Yesterday I played one and a half matches in Black Ops 3 before
my internet crapped out on me. I ended up in a game with Xcal, a
YouTuber/streamer that is really good at FPS games. Thankfully he
was on my team because he wrecked house. I somehow managed to make
it into the top three, most likely due to the other team being
completely distracted by Xcal being all over the map destroying them.
I lost my connection halfway through the second game, which is
probably good because I wasn't doing nearly as well.
This morning I woke up and finished reading The Tao of Pooh.
I really enjoyed it.
Before lunch I washed the cross stitch owl I made last night for my
sister. Then I pinned it down to dry. Throughout a good portion of
the afternoon I worked on making the time-lapse video of the owl
process. Last night I exported the video chunks from Twitch to
YouTube. Today I downloaded them from YouTube and put them together
in Sony Movie Studio. I cut out the pauses where I went to do
laundry and then sped it up as much as possible. The maximum is 400%
which got me from three hours to something less than that. To kind
of cheat the system I rendered the video as a new track and was able
to speed it up again. This got it down to just under twelve minutes.
I added music to that one and rendered it. I liked it but wanted to
make a shorter version so I brought it back in and shortened it even
more, so it runs the length of a song. If someone is likely to get
seizures it probably isn't the best thing to watch but it looks
pretty cool.
Before dinner I framed my mom's owl in a hoop and I did the same for
my sister's after dinner. I cut out a piece of the fabric I bought
and put it over the back of the cross stitch before putting the outer
ring on the hoop so that it covers up the behind-the-scenes stuff.
After I got it in the hoop I went around and cut the excess cross
stitch cloth and fabric. I am happy with how they turned out. They
look even better than I was expecting. I learned I could really use
some better scissors while trying to cut the cloth and fabric. Like
maybe some scissors designed to do that sort of thing.
I had an idea and redesigned the owl pattern to look like an owl
wearing a Batman costume. I like it. I took a break from cross
stitching today but I might start working on it tomorrow and see if
it looks as good in real life as it does in the pattern I made.
I got a grade on my collection assessment assignment, the last grade
I've been waiting for. And I got 100%. That left me with a 99.85%
in the class. It should have been 100% but the damn one point off
for not putting ISBNs in the selection list. Oh well. The professor
had really nice things to say about my paper and that made me feel
good to see. All the stress was worth it.
With all the rain there was water in the basement of the old house.
Apparently the fix that was done after the last time didn't actually
fix the problem. My mom went over and pulled up the carpet and the
carpet pad, vacuumed up the water and put down towels to catch any
water still coming in. My sister's husband brought over a fan to dry
the carpet. We went over after dinner to check on things and it
seemed like the water had pretty much stopped. The towels were
soaked and there was some standing water but there wasn't any water
coming in. My mom vacuumed and put down fresh towels and I emptied
out the water in the shop vac. My mom's realtor told the buyer's
realtor to keep them informed and hopefully that doesn't result in
the buyer backing out. It was disclosed in the paperwork that there
had previously been water in the basement, so the buyer should have
known that it was a possibility before he started signing stuff. The
house is currently under contract and is supposed to close on the
23rd. Hopefully that doesn't change. The buyer is
getting a really good deal so hopefully things continue as planned.
Tonight I played about an hour of Black Ops 3 and leveled up
two or three more times. I think I'm at level 47 now. Maybe. I
also finally unlocked a camo for my rocket launcher that has been a
long time coming. I can't remember the numbers or the exact
requirements now but the two challenges I had left involved killing
five flying drones and killing ten turrets or ground drones. Or
something like that. I managed to finish one of those challenges and
only have one more kill left for the second one. It is a pain in the
butt. I'm getting there, though. And I'm doing it legit. I got
into a game recently where a guy on my team had friends on the other
team and they were working together to get launcher kills. For one,
I don't have friends, but two, I wouldn't want to get the camos that
way even if I did. Once I get gold on the second launcher I'll go
back and work on getting there with the first launcher. I think it
would be cool to have diamond camo on my launchers because the only
thing I'm really good at is shooting stuff out of the sky. Mainly
because that requires very little skill. But it's useful.
Now I'm going to go to bed. We have one more week of work before
Winter break. I'm looking forward to sleeping in.
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