October 3, 2015

 I'm not going to have much to write about today, which will be a nice change for October so far. I woke up early but didn't really do much other than watch YouTube videos for the first couple of hours. Then, before lunch, I wrote a discussion post for one of my classes.

After lunch I took a nap. I was kind of tired but I didn't really need a nap. But I also didn't want to do any schoolwork so I crawled under my desk and listened to music until I fell asleep. After dinner I responded to a few discussion posts in my metadata class and did laundry. Sometime after that I started working on the final metadata project. It involved making a metadata crosswalk for a MARC record, turning it into a Dublin Core record. It is going to be a pain in the butt because MARC records look confusing as hell. I've never worked in a library and I haven't had a cataloging class so I have zero experience with reading MARC records. I'm going to need to do a lot of learning really quick. Yay.

I finally got a grade on my late metadata assignment and I lost 4.5 points. That drops me down to an 'A-'. Then a grade came out for one of the discussion posts and I missed a point, which dropped me to an even lower 'A-'. Now, if I get perfect scores on everything left for the class, which is doubtful, I would be at 95.9% in the class, and 96% is an 'A'. I think it should be 95% but what do I know. I think the goal now is just to maintain the 'A-' and hope I don't screw anything else up. I think maybe if I did get a perfect score on the remaining assignments she might give me the 0.1% to knock me up to an 'A' but I don't think it will come to that.

I ended my day with some Minecraft because it has been on my mind a lot recently. Earlier in the day I found a minecart station tutorial on YouTube, which is what I wanted to build in the latest basement in my house. Luckily the basement I carved out yesterday was pretty much the exact size I needed to build the station. But with that small margin for error I loaded up a flatland world first and built the whole station there just to make sure everything would work. This was good because I had room to move around and I ended up having to troubleshoot a few things that would probably have been more frustrating in the basement. When I switched over to my other world the whole process went much better having already worked through the build once. I also had room above it so I put in a glass ceiling and made stairs leading up to the top so I could walk around and see all the redstone and tracks. I really don't have the slightest clue how most of it works but it is pretty ingenious and works way better than anything I could have come up with. The station also had seven separate tracks so I have room to grow. I've got ideas for three or four of them but I could probably easily use all seven eventually.

Now it is late, so I'm going to go to bed. Tomorrow I need to work on school stuff. I'm ready for December.