January 20, 2015

This morning already seems so long ago.

I finished up the testing plans for state assessments and watched one kid take a test while helping some of the sixth graders work on papers. I continued updating my MAP spreadsheets. I didn't get much time to do that last week with wall-to-wall testing so I am pretty behind. I'm getting there though.

I fixed two laptops this morning for one of the first grade teachers by turning the wi-fi on. I like those fixes. I kind of feel bad for the people with the laptop because they feel bad that the solution was so simple, but in the end everything works so that is what matters.

I ended my morning with a small MAP test consisting of the fifth grade class who had six kids absent last week. Three of them were gone today but luckily all but one of the original six were back. And all but two of the kids finished.

This afternoon I had a MAP test after lunch that was boring, like MAP tests tend to be. It was the fourth grade class with the kid I had in a reading group a couple of years ago. For the reading test he kept asking me questions and tried talking with me throughout the whole test, when he wasn't frequently going to the bathroom or getting a drink. I talked to his teacher about that and she talked to him and said he would only get one bathroom break this time and he wasn't supposed to start conversations with me. He did have a few moments of talking but he did a lot better than last time and way better than last year when I had to send him to the principal's office during state assessments. He even managed to finish the test in one sitting, which may be a first.

I ended the day with a kindergarten class and then a third grade class. And then more data entry on my MAP spreadsheets.

I stopped by the old house for a little bit after work and then came home to eat dinner before book club. There was a really good turn out this time around, eight volunteers, one intern, and two supervisors. Easily the most people we've ever had. There was also some pretty good discussions. And I learned that I would never want to be a teacher on a military base. One of the volunteers is a first year third grade teacher and it sounds exhausting, emotionally and physically.

When I got home I watched Space Warriors, which turned out to be one of the most ridiculous movies I have ever watched. It was so bad and parts of it had me actually laughing at how absurd it was. The basic plot involves a kid lying to his parents and sneaking away to space camp, where he is part of a team of fifteen-year-olds competing against other kids, and the winning team gets to go to the International Space Center. That sounds crazy enough. And then disaster strikes on the ISS and it has to be evacuated but only three of the astronauts can escape, leaving three others stranded. A rescue mission is put together but help won't arrive in time. But wait, the leading kid comes up with a plan and his team, along with the main rival team in the movie, come together and save the day. They use remotely controlled space suits, which they control using motion capture that involves spandex outfits with ping pong balls attached to them. Incredible. The lives of three astronauts are put in the hands of a group of kids who have had five days of space camp training. Also, there was a sup-plot running through the movie of the leading kid and a girl on his team liking each other. Other than being really awkward because they were kids trying to act, it seemed fairly obvious that the leading kid was gay. Not something I have a problem with but maybe they could have been a little more progressive and the other party involved could have also been a guy. I doubt the acting would have been any better but it would have a least been more believable.

January 19, 2015

 Today was a productive day, even if I did sleep in. I finally took down my Christmas tree. Much like the larger one from upstairs, it did not fit nicely back in the box. I decided to tie the box closed with some yarn but it is much too thin on its own so I made a crochet chain out of it which worked out pretty well.

I also cleaned my room to get ready for the new semester, which starts this week. I packed up all the trash that had accumulated, not only in my trash can, but all the random papers and things that ended up in stacks around my room. I reorganized my small bookshelf and plan on keeping it that way. We'll see how long that lasts. I also moved out the green chair and replaced it with the writing desk I got from my grandma's house. I thought that would be a more practical choice and hopefully I will get in the habit of using it. To make a little more room for the desk I moved my bed over about four or five inches, which is a fairly small move, but it made my room feel a lot bigger. Soon enough it'll become normal and I won't notice it anymore but at the moment I really like it.

I did laundry today and that involved messing with the washer for awhile. Every now and then it leaks, possibly only when the water level is set to maximum, but I don't know. Regardless, after my first load I noticed some water so I pulled the washer away from the wall so I could get it all cleaned up. I also had the thought that maybe the leak was due to the washer not being level, like being tilted slightly forward or back. I got out my level and it was tilted forward a bit so I tried to remedy that for quite some time but I don't think I really got anywhere. I was never quite sure which way to spin the feet to get them to go up or down and it didn't seem to matter with one of the front feet because I don't think it moved at all. I eventually got tired of being bent over and lifting a heavy washer with one hand while spinning one of the tiny washer feet with the other, so I got it back to being level so it wouldn't rock back and forth, and called it good, pushing it back into position.

Tonight I finished reading the book club book, One For The Murphy's by Lynda Mullaly Hunt. I enjoyed the book, probably more than any of the other books we have read for book club, but I can only vaguely remember those, so I don't know how reliable that judgment is. I do know that the books tend to be a bit or a lot on the depressing side, and this one was a little better in that department. It didn't have the ending I wanted but it was a realistic ending, at least based on my brief volunteer experience. I also liked that it had a bunch of short chapters. That makes larger books feel much more manageable. I would definitely recommend it. And now I'm back to reading textbooks almost exclusively. How exciting.

Earlier in the day I watched Blended, which turned out to be a pretty good movie with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. It was very much an Adam Sandler movie but I liked it. I also watched the two episode season finale of The Librarians. I really like that show and I am hoping it comes back for another season. They ended it in such a way that the season can stand on its own if it doesn't come back but I am hoping it does. Tonight I watched Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Also enjoyable. I haven't watched a movie like that in awhile and I liked it. It was a bit strange hearing Kiera Knightley with an American accent though.

Tomorrow MAP testing resumes. Can't wait. There aren't as many tests this week but still more than I would like. One is more than I would like if we're being honest. I'm going to go to bed, not so the morning will get here sooner, that is just a sad consequence of sleep, but because I'm kind of tired.

January 18, 2015

Today was pretty boring. But not in a bad way. Just a very relaxed way. I woke up not long after eight o'clock and instead of just rolling over and going back to bed, I stayed in bed and watched TV, played Fantasy Life, and eventually read my book. I watched Cocktails, a Tom Cruise movie I hadn't seen before. It was real convenient when he went down to Jamaica from New York and fell in love with a white girl from New York while working at a bar on the beach. And it got real dark near the end. But I liked the movie. Not something I'll watch again any time soon but I liked it. I also watched Silverado. I caught the last half of it last weekend so I found another showing of it this weekend and recorded it so I could see the whole thing. I'm fairly certain I had heard of the movie before, maybe even seen bits and pieces, but I'm not sure why it took me so long to see the whole thing. It was really good and Kevin Costner was squirrelly as hell. My favorite part of the movie is when Kevin Costner is leading his horse while reading a book and his nephew tries to jump off the porch and onto the horse. I don't really care about that but the best part is that Kevin Costner's horse is wearing his hat.

Before dinner we took down the Christmas tree. It didn't come anywhere close to going back into the box. I think maybe one of the big pieces and the little top piece could probably be squeezed in there but the second big piece definitely won't. I think the plan is to just put a sheet over the box.

After dinner I went and god blizzards at Dairy Queen. I can't remember the last time I had a blizzard but I'm fairly certain it has been several years. I kept it simple and went with an Oreo blizzard because that is what I had been craving. The blizzard of the month was an Oreo cake blizzard that included rainbow sprinkle frosting. That sounded interesting but I didn't want to risk it being super sugary and weird because me getting a blizzard is obviously a rare occurrence.

When I was finished with my dessert I headed over to my dad's house to look into a issue they were having with one of their laptops and their wireless printer. With their other computers when they print, the printer will automatically wake up and print. The laptop just shows the printer as offline. I messed around with stuff but the only solution I found was to make sure the printer wasn't asleep before printing. Although, it will probably be like things at school that start working when I'm around and will probably stop as soon as I leave.

I came over to the old house when I was done at my dad's so I could check internet things and watch last nights episode of SNL. I keep meaning to record it but also keep forgetting. I'm a fan of Kevin Hart and it has been a pretty good episode so far. It's almost over, which is good because I'm tired and want to go home so I can go to bed.

January 17, 2015

 I forgot to mention the funniest thing from testing yesterday. At one point one of the third graders got a question about angle and he asked me what an “abuse angle” was. So close. Almost as funny as when a kid can't pronounce 'synonym' and asks me what a “cinnamon” is.

I had a slow start to my day but I eventually got around to doing stuff. The weather was nice so I wanted to open the garage door and start putting a clear coat on my future computer desks. I dug out my saw horses and got everything set up and then noticed that the one table top that I just unpacked today was split all the way down the middle. Good grief. I opened one back in October when I got them and made the assumption that the other one was fine. My mistake. In the emails from Ikea it said to call within 48 hours of delivery if something is wrong. Missed that mark by well over 1500 hours. However, the return policy is 90 days so I'm hoping I can take advantage of that. Rather than messing with clear coating the other table I grabbed my laptop and headed over to the old house to I could bring up my order information and call Ikea. That was a giant waste of time. After listening to their crappy muzak for over twenty minutes I said screw it. I'll try again tomorrow. Or sometime soon.

After giving up on that, I turned my attention to my new motherboard, which was sitting on the front porch when I arrived. I was expecting that it would be a bit of a process to swap out my old one and it was. The only tricky part in taking the old motherboard out was getting the water cooler off my CPU. There was a weird bracket thing that I had to loosen the screws on and then lift it up while twisting the water cooler. Putting the new motherboard in and getting everything plugged back in took a little longer. I should have paid a little more attention while I was unplugging everything. The little cables for the front panel lights and buttons were particularly a pain in the butt because the were each one or two pins big, which means they were tiny and awkward.

I eventually got it all put back together and I'd say it looked better than it did with the old motherboard. I was working on it on my desk so I moved it back down to the ground and plugged in the power cord and a monitor and turned it on. All the lights came on and the fans started swirling, which was a good sign because it meant I plugged everything in correctly, but didn't really confirm anything because they were still doing that when I turned the computer on with the old motherboard. The real test was the monitor, and it remained completely blank, other than saying no input was found. Not good. I got out the little post board checker thing I got to test my old motherboard and plugged it in. I think the code was 02 but that didn't mean anything to me. I tried switching out different cables for the monitor but that didn't work either, so I just sat there and stared at things for awhile.

It took me a little longer than I'd like to admit but I finally realized I forgot to plug in the power cables for my graphics card, which my monitor was plugged into, which would explain why it wasn't getting a signal. I plugged in the graphics card and voila, Windows appeared on my monitor. It unfortunately started in Safe Mode because I also forgot to plug in a keyboard.

A short time later, I was on my desktop's desktop and it was good to be back. I meant to download new drivers but got sidetracked when two of my hard drives weren't showing up. There was a lot more staring and again I realized I forgot to plug something in. That something being the power for those two hard drives. After plugging them in I got one of the drives to show up but not the other. I'm thinking it may be a driver issue. It is a 3TB hard drive and I'm pretty sure my motherboard can handle up to a 4TB, but maybe I need to update the drivers for that to be a thing. I'm crossing my fingers anyway. I tried moving around SATA cables, and that didn't seem to have any effect, but I didn't try all the combinations, so that is still a possibility if the driver thing doesn't work out.

Around seven o'clock I finally called it a night and headed home. I was happy with the progress I had made, even if my lower back is killing me after bending over my computer for so long. When I got home I made dinner. The tater tots ended up being dessert because I couldn't be bothered to wait for the oven to heat up.

I spent the rest of the night watching TV, reading a book, and playing Fantasy Life. I watched Byzantium, which is an interesting take on vampire movies. I also watched Slackers, which I haven't seen in years. I forgot how good it was. Jason Schwartzman is hilarious and Jaime King is really cute. I had a crush on her when I was younger and much like the movie, had completely forgotten about her existence.

Now I'm going to go to bed.

January 16, 2015

It's late so I'm going to try and make this short. That shouldn't be hard considering my day was once again filled with four MAP tests. One week down and one to go, minus whatever stragglers have to finish up in the third week. And then a slight reprieve until March when state assessments start. And then April when MAP comes around again.

In the little bit of downtime I had at the very beginning of the day and at the end of the day I continued working on testing plans for state assessments, turning them into an easy to use spreadsheet schedule thing so people aren't haven't to sort through a stack of papers.

The last MAP test of the day was one of the fifth grade classes. There are only sixteen kids to begin with, six of them were out sick today and two were testing out of the lab, so it was a pretty relaxed test. As for all the sickness, I feel like whatever horrible things are going on in their classroom are the beginnings of scary story. And I kind of want to write it. My guess was that someone was sick and came back too early and the teacher said that was her guess to because there was a sick kid who's mother insisted on sending her back as soon as the twenty-four hour period was up. And the day after she came back six kids were out sick. One hell of a coincidence.

There is also the possibility that there is some sort of super strain virus in the room, bred from too much anti-bacterial cleaners that just helped it build a tolerance. At one point the teacher needed to borrow a pencil to write on the lab schedule for next week. I offered her mine but then had to write down a test score so she said she'd just borrow one from the cup I have at the front of the lab. My immediate response was “Thanks, just go ahead and poison the well.” An obvious reference to the mysterious illness falling on her class and the possibility that she is a carrier. I'm not one to toot my own horn but I was completely surprised by not one the speed of my response but also at how clever it was. I have never even used that expression before. Maybe it doesn't even mean what I think it means. It was just an autonomic-level response that I'm really proud of.

Near the end of the day I went to return a laptop to one of the preschool teachers, which involved me having to walk across the playground to get to the preschool trailer. On my way back to the building I took a break and sat with my mom at a picnic table and talked for awhile. It was sunny and in the 60s and more than half the school was probably outside, including the gym and music classes. My eyes never adjusted to the sun but it was really nice to get out of the lab.

One of the sixth graders this morning started calling me Mr. Rich Beard after screwing up my name and getting distracted in the middle of trying to talk. The next time I create a video game character with a beard he is definitely going to be called Rich Beard.

Tonight I worked for all of five minutes at the theater. That was super annoying. I ate dinner, got dressed, went to the theater, clocked in, went upstairs, and saw on the schedule that I wasn't scheduled this weekend. I had a real urge to check the schedule today at school but it was fleeting and I kept forgetting. I also kind of felt like I checked it earlier in the week. Apparently I had not. So I clocked out and came over to the old house to play Fantasy Life and watch YouTube videos. I still have over 2,000 videos in my Watch Later list, which I'm fairly certain is never going to happen. I have fallen behind and I'm going to have to start skipping a whole bunch of videos. The video I'm on at the moment came out on October 15, 2014. I'm three months behind and it feels like it. Oh well.

It is supposed to be nice all weekend so I would like to wake up at a decent time tomorrow and start putting a clear coat on my desks so those will be ready when we finally get the internet (soon, hopefully) and I move my desktop over to the new house. The desktop which should hopefully be fixed tomorrow when my new motherboard shows up. If it is in fact the motherboard causing the issues. I also need to dig up Ping Pong and rebury her at the new house. I've been meaning to do that but it has been so cold that the ground would have been impossible to dig into. Hopefully a couple days in the 60s will be enough to thaw it out a bit.

And now it is after midnight and I need to wrap things up so I can actually get up at a decent time. I need to stop trying to go all Babe Ruth with my entries and call short ones at the beginning because they almost always turn out long when I do that. I'm going to stop typing now.

January 15, 2015

 Today was another day filled with four MAP tests. This week has gone by super fast thanks to testing all day long, every day. I'm kind of done with that. Today after one of the sixth graders finished and I was writing down her score she said she was bored. I told her if she thought taking the test was boring she should try watching someone take a test. I daydream about taking the test. And I hate taking tests.

This morning I had second grade and sixth grade, and this afternoon there was third grade and fifth grade. Nothing eventful happened. I wrote a bunch of scores and nearly fell asleep on several occasions. During the sixth grade test, the new girl rushed through her test once again. Yesterday she answered the forty-three questions on the Reading test in thirteen minutes. Today she answered fifty-three Math questions in eight minutes and forty-four seconds. That is less than ten seconds per questions. When the teacher saw that she was done and how fast it had taken her, he turned around and walked away with his head down and hand over his face. I've seen little kids rush through tests and not gets scores because it was too fast but I've never seen anything quite like this. I don't know what the time cut off is for not getting a score but she had to have been incredibly close. And they obviously need to tweak that time because spending ten seconds per question is obviously way too fast.

I was talking about this with the fifth grade teacher during her test and then I pointed out that the new girl looks almost exactly like a boy the other fifth grade teacher had in her class last year. Like, exactly like him. On a couple occasions I have caught sight of her out of the corner of my eye and I thought it was him, even though he isn't at our school this year. The teacher had only seen the girl a couple times but she instantly recognized how accurate my observation was. I feel like there is a strong chance they two are actually twins separated at birth.

After school I ran into both of the fifth grade teachers in the office just as the one I was talking to earlier was about to tell the other one about what we had been talking about in the lab. So she asked the other teacher who the new girl looked like and I gave her a second to think before saying it and she immediately started laughing. The similarities are verging on freaky. I think one of the student interns this semester looks like Anna Camp from Pitch Perfect but the new girl definitely looks almost exactly like the boy from last year. And I keep repeating that so I'm going to stop now. We all get the point.

Anyway, the other teacher then told us a story about the time last year when the boy was supposed to go to the office but refused so one of the office ladies (who can barely walk) came up to get him and he was dodging around desks and running away from her. And he was a bigger kid so that was probably the fastest he's ever moved.

And that just reminded me that I saw an old guy in the building today who was the closest I've ever seen in person to someone being as wide as the are tall. He was pretty short, so that helped with the illusion, but that didn't take away from how wide he was. It was incredible.

Right as I was about to close Outlook and clock out for the day an alert popped up in Outlook reminding me of the test coordinator meeting scheduled for after school. I had completely forgotten about it. That was the first time I had ever set something in my Outlook calendar and I'm glad I did. I would have eventually seen the alert when I checked my phone before leaving but I saved myself a few minutes.

When got to the school where the meeting was I parked on the side near the library because that is where the meeting was taking place. The door on that side of the building was locked. Obviously. So I walked around to the back of the building and was let in by a custodian who was holding the door open for a woman who was also going to the meeting.

Despite being reminded belatedly and having to find a way into the building, I made it to the library on time. Which cannot be said for the majority of the people attending the meeting. I guess most of them were principals and they were having a meeting at my school, something I had also forgotten. When it was mentioned by one of them that they had just come from the meeting and that the meeting had just ended, I remembered seeing people in the conference room before I ran into the fifth grade teachers. So there really wasn't any need to rush. We ended up not getting started until almost 4:30PM, about fifteen minutes late. The meeting was interesting but a lot of it was of little actual interest to me. I'm also more focused on MAP at the moment.

It was almost 5:30PM after the meeting so I just headed home instead of going to the old house. The cable technician stopped by the house last night and tonight my mom called the cable company to see about getting the internet. The person she talked to was very confused. Along with her supervisor and her supervisor's supervisor. They had the notes and the phone number for the technician but whatever they were trying to do wasn't working. After about a half an hour tey said they would have to call my mom back. Maybe tomorrow because they certainly didn't tonight. The newest neighbors got this ball rolling but it seems to be a bit premature. They got someone somewhere to promise something and that apparently skipped a lot of vital steps in the process. Despite all of that, hopefully we'll have the internet soon.

I spent my night at the old house watching the Neebs livestream. Really it was just listening to the livestream while doing other things but I did watch some of it. They finally got partnered on Twitch which hopefully means the streams will be recorded now. That will be nice.

All night I had my phone sitting on my 3DS so I wouldn't forget my 3DS, which I brought with me but never played. When I was packing up to go I moved my phone so I could put my 3DS in my laptop bag. And then I ended up walking out without my phone. What the crap. It's got a giant yellow case on it. I need to get better about leaving it face down so I can see the case. This is the second time I've forgotten my phone at the old house. Thankfully this time I won't be getting ready for work early so I can go get my phone, only to find out I don't need to go to work. We'll see how things are going in the morning. I might just stop by after work to get my phone because I don't really have any need for it while I'm at work. Either way, I'm going to bed now.

January 14, 2015

Today was a short day due to early release but it was busy. And it started with tragedy. I was up in the resource room getting some busy work from one of the resource teachers and learned that the financial secretary's husband had a heart attack and died last night. I don't know the full story but I heard that the secretary woke up to him having the heart attack and then gave him CPR until the paramedics arrived. There are four kids, the sixth grader and second grader go to our school, but I think they slept through it. It is an often used phrase but I can't even begin to imagine what that family is going through. All day it has been on my mind and I keep trying to put myself in their place, both the secretary trying to save her husband and the kids waking up or being woken up and told their dad has died. And I can't do it. I just can't imagine it.

From what I've heard they weren't that financially well off to begin with and on top of the emotional toll, this will also take a major financial toll. I play PowerBall because I want a vice and I don't have even the slightest delusion that I could actually win. Despite that, one of the main reasons I think it would be cool to win is so I could be a philanthropist. I like giving money to things. I currently work two jobs that don't pay very well, so I can't give a lot of money, but it makes me feel like I'm at least helping in a small way when I am able to donate. This is one of those instances where I really wish I had won the lottery so I could be of more help financially.

Before school actually started I worked on the thing for the resource teacher and worked on the gifted teacher's tablet. She woke up to it plugged in, feeling super hot, and it wouldn't turn on. I'm assuming it just needed to cool down or something because all I had to do was press the power button and volume up button for a second or two and it came right on as if nothing had happened. I like easy fixes like that.

The rest of my morning was spent testing. One of the kindergarten teachers brought me a purple stool that I can sit on in the back of the lab so I don't need to stand up the whole time. I only sat down on it a little bit today but tomorrow I've got four tests so I will probably using it more, especially by the end of the day.

Over lunch I worked on figuring out how to add an email address to the school group so the office lady could include that email address in her school-wide emails. I messed around and eventually figured out how to do it but didn't have sufficient privileges to actually make the changes. I found a workaround and set that up for the office lady but it wouldn't work for other people who wanted to use the school group. So the office lady called one of the tech guys and he was able to fix it.

Because of early release there weren't any tests this afternoon but I was kept busy. I started making the spreadsheets for the state assessment testing plans. That was interrupted by going up to the third floor to figure out the printer in one of the fourth grade rooms. It was only randomly printing. I think the problem was caused by the ethernet cable coming from the wall not being plugged into the right spot on the hub. When I put it where I thought it should go, the printer started printing stuff. So it appears to have worked. I'll have to check back later to see if it has continued to work. The teacher said one of the SPED teachers had been testing in the room and thought maybe the cables got mixed around when she was hardwiring laptops.

I also tracked down one of the second grade teachers, who ended up being in the teacher's lounge, not her room, because she wanted Reading Counts on her laptop. In the search for her I ran into one of the new paras who was trying to connect to the wireless on her phone and I got that sorted out. The para ended up down in the lounge when I was working on the second grade teacher's laptop and I helped her again but showing her how to authenticate because she wasn't able to use her Facebook app. Then I made a few slight edits and printed off a recipe that the cook had sent me and took that down to her office. On my way back down the hall one of the kindergarten teacher's asked me if I could walk one of the kindergarteners back to the gym because she was staying for Boys & Girls Club. She is the really small kindergartener so I held her hand and tried very hard to walk slow enough for her.

And at the very end of the day I went back up to the third floor to help one of the student interns get her laptop connected to the wireless. The librarian had tried several things earlier in the day but it wasn't working. I lucked out because when I went up all I had to do was open up Chrome and the log in screen popped up. I like simple fixes. On a side note, the student intern looks a lot like Anna Camp from Pitch Perfect, except with light brown hair instead of blonde hair. She could easily be a younger sister.

After work I talked to the librarian for awhile and then headed over to the old house. I went through all my clothes that had been piled up on a chair in the laundry room. There were a lot of shirts that I had completely forgotten about. My favorite was one with a pictures of William Shakespeare that said “I Love My Willy”. I want to say I got it in Europe but I don't remember buying any shirts in Europe. So who knows.

I then watched a live stream of Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson finishing their free climb of El Capitan's Dawn Wall in Yosemite National Park. The internet is amazing. It was really cool to watch but it was also slow going so I also ended up watching Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno. I'm a fan of the anime and manga but had no idea there there live action movies. I need to look up the first one. The lead guy did a really good job I thought. They included a bit of quirkiness every now and then which I liked.

With the mountain climbing and movie watching I was slightly late going down to get Chipotle. Not as late as I would have been if we were eating at the regular time but my mom pushed it back a half hour because she went to the school book club. But then she ended up not eating dinner so we really didn't need to push back dinner. But it was good because I got to finish what I was watching. But but but.

My burrito was good and my sister brought over more of the cinnamon knots she made. She had the regular ones and a twisted version. I liked the regular ones better because they weren't as dense. She agreed.

After dinner I read my book for an hour or so. I think the book club for my volunteer thing is next week so I need to send an email I plan on attending. I think it was the last book club where I read the book and then we ended up not meeting. So hopefully that doesn't happen again. It's a good book though so I wouldn't be too disappointed.

When I was done reading I played Fantasy Life for a little while. I'm now a Master Miner. I'm going to attempt Hero Miner so I can get some cool gear from the king and then switch to my next Life. I'm back to vacillating on that one. I wanted to do Alchemy so I could make health potions but now one of the characters in my party had a healing ability so I'm not really using that many potions anymore. Which has me leaning back toward being a Carpenter or Blacksmith. We'll see.