Also National Teddy Bear Day and Wonderful Weirdoes Day.

Since I didn’t have to do anything except wait for phone calls all morning, that’s all I did. This activity combines well with sleeping. Eventually I got to hand it over to Coworker L and go grocery shopping, which was moderately successful. So, I kind of did two things today, counting morning and evening on-call as half a thing each.

I also thought about game design a whole lot, but in a despairing kind of way because so many of these ideas are not fitting together. Six rolls is definitely too many to resolve the most simple attack, though.

Watched: Helluva Boss 2.5-6: I guess it was nice to see Blitz’s sister, but the new writer is just bad. Even in this genre, the characters deserve more respect than that. Ep 6 was way better, and opens up plot, and also I actually like Fizzaroli and Ozzie. (Although Ozzie and Stolas should have been more useful.)

Read: “The Curing” (Kristina Ten): Magical realism plus middle-school clique fads equals a dismaying mess and permanent damage.

Read: “The Three O’Clock Dragon” (John Wiswell): More magical realism, train dragon vs corrupt mayor. I think this may be a reflection on current NYC politics, but not sure.

Read: “The Job at the End of the World” (Ray Nayler): Not fantasy, barely even SF despite being set in our climate-disaster future in which all the works of humanity are as nothing before the fire tornadoes.

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