December 26, 2015

I forgot to mention that throughout the day yesterday I managed to watch all three Nativity movies. That includes Nativity!, Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger!, and Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?!. All three are super cheesy, only more so as the movies progress, but I think they're pretty great. All three definitely need to be a new Christmas tradition. I also watched Goosebumps last night, and I was not disappointed. I was worried it was going to be too cheesy but it was actually good. Having read so many of the books it was cool seeing all the references.

I didn't make it to bed until almost 3:30AM last night and I didn't wake up until almost 11:30AM this morning. And I had three or four text messages from my friend asking if I wanted to have lunch. Thankfully I got back to him in time. After getting back to him, I got ready, and then headed over to his parents' house to pick him up. We went to a taco place we went to a couple years ago and it's still good. Rather than figuring out veggie tacos, I got a grilled romaine salad. I had never heard of grilling salad before but it worked. It tasted really good, and part of that was probably being grilled on a grill that also grilled meat. I can't prove that veggies don't have their own special place on the grill, and I'd rather not find out they're grill with the meat, because that salad was really good and I would like for it to still be an option in the future. Ignorance can be vegetarian bliss.

After lunch we went next door to a bar, which is connected to the restaurant, and continued talking until maybe 4:30PM. While we were there an old friend from Scouts stopped in with his wife so we briefly spoke with them. It was really nice getting to hang out with my friend. I should probably make more friends so I can hang out with people more often. Face-to-face conversation doesn't happen enough in my life.

On the way back to dropping my friend off his mom called and it was the first time I have used a phone paired with my car before. I've never paired my phone but my friend paired his today so we could listen to a few songs on it. It was kind of cool but I don't really use my phone for phone calls, and even if I did, I wouldn't answer my phone while driving. Anyway, his mom called to see if we could stop at the store and pick a couple things up for her, so we made that brief detour before I dropped him off.

I spent the rest of my night working on getting Linux on my sister's husband's laptop, and finishing the cross stitch for my grandma. I somehow managed to do both. The Linux thing turned into a a more complicated project than it probably should have been. I created and deleted partitions several times, messed with boot stuff, and troubleshooting random problems. It became a pain in the butt, mostly because I also wanted to work on the cross stitch. I eventually got it working though. At least as far as I know.

I was also able to finish the cross stitch, with only one minor mistake that isn't actually noticeable. No one would know until they had the original pattern and scrutinized it pretty closely. So I said screw it and didn't go back to fix it. I was worried because the dark red thread I was using was rubbing off on the cloth and turning it pink. Thankfully, when I washed it all the pink came off and it looks like nothing ever happened. In my head I came up with a simplified version of the pattern that I was going to “quickly” make using a different color if the pink hadn't come out. I'm glad it didn't come to that because it probably would have been another really long night.

Soon I will be going to bed. We're doing Christmas with my dad tomorrow but the weather is supposed to be getting worse so there is a possibility my aunt and grandma won't be coming up. It was rainy today so it was nice having the coat from my sister's husband because it kept me dry. I'm not sure if the rain is supposed to get worse or maybe turn into something else. Right now it sounds pretty windy. Guess we'll find out in the morning.