August 24, 2014

Another morning of waking up way too early and hitting the road before the sun was up. Thankfully my legs had recovered a little but I still kept the pace a tad slower than previous walks. The dog continued her tradition of keeping the cicada population in the neighborhood in check. I think finding and eating them on the street is her favorite part about the morning walks.

The rest of my day was fairly boring. I watched a bunch of YouTube videos, crocheted a lot, and played a lot of Minesweeper. I'm not exactly sure why I played that but I did and actually had fun. I played on the small beginner setting so I actually had a chance and in a way it kind of reminded me of Sudoku. I also packed up my stuff and cleaned the house a bit. My sleeping pad flattened out the carpet in the bedroom so I vacuumed so it looked normal again. I also washed the few dishes I used and put those away. I stepped out in the back yard a few times for some fresh air and was dreading the evening walk because it was over 100 degrees outside. Thankfully my friend's mom got home around four o'clock so she had the honor of going for the walk.

When I got home I took a shower and eventually ate dinner. I watched a few YouTube videos but spent most of the night watching livestreams, doing laundry, and playing a little CS:GO. I knew I would be awful at the game so I went with the deathmatch gamemode because I could get infinite respawns and the chance to try out different guns. True to form, I was awful. I got into Counter Strike a little bit on the original Xbox but I wasn't too great back then either. I almost broke even in one of the games but in the other I was almost killed twice as many times as I killed other people. And I think most of my kills were actually against bots, not actual people. A lot of my deaths were also caused by bots, which is sad. I felt better when I was constantly annihilated by guys with fancy looking guns because I know they have put a lot of time and/or money into the game, whereas I have played less than two hours and have spent no money in-game to get fancy things.

The coming week is going to be a long one. I need to work on grad school stuff, work stuff, and start packing in earnest for the move. The moving should start on Friday and continue through the weekend and beyond. Work stuff will involve installing shortcuts on a bunch of laptops. I looked through my entries from last year and saw that my solution to disappearing links was my shortcut page I made in Word. Regular internet shortcuts get deleted. There is apparently a hot fix for it but it involves modifying the registry and seeing as how I'm not even allowed to open up the towers and blow them out with air, I doubt they want me modifying the registry. So, until another solution is offered by the tech guys, I'm going to stick with my shortcut page being the easiest option to get to the new Odyssey page. This of course assuming that most, if not all, of the plain internet shortcuts I added to the lab computers and fourth grade laptops were wiped over the weekend. But I'm going to stop rambling about that because I have been tired for awhile now and I am looking forward to sleeping in my bed tonight.