January 5, 2018

 Today was pretty uneventful. I got nine hours of sleep, which was nice. And eventually I got around to running for thirteen minutes on the elliptical. If I can keep up with the elliptical throughout the year I might look into getting a better one. The one I have now can't offer any resistance, so it will slowly take longer and longer to get the same effect because I can't ramp up the resistance. We'll see. I had a pretty good run (pun intended) a couple years ago on the elliptical but then my knee started to hurt and I lost the motivation to wake up early. Maybe I'll be able to keep it going this time.

I caught up on YouTube videos and clicked around the internet for awhile. I also made a deposit in my IRA for 2017 and set up automatic deposits for 2018. I think I low-balled my estimate of what I can afford and not notice, but I think it's better to underestimate than overestimate. I can always make another deposit at the end of the year.

I eventually left the house to make a quick run to the bank to deposit a couple checks and a stop at the gas station to get a Powerball ticket. The cashier had to come out of the back room to help me and she looked really annoyed. Always nice feeling welcomed when you enter an establishment.

When I got home I played several VR games. I haven't played VR stuff in forever. One of the games was a lot of fun but the throwing knife mechanic was kind of awful. But other than that I had a good time.

After dinner and YouTube videos I played a little CoD: WW2. I had a couple rough games, due to hackers and using a shotgun for a daily order, but I survived. And I confirmed my theory that playing a hardcore game is a good way to level up a shotgun and unlock camos (which require a lot of one-shot kills) because it takes less to kill people. I need to try that with my last sniper rifle. I ended the night with a game of War against a good team, and my team was not that good. I did rack up a lot of kills and come in first, though, so there's that.

Now I need to record my audio journal and go to bed because it's late and I have to wake up early for work tomorrow.