Spring is slowly getting taken over by summer now as it feels at least, it’s nice that the spring at least did take a bit more time this time, and not just a week of spring-ish weather and then full summer, one I’m able to enjoy for once.

I think I did manage to catch a cold or a virus or something as I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather the last days, not really something bad or heavy, just getting winded faster than normal, sniffing a bit and some headaches, but that will probably also lose it’s grip in a bit.

Still had some nice walks over the longer weekend, and spent quite a bit of time reading which was nice.

Books

On the books side I finished of Of Poets and Pirates and it was the one I’ve enjoyed the most in J.S. Morin’s series so far, it was spending some good time with the characters of the book, some fun quips, and some lower stakes stories, it’s something that I really enjoy that most people probably don’t so it’s nice to see a bit of that.

As my Next one Right Ascension by Nicola Claire, I really enjoyed this one, story did divert quite a bit from the first two, and I really enjoyed the characters and story, it also helped that I have something for strong women, so I really had a lot of fun with this one, the biggest problem was it ending on a cliffhanger.

So I went straight into Zenith Point which is the capstone for the first series, this one was a prime example for me how the journey some times is way better than the destination, I enjoyed the story and the characters quite a bit, but then it ended quite abruptly, and then there was parts of a wedding and it just ended, for some reason that kind of bummed me out, but the journey there was a lot of fun at least.

I’ll be back into the Black ocean again soon, it will probably be my next book, but I started reading Tanin’s Treasure by Talia Rhea because I just felt I needed something new after having read quite a lot from the same series. So far I’ve been enjoying it, it’s quite cute, took a bit to get into the writing style of the author for me, but since I did I have been enjoying it.

Games

I finished up Under the Island today, and it was a really wonderful game, it knew how long it needed to be, and it was just a lot of fun all the way through, it never got too difficult, it kept up the nice vibes, and just was a lot of fun all in all, just a really enjoyable experience that is over before it got stale, I really enjoyed this one and if you like puzzely zelda likes it probably will be something you would enjoy as well.

I still played Vampire Crawlers for a bit, and it’s the same as before, just some fun card combat, and it just feels good making some broken builds and so on, not really in an addiction loop with it, so it’s one that I will come back to time after time and just enjoy some fun card combat until I’m through it, it’s just really a fun game.

One that I’m a bit more conflicted on is Shapez 2 the game is wonderful, and it’s really fun puzzling out how to make new shapes, it feels really good seeing things coming togehter, but it kind of feels too close to work for me in many ways, which kind of makes it something a bit tiring to play for me, it’s a fun game that I have to be in a specific mood to enjoy.

I came back to an older game in my wish to find something a bit different to play, it was nice finishing a game, and I wanted to see what kinds of different stuff I had, I’ve been playing quite a bit of action stuff lately, I tried getting into octopath II again, but I didn’t really feel it, so I started actually getting into Bravely Default II and it’s been a blast so far, it feels like a real decendent of Final Fantasy V with it’s fun systems and things to play around with, it’s really nice to see that parts of Square enix still are holding on to the older style of games, and for me at least it’s just way more of something that I want from an rpg than the newer Final Fantasy games who just doesn’t really do it for me personall.

Media

As I’m writing this I just got an update from one of my favourite podcasts through years and it seems like Knowledge fight has met the end of the road, it feels kind of sad, but I guess I will find something else to fill the void. As someone with my kind of very patterned lifestyle it always kind of puts me out of balance when something I’m used to enjoying disappears, but it is how it is, nothing can last forever etc, so I hope the best for both of Dan and Jordan, and hope they will both do some fun projects in the future.