May 17, 2014

Today was sadly unproductive. At least the majority of the day, anyway. I was in one of those moods where I knew I should be doing one thing but couldn't bring myself to do it so I avoided all the other things so I didn't feel like I was wasting my time. If that makes any sense whatsoever. It is kind of the same feeling as when I want to do twenty different things but can't decide so I do nothing instead. So rather than working on the slideshow today, I did a lot of nothing. And took a nap.

At work tonight most of my time was spent knitting. And ignoring the pain in my hand caused by knitting. I knew I wasn't going to have enough yarn to get to six feet but my goal for the night was to get to the end of the yarn that I had left. Which I did. Now I'm pretty sure I need more yarn. The scarf is somewhere over five feet, may four inches or so beyond, which is obviously shy of the six feet I shoot for when making a scarf. But I think this is the type of yarn that stretches over time, so after a bit of use the scarf my become a bit longer. Or maybe the stitch is tight enough that the stretching won't be a big thing. I'm going to get some other opinions and then maybe go buy more yarn on Monday and knit like crazy to get it finished by Thursday. I might actually have some yarn that is the same color. Maybe. But it was purchased several years ago so the odds of it matching aren't too high. So fingers crossed if I need more yarn that it will be in stock and of the right color. I'll be sure to take a piece from the scarf skein with me so I don't end up with a blanket situation where it looks similar until I put it next to the original yarn.

I watched the last twenty minutes of Godzilla tonight. I didn't know it was about Godzilla fighting other monsters so that was surprising. But it looked interesting. And maybe a little cheesy. I'd like to see the rest of the movie to see how everything fits together. There is a chance that it isn't cheesy and it all makes sense. I will say that CGI people have definitely gotten really good at destroying buildings. It is very believable.

Tomorrow is my brother's graduation. I got a text from my dad tonight asking me to come over at 12:30PM to take family pictures before the graduation ceremony. Hooray for family pictures. The ceremony is at two o'clock, I think, and then after we're having a barbecue at my dad's house. Hopefully it doesn't last too long so I can work on the slideshow at least a little bit tomorrow. My goal was to get it done this weekend but that didn't even kind of happen. I wasn't in the mood to work on it after the party last night or this afternoon before work. I think maybe if I had opened this morning things would have been different, but probably not. In the back of my mind I had the thought that Sunday would be the big day for getting it done, completely forgetting about graduation. So yeah. I need to get that done, preferably before Tuesday so I have enough time to show it to people, get their feedback, and have time to make any tweaks I need to before Thursday. I have messed with the software a bit but I still have yet to actually make a full slideshow. Hopefully it all goes as smoothly as I imagine it will in my head.