Monthly Review, September 2023
Homestead
Planted some more peppers, and some actually made it. Got some new shelves, did some reorganizing, not much else.
Health
Apparently my pre-diabetes is getting better, so that’s nice?
Teeth are still falling apart, so got a new crown, woo.
Been feeling super tired and allergy-y and no energy, but still trying to get out for some walks now that it’s cooling down a bit again.
Games
I finally *actually* finished the whole thing for Dove Oath Flats, my submission to the RTFM Bloodbeam Badjam. It’s got mummies! (And there are community copies, get ‘em!)
- Allura, Trophy Dark with Mads
- Ran a Public Access two-shot for some of Peter’s friends
- Got to the Night of the Bone Wolves in our weekly Public Access game, which is terrific. Also popped open the TV Odyssey mystery, so, tick tock.
- Did a pickup game of the Wiard’s Grimoire with the Faded Havens
- Played a cute little oneshot of Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast
- Played the first few sessions of Night Witches for the new quarterly
- Got some more good Trophy Gold in with Jason Cordova, did the Sleeping Place of the Feathered Swine and Temple of 1000 Swords
- Finished up our Hit the Streets campaign, very good
- Read through Extraction for Cosmic Dark and actually got to run it for some folks!
- Tried playing some play-by-post Speedrune, but I have such a hard time keeping up with it
- Doing a little work on Fixer, but still kind of stuck
- Did a design thing with Anders and a coffee hangout with Jason
- Working on a character keeper for Slugblaster
Finally finished Spiritfarer after 54 hours… it honestly could have been half that and still been just as good.
Media
- Went to see Contempt, classic
- Saw Raven Winged Hours, a staged collection of Poe stuff, yup
- Watched Calls on Apple, and it’s great
- The Cloverfield Paradox, more like parasucks
- Reread Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery, so good
- Watched all of Junji Ito—Maniac on Netflix
- Started season three of the Silt Verses
- Getting into the Magnus Archives
- Watched V/H/S 99, fun
- Watched Ready or Not, also fun
- Watched Guns Akimbo, very fun
Work
Graduated yet another cohort! Now I’m on “rotation”, but I’ll probably be doing a few weeks of work with the curriculum team. We’ll see!
Other Stuff
Got a new cup washing thing installed in the kitchen, so good.
Finally got most of the hoard on my office floor cleaned up.
Laser cut a bunch of viking bag handles for a friend.
A bunch of other stuff I forgot, probably.
Plans
Nah.