I didn’t celebrate, but I do like peanut brittle! I should get some of the See’s sugar-free.

No commute to the office today, but I did have to ride the bus a lot to get to the doctor for my second shingles vaccine dose. It was kind of a pain, but I got some reading done, and I’m okay with going to some trouble to not get shingles. It sounds dreadful.

Read: The Archive Undying (Emma Mieko Candon): Sometimes the AI gods of far-future city-states implode, taking any worshippers who happen to be directly connected with them. Sometimes the worshippers survive and can be used to make giant robots. It gets more complicated from there, with intrigue and M/M romance and existential despair and poor decisions and brain-eating.

Read: Reborn As A Vending Machine, I Now Wander The Dungeon vol 1 (Kunieda, Hirukuma, Hagure Yuuki): A vending machine enthusiast is killed by a falling vending machine and isekais as a magic vending machine. Fortunately he falls in with someone superstrong who carries him around so he can provide his bounty to many adventurers. There is a lot of murder and colonialism, though.

Read: Glitch vol 1 (Shima Shinya): A high school and middle school sibling (the older might be nonbinary?) move to a small down and team up with some other kids to investigate the strange creatures and mysterious apparitions of their town. Has a nice clean art style and mysteriously strange mysteries.

Read: Death by Irish Whiskey (Catie Murphy): Fifth in the “Dublin Driver” series and also the author’s FIFTIETH BOOK. This time the murders are at a whiskey competition and Meghan really tries not to investigate (for all the good that does anybody).

Written: 107. It’s not nothing.