143: Not a Soul

Today was strange, again. I did another solid heaping of nothing, got out of bed at like 12:30, and am writing this one up at 12:45AM.

I didn't end up going to the store, because the basement of VGs was open (that's Vista Grande, one of Cal Poly's dining halls) until like 4, so I bought a couple of breakfast burritos (ate one for "breakfast" and one for dinner), some cheez-it snack mix, and some cran-grape juice. It was all pretty good, and given my sum total physical activity of jack shit today, it was enough sustenance.

The things that actually filled my time today were talking on the phone (totaling something like 3 hours) and playing more Silksong. I've made it far enough in the game that I'm now just quest-hunting, going and doing specific things that I want to have done around the world, which is great, because it means I can stop when a fight or boss is particularly annoying. I'm at a dead-end in a few places, because there are a couple bosses that are a massive pain in the ass, but I also got some upgrades today that should allow me more leeway in the fights, so I'll hit them again in the near future.

I called my mom, because it is a Sunday, even if it doesn't feel like it. It feels like I'm in a weird limbo space right now, honestly, a kind of listless nothing that floats back into my life whenever I have these big breaks with relatively little to do and few people to spend my time with.

I also talked to my brother for a solid two hours, because my grandpa gave Seth his old Macbook, but he had fully and properly wiped it, so Seth had to reinstall MacOS, which proved challenging, but not impossible. In classic Apple fashion, the recovery systems that were supposed to be automatically in place simply didn't work at all, and the documentation for how to fix it was out of date and inaccurate, so we had to find our own solution from within their framework, which took a while, but we did eventually figure out.

Seth and I played some video games for a little bit after that, but not too much, he's got school tomorrow (nerd).

I also switched out the keycaps and keyswitches on my keyboard, because I needed to change things up. I have 4 keyboards, 5 sets of switches, and 5 sets of keycaps, so I switch around the setup pretty frequently, which is genuinely a lot of fun. It keeps my space lively, always having the option to change out the appearance.

It does lend to the haphazard mess that my setup has become, color and theme wise, but I honestly don't mind. The things are all colors or ideas that I like, it's just somewhat of a smorgasbord of stuff, not a very well organized arrangement.

I'll try to get some actual homework done tomorrow, by going to the library and actually locking in for a few hours. Much of what I need to get done is just watching lectures from last week, so it'll be 2 or 3 hours of professional yapping that I have to occasionally take notes on, which is slightly boring, but very easy. I also realized that one of my classes didn't break the weekly homework pattern for this week, so I actually have a homework assignment due on Tuesday night, which is a major bummer, but I'll get it done enough. That's for 335, so I'm not actually worried about it.

I've stopped making these private, for the last couple, and some before. I suppose this snippet is only relevant to people who read the posts but also don't have accounts, which might be an audience of zero, I just always come up with long-winded explanations for my actions, and since this is my blog, I finally have somewhere to put them. The posts that aren't "members only" are on purpose, it's simply that I'm making a judgement on the content of the post and deciding whether it needs to be locked off or not, and there isn't anything in here that I feel needs to be.

I don't have a ton more to say, honestly, it's been a very chill day. Hopefully my sleep debt is payed off by now (I've gotten 11 and 12 hours of sleep the last two nights) so I can wake up tomorrow at a more reasonable hour, but honestly I might just sleep half of this week away, this quarter has been so ruinous on my sleep.

With that, it's 1 in the morning, so I'm going to bed.