August 20, 2016

 I slept in this morning and then I read a couple chapters in one of the books I have checked out. Then I spent the rest of my morning and the majority of my afternoon sewing. I tried one of the more advanced projects in the small quilting projects book I checked out and that was probably a mistake. It did not go well. At least in terms of ending with a final product that closely resembled the example in the book. It was successful in that I ended up with something that is kind of a thing. It was also a learning experience. I learned how to sew a binding around a project which is pretty useful. I also learned that working with folded in half jelly roll fabric is a pain in the butt. Also useful.

Tonight I did laundry, watched YouTube videos and Stranger Things on Netflix, and played No Man's Sky. Stranger Things has sucked me in. I didn't really know it was a thing until I started seeing references to it online. I like the 80s aesthetic and I am intrigued by the mystery. The casting is also really good, which I'm not surprised about considering the track record Netflix has established with their original shows.

With No Man's Sky there was an update when I first loaded the game. I checked the patch notes and they mentioned they had altered a bunch of code that the game would work on AMD processors. That sounded promising, so while I played it on my laptop I re-downloaded it on my desktop. I spent the majority of my play time tonight on a single planet. I finally figured out how the number puzzles work and I got sucked into solving those and following where they led me.

When I finally pulled myself away from that I opened up the game on my desktop, just to see if I could get past the initial screen where it has been crashing. And the game worked. It seems like they have actually fixed it. That is exciting. I'll have to play around with it more to see if it will actually play without crashing, but progress has definitely been made.

I'm not sure what is on my agenda for tomorrow. Probably more of the same. Minus the sewing. I kind of got my fill of that today.