February 22, 2018

This morning I woke up at six o'clock, after getting about five and a half hours of sleep, and then I ran on the elliptical for fifteen minutes. When I got up and grabbed my phone (because I use it as a timer for running) I saw the text message saying the school district was having a snow day based on the forecasted weather today, which made me miss working at an elementary school. After I finished running I noticed a voicemail from boss saying that the library wasn't going to open today. Hooray for snow days! I was hoping for that, obviously, but it was still a nice surprise. And because I was supposed to open, and didn't get the message until after I ran on the elliptical, I figured I might as well stay up and enjoy a full day off, rather than sleeping through half of it.

Throughout the day I played a lot of Subnautica. A lot. I started building my first base and that has been a lot of fun. There is a creative mode which I might try out at some point just so I build a cool base. I have made a lot of progress but I am being held back by a lack of materials and a lack of in-game knowledge to get the blueprints to build certain things. I am really liking the moonpool because I learned it is not only a place to park my seamoth, it also charges the the seamoth. My favorite thing is the scanner room, which you an tell to scan for a certain resource and they all pop up on a topographical map projected in the middle of the room. This was cool but not that useful, so I just built an upgrade that give me a HUD overlay. Now when I scan for something, I can go out and all the locations are marked for me out in the game world. One of the things I need a lot of is quartz, so that was my first experiment, and it worked really well. I discovered that a lot of quartz, at least around my base, is hidden in the grass, and I never would have found it. At some point I will need to use that to really grind for specific resources, and not get sidetracked by random excursions.

Other than that, there wasn't a lot going on. I watched videos and have come close to buying some new pens and mechanical pencils. I'm getting somewhat close to running out of ink in the pen I use to write my daily notes with, and it will probably be awhile before I actually run out because I've been using it every day since the end of October, but I'd rather be ready with a replacement than have to use a different pen. And I have wanted a mechanical pencil for awhile.

I roasted veggies and made rice for dinner, because that's my go-to thing. While I ate I watched the new Thor movie and I really liked it. It's up there with the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie in terms of being a fun, colorful comic book movie, which is often lacking in comic books movies, surprisingly, given the source material. There are a lot of good bits but my favorite is probably when Hulk is slamming Thor into the ground and Loki gets really excited, saying something along the lines of “now you know how it feels,” which is a great call back to one of my favorite bits in any Avengers movie, when Loki gets slammed by Hulk. The casting of Loki is so good because it's a character that you shouldn't like but Tom Hiddleston somehow makes him very likeable. Also, Jeff Goldblum nailed it.

From my occasional peeks outside it did not appear that we got the weather we were supposed to, and the library probably could have opened today. I also probably could have had Chipotle night with my Mom and sister, but there was still a change of freezing rain so we decided to try it this weekend. Although now we're supposed to get freezing drizzle early Saturday morning that will then turn into regular rain. If the weather interferes with my ability to go to the book sale I'm going to be perturbed.

It is now almost 12:30AM, and I am tired. I close tomorrow, which is annoying because I won't be able to go to the book sale tomorrow night, but it means I can sleep in a little bit. At this point that really just means I will potentially get a full night of sleep, but I'll take it.