Monthly Review, December 2023

Again, late, so abbreviated. Apologies.

Homestead

Harvested my two ginger grow bags, got about three pounds from just one nub split between the two of them. Not bad!

Pulled off all the little hot peppers that made it this long into the year, and set the plants to overwinter. Pickled ’em, put ’em in the fridge.

Moved all the basil plants and whatnot inside, but there are so many.

Health

Pretty fine, waking up really early a lot, not sure why, but why not?

Games

Went to PAXU for the first time! Ran a bunch of stuff for Games on Demand (Trophy Dark twice, CBR+PNK once). Played Down We Go with Tony and In Extremis with Sarah from PlusOneExp, both delightful.

Played a bunch of Lancer, which is exactly what I wanted it to be.

Had our weekly games of Slugblaster with the Ursulas, good as usual.

Played in a game of Die Grave Robber Die, which I’ve had my eye on for a while, super fun.

Ran some more Trophy Dark online (the Giant’s Carcass) to fill out the Ladder of Insanity, same with a couple shots of Beam Saber, both good.

Finished off my ten-shot of Rune and that capped off my ten-plays-of-ten-games Ladder of Insanity run!

Finished off the year strong with a quick game of We Are But Worms with Nic.

Media

• Watched all of Gravity Falls, mad at myself for not watching it sooner
• Finally watched Freaks and Geeks, and, yep.
• Saw Godzilla Minus One and the Boy and the Heron back to back for some big post-war Japan oofs
• Catching some Strange New Worlds with Nic
• Saw a movie about mushrooms at the imax theater, that was a thing
• Went to see Poor Things at the Drafthouse, and it was fantastic

Work

Technically last day on Dec 1, but yeah, laid off. Bah. Not sure what to do next, but happy holidays, right?

Other Stuff

Pai’s birthday! Went to a couple other holiday parties, and I’m so tired.

Also went to a little crafts fair thing at Deano’s place out past the airport, got to catch up with Vines, pretty nice.

Plans

See what happens next year, I guess…