June 4, 2015

I posted several times to the two discussion threads for my web design class but I never managed to read the articles or make my post for my management class. Well, I glanced through one of the articles. And I watched the video we were supposed to watch this week. So there's that. But I really don't have any excuse for not writing that post other than being unable to convince myself to start writing. Only having one week off between semesters was not enough time to get my head to a better place when it comes to schoolwork. I need to step up, the semester has barely started.

So most of my day was filled with a whole bunch of nothing. Just wasting time and occasionally writing replying to a discussion post. I'm disappointed with myself but that's pretty normal when it comes to me trying to be productive, especially school-related productivity. I watched a lot of the Ark: Survival Evolved livestream that I was watching last night. The day before the guy streamed for 25 hours and the stream that started yesterday ended up going for around 20 hours. That is dedication. He got up to over 23,000 viewers at one point, which is really high for someone not in the top one percent of streamers. He's played the game so much that he was one of the first people to tame a T-Rex (which ended up drowning at the end of his stream, unfortunately) and he was working on being one of the first people to tame one of the flying dinosaurs modeled after the pterodactyl, but then he got killed in the middle of it. Taming the flying dinosaur just wasn't meant to be for him today because he attempted it several times and ridiculous things happened every time. Maybe in his next stream.

Tonight we had our class meeting for my web design class and she covered basic HTML stuff and how to set up our first three-page website. Which is something I need to get started on because I think it is due on Monday. I haven't even opened the HTML and CSS textbook yet. And I have no idea what to make my website about. A webpage would be easy enough but coming up with three is a bit more involved. It's going to look pretty sparse. And it looks like we're supposed to keep it super basic because the next assignment is making it look better using CSS. So it shouldn't be too hard if I can come up with an idea. In the meeting tonight I did learn how to add the little icon, which is called a favicon, to a tab in a browser, which I'm assuming is also the icon that shows up in the bookmarks bar of a browser. I've always wondered about that, and been annoyed when websites don't have one.

After the meeting I replied to another discussion post and watched the Neebs livestream. Still couldn't bring myself to write my management post. Then around ten o'clock I finally accepted that the discussion post wasn't going to happen and I wanted to feel at least somewhat productive today, so I put my tables together. That took about an hour and forty-five minutes, including moving stuff around so I could get them in place. At some point I will need to unplug all of my computer stuff and organize all the cords a little better, because right now it is a complete mess. I also need to decide on the final layout of everything. I have some ideas but right now I'm just glad to have the tables in place. It makes the room look smaller but so does the massive amount of stuff in the room that I still need to figure out what I'm going to with. Right around the time I get everything figure out I'll probably be moving, but I'm going to try and not let that prevent me from getting things sorted.

Tomorrow, priority one is writing my discussion post. That will be done before lunch. If I don't sleep in until lunch, which I might do just to avoid writing that discussion post. My brain is ridiculous. I also need to start looking through the HTML and CSS book and I want to start making my website. Even if I don't come up with an actual idea for the website I can layout the basic code and start playing around, because I haven't actually used HTML in years, and it has changed a little. So I have goals for my day. Much like every day. Only time will tell if I allow myself to reach them.