Not-too-spoilery hot take on Granbelm

So it turns out the real problem is that someone is really bad at giving job interviews.

I've seen shows before where I've wished that Captain Awkward would swoop in and set everyone straight. This is the first fantasy battle show where I've wished for Alison Green (of Ask a Manager).

Breaking cat news

The previous post was interrupted by a mysterious clanking sound that needed investigating.

One of Phosphor's hobbies is dropping toys into the water dish, and then batting them around and fishing them out. (And then sometimes bringing them to me, still soaked.)

Another of his hobbies is finding new small objects that he can pick up, carry around, or otherwise manipulate. Usually he will bring them to me, or at least leave them next to one of the places I habitually sit, to see if he has discovered a new toy that we can play fetch with.

In this case, he somehow found a pair of small needle-nose pliers and went straight to dropping them in the water dish.

I've been saying for a while that he's mechanically inclined, but this is the first time I've caught him with an actual tool.

Weekly diary, September 8, 2019

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

Cat

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.
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