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

Cat



Obnoxious Cat in the backyard

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 )
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Summer weather is back, I've survived the biggest crunch time of the year at work, things are looking up. I wonder what I'm forgetting.

Cat



Monty on the couch

This is Monty (originally Shiitake, for those who read about him on Facebook). Now just over a year old, he's another ex-feral, but you'd never know it from the way he's developed into an absolute love bug.

Fandom



The weekly anime commentary happened. FIFTY-EIGHT EPISODES.

The summer anime preview got written, and should be up soon. I'll have 14 premieres to watch if they all get licensed.

Spikecon finally posted its schedule. I don't have to moderate anything. Disappointed to not see any moderators reaching out before the con. I always send out a quick "here's some questions to think about, and is there anything you want to make sure to get a chance to say?" message to panelists beforehand when I'm moderating.

Books and media



Still have a second reading project to blog about. Now that work crunch is over, might actually get myself to do that.

Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse made it to Netflix, so we watched it last night. WOW. Absolutely would not mind if that won the Hugo.

It's a good thing I only had two anime shows left to watch this week, because I have many closing thoughts about Attack on Titan. And about the incredibly misleading buzz that was circulating about this part of the story, and anime fandom and its ability to grapple with sf generally. Okay, some of those thoughts should not be put into print.

Gaming



Sezan did not do so well this week, so next time I promised to bring my Time Traveller deck.

I thought I'd try practicing with it ahead of time, so I tried out The Crucible, which allows online casual play. Unfortunately it turns out not to have the cards from the expansion implemented.

But there was a GitHub repository mentioned on its help page, meaning it's an open-source project that people can just show up and help with. No, turns out there's no code there, it's just used for issue tracking. A little later, I learned that development has stopped because Fantasy Flight Games is working on its own official online play offering. No one knows when it's going to be released, though.

Maybe I can find someone up for a casual game at Spikecon.

Politics )
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So I'll try this weekly notes thing and see how it works.

It's late June and I had to turn on the heat this morning. Ah, summer in Portland.

Cat



Phosphor

This is Phosphor. He's 9 years old, more active than any other 9-year-old cat I've known, and huge. He would be the king of all he surveys, except he has no assertiveness at all with other cats. As a kitten, he was the first feral cat we captured from the backyard, and he's helped tame subsequent kittens.

This got long, adding a cut... )

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