June 3, 2017

 Today was a pretty good day. I slept in and woke up without an alarm. Then I read in bed for an hour before moving to my office and watching Mister Rogers. Today was the last day of the marathon so I devoted a lot of time to that.

I eventually got ready, loaded up, and headed over to my Mom's house to do laundry. While I ate my lunch I watched Mister Rogers on my phone because my laptop all of a sudden decided to be a jerk. The wireless wasn't working and the speakers and my headphones were crackling. When I finished lunch, and in between episodes I got an ethernet cord and plugged directly into the router. This worked for the internet but my speakers and headphones were still crackling and I got to the point where I couldn't take it anymore, and the lack of wireless was still annoying, so I switched back to my phone and opened up my laptop.

I couldn't find anything obvious so I put it back together and tried Google. One of the first things I found on crackling laptop speakers (with crackling in the headphones as well) was about drivers. So I disabled and updated my sound driver. While I was there I decided to try the same with the wireless stuff. And after restarting my computer, the sound was fixed and my wireless worked. I was happy with the success but it is still very weird. Out of the blue two seemingly unrelated things crap out due to drivers. Who knows. I'm just glad I could switch back to watching Mister Rogers on my laptop.

The end of the marathon was a bit sad. Over the past few weeks it has been nice to know that I could turn on Mister Rogers whenever I wanted and enjoy a more innocent time. I think it was interesting that the show ended just like any other episode. There was no mention of it being the end. I did notice he didn't put back on his dress shoes, but I can't remember if that always happened. I can only remember him changing out of them at the beginning of each episode.

I also think Fred Rogers' death is a good case for questioning religion. He was a religious man and he devoted his entire life to making the world a better place for children. Multiple generations grew up watching his show and were better people for it. Someone like that, who devotes their life to helping people, should die in their sleep at a ripe old age. Not from stomach cancer in their seventies.

I read my books while I watched the show (except the last episode) and I continued that for another hour and a half or so when I got home. All told I got in four and a half hours of reading today. Reading was one of my main goals for today so I'm pretty happy with that.

While I ate dinner I watched YouTube videos and then I went to the basement to play Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. It is now much later than I expected it to be while writing this because I once again got sucked into the game. I got stumped on a random side quest, and then after turning that in I accidentally accepted another one and figured I might as well finish it. And it had me running back and forth all over the place. I got to the point where I stopped engaging in enemies whenever possible, instead just running past them because “ain't nobody got time for that.” I really want to finish the game, but I have really wanted to finish all of the Borderland games, so I'm not holding my breath.

While I wrote this I listened to Dua Lipa's new/first album and I've gotta say I'm a fan. I liked her song with Martin Garrix (Scared to Be Lonely) but her individual stuff can stand on its own. I could see myself using it as background music to cooking, writing, cleaning, and whatever else.

Now I need to record my audio journal so I can go to bed. My Dad is supposed to stop by tomorrow afternoon but other than that, who knows what the day will hold. Hopefully more reading. And probably some other stuff.