March 15, 2016

I was supposed to volunteer at the public library again today but the PR lady had something come up so we rescheduled for Thursday. That freed up my day a bit, although I didn't accomplish much with that extra time.

I started on the Minecraft flyer I want to make for my video tutorial. I figure I'll make one first and then in the video I will recreate it. If I were doing it for real I would probably use Publisher, which could make for a viable video tutorial, but I want to go with Canva because it has a free version and you don't need access to Microsoft Office. Also, Canva probably sounds cooler than Publisher.

Speaking of, sort of, I remembered that the site I learned about to make infographics was not Canva, although I have used it to make infographics in the past. The other site, which is better for infographics involving statistics because it allows you to enter in all the data, is Piktochart. It came to me while brushing my teeth.

I read two articles, one for each class. I also may have read a couple textbook chapters but I can't remember if I did that today or yesterday. I feel like it was yesterday. But I also feel like it was today, so who knows.

I got all of my bookmarks turned rightside out and tonight I finished three of them. I think my needle might be getting dull. I also think the fabric I'm using is slightly more dense than the fabric I have been using. And I need to come up with the better way to handle the fabric inside because it gets kind of thick near the opening, which adds to the needle issue. I'm still figuring things out.

Twitch doing something with food now. When the launched the Creative section they did a marathon of every episode of Bob Ross' show. Today they started a marathon of every episode of Julia Child's show. I don't know if they are starting a section just for cooking or if they are going to start promoting a food channel. Either way, I will probably be watching a lot of Julia Child. I was watching it when I started typing this but then she brought out the live lobsters. I hit the pause button right before she started cutting into them. That's not something I need to see.

I played video games today. Not until the end of the day but I got a little time in. I tried out Pinball FX2, another game from a bundle, and it wasn't really that fun. It was hard to keep track of what was going on and I think part of that was due to the game being full-screen. It would probably be easier if it was smaller. I might try it again sometime.

I also tried out Blade & Soul, which is an MMO that I think has been around in Korea for quite awhile but was only recently released internationally. I've been in the mood for anime and manga recently and this game ticks those boxes. As any good MMO, or just game in general, there is a pretty detailed character creator and I probably spent more time creating my character than I did actually playing the game tonight. I didn't pick the tiny race but I did make my character as short as possible and picked a class that uses a giant ax, which is actually bigger than my character due to the shortness. I like it. As for the game itself. I think I like it. I think Tera looks better, and is more fun, but I'm also judging the fun factor based on only doing introductory missions in Blade & Soul. I don't know that I will get as into it as I did with Tera over Winter break, but I would like to get a little further into it and see what it is like.

I have been sucked back into Castaway Paradise more. I think there must have been an update at some point because when I first started playing it I got stuck on three quests I couldn't complete and there really wasn't anything else to do. Then, I had a breakthrough on those quests and now I keep getting quests that I'm able to complete. Also, random trash and seashells are spawning on the island more frequently than they were. When I first played I completely cleaned up the parts of the island I had access to and I would only occasionally see a seashell, and the trash never came back. But now there always seems like there is something to do. There had to be an update. Maybe with the St. Patrick's event. They seem to do special events for holidays, which include special items that can be purchased in the game. I spent 40,000 of my hard-earned currency buying four leprechaun statues, because they look great, and my house is now flanked with two on either side.

Holy crap. I've now been distracted by so many things while writing this that is is now 2:30AM. I need to go to bed. Tomorrow I'm going to do things. Some of those things will be productive.