August 21, 2016

 I slept in today and that was pretty nice. I didn't really do much with the rest of my day. It was very relaxed. I read more from Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde and I started reading Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. I also hung new curtains in my room. My mom got them awhile ago for her room but they were too good at blocking out the light. She likes the sun gradually brightening the room and these don't allow that. I think I prefer the blackout style curtains so she gave them to me and I finally got around to putting them up. There was a very noticeable difference between the new curtains and my old curtains. And I like it. My only worry is that it will be harder for me to get out of bed in the morning without the incentive of the sun shining in the room. We'll find out tomorrow morning.

I finished watching Stranger Things and I really liked it. It completely sucked me in and now I have to wait a year until the next season comes out. Which is the only problem with Netflix releasing an entire season at once. In the future maybe an entire series will be released at once. This will lead to much longer marathons but at least they will end with a better resolution.

I also watched a couple episodes of Psych because it has been far to long since I've watched that show.

Tonight I switched back and forth between reading, watching YouTube videos, and playing No Man's Sky. Near the end of my gaming session I encountered a bug where the game thinks enemy ships are nearby and it won't allow me to use my pulse engines or hyperdrive. This is a problem when trying to move between planets because the current distance between the planet I was on and the planet I want to go to will take me two hours in real time to cover. And that's when I'm holding down shift to get a little boost. This all happened because I was on my way to a planet when I got the message that enemy ships were incoming. I was close enough to the planet that I was able to make it through the atmosphere safely and didn't have to deal with the enemy ships, but it turns out the warning doesn't go away unless you have killed them or they have killed you. Since neither of those scenarios occurred, I'm now in limbo. It looks like the main solution is to revert to an old save, but my only saves happened after this started, so that won't be helpful.

I pointed myself toward the planet I want to go to and put a heavy fountain pen on my shift key for the boost while I read a book, occasionally clicking the mouse to blow up an asteroid in my path. But that felt pointless after awhile so I quit out of the game. Because you can't save while flying in space, I believe this will put me back to my last save on the planet, whenever that happened. I am hoping the problem will miraculously go away when I log back in but something tells me it won't. Which means I am stuck until they fix the bug. Even if I traveled the two hours to the next planet I'd still be in the same position. It seems like my only hope will be coming across more enemy ships and getting killed by them. Maybe? I don't know. I might log in tomorrow to see what's up but I should probably take a break from the game anyway, so this is a good excuse.