Trip's Life (Recent episodes)
17 March 2019 - Sunday
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16 March 2019 - Saturday
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15 March 2019 - Friday
A bunch of people from the other office came to this office to drink
for Irish People Are White Now, We Guess Day. Apparently that office is
going away, to be replaced by something else, because commerical real
estate reasons or something, I don't even know. Probably that means some
of them will be coming here on a regular basis.
Apparently I don't like humans today. Pie is okay, though.
Hurray, I got paid, now I can afford more vet appointments for
Ghirardelli. I just don't know whether I should.
Avalon is not dead! Tired, but not dead.
More Gravity Falls S2! [SPOILER] is back from the first
season, and has a good point! Also, Globnar.
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14 March 2019 - Thursday
Less brain, but more Gravity Falls! Huh, I hope they
come back to that.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (Hideyuki Furuhashi, Betten
Court, Kohei Horikoshi) is a spin-off series about some people with
less-impressive quirks who cannot resist helping people despire their lack
of hero licenses. This is not legal, but is somewhat socially acceptable.
Fight scenes ensue.
There's a secondary character who is a sociology grad student
specializing in the era when quirks first appeared, so there should be
some good worldbuilding.
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13 March 2019 - Wednesday
We won regular
13th Age,
so now I guess we're moving on to the
variant, and also
burritos. (We would have
done
5E,
but Kelsey was absent yet again.)
This week, we used some version of Runequest (I think) to create the
backstory of the clan for the "home team". To make a long questionnaire
short, we mostly stay out of the way and let trouble flow past us. Also,
we're good at fishing.
I did not like The Raven Tower (Ann Leckie) nearly as much
as the "Ancillary" series. It's not bad or anything, it's like
Bronze(?)-age Hamlet in second person with interestingly constrained gods
and trans representation. But I did not appreciate the imagination as much
as in her earlier works. I hope this does not mean her evolution as a
writer is taking her out of my zone of preference!
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12 March 2019 - Tuesday
Bah, Tuesday. Ghirardelli seems okay, although he still needs to eat
more. He's too skinny! (We gave him a little fluids, but that's not the
same thing!)
Gravity Falls remains very silly, but is also getting kind
of dark. The long-running romance subplot was handled nicely, though,
and no one had to get eaten by gnomes.
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11 March 2019 - Monday
We (meaning Marith, since she has the car and I am useless) took
Ghirardelli to the vet, which was much too expensive, but his heart is
doing very well! I mean, he is still an old cat and this is not the sort
of thing that goes away, but the vet said to bring him back in 3-4
weeks, which implies his expected time could be significantly longer
than that. Good job, kitty!
RWBY episodes are short, so we have already run out of
season 6. Woe! But the protagonists have made it to their destination,
and perhaps the motorcycle Bumblebee has been replaced by the ship
Bumblebee.
Using AirPlay to show video from Rooster Teeth's annoying streaming
site is not that great, alas. It doesn't (as far as I can tell) let the
Apple TV remote control things, so I have to run back to the computer
all the time.
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10 March 2019 - Sunday
Ugh, no more standard time, now we have to save our daylight. But not
our sleep.
It's
PAD&D5 time again! But no Deirdre, she has germs.
Having finally arrived back at Red Larch with the rescued prisoners, the
Heroines try to get some sleep, but are woken in the wee hours by reports
that [SPOILER] is encroaching on the town. Evacuation and temporary
fortifications to buy enough time to rescue major pieces of infrastructure
ensue, while the Heroines repulse the initial assault by giant ugly
[SPOILER]. Like, really ugly.
When the Heroines scout the evacuation path for the townspeople, they
are notified that this is the work of [SPOILER], who they are nominally
conspiring against. The townspeople are not important to the villain
plan, so they can be allowed to flee, but the Heroines must fight and
make it look good so the collusion is not revealed to the other villains
before they attack.
Naturally, although the environment is no longer to their advantage,
and the enemy is larger, faster, or both, the Heroines win with style.
However, they need to shut down the [SPOILER] immediately if there is to
be any world to save!
More RWBY season 6! That was actually pretty creepy.
Also, humans are dumb.
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9 March 2019 - Saturday
All my funds are tied up in cat futures, so I had to have Marith pay
the cleaners this fortnight. Embarrassing.
- Sailor Moon Super S 146: Princesses should not skive
off official events! Are you taking notes, Usagi? (No.)
- Non Non Biyori Repeat 7: Maybe don't let the 1st-grader
write the notes if you want other people to know what's going on.
- Hibike! Euphonium 13: Regionals! The End! Kumiko and
Reina did not smooch, boo.
- A Place Further Than The Universe 4: Apparently this is
an accurate depiction of orienteering.
- Hibike! Euphonium 14: Side story about the band members
who did not get picked to play at regionals and what they did to help
the band. Heartwarming!
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8 March 2019 - Friday
Because eating while watching RWBY is difficult for
stupid capitalism-related reasons, we watched the first episode of
Gravity Falls S2. For some reason I thought it was going to
be the next summer, but no, it continues on pretty much from where S1
left off. The plot might be finally going, though. (Really it started at
the end of the last episode of S1.
Then we huddled around the iMac to watch more RWBY S6.
Yep, that was an expository flashback, all right! And it was kind of the
thing Marith was hoping it wouldn't be, but only kind of. There's plenty
of legitimate doom to go around, anyway, and also higher powers suck.
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7 March 2019 - Thursday
Ghirardelli continues to be mostly interested in lying in one place,
but he watched some kitty TV while we watched human TV. There might have
been pettins.
The end of season 1 of Gravity Falls was quite
something! But at least [SPOILER] got his!
Then, since we had more evening, we started watching RWBY
season 6. They're in a frozen wastelend, maybe they'll have to snuggle up
to conserve heat? But it looks like first there will have to be a Flashback
of Great Doom!
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Continued FAIL. I need to start writing again at some point, but it
seems overwhelmingly pointless because I am so bad at it.
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6 March 2019 - Wednesday
I stopped by home to give Ghirardelli his evening medicines and
pettins, and he was awake and alert, so I do not have to make any
quality-of-life-related decisions today! Also he looks very silly with
the shaved parts on his arms from being in the ICU. Poor undignified
kitty!
Despite taking that time, I was still the first person to arrive for
13th Age
and pho (not counting people who live there).
Wait, that's it? We defeated the main villain that we've been
fighting against/over/in for the whole compaign in battle, and we win?
Huh.
Yay us!
I guess I better work on that 5E character for Kelsey's one-shot
now.
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5 March 2019 - Tuesday
I skipped out of work early so we could eat dinner during rush hour
and then drive up to Mountain View to get Ghirardelli. I had to stand up
Avalon, but now Ghirardelli is home and, well, not great, but awake and
alert. He also looks very silly with a shaved ring around each arm. Poor
kitty!
Marith continues to be a Hero of the Revolution.
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4 March 2019 - Monday
When I got home from work, Ghirardelli was sitting in the litterbox like
moving was too much work, and even after I scooped him and cleaned him, he
didn't want to move, so we took him in to the vet. They did some tests and
it looks like his heart is not so good. Also he was
having trouble breathing, so we took him up to the larger hospital in
Mountain View to spend the night in the oxygen booth and get started on
heart medication (which coincidentally is exactly the opposite from the
treatment for his kidney disease).
None of the vet people said anything about time, but it doesn't look
like Ghirardelli has much of it left. Poor kitty.
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3 March 2019 - Sunday
Ken lured me over to play
Gloomhaven
again, and we actually did not die from lateness!
The scenario we picked was not part of the main plot, but it
delivered the promised riches (and also vermling kills for Ken, which I
should possibly object to since my character is a vermling, but fuck
those guys, they wear the wrong sunglasses). I was the richest
going in and it still doubled my money! Now I can have the Internet tell
me what enhancements to buy for my murder rat's own retirement goal.
In retrospect, it might have gone more smoothly if Ken hadn't kicked in the
door of a room with seven enemies on the round they drew the "make
ranged attacks at the top of the round" card, but these things
happen.
As of vol 2 (of a projected three), Fruits Basket Another
(Natsuki Takaya) is not grabbing me the way the original did. Points for
realistic depiction of depression/social anxiety due to horrible parenting
(unlike Tohru's personality, which I recall as seeming a bit contrived),
but it feels very rushed and not like it's really going very far anyway. I
would put it in the category of fanfic, since the point mostly seems to be
to show where the characters are a decade after the original series; it
just happens to be written by the original creator.
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2 March 2019 - Saturday
Yum, adobo chicken!
- Sailor Moon Super S 145: Usagi, you need to buy up your
Dex before you can be a ballerina!
- Non Non Biyori Repeat 6: Jeez, just tell her
embarrassing stories about your sister!
- Hibike! Euphonium 12: Oh no, our main character has not
spent enough points on Perform (Euphonium)! Can she get more points
from growing closer to Reina?
- A Place Further Than The Universe 3:
It looks like there are actually 14 episodes of Hibike!
Euphonium and then a whole second season, so we need to adjust
the schedule. After we definitely run out of Hibike, we
still plan to try Shirobako.
Words:
FAIL. I have installed
Scrivener, but not
managed to use it. (This was easy because the email with my license key
was in gmail, not stored locally. There is no ethical disaster recovery
under capitalism?)
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1 March 2019 - Friday
The Jury Duty website says: "You are released from Jury Duty at this
time. Your service is deemed complete and you will receive a one year
exemption. Thank you for your services to the Court this week."
I'm a little disappointed, since I've never juried, but I'm sure it
would be mostly boring and frustrating in practice.
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28 February 2019 - Thursday
Marith made a fritatta, which is probably not as complicated as it
sounds, but go her anyway!
Also we watched some Gravity Falls and gave Ghirardelli
fluids and encouraged him to eat his kidney foods.
Demon's Lure (L Rowyn) is about a girl who has the divine
gift to make demons happy by being happy around them, and the demon who
decides to keep her as a pet. So, kind of problematic for
serial-killer-redemption and Stockholm syndrome.
The Jury Duty website says they don't need me first thing tomorrow but I
have to check back tomorrow at noon for breaking news. Uh oh.
Words: FAIL. I thought about installing Scrivener but didn't manage
to do it.
frittata by marithlizard (Fri Mar 1 16:00:38 2019)
It was pretty complicated, if only because of all the vegetable prep!
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27 February 2019 - Wednesday
It's time for 13th Age and pizza!
As usual, we had only time for half a fight, but there was much
running around and breaking things and screaming and dying and at the
very end of the session, we broke through to the trap where the second
half of the fight will probably kill us.
The Jury Duty website says they don't need me tomorrow but I have to
check back tomorrow after 17:00 to see about the next day.
Words: FAIL. No time to set up
Scrivener, there was
gaming to wait for.
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26 February 2019 - Tuesday
Hurray, my computer is fixed! And Ayse has some kidney gooshyfood that
Aime doesn't need, that we can try Ghirardelli on since he doesn't seem
to be eating much of the kidney crunchyfood.
We successfully got both my computer and the gooshyfoods and brought
them back home, where one was plugged in and the other was devoured with
surprising gusto. Good job, kitty! Eat the nourishing food!
Then we watched some Gravity Falls, which I still like
quite a bit, and I worked on getting my computer set up again. Fortunately
I put all my passwords into Lastpass, so I still have access to
all the websites I got stuff from originally.
Tumblr implies that we should watch Hilda. Maybe after
Gravity Falls, or maybe we could watch it at anime night since we're probably going to need more
things that are Jus-friendly.
The Jury Duty website says they don't need me tomorrow but I have to
check back tomorrow after 17:00 to see about the next day.
Words: FAIL. Most or all of what I was writing (except for the one
night when the computer exploded) should be backed up in Dropbox or on
idiom, but I have to reinstall Scrivener and hope
everything really is still there.
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25 February 2019 - Monday
Ew, Monday again. And my computer is apparently still not fixed,
bah!
Gravity Falls comes out strong in favor of silliness!
Also the important line, "That sounds like something no responsible
parent would allow. Good thing I'm an uncle.".
Volume 2 of Ran and the Gray World (Aki Irie) has even more
doom and also magical shenanigans. We get to see more of Ran's dad and
people from the magical side of things in general, and why they do what
they do, and also there is a boy who likes Ran even when she's not a
smoking hot 20-year-old, but her inability to control her magic might mess
everything up.
The Jury Duty website says they don't need me tomorrow but I have to
check back tomorrow after 17:00 to see about the next day.
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24 February 2019 - Sunday
After a long delay due to plague, it is time for PAD&D5
again!
The Heroines of Red Larch try to escort the people they've rescued back
to Red Larch, but after half a day of hiking through the hills and
considering petitions brought by [SPOILER], they discover they are in that
horror story where every time they check, there are fewer people than
before and no one knows who's missing. Then, a giant attacks! And explodes!
But once all its components are defeated, and the beautiful snake-woman who
comes to explain things springs her ambush and is defeated in turn, the
Heroines realize they are back in [SPOILER]! Aaaaaargh! It's another time
loop!
The Heroines go back to [SPOILER], as the closest thing to a safe
place in this horrible realm, where they meet [SPOILER] who apparently
doesn't know them, but is happy to use conversation to learn from them
everything that he will tell them when they will have met him for the
first and second time. (Fortunately, only a few of the Heroines have a
high enough Int modifier to wonder where this information really came
from.) After a week of hiding in the cellar, they make it back to
[SPOILER] without having caused any further damage to the universe
(probably) and rejoin their escortees who are perfectly fine, and the
giant who is very friendly and hopes to find work in the Red Larch
quarries.
Jeremy says we have only a few sessions left, so probably we will be
done by summer when Edie leaves to do... summer stuff. I suspect
squirrels are involved. Anyway, we'll have to figure out what to play
next.
On Ken's recommendation, we have started Gravity Falls,
which is extremely silly. It reminds me of Invader Zim, a
little.
Roadqueen: Eternal Roadtrip to Love (Mira Ong Chua) is an
adorable romance comic about motorcycles, revenge, and being a decent
lesbian. I am pretty sure the creator watched Utena; some of
Leo's plans might as well have been snails in the pencil case!
The Jury Duty website says they don't need me tomorrow but I have to
check back tomorrow after 17:00 to see about the next day.
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23 February 2019 - Saturday
I hoped my computer would be fixed today, but no such luck.
- Sailor Moon Super S 143-144: Wow, Fisheye had an actual
plan! It didn't work, but it was a good plan.
- Non Non Biyori Repeat 5: I think it's like paranoia:
just because the fortunes are all bad doesn't mean they aren't true!
- A Place Further Than The Universe 1-2: We like it! (Obvious
way to get onto the crew is recognized as obvious and ridiculous.)
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22 February 2019 - Friday
Jus came to my office to sell cookies, but I was in a meeting! With
my boss! It was very sad, but apparently people bought copiously anyway,
so hurray for Girl Scouts!
The season 3 finale of The Good Place was sad, but hopeful,
so that's okay. And it ends at a place where a fourth season (although
devoutly wished for) is not required.
Dragon Pearl (Yoon Ha Lee) is whatever the age bracket down
from YA is, so it has 0% romance, but lots of adventure and space
fantasy based on Korean mythology, so it is still pretty awesome.
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21 February 2019 - Thursday
Ghirardelli is just not interested in the kidney food. I guess we'll
go back to free feeding the thyroid food. Why are you so difficult,
kitty?
Oh no, we are already out of The Dragon Prince again! At
least [SPOILER] found out about [SPOILER], and [SPOILER] and [SPOILER] are
cute, and [SPOILER] made a reasonable decision and also the wicked vizier
is completely [SPOILER].
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20 February 2019 - Wednesday
We tried to gather for 13th Age and Greek food, but Kelsey is dead from
germs, so instead we did some background randomization for Mike's upcoming
13G,
and played Roll for the
Galaxy. I didn't win, but I didn't come in last place, and in a game
that didn't have both Dave and Ken, my score would have been perfectly
reasonable.
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19 February 2019 - Tuesday
Boo, Monday!
When I got home from being stupid at work, we watched like four
episodes of The Dragon Prince. That was a pretty good Dark
Power Point presentation by the vizier, and now we know more about how
the late king became a widower. Also about how badass his wife and the
lesbian queens of the neighboring realm were. The writers had to kill
all of them off, because they wouldn't be taking any of this elven
assassin, wicked vizier, dark magic nonsense!
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18 February 2019 - Monday
It's President's Day! I should be out protesting the thing that is
currently squatting in the White House, but I lack energy.
I did manage (with Marith's help) to make my appointment at the Apple
Store, but after poking around a bunch more, they concluded the drive
really is dead and needs replaced. At least it's free because I got the
warranty thing. I thought about coughing up a couple
hundred extra bucks to hold on to the old drive and flash memory, but
that plus the cost of data recovery times the probability of my ever
doing anything with it didn't make the cut.
Replacing the drive should take 1-3 days for parts shipping and 1-3
days for labor, so hopefully I can pick it up when we go to anime on
Saturday.
In the evening, we took Ghirardelli to the vet for a progress check,
and he is doing well! His weight has remained stable, so he's obviously
eating something even if he sneers at the kidney food when I shove it in
his face, and his kidney and potassium numbers have moved significantly
in the right directions. What a good kitty!
At some point during the day, I worked on my
self-evaluation form, but I wouldn't promote anyone based on what I
wrote. (So maybe it's for the best that no promotion or raise is
contingent on this.)
We've run out of RWBY, but the new season of The
Dragon Prince is out! Still so much doom, and the wicked vizier has
found a new source of doom because there wasn't enough.
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17 February 2019 - Sunday
Did I manage to do anything today? I did not, because I suck! Well,
okay, we went shopping, but meh. Anybody can go to Target.
Oh no, we have run out of RWBY! I think season 6 is in
progress, but it's not available except on the Rooster Teeth website,
which is less convenient to watch.
So much doom! But very pretty visuals!
Did we really have to wait 50-odd episodes for explicit LGBT
representation, though? And still only hints of bumblebee?
I felt bad about not having accomplished anything, so I stayed up too
late on a support chat with Apple, but although the support person was
very helpful, we did not end up accomplishing anything. I will have to
lug my computer into the Apple Store tomorrow.
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16 February 2019 - Saturday
Ayse and Ken are sick, so we brought them food from
Taiwan,
and everyone was happy!
- Sailor Moon Super S 142: The foodie episode.
- Hibike! Euphonium 9: Jus stayed up to watch this with
us, although I don't know how much she got out of it because it's a
middle episode of a series about complicated feelings. But she got to
watch anime with the grownups!
- Non Non Biyori Repeat 4: The circle of life!
- Hibike! Euphonium 10-11: It's more sympathetic that
someone else was causing the trouble on her behalf, I think. Also, yay,
more Kumiko/Reina!
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