I Am in the Future

I am posting this entry from my Raspberry Pi!  That was my main Christmas gift this year, and it's been very nice to chill out in the basement, browsing the internet on a nice big TV screen.

Things I still need to do with my Raspberry Pi: figure out how to do things other than just browse the internet; figure out how to write on it.  A text editor came with the desktop interface that I'm using, but I've yet to see if I can open my OpenOffice/LibreOffice files with it.  I really need to just plug in my flash drive and see what happens (if it reads the files, great, if not, then I know I need to try something else), but every time I think of it, I'm downstairs and my flash drive is upstairs and I'm too lazy.

I'm using a wireless keyboard and mouse combo, and it works really well - very lightweight, just chilling in my lap - but I notice that I have the same problem I have with the keyboard case for my tablet.  The shift key is small and about a quarter inch further to the right than it is on a standard keyboard, so I'm constantly hitting the Page Up key instead.  I'm sure at a certain point, if I use it enough, I'll get used to it, but as of right now I don't type with either of my l'il keyboards enough to not have to consciously think 'move your pinky over a tad bit more' every time I capitalize something.

I also just discovered today that you can't just watch YouTube on a Raspberry Pi.  You have to do all this other stuff.  And I'm still a little intimidated by all the programming and coding shit that's kind of like the whole point of a Pi.  So for the time being I just won't watch YouTube using this.

I always sleep better when my bedroom is cold, but it's starting to get ridiculous.  My room has always been badly insulated, and the window worse still, but I've never been unable to fall asleep because I've been cold before.  My usual sleeping attire is made up of my enormous winter fluffy socks, long pj pants, a t-shirt under a hoodie; then I sleep under a sheet, comforter, quilt and afghan.  Last night I finally caved and put a second comforter on my bed.

I woke up and I was tired - not because I hadn't slept, but because all my covers were so heavy.  It must have been like exercise while I slept to roll over and such.

I've been thinking about getting a heated mattress pad or an electric blanket, but they can be kind of pricey.  There are cheap ones, sure, but then I see an imaginary set of scales, with money going down on one side while my likelihood of dying in a house fire goes up on the other.