Previously, in Trip's Life...
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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FAIL.
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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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15 February 2019 - Friday
I don't seem to have stopped procrastinating on my
mandatory voluntary self-criticism annual
self-evaluation form, which was sort of due today. I guess I'll do it
over the weekend.
Also my computer still doesn't work.
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14 February 2019 - Thursday
Holy
crap.
Avalon is still hanging in there, but ugh. Life.
I meant to try to boot up my broken computer while I had an Apple
person on chat, but my brain was too small. I did make another account
on my work laptop so I could have a separate browser to do gmail with a
keyboard (and also tumblr), but mrgh.
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13 February 2019 - Wednesday
Today, 13th
Age and Indian
food! We finished the fight against the undead hell mastodon and its
riders with appropriate soundtrack, blew up a maze, and found what claims
to be the final boss.
Kelsey wants to test a D&D5 adventure she's making on us, so we have
something for a few weeks between defeating the Stone Thief
and starting Glorantha.
Words:
FAIL. Computer still broken. Brain still broken.
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12 February 2019 - Tuesday
Fortunately I managed to get some kind of MUD client installed on my
work laptop, so I was able to have the scheduled date with Avalon even
though my real computer is still toast.
Words:
FAIL. I haven't yet installed
Scrivener on my work
computer, that seems like it's crossing a line in a way that a network
client isn't.I do not claim that this makes any sense.
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11 February 2019 - Monday
Words:
Ack my computer stopped working! I did my writing and then tried to save,
but the operation hung and failed, and now it won't boot up! I think the
hard drive (which is actually some complicated combination of disk and
SSD) is dead.
computer woes by marithlizard (Thu Feb 14 12:13:25 2019)
I'm so proud of you!
Re: computer woes by Trip (Thu Feb 14 13:07:54 2019)
What, for not going into a complete toddler-style meltdown when deprived of my Internets?
Re: computer woes by marithlizard (Thu Feb 14 16:01:50 2019)
No, for not claiming that the computer spontaneously broke from having to host your writing! :) (And you can't claim it retroactively, it's too late.)
Re: computer woes by Trip (Fri Feb 15 21:49:52 2019)
I didn't think it needed to be said!
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10 February 2019 - Sunday
No gaming, Jeremy is full of germs. Only Zuul. But I did get a larger
Instant Pot so Marith can make even more exciting food!
As of volume 5, the manga of
My Hero Academia (Kohei Horikoshi) is still pretty similar to
the anime. Some of the fight details might be different, but I think
that's about it.
Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions (Henry Lien) continues in
the same vein as the first book: Peasprout is kind of insufferable in a
very teenaged way, and finds out more about how the city of Pearl works.
Also, skate fu!
Words:
100. I lost the actual number, but I know I did writing, so meh.
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9 February 2019 - Saturday
Blrgh. I'm sure I breathe better when I'm asleep now, but that doesn't
make me want to get up to let the cleaners in any more.
- Sailor Moon Super S 141: Minako, that's not how you
ethically play the field! You should probably learn from Pearl.
- Non Non Biyori Repeat 3: Someday, Renge will be terrifying.
- Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju 2.11-12: The end! Of Bon,
which I guess is technically a spoiler, but not of rakugo!
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8 February 2019 - Friday
Start of RWBY season four! Poor Yang, all her bumblebee
dreams crushed. (I hope the writers aren't trying to set up Blake and Sun,
but they probably are.)
Tried warming up the fluids for Ghirardelli tonight, but it didn't seem
to make him any more or less happy than room-temperature solution. His
appetite and energy are still better than before we started fluidizing
him, though!
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7 February 2019 - Thursday
Back to the vet, this tim with just Aspen, to try to get a urine sample.
But once again, her bladder defeats multiple highly-trained vet techs
armed with multi-thousand-dollar machinery!
Ghirardelli did not have to come to the vet, but when we got home, we
tempted him with special kidney food (he ate it, yay!) and then oppressed
him with subcutaneous fluids.
Marith is a still a Hero of the Revolution.
That was quite a conclusion to RWBY S3! But we have
relatively few bodies, so who knows who will be in next seasion?
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6 February 2019 - Wednesday
The news about Ghirardelli is not good. It's not terrible, but he
definitely has kidney issues, because he is an older cat. Tomorrow we will
have to go pick up some supplies for giving him subcutaneous fluid, and also
switch him from special thyroid food to special kidney food. Meep.
This week, we are back to
13th Age
(and also Thai food). But
we are so slow and start so late that we only had time for about three
rounds of combat before we had to call it a night.
Next week, we'll finish off the undead hell mastodon for sure!
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5 February 2019 - Tuesday
There is snow on the hills. I won't say that's not okay, because I
actually don't mind cold much, but it's certainly noteworthy!
Oh no, Avalon has to go to more doctors! At least she lives in a
civilized country where she will not have to sell her house to get medical
care.
More RWBY season 3. The plot, it thickens and thickens!
Words:
113. Do I need to work on something else? Do I need to outline? Do I
need to stop pretending I can write? Do I need to stop watching TV in the
evenings? Do I need to die in a pit?
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4 February 2019 - Monday
Ghirardelli has been off his feed, and Aspen has been failing at
litterbox, so I finally took them in to the vet. Or rather, prevailed upon
Marith, Hero of the Revolution, to take us all to the vet and wait and
bring us back, which took like three hours.
Ghirardelli has lost one of his four remaining kilograms, which is not
a good sign, but we will have to wait for results on the bloodwork to know
why.
Aspen is more metabolic, but apparently she is forgotten about
scratching, because some of her claws have grown so far they curl around
and poke her pawbeans! I cannot leave her to her own devices any
longer! Also her bladder defies the best efforts of vet-techs.
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3 February 2019 - Sunday
I guess I managed to do shopping and drink Diet Dr Pepper today, but
mostly I was useless. I even forgot to my cranial filaments neatened.
Marith made orange maple chicken, which was messy to make but tasted
really good. We ate it while watching the middle part of season 3 of
RWBY, the part where they suddenly introduce [SPOILER]. Huh,
[SPOILER] has kind of a suspicious name in this new context, don't
they?
I actually own the first N volumes of the My Hero Academia
manga but only read a little bit way back when, before the anime showed me
the true awesomeness. But while I'm sitting around being useless on Sunday,
I might as well read manga! The first two volumes (which I read before) are
substantially similar to the beginning of the anime.
Another thing I have had for a while but not gotten around to reading
until just recently is
The Human Dress (Graydon Saunders). This is the novel he
called the doorstop, and it is indeed quite large, something like 1400
pages (according to Google Play, but they seem roughly similar to
paperback pages). 1400 pages of Vikings and dinosaurs and magic and
romance and [SPOILER] and revenge! Although it's not obviously related to
the "Commonweal" books, the magic is very Graydonian, and so is the prose.
In fact, it is even more oblique, sometimes to the point of opacity. I
don't normally consider myself a poor reader, but I was not able to follow
everything. I also have no idea who the other person hanging around with
[SPOILER] was, or really what the last scene meant at all. But overall I
still liked it a lot. (Did I mention the dinosaurs?)
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2 February 2019 - Saturday
Oh no, the restaurant with the five flavors of Diet Dr Pepper has no
DDP today! Woe!
- Sailor Moon Super S 140: Fashion! And even though Fisheye is
the most sympathetic of the three villains, they still cannot pretend
to be a decent person for even a few minutes at a time.
- Non Non Biyori Repeat 2: In the country, you have to make
your own entertainment, I guess?
- Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju 9-10: It's not like we don't
know this is going to be a tragedy, but that would be ow.
- Hibike! Euphonium 8: What do you know, this actually is a
yuri show, not just a show with yuri subtext!
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1 February 2019 - Friday
Finished the first season of RWBY (that was not nearly as
successful as they hoped, and also was Emerald hitting on Ruby?) and
started the second (there always has to be a tournament arc).
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