Last night I started writing a post than this over whelming exhaustion came out of no where and I could barely move or keep my eyes open. Maybe because I was walking in the sun and it was pretty hot, I don’t know. So anyway I ended up laying on my bed and passed out pretty quick. Not sure how long I was out but even after I woke up from the nap I was pretty tired.
I was talking about picking the permanent job I wanted in yesterday’s post. I was going to list all the reasons for the both of them but that will just bring back the stress left over from the week of trying to decide. So instead I’ll just say I’m moving back to my small town to work for a little hospital. I still have no idea if that is the right decision but then there is no way to know how either of them would work out. I won’t know that for probably six months.
So that’s the biggest thing of I think the past seven months. Actually I never wrote about the decision to move down to the city or my experience in my little rent-a-room. I was at least smart enough I didn’t get a place with a lease so I’m not paying for an extra place or paying the fee for breaking a lease. So at least there’s that. And it has been nice not paying $400 a month in gas for the last all of 2 1/2 months. Although I actually spent a lot more on my move that I saved in gas in the short time I have been here. So I may be looking at a net loss truth be told. I was really REQUIRED to buy a new bicycle. And the desk was probably technically optional although the desk I had would have taken up entirely too much room so really I needed a simpler desk, which is what I found.
The room I rented, and am renting, is actually quite small but I think I’ve done a more than adequate job of optimizing the space. I have the bed, the computer, the two monitors, even a little area behind the door for what I like to call the “tech lab”. And the closet is actually quite large even if I don’t always actually utilize it.
But that doesn’t necessarily matter any longer because I’m moving again, back to where I just got through moving from 2 1/2 months ago. At least it’s a permanent job and I don’t have to worry about the hour+ commute on a daily basis hopefully ever again. In fact the longer term goal is to live in a place within walking distance of the hospital so I don’t even need a car.
But first I’m going to make sure the job is holding and I make it through whatever probation they make me go through or whatever and since my sister has offered to let me live with her I may live there a while and well come next spring who knows what I’ll be doing or where we’ll be.
On a lighter note I have also purchased a few games in the last seven months. Which is weird since I don’t usually play games but I keep buying them anyway. One of these games is Minecraft. Actually I’m already kind of starting to get sick of it. But then I haven’t even made my self weapons and armor and turned on monters nor I have done enough digging I have found some redstone. Haven’t made any mine carts either. I didn’t manage to make an under water tunnel made of glass. That was kind of fun project. It doesn’t actually go anywhere important, it was mainly like a learning experiment sort of thing. I was also planning to make a road from where I have been working back to where I began which is a fair distance across the map. The road was going to be a straight line through sand and mountains and probably six or eight blocks wide with storage chests and crafting blocks every so often off to the side. That was the plan. Eventually I would put in mine carts to make the trip that much easier.
I haven’t played with any mods or installed any special texture packs. I’m as much just learning stuff about it still right now as anything. I’m just glad I’m starting to make glass with some regularity. I certainly have more than enough sand it’s just a matter of finding coal which as I get deeper down mine shafts starts to get more common.
I imagine reading about minecraft is kind of boring so I’ll change the subject. I did finally buy a new laptop. It’s pretty nice except it can’t really play minecraft. I mean I turn down all the settings to the lowest possible and I get about 20 frames per second. That’s not really worth it.
Okay one more thing: I found a special launcher to make Minecraft “portable” and I put it in my drop box. So every time I quit playing there’s my latest Minecraft world all ready to go. I also use robocopy to put Minecraft on my USB drive I always carry around.
Speaking of which I started doing that with my years-old portable firefox. Maybe I shouldn’t say why. Lets just say it’s easier and leave it at that.
I also bought my Mom a new laptop. She’s suffered through using the atom-based netbook long enough. So I bought her a $300 Acer with an AMD processor. Which means AMD graphics. Which I assumed to be superior to Intel graphics. But thing I assume everything is better than Intel graphics. Haven’t tested Minecraft on her new laptop yet. I probably shouldn’t be surprised if it comes out about the same. I kind of which I’d bought myself the same system as hers. If nothing else the keyboard keys are lot more seperated than my Asus system.
Oh yeah, my laptop is an Asus with a “Pentium” processor and 4 gigs of memory. I got it on special for around $350 down from closer to $450. Can’t really play Minecraft though. Okay I think I’ll stop this post here.