Weekly diary, October 27, 2019
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petrea_mitchellI think I'm finally adjusted to the new work schedule. Just in time for it to be disrupted by visiting relatives and a time change!
Marlene, showing off her variegated toes. Both hind feet have black center pads and pink toes. The front center pads are mostly black, with a mixture of pink and black toes. I'm not sure how you get a black pad surrounded by white fur, but she's managed it.
It's almost time for Orycon. I don't feel ready!
The friendly local gaming store had its store championship, everyone playing with a single just-unsealed deck. I got a very strange deck which, across four rounds, won big twice and lost big twice.
I keep meaning to start taking a look at the DS games I got at PRGE, then going, "Wait! I should finish my replay of Fire Emblem: Awakening first!" So I've done a few more chapters of that and am about to see if I manage to get Chrom paired up with Olivia or not.
Started reading Portable Australian Authors: Australian Scienc Fiction, edited by Vann Ikin, a collection showcasing the history of Australian sf from the 1800s up to the modern day of 1982, when it was published. Main impression of the early stuff: boy did it love its race wars. Then again, I've just read a piece from 1915 where the survivor of a super-technological society advocates aggressive eugenics and the hero disagrees. In fact he goes so far to suggest that the treatment of aboriginal peoples around the world in his own time may have been a tad unjustified...
Brexit has gotten so far outside the bounds of normal political practice that there may be an election in December instead of the usual May or June date. The BBC is ready with a piece examining the potential difficulties of electioneering in winter. Readers living in US states where it is cold in November, prepare to laugh derisively.
Cat
Marlene, showing off her variegated toes. Both hind feet have black center pads and pink toes. The front center pads are mostly black, with a mixture of pink and black toes. I'm not sure how you get a black pad surrounded by white fur, but she's managed it.
Fandom
It's almost time for Orycon. I don't feel ready!
Gaming
The friendly local gaming store had its store championship, everyone playing with a single just-unsealed deck. I got a very strange deck which, across four rounds, won big twice and lost big twice.
I keep meaning to start taking a look at the DS games I got at PRGE, then going, "Wait! I should finish my replay of Fire Emblem: Awakening first!" So I've done a few more chapters of that and am about to see if I manage to get Chrom paired up with Olivia or not.
Books and media
Started reading Portable Australian Authors: Australian Scienc Fiction, edited by Vann Ikin, a collection showcasing the history of Australian sf from the 1800s up to the modern day of 1982, when it was published. Main impression of the early stuff: boy did it love its race wars. Then again, I've just read a piece from 1915 where the survivor of a super-technological society advocates aggressive eugenics and the hero disagrees. In fact he goes so far to suggest that the treatment of aboriginal peoples around the world in his own time may have been a tad unjustified...
Politics
Brexit has gotten so far outside the bounds of normal political practice that there may be an election in December instead of the usual May or June date. The BBC is ready with a piece examining the potential difficulties of electioneering in winter. Readers living in US states where it is cold in November, prepare to laugh derisively.
