September 7, 2015

I didn't really sleep in and I never got around to taking a nap under my desk. So my day was a bit of a fail in regard to sleep. I did manage to read a bunch. I finished all of my textbook reading for the week. I still need to read some articles and things but all the textbook stuff is done. I also watched the lecture for metadata that was over an hour long. I understood a lot of it but not all of it. It doesn't help that the videos tend to be more conversational and there are a lot of tangents that don't lead to anything and stumbling pauses to think about something. I need something with a script so everything that is said has a purpose. Maybe I'm just used to educational YouTube videos where everything is scripted and all the mistakes are edited out.

I took a break from school stuff to go out with my mom and buy more bags of rock for the back yard. Seeds from the bird feeders on the deck fall down on the grass and then start growing little plants. Not only do the dogs start scavenging the seeds and plants, the opossum also seems to be drawn to it. So my mom decided to do a little landscaping and put rock down.

I finished the textbook reading before dinner and after dinner I decided to take the rest of the night off. I watched YouTube videos and the first episode of The Man In The High Castle. It is a show on Amazon based on the novel by Philip K. Dick which imagines a world where the United States lost WWII and the Japanese have taken over the territory west of the Rockies and the Nazis have the territory to the East. I probably won't watch the rest of the show, whenever it actually comes out, but I do want to read the book. Yet another book added to the list. There are probably already enough books on my list to last me until the year 2100. Just a rough estimate.

While watching stuff, I jumped into Minecraft. It has been awhile since I played. It was sometime during the summer but I think it was fairly early on in the summer. Either way, it was fun to lose track of time for a little while. I cleaned up the basements in the house I was working on a little bit and added a couple staircases and railings. Just little things but it was fun. At some point when I have more time, maybe over winter break, I want to build a big library. I'm still trying to decide on a location, though. I have a few options. Maybe I'll just build multiple libraries.

In the middle of reading about metadata I randomly started thinking about the band Boysetsfire. I was a fan back in high school and college but probably haven't thought about them in years. I found them on Spotify (so I didn't have to dig out my CDs) and during my little breaks from reading I listened to one of their CDs. I'm still a fan. To keep the nostalgia train rolling, as I type this I'm listening to Jimmy Eat World. Another favorite from back in the day.

Tomorrow is picture day and I'm not sure what I'm going to wear. I think I've worn all of my regular shirts in previous years and I don't really want to repeat one of them so I might have to dig out one of my new shirts that I haven't gotten around to wearing because they're new and different and I don't like new and different. Or maybe go big for my last picture day (hopefully) and I'll wear a dress shirt and tie. I'll have to see if it still fits. And if I know where my ties are.

That idea got me thinking so I just went on the hunt and found my ties and tried my shirt on. It still pretty much fits, maybe a tad small but that is probably just in my head because the shirts I normally wear are looser. I also managed to tie my tie correctly the first time. I usually end up with the skinny part way below the big part. So I think I might go fancy tomorrow. But I will also take a regular shirt because I don't want to wear my dress shirt all day. It'll be too hot for that.