January 30, 2016

 Today started off a bit slow but I had goals. Before lunch I accomplished things. I started by making a couple posts on my discussion threads for this week, one for each class. One required a bit of research so that extended things a bit. I also signed up for a few different listservs because that seems to be a thing librarians do. They were mentioned in one of the discussion posts and they sounded interesting. It took me way too long to figure out how to sign up for them but I managed it eventually. When I finished that I moved on to my taxes. It is still mildly depressing to see my gross income. This year the federal and state governments felt particularly bad for me because my returns are nice. Assuming I did everything right and I don't end up getting audited and thrown in jail. I'm sure that's a thing.

This afternoon I checked for new content for the coming week of classes and there wasn't anything so I took the rest of the day off. I downloaded Shoppe Keep, an Early Access game on Steam where you build up a shop in a medieval village. It's kind of like Recettear but not as fun. It is fun but the pacing is off. Nothing really happens in the morning, which lasts five minutes, then there is a big rush for the five minutes during the day, and then the evening is slow again. Also, the progression is really slow. You have to earn points to unlock stuff and I feel like I'm doing something wrong because I only seem to get a few points per day and a lot of the stuff I need to unlock costs a lot of points. I think the game has potential, though.

Tonight my sister came over and made enchiladas. She made the chicken enchiladas that she makes for her and my mom, and she made me fake chicken with peppers and black beans. There was also Spanish rice, which I added into the mix. She also “successfully” made rice and broccoli in her new pressure cooker. I put that in quotes because the final product was good but the pressure cooker wasn't behaving. It worked out, in a roundabout way, so all was good.

After dinner I played more Shoppe Keep and watched many episodes of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee after I finished a few YouTube videos. Now I'm going to watch one more episode and then maybe go to bed and listen to music for awhile. Or maybe just go to bed and sleep. Who knows.