This has been a hot week, way too hot, my body is not enjoying it at all. It was the worst on the weekend, as the offices at work at least are air contitioned. On saturday I was on a walk, but got completely knocked out when coming back home, lying down for a bit I slept for eight hours, then was awake for a little bit and slept the night through, this can’t be healthy. At least on sunday I had a more normal rhythm to the day.

Books

I finished off Angular Momentum and it was a fun book, it had its moments, and all in all written in a very enjoyable way, it’s a series that I’m looking forward to continue on, this whole over series has been pretty great, and I’m glad that I saw she had written another one as well, so I have more stuff to read before I have to start looking for another one to read.

Then, the next one was Spacer’s Cinderella by Adria Rose, and this was a fun one, I did really enjoy the writing, and it got close to Jessie Mihalik’s stuff. It was one that felt compulsive, I always just wanted to know what would happen next, and most of the characters were really good. The male love interest was a bit too one sidedly perfect though, in every way, which was kind of naff, would be better to have someone with at least a single little flaw, but all in all this was a book that I really enjoyed a lot.

And then on the end the next one in my rotation Moon of Odysseus by J.S. Morin. I’ve been quite enjoying these books, and with this book I will be half way through the series, as it’s the 8th book of 16. It seems like this one is one that is a bit more serious again, not that it isn’t having fun with the characters and situations, but the premise for the book is a bit less ludicrous than the last ones, so far being about half way through it at least I’ve been having a lot of fun with it.

Games

This has been another week of Octopath Traveler II And I’m still loving the game slowly getting to a point where all of the character chapters are needing a level 45 team, but most of my characters are close to that anyway, the weird thing is that now I’m getting kind of nervous, and it’s kind of making be procrastrinate on continuing, although I’m having fun when I’m playing, I think it’s me being nervous that it will get really hard or something which is a dangerous point for me falling off, I hope that won’t happen, but I think I will at least for a while work a bit more on not falling off in this time. I just had a Temenos chapter that I really enjoyed, and now going for another ochette one, and Ochette’s chapters are always fun so that’s at least something. It’s still a joy battelling, it’s still a painfully beautiful game, and I’m enjoying the characters and the exploration, I just have to get over my own mind’s block that I will fail and that I won’t manage to get to the end.

I also spent a couple of hours playing Dragon Quest IV: Chapers of the Chosen the game for the DS on my miyoo mini, and the opening chapter and a tiny bit of the second one was a lot of fun, some fun characters, a fun world, and it looks really good for a DS game, at some points the graphical style kind of feels like a precursor to the HD-2D stuff that they are doing now, but with some different choices made, and of course hardware that can’t do the really fancy effects, shaders and light and stuff that makes the new ones feel really fancy and nice. The story and everything in this game feels fun, but being an older DQ game of course it does need some grinding, fun for me, but probably not something everyone will love.

On a smaller point I’m also getting close to getting through the Mario part of Super Mario Picross 2 which is basically half of the game, now the Wario part which is coming next is basically just the same puzzles with slightly different rules, but I will probably go through them as well some time, we’ll have to see, it’s still a fun game to play now and then.

Misc

It seems like finally this week the weather will cool down again, and not be this unbearably hot, that will do wonders for me, it’s hard to think even when it’s this warm, it really is not something that makes me happy, I also didn’t get to go on my normal walks in the weekend, I was completely worn out from just a couple of hours of walks, which makes me feel kind of off kilter, it kind of feels like it wasn’t really a weekend at all.

I also noticed the point where I usually get the off feeling about a game, it’s when I get nervous if I will be able to actually keep on going or not. It’s something I’ve been a bit better at doing lately, but I’m not generally good at games, and some times when it gets to a really challenging place it can make me lose steam, often right after a hard part that I got through, I kind of lose steam and belief in myself that I will manage to get through the thing. Which makes it so much easier to jump over to something else. This time though I hope that I’m motivated enough to keep on going, it’s just getting over that treshold to start usually, and then I’m enjoying myself.