June 6, 2015

I forgot to mention that last night after dinner we went to Dairy Queen for dessert and I got a small blizzard. On top of all the Chinese food I ate for dinner. Some may say it was a mistake. And for a few hours I was one of those people. It was way too much food. I'm just glad I've been running on the elliptical recently so I don't feel completely horrible about my gluttony.

Today I read a couple chapters in my HTML textbook and figured out my three page website isn't due for another week, not on Monday like I thought. That is a relief because I still have no idea what I want to do. I did add some more basic stuff to the beginning of my page, like all the basic stuff that I will then need to fill with content once I figure out what that content is. I switched from using Notepad++ to Brackets as my HTML editor. It has the option of opening up your page in a web browser and it updates in real time based on the changes you make to the code. Also, whatever you click on in the code will be highlighted on the webpage, so if you click on a paragraph tag, that paragraph will be outlined on the page. You can also hover over picture links or color codes in the code and a preview will pop up. And it looks really cool with the dark color scheme. It just makes me want to type some badass HTML, and eventually CSS.

I replied to a discussion post for my management class and I also responded to one for my web design class, which I didn't really know existed until I was looking for information regarding the website assignment. So I still need to write my actual post for that thread, which I will do tomorrow.

I ran for half an hour on the elliptical today. The last few days I made it up to twenty-five minutes and today I decided to just go for it. My legs were still feeling it from yesterday and my lower back started hurting but I made it. I think I might go back to twenty or twenty-five minutes tomorrow, take it easy.

Other than that, the day went by pretty fast, most of it was spent reading and messing around with HTML. I continued watching livestreams for ARK. There have been several survival games in the past year or two but they almost always involve some sort of zombie or mutant human, which doesn't really do much for me. Zombies are a little boring at this point. But dinosaurs are cool. And the ability to tame them and ride them around is even cooler. I also kind of have a thing for games where I can just zone out and farm and harvest stuff, like Minecraft, and this game is all about farming and harvesting resources, at least in the beginning. Thankfully I can''t afford the amount of time investment this game requires because I could get sucked in. Just watching the streams is surprisingly enthralling, and admittedly it is a whole bunch of not a lot going on.

Tomorrow will involve a discussion post, a reply to a discussion post, more HTML stuff, probably more ARK livestreams, and tomorrow night is Doraleous' livestream, which I already have open in a tab so when I inevitably forget about it, the sound of it starting will remind me. Fingers crossed I don't sleep through half of the day.