Tag: monkeycats

They can’t all be funny.

Ayse and Ken and Jus and Non went back home this morning, because they have to do work and school and all kinds of things on Monday. Dave and I stayed to entertain our hosts, or at least help Halloween Toddler throw more things down the stairs.

Played (card game): Buffer Time. After realizing we had been cheating before, we started playing correctly (it wasn’t a lot of difference) and eventually won a game. Losing the other games was approximately as fun, because it is a ridiculous and random game.

Watched (animated TV): Star Trek: Lower Decks 1.4-5: Still pretty great. Also, brain-sucking alien parasite!

Played (board game): Nippon Rails. A long and narrow crayon rails game. I am still very bad at these, because I cannot keep enough thoughts in my head to plan out a run more than one contract long. Also I forget to keep enough money in reserve to make all the rails I need and get stuck redrawing for four turns in a row to get a contract I can fulfill. Also also I suck.

Played (board game): Daybreak. We won on turn four, go us.

Played (board game): Codenames. It was very late, and we were not very clever.

Read (manga): VACATION.

Written (anything): VACATION.

Also Buy Nothing on the Blue Planet, which we violated only slightly by patronizing a FLGS and not buying very much. I would have bought some Fluxxes for Sherilyn, but I didn’t know which of the more than 37 varieties she doesn’t already have.

Played (card game): Buffer Time. Al got a copy of the Star Trek: Lower Decks card game for his birthday last spring or something but finally broke it out. It was surprisingly fun for a cooperative game where everyone usually loses.

Watched (animated TV): Star Trek: Lower Decks 1.1-3: Dave and I wanted to know what all the jokes were referencing, so Al showed us the first three episodes. It was pretty good! I’m not fannish, so I probably missed 90% of the references to the 900 other episodes of Star Trek-related material, but it was funny in its own right. I suspect all my characters are actually Boimler.

Played (board game): Lords of Waterdeep with Skullport and Undermountain expansions. I did okay, but came in– wait, I came in first?! I think I successfully dipped into the blue corruption skulls to get a bit ahead and then shed them, so I got all those extra points. Dave went heavy into blue skulls, and zoomed ahead during the game but then lost 84 points in the final accounting. Ouch.

Read (manga): VACATION.

Written (anything): VACATION.

Also many other desserts and non-dessert foods and more foods and more desserts and even more foods. All of them right into my face om nom nom nom. There were four husbands in the kitchen, each of whom’s wife wanted a different kind of stuffing, so there were four stuffings. Also two kinds of mashed potatoes, three kinds of yams, two kinds of Brussels sprouts, and five desserts (only two of them pumpkin-based).

My contribution to the cooking was sitting with Halloween Toddler while he rolled tiny cars around, which people were nice enough to say was important. The people who made food gave me some of it, anyway. Later, I watched HT throw a plastic bin of balls down the stairs, because he goes to sleep at a ridiculous hour.

Played (ridiculous card game): Holiday Fluxx. Fluxx is great for when you wish you could win, but are too tired to make a plan to win, because sometimes it just happens anyway.

Read (manga): VACATION.

Written (anything): VACATION.

Another technology destroyed by the clutching talons of capitalism.

Successfully (barely) rode the train up to Sacramento with Dave to get picked up by Sherilyn, because it’s okay if somebody else is traveling by car and I can tag along. Everyone is doing well, especially Halloween Toddler, and there was Chinese food until we burst.

Played (board game): Thurn and Taxis. I didn’t do great, but I got some carriages and bonus tiles and stuff.

Read (manga): VACATION.

Written (anything): VACATION.

Gah, she’s 16 now!

Did not go to the office because I’m doing evening handover this week, did go to sushi dinner and cake and presents with Jus. How did it come to this?

Read (manga): Kase-san and… vol 1 (Hiromi Takashima): Another reread of high-school yuri that I found while sorting. She’s a meek girl who loves gardening, she’s a dashing athlete, somehow they start going out. Every volume of the series has a different completion of the title; this one is Kase-san and Morning Glories.

Read (novel): What Stalks the Deep (T Kingfisher): This time the horrible thing is in an abandoned coal mine in America, which the doctor friend from the first book has lost a relative to. Battlefields are one thing, but deep dark tunnels with millions and millions of tons of stone just waiting to trap an enby forever are quite another, and that’s not even counting the horrible thing.

Written (catgirl): 142.

Happy happy Ken-day!

I did some regular shopping, but then we went out for an early dinner at a restaurant Ken likes, saw the rare and elusive Non-beast, went back to their place so Marith and Dave and I could watch some anime while digesting, then had cake and very bad singing and very good friendship.

Watched (anime): Bungo Stray Dogs 4.7-8: Oh, right, they’re being framed and hunted, but all of it may be the result of reality manipulating artifacts. Not that that helps.

Read (manga): FAIL.

Written (game design): 243:

I consolidated most of the actions mentioned earlier into:
– Act Undetected
– Analyze Something Complex
– Befriend Someone
– Build, Repair, or Sabotage Something
– Influence Someone
– Mingle with the Crowd
– Patch Someone Up
– Read Someone or a Situation
– Scour a Place for Information
– Scramble Around
– Spout Lore
– Travel to a Different Place
– Work Magic

Analyze and Read could be consolidated, but technical vs social may
be a distinction worth preserving, so we’ll leave them separate for
now. Scour is also in that space but again, distinct enough we’ll keep
it for now. “Go shopping” doesn’t need to be an Action; looking for stuff
is Scour, haggling is Influence or Befriend, buying things from the
standard equipment list at the listed price is whatever. So that’s
thirteen Actions, plus Act Under Pressure.

“Spot trouble before it strikes” isn’t an Action because it’s reactive,
based on Readiness. “Make a daring escape” is mostly a combat Action, so
maybe it’s time to think about those.

– make a daring escape
– strike at a weak spot
– stand in defense of someone
– block passage
– stop someone in their tracks
– recover and reorient
– push through an obstruction
– strike from ambush
– snipe from a distance
– blaze away
– team up on someone
– terrorize someone into flight or surrender
– stop the fight to parley
– take cover
– duel someone one-on-one
– form a shield wall
– push someone around
– use the environment as a weapon
– take out a bunch of mooks at once
– blow up an area
– curse an enemy
– bless an ally
– move around while avoiding attack

I’m sure there are more I’ll think of later.

Also Embrace Your Geekness Day, which is very fitting.

Failed to get up early or be energetic or organized, but somehow made it to Mike’s birthday party in the depths of Palo Alto, saw some people I had not seen for 1d12 months or so (and some people I saw yesterday), ate some party food, watched a game about dragons, eventually got a ride back to San Jose with Ken and Jus.

Jus came up to my apartment and started to make friends with Sage (she received a voluntary sniff!), but Nightvale was not at home to visitors.

Read (novel): Stone and Sky (Ben Aaronovitch): Peter, Bev, and the entire crew including Abigail and her favorite fox try to vacation in Scotland, which of course is full of oceanic skullduggery. Peter opens with “Before we continue, I’d like to point out that a) none of this was my fault and b) ultimately the impact on overall North Sea oil production was pretty minimal.” and that basically covers it. Also Abigail is still the best.

Read (manga): Komi Can’t Communicate vol 33 (Tomohito Oda): Sports festival, a very strange college admissions test, various tangential friendship bits. You can do it, Komi!

Written (game design): 464:

That’s actions (which still need a better name, maybe Moves if the PbtA
baggage isn’t too unwieldy?), what about backgrounds? I see three types:
professions, social circles, and regions.

Professions, or maybe better called occupations, since they don’t have
to be profitable, are straight-forward. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor,
Spy, Huy Braseal Civil War Reenactor, Woodsman Woodsfighter,
Courtier, Courtesan, etc. Not sure about things like Monster Hunter or
Dungeon Explorer, but that’s a matter for individual campaigns. As
mentioned, this is susceptible to the “Occupation: Literally Batman”
issue, but because it doesn’t give bonuses, only avoid penalties, maybe
it’s not that bad. Alternately, we could make a list that people have to
pick from, but that seems like work. An occupation background is
appropriate for doing the things that occupation does, knowing about
famous practitioners of it, assessing the things it works with, etc.

Social circles are any group where status carries the same markers
and the same jargon is used. Depending on the campaign, this might
be Nobility, Criminals, Horse Tribes, etc, or it may be broken up
more: Nobility of the Central Kingdoms, Nobility of the Coastal
City-States, etc; or even Nobility of This Specific City-State,
Criminals of This Specific City-State, Horse Tribes of the Grey
Banner, etc. The more fragmented the setting, the smaller the
groupings, mostly. A social background is appropriate for dealing
with members of that group socially, recognizing other members of
the group and assessing their status, etc. It also gives you whatever
language is used in that group, or maybe a couple.

Regions are similar in that how much a background covers depends on the
campaign: could be Forests, Forests of the North, This Specific Forest.
Cities also fall under this, but are pretty much each their own region
unless they’re very close. A region background is appropriate for
wayfinding, hunting or otherwise gathering resources, knowing what
resources are available, knowing what threats are there and how to avoid
them, etc.

A starting character should get one of each, and probably a couple of
extra slots to reflect complicated backstories.

Pretty sure Thanksgiving food is not the route to longevity.

Everybody except Dave and I went back to San Jose today, because they have to prep the kids/be prepped for school on Monday. Dave and I stayed to play Martian Rails (I am so bad at Crayon Rail games) and Waterdeep with Undermountain (again), which meant we got to see Kate. I forgot how great Kate is, she pretends my jokes are funny! Went to bed around midnight again.

Read: VACATION

Written: VACATION

I did some of that! Also I bought nothing (possibly because I was far away from the computer I use for shopping, but it still counts).

Ate way too many waffles, admired Non’s racing game tracks (because it’s 2024 and kids can just construct 3D environments on their notepads), played Everdell with the tree replacement expansion and Settlers of Catan and Lords of Waterdeep (again) and Holiday Fluxx, ate too many leftovers, played SPANC again because Ayse didn’t get to play last time, managed to get to bed not long after midnight. I’m sensing some themes to this vacation.

Read: VACATION.

Written: VACATION.

Perfect that square! Square that perfection!

Got all the laminated things from Marith, surely I am now completely ready to run a game.

In the evening, we went to hear Lus in her school production (which was actually a community theater production with high school drama class as chorus) of Les Miserables. I understand we can’t demand too much of community theater, but I would like whoever was running sound that night to be sent to the labor camp in Jean Valjean’s place, because that was WAY TOO LOUD and also somehow screechy even when the manly men were singing their solos. (Jus was fine, of course.) My poor head.

Read: Delicious in Dungeon vol 7 (Ryoko Kui): Ninja bonding! Elf trouble! Senshi’s traumatic backstory!

Written: VACATION.

But I am still terrible at getting pictures of my cats.

Slept way in, was completely useless all day. I played Minecraft for a million hours, including a trading expedition that only got me a few emeralds but a lot of random ore, and enough levels to enchant my diamond chestplate. Then I brainlessly mined blackstone until I had two chests full. It was a lot of mining but now I should be good for building things that match my castle.

Non wanted to play Among Us, so we did, because we do that even in quarantine. I was not very good as a murderer, but I did kill some weird little Minion-looking guys.

Written: FAIL. Didn’t even manage to note down villain stats for the adventure I haven’t managed to playtest.

 

But more importantly, it’s the day Jus gets promoted out of middle school!

Since Support can’t all take Wellness Day off, I took today in lieu so I could go see Jus wear a spiffy dress and walk across a stage and get a certificate. There was surprisingly little shrieking, but a lot of slinky dresses for 8th grade. Afterwards, we waited until restaurants were open and had sushi and ice cream of celebration.

My niece is a high-schooler now. That can’t be right!

Played: Lancer. We defeated the last iteration of the boss and triumphed, but that didn’t really help all the people who had already been killed or were now abandoned by their corporate supply chain or whatever. It’s almost like summoning unfathomable intelligences from beyond space and time to commit war crimes is not as good an idea as Second Committee though. Now we have to figure out what to play next, and it’s probably going to be Kelsey running D&D5e. Maybe I should have volunteered, but nobody wants that.

Read: Strictly No Heroics (BL Radley): A high-school lesbian in a world where some people have superpowers and are basically police with all the corruption of mundane cops and less oversight gets mixed up in an exceptionally villainous plan and there’s a hot girl and many people who need to get what’s coming to them.

Written: 271.

Where’s my Babel fish?

Despite the lack of intra-aural translation services, I walked to grocery shopping for the first time in a million years. I was not slower than before (54 minutes from my door to the sandwich shop), but I could tell I had moved my legs. I need to do this more often, although I should have started before we got into the warm part of the year.

In the afternoon, we played Minecraft together. Dave gave me bookstore credit for a load of sand, so I finally got my diamond pick enchanted, and was able to get some more diamonds to make and enchant another one. Now I can do the thing where you mine ore with Silk Touch and then bring it home to harvest with Fortune III. I also got my castle torn down and rebuilt with better materials and made more progress. Now I need to get a bunch of wood to make more storage, see if I can make a basalt machine, mine a bunch of blackstone, grow produce to trade for emeralds, explore the many caves near my castle, make a new travel bed, plant bamboo for scaffolding, etc, etc.

No anime, Marith is still not feeling up to going places or doing things.

Written: 169. Had to go back and fix several sentences because I’m reading a book written in present tense and that makes me write in present tense. I guess there’s nothing stopping me from writing a story in present tense, but this one has too much written in past tense already.

I keep thinking I could try edibles, just for the experience, but have never managed to actually do such a thing. It would probably make my face fall off or something.

What I did do today was go to the very last Spring Fling for Nonny and draw lines on many elementary-school children. Some of the people who were supposed to show up to help Ayse check off kids as they completed laps didn’t show, so I had to help. It was fine, the kids were hardly even traumatized by my appearance, but standing in the same facing for a couple of hours during the middle of the day got me a sunburn on the tops of my calves.

Played: Minecraft. We had another session during which I was super-lame but got to listen to people being super-cool on voice chat, so that was fine. I found a bunch of beehives and managed to both smoke them and not irritate them, so I ended up with a bunch of honeycomb and honey bottles, which I will later use for something clever. Candles, probably. I also found the big pool of surface lava I had seen earlier, which was further inland than I thought. I think it’s actually close to Jus’s homestead.

Written: 164. This isn’t going in the way it should if I want it to sync up with everything else, but I think I know how to fix it.

Plants are good! They make oxygen and food and paper!

Played: Minecraft. After not playing since last Saturday, I am way behind everybody else, but whatever. I still like trundling around mining things and crafting things and seeing things. I found ice, but have no Silk Touch equipment to collect it, and found powder snow to experience the fun of hypothermia. Still not sure where that surface lava is.

Watched: Nothing. Marith wasn’t up for going places, so we all stayed home and played Minecraft more.

Written: 195.

 

Nightvale is one (1) years old today! That makes him a grown-up cat, not a kitten! He might still be kind of bb, though.

As usual after going into the office two days in a row, I am pretty blah, but I did a work and snuggled one or more cats.

Played: Ayse wants to play Minecraft together, so we spent some time tootling around the proposed seed in creative mode until everybody decided they like it. Someday, when we are not all busy with Easter, we will reboot it in survival mode and punch trees together.

Read: Edges (Linda Nagata): Start of a follow-on series to Deception Well and Vast and all those. One of the explorers returns home in a stolen ship, recruiting for an expedition back to the origins of humanity, where the people Deception Well left behind made Dyson spheres and then unmade them and now nobody knows what’s there. “The Inverted Frontier” is the title of the series.

Read: “The Speed of Time” (Jay Lake): Well, what do you expect, when members of your species listen to the voices from space?

Written: 226 words.

It seems weird for nations where pandas are not native to have a national panda day, but on the other hand, pandas!

I tried to get up at a sensible hour to do the thing, but the cats trapped me in bed until I fell back asleep. Alas.

After doing the thing, and then not doing any things for the whole afternoon, I went with Marith to see Jus in her school production of Annie Jr (ie, abridged). Singing! Dancing! Villainous plots! Propaganda for the morbidly wealthy! A happy ending! It was the last show, so Jus was full of feelings, but that’s okay. I hear it often happens to actors.

Read: Daisy Chainsaw (Charlotte Laskowski): Brutal tactical magical-girl combat. Choose your weapons from among such things as baseball bats, rollerblades, guns, microphones, and of course chainsaws, and try to survive high school until the villains attack and you have a transformation sequence and it’s time to fight. Still in a fairly primitive state, but it has a pixel-art aesthetic and magic rollerblades and dismemberment rules.

Written: 220, although some of it was adventure design that I did earlier but hadn’t logged.

Look, it’s 2024! Insert meme here.

I had to get up at 7 to be on call, which I was late for, and then I had a thing that needed attention right away so there was no going back to sleep. Eventually I got to stop being on call, which I was also late for. Not an auspicious start to the year!

In between, I at least got to play a little Minecraft with Ayse and Nonny. I haven’t played in a long time, it turns out.

Watched: Umbrella Academy 3.9-10: Pretty sure listening to Five is always more sensible than listening to any of the others, and this was no exception. Now the season is over and everything is ???WTF??? yet again, but next season allegedly will wrap it all up. I doubt it will resolve the discrepancies in scale, but all visual SF has to suffer from those, because all people with enough money to make a theatrical movie or Netflix show are complete morons.

Read: Strange Machines (ed Marissa Van Uden): I actually read this a while back but forgot to note it, so here it is. Subtitled An Anthology of Dark User Manuals, it is what it says on the tin. Stories include “A Brief Guide to Surviving a Human-Forced Reset”, “How to Install Organic Prostheses”, “Implementation of Eusocial Technologies in the Office”, and “How to Talk to Your Luvvbot-3000 about WWIV”. None of them are very long, so it’s more like the instructional blurbs from the backs of the boxes than actual manuals, but a lot of them are quite dark.

Written: 212 words. This actually is auspicious!

While I was on vacation, I saw a very cute baby who can stand up while holding onto things (which lets him get off the Baby Preserve), went on a three-mile hike with Ken and Dave, got help with Squaredle, ate a million unhealthy foods, saw many people I rarely see, and stayed up too late playing board games. I slept more than I wanted although not as much as my body wanted. It was a good vacation, but now, despite traffic, I am back. Marith did a great job taking care of Sage and Nightvale, because she is Best Lizard, but she was not in a position to feed them three gooshy meals a day, so they were glad to see me.

Played: Dominion. I did not win, although maybe I could have if the game had gone on longer.

Played: Ra. New to me, all about drawing tiles from the bag and bidding on them with numbers. As often happens, I seized the lead in the first epoch and then got no more points the rest of the game.

Played: Holiday Fluxx. Like all Fluxx variants, it is fundamentally Fluxx, and this is the rule of Fluxx.

Played: Puerto Rico. Moral depravity and I wasn’t even good at it! (Although neither was anybody else; it was a really close game and late at night.)

Played: Dungeon World. Jus wanted to play D&D, but nobody else volunteered and I wasn’t going to do that, so I compromised with an iron fist. An immolator, a rogue, a druid, and a wizard walk into a dungeon… and SET IT ON FIRE! Also there was some tussling with mooks and mutant frogs and traps, but by the time they got down to the heart of the dungeon, Jus had run out of gas. However, we stopped in a good place, and only had four players who are all likely to be up for gaming next visit, so I kept the character sheets and my terrible notes and maybe we’ll pick it up again.

Read: Perils & Princesses: You are fairy-tale princesses, going on D&D adventures. You have Resolve, Grace, Wit, a fairy godmother, a magic gift, one magic die per level(max four), and the contents of your inventory slots, because despite the fairy-tale theme, it’s a GLOG game. It has the usual D&D problems of “roll d20 to have nothing happen” and “everybody’s a bucket of hit points” but the system is simple and mostly player-facing. Also, because all lists and examples are numbered, it’s possible to create a character entirely randomly, which makes me want to try it for a con game.

Written: VACATION

I went back to my usual grocery store this week, which is next to my usual bookstore, which was full of things to buy, because I haven’t really converted to reading manga digitally, because I’m dumb. Also I ate chicken tenders to prepare my digestive system. I was on call in the afternoon to cover for coworker M who was trapped by the perfidy of automobiles, which boss B made a big deal of appreciating even though it was only for like 45 minutes.

In the evening, Ayse finally came over to meet my cats, and then we all* went to Brazil Meat Center (which is actually called Taurinus) for meat and more meat and grilled pineapple that tastes like peach pie and more meat and dessert because Marith hadn’t gotten a birthday celebration yet. Happy Lizard Day!

*Except Nonny who is sick and Dave who was keeping an eye on him and doesn’t like eating out much anyway.

Written: Still FAIL.

With the help of Ken and Jus and Nonny (heroes of the revolution, all), I managed to get some cats into my den of squalor (instantly rendering it 1000% cooler).

Nightvale (“Mostly void, partially stars”)

 

Sage (Named by Jus, for her greenish eyes)

They are so much younger and more rambunctious than any of my previous cats!

Sage is mostly teeth, partially even more teeth. Nightvale is 1000% more chill. Augh I have cats what if something happens to them? What if they happen to something? Augh!

Read: Buffomet (ed Nero O’Reilly, Iris Jay, Mia “Hye” Mardikian): A collection of sexy pictures of everyone’s favorite infernal androgyne and/or other demons (possibly goat-like), diabolists, etc. Turned out to mostly not be to my taste, alas.

Written: How can I write? I have cats to distract me!

I understood that reference!

No work today, only decompression and weekend stuff like grocery shopping. And birthday sushi with Jus! So much sushi. No, more sushi than that. Also cake. But I am glad everybody is done being sick and able to socialize and listen to my terrible con stories. There may have been hugs.

Read: “The Dragon Project” (Naomi Kritzer): Some people don’t deserve dragons.

Written: Writing down what I actually did over the extended weekend should be trivial, and yet it is using all my words (I don’t have very many).

It was a nice vacation. There was a baby, who is very cute and likes stealing glasses and saying “babababaabbbbaabababa”. There was air conditioning, so we did not die when it was 42C outside. There was the traditional Chinese food and grilled stuff and splashing in the pool. There was conversation. (Our hosts recently went to Japan and returned with tales.) There was a long stretch of sitting in cars, with a brief interruption to sit on folding chairs and watch fireworks at close range. (Nonny had a comment for each one, because he hasn’t seen a lot of fireworks.) There were board games. There were so many snacks. Eventually we got our act together and returned to San Jose.

Played: Everdell. We played this twice, so I have enough data to conclude that I am terrible at this game. I’d say the dual use of cards as discardable currency pushes it into Race for the Galaxy territory, but I’m sure that’s quite right. Mostly I’m just dumb. I’m sorry, cute forest creatures!

Played: Roll for the Galaxy. I came in second, which was also last.

Played: Pandemic. We also had the On The Brink expansion, but the extra roles didn’t save us. I came in last, along with all of humanity.

Played: Sagrada. I managed to get my tableau complete, but failed on all the victory conditions, so I came in last.

Watched: I totally thought I was going to do something useful when I got home, but instead I got chicken with too many bones and watched the start of a ridiculous anime called Estab Life. It’s the cyberpunk fantasy future, everybody has to live in their cultural burbclave, cute girl shadowrunners help them defect in pursuit of their unapproved dreams.

Written: FAIL. I had my laptop, and my current draft is in Dropbox, so I could have written, yet I did not. Pretty sure I can still make my overall goal, although this may not be my strongest week.

We went to the park to see Jus’s Shakespeare camp production of Twelfth Night, Abridged Cowboy Version. Obviously she was brilliant, but also it was 897582 degrees outside so we all died and I didn’t come back to life until Marith came over for pizza and anime.

Watched: Mob Psycho 100 3.9-12: This time, Mob must face… his own heart! The end (of season 3).

Read: Micchi vs The New World vol 4 (Jammin’ Rabbit aka Tony Huo): We finally find out why the long-lost senpai of the main character has been doing all these terrible things, and everything is resolved. Also a lot of people get severely clobbered because seriously, don’t fuck with Micchi. The end.

Written: Only 176, but that’s more than my daily goal, and brings me to 1420 for the week, 6836 overall. More than 2/3 of the way to my 10-week goal!

Sorry, all father points are revoked upon becoming a Trump voter. I don’t make the rules.

Since there isn’t Sunday gaming for the next however long, and this would be an off week anyway, I swapped with somebody to take their oncall shift today. I think they’re a father or something. But the customers did not attack, so mostly I was useless all day.

We did some Minecraft in the afternoon. I mostly harvested cobwebs and vegetables from the abandoned village, and flailed about in caves looking for dripstone. I replanted the vegetables, but I have no idea if the cobwebs regenerate.

Read: Shadows of a Dying Sun (Alan Bahr): An OSRish game with several tables of dying-earth genre stuff, lots of resource tracks to manage, and an inexorable progression toward death instead of hit points per se. Also there’s an event where someone predicts that the world will end tomorrow and there’s a 10% chance they’ll be right.

Written: 144 tonight, 1734 for the second week, 3381 for both weeks so far.

I got up and almost went grocery shopping, but then went back to bed instead. Social Minecraft is today because Nonny and everybody are busy tomorrow, so I can shop then.

This week, I explored the desert some more. It turns out to have two rivers, which may explain why I couldn’t find the riverside cave I found earlier. It also has at least two wells, which are pretty but mostly useless since thirst is not a thing, a bunch of cactus, and some suspiciously rectangular skylines that are not desert temples. I bought some custom banners from Nonny’s banner shop,which now has a colored sheep breeding program as part of its supply chain. After we finished, I went to my own world and finally found two cows to lead back to my paddock. Once my wheat crop comes in, I can make them smooch adorably and spawn new cows, and finally I will have a steady supply of leather for books.

I was on call all afternoon, but the customers were quiescent.

Read: Renegades (Craig Alanson): Immediately upon returning from their last expedition, the PCs have to steal their ship back from duly-constituted authority and set out to save Earth by doing the impossible. Again.

Written: 152. If only two points were enough to draw a line…