This has been another stressful week, in addition my left ancle had a sore tendon, so I wasn’t really able to walk much through the week. It’s not really hurting anymore now, and I’m not limping around anymore, but I’m still taking it a bit more carefully, to make sure that it doesn’t flare up again. It sucks getting older.

I hope things at work will calm down a bit, it seems like November is the full change things around month, and everything is in turmoil, last year at least it calmed down again in december, but we will have to wait and see, there is still this week to go, and then it will be through.. hopefully..

Books

I finished up Head Case by M. R. Forbes, and it was quite fun. That’s not to say I think the book was amazing, but it was silly fun, it was quite a lot more entertaining than the first one in the series, and a bit less cringey, which was nice, I’m not quite sure what I will read next, as I didn’t really get around to decide yesterday after finishing the book, it was time to go to sleep. It was a quick one, I managed to get through it in a week even though I had 2 days less of reading, one because I was out drinking with a collegue after work, and another because I was just exhausted and fell asleep before I got to read.

It’s a while since I was getting some new books, I’ve been mostly been reading stuff I have, but haven’t read yet, maybe it’s getting time to get some new ones again, I don’t know, will have to see.

Games

When it comes to games I’ve still mostly been playing Siralim: Ultimate still having fun grinding out things, creating new teams, and just working on different things, the enemy monsters are now regularly up at 2-3x the levels of my team, so it’s getting at times a bit more tricky, but it’s fun still, I just think I need to play something else in between, so that I’m not burning myself out on it.

So.. ..there was a sale again, and I got two games that I have been looking at, the first one being Mr Sun’s Hatbox which is a really fun little game, it’s a 2D sidescrolling stealth slap-stick rogue lite, and it’s quite fun, just running around trying not to be seen, and when you are hilarity ensues, and it’s trying to control the chaos and hope that the character you spent some runs training up doesn’t die on you. I’ve been really enjoying this one, it’s just fun, and manageable for me, since it’s a 2D sidescroller, which just fits my brain better.

And the second one that I got was Terra Nil which is kind of an opposite city builder that I’ve been eyeing for a while. You basically come to a world that is complete wasteland, and you have to terraform and fix the landscape, building up different biomes, and make them suitible for different animals, it’s just a really nice game to look at, with really nice pixel graphics, and it just feels good to rebuild nature, and feel a bit nice about it, rather than thinking about how humanity is just a scurge that is destroying everything.

Media

I’ve been having a huge backlog of podcasts to work through the last weeks, but I finally have that under control again, and things are more as normal, which means I get to listen to more of the old Videogame Podtimism episodes that I haven’t listened to, there is still ~60 left before I have listened to all of their episodes.

Another one that I’ve enjoyed the last week is Escape this Pod which is kind of audio escape rooms, so kind of like a pen and paper roleplaying escape room, they have had quite entertaining people on in the beginning at least, so it’s one that I think I will listen to a bit more in the future, and hope that they keep on being fun.