September 4, 2017

 This morning I slept in, I think. I can't really remember. I think it was before ten o'clock but I could be wrong about that. It doesn't really matter. I didn't really do anything with my morning. I mean, I did something but it wasn't noteworthy enough for me to remember. I eventually got ready and went to my Mom's house to do laundry.

While my laundry laundered I ate lunch, watched a couple different versions of Star Trek and several episodes of MASH, took a nap, and composed an email to the HOA. I would have liked it to be really passive aggressive and sarcastic and a little bit confrontational. Instead I tried to keep it civil. I think I accomplished that. Tomorrow I will send it and I will also email my checks. I still haven't decided if I'm going to write nine individual checks for the past months but I do think I'm going to include a check for October just so I can save on the stamp.

When I got home I played Minecraft in VR. I'll be honest, it made me a little sick. I would say this is mostly due to controlling my directional movement with the mouse and keyboard, which didn't always match up with where I thought I would be moving based on where I was looking. The movement up and down blocks is also weird. I'm going to keep trying it, though. I also need to try playing it standing up with the Vive controllers. I think that would be less nausea-inducing. It's still cool being in the Minecraft world. I adjusted the scale a couple times and I think I've finally got that figured out so I don't feel super tiny or super big.

After dinner I played Elite Dangerous. I scanned some more planets and then looked up where to find the new ship I've been wanting for awhile now. I think it was only one or two jumps away from my current position, so that worked out nicely. I jumped over there, bought my new ship, and then spent time outfitting it. I kind of forgot about that aspect of it. I need to look up some loadouts. I think I did an alright job winging it. I also added a mining laser so at some point I can sidetrack and try out mining asteroids.

My friend came over later and we hung out and talked about all the random things for an hour or so. It's always good to hang out. I don't like group situations but I don't mind hanging out with a few friends. I have potential friends that I could make here in town and have people to hang out with but that takes a lot of effort. The beginning of friendships take so much work, though, and in the beginning you're just hanging out with strangers. I'm not really a fan of that. So I will continue having work friends and occasionally hanging out with my old friends whenever they're in town.

And it is now almost one o'clock in the morning so I'm going to record my audio journal and go to bed. I am already looking forward to next weekend, because it will be another break from work. I still really like my job but I think for the foreseeable future I will be looking forward to my days off.