May 29, 2015

 I ended up staying up until almost one o'clock last night. I was about to go to bed and then I started watching a D&D stream and they were wrapping up their adventure and I got sucked in. D&D is one of those things that I have always been interested in. Maybe not participating but definitely watching, or listening to in the case of the podcast Sark was on for awhile when he was the dungeon master. I'm into all of these geeky and nerdy things but I don't have any friends that are really geeky or nerdy. Someday I'll work on that.

This morning I woke and and decided to finally fix the crack in my tabletop. I moved my car out of the garage and dug out my sawhorses and stuff I would need. The crack in the table was smaller than I remembered. It did go all the way across the table top along the grain but it didn't open as wide as I would have liked. I put a couple small pieces of wood under it to help hold it open and I applied pressure on one side while I put glue on it to open it up even more. I think I got enough glue in the actual crack, not just on the outside, so hopefully it will hold. After the gluing I used my box clamp to hold two pieces of wood on either side of the table to protect the table from the bar clamps, which I then clamped on to really hold everything together. I also put a few pieces of wood on top of the table for the bar clamps to rest one, also to help protect the table. It only needed to be clamped for half an hour (with no stress for twenty-four hours) but I decided to leave it clamped because I figured it wouldn't hurt. Tomorrow, maybe, I'll get the other tabletop and the legs and stuff for both, and start with the clear coating. I kind of feel like I didn't get enough clear coat but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

I came back in from gluing and read another textbook chapter before running on the elliptical and then eating lunch. This afternoon I finished two chapters in the online textbook for my web design class. Still not a fan of reading it online but free is nice. Tomorrow I need to write my discussion post for that class. It isn't due until Monday but I'd like to get it done with because I've been putting it off. I also need to respond to a couple of my classmates' posts I believe.

Tonight my sister came over for dinner. My mom and sister went and got Sonic and they forgot my sister's hamburger. My mom tried giving my sister her burger and said she would eat something else but my sister refused. She finally agreed to splitting the burger. On the plus side, my order was all there.

After dinner I wanted to play Minecraft and it crashed again, just like it did the other day. It was working fine and then poof. I loaded back in and went about my business and everything was good and then it wasn't and it crashed again. I tried getting rid of several mods but that didn't help and at that point it would load my map for maybe a second before crashing. It wouldn't even let me in. After looking around the internet I finally found a solution, and it made sense. One of the mods I have is Not Enough Items and it requires another mod to work. There was a problem with the other mod when it came to the name of redstone or the particles that redstone emits or something. Some sort of conflict occurs whenever a player is looking at redstone and it does the little glowy particle thing. And I remembered that the first time the game crashed the other night it was shortly after I uncovered redstone. And tonight I was back down in the same spot with the redstone. And I later found out that when my game was crashing almost instantly it was because I was standing directly in front of redstone. This was a known issue and the mod had been updated to fix it. So I downloaded the update and it didn't help. Then I downloaded the updated version of Not Enough Items and the combination of the two updated mods seemed to do the trick. I was able to be in the presence of redstone without catastrophe striking.

Once safely back in, I continued mining and managed to find some diamond. After a bit of searching I also found some lava and was able to turn it into obsidian and get what I needed for a Nether portal. In the Nether I spawned right next to a fortress, which is pretty convenient, other than being repeatedly set of fire by a blaze while trying to collect glowstone. After getting the glowstone I went back and collected a bunch of stone to start building a house around my portal in the Nether so I could go in and not be immediately attacked. I only had enough stone to get a start on the floor but I think it will look pretty cool once I get it finished. It is going to take a lot more stone though, which means a lot of mining. Or a little cheating. We'll see how I'm feeling the next time I play.

And now it is 12:30AM. I set my alarm clock this morning to wake up at a decent time but I ignored it. I'm going to try the same thing tomorrow morning. I'll probably ignore it again.