Sunday, April 16, 2017

April 15, 2017

 This morning I woke up around 8:45AM. Not really sure why it was that “early” but I rolled with it. I spent most of my morning watching YouTube videos and figuring out what happened to all the space on the larger second hard drive in my laptop. Around 900GB was taken up on the hard drive and I couldn't figure out where all that space had gone. I did a lot of reading, which helped a little bit, but then I found a program called SpaceSniffer which scans a drive and shows you a visual representation of everything on it. So large files show up as big boxes and small files show up as smaller boxes. When I did it on my second drive a whole bunch of big boxes showed up. They ended up being backups going all the way back to 2014. Seemed a bit unnecessary. After deleting all but the latest backup and a few other files, I'm back up to 768GB free, and that sounds a lot more realistic.

I called to schedule an appointment about my eye but it was about thirty minutes before they closed and the girl who answered the phone said a nurse or assistant or whatever would need to schedule it because it was more than just an eye exam. Understandable. So I'm going to call back before I go to work on Monday. This time led with the fact that my eye is bothering me, which I think is the way to go because last time I think they just assumed I wanted a regular eye exam. I need one of those too but I need to get my eye sorted out first.

Before I headed to my Mom's house to do laundry, she brought over a low shelf thing she got for me. We just put it in the middle of the living room for the moment. I need to stare at it for awhile to figure out what I want to do with it.

I spent most of the time while my laundry was going watching movies. I saw the last five minutes of Road To Perdition (which is a major spoiler and I've never seen the movie before), the last half of 16 Candles, and the first half of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. I am almost certain there was another movie in there but it's not coming to me. Oh, it just came to me. I also watched Deadpool. Or at least most of it. More of it than the other movies. And the parts I didn't see I listened to because I was downstairs taking apart an elliptical.

I'm doing somewhat better at eating healthier but I still need to get better at exercising. My only excuse at the moment is that my shoulder is still hurt from carrying Tanner a month ago, but that doesn't really prevent me from doing that much. There are loads of other things I could be doing. And that is why I wanted to bring the elliptical over. My excuse for that had been that it wouldn't fit in my car, but today I decided to just take it apart. That was kind of a pain, and it still barely fit in my car, but I made it work. Tomorrow I plan to put it back together.

When I got home I unloaded my laundry, tools, and the elliptical, and then made dinner. I roasted vegetables, and also made brown rice and quinoa to go with the vegetables. I decided to try just drizzling the oil over the vegetables while they were on the pan and I think I like it better when I mix them all together with the oil and seasoning in a bowl. The drizzle works for asparagus but I'll stick with the mixing bowl for my other vegetables.

Tonight I watched YouTube videos and researched minimalist shoes. They've got an interesting look and I kind of like them. They're all advertised as running shoes for people who want a back-to-basics approach to running and for proponents of forefoot running. A lot of people land heel-first when running and this is apparently bad and unnatural (according to some people), and I think is caused (or at least encouraged) by wearing shoes that have more of a heel, which a lot of shoes do. Minimalist shoes are mostly, if not always, zero-drop shoes, which means they are completely flat and there is no drop from the heel of the shoe to the toe. I think Chucks can be considered pretty minimalist, but I don't know about the zero-drop thing because they aren't perfectly flat on the inside. Or maybe they are until you wear them for awhile and they start forming to your foot. I don't know. Anyway, I looked at a lot of shoes and watched videos about proper running techniques and how to get your feet back to how they should be naturally. My knees hate me so I have no interest in running but it's something to think about.


Right now I am watching Two Door Cinema Club perform at Coachella. They actually played earlier but I spaced out and only caught the last two or three songs. But then I discovered I could click back in the livestream and I'm able to watch the whole performance. Pretty sweet. Now I'm going to have to pause it, though, because I need to record my audio journal. It's late and I'm tired. And I'm going to try and wake up at a decent time. This morning I made eggs for breakfast but I'm not sure if I am going to make anything tomorrow. We'll see how I'm feeling.

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