Author: Trip the Space Parasite

I still did not manage to do the thing. It’s not clear I was successful at doing any things, although I sent email to customers and stuff. I would rather sleep.

Read: Legendborn (Tracy Deonn): Urban fantasy based on Arthurian myths, but the main character is a black girl and it’s set in the South. I suppose the twists would not be very surprising to a more critical reader but I thought they were well-done.
Read: Hard Reboot (Django Wexler): A hapless scholar visits Earth to study its antique software, and gets mixed up in giant robot gambling and also yuri.

Words: check. I finally wrote more Samuel journal, but I still don’t know how to automate getting it all posted here.

I think I made a customer happy today, although I did not exactly fix their problem. I’ll call it a victory, anyway. Decided not to join From Written To Recommended because I no longer have any delusions that I could someday write something worth publishing. Ordered a new toaster oven so I can give the old one to Marith for her new apartment.

Read: Eniale & Dewiela vol 3 (Kamome Shirahama): More hijinks, Eniale defends her love of fashion, Dewiela almost gets away with something, they’re still friends (somehow), the end!

Played: Eclipse Phase 2: I think we’re about done here, as we have found a suitable disposition for the alarming artifact we discovered, which should protect transhumanity without infringing on any person’s rights. Next session: we go somewhere creepy! Gaming might be moving to Thursday nights. We talked about in-person, but we’re so spread-out and carless that it might not be feasible.

Words: FAIL.

Look! Another journal entry! But this one is very boring, because I was useless today. I meant to get up at a reasonable hour and go shopping, but instead slept in and read manga and got chicken tenders for lunch and otherwise futzed around until it was maximally hot. Then I went shopping, and still couldn’t find any double-fiber english muffins anyway. Bah, capitalism, why have you failed me? Into the alligator pit with you!

Read:

  • Sex Ed 120% vol 1 (Kikiki Tataki, Hotomura): Enthusiastic high-school PE teacher tries to teach her students sex ed even though the national curriculum is terrible (in her opinion), and also seduce the school nurse who keeps trying to get her to tone it down. It’s definitely bawdy, probably R-rated if it were a movie, but the sex ed seems accurate?
  • I’m the Catlords’ Manservant vol 1 (Rat Kitaguni): Hapless broke teenager is enslaved taken in by the werecats his father once helped. Pretty much entirely male cast, lots of oppression and ridiculousness.

Words: Check, although this conversation is not coming together.

It looks like I might be able to import my old journal entries if I can convert them to XML of the right format, but right now that seems like a lot of work, so I’ll just start from today (okay, yesterday as I type this) with new entries.

Marith moved out yesterday (mostly) so I was only shopping for my own groceries, which was both less than usual and not as much less as I expected. I should probably still get food for her when everything is not confused, so that she does not die before getting a better job. Or maybe I should stay under my rock forever and never speak to her again. Difficult to tell which is the most diplomatic option.

We went over to Monkeycat Mountain to see friends because we are living in the future when such things are possible again! Instead of starting season 2 of Zoomwarts, though, we showed Jus Labyrinth. Being a child of her generation, her first question on seeing obvious male romantic lead was “…how old is he?” Good job being age-gap aware! She seemed to like the movie, though, and it gives me an extra week to figure out the doom of Zoomwarts.

Ken fed us vaguely Moroccan tomato fish, bacon cabbage, scallops, and rocket salad, which was all very good, and also did not make the robot spy on my arm unhappy, and we watched Yona of the Dawn 9-10. Yay, new party member! Marith had to leave after that, so she can get abused by capitalism before dawn tomorrow, so the rest of us played the Temple of Elemental Evil board game and successfully escaped despite Ken having accidentally shuffled the big scary monsters into the deck. Then I rode the bus home and was almost completely useless the rest of the evening.

Words: check.