Also Film Your Pets Sauntering Day.
Watched (live-action TV): The Librarians 1.6: Not a new concept at all, but reasonably well-done. I’m glad Cassandra got to keep the [SPOILER] and [SPOILER] and hopefully she still has the [SPOILER] as well.
Read (from the shelf): FAIL.
Written (Geometry for Mutants): 236.
Logged in to work early to attend the meeting about using AI in our company. I managed to hold on by muting and yelling at the screen for a while, but then someone started going on about “when Claude is an AGI” and I had to drop. Holy shit, why are people so dumb? (People, of course, are going “holy shit, why is Trip so dumb?”)
Watched (live-action TV): The Librarians 1.5: For a brief moment, it looked like Ezekial and Jenkins were going to get along, or that Flynn was going to return, or that Cassandra was going to go full supervillain, but no. Still pretty good, and further confirmation about Dulaque.
Read (from the shelf): FAIL.
Written (Geometry for Mutants): 283. Do I need the astronomy knowledge now? Maybe I can put it off longer.
Check! Also National Cheese Day, but cheese isn’t really good for cats.
Watched (live-action TV): The Librarians 1.4: That’s one way to handle the plethora of Yule spirits, I guess. Also to oppress Baird, but blondes deserve more oppression, right? Also, I don’t think I caught before that the master villain is Dulaque.
Read (novel): Catch and Kill (Craig Schaefer): Cyberpunk plus magic, apparently the future of the “Harmony Black” series or a possible future of an alternate timeline of it. A tightly-knit team of a mage who was never understood at university, a hacker who’s turning herself into a catgirl, an ex-soldier, and an ex-military killer robot (sexy lady subclass) get mixed up in horrible skullduggery with corporate psychopaths and rival wizards. Much better than book Shadowrun, made me think of Carl Shadowrun.
Read (from the shelf): FAIL.
Written (Geometry for Mutants): 159.
If the dinosaur is not large enough to carry you comfortably, riding a tandem bike with them is also acceptable.
Watched (live-action TV): The Librarians 1.3: That was actually better, without the chief librarian to solve everything and tell everyone what to do. I also liked the way the thing was written, very much like a Fallen London status that modifies all your cards until you get rid of it somehow.
Read (novel): Splinter Angel vol 1 (AvaritiaBona): Isekai litRPG, a bodyguard is pulled into fantasyland where she gets an OP bodyguarding class and starts leveling up while trying to find out what is going on with having been sucked into another universe. The gimmick of this one is that the MC is, if not a sociopath, personality disorder of some kind. She’s not mean, but she’s extremely unfussed about violence and also not great at peopling.
Read (from the shelf): FAIL.
Written (second rewrite of Geometry for Mutants): 302.
If you don’t, it’ll mean war.
Watched (live-action TV): The Librarians 1.2: And the first adventure is concluded, the world is saved, but pretty much any other pair kissing would be better than that.
Read (manga): Dandadan vol 18 (Yukinobu Tatsu): Speed Boy finally gets into the cursed board game, bearing important information… one round too late. Now everything is even more doomed.
Read (novel): A Journey in Other Worlds (John Jacob Astor): Written in the 1890s, about life in the year 2000. It is of course horrifyingly racist and sexist by our standards, but has all-electric everything, habitable planets throughout the solar system, a project to straighten out the Earth’s axis so the climate is always perfect, and Christian antigravity. The end goes into interplanetary afterlife theory, which seemed vastly unnecessary to me, but I guess men hadn’t yet discovered writing without exposition. An artifact of its time.
Written (rewrite of new project): 159. But although this new way of doing the thing is definitely better than the original, I think it’s not good enough yet.
Are bats themselves seasonal, or do they need a separate season reference?
Kind of did some work, I guess. Having energy and being awake is hard.
Watched (live-action TV): The Librarians 1.1: Marith’s right that it has Dr Who energy with the cheesy verve, but it’s really really not Leverage, and I can’t help comparing them since it’s the same director and some actors.
Read (manga): A Bride’s Story vol 11 (Kaoru Mori): All Smith and Talas and company this volume.
Read (novel): Sloppy Firsts (Megan McCafferty): High-school drama, but even though the protagonist is straight (ew, boys), she is charmingly misanthropic. Written as her actual diary entries and letters to her long-distance best friend, so there is some unreliability to the narration, or at least a lack of strict chronological ordering.
Written (new project): 264. Sage helped by deleting a paragraph so I had to write it again.