May 17, 2015

 This morning, before lunch, I finished all the work on the slides for the slideshow, which included getting them added and adding transitions and the pans and zooms. I also threw in the music. All of that work was kind of pointless when I rediscovered how I did things last year. I wanted to adjust how long each slide lasted without having to manually adjust each one and stumbled across a video I watched last year. So I deleted everything I spent hours working on and started over. It would have been nice to do that at the beginning, and save myself all of that time, but oh well. Now I need to go back through and add in all the pans and zooms. With the adjusted slide length I needed to add another song and I went with The Nights by Avicii because that is one I came across in the beginning of my song search and thought it would make a good graduation song. Probably better for high school or college but I work at an elementary school and am making a slideshow for sixth graders, so it's going to have to work.

After a lot of work on the slideshow, I took a break before dinner and played some GTA5 singleplayer. I mainly did Trevor missions and have made it to the second heist. There was a weird lag thing going on when I was driving so I didn't play for too long because it was stressing my eyes out.

I called and renewed my Sirius XM radio. It is annoying having to jump through the hoops every five months, calling to cancel in order to get the price dropped to a more reasonable rate. It's got to be really annoying for the customer service people because they have to do all the acting on their end and I have to do the acting on my end. If we could just cut to the chase and acknowledge that it's all a big show, that would be nice. At some point I need to just cancel it for real so I can be done with it.

Tonight I figured out the slideshow stuff and worked on that for a bit before calling it a day and playing Minecraft while watching the Doraleous stream with his friend Matt. They make a good pair and this stream was by far the best. At one point they prank called Neebs, which went horribly but I haven't laughed so hard in awhile.

In Minecraft I was in the mood to be productive in my building so I went into creative mode to finish up the outside of my house. I added railing to first and second floor wrap-around porches, finished the bridge across the river, made various stairs outside, made the outside of the mine look like more than just a hole in the ground, and added stone under the lower porch so it looked like my house wasn't just precariously built on the top of a hill. I really like how everything looks.

Next I want to make a better farm, which will center on the big tree I made. In all of my wanderings I only came across one village and they didn't have carrots. So I need to go out again so I can eventually get some pigs. I also need to make my basements look better. There is a good chance I'll do that in creative as well. Especially with summer school starting tomorrow. When I get carrots I'll probably set up the animal pens and start breeding so I can get off my bread and apple diet. And I need a Nether portal so I can get glowstone for my house, because I think that will look better than all the torches everywhere.

Now I'm going to go to bed. Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to finish up the slideshow. I also need to look at class stuff and see what I need to be doing this week. I'm not looking forward to that. I still think a week break between semesters is ridiculous.