I’ll walk, Bird Bomber, If you have to look you don’t need it

I forgot to mention that over the weekend I was in VR playing some miniature golf against random people.  One of the guys said he loved playing real golf and found the physics in VR golf amazingly accurate.  He told me of a crazy experiment he did.  When you set up in VR you map out your virtual play space on the floor.  You can only move around in this boundary, if you approach the edge of it you will see the virtual wall, alerting you.  Of course this is designed to keep you from inadvertently hurting yourself or breaking something.

Well this guy told me he took his Quest outside and drew a HUGE boundary.  By doing so he was able to play the golf game and walk around the course almost normally.  He said it felt amazingly realistic.  It sounds like a fun thing to try out.  Maybe during my extended weekend I will make a big outdoor boundary and see what sort of trouble I can get into.

I also have been forgetting to mention a situation with a mockingbird.  We are in active nesting season so the mama birds are protective of their babies.  A couple weeks ago I had Elsa outside to go to the bathroom.  As Elsa was in her squat position pushing one out a mockingbird dive bombed her, poking her in the butt.  Elsa jumped three feet and came running back inside.  It looked hilarious of course.

Well since then the bird has caught on that Elsa is now scared of her.  Anytime Elsa is on that side of the house the mockingbird comes shooting out, trying to scare Elsa away.  I now act as Elsa’s bodyguard.  If the bird starts moving towards her I move towards it aggressively and it backs off, but not too far.  Cindy has found it less and less funny as the bird doesn’t seem to be as wary of Cindy as it is of me.  I told her once the babies are out of the nest the mama bird should move on.  Until then I have been trying to walk Elsa on the other side of the house or stick to her like glue if we are in the dive bomb zone.

Today is the second 24 hours of Prime Day.  Prime Day has lost some of it’s impact over the years.  I have not bought a single thing.  As I perused the site, looking at the deals, I thought to myself that if I have to hunt through pages of deals, I really don’t need anything.