This morning I woke up super early,
said screw that, and rolled back over for another couple of hours.
Then I got up, took a shower, and spent awhile looking up game
things. I started by finally downloading the VR Minecraft
mod, and all the other mods I usually use in Minecraft.
Surprisingly all of the mods installed correctly the first time.
They have made the process much easier over the years, but I still
don't get that lucky very often. I only ran around a little bit in
the game but it is pretty cool being able to move around inside the
world, not staring at it through a monitor.
Then I moved onto researching apps
and things for Elite Dangerous.
I downloaded a few different things that should help keep track of
where I've been and where I'm going, as well as keep track of
different things in the game. I also found another one that should
allow me to put a window in 3D space in the game. The idea behind
this is that I could have Netflix or YouTube or Twitch running in the
ship while I played. It is an older program that they have now
turned into a full program for sale on Steam, but the old version is
still available (at least I think it is) so I downloaded it and I'm
going to try it out. If it works well I'll get the new and improved
version. Tomorrow maybe, if I have time before or after I do laundry
I might try to mess around with things a little bit and see if I can
figure them out without having to read in-depth instructions.
I got my new laptop fan in the mail.
There is still a little bit of noise, so I'm a little worried about
how long it will actually last, but it is much quieter than the one
that was failing. It looks identical to the original one so
hopefully it hangs in there for awhile.
I also finally got a welcome letter
from the HOA, along with a bill for $1,035. I'm a little concerned
that they would got this long without contacting me. Maybe a
thousand bucks is the magic number. I'm also a little concerned that
they still don't seem to know who lives here because it was address
the the “current resident”. It's good timing though because I
was needing to find their contact information to find out about
fixing my yard so it doesn't drain water toward my house. I'm going
to compose an email tomorrow. Now I just need to decide if I should
write nine individual checks for the monthly dues or if I should just
write one for the total amount. I'll probably end up going with one
check but I've got so many and I rarely get to use them. It might
also be a little too passive aggressive to send them nine checks at
once, as if I was waiting for them to contact me.
At 3:00PM I went over to my friends
house and hung out with him and his family (including his grandma)
and our other friend's mom. I got to hold his sister's new baby,
after he was handed to me against my protests. I'm fairly certain I
haven't held a baby since my brother, and he's 21 now, so that was
awhile ago. It went pretty well and I'm still two for two when it
comes to not dropping babies. It feels like way too much
responsibility and way too much of a commitment. I'm pretty sure I
still want kids but it seems simultaneously scary and exhausting.
I left when they were about to eat
dinner, even though I was invited to stay, and came home to eat my
own dinner and watch more New Girl.
Then I tried figuring out why my VR setup is backwards. When I'm
facing my computer, the main VR area is behind me, when it should be
in front of me. I thought maybe it was a sensor issue, so I swapped
those around, but it didn't help. At one point I got it to work by
doing the standing room setup first, which involves pointing the
headset the right way, and then doing the full room setup. But then
I wanted to redraw the space for some reason and it screwed it up
again. In Elite Dangerous it
works fine, and there is an option that lets me adjust my seated
position, so I'm centered correctly over my character. There doesn't
appear to be an option anywhere to reset the direction of the camera
in regular VR space. Redoing the room setup is the only way I'm
aware of, but that wasn't really working today. It's kind of
annoying but at the same time it's not bad having the computer behind
you because it encourages the headset cord to be behind you. So
maybe I'll just learn to live with it.
Some time later my friend came over
and I let him try out a bunch of different VR stuff. He seemed to
enjoy it. We did that for about an hour and a half before he called
it quits. Then we went to Sonic for drinks before driving around for
a little bit and eventually ending up at a bar. He got a beer and we
stood around watching people play cornhole and talked before calling
it a night. During our drive we talked about dating apps because
he's the one that said I should try them out the last time he was in
town. I mentioned my game of trying to figure out which girl in the
group picture was the girl with the profile. I pulled out my phone
to find an example and the second girl that came up was the perfect
example. She had six pictures and five of them featured the same two
girls. The sixth picture also had two girls but one of them was
different, so you could go back and figure out which girl was in the
other five pictures. I couldn't have asked for a better example.
And it is now one o'clock so I'm
going to record my audio journal and go to bed. It would have been
nice if I didn't work this weekend because I would have gotten an
uninterrupted three-day weekend.
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