The stressful weeks are going on, it seems like november is a really stressful month for me every year, it’s the month in the year where I have the most overtime, and most just stuff shoveled on top of me to deal with, but at least usually it calms down in december, so at least that is something. I also managed to hurt my foot this week, which also always seems to happen around Autumn, not quite sure why, but it happened again.

Books

I finished out Vast by Linda Nagata, and it’s the best book I’ve read of hers so far, it just feels warmer, the characters feel less mean, and most of the book was less mean to the characters as well, which was nice. It’s far future stuff, and kind of gets uncanny in that it’s really hard for me to say what is coming on which was kind of fun. It has quite a bit of imaginative stuff in it, and I quite liked it, the end veered a bit too close to horror for my taste, but that was just the end of it.

Since vast was a pretty heavy book, I decided to go for something a bit more easy to read I have the spaceship for sale series all from some time ago, and I didn’t really enjoy the first book too much, but I’ll give the second one a try, and see if that is better, so Head Case it is, hopefully it will be enjoyable.

Games

Because of stress at work I gravitate to comfort style games, games I already know, and this week has been basically 2 games.

Siralim: Ultimate: I’ve played through the “tutorial” which is basically the story part, and now that that is done, and I don’t have to care about the story, the game just opens up, and feels a lot better, it’s pretty good at intensivising me at doing different things, building up new teams around new specialisations, delve deeper, delve wider, there is just a lot of things to do, and the grind heavy gameplay just fits very well to me when I’m feeling tired in my head. It’s a really fun game that see a bit too little love I feel.

The second game is Hades, I did play it a bit when it came out, and I’m watching a let’s play of Hades II so I thought I would give it another try again. It’s pretty much as I remember it, the story elements, and unlocking things is fun, and the art is beautiful, but I don’t really enjoy the action combat that much, I’ve activated god-mode, and hope that it will make it possible for me to get through it, we’ll see, I only have like 5 runs in and have gotten to the hydra ones, the last time I got to Hades a couple of times after 50 or so runs, so I’m probably still a far way away from that.

Media

I’ve been having a lot of podcasts to listen to, as it seems like a lot dropped towards the end of last month, and now I’ve finally gotten to a place where I have my usual queue length, which is nice, because I really enjoy listening to some stuff more than others, most of which are dependent on mood, some of it I just always enjoy.