I’ve been away from home the last two weeks, give or take, smushing some personal travel together with some business travel to minimize my “suffering per airport hour” statistic as much as possible. If work’s going to pay for me to go somewhere, I’m going to try and get a mini-vacation out of it. I’m home for what feels like seven seconds, before heading back out on another mini-vaction-turned-actual-vacation next week.
What started out as the pre-vacation of a work trip became a vacation-vacation when the work portion of the trip got cancelled but my hotel was non-refundable. So now I’m going to Hawaii, and I know this is going to sound like crazy talk from someone who barely manages to sound sane most of the time, but in a perfect world I wish I weren’t. It’s a long flight for a relatively short stay in the fanciest and most expensive hotel I’ve ever personally booked on my own dime.
At least it’s all pre-paid.
I’m planning to use it as a chance to relax on a beach, like I’ve always said I wanted to, combined with my first quarter check-in / personal retreat. I’ll be barely just one month into the Year of Scales and Arpeggios, so I’m not entirely certain what a check-in will look like. But hey. Beach.
Other Updates
- I finished DAVE THE DIVER. Once I turned on the accessibility setting that removed frantic button tapping, I found it a lot more approachable. I hope this trend of accessibility settings to turn off the parts of games I find obnoxious continues.
- I started playing Roots of Pacha. This is the most time I’ve ever spent on a game that I wouldn’t recommend. It’s a prehistoric Stardew clone, and while it has some interesting ideas I think it fails to execute on the best of them while retaining the parts I like least from the overall genre. I tried to refund it after my first hour of playing and was denied because I had owned it for too many weeks. If I could go back, I’d still get it refunded. Nevertheless I’ve somehow managed to spend almost 40 hours on it? A lot of that time I think was me waiting to see if it would pay off on its premise, and I’m now deep enough to say that no it doesn’t but I might as well see my investment through to the end of its story.
- I’m also back on Fallen London, which is great. If you, too, would like to be stolen by bats, I’m looking for friends to infest with rats.
- I’m currently watching Tales from the Crypt for the first time as an adult. It almost entirely stands up all these years later, and I would put it in the pantheon of one of the best shows ever made.
- Somehow someone let me sign up to be a Librarian for Hardcover which mostly entails updating the details of books. I don’t anticipate this being a major ongoing commitment, but I’m detail-oriented and plan to at the very least update the books that I’m personally reading and tracking. If you’re looking to not be on Goodreads anymore, the app and community and vibe are all excellent.