May 27, 2015

 There isn't too much to write about today, and not just because it is after 1:30AM and I should have gone to bed a long time ago.

My morning and afternoon were pretty much the same old thing at this point. I woke up, read some textbooks, and then ran on the elliptical. I made it thirteen minutes today. At this point my main motivation for being able to run for a longer period of time is so I can listen to more music. It kind of sucks when I have to stop. Every day I have increased my time but I don't think that is really sustainable. At some point I will have to plateau, for at least awhile, before slowly progressing to longer times. Although the chances are very good that I will lose interest before that time comes.

After lunch I did things. A lot of time was spent reading a couple textbook chapters. There is a lot of reading so far this semester. I'm glad it is during the summer and not during the school year when I'm working full time.

Before going to Chipotle I wanted to stop and get a PowerBall ticket. That took way longer than it should have. They have installed traffic lights near the gas station and they haven't quite got them figured out yet. And by that I mean they are completely worthless at the moment. I couldn't turn left at the light so I went right, going way out of my way. But it was better than the people trying to go through the light on the street I turned onto. The way I went had cars backed up past the next light, which was at least a quarter mile away probably. When I was coming out of the gas station I again had to go right because going left was headed toward the broken lights and there was a line of traffic on this side of the lights that was getting close to a quarter mile long. Ridiculous.

After dinner and videos I came downstairs and read an article for class. Then I played video games. There was an update for BF4 and it included the Gun Master game mode where you have to get a couple kills with a weapon before advancing to the next one, eventually getting to a knife. I suck at it but I really liked playing it in BF3 so I wanted to try it in BF4. I also wanted to record it in the off chance I won a game. I won once in BF3 but wasn't recording it so who's to really say it happened. I figured the easiest way to record would be using OBS and just streaming on Twitch because that would record it on their end and I wouldn't have to worry about taking up hard drive space. And if I won I could just get the clip off of Twitch. But I couldn't get the game to show up in OBS. The sound was there but I couldn't get a picture. I tried several different things but nothing worked. So I said screw it and played without recording. I still suck but I had a couple decent streaks. None good enough to record though, so I didn't miss anything.

Next up I wanted to try streaming GTA5. I had the same problem I had with BF4 but after some searching I saw a suggestion of trying to do a window capture instead of a game capture. And that ended up working. So at some point I'll need to try it with BF4. Or maybe not because it did make the game super laggy. Or maybe it was all the activity that was going on in the server I got into. There was a tank battle with helicopters and jets. It was insane. I drove down to one of my garages and parked so I could go into my menus and see if there were any settings that might help with the lag. That is when a jet strafed the street I was on. Thankfully I was in passive mode because I would have been blown up.

A van nearby blew up and after a minute or two a firetruck showed up to put the fire out. I couldn't resist the temptation so after the fire was out I stole the firetruck and took it for a ride around the map, initially followed by the jet, still trying to blow me up. I crashed the firetruck, after almost making it around the entire map, and eventually ended up at the airport. While there I stole a helicopter and a giant titan plane flew me, on purpose, so I was again glad to be in passive mode.

I saw an icon for flight school on the map and that is what I ended up doing for the rest of the night. And I should have stopped a lot earlier than I did but I got sucked in. Flying is really tricky in GTA5 and there were a couple missions that I lost track of how many times I tried them. I managed to make it through all of them but not without getting really pissed off on several occasions. In the end I made over $100,000, so that was nice. I'll have to go back in and try to get better medals on most of the missions so I can get more money. Or get really pissed off and break my controller. Whichever comes first.