December 11, 2017

 Last night I was watching a streamer who I subbed to a week or so ago. She plays music and at least when I have been watching, usually has around 100 people watching. She was going to get off for the night but decided to play a couple more songs. And then someone raided/hosted her with around 1100 viewers. And it was magical. She went from being pretty low-key and then the raid happened and she flipped the switch. A consummate performer, she rolled right into a high energy, multi-layered song with her guitar and looper, and the chat exploded. She held over 1000 people for that song and she maintained over 500 for several songs after that. I've joined in on raids before but I've never been hanging out in a smaller channel when such a big raid hits them. And I've never seen someone capitalize on a raid to such an impressive degree. By the end of it she had gained over 330 new followers and around twenty or thirty new subscribers. It was cool to watch.

Last night I got seven hours of sleep, because that's apparently what I needed. I spent my morning playing CoD: WW2 and I got in a match with the most blatant hacker I have ever seen. He had a diamond LMG and he pretty much spent the whole game just standing the middle of the map, turning in circles, and shooting everyone through walls on the other side of the map. They ended up going sixty-four and one. Maybe the one death was an attempt to make it look realistic. Tonight I got in another match, on the same map, with a different hacker. This time they were on my team and it really took the fun out of the game. We basically just ran around and captured the points in Hardpoint to get the game over with, all while chatting with the other team and apologizing for having such a horrible teammate.

After lunch I went over to my Mom's house to install her new video doorbell. It was kind of a pain in the butt. First I had to figure out which breaker the doorbell was on. You'd think it was on the Entry breaker, but it was on the Kitchen breaker. Maybe because the doorbell itself (not the outside button) shares a wall with kitchen. Regardless, I got it figure out so I didn't shock myself. The hardest part was getting the angled base plate things level and screwed into the wall. I had to use two of them stacked on top of each other, one to angle the doorbell up and the other to angle it to the left. And there wasn't a hole to screw threw, there was a slot, which I guess is convenient if you need to make it slightly off-center or something, but it my case it was just annoying trying to get everything lined up and level. But I managed it, and I got it all set up with the app, and it works. When it senses motion outside within your specified range, you get a notification on your phone and you can go to the live video to see what is outside.

The most annoying part of the entire process by far, however, was that I put the dogs outside so I could keep the front door open, and two out of the three kept scratching at the door to be let in. This happened persistently at random intervals for the entire time I was working. So annoying.

A quick aside. My laptop just shut off randomly and I lost a paragraph. Not sure what happened but let's hope it was a fluke and won't happen again. Moving on.

My Mom got back right as I was finishing so I was able to download the app on her phone and show her how to use it. She seemed pretty happy with it and I think the learning curve is pretty small, even though the app isn't perfect.

When I got home I played a little CoD: WW2 before making dinner, which consisted of rice and roasted vegetables. While the vegetables roasted I played a few more rounds of CoD: WW2 because why not. While I ate I watched YouTube videos. I'm really behind after dog-sitting last week because I didn't watch a lot of videos last week. I probably won't be caught up for awhile.

After dinner I played more CoD: WW2 and by the end of the night I was able to prestige for the second time. I played a few games after that and it was a bit rough not having the loadouts I am used to. I need to jump into War and gain some quick levels. Even though they seemed to have nerfed the points I still think it's one of the quickest ways to level up. And it's fun.

It's now eleven o'clock and I need to record my audio journal and get to bed. I open tomorrow morning, which I'm not really looking forward to, but I'm off at five o'clock, so that's something to look forward to.