November 26, 2014

I was late to bed last night and early to rise this morning because the dish guy was coming to give us cable. Originally he was coming between 8:00AM and 12:00PM. That was then refined to 8:45AM. And then it was even later because five minutes away turned into closer to twenty or thirty minutes because he got lost. His GPS didn't have the street. No surprise there considering we don't exist to the cable company either.

He set up a temporary pole outside to put the dish on and someone will come around in the next week or so to put in the real thing, that way it won't have to be attached to the house. He was also able to connect to the cable already on the outside of the house so he didn't need to drill any holes or run any cable. That sped up the process quite a bit. It still took over two hours and a lot of that was updating and setting up the wireless receivers. Rather than picking the four rooms we wanted wired we went with a wireless option for the three rooms other than the living room so in the future if we change our mind, we can just move the wireless receiver to that room. Now we just need the internet.

After the dish guy left I had lunch and then went down to my room to work on my reflective journal entry. I ended up finding an easy listening music channel on TV and taking a nap. And then I worked on my reflective journal entry. I made a little progress and was able to finish it up after dinner. I ended with a bit of a rant about Amazon offering a monthly subscription for ebooks. Like a library that you have to pay for. People act like it is a great thing when they could just go to the library for free. My suggestion is a campaign, kind of “Got Milk?”, to remind people that libraries exist and they offer a lot of what Amazon offers but they do it for free.

Tonight was Chipotle night and for the first time in awhile they actually listened to me when I asked for extra rice and beans. And then I got sofritas on top of that so my burrito was humongous. That would have been nice on a week that didn't include Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving leftovers.

After dinner I showed my sister LEGO: Pirates of the Caribbean because she was looking at Little Big Planet and saw the LEGO games recommended and wondered what they were like. Luckily I happened to have a few of the games downloaded on my laptop. She played that for a little bit and then I showed her my latest Minecraft world and letter her play around in that for awhile. Her run ended in death by zombie while I was having her move some meat down to her hotbar. Thankfully I have keepInventory on so I didn't need to worry about making it all the way back to the far off island we had traveled to.

I ended my night by clicking around the internet and watching YouTube videos. Not a bad way to spend a night, in my opinion.

Tomorrow I will be attempting to participate in Thanksgiving for the first time. My contribution is going to be Brussels sprouts. I haven't made them in quite awhile and my main concern is that I am going to try and make them in the toaster oven I got from my grandma's house. I've never used a toaster oven before. I think it will go alright but even if it doesn't, the meal isn't dependent on the outcome of my Brussels sprouts, so the world isn't going to end or anything.