April 24, 2017

 Today was a very unexciting day and there isn't much to write about. This morning I woke up, got ready, and went to get my haircut. The lady who cuts my hair still can't hear very well but she is going to see a specialist next week to see if she is a good candidate for a cochlear implant. At the moment I think she is completely deaf in one ear and had 95% hearing loss in the other ear, before she woke up one morning and could hear even less, and the hearing aid isn't helping anymore. My fingers are crossed for her being able to get a cochlear implant because that's pretty exciting.

After my haircut I went back to my house to make a lunch and then headed to my Mom's house to do laundry. While my laundry was going I watched movies and read National Geographic. The movies were Central Intelligence, which is still funny, and The Terminator, which I don't know that I've ever seen. Or at least don't know that I've seen more than bits and pieces. I don't think I knew that Arnold Schwarzenegger was the bad guy. I always thought Terminator 2 was the first movie. I was definitely wrong about that.

In National Geographic I read about a lot of things but one of the most interesting articles was on the gelada monkeys in Ethiopia, which are apparently the last grass eating monkey. The article described how for researchers watching the monkeys, it was a lot like a soap opera. In order to more easily identify the monkeys the researchers gave them names. This is the best excerpt: “Five Dollar Footlong (named for a sandwich) once stood on hind legs with arms outstretched as if desperate for a hug. Instead, his mother, Frodo, slapped him.” I thought that was pretty funny.

Speaking of funny, I started watching The Village but then vaguely remembered what happened and lost interest. But not before I read Wikipedia about the reception of the film. In Roger Ebert's review he wrote: “To call the ending an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes.” Zing. I still feel a little bad for M. Night Shyamalan and his compulsion to always include a twist ending. It just makes people expect it and their imagination of what the twist could be only sets the real twist up for failure.

When my laundry was done I came home and watched YouTube videos for awhile before eating dinner. Leftover pizza is always delicious but I think there is a very noticeable difference in how I feel after eating pizza and how I feel after eating roasted vegetables with brown rice and quinoa. I'm going to continue eating pizza, though.

While I ate dinner I watched the lasted Jack Reacher movie. I only remember parts of the first one, but I do remember liking it. I also liked the new one. I don't know that it is something I would want to watch on a regular basis, but I might watch it again somewhere down the road.

My mom picked out a bunch CDs that she wanted me to copy onto her new flash drive for her car. So after dinner and then throughout the rest of the night I had that operation going on. I hooked an external DVD drive up to my laptop (because my laptop doesn't have one) and let it do its thing. I set it up so all I had to do was put the CD in and it would automatically copy to the flash drive and then eject when it was done. I managed to make it through all of the CDs (minus the ones that ended up just being empty cases) and I think she said she has a few more coming in the mail.

After the movie was over I played more Gat Out of Hell. It's still a lot of fun and I am enjoying flying around and collecting orbs. I'm also trying to knock out some of the storyline so maybe I can actually get through the game before I lose interest in it.

When I called it a night with the game I went and ironed my pants for the week and put my pillow cases on my pillows (because I washed them today). Now I don't have to worry about ironing this week and I don't have to worry about my pillowcases when I got to bed tonight. It's always a little annoying when you try and go to bed and then remember you have to put sheets on the bed or pillowcases on the pillows.

Now I'm going to record my audio journal so I can think about going to bed. It's going to be an interesting week. I don't know that I'm entirely looking forward to it.