Some games and some thoughts
7/24/2024
Yo! day 2 of jounraling, lots of thoughts but I'm pretty sleepy so I'm not sure how much of this will be great legible whatever. Spent most of the day playing videogames today, namely Valorant and Binding of Isaac, Both great games, I really do enjoy roguelikes, and I should maybe get more of them. Regretably, however, spending so much time on video games meant I really did not do much else of interest. Most specifically I played very little piano or practiced any real skill. Something I've noticed is my general lack of motivation recently to accomplish any skill that requires time to learn. I think a lot of this has to do with my phone and general loss of attetnion span, its something to work on for sure. I think i'll start setting a timer tmrw for 30 or 45 minutes I have to exclusively play piano. Setting a time limit on it will hurt in the short term in my brain, but in the long run help quite significantly I hope. I think a big piece of my phone being a distraction is this discord server I joined, I want to be pretty active, but genreally I'm realising that shouldnt be important to me. SO I think I'll reduce my activity significantly if I can. What I did do today other than video games was play a board game with my good friend Evan. We played terriforming mars, which is a fairily complex game that tbh, while fun, is also a little draining. Here are my general thoughts: while the concept is fun, the requirement of tracking so many induvidual game pieces, as well as the hand size being infinite leads to extremely long turns that become very tedious to complete later in the game. The ramping up of materials can quickly become infinite which makes it easy to steamroll specific terriforming goals. Overall just a sort of tedious play I wish I enjoyed more. it tookl around 17 turns to beat. I'll post some pictures of my game room below. Speaking back on the phone bit actually, I have been thinking of getting a flip phone for quite some time, someething that can still run APK's but maybe not super well, limiting me to just a few apps. They arent that expensive, but I need to find one that works for me. I think this would be a huge step in keeping me off my phone and in the present moment, something I struggle with currently. I'd like to get a dumbphone, as they are called, with a full qwerty keyboard but dissapointingly after scouring reddit they do not appear to exist. I'd also like start working out and reading each day. I have a book picked out, something easy and quick that might help me reorient into reading called dinotopia. Ultimately it all comes back to that DAMN PHONE, parents were right after all I guess. surely there must be a middle ground. Either way, getting some more dicipline into my life cant be a bad thing, and Ithink it would help me feel more confident in myself and my days, may even help with the crushing lethargy, who knows. OH, something else I almost forgot, I had an interview at scarborough's nordx today, a pathology lab that would be a great match for me as a microbiology degree holder. Unfortunately they lacked a current open position, but said they would notify me when one opened up, yay! Looks like I'll have to reach out to my backup job currently though, I need to start making money quickly. Thats all for today I think, heres hoping for a more productive tmrw.
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some pictures of the gameroom