May 3, 2014

My main focus at work today was knitting and I managed to get my purple scarf to three and a half feet. I am on the downward slope. I can feel the progress in my hands and arms but I am glad I actually have something to show for it. I just need to keep it up. And not make anymore mistakes because all I can look at is the one of the edge I made last night.

When I wasn't knitting, I read a bit from the Stephen King book I started awhile ago, and played a little bit on my tablet. In the book (11/22/63), the main character can travel back through time and the goal is to stop the JFK assassination. The main catch is the little portal he goes through always takes him to the exact same time and day, several years before the assassination, and everything he may have done previously, gets reset every time he enters the past. So he can go in, punch a guy in the face and piss everyone off, but as soon as he leaves and goes back, he is back at that specific day and time in the past, before he did all the stuff to piss off the people. I feel like I am making this explanation more complicated than it needs to be. Anyway, so the goal is to go back, live in the past until he can stop the assassination, and then come back. And even though he will have to live in the past for several years, only two minutes will have gone by in the present. My main reason for bringing this all up is the time reset thing. That would be an interesting explanation for deja vu. The reason something feels like it has already happened, is because it has, but it was reset at some point and this time around you just happened to be in the right spot at the right time and experienced the same thing again. Interesting.

Tonight I had an almost proper dinner. I made pasta with fake meatballs, steamed some green beans in the microwave, and had a cheese stick and bread with butter for good measure. The only thing I was missing was fruit. Vegetables tend to be easy but fruit takes a bit more effort, an effort I don't make often enough probably. And fruit snacks don't count unfortunately.

After dinner I played Tera for awhile. I leveled up once or twice and killed a big dragon thing. It felt pretty good because he was so huge and it took at least a few minutes to take him out. This happened right after I tried to take on a different giant mob and almost instantly got owned and ended up running all over the map trying to get him to give up and let me go. But after defeating the other big guy I got a little cocky and took on another big dragon thing for a quest. I managed to kind of hold my own for awhile, kiting around and taking pot-shots until the dude was down to less than 30% health. But then he did this spin thing that instantly killed me. I used a scroll to instantly respawn but the dudes health went back to 100% and I wasn't going to put up with that again so I called it a night. I'll come back when I have leveled up a couple more times.

My main goal for tomorrow is to finally get a start on putting the sixth grade slideshow together. I am still missing pictures from several kids but I want to get a feel for working with the two different pieces of software I am going to need for the project so I'm not trying to learn everything at the last minute. I should be able to make the menu tomorrow without a problem and maybe just drop the slides I have into my video editing program and see what happens. I figure I can make it and render it out to see how long that will take and then go back and drop in new slides as I get more pictures and render a final version when I get to that point. This is all sounding a bit ambitious because I have wanted to start the slideshow several times before. And then I wake up on Sunday and don't want to do anything but nothing because it is my only non-work day. So we'll see. I also tend to be very unproductive when I have too much time to work on something. But I am hoping I can get something done. I also need to write my monthly report for my volunteer thing, and that will probably end up being the only thing I do tomorrow, other than laundry. And maybe a nap.