Tuesday, June 30, 2015

June 29, 2015

 Last night I went to bed kind of late and this morning I woke up kind of early. Somehow I managed to avoid taking a nap. I spent a large chunk of my day scanning my grandma's old photographs. I need to get back into that because it is going to take me a really long time just to scan them. Then I'll have to edit them, which will take even longer. And then I'll have to organize them. While researching stuff for my website I got a lot of ideas for organizing the pictures on a website, so that is what I'm leaning toward right now. That's still a long way off though so we'll see what happens.

Today I watched two movies. The first was The Judge. It was an emotional movie but it was also a really good movie. Robert Downey Jr. is always good and his quick talking witty dialogue fit perfectly in the role of a lawyer. My only real gripe with the movie was him unknowingly making out with his niece. That didn't really seem like it was necessary.

The second movie I watched was John Wick. When it was in theaters I think I saw all of the action scenes several times, and I knew the basic plot of the movie. This was the first time I got a chance to see the whole thing all the way through and it is one of my new favorite movies. Everyone loves a good revenge movie, and John Wick is definitely that. I would like to have the reputation of Wick without having to do all the horrible things to earn it. It would just be nice to have people fear/respect me because they knew I meant business and I wasn't someone to mess with. I don't actually get messed with now but it would still be cool to have that persona.

The last few days I've been trying to imagine how the world would change if we were to discover the remains of another civilization on another planet. Like a passing satellite snaps a couple pictures and one of them shows the unmistakable ruins of buildings and monuments. There would be non-believers but screw them. I can only believe that that our world would change instantly. Plans would obviously be drawn up to send more probes and eventually humans to wherever this planet was but in the meantime, the world would be entirely different. Scientists have always been searching for life outside our planet, and I think a lot of people kind of believe that it is maybe a possibility, but how many people actually expect it? I'd say not a lot. It would be incredible and it is kind of hard to wrap my head around. It would be a paradigm-shifting, fundamental change in our existence. Not only in how we view our universe but also our place in it. Fingers crossed I get to experience this in my lifetime because I am really curious how things would play out.


Tomorrow, I will hopefully be able to scan more photographs, keep that ball rolling. I will also probably check and see what reading I have for this week. And maybe look into the grant project so I can get a better idea of what's going on with that. Today I sent out an email to my website group to see if they have ideas for a website that we can work on. So far I've gotten one response, and the website suggestion has a lot of potential, which is good. So tomorrow I might start looking into that more as well. If I can accomplish just one of those things I will be happy. It doesn't take much.

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