It’s been a nice week, I’ve been on call, which always is a bit restricting, but it wasn’t the worst one at least. Only kept me up twice in times I wanted to sleep. I had some nice walks over the weekend, A really quite long one on saturday, it was wonderful, but I really do regret that I didn’t take on the shorts, it was really a bit too warm to go with full jeans outside on that day, but it was nice.

Books

I finished up Tanin’s Treasure by Thalia Rhea, and it was a good, but kind of conflicting book for me, I really quite enjoyed the story and most of the characters, the whole relationship between the main characters though, didn’t quite do it for me, it felt more wrong than right, but it might be that I’m just not that into that whole domination thing, all in all the rest of the book made up for it, but I hope the next book in the series has some a bit more equal partners.

I got started with To Err is Azrin Another one in the black ocean series by J.S. Morin, And to start out it’s really fun at least, this whole series so far has been pretty laid back and nice, with smaller plots, and that’s something that I really do appreciate. I hope this one too will end pretty well, and after having read multiple others in the same series I think this will be as well.

In the book I have which is a collection of the first four stories, there is a short story tacked into the end, and since these stories in general are pretty short I will tack it onto this one for reading I think, it just doesn’t feel right to count it as a separate book when it’s a less than 40 page novellette.

Games

I’ve been mostly just playing one game this week, Bravely Default II and I’ve been enjoying it so much. There is something about it that is just dragging me in, I really enjoy the battle system, and the way it’s set up, with ability to speed up the battles, and if you know you can beat the enemies you just wail onto them and get through the battle quickly. It’s really nice, the graphics and story has been growing on me a lot as well. It’s also really fun that it’s really flexible in how much of what I want to get out of it, if I’m tired I just go on a grinding session where I don’t have to think that much and just mow through stuff, if I am out for something a bit more exciting I’ll be following the story and get into some boss fights and stuff, which opens up the game a bit more for later as well. I got to Chapter 2 yesterday, I’ve been taking my time, and slowly getting there, I don’t really feel any need to rush, I just enjoy playing puppets with my different characters, it’s just fun changing up their jobs and seeing how I can make them better, and how to change things around, it’s just really a lot of fun so far, and it’s the kind of RPG that I hope we see more of in the newer ones, ones that remember how the RPGs used to be, but that might be just me being old and set in my ways. I’ve been really enjoying my gaming time this week.

Media

I’m not that sure if I have that much to write on this one, I’ve been thinking about just switching out this heading to something like misc or something, which is basically what this one is. I’ve been keeping up with listening to older into the aether episodes, I’m up to episode 33 now, and the old episodes are good, but a bit uneven at times, I skipped through a couple of kingdom hearts episodes, it seems like quite a few podcasts I listen to have people who really love the series, but I don’t, I don’t really care much about it at all, and at least not enough to listen to someone talking about it for well over an hour.