The spring is slowly coming in, and I’ve been really enjoying it, it’s starting to be some warm periods and back to a bit colder, it’s just nice seeing everything slowly getting back into life, the trees are still naked and sad though, but hopefully they also will get to be a bit greener again as well. My mood has been a bit up and down, but it’s trending in the right direction at least, that’s nice.

Books

I started on Red Mars last week, and I’m still going strong, this one is a bit more challenge than what I’ve read lately, it’s good, but it does feel like most of the parts are just a little bit too long, but I guess it’s just getting used to it and then it will be a bit better. At almost half way through I have no real clue what will happen, and we just had a ten year timeskip, so it’s hard to say what will be happening. It’s kind of fun how it feels weird that more people arrived on mars now, and you don’t only get the original 100. I’ve been enjoying it so far, but I don’t really have any set idea for what’s going to happen, other than the things that were teased in the beginning of the book. Which does feel kind of fun.

While I haven’t gotten to read as much as usual this week at least I got some time to sit outside and read in the sun, and it has been great, it’s something I’ve been really missing from the winter time, and it’s coming back :)

Games

Games have been a bit up and down for me, I was really excited and have had a lot of fun with Little Rocket Lab but I think in the excitement to get back to where new stuff were coming out I was kind of outpacing myself, and I need a little break, just arrived at part III and it seems I’ll get access to deal with liquids soon, which is going to be fun, but I’ll save that for when I’m coming back, it’s a really fun game though. It’s just not a game that is very suitable to play when I’m really tired, or have been drinking beer which happened a couple of times this week, we’ll see, I’m sure I will be back at it.

I have been playing a bit more Vampire Survivors as well and it has been quite fun, slowly doing some more unlocks, and just having fun mowing down enemies, I’ve been turning off most of the extra stuff, since at some point it’s just a lot, and the a bit less insane version is just nicer to deal with when I’m not at my best.

On a whim I jumped back into The Solitaire Conspiracy which I’ve had fun with before, and I’m still having fun with it now, it’s a 5 hr ~ish spy story, which likes to lead into the quite corny actiony place, and it’s really quite a fun one for the time that it’s going, you unknitting the solitaires and moving cards around is conceptualised as you directing the people on the ground with your strategy system, it’s just fun and over the top, the solitaire is pretty easy, but that’s just part of the game, as the last time, I’m having fun with it, it’s a fun silly game that is enjoyable for its run-time and then gets some time to rest again for the next time.

I also got into an incremental game time again for a bit over the weekend, and had some fun with them for a while, before kind of getting tired of them again, I usually do from time to time, and it’s enjoyable, until it’s not, and then I just have to notice that I’m just playing to progress, and not really having fun anymore, and at that time just stop playing.

Media

It’s high time for podcasts again it seems, for some reason they have been gathering up again, and I think it just means I need to spend a bit more time outside listening and enjoying the weather, I’m still in a mood where gaming stuff is the thing that I like to listen to, but also not any random stuff it’s something where I need some positive views on fun games, because the whole dudebro call of duty hell yeah kind of thing just isn’t my cup of tea.

I listened to a great interview that Chris Plante did with Edmund McMillan the creator of Binding of Isaac and Mewgenics, it was really a good one.