July 17, 2017

 This morning I woke up, loaded up my car with my laundry and lunch, and then went to do the wellness screening thing. When I got into the building there was someone ahead of me and we both stood there for several minutes because there was only one person working and she was in back helping someone else. And then I waited several more minutes while she helped the guy in front of me. But then it was my turn and all went well. My blood pressure was decent (at least she said it was good), I haven't shrunk any, and I weigh less than I thought I would. Now we'll just wait and see what the blood work says. Hopefully good things.

After that I went and filled up my car with gas, stopped by the bank to deposit some checks, and went to the grocery store. I mainly went for dijon mustard and bell peppers but I also grabbed more cherries, eggs, and wheat flour, because maybe I will try one of the biscuit recipes in the book I checked out.

I went home to drop off my groceries and then headed to my Mom's to do laundry. And when I got to my Mom's I realized I forgot all of my shirts. I knew my laundry basket went into my trunk a little too easily, normally I have to push my shirts down because they're on top of the pile, but didn't think much of it, for some reason. So I ran back to my house to grab my shirts, then back to my Mom's, and I finally started my laundry. While my laundry happened I read the Black Panther book I checked out. I was a little disappointed. It is volume one and it was all just a setup for whatever cool things happen next. And I felt lost for most of it. The Black Panther wanted to make his country better but he was fighting against two women, who were fighting against the apparent bad guys, who were doing horrible things to regular citizens. And the women were doing this because the Black Panther wasn't doing anything to protect his people. It was all very confusing. In the back of the book they had what I think was the Black Panther's first appearance with the Fantastic Four. He was a dick in that, too, luring them to his stronghold so he could defeat them. Nice guy.

After finishing the book I took a nap until my laundry was done. And then I went home. I can't remember what I actually did when I got home but I eventually made dinner. I got in an epic battle with a red onion. I think it sprayed on my face and I haven't cried so much in a long time. It was pretty much impossible to keep my eyes open for nearly a minute. I won in the end and my dinner was delicious.

Tonight I played Elite Dangerous and it wasn't the least bit disorienting, which I was happy with. I still think it might be an issue if I was into dogfighting, but for exploring everything seems to be good. My main issue tonight was trying to figure out how to mark a specific planet in the system map. I never got it to work. There is an option to select unexplored planets but that's all I could find. I wanted to pick a specific planet from the system map but nothing seemed to work. And then the first system I made it to on the list I'm following only had four planets, but the list wanted me to scan planets five and six. It was confusing and I eventually said screw it and moved onto the next system. But I didn't actually scan anything there because I still couldn't figure out how to select individual planets on the system map. It was annoying. But it was really cool playing in VR. I will do it again in the future.

And now I'm going to record my audio journal and go to bed. Because that's what I do.