June 29, 2017

Last night I played Elite Dangerous for a little more than a bit. I got rid of all the cargo space on my ship so that I could get a fuel scoop and detailed surface scanner. I made the mistake at first of getting rid of my regular scanner, thinking the detailed surface scanner was an upgrade, so I could keep a little bit of cargo space. Turns out you need the original scanner for the detailed surface scanner to work. I had already traveled out to the area I was going to explore, which was unpopulated, so I had to travel back to a populated system and find a station where I could buy my scanner back. But then I was able to start exploring. The list I'm using is nice because it tells you what you need to scan, but until you scan something, nothing is labeled. I think I should be able to tell the planet type by the icon that shows up when I lock onto it, but I'm not there yet. I just fly around and hope for the best.

This morning when I woke up I got ready and then played another hour of Elite Dangerous. I ended by finding a station and selling off the cartographic data that I could. I'm only six official scans into the list, one or two of which I wasn't able to sell yet, and I got over three million credits. Not bad.

Today at work was uneventful. Which I'm okay with. I re-did my coloring page sign. I came up with a new way to do it that worked out better than using the bucket fill tool, which looked pretty bad. For the new one, I got rid of all the white leaving just the black lines of the page. I then put that on top of the same coloring page, with the white, and manually colored the bottom layer. In this way, I could color a little over the lines, to make sure I filled everything in, and it was hidden under the lines on the top layer. If that makes sense. It worked out pretty well.

I also made a small sign for my NPR display, and filled out my book lists for my two displays. It was a productive sign and display day. I ended up deciding not to pull any of the books today because I should have time to do that first thing on Monday.

I heard back from the university librarian who wants to submit a proposal for a library conference in the Fall. It sounds like she really only has the idea of wanting to propose something but doesn't really know what that should be. We exchanged some ideas and I'm going to see what I can come up with in the next few days. It will be interesting because I'm off work tomorrow (when she wanted to meet) for the wedding this weekend, and she is going to be out all next week. With the proposal due next Friday. So we'll see what happens.

And I think that was pretty much my day, along with all the summer reading stuff. I ended the day pulling out the prize tickets for one of the teen prizes because they were starting to poke out of the top. I didn't have time to count them but I at least got them organized.

On my way home I stopped by Target to get a card for my friend's wedding and some other random things. When I got home I put that Target stuff away and then did the same old nightly things. Super exciting stuff.

It is now 11:30PM so I cam going to record my audio journal and go to bed. I will be taking a break from my audio journal tomorrow and Saturday but I'll still be writing this and just record three audio journal entries on Sunday when I get back home.

I'm still not entirely sure about tomorrow. I think I'll leave town around noon so I can get to my destination in time to try on my tux and hope all goes well with that. I guess the rehearsal is at five o'clock and then dinner at six o'clock. I'm happy for my friend but I will be happy for myself when this weekend is over so I can get back to my comfort zone.