Monthly Review, September 2023

Homestead

Marc Majcher
2 min readMar 6, 2024

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.

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Marc Majcher

Teacher, Game Designer, Performer, Developer, all the things.