Today didn't really turn out the way I planned. Which is not
surprising in the least. I started out looking at stuff for my
collection assessment assignment but quickly got distracted by Black
Friday stuff. I ended up buying a new microphone and a new mouse.
The microphone was kind of an impulse buy but I've actually been
thinking about it for quite awhile now. And the mouse is because
mine is starting to act up. It's my second Razer mouse and just like
my first one, it has started randomly double-clicking when I only
push the button once. This can be annoying when I want to close one
thing and end up also closing the thing behind it. I also noticed
while playing BO3 last night that the scroll wheel click has
started to miss clicks. It is my grenade button and I'd go to throw
a grenade and it either wouldn't throw or it would immediately throw
even though I still had the button held down. And then today trying
to open new browser tabs I noticed the tabs not opening. So I
watched a bunch of different mouse reviews and took advantage of a
Black Friday sale. I was tempted to go with the Razer Naga (I
currently have the Razer DeathAdder) because it was on sale on the
Razer site, but I decided to try something different, in the hopes
that it will last longer that a couple years, or however long I've
had my current mouse. That probably isn't too bad considering how
much I use the mouse but still. I felt like my first Razer mouse
also gave out prematurely so I'm branching out. I went with the
Logitech G600 because it seems to be fairly well liked and I wanted
to try a mouse with a bunch of buttons. We'll find out on Sunday.
This afternoon I started reading stuff for a discussion post for my
academic libraries class that I keep forgetting about. Thankfully it
doesn't have a due date. The topic was about whether or not academic
librarians should get tenure. I read a few different articles about
it and they were really interesting. It made me think about it from
perspectives I never would have thought about before, which is always
interesting. I ended up writing over a page, single-spaced about it.
Apparently I was in the mood to write. I also looked at the various
website building options the professor mentioned for putting together
our portfolio for that class. I wanted to see if any of them allowed
for importing HTML and CSS files but they all seemed entirely
template based. Which is nice but I've have put a lot of hours into
my HTML and CSS files so yeah. I'm going to email the professor in
the next couple of days to make sure he is cool with me uploading my
files to the school server like I did this summer for my web design
class, which gives me a web address and makes the site available
online. Fingers crossed.
Tonight I played a little BO3. Not much though because it
turns out I really wasn't in the mood for it. I had one epic moment
though where I spawned, started running, and right as I was throwing
a grenade I was killed. I then spawned and was immediately blown up
by a grenade. My grenade. By some random chance I respawned right
on top of the grenade I had just thrown. It was crazy, and
thankfully I was streaming it so I was able to make a short, twelve
second clip out of it. A few rounds after that I ended up calling it
a night. I think a big part of my mood was the awful lag issues. In
one game I had a guy teleporting around the map, once he even
appeared out of nowhere standing on the car in front of me. And
another time I was randomly spraying and ended up killing him, but he
didn't actually show up on my screen until I saw his dead body fall.
In another game my ping was close to 200 and it was nearly impossible
to play. I mainly focused on shooting down UAVs because that was
about all I could hit. And the last thing about BO3, I would
really like to play Demolition but apparently I am the only one on PC
who does because the player count is always at 0%. Same with Gun
Game except that sits at 4%, and I've sat in lobbies for quite awhile
and they never fill up. PC only has a few game modes that ever have
people in them and it is kind of annoying. Win one for the consoles
I guess.
Now I'm going to go to bed because it's late and I need to do things
tomorrow. That's the plan anyway, and we know how that usually goes.
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