour or so of work.

While at work I had a pretty boring day. And I was glad for that because I really didn't feel like moving around too much. I scanned the sixth grade pictures I had been given and edited them. Of the four or five kids who have brought photos in, only one of them had actual photos. The rest had printed off digital photos. I imagine real photos are becoming more and more rare. Digital photos are great for the convenience but I would definitely want real, physical photos of my kids. I feel like it is a lot easier to lose digital pictures than it is physical ones. And pictures taken on film that are then developed, last longer than digital photos printed on photo paper. There are plenty of positives and negatives for both but I would want to cover my bases, just in case.

I also worked on storybooks today. I made progress but it didn't feel like it because I got held up on one particularly involved page. So much white space but it wasn't just big blank spaces, it was mixed in with the drawings. I had finished two pages before that I think but ended up spending the rest of my time getting only about halfway through that last one.

One of the fifth grade teachers decided to take a typing speed test while her kids were working on Type To Learn 4 in the lab today. I can't remember what her score was but then she had me take it. And I can't remember what my score was either. Somewhere in the 70s. I blamed the keyboard because I'm really not used to typing a lot on the squishy keyboards we have in the lab. Later in the afternoon I tried the test out using my mechanical keyboard I got up to 81wpm with zero errors. Not bad but it also didn't hurt that I was typing the same passage I had typed a few times before.

On my way home from work I stopped at Target to buy things. My kidney wasn't bothering me and I decided to take advantage of that. It was a successful trip. I also stopped at a gas station and bought some Powerball tickets. One of my New Years resolutions was to start playing the lottery. I have always wanted to win the lottery but I have also never played the lottery (not counting scratch-offs in Christmas stockings and the office pool last year). I figure it is pretty hard to win the lottery without playing it, so I wanted to change that. And I did. Turns out it is super easy to buy Powerball tickets. You just ask the cashier for Powerball tickets.

I noticed last year during the office pool that it is a lot of fun thinking and talking about all the things you would do if you won the lottery. It is the same sort of feeling I get building computers online and thinking about all the cool things I could do with them. Maybe that is part of the reason people gamble. If so, I get it. Hopefully I can keep up with the lottery thing. I figure that at the moment I don't have a lot of vices. I don't eat candy or drink alcohol or eat out very often, so dropping a few bucks a week on Powerball tickets is an okay thing.

Tonight I watched YouTube videos and played some BF4. I made a bit of a mistake in my first game on the no explosives server and got insta-killed by an admin. That mistake being switching loadouts and not changing the grenades in that loadout to smoke grenades. I apparently got a kill with the first grenade I threw, which I didn't realize because I didn't hear an explosion, get a notification on my screen that I had killed someone, and I was instantly killed by an admin. And I don't know if it was a glitch or on purpose, but even though I wasn't banned, I couldn't redeploy, so I just logged off. I was annoyed because I was certain I had thrown a smoke grenade, and didn't realize my mistake until after I had left. My bad. My next game on a different server went better, even with a whole bunch of explosions.