There are some things I want to do. But getting the getupandgo is a little harder than I would like it to be. I reckon that also the deadlines are self imposed rather than job related so the motivation is lacking a little. When I say deadlines they aren’t really deadlines. They are just things I’d like to do. Things I want to potter around and get done when I can rather than having to do them and be annoyed at doing it. These are things I want to enjoy doing.
I am working completing more of Gran Turismo 7. I have a few races left to complete in the standard offline race section. Over the weekend I completed an hour race around Spa and now I just have some little races to get completed. The problem with this is “what do you do when you’re done?”. I’ve heard stories of people winning the Big Competition and then they just feel lost because for all their life they’ve wanted to win the Big Competition. Once it’s completed they cry and lose direction. This could happen with GT. What do you do once you own all the cars and have golded every licence test? I think the licence tests will be next once I complete the standard races and I guess GT does have online mode but that can be frustrating. Then, what do I do once I’ve golded every licence? I shall return here and explain some time.
I’ve pretty much completed an excellent build in Minecraft, or at least something I’m quit proud of. There’s a little inside decoration I need to complete but then it will be done. What do I do then? I’d like to show it on YouTube with a voice over but that requires me to set up the OBS software again and that can be a pain. Then I need to script the video and complete the recording. Finally it needs to be edited, possibly, and then uploaded to YouTube. Maybe I will do this over the half term break coming up towards the end of May. Look for new video drops at the end of the month.
It would be nice to upload some new video of the flight simulator onto YouTube. Only to try and drive some more interaction with my channel. This is even harder than a Minecraft video because of the screen output resolutions and then trying to get the PC to record that. It also requires time and a little effort and the plans of what to do within the simulator. I’ll try and come up with a plan.
I keep buying books to read. But then I don’t read them. Books are special because they allow the transfer of knowledge from one person to another. Even fiction requires a transfer of ideas and settings. I enjoy reading. I like the stories. I like learning and having new ideas thrust upon me. I need to create time for me to settle and read a book. I nearly read some pages yesterday but I got side tracked by Fortnite. I was planning to read and relax for half an hour but I got called to game. You gotta play when you can.
I want to get fit. Or at least fitter than I am at the moment. I’ve been hampered since I knackered my back just before xmas. My mindset has gone from pain and lack of movement leading to a kinda – I’m old and these things happen maybe this is the rest of my life now – attitude to where I am now – I need to move and get fit to avoid this causing damage in the future – I think that’s a better attitude. It helps that the weather is nicer over the last month and I think my fitness has been improving with the short runs I’ve been doing. I want to be able to run 10k again without really thinking about it but I also need to realise that isn’t possible at the moment. I have to build up the fitness bit by bit and some is better than none. So I’ve reduced my expectations on how far I can run. My pace is hovering at a little over 6 minutes per km and I’m able to regularly run about 3 to 5 km. I’ll keep working at this and hopefully it will also get easier as I intend to lose some mass.
I need to get the fence in my garden fixed. Or at least I need to work out if it’s my fence to get fixed. It’s been broken for a few months and now there are new people living next door. I don’t know if they care about the fence. I know I don’t. But I guess it needs to be done. I will have to order things to be delivered and then also spend a day putting them in place. It takes a certain amount of effort and I’m not sure if I care enough.
There are quite a few work related things on my To Do list but I don’t talk about work here. I’m not stupid. This is a very public environment and so work thoughts are kept for work things. This has pretty much always been my space for writing my ideas and thoughts. I doubt people can be bothered to search all the way through this site for the controversial stuff. If they do, I don’t mind I guess. I did once get told to remove a link to this site from my email signature because of my anti-religious views. Ha ha ha ha.
I think I might need to sort out the printer. I have a wireless printer. It doesn’t always reconnect to the network when it comes out of standby and so needs to be power-cycled. This is a minor irritant. I would rather have a cabled network printer but I haven’t searched yet and to be honest I don’t want to replace something that works perfectly well the rest of the time.
I also need to get in touch with EE. I can’t see my mobile account details when I log in and this has happened since I had my new broadband network installed. I reckon there’s some weird thing happening in their system and someone will have to tick a box somewhere. I have already tried their online messaging system to work this out and they told me I need to phone up! This requires a lot of effort and planning and time.