Weekly diary, July 7, 2019

[petrea_mitchell]

I'm writing this from La Grande, Oregon, on the way back from Spikecon.

Cat

This is Obnoxious Cat, who snarls at me as I put the ferals' food out in the morning, and then swoops in and eats a little bit of it himself. We thought he was feral himself, but after we put fliers up around the neighborhood to make sure, we got a call from his owner.

Also he's already been neutered. I can only imagine what he was like before that.

Fandom

There was a weekly anime commentary to finish off the last couple shows of spring and also the season preview.

And I made it to Spikecon. Con report at a later date.

Books and media

I started in on a reread of Lost Cities of Africa to see if it can add anything useful to my miniatures project.

It's anime premiere time, so I'm watching a couple of those per day. Favorite so far: Dr. Stone is everything I hoped it would be. In another tab, I have the page where Funimation should have posted the first episode of BEM by now open so that I can refresh it every few minutes.

Gaming

Nothing to say outside of the Spikecon report.

Politics

• Politico explains why the real breakthrough is having two or more viable candidates from an underrepresented group.
• There was also a quiz where you try to match the memoir anecdote with the 2020 candidate. This is a very hard quiz.