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The rain has started. I've finally remembered to order new rain gear. Apparently it will take three weeks to reach me.

Cat


Cat on catio tour
A cat demonstrates its catio on the 2019 Portland Catio Tour yesterday.

Fandom


One of the volunteers helping with the catio tour thought I looked familiar and then we worked out that we see each other every year at Orycon.

Gaming


The delayed Play-by-Post Gameday VIII has just kicked off. The Pathfinder Second Edition game I signed up for decided not to wait and started last Monday.

I killed another captain in Sunless Skies yesterday, by making it to the last realm and not being nearly prepared enough for everything there wanting to kill me. The next captain will take it slow and steady and try to get more engine upgrades before going back there.

Books and media


Finished reading Grease Junkie, which turns out in the endnotes to have actually been assembled without a ghostwriter. Many more mechanical adventures were chronicled, from the practical (rethinking how ice cream machines work) to the less so (there are inherent difficulties in trying to drive a desk across France). Lots of fun.

Next in the stack is a book on the Basque language. One of my regular stops on Powell's trips is the languages section, where I try to find something I don't have a book on yet. Then I go through the first few chapters, learn a few of the interesting features of the language, put it on a shelf, and never get back to it.

Politics

  • Brexit flowchart watch: The BBC kicked off the week with a multi-chart extravaganza, now updated here. Not visible there is the highly accurate summary image: Brexit flowchart image from the BBC
  • Brexit and the resulting war in Parliament are the jumping-off point for a discussion of how populism can erode democratic governments.
  • Which brings to mind something I read in The Atlantic a year or so ago and can't find again, about the history and decline of the party machines.

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