It’s been one of those toiling weeks, but it seems like the cold is finally loosing it’s grip on me, on the weekend I was able to take a longer walk again without instantly falling asleep when I got back home. Stuff are moving foreward, but it feels like everything is into a slower period in a way, well, hopefully stuff will thaw up together with the winter now just starting to loose it’s grip to spring. I just really look foreward to spring again, hopefully it will be a bit longer than the felt 2 days of spring that we had last year before it became summer. I’m just looking foreward to having walks that just have to continue because sitting still just makes me too cold, and to having some reading breaks when walking again, it’s just something that I really enjoy, finding a nice quiet place to read and just enjoy my time.

Books

It’s been quite a productive reading week this week, I finished up Ruth’s Bonded and it was pretty decent, nothing amazing, but it’s a nice start of a story. It was also pretty short, so we’ll see how it evolves throughout the series, I’m not quite sure yet what kind of a story it will become, or how much I will enjoy it.

Which is not really what I will say about the next book that I read Grimspace by Ann Aguire, this one was a lot of fun, after a kind of slow beginning this one really gripped me, and I really enjoy the characters, it also went at pretty much a break-neck pace, and in the end this was a fun action story with just a bit of romance in it. Really had fun with this one.

And as the last one for this week I started Cease Fire it’s the last one that I have from Rose Mackie’s violet suns series, and this one took a bit to grip me as well, as the later ones in the series has tended to, I’m enjoying it now, but I’m kind of happy that this series is going to have a break for me as well, they tend to have a weird mix of being too similar to the others in the series, while at the same time having new fun stuff, having a bit more of a distance to the eventually next one probably is a good thing.

Games

There has been no pokemon this week, I kind of haven’t been in a brain space for it this week, I’ve been playing some minesweeper though which is a nice kind of brainless activity to do when I’m not really that up for something complex, and I tend to get quite into it, so all together I’m sure I clocked at least a couple of hours of playing minesweeper.

I’ve also done some more Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin which has been fun, just that it has this really bullshit mandatory secret thing in the middle of it, where to be able to contiue on you have to find a random skill half way into where you are, then use it with it’s really slow windup in the boss battle, and I’m kind of wondering how people find that out without guides, guides are fun and cool, but I don’t like it when it’s mandatory to be able to play the game, it kind of makes me not very happy. But I’m on to the remix portraits, so I’m not that far away from how far I got in my last playthrough of this game, hopefully I will get all the way through it this time, we’ll have to see, but the possibility is there at least.

I did play the first act of Kentucky Route Zero which I might play more of later, it’s an interesting game, but it’s also very confusing, my brain works really hard to understand and trying to get a good picture of how stuff is connected, but at least through the first act I didn’t really get that much, it’s kind of a nice feel of the game, and the writing is really good, but I would kind of be exaggerating if I said I have understood it yet.

Media

Media seems to be taking up a bit again, the youtube people that I follow have been starting posting more interesting stuff again, and podcasts are also getting into the groove again after the winter time. It’s nice, I’ve been in kind of a weird place lately thinking about the good episodes of things I’ve been watching and listening, then having to remind myself that I’m basically just remembering the hits and forget the misses, and that there will be more of the hits coming again, which is kind of a nice thing to remember.

I hope the trend continues on, I’m ready to have more fun stuff again.