Weekly diary, October 6, 2019
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petrea_mitchellI had to put my thermal on for the morning commute on Monday. In September! It's not supposed to get that cold this soon.
Another cat from the catio tour. I didn't really take many pictures of actual catio features.
Any day now I should be getting my Orycon schedule. Their programming department usually gets schedules out a month before the con. If that sounds reasonable, about 2 weeks ahead is more typical of sf cons in my experience.
Made real progress toward the Fame goal in Sunless Skies. I didn't expect to play it at all once the anime premieres got started, but they've been very evenly spread.
I had a very meh showing at this weekend's KeyForge event with a deck I wasn't very enthusiastic about anyway, so I decided to open one of the unopened ones I have lying around and got Iron "Updog" Jonas, who has some neat cards I haven't seen before.
Before the Renaissance book, I forgot to mention I read Broken Stars, a collection of recent Chinese short fiction edited by Ken Liu. Since it's intended to provide a wide range, not everything is going to work for everyone. My favorites were one about philosophers trying to impress the first Qin emperor, and one that had a different take on the whole idea of alternate history. I can't really say why without massive spoilers.
No time to watch anything but anime this week. My current favorite premiere is the one that turned out to be a Harry Potter parody.
Not that politics haven't been very interesting in the English-speaking world lately, but you're probably all up to date on whichever parts of it matter to you.
Cat
Another cat from the catio tour. I didn't really take many pictures of actual catio features.
Fandom
Any day now I should be getting my Orycon schedule. Their programming department usually gets schedules out a month before the con. If that sounds reasonable, about 2 weeks ahead is more typical of sf cons in my experience.
Gaming
Made real progress toward the Fame goal in Sunless Skies. I didn't expect to play it at all once the anime premieres got started, but they've been very evenly spread.
I had a very meh showing at this weekend's KeyForge event with a deck I wasn't very enthusiastic about anyway, so I decided to open one of the unopened ones I have lying around and got Iron "Updog" Jonas, who has some neat cards I haven't seen before.
Books and media
Before the Renaissance book, I forgot to mention I read Broken Stars, a collection of recent Chinese short fiction edited by Ken Liu. Since it's intended to provide a wide range, not everything is going to work for everyone. My favorites were one about philosophers trying to impress the first Qin emperor, and one that had a different take on the whole idea of alternate history. I can't really say why without massive spoilers.
No time to watch anything but anime this week. My current favorite premiere is the one that turned out to be a Harry Potter parody.
Politics
Not that politics haven't been very interesting in the English-speaking world lately, but you're probably all up to date on whichever parts of it matter to you.
