This has been a long churny week again, one of those where it’s hard to pick out where it starts and ends, where it some times feels both like it goes fast and slow at the same time, and you don’t really feel like you have any demarkations to orient yourself after.

I had some nice walks this week, and while it’s still way too warm to comfortably do them, at least it was nice to do again, I think not really getting to go out on my longer walks really has negatively impacted my mood the last weeks, most of the time in the forest at least it’s halfway tolerable to walk in the shadows at least, but it’s not the greatest.

Books

I finished Cyteen this week, and it was almost a week earlier than what I was expecting myself to, towards the end this one got really enjoyable, it’s just a bit of a slog to get through the first 150 pages or so, and then this was really a good book. It’s a heavier book than what I normally read, with more politics and philosophy in it, which on one side is a good thing, but thankfully it was packed into something that was pretty fun to read, and had moments that I really enjoyed.

I also started “Deception Well” By Linda Nagata, I don’t quite remember why I picked these books up, I think it might have been when I was searching for women writing sci-fi for the reading challange that I set up for myself one year, but I’m not quite sure. I remember not really enjoying the first one in the series, it was well written, but it was way too much misery porn for me, just ugly mean people being mean to each other. I’ve only read the first 50 or so pages so far in this one, and it does seem better on that point, so I hope this one will be a good read.

Games

I put Octopath Traveller II on a hold this weekend, after going frustrated with myself about it, it seems me not being great at games is kind of starting to kicking my shins after 30 or so hours, or it might be that I just need a little break, still really enjoying the game, but when I just felt frustrated every time I booted it up I just need to get a bit of space I think, play something else for a while, and come back to it with a better head space.

Did some more levels of OmNomRun, it’s not at all a difficult or very inspiring game, but it’s fun to just brainlessly run and avoid obstacles for a while, and this is a decent one of the autorunners, It’s one where I play 10 levels in between stuff, and it’s good at that, it’s not something that is something you can play for hours at an end.

I also did a bit more of Final Fantasy VII, but not that much either, it does feel fun, it just doesn’t match my current mood that well, so I just put in an hour or so, got the story going a bit, until they get sent out on their second mission and Tifa joins the party, I’m sure I will enjoy this one, I remember playing the beginning back on the playstation.

What I spent most of my playtime over the weekend on was Shovel Knight, I have played through this game on the PC and 3DS before, yeah I have bought this game at least 3 times :p And I got the Shovel Knight treasure trove on the switch some time ago, but never really put any time into playing it. I’m through most of the game again now, doing most of the levels, the Boss-Rush towards the end and have started the fight against the Enchantress, here I have to relearn her patterns before I’m through, but it’s been a lot of fun, Shovelknight is one of the few games where I’m mostly enjoying the boss battles. There is a lot more to go in the whole collection though, I also own one of the other characters separately, but didn’t play it in this pack, so I have something more to go on when I’m through this one.

Podcasts/Media

For podcasts this has been another rather slow week, multiple ones are on a summer break, and I’m listening to quite a lot of backlogged stuff still. There weren’t that many stand out episodes this week that I enjoyed a lot more than the others really, mostly just going through stuff to have something to listen to. I enjoyed that Skeptics Guide to the Universe finally had an almost AI less episode again, it has been frustrating me that they have been focusing so much on that lately that I have been rather been listening to other stuff.

Olexa, Retromation and Orbital Potato, all three youtubers that I quite enjoy has been starting to play Farming Simulator, and the combination of how much they are struggling with managing to do anything, and some of the jank of the game just really is an entertaining combination. It’s just a slow motion car crash that is really fun for me to watch at least.

All in all a middling week that well, at least happened, It was not my favourite one, and let’s make this one a better one :)