May 24, 2015

 Today, things happened. I read a lot for school, a few chapters in one book, the introduction of a second book, and a chapter in a book online. We had the option to buy the second book but it is also available online for free, so I went with the free version. I'm currently caught up but we'll see what gets assigned for the coming week. I think sometime soon we'll be making our first webpage in the web design class. I'm looking forward to that because it has been awhile since I've played with HTML and I've never messed around with CSS but it seems pretty cool.

I cleaned up my computer room today and it looks a lot better. There is still a lot to do but for now there is a lot more room and that was the goal. I wanted the extra space to move the elliptical downstairs, which I did and that was exercise enough for me today. It was a bit of a fight but I managed to get it down here without running into the walls so I'd say that was a victory. Hopefully tomorrow I will start using the elliptical. I need to start exercising again, especially now that I'm out of work for the summer and won't be moving around as much. Not that I was moving around a lot at work but it was a lot more than just going up and down the stairs at home a few times a day.

When I was cleaning I was listening to Skrillex. When I was done cleaning I switched over to a live Nickel Creek concert. On a daily basis I am glad that I am able to enjoy such a wide range of music. There are people who get stuck in a single genre and that seems like such a waste of the ability to hear. And also really boring, no offense to whatever that single genre may be. And thanks to that Nickel Creek I have a new favorite song of the moment, which is “Hayloft”. It is a lot more upbeat and there is more going on than a typical Nickel Creek song but I really like it. And I've just learned that it is a cover of a song by the band Mother Mother, who I don't think I've ever heard of before but the Nickel Creek version is less frenetic but still a faithful cover.

After dinner I played a little BF4, for the first time in months. I'm still as awful as ever, possibly worse, but it was fun for a couple matches. And with my new graphics card the game runs on Ultra and looks really good.

After those matches I switched over to GTA5. I did a couple jobs but most of my time online was spent randomly driving around and finding new cars. I have seen several videos of a gamemode where two players on bicycles are chased by two players in semi trucks and couldn't find it in the jobs list but then an invitation popped up and I was able to get into a game. We played twice and I was awful in both roles. Being in the semi was more fun because when I was on the bike I was almost always immediately run over. Except one moment of glory when I was on a bike and made it to the finish line.

I was also a nice online person later in the night when someone was asking in chat for an impromptu race so they could finish a challenge. I said I was game and we met up and raced. I figured it would go to the regular job screen and I would be able to switch my vehicle but it really was impromptu so after I agreed to it the race started. And I was in a giant flatbed truck I had just stolen. Probably would have been faster to jump out and steal another car but I went with the truck and didn't even get close to the finish line. But the other person finished their challenge so it's all good.

In order to do the race I had to come out of passive mode and I didn't put it back on. This screwed me over some time later because I had just picked up a new motorcycle and was trying to take it to the mod shop to customize it. There was a dude parked in from of the garage and when I tried to pull around him and into the garage he turned around and killed me. He apologized and said it was an accident. Then on my way back to get my motorcycle it was blown up. Based on the chat it looked like it was the same dude but maybe it was a nice gesture because someone was trying to steal my motorcycle and I think the original killer took them out. Unfortunately my motorcycle was a casualty as well. But I didn't have to pay for the insurance and was eventually able to pick it up and get it customized.

Now I'm going to bed. Tomorrow the plan is to go over to my dad's in the afternoon to see my grandma. Then dinner is going to be with my mom, sister, and her husband. Other than that, I will probably read some more textbook stuff and maybe play some Minecraft.