June 3, 2015

Today was eventually productive but a lot of it was a bit pointless. I just don't do well when I give myself too much time to do things and I had absolutely no motivation today. I didn't read anything but I did eventually manage to post replies on the two discussion threads for my web design class. I post two or three on each and I'll try to do the same tomorrow just to show that they are spread out a bit. It looks like the professor will grade the discussions similar to one of my classes last semester that required posts throughout the week in order to get full credit. For these discussions it will only be over the course of three days but that's better than nothing. I'll do better in the future. My management class has the same rules so I need to post to make my first post on that one tomorrow. After reading the articles for this week and probably looking over the chapters again to pull out some references.

When I wasn't working, I was doing nothing. I know YouTube videos were involved but other than that the day just kind of disappeared. I decided not to add another clear coat to my table tops and ended up bringing those in the house tonight because there is the potential for storms and I wanted to park in the garage. If I have time tomorrow, either as an excuse for not doing school stuff or a reward for getting school stuff done, I might get around to putting both tables together. We'll see how early I wake up.

Tonight was Chipotle night and I got a PowerBall ticket on my way to get the food. I'm still not a millionaire but I matched a single number, so that's good for nothing but it's better than zero numbers I guess. Maybe. My burrito was good tonight but not anything to write home about. But apparently good enough to write in my journal about. After dinner I showed several videos, ending on two videos that had to be synchronized. The goal of the videos was to finally put to rest the often mentioned phenomenon of toilet water swirling in the opposite direction in the Southern hemisphere. Both videos conducted the same experiment but each covered a different hemisphere, and the guys in the videos took turns talking, so it would go back and forth across the videos. And at the end they were each standing in their own video and then switched places, so they were on each others' YouTube channel telling people to subscribe. It was really cool and I imagine took an incredible amount of work to get everything synched up, but they're both geniuses so it's not surprising that they were able to handle it. I don't know how often the syncing of multiple videos has happened before but I can definitely see it becoming a thing.

Tonight while working on replying to discussion posts I also watched a livestream for the game ARK: Survival Evolved. It's an early access game and I don't know the story behind it but I think the basic idea is that you're dropped onto a prehistoric planet covered in dinosaurs and you have to survive. It does look like a lot of fun, minus having to beat dinosaurs to death, but you can tame them and ride them, which is cool. There are a lot of games like this out now, having to survive in a multiplayer world, not only against the elements but other players, but this is the first one I've seen that has dinosaurs, which makes it unique and interesting. There is very little chance I'll ever buy the game though, or any of the other ones like it, because so much time is required to level up and at any time there is the chance that you'll die and lose all of your stuff. I'm not a fan of that. And it's still in early access, like a lot of the games it is like, so it is still a bit glitchy and not optimized and there is the chance that it will never be fully released, just forever updated. Maybe someday when it is on sale and I have a lot more time on my hands.

It is now one o'clock in the morning and I'm considering going to bed. My sleep schedule hasn't really gotten any better. Soon, hopefully. I like getting up early and having a whole day (even if I don't utilize it) but I also like sleeping in and staying up late. There's no winning.