Also Hug a Friend Day, National Pretzel Day, National Veterinary Day, and of course Independent Bookstore Day. Sadly, there was nothing I wanted at the bookstore this week, but there has been before and will be again.

Watched (anime): Delicious in Dungeon 12-14: Quest complete! Story’s finished, right? …oh. Also, flashback to Kabru and his followers.

Read (nothing): Nothing, but I have made a huge dent in my physical TBR pile and didn’t buy anything new today, so I’m probably fine.

Written (catgirl): 171, some of it even story and not just notes.

Also Garlic Bicycle Day.

Slept in too much, but made the bus to shopping with about one minute to spare. Also gave a little old lady directions.

In the afternoon, I was functional enough to go over to Monkeycat Towers to help dye eggs and clean out leftover adobo. It was very nice, because friends are good.

Watched (anime): Delicious in Dungeon 10-11: Finally, the red dragon!

Read (manga): Reincarnated as a Sword vol 1 (Yuu Tanaka, Tomowo Maruyama, Llo): A random schmoe isekai’d into a magic sword and an orphaned 12-year-old catgirl team up to be highly OP in a generic litRPG world.

Read (novel): Castaways (Craig Schaefer): Teenagers in magic school, in the same setting as the Daniel Faust etc books. Kids who don’t have any better options get sucked into another dimension and enrolled in a magic school that even they can tell is not a shining example of the genre. Bullying, dangerous magic, hardass teacher, reformed serial killer teacher, dangerous wildlife, going off-campus once a year to shop, all the standard tropes. Also interdimensional zwilniks and girl-smooches.

Written (catgirl): 107. This trend is in the wrong direction.

Musk is doing his best to make it suck, but his shitshow is transient.

Once again slept until 1030, then got up and did some shopping.

Ken gave us delicious chicken adobo (probably not cockatrice), and we talked to Ayse about kitchen history because Dave was surprised at the lack of kitchens in Ptolus apartments. It was a nice visit.

Watched (anime): Delicious in Dungeon 8-9: The undine, and the gnomes and Nomari. So far this seems to be following the manga pretty closely.

Read (manga): Asumi-chan is Interested in Lesbian Brothels! vol 2 (Kuro Ituski): A near-miss with meeting the girl she’s looking for, so she has to have a threesome and cosplay instead. Still completely lacking in redeeming social value.

Written (catgirl): 437 more of worldbuilding notes, but mostly lists of names.

If only! We could use a nice alien conquest about now.

Slept in as usual but instead of grocery shopping, I went to the rally downtown because seriously, fuck all those motherfuckers. The crowd was pretty old overall, but there were a few youngsters, so perhaps there is hope for the future. I tried leaving my phone behind, not because I expected trouble today, but to see if it worked, and yeah, it was fine. I think I was the only one who did, though.

Ayse is back from her expedition to Nashville, with bonus tornadoes. Er, stories of tornadoes, she did not bring any actual tornadoes.

Watched (anime): Delicious in Dungeon 6-7: The one where they eat a mimic, and the one where they eat a kraken.

Read (manga): After God vol 2 (Sumi Eno): Less bizarre than the volume that introduced the weird elements, as is inevitable, but more gods and people getting massacred unexpectedly and even more gods and creepy powers and creepy people.

Written (catgirl): 157.

I wrote a little about mermaids before I even knew what day it was.

The busses are back since a court ordered the union to stop striking, so I was lazy about shopping.

Went to watch anime and get Ayse hugs but she was not there! She is in Nashville with her friend.

Watched (anime): Delicious in Dungeon 4-5: The one where orcs murder everybody, but they like Senshi.

Read (manga): The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor vol 3 (Anko Yuzu, Sarasa Nagase, Mitsuya Fuji): FIXME The conclusion of the skulduggery at the port, we find out more about the divine conflict, Jill kicks ass.

Written (catgirl): 212.

Also Buzzard Day (hi jill).

Busses still not running (just give the workers a fair contract already, management!) so I had to walk to shopping. It was okay, but on the way back, carrying bags in my hands was a pain. I don’t have a large backpack and wouldn’t want to carry refrigerated food for an hour without the insulated bag, so I guess I’ll try the miracle of the wheel next week.

My favorite web serial Katalepsis is back, so I was able to read the new chapter over sandwich as had become my habit. Go [NEW CHARACTER]!

Watched (anime): Delicious in Dungeon 2-3: Ah, the living armor. And it’s getting past the picking-on-Marcille-all-the-time phase, which is good.

Read (novel): The Tomb of Dragons (Katherine Addison): Third (and final?) book about the sad gay necromancer detective in the world of The Goblin Emperor. Perhaps he is less sad, now!

Read (manga): Creepy Cat vol 4 (Cotton Valent): Final volume! We find out where Creepy Cat and the Creepy Cats are from and what is up with all that. The end!

Written (catgirl): 128.

Go hippos! Eat the humans!

Coworker A who normally covers weekend days is out, so I had to be on call this PM. Only one case, which is a problem for Future Me (or maybe even Future Somebody Else) anyway.

Apparently Jus has dumped her girlfriend and gotten a boyfriend (who sounds very nice). I had to tease her about not being a very good lesbian.

Watched (anime): Bungo Stray Dogs 3.10-11 (35-36): Of course the solution they settle on is to go somewhere and murder each other. Good thing their subordinates are smarter, even if only slightly.

Read (manga): The Evil Secret Society of Cats vol 1 (Pandania): Four-panel comics about sentai supervillain cats plotting to distract and/or charm humans.

Written (game design): 268 somehow.

Also Abolition of Slavery Day, ahahahahaha.

Did my usual shopping, and also went to the hardware store because I had clever idea after the GM approved reskinning cloudkill to do cold damage.

Read (manga): Yakuza Reincarnation vol 8 (Hiroki Miyashita, Takeshi Natsuhara): Another corrupt enterprise unraveled by punching the people who deserve it, and also OP isekai magic.

Watched (anime): Bungo Stray Dogs 3.8-9: Another cunning plan to pit the Port Mafia and Armed Detective Agency against each other, but they have a cunning plan to thwart it! Maybe.

Written (game design): 186, still not making any actual progress. Maybe I should swap back to one of the other projects.

Another one that’s probably illegal now.

I got up and went shopping slightly earlier than usual, but did not accomplish anything with the extra time. Went to watch anime with peeps, and ended up watching more than usual because Ayse was too busy being an Internet Star to receive hugs.

Watched (anime): Bungo Stray Dogs 3.5-7: What, did you think the Guild was done for just because their giant flying whale crashed?

Read (manga): Dra-Q vol 1 (Chiyo): A vampire girl tries to go to human high school, and immediately falls in love with a total delinquent, breaks every rule of being in human society in the first chapter, runs into rampaging werewolves, etc. Gory and weird, but so far they seem to have a somewhat healthy romance?

Written (game design): 182

Thesauruses are great! Splendid! Glorious! Fantastic!

Monday is a holiday, so that’s when I should do my shopping for the week, but I was not able to break free from habit and ended up going and eating a cheesesteak and buying all the first new volumes of the year in a bunch of series I’m following.

Watched: Bungo Stray Dogs 3.3-4: Finished the flashback to how Dazai and Chuuya became partners, and resumed the aftermath of the Guild plotline, with a terrifying new opponent for the Port Mafia and the Armed Detective Agency.

Read (manga): Spy x Family vol 13 (Tatsuya Endo): Aftermath of last volume’s big fight, and then a bunch of stuff in people’s secret identities.

Written: 275.

Ew, who wants to hug boys? They have boy germs!

Watched: Bungo Stray Dogs 3.1-2: How Dazai and Chuuya originally teamed up. (Pretty sure it’s because Dazai’s boss ships them.) Also, shantytown in giant crater caused by superpower disaster, sure, whatever, but what is that thing next to it? They’ve mentioned foreigners, but is that a mistranslation?

Read: Katalepsis vol 1 (Hazel Young): This almost certainly deserved many many entries, since it’s allegedly 2.5 megawords, but I was not smart enough to record it earlier, and now it’s done. With this plot arc, anyway. Our heroine did the thing! It wasn’t easy! But it was amazing and non-Euclidian! The thing itself was not gay, but basically everything along the way was.

Read: Peach Boy Riverside vol 10 (coolkyousinnjya, Johanne): Surely there is no way this can turn out poorly.

Written: 123.

It’s a holiday for our colleagues in the UK, but a normal (quiet) work day here.

Even though it’s not a holiday, it’s still The Holidays, so I got pizza. Pizza is festive, right?

Watched: Ranma 1/2 (2024) 1.10-12: Mostly this has been moving faster than the original, I think, but the end of the skating fight seemed drawn-out. I don’t like Shampoo as much in this version: her character design is different and she doesn’t have much personality.

Read: Daily Report About My Witch Senpai vol 2 (Maka Machida): Apparently love makes witches’ magic go weird. Meh.

Read: I Can’t Say No to the Lonely Girl vol 5 (Kashikaze): Actual romance is happening!

Read: Guardian of Ruses (Kate Stradling): We finally get to see what the mysterious country with its made-up prince looks like to outsiders. Also, more het romance.

Read: Beyond Promised Neverland (Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu): One short epilogue piece for PN, and assorted unrelated pieces by the same team.

Read: Assistant to the Villain (Hannah Nicole Maehrer): Comic fantasy with anachronistic office culture. Or maybe it’s romantasy. Anyway, it’s ridiculous, the villains are more honorable than the good guys, etc.

Written: 112.

But what do they drink in other countries on this day?

Had to work the first half of the day, because someone has to. It was dead.

Went for a stupid walk for my stupid mental and physical health. Tried to also do some shopping, but failed.

I tried to get Chinese takeout for Marith and myself, but OMG it was so crowded! I did eventually get the food, but it took over an hour. I have definitely made better plans in my life, but also worse ones.

Watched: Ranma 1/2 (2024) 1.7-9: The rhythmic gymnastics fight with Kodachi with the famous line “Use of brother: valid” and then the skater pair and “I can win anything if it has martial arts in the name”.

Read: My Clueless First Friend omnibus 1 (Taku Kawamura): It’s not chunibyo if you’re in 5th grade! Declarations of eternal friendship are not romance if you’re in 5th grade either, at least if you’re as clueless as this boy.

Read: How to Survive at the End of the World vol 4 (RC Joshua): Now everything that was accomplished in book 3 is in danger, because the universe is just like that. I’m not sure about how the System is depicted in this one.

Read: Heart Gear vol 1 (Tsuyoshi Takaki): Centuries after WWIII wipes out humanity, an inexplicably surviving young girl activates an ancient robot and ends up going on a quest through the dangerous world of leftover robots to save a friend.

Written: 121.

 

 

I think the metric conversion of today is 1734912000.

I could have taken today off, but I didn’t, so I had work. It wasn’t very busy.

Read: The Moon on a Rainy Night vol 6 (Kuzushiro): Gay panic at the deaf girl’s house! (Okay, not exactly.)

Read: Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc vol 5 (Sekka Iwata, Yu Aoki): There’s always a government conspiracy, isn’t there?

Read: Don’t Be a Drag (Skye Quinlan): A girl with significant mental health issues goes to NYC to stay with her brother the drag queen and gets mixed up in drama and drag kinging and frenemies and episodes and stuff.

Watched: Ranma 1/2 (2024) 1.4-6: Still seems to be following the same story, although faster. We already have Ryoga and Kodachi. Kodachi is pretty creepy too.

Written: 133.

Actually I want to get rid of essentialist ability scores and only have skills, because “I’m good at X” is better than “I am X” especially when you get racial modifiers involved.

Went on a long (for me) walk on streets I had not walked on before, realized that the ability to cast spells should definitely take up inventory slots (not an original idea by any means, but I like the idea of one mage festooned with birdcages holding spirits, another lugging a huge ceremonial staff with trailing banner, etc.)

Got Pakistani-Indian Fusion food from the new place, and OMG it was spicy. Also bone-in, which is not my favorite, but it was good anyway. I will have to try again and see if they have anything that is better suited to my pasty whiteness. Or I could just order triple naan to smother the spiciness in layers of delicious carbs.

Read: Blend-S vol 1 (Miyuki Nakayama): A scary-face girl gets hired at a maid cafe that caters to cliches, as the Sadistic One. Hijinks ensue, I guess.

Watched: Ranma 1/2 (2024) 1.1-3: They remade Ranma! The story seems the same so far, although the translation is different and it’s all new animation with not as much fanservice. Kunou seems creepier, but I don’t know if that’s the remake or just it being 2024.

Written: 207.

 

Celebrated by Ceil B DeMonkey and Akimori the Ninja Monkey, as well as many others!

Regular Saturday stuff. I didn’t go back to Shake Shack but maybe I should have.

Watched: Deca-Dence 11-12: Climactic kaiju fight! Which is important, but not really what saves the day. The end!

Read: Rainbows After Storms vol 1 (Luka Kobachi): Two high-school girls are dating, but they’re allegedly keeping it a secret. So far none of the other characters have called them on it, but it seems very unlikely no one has noticed them being extremely twitterpated and awkward. Very low-stakes slice-of-life.

Written: 146. I finished the vignette Marith made me write, now I have to write something else.

Seems a little late in the season for pears.

Instead of Togo’s, I went to Shake Shack for lunch on my shopping expedition, because it’s new and people from back East talk about it a lot. It was fine, although they had no Impossible Burgers.

Read: The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor vol 2 (Anko Yuzu, Sarasa Nagase, Mitsuya Fuji): Why yes, all the skill in combat magic and military operations that she gained during her career as a child soldier did come back with her memories, even though her body is only ten. Also something is going on with the gods that she and the Dragon Emperor represent.

Watched: Deca-Dence 8-10:  A brilliant revolutionary plan! An inevitable betrayal! More than one, if you count Pipe. Have they successfully turned the world upside down? Two episodes left to find out!

Written: 176.

I have some suggestions for time travel…

Did all the usual sleeping in, shopping, being super-useless, etc. Only read one manga today despite it being a weekend. Also didn’t do great during commute, so perhaps I should just say it’s one every day, and more if I can manage it. I don’t want reading to be a chore!

Watched: Deca-Dence 5-7: It is so weird seeing the cartoon robot guys doing hard time. It’s still not even clear to me that they have physical form, they might just be chrooted.

Read: I’m In Love With The Villainess vol 7 (Aonoshimo, Inori, Hanagata): Now someone is in love with the main character, possibly due to revolutionary sympathies, which is not what she wanted, but the villainess might be jealous, so that’s progress. Also, our main character stands up to homophobia, so good for her!

Read: Song of the Forever Rains (EJ Mellow): She has scary magic powers and a secret identity, he has an abusive uncle and a dutiful streak, together they have a complicated relationship to crime. I’m not sure if it’s a high-magic world overall, but her childhood mentor has a small cottage on the bridge between the worlds of living and dead, there are remnants of the vanished gods all over, etc. I didn’t mind that it was a het romantasy.

Written: 158

I ate a different (yet still monstrously unhealthy) sandwich at Togo’s, I think that counts.

Also International Games Day and Have a Party With Your Bear Day. Maybe I need to get a bear to help me with game design. “Roll for Salmon.

Did some shoppings, got some hairs cut, let the cats out to sniff the balcony for a while. Maybe I should get them a tent.

Went over for anime, but did not get to tease Jus about her multiple wives and concubines as she was only there for a moment between social engagements.

Watched: Deca-Dence 2-4: Male lead backstory, training montage, automail upgrade, world game events, etc.

Read: A Sinner of the Deep Sea vol 1 (Akihito Tomi): A punk mermaid’s best friend gets arrested for consorting with a human, political uproar, a quest to enable true love etc.

Read: Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc vol 4 (Sekka Iwata, Yu Aoki): It’s the modern age, so you don’t get richer by expanding your own business, you get richer by licensing your technology and training new characters in it.

Written: 291. Is mean of me to thwart my character’s attempt at playing Mata Hari? (No, she’s 13, she’s lucky she can meet somebody for coffeee without dying.)

Also World Numbat Day and Practice Being Psychic Day. I, for one, welcome our psychic numbat overlords, especially if they bribe me with deviled eggs.

Sage kept me pinned under the blankets until forever, but finally I managed to wiggle out and feed her and go shopping and stuff. When I got home, I finished journaling the con, so hopefully I can stay more caught up. But mostly, I accomplish nothing.

Watched: Bungo Stray Dogs 25: This was actually an OAV after the end of season 2, which is why it didn’t connect to anything. But now we’re out of BSD.

Watched: Deca-Dence 1: Okay, that’s ridiculous, but no more than many– wait, what?

Read: Wandering Crows (John Lynch): I played this at the con, but of course we didn’t have a chance to read the whole book. 8 1/2 minutes of exposition and then it was time to make characters. That was in fact most of what we needed to know as players, so that was fine, but my uncertainty about Inventory was never really settled, and now I know that it’s very fuzzy. It looks like what’s in your inventory can be used as an excuse to use a different suit than normal for a challenge, but mostly seem to be flavor, which I don’t like. I understand that everything is flavor and only the suits really affect challenges, but meh. I would be happier with narrative permission or something.

Written: 204.

How depressing. Also Dress Like A Dork Day, which is also ouch.

I had an unsatisfactory cheeseburger the other day that was cold from being DoorDashed, so I got a fresh one from the same place while I was shopping, but it was also not that satisfactory (thought much warmer). I dunno, man, it seems like cheeseburgers should always be good. Maybe I’m experiencing them wrong.

Also unsatisfactory, although in a different way: continued my habit of buying more manga than I read in a week, leading to shelf shortages at home.

When we went over to watch anime, Jus and her friend A(?) were all dressed up because they were going to Homecoming together, like real high-schoolers who are old enough to wear cleavage dresses. What is up with that?

Watched: Bungo Stray Dogs 22-24: End of the Guild arc! Tiger and Rashoumon are now frenemies instead of just plain enemies. There’s one more episode in the season, and then apparently next season there’s even bigger doom.

Written: 223.

Cephalopod is aware of you!

Also World Teacher’s Day and World Storytelling Day.

Today was first signups for Big Bad Con events. The first two signups for everybody allegedly went live at noon, so I slept in instead of trying to rush to do shopping and get home. I was ready at noon, but as seems to happen every year, the database would not work for several hours, and I didn’t get to go shopping until late afternoon. I did eventually get signed up for a session of Ryuutama and a session of the Kill 6 Billion Demons RPG, and then made it to the store and back in time to go to anime. Barely. It was not my preferred way to spend an afternoon, even if I did get a bunch of crafting done in Shop Titans.

Watched: Bungo Stray Dogs 18-21: More three-sided conflict among Port Mafia, Obnoxious Americans, and the heroes.

Read: ShipCore 3.0 (Erios909): The protagonist and her best friend make it to civilization, not entirely in one piece, and it becomes a lot more apparent why people don’t like AIs to run around doing their own thing. Even the AIs that are part of the power structure are kind of awful, although possibly redeemable with the power of smooches.

Written: 217.

I never manage to go to museums myself, but I’m still glad they exist and happy to have my tax dollars go to supporting them.

Completely useless today. Do people even like the presents I bring them?

Watched: Bungo Stray Dogs 15-17: End of the extended flashback, where we find out what Dazai’s deal is, and then back to the present where the two newbs are screwing up their mission massively.

Written: 106.

Also National Eat a Hoagie Day, which I did.

Played a little Minecraft after failing to do anything for weeks, checked out Marith’s base which is a maze of lava and villagers and art and now fish, still not sure what if anything I want to do next. I could build another thing now that Dave has told me how to make copper bulbs light up. Marith offered to let me build it in her Cavern of Wonders, but it might actually belong on  top of the ridge of cherry trees. I could try the trial chamber that Ayse and Dave found, but I’m pretty sure that I would just die instantly with my basic enchanted diamond gear and no skillz.

Ayse has been doing lots of writing, because she is smart and talented and her brain has the basic functionality of doing things, which mine doesn’t. Good for her!

Watched: Bungo Stray Dogs 13-14: Extended flashback to when Dazai was a Port Mafia bigwig. Unsurprisingly, this looks like it’s going to end poorly.

Nightvale might have made a small miau? It would be noisy, yet adorable, if he learned that from Sage.

Written: 172, for all that’s worth (which is nothing).

 

Hi Jus!

Still testing negative, although I actually started too early so I should test a couple more times before declaring victory.

Successfully did some shopping, played some Minecraft (blazes suck), visited people for anime and conversation and hugs.

Watched: Bungou Stray Dogs 1.7-9: That’s a very strange condition for a power. How did they even find out about it?

Written: 101.

On the one hand, I feel like this should be a global holiday, and on the other hand, what impact has it had? Humans still suck.

Managed to get up and go shopping not too late, so I could do the other shopping I failed at last weekend and still be at home to sit in front of a fan and go blblblblblblbl. Played a little Minecraft, but the lag was awful so I logged out again.

Watched: Bungo Stray Dogs 4-6: Murder! More murder! Weirdos! More weirdos! Occasional bits of serious plot in between the comedy!

Written: 170. How does writing work? Not like this, apparently.

Technically I was on call today, but only as backup in case the weekend shift (we have that now!) ran into something they couldn’t handle, but they didn’t, so I guess I’m fairly gruntled. I was much less gruntled with my whole endealment yesterday and the day before.

I felt a little queasy so instead of getting a big wad of pastrami and sauerkraut, I had a normal roast beef sandwich while doing my shopping and it worked very well. Good job, me.

I did a little landscaping in Minecraft. A diamond shovel with Efficiency 5 just tears through hills, but it also tears through bees that wander into the line of fire, so I had to take a break to go recruit some bees from another hive and breed them up and stuff. Still haven’t managed to set up a flat place for aging copper.

Shoulders still sore, weather still hotter than I would prefer, but embodied existence not much more unpleasant than usual today.

Holy crap, what happened to Republicans thinking “gun control means being able to hit your target”?

Watched: Bungo Stray Dogs 1-3. I have seen some episodes of this, but did not remember the way [SPOILER] walks in and goes “nice comedy show you got here, let me BLOODILY DISMEMBER it”.

Read: No Man’s Land (Elliott Kay): My reading list says I read all previous books in this series, but I don’t remember any of the new alien threat events that this book follows on from. I was able to figure out what was going on well enough that I didn’t feel a need to immediately go back and reread, although I may at some point. Also, I hadn’t remembered that main character’s original job in his local armed forces was specifically preventing war crimes, but there need to be more people on that duty. Also also, extremely worrying details about aliens. I feel like the humans are not scared enough of the Krokinthians, never mind some of the new guys.

Read: Buck the Halls (Zoe Chant): I thought I had read all of Kit’s “Virtue Shifters” novellas except the latest, but no! I had somehow not read this one! I really liked it, because Inner Stag! Tragic Antlers Incident! Additional, Possibly Even More Tragic Antlers Incident! Also no sex and I didn’t miss it, so I must be old now. (Narrator: What does he mean “now”?)

Written: 368, somehow. I guess it’s easy to write a 13-year-old being dramatically depressed?

I need to get some paper bags to put books into for taking to the used book store. Maybe Marith can steal some for me.

Lying with my head on a pillow kind of worked for sleeping, but not very well. I had to take the morning off to recuperate, but my upper torso is feeling a lot better, so I was able to actually do so, and then work in the afternoon. Also, none of us have to stay late on Fridays any more under the new system.

Watched: The Ancient Magus’ Bride 2.24: A little bit of climax, mostly denouement (spellcheck thinks I got that word right on the first try, go me). This is where the latest English volume of the manga ends, so we’re completely in sync and left waiting for more to be translated.

Read: The Witches’ Marriage vol 3 (Studio Headline): Surprisingly, the end! The challenges Melissa and Tanya face in this volume are the Final Trials, and to nobody’s surprise they manage to open the gates by acknowledging their true feelings and enter paradise.

Written: 134.

Another massive failure on my part.

It is the Saturday before a normal work week, so I went grocery shopping as normal (including pastrami sandwich and webserial chapters and bookstore accidents), and it is a normal Saturday so Marith and I went over to watch anime with Dave. I am going to declare that chapter of Covid closed.

Watched: Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts 22-24: This usurper has a more cunning plan than the last, but his personality defects are not any less. HEA!

Read: Hell For Hire (Rachel Aaron): 5000 years ago, Gilgamesh conquered the afterlife and now controls almost all magic, access to heavens and hells, enslavement of demons, suppression of human awareness of the supernatural, etc. Not everybody appreciates the rule of the Eternal King, though, and various people’s dissatisfactions lead to violence. (Also possibly romance.) The FL’s secret identity is not actually very secret, but that’s okay. Presumably the revolution will really get going in the next book.

Written: 104 of catgirl high jinks, but also some prep for gaming tomorrow.

Don’t cross the streams! It’s bad when a whole asteroid becomes a meteor!

I managed to get some things done today! I ordered some stuff online, because I can do that from quarantine, I filled out PDF character sheets for the six (not eight!) classes in Perils and Princesses and added a bit to the adventure. Still needs somebody to talk to in case nobody picks the gift that talks to animals. Then I rewarded myself by going to Ayse’s skleleton factory and murdering forty-plus levels worth of skellies and getting covered in bones and arrows and crappy bows. It still wasn’t enough to enchant all my stuff because I didn’t think to take it with me, but I only need like eight more levels to finish. Then I can think about getting axe/shovel/hoe in enchanted diamond.

After a week of eating the same old food I bought just before testing positive, I doordashed some Thai food. Just the appetizer was enough for dinner, but that’s okay, I can eat more tomorrow.

I caught up on journaling, too.

Watched: She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man 1-4: Too much pointless backstory, not enough animation budget.

Written: 158.