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Date: January 6th, 2020.

Time of Writing: 7:56 PM

Weather: Cold, but that's all I know since I didn't go outside again.

Mood: Cozily useless.

Day Overview: Stayed up early in the morning coding more features into the site, and then when I made myself go to bed I stayed up for hours wanting to be back in front of the computer, I had a good idea for an essay and I started outlining it in my head, and I had more features to add to the website that I really wanted to experiment with, but instead I forced myself to sleep and wound up waking up at noon again with no desire to do anything but lounge around and be useless. I did make some good progress on parts of the site that I hadn't even realized needed updating or working on, and I played a bit of a game, but that's about it. Tomorrow, I need to get out of the house. I have an idea for a fun adventure to go on based on a meme posted on a discord server that happened to reference something in my city, so stay tuned for that.

On My Mind: I'll be really happy when we cure sleep. To me, sleep is a greater illness than death. Over the summer I had a series of sixty days or so where I just had constant nightmares every single night when I went to sleep. Nothing I did work, not changing my diet, not getting to bed earlier - that only made it worse - I tried keeping a journal so that I could potentially go lucid in a dream and figure out what was causing it or at least dispel the nightmare and that worked a grand total of one time before I had this really bad one where I realized I was dreaming but I didn't go lucid and then what was probably the most pleasant dream I'd had in a while turned to nonsense because of dream logic and ruined itself retroactively and I had to watch it happen. I don't enjoy sleep. Feeling well-rested is good, but I don't like trading waking hours for it.

Consumed:

• 154 by Wire: A nice little post-punk record. Got some dark and atmospheric tracks on here that are pretty nice. I don't understand the Wire hype and I never have, this album is nice but it's not stellar. I like the weirder tracks more than any of the straight-up punk stuff. There's a couple tracks that are almost just pop, like Map Ref. 41 Degrees North 93 Degrees West (what a dumb name lmao), and these are different and nice but they end up giving this album a really inconsistent and all over the place tone. Then again there's nothing here that's an out and out bad track, like on the incredibly overhyped debut album from this band Pink Flag (yeah, I said it). This one gets a 6/10.

Produced: I've reached the decision, one week into the blog, that progress on the website should be counted in this section. Why the hell not? There's legitimately no good reason that I shouldn't. Early in the morning I heavily revamped the homepage of this website, moving a lot of the stuff that was just laying out there into a brand new About Me page. Additionally, I made a list of stuff that I want to do with the site in the future, like fixing the page on mobile phones and making a guestbook that people can sign. Just a few hours ago I gave the website a favicon and hopefully got it up to date with the Open Graph Protocol. I didn't know what either of these things were into one of the people in a Discord server I shared the page on pointed it out and graciously helped me figure it out (shout out to Morgan).

Other Thoughts: If you haven't checked out the updated About Me page, please do. I've moved a lot of stuff over there and added ways to contact me if you want to suggest improvements to the site. Thank you for reading.