July 9, 2017

 Today was uneventful, just how I like my days off. I played more VR stuff and found one mini-game that was mildly disorienting and made me jump a little bit. It's a bow and arrow game where guys come from all sides. That's the disorienting part because it involved a lot of looking around with a low frame rate. It also didn't help that the sound wasn't working, which may have given me some hints that people were running up behind me. This led to some jumps when I would turn around and there would be a dude right in my face. They were just plain red models but it was still a bit scary.

I was thinking more about it today and I haven't felt this way about a video game system since the N64. I have distinct memories of the N64, including the day I got it. All I wanted to do was play it and read about it. And that has been my recent obsession with the Vive. It is just so cool and continues to exceed my expectations. It is just the next small step in VR but it is exciting to see the glimpses of what will be possible in the future.

I marinated and roasted vegetables for dinner and they were delicious. I forgot all about the red onion I bought so I'll just have to use that next time. Which will probably be awhile because I made a lot of vegetables. I ended up needing two pans. My large pan is usually just big enough but it can't fit in my oven portrait-style, only landscape, so I had to use my medium pan and small pan. I need a larger large pan. Great story, I know.

I officially joined the dating app today and it's weird. Passing judgment on people with very little information beyond a few pictures and maybe a short bio. I initially tried the BFF mode but it turns out no one in a thirty-mile radius wants to be friends. So I went with the regular mode and slowly started swiping. Part of me obviously wants it to lead to something, because why else would I have joined the app. But most of me hopes I don't hear from anyone because I'm already way outside of my comfort zone without adding in other people.

I started watching the TV series Shooter because I ran out of YouTube videos. I like the movie but I'm not sure how I feel about Ryan Phillippe as a southern sniper. His accent comes and goes and I think I still see him as a preppy rich kid, not a badass Marine sniper. I have nearly made it through the entire first season, so there must be something to it.

I played more Elite Dangerous tonight. I am continuing to explore and have made it up to twenty-million credits. Now I just need to find a station that sells ships so I can buy an upgrade. I'm looking forward to that but it is kind of a pain finding stations out in the middle of nowhere. Oh well.

It's midnight and I need to stop writing so I can record my audio journal and go to bed. I'm not sure what's on the agenda this week. I need to start working on my homebound lists, and probably everything else on my too-long to-do list.