Tag: office

I am reliably informed that every day is Kitten Day, but that does include the 10th of July.

Went in to the office today for the first time in weeks, didn’t enjoy it. It was just me and boss (who is town for like the third time in four weeks or something, poor guy). I ate a chicken gyros  and did a bunch of customer meetings, bleah.

My upper chest and throat feel weird. Congested, or ossifying, or something. Maybe deliquescing. I’m sure it’s normal at my age and nothing to worry about.

Read: “King Arthur and Her Knights” omnibus (KM Shea): Seven individual volumes, each seeming fairly short, about a 21st century woman who gets yanked back in time as a replacement for the intended King Arthur, and actually does a surprisingly good job despite not knowing much Arthuriana except that Lancelot and Guinevere suck. She makes a good-looking teenage boy (tall, perfect teeth, no pox scars, etc) and isn’t bad at speechifying and making people want to be better than they have been, but of course at the end everything unravels because that’s how Camelot goes.

Read: I’m In Love With The Villainess vol 5-6 (Aonoshimo, Inori, Hanagata): Oh no, a rival! Also zombies and stuff, but the rival is much more distressing to the OP main character. The villainess is definitely continuing to come around, though.

Written: 134.

This is the day when most of the team is in the office, but Coworkers L and T are both still out. We did find out what the deal is with the guy who buys us coffee, and he’s not here to directly fire us all. I’m not sure what I think of this reorg, though.

I am coughing a lot, but the last of my tests says it’s not Covid. Probably for the best that coworker K was masking in the office today.

After some burrowing around, I managed to come out at the shore of the lava sea, and found both a nice deposit of glowstone I could reach with scaffolding, and something across the lava sea that looks like it might be the right color for a Warped Forest biome. Not sure how to get there, though.

Read: Lonely Castle in the Mirror vol 2 (Mizuki Tsujimura, Tomo Taketomi): Various interactions, life outside the castle drags people in different directions, and a surprising revelation.

Read: My Happy Marriage vol 2 (Akumi Agitogi, Rito Kohsaka, Tsukiho Tsukioka): I don’t remember childhood friend being quite so awful in the anime. Stepsister is much the same, though.

Written: 141. I think I fixed the script, too.

Not a day we get off, but of course rich people aren’t going to celebrate a reduction in free labor.

Coworker T is also out sick today. The new guy who is part of the company in some mysterious capacity and is also in town took those of us who were in the office to coffee, which I guess was nice of him, unless he’s here to fire us all and replace us with ChatGPT, which cannot be ruled out at this time.

It turns out that what you find when you dig downward in the Nether is a long drop to a sea of lava.

Read: Lonely Castle in the Mirror vol 1 (Mizuki Tsujimura, Tomo Taketomi): Middle-schoolers who aren’t going to school get access to an extradimensional(?) castle where they can chillax, and also the possibility of getting a wish granted.

Read: 24/7 Magical Maiden Mimi (Mira Ong Chua): When people realize the nebbishy boy is the secret ID of the magical girl, they want him to be Magical Maiden Mimi all the time. This goes poorly.

Written: 156. All additions, no edits, so it doesn’t matter right now that I’ve found another bug in the script.

Possibly there are cats who would enjoy that, but I don’t think mine would.

Monday is my day to work late, so I usually also start late, but there was an early all-hands that seemed to mostly be an excuse for the CEO to be big mad at people who don’t come into the office enough. Then I had a meeting with a customer that turned out to be scheduled exactly so I couldn’t make it into the office between the meetings. After that, the train was late, and the moment I got into the office to find my desk had been taken over (by either my boss or boss’s boss so it wasn’t like I could shove everything onto the floor) and no one else in my team was in, a special case came in and none of the floater desks had any spare power outlets for the special case laptop. I was very cross.

After that things settled down, but then we had a team dinner because boss and boss’s boss are in town, which wasn’t bad, but it was a lot of people inside a restaurant and I didn’t escape until almost 21:00, so I got home at practically bedtime.

Read: Witch of Thistle Castle vol 3 (John Tarachine): I guess random violence at a school is more shocking in the UK (or Japan)?

Read: The Inconvenient Life of an Arousing Priestess (Makino Maebaru, Hachi Uehara): Healing magic sends the life energies into overdrive, with predictable effects. Instead of realizing this means the gods approve of sex, the main character’s homeland has gone all in on patriarchy, double standards, etc, but fortunately she falls in with someone from a better country after she gets exiled and gets to show how extremely amazing she is at every aspect of anti-monster operations.

Read: The Splendid Work of a Monster Maid vol 3 (Yugata Tanabe): Further adventures of monster maids in Spookytown looking for lost magic.

Written: 238 somehow.

Thursday isn’t a particularly cursed day, but it is sacred to Thor, so I guess Christians get -1 on saves vs lightning on Thursday the 13th?

Went to the office, ate a salad thing, did a work, made up for having a leftover lunch yesterday by taking Coworker L’s unused pork curry home for dinner. Caught up a little on journalling, but not enough to make up for all the days I failed.

Read: Across the Dark Water (Richard Kadrey): A grim cyberpunk/zombie apocalypse quest novella.

Read: Black Night Parade vol 1 (Hikaru Nakamura): Hapless convenience store worker is kidnapped by the evil black Santa (the one who brings coal and switches, and takes bad kids away in a sack) to work at the North Pole with a gang of weirdos. I feel like I’m not getting the tropes and cultural references enough to appreciate it.

Read: My Stepmother & Stepsisters Aren’t Wicked vol 1 (Otsuji): Not quite 4-koma but very short pieces about a girl who thinks she’s in the Cinderella role but her stepfamily, though scary, are actually super-nice (if somewhat eccentric). It’s cute, but seeing the same twist every two pages is a bit much.

Read: Ambassador for Mars (Glynn Stewart): The doom from Chimera’s Star is playing out in roughly the expected way, but with a lot more complications.

Read: Grimwild preview (JD Maxwell): D&D with less archaic rules, explicitly intended to be the new Dungeon World. Mostly FitD, at least what’s in the preview. The magic system needs to be better defined.

Written: 137. Instead of leaping right into throwing out the second draft of the current scene and editing the first draft to give my script a workout, I skipped to the next scene to get some momentum or something. Mostly something.

Do Impossible Burgers and the like count? Because those are good.

Went into the office again, ate some chicken strips, did some work.

Read: The Wrong Dead Guy (Richard Kadrey): Further adventures of the hapless thief who got recruited by the Men in Black and cannot stay out of trouble. There are plenty of dead guys in these hijinks.

Read: Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End vol 2-3 (Kanehito Yamada, Tsukasa Abe): Frieren continues retracing the path of the quest to destroy the demon king, picks up another short-lived protege of one of her old party members, and reveals some of why she is utterly terrifying.

Played: Minecraft. To smooth out this lava lake, I’m going to have to scoop it all up and put it all back down, which is going to require a lot of buckets. Time to start branch mining at Y=+16, I guess!

Written: 217 of Big Bad Con adventure notes, since I had some thoughts. I should try to get it tested or something.

Check!

Because the office is closed on Thursday for Wellness Day and also there is no gaming tonight (Ken is on vacation), I went into the office today. It was not particularly more useful than not going to the office, but hopefully I get points for showing willingness. Ate a pizza, did a work, chatted with my boss because he’s here this week.

Read: I Married My Female Friend vol 2 (Shio Usui)

Read: Flying Witch vol 10 (Chihiro Ishizuka): That’s why I didn’t recognize the new characters in 11 and 12, because I hadn’t read 10 where they were introduced!

Played: Nothing, Ken is on vacation.

Written: 171.

 

One out of two isn’t bad? (I’m no Meatloaf.)

Went into the office again, but this time all of us who are normally there were there to see our boss, except the one who’s out and the one who had to WFH so really it was just me and Coworker T. Found out that Coworker R is no longer with us, which is sad but honestly not surprising. Ate a rice bowl, sat on a customer call for hours.

Read: She Loves To Cook, and She Loves To Eat vol 4 (Sakaomi Yuzaki): More cooking, more eating, more love!

Played: Zoomwarts! Every magic castle is better with a troll in the basement, right?

Written: 177. I’m really not convinced this second draft is any better than the first draft.

Everybody likes otters, pretty much.

Went into the office, met my boss in person since he’s in town, ate a brisket sandwich, did a work.

Played too much Minecraft, didn’t even get that much sand.

Read: Glitch vol 3 (Shima Shinya): The plot thickens! Which is to say, the kids have gotten some explanation which may even turn out to be true, and now they know there’s time pressure.

Read: Witch Hat Atelier vol 12 (Kamome Shirahama): That’s a particularly distressing city-wide catastrophe! Also, this is going to have awful consequences for witch-mundane relations.

Written: 281. I’m not sure I like any of these words, though.

Turtles are good.

Went to the office even more tiredly, ate a pork curry that was surprisingly spicy for something delivered to a corporate office, did some work, butted into my coworkers’ conversations.

Read: Alpi the Soul Sender vol 3 (Rona): Finally, backstory about Alpi’s parents and the other soul sender! Also, mundanes being terrible.

Read: Flying Witch vol 11 (Chihiro Ishizuka): The level of magic in this series keeps getting higher and higher, and yet the characters are not any more serious.

Written: 189.

Also Canadian Immigrants Day, so one for Ken and one for me.

Went to the office, ate a barbecue pork sandwich, did a small amount of work.

Read: A Cat From Our World and the Forgotten Witch vol 2 (Hiro Kashiwaba): More people in the fantasy world are converted to cat lovers, as is only right and proper. It’s a pretty grim world, though, as bad as ours.

Read: The Everything Box (Richard Kadrey): A somewhat hapless thief in the magical crime underworld gets tapped to steal a box that everybody else also wants and hijinks ensue. Lots of hijinks, some murders, inept cultists, inept angels, secret government agencies, betrayal exes who inexplicably did not develop better taste in their time apart, etc.

Read: Otherside Picnic vol 9 (Iori Miyazawa, Eita Mizuno, Shirakaba): They are getting awfully blase about going to a dimension of death and fear. Surely that is going to continue to work out well for them. Also Sorawo might be coming to realizations.

Read: “We Travel the Spaceways” (Victor LaValle): Black magic realism, I guess? I liked it, but it was weird.

Read: Please Don’t Tell My Parents I’m A Giant Monster (Richard Roberts): Reread, because who doesn’t like a book about a disabled catgirl getting extra superpowers? I am still kind of waiting for the book from Claire’s PoV, though.

Written: 134.

If it were National Pickle Day, I’d presume it meant pickled cucumbers, but it’s international, so does that mean it includes other pickled items? Or is it just pickle imperialism?

Went to the office, ate a butter chicken, did a work.

Read: The Ancient Magus’ Bride vol 15 (Kore Yamazaki): This is apparently as far as I’ve ever read before, and also right about where we are in the anime. Everything after this will be new and surprising!

Read: What Feasts At Night (T Kingfisher): Sequel to What Moves the Dead, Alex Easton and their henchman encounter another creepy mystery, this time in their own homeland.

Written: 116.

If I baked, my course would be clear!

Went to the office, ate a pineapple curry, did a work.

Read: The Ancient Magus’ Bride vol 13-14 (Kore Yamazaki): College arc continues with the field trip and the mysterious attacks, very much like the anime.

Read: The Dragon’s Soulmate is a Mushroom Princess! vol 3 (Hanami Nishine, poporucha): Finally we learn what the deal is with the mushrooms and the FL’s mysterious past and everything.

Read: “Fire Above, Fire Below” (Garth Nix): This seems familiar, but it’s not on my reading list so it must have been some other story about dragons and firefighters that I read?

Read: “The Necessary Arthur” (Garth Nix): “Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain,” or in more modern terms, being a post-human entity of unfathomable power doesn’t mean you aren’t also a complete fuckup.

Written: 294. See, this is what makes me think I could increase my quota to 250.

Apparently not all the socks turned loose on No Socks Day are able to survive in the wild. Sniff!

Went to the office instead of sleeping, ate some Indian food, did a work that was not as annoying as yesterday, caught up on journaling.

Read: The Ancient Magus’ Bride vol 9 (Kore Yamazaki): Conclusion of the Cartaphilus arc! That is how he came to be in the place doing the thing in the College arc.

Written: 355?! That’s almost more than zero! Not really, but almost!

Donkeys rarely wear socks. However, I had to wear socks today because they go with my shoes for going into the office. Ate a pretty okay salad, did a work, tried to wrangle livestock in Minecraft. This did not result in any explosions, but I lost one of the two leashes I got from boating llamas and then all my chickens got away because it doesn’t work to put the ungulates in with them. Also made some obsidian so I can make a nether portal if I feel motivated someday.

Read: The Ancient Magus’ Bride vol 7-8 (Kore Yamazaki): Jealousy! Kidnapping! Bad monster! And that’s how Chise got her arm, which I had forgotten the details of.

Written: 162

And yet, my cats still don’t seem to like seafood. Which is legit, it’s not like their ancestors were out there hunting tuna! I guess a bobcat could hunt salmon or trout? Probably not as effectively as rabbits, though.

Went to the office, ate a kind of cold and soggy Reuben, did a work.

Read: The Ancient Magus’ Bride vol 2 (Kore Yamazaki): Still zipping right along with Chise and her lack of survival instincts in the deep end.

Written: 140.

AKA Labor Day everywhere that’s not a blighted capitalist hellscape (and some places that are, I guess).

I’m the only one who goes into the office on Wednesdays, so I went in even though we had an early-morning meeting. I had to commute on the bus since the train doesn’t run very frequently outside of rush hour, but it wasn’t too much slower. Ate a Korean bento thing, did a work.

Read: Ogami-San Can’t Keep It In vol 4 (Yu Yoshidamaru): Oh no, it’s the hot childhood friend! Who is also immune to the male lead’s quirk, to add insult to insult.

Read: The Ancient Magus’ Bride vol 1 (Kore Yamazaki): Rereading from the very beginning because I didn’t remember much of it, but I do remember it now that I’m reading it, and also how fast it moved at the beginning. Halfway through the first volume and they’re already in Ulthar!

Written: 132.

I approve of both, although I have not seen a lot of crossovers.

Went to the office, ate a beef curry with green papaya, did a work.

Read: #DRCL: Midnight Children vol 2 (Shin’ichi Sakamoto): More hauntings, ghastly apparitions, madness, and a pretty extra Van Helsing.

Read: Witch of Thistle Castle vol 1 (John Tarachine): This is the same genre as Ancient Magus’ Bride, but the OP teenager is a boy sent to live with a London witch. Also he seems kind of gay for the cute French boy.

Read: Lieutenant Fusilier in the Farthest Reaches (Erika Chappell): It’s the British Army in the days of buying commissions, except it’s in space and all the troops are robots. Our dashing lesbian lieutenant is one of the extremely few robots to purchase an officer’s commission. Colonialism and class divides are explicitly addressed, although maybe not resolved in ways that are satisfying to modern sensabilities. Also, gay robot lady!

Written: 234. I think.

No thank you.

Went to the office, ate a salmon poke bowl, did a work.

Read: Daemons of the Shadow Realm vol 4 (Hiromu Arakawa): Yep, everybody is conspiring. Also, some daemons are just plain mean.

Read: Please Don’t Tell My Parents I Saved the World Again (Richard Roberts): Ninth in the series, back to the bi poly high-school necromancer. She makes a new friend who, unfortunately, comes with a lot of baggage (but does not want to join her harem).

Read: Komi Can’t Communicate vol 29 (Tomohito Oda): It is simultaneously the beach episode, hot springs episode, and stupid-games-for-high-stakes-because-idiots-are-in-charge episode. But Komi can actually communicate, at least well enough to defend her boyfriend!

Written: 187 but also some journal.

I hope everyone is aware of all nearby velociraptors at all times!

Went to the office again, sat on the phone with a customer, ate a falafel and a hummus.

Read: #DRCL vol 1 (Shin’ichi Sakamoto): Despite the hashtag octothorpe in the title, it is set in Victorian England and the height of technology so far is the typewriter. It is an extremely cracktastic, possibly even hallucinatory, boarding-school AU of Dracula with alternate personalities, crazy foreigners, excessive interpersonal drama, the first girl at the boy’s school, inexplicable supernatural weirdness, and general bizarre creepiness.

Read: The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise (Dan Gemeinhart): A twelve-year-old girl and her dad travel the country ina  converted schoolbus after the rest of their family has died, never talking about the past or going back to their old hometown, until Coyote hears of something she has to get home for on a tight deadline, and hatches a Cunning Plan. Emotional roadtrip hijinks ensue.

Written: 213.

I don’t recall interacting with the librarians much, but the one at my first high school would let us hang out in the library and invent space wargames during pep rallies.

Yay bats! Bats are great!

Went to the office, ate Mayan-Chinese fusion cuisine (Pollo Pibil Bao) and felt very futuristic.

Read: Monthly in the Garden With My Landlord vol 1-2 (Yodokawa): A manga editor breaks up with her girlfriend, looks for a new place to live, finds a house that is suspiciously cheap and turns out to come with an eccentric yet beautiful live-in landlady, lesbian hijinks ensue. The landlady’s colorful past is a big deal.

Read: Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc vol 1 (Sekka Iwata, Yu Aoki): Monsters randomly appear in future Tokyo, transforming technomagical heroines to exorcise them are big business, a college grad with no talents except pluck and speed-reading and eidetic memory falls in with a magical girl startup company populated entirely by weirdos, life-threatening hijinks ensue.

Written: 119.

Now Sage is also one year old! She is extremely bb for such a grownup cat.

Went back to the office, ate eggplant stir-fry, did a work. First day this year I have not felt the need for a jacket.

Read: Sheeply Horned Witch Romi vol 2 (Yoichi Abe): The world is completely different again, fragments of the boy’s personality are looking for fragments of the witch’s personality to reassemble, but this may not be as straight-forward as hoped, and the results might not be entirely positive.

Read: Wartorn Stars (Glynn Stewart): Having reached the stars of the aliens who need help, the humans save as many days as they can, which is not all of them, but enough to get acclaim from the aliens and their allies, and also find out a lot of confusing things about the enemy.

Read: Dai Dark vol 2 (Q Hayashida): Finally the main character and his skeletal buddy have their own creepy spaceship so they can fly around looking for trouble meatball spaghetti and bones.

Written: 176.

You can do it, young writers! Don’t listen to the haters! Especially not if the hater is you!

Went to the office, ate a barbecue, did a work. Got an urgent customer call at the end of the day, but was able to make the customer happy by quitting time.

Read: Sheeply Horned Witch Romi vol 1 (Yoichi Abe): Rereading, because I tried to start vol 2 and had no idea what was going on. Depressed high-school girl gets the power to reshape the world into the metaphor of her psyche, the only person who isn’t in a coma is the boy she likes, at the end she’s entering a new instar or something. Right!

Read: Dai Dark vol 1 (Q Hayashida): There’s a teenaged kid in a wacky grim space setting full of disgustingly organic tech and necromancy, he has a skeletal life-support back, everyone is hunting him because they think his bones will grant any wish, ultra-violent space hijinks ensue.

Read: Raven’s Flag (Glynn Stewart): Number 6(?) in the series about trying to put together the remains of the alien empire that was just overthrown, starting a new arc where aliens from far across the old empire have come to ask humanity for help because they are getting their asses handed to them by mysterious attackers.

Written: 165.

 

I count, at least according to my HR profile.

Went to the office, ate a deep-dish pizza, did a work.

Read: I Married My Female Friend vol 1 (Shio Usui): Marriage is something everybody should try, so two friends agree that if they aren’t otherwise attached by five years after college graduation, they’ll marry each other, and they do. One of them is obviously much more into this than the other, at least initially, but there is affection and cuteness.

Read: God Bless the Mistaken vol 1 (Nakatani Nio): In a world where the laws of nature are always making an exception (giant plants growing everywhere, then the plants disappear and people can walk on air, then people are earthbound and everything is mirror-reversed), a high-school boy runs errands for his landlady who studies the glitches. I have trouble believing a society so much like ours could happen in such a world, but it’s cute.

Written: 309. This is working better.

I told them how beautiful and chompy they are, instead of reminding them that their brains are the size of walnuts, so I’ll count this one.

Went to the office, got almost the last desk, ate some Chinese(?) food, did a work. I’m not sure how this is going to work when the whole company is supposed to be in the office on Thursdays.

Read: Blood Blade vol 1 (Oma Sei): Vlad the Impaler returned to life as a cute young vampiress and protected her corner of Eastern Europe for hundreds of years until steampunk mad scientists send their minions to annoy her. Ultraviolence ensues. No, I don’t think it’s supposed to make more sense than that.

Read: Whoever Steals This Book vol 1 (Nowaki Fukimidori, Kakeru Sora): Book-hating youngest member of a famously book-loving clan discovers that when people steal books from her family’s private library, they get cursed, and she’s the curse. Adventures in surreal book worlds ensue, with a helpful dog-girl-spirit-thing.

Written: 428 terrible words.

HI JUS!

Went to the office, ate some Ethiopian mushrooms and injera, did a work, came back home.

Read: Soara and the House of Monsters vol 1 (Hidenori Yamaji): After spending her entire life training to fight monsters, Soara goes to sign up on the very day the war is cancelled. Distraught, she wanders the wilderness until she falls in with a band of dwarves who are going around doing bespoke construction for monsters who want to use this new human idea and live in houses instead of found dens. Very much the sort of manga with double-page spreads of the monster houses with the fantasy materials and monster-specific features called out. Soara’s character arc is obviously going to be learning to value herself for anything other than monster-killing power.

Read: Free Period (Ali Terese): Two middle-school troublemakers get sentenced to do something constructive with their energy, and end up coopted into/coopting the project to get period supplies in all bathrooms. It’s like 50% period equity, 50% nobody knows what to do with these girls who have so much energy, and 20% fart jokes. Having never been a middle-school girl, I have no idea whether this is accurate, but it seems plausible.

Read: Blade of the Moon Princess vol 3 (Tatsuya Endo): Look, it’s another faction on the Tainted World, and they also have a grudge against the Imperial family. What were the odds of that?

Written: 279, although maybe I should have written less and gone to bed earlier.

Yay me, I guess? I could have justified taking the day off work, and in fact should have since I have twenty days of vacation to use up this year, but instead I went to the office and ate beef and eggplant and fried rice and helped some customers.

Read: She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man vol 1 (dicca*suemitsu, Ryusen Hirotsugu, fuzichoco): VR game, can’t log out, but the best summoner in the game is flung thirty years into the future and stuck in the girly avatar he was fiddling with as an alt to his Srs Bzns Elder Sage avatar. Now there’s one or more wars coming, his buddy who lived through the entire thirty years has spurred a military-industrial revolution, etc. Feels very choppy, probably because it’s only taking the high points from the original light novels and isn’t meant to stand on its own.

Read: My Happy Marriage vol 1 (Akumi Agitogi, Rito Kohsaka, Tsukiho Tsukioka): So far very similar to the anime. Maybe we’re getting lore in different spots, but it’s the same lore. Maybe the trip to town went differently? Or maybe what I’m remembering is from a later trip. Anyway, Miyo-ella and her horrifying abusive family and her beautiful fiancé.

Read: Cascade Failure (LM Sagas): It does successfully have some A Long Way To A Small Angry Planet found-family energy, but it’s all betrayals and murder plans instead of interspecies romance. The world-building is not great, planets are bigger than that, which means slower; no future character ever needs to make more than a single C20 cultural reference per series in which they appear; and even though we here in 2024 are in a consolidation phase of the capitalist hellscape, I am dubious about a single megacorp owning the entire galactic arm. On the other hand, I stayed up until a million o’clock at night to finish it.

Written: 130 more of adventure, the parts the PCs wouldn’t see if they sat in town instead of engaging with the adventure. Seems unlikely they’ll do that in practice, although I really need to test it before taking it to a con. For a change.

Thus implying all Hufflepuffs are atheists, which as we know from Yes, Prime Minister is completely consistent with a career in the Anglican clergy.

Went to the office, ate a chicken pot pie, helped some customers.

Read: The Splendid Work of a Monster Maid vol 1 (Yugata Tanabe): A beloved cat learns to assume human form, but alas her human has died, so she goes to the Monster World to find work and falls in with spy-maids working for the deposed demon king. Wacky hijinks ensue, with remarkably little fan service for a manga about three monster girls in maid outfits.

Read: The Queer Girl is Going to Be Okay (Dale Walls): Three queer girls in Texas, trying to survive their senior year of high school despite Texas and families, one of them is making the eponymous documentary as her only chance at getting enough scholarship to not be stuck caring for her disabled father forever.

Read: Quality Assurance in Another World vol 1 (Masamichi Sato): VR game, can’t log out, except the protagonist is not a player but a playtester, and the only one still doing his job instead of using debug mode to enslave the locals. The extremely primitive programming paradigm they’re testing isn’t consistent with full-immersion VR and at least semi-sapient AI, which makes it hard to take any of it seriously.

Written: 118 of default timeline for the Big Bad Con adventure.

Are you Kenough?

Getting up early to commute in to the office was only a little worse than usual, because I already hate it. Did some work, finally ate goat curry with basmati rice (third time lucky!). Turns out I don’t like goat that much, at least not bone-in, but it’s good to eat different things.

Read: The Illustrated Guide to Monster Girls vol 1 (Suzu Akeko): Unlike basically every other manga about monster girls, it’s not all fan service. In fact, it’s not any of that kind of fan service, but it’s a lot of violence (against characters who regenerate, and are terrible people anyway, so whatever) and evil school hijinks.

Read: Alpi the Soul Sender vol 2 (Rona): Alpi meets another Soul Sender, who is older, better trained, and prettier, and also taunts her with information about her parents that she’s searching for. Surely they will become friends eventually.

Written: 129 again. There aren’t that many numbers that are between 100 and bedtime, I guess.

I probably did some kind of math today!

Also went to the office and ate a burrito.

Read: Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen vol 2 (Hiromi Sato, Kamome Shirahama): More recipes and fanfic vignettes.

Read: The Scapegracers (HA Clarke): A sullen teenaged lesbian witch is surprised to find that her people are the popular girls at school, but they really are, even in the face of creepy patriarchal witch hunters and hot lesbian betrayal and really visceral magic. Made me realize I don’t know how to write characters who have either feelings or bodies, never mind both at the same time.

Written: 119, somehow.