Previously, in Trip's Life...
31 May 2019 - Friday
Oh no! I forgot my iPad at home! Woe! Dismay! I can't be expected to
concentrate on work for an entire day!
But I did do some more cases, and also worked on knowledge base
articles that needed cleaning up.
The first two episodes of
Good Omens are
pretty swell. It is very BBC, weird animated opening sequence and lack of gratuitous special
effects and all, and there is really no heterosexual explanation for
anything about Aziraphale and Crowley.
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30 May 2019 - Thursday
Not only have I taken more tickets, but I finally closed one, so I
feel like I am actually contributing and not just taking advantage of
these people. Also I was on call today in case any customers tried to
contact us by phone, but they knew better, and I stayed until a million
o'clock to hand things over to the India team. Unfortunately that turns
out to be exactly wrong for transit back to San Jose and I didn't get
home until a million and three o'clock. I will need to do something more
clever next week.
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29 May 2019 - Wednesday
Kelsey bailed at the last minute yet again, so instead of D&D5e
to go with our kabobs, we had
13G and
the continuation of the Yinkin heroquest where Yelmalio gets the crap beat
out of him while the PCs are useless (and also discorporated).
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28 May 2019 - Tuesday
Today I successfully took a ticket! Also I am set up to be on-call
someday, which is less exciting, but oh well.
Wow! Two nights with Avalon in the same week!
I don't know why I am reading so much 13th Age stuff
now that I'm not playing it any more, but Bestiary
2: Lions & Tigers & Owlbears is pretty swell. Some of the monsters,
like the fallen icons, are game-specific, but others (like the star masks,
yes) would work well anywhere.
Also read recently:
- A Wish After Midnight (Zetta Elliott), which is disturbing
and upsetting as anything that involves race and poverty in the US must
be.
- Keep an Ace in the Hole (Andrew Seiple), a short story
about some of the other villains in the "Dire" universe.
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27 May 2019 - Monday
Today we did successfully take Jus and Nonny to the
Children's Discovery Museum, which
they are really too old for but enjoyed anyway, until they had to go
home to accept Ken's offering of dumplings.
I went grocery shopping again, and ended up with more yummy food, but
it still seems like I have not accomplished anything this whole long
weekend.
Avalon is still alive! And for some reason still willing to listen to
me complain about my life!
After Avalon went to bed, I let Marith out of her cell and we watched
the
end of
Castlevania. Meh.
I mean, it was an ending, but I'm not sure about the epilogues. Some of
them didn't seem in character, some were just depressing. Overall, I
think this show could have been done much better.
Troika! Numinous Edition
is much like the version I read a while back, only with a surreal hotel
adventure in the back. I have no idea whether I would like this game or
not.
Monster Costumes by Jackson Tegu
is a short game about young monsters and young humans dressing up to go
trick-or-treating, and possibly being scared.
Words:
FAIL. I meant to write some during the long weekend, but no, that would
have been like accomplishing something useful.
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26 May 2019 - Sunday
For no very good reason, I went to the comics store Dave found that
is not horribly far away,
Space Cat. It is
definitely a hole-in-the-wall kind of joint, an odd-shaped space with
shelves all over and a confusing filing system, but they sold me some
comics anyway.
Then I had a doro tibs (with collard greens) accident at
Gojo Ethiopian Restaurant
which is just a couple of blocks away, but it turned out okay because Jus
and Nonny were too slothful or contrary to do anything like we planned.
We will do the thing tomorrow!
So instead I spent the rest of the afternoon shopping for clothes,
which was not very successful because my body is defective and the wrong
shape and capitalism hates me and I hate everything.
In the evening, we watched some Castlevania
(Sypha is kind of terrifying) and some
Elementary (Sherlock
is kind of a jerk).
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25 May 2019 - Saturday
I tried to go shopping early, but was thwarted by a cat who needed
pettins.
We had no Ken, because he is at Baycon with the cool gamers, so
we ate food from
Taiwan
instead of home-cooked, but watched anime anyway. Also we taught Jus to
play Hearts, which she did so enthusiastically that we forgot to watch
Sailor Moon!
- RWBY 1.16:
End of season 1! Weiss is being almost not terrible! Penny is
terrifying!
- AKB0048 1-3:
Dave was the only one who hadn't seen these, but I think he liked them?
How can anyone not like battle-hardened combat idols?
Volume 3 of
Girls' Last Tour (Tsukumizu) reveals more about the world
Yuu and Chi are trundling through, and it is very sad.
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24 May 2019 - Friday
Today I determined that we can't do the thing, which is not really
surprising, but there was a huge thing so the person I wanted to ask
about a rumored workaround for the thing was superbusy and I did not
accomplish anything at all.
I have been at this job for months or weeks or what even is time
anyway and I am still useless and probably they will compost me
soon.
Oh, hey, look, even crazy vampires want to know their leader still
has two brain cells to rub together.
The Sword of Summer, The Hammer of Thor, and
The Ship of the Dead (Rick Riordan) are the "Magnus Chase and
the Gods of Asgard" trilogy, which like the author's other works is about
teenage demigods. Having lulled the Establishment into a false sense of
security with the whitebread characters of his earlier books, he can now
put in Muslim valkyries and genderfluid einherjar and elves with
disabilities and dwarven fashion designers and they can't do anything about
it because money!
These books are for preteens, so they have absolutely no sex in,
which is kind of awkward when it comes to things like "Where did Freya
get all this jewelry?".
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23 May 2019 - Thursday
I missed my chance at another ticket at work. Ugh.
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22 May 2019 - Wednesday
No Mike, but we had everyone else, so Ken started us through the
Eclipse
Phase 2E playtest scenario. EP is a game that requires a lot of
infodumping, and then we had to pick characters and get a mission
briefing, so we had not reached the stage of rolling dice by the time we
had to stop having fun, but everyone was having a good time and looking
forward to doing more when Mike inevitably blows us off again.
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21 May 2019 - Tuesday
Today I facilitated a customer meeting, which mostly involved
wrangling a senior person, but then I got to listen to him rant about
the product for an hour, so that was educational.
Apparently Marith spends her time reading about what people on the
Internet like, and they still really like
Castlevania, so we
tried starting the second season. At least now they're doing something,
instead of just trying to get the PCs together. It's still weird for
animated characters to say "fuck", though.
Elementary was the
"oh, looks like Julian Assange and Anonymous are a thing this week"
episode.
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20 May 2019 - Monday
I almost did a ticket today, but the guy who gets to all tickets
right away got to it first. Bah.
Apparently Rotten Tomatoes likes
Castlevania, so we
watched the rest of the first "season" (really more of an extended
pilot), but Marith still sees nothing in it. I liked the bishop-eating
monster, but it didn't last long.
Elementary didn't
get P=NP entirely wrong, just wrong for all practical purposes
and also technically wrong (which must be the best kind of wrong).
Blood Echo (Christopher Rice) is the sequel to Bone
Music but does not address any of the issues related to the
behavior of bodies. Also their entire endeavor could use an ethicist.
Maybe several. With shock prods.
Loot
Harder is another treasure (meaning magic item) supplement for 13th Age. Many of
the items have interesting descriptions, but are hampered by being written
up in the 13th Age paradigm.
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19 May 2019 - Sunday
Since we finished Jeremy's campaign, this week Dave ran the first part
of the Sentinel
Comics RPG starter
kit! I'd already played it when Robert ran it in Roseville (but also
only the first issue) so maybe I was kind of helpful, but anyway Dave
explained everything and we chose characters (Deirdre: Absolute Zero; Edie:
Wraith; Jeremy: Legacy; Rachel: Bunker; Trip: Unity) and figured out the
mechanics with the aid of many small sticky notes and beat up the
spiderbots. Everyone seemed to like it, so we will try the second issue
next fortnight! Poor Hazel will get stuck with Tachyon, because she was
visiting colleges or something silly like that.
Based on Earl's recommendation, we tried watching Castlevania, but after two
episodes Marith decided it was too much grossness for not enough
interestingness. Instead we started S2 of Elementary, which had some
character growth. Also tourist shots of London.
Gleipnir (Sun Takeda) is about strange transformations and
terrible people and mysterious tokens and a vending machine of
surreality. It deserves the M rating, but I want to know what is going
on!
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18 May 2019 - Saturday
I meant to do the thing early, but I was lazy so I ended up doing the
thing at the normal time. Oh well.
In the evening, Eurovision! We had
Earl and Cat as well as the usual suspects, and we ate many hummuses and
Cat and Ayse got somewhat tipsy and we listened to many songs and the
snarky BBC commentator (VPN for the win!) and eventually it was very late,
but Eurovision called people all across the world to get numbers and added
them up and the wrong song won, so we went home to sleep. Eurovision!
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17 May 2019 - Friday
There was a happy hour thing at work, but I completely failed to mingle
because I suck at humaning.
We failed to game on Wednesday for various germ-related reasons, but
we called tonight's
Gloomhaven
scenario a gaming night and had
delicious Thai food in accordance
with the ancient prophecies (extended dance remix). I got a ride down to
San Jose
with Brooks because he was out of work early, which was very nice of him
but confirms my belief that driving is not the way to go.
We did a cave full of drakes that ended in a TPK before, but that's
because they didn't have a murder rat. (Recountings of the first room
differed, but I choose to believe the one where it took ages to get through
the fire demons' retaliation and damage reduction, because it makes mind
controlling one demon to shoot the other and take the retaliation more
impressive.) It did take until 23:00, so it's for the best that we
didn't try to play on Wednesday.
Now the murder rat has enough money to add +1 Move to Scurry, which
is ¾ of the way to completing her personal goal! I think the
class that she unlocks is already unlocked, though.
Bone Music (Christopher Rice, who is apparently Anne Rice's
offspring but we shouldn't hold that against him) starts off like a
thriller but is at least a technothriller once the maguffin appears. So
far it's all about the serial killers, and none about the fact that
bodies just don't work that way (in either the biochemical or Newtonian
sense), so maybe it should be filed as superhero fiction, which is
always fantasy no matter how many mad scientists are involved. Bonus
points for gay people being just as stupid as straight people, I guess?
A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods (ed Jennifer Brozek)
is an short anthology of teenagers vs the Mythos, in various forms.
Sometimes they are steadfast teenagers, sometimes they are corrupt teenagers,
but most of the stories are good. I plan to look for more stuff by some
of the authors!
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16 May 2019 - Thursday
I now have the power to make changes to documentation on the website!
But there's still reviewers between me and ultimate power, boo.
Hey, look, I'm caught up on this stupid blog! Also I have configured
my phone to bug the absolute crap out of me about going to bed. It's not
really adulting, but it's something.
We have finished the first season of
Elementary! Holmes
vs Moriarty, in brain-to-brain combat!
I keep reading books by Stephen Hunt because they're almost good, but
then they don't quite make it, and Empty Between The Stars
is no exception. I think it might be good if the enhanced intellects
were actually smarter than unaugmented humans, but really it's just a
James Bond movie in the future of AI gods: dashing male agent, plenty of
gadgets, named female characters are either comic relief or are
superlatively beautiful and drag him into bed, dead bodies littering the
landscape. The ideological divide was good, though.
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15 May 2019 - Wednesday
Sitting up to use the large monitor seems to make me less sleepy than
hunching over the laptop, which is good.
No gaming because everyone is busy or dead or something.
Elementary is
entering the end-of-season death spiral with the
antepenultimate episode. That's a cliffhanger, all right!
Alysha's Fall (MCA Hogarth) are the first book and prequel
in one of the author's earlier "Peltedverse" series. It turns out Alysha's
backstory is in fact every bit as horrible and traumatic as
Second implies, but she might have gained wisdom from it.
Hell Divers (Nicholas Sansbury Smith) is basically a
summer blockbuster movie in book form, right down to the plucky kid and
the unnecessarily glowing equipment. It would probably be an okay movie,
but that's about the level of worldbuilding it has.
The 13th
Age Book of
Demons starts off with a demonologist class that, like all 13th Age
classes, is an interesting idea implemented with too many fiddly bits that
don't make enough of a difference and then goes into bunch of hellholes in
varying levels of detail, all of which would make great adventures, and
ends with a description of a possible First Triumph (terrifying and
fascist) and suggestions for the Diabolist's lair (terrifying and surreal).
Great ideas dragged down by a system that (to be charitable) I just don't
get.
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14 May 2019 - Tuesday
Now I have a regular weekly one-on-one with my supervisor (I think
she's not technically my manager, just team lead), just like a real
employee. But I am still not very smart.
In the first volume of Witch Hat Atelier (Kamome Shirahama),
a young girl ends up being apprenticed to a magician because she found
out the dark secret and the "real" apprentices all hate her and there is
some intrigue going on with how she found out and the art is very
pretty.
The Child Prince (Honor Raconteur) is also about magic and
magicians and not D&D. It's what would have been standard fantasy before
D&D ate everything, with a cursed prince and a wizard living in a giant
earth elemental and dragons and everything. Definite bonus points for having
magic that is fairy kisses and crystallized sunlight, not reskinned
electricity.
All The Different Shades of Blue (WR Gingell) is a pretty
short piece in the "Between..." settings, which lets us see Pet from an
external perspective, and she's really kind of terrifying.
We aren't even done with the first of six seasons of
Elementary and it
looks like the Moriarty plot is about explode. What will they do for
five more seasons?
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13 May 2019 - Monday
I still have some coughing, but not as much, so hopefully I was less
offensive to my coworkers today. Also I tried doing a ticket, but I did
it wrong, so it's just as well the person who knows what he's doing is
the one who actually responded to the customer.
Apparently it's not only the viewers who think that something fishy is
going on in the Land of the
Lustrous, but the season ended before Phos could actually find anything
out, or even find out what momentous pronouncement Sensei had!
Make Me No Grave (Hayley Stone) has fantasy elements, but
it's mostly about redemption and moral ambiguity and gunfights, because
it's a Western.
The art style of Yuri Bear Storm (Ikunigomakinako, Akiko
Morishima) makes it look like standard high-school shoujo, but really it's
super gay and I don't mean in some subtextual or metaphorical way and
everyone remembers their childhood as fairytales and some people can see
the secret truth that everything is made of lesbian bears that want to date
and/or devour human girls and as of volume 2 the sex is definitely real and
the anthropophagy hasn't been ruled out!
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12 May 2019 - Sunday
Finally I managed to see Avengers: Endgame! I might
have seen it sooner if I had anyone to go with, but Marith never saw Infinity War and no one
else watches movies.
It was pretty good! I'm not sure I support how everyone ended up, I
think some people should have done better and some worse, but overall it
was good. Also, [SPOILER], wow.
I texted my mom for Mother's Day, and ended up talking awkwardly to
her on the phone for like an hour. I am so bad at phones.
Watched more
Elementary.
Finally, they have a housekeeper named Hudson! Also clever criminals,
and Joan is getting better at detection because Holmes is being less of
a butt.
O Maidens In Your Savage Season (Mari Okada, Nao Emoto)
is about high-school girls who end up reading novels with sex scenes for
their literature club and get in a tizzy about sex and then more of a
tizzy because sex is actually a thing that other people do and then
angst because of so much tizzy &c. But no yuri in the first volume, what
is even wrong with these people?
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11 May 2019 - Saturday
I still have the coughing, so I wimped out and rode the bus to
grocery shopping. This would have been more indulgent if I hadn't had to
run the last block to catch the bus that was rerouted due to some thing
happening in Willow Glen.
- Sailor Moon Super S 156: I think this is the first target we've seen that didn't have even a standard pink magic soul. Maybe that's why whatsertoes was able to blandish him?
- RWBY 1.11-15: Jaune's secret, and Blake's secret. Also, Penny.
- A Place Further Than The Universe 12-13: The emotional and triumphant end!
- Fruits Basket (2019) 5: I remember the "Tohru goes back to her horrible relatives" arc taking longer in the manga, but for her sake, I'm glad it only lasted one episode!
Pet develops even more alarming powers and her Behindkind are even
bigger gits in Between Floors (WR Gingell).
Words:
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banish her to her bioexclusion zone so I can write and/or go to bed at a
sensible hour. Maybe.
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10 May 2019 - Friday
Today I had less mucus, but more coughing. I watched a lot of
training videos, so presumably now I am not less ept than a customer.
We watched some more Land of the Lustrous, and
yikes! Phos was kind of annoying before, but I don't think this new
improved Phos is better!
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9 May 2019 - Thursday
Today I evolved into a being composed of 100% hand-crafted artisanal
mucus. I feel bad for the person at an adjacent desk.
There was a technical meeting, but my brain is too small.
Sherlock Holmes is
not just the worst roommate, but the worst mentor.
Smokin' Parade (Jinsei Kataoka, Kazuma Kondou) is very meh.
I mean, it has cyborgs fighting monsters, and naked women bathing in
tubs full of eyeballs and blood, but it doesn't speak to me.
On The Shoulders of Titans (Andrew Rowe)
is the sequel to
Sufficiently Advanced Magic. It does address some of the
plot threads already in existence, but mostly by adding more mysteries.
This is not a bad approach.
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8 May 2019 - Wednesday
I got some extra brain from special training session, but people are
so busy I don't have much chance to feed on their neurons.
Brooks doesn't work where I thought he did, so I can't easily carpool
with him, but
it turns out the extended dance remix of my regular commute gets me to
gaming at the same time as him.
This week, we annoyed the lamia until she noticed us breaking in and
used the Gong of No Saving Throw to disable us while she scarpered. Then
we broke in very slowly and cautiously, accomplishing little. At least I
got to turn into a giant spider, but no one really cared next to Mike's
character doing as much damage in one round as the entire party has in
hit points. Because D&D.
Sufficiently Advanced Magic (Andrew Rowe) is in the very
specific subgenre where the author creates an involved and numerically
quantifiable magic system and the main character learns it. Part of this
involves giant structures full of impossible architecture, contrived
puzzles, and monsters with no means of support, but on the other hand,
ace and genderfluid representation.
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7 May 2019 - Tuesday
I didn't fall asleep during the scrum meeting this time!
In Between Shifts (WR Gingell), Pet has to go undercover at
a supermarket, because more monsters. She still doesn't give any
supernaturals any respect whatsoever, because they don't deserve it.
The Singularity Trap (Dennis E Taylor) is about humans
surviving alien attention through game theory and general obnoxiousness.
It does have some modern stuff, but really it feels like a story from
some decades ago.
Another couple episodes of
Land of the Lustrous.
Hm, that's interesting!
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6 May 2019 - Monday
I went to work and did um something. Read docs, I guess. It was not
actually that exciting.
Watched more Elementary. Ah, the drama
of rent-controlled apartments in New York.
Between Jobs (WR Gingell) is the story of a nameless,
off-the-grid teenager in Tasmania who gets adopted as a housekeeper/pet
(not like that!) for a trio of monster-hunting monsters. She does not
give them the respect they feel they deserve because frankly, they're
all gits. Also something weird is clearly going on with her. Good
descriptions of the multiple levels of reality blending into each other.
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5 May 2019 - Sunday
Little did we know when we planned to meet for PAD&D5
today that it was going to be the grand finale of the campaign!
First we played the battle of the [SPOILER] who were stuck to the walls
last session, along with Hazelrae and Lance, to take back their clockwork
spaceship from the [SPOILER]. The drink dispenser was a complete writeoff,
but the chupaqueso dispenser and the ships's cat
lizard mascot survived intact. Plasma cannon for the
win!
Once the disposition of the spaceship was settled, we switched back
to the rest of the Heroines of Redlarch, who were in an infinite void
with infinite quantities of [SPOILER] pouring into the abyss beneath
them and infinite quantities of [SPOILER] somewhere infinitely far that
way, and a huge creature representing each of those there to eat the
Heroines (and everything else). There were also additional [SPOILER] who
needed to get back to the looming spaceship to bring it to full combat
effectiveness.
The Heroines collectively have the tactical sense of a rutabaga, but it
just so happens they decide to focus on one huge beast first and let the
spaceship (with Hazelrae and some [SPOILER] keep the other busy, and it
turns out to be the right thing to do. Hardly anyone gets swept over the
edge into the abyss, and Akrá gets rescued by Lance and conveyed to
the spaceship to man one of the secondary weapons (somehow we determined it
was the chupacabra machine, I accept no responsibility for this) so it's
all good.
Having now defeated all four [SPOILER], the Heroines of Red Larch are
deemed the winners, and the world is saved! No one expected that, but
there it is!
Next, Dave will run the Sentinels of the Multiverse
quickstart pack and we'll see if people like it. If so, we will punish
him by making him run more.
We watched some Elementary and some Land of the Lustrous. One
of these involved a giant snail.
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4 May 2019 - Saturday
The cleaners are only once a month at this point, which doesn't seem
to have made Marith explode, but I don't know that she'd tell me. Maybe
she spends all the time I'm at work huffing the filtered air from her
atmosphere cleanser.
I meant to go shopping on time, but was distracted by reading, so
everything was terrible.
- RWBY 1.10:
Ruby's first leadership crisis!
- A Place Further Than The Universe 10-11: Hurray, they made it to the base! And it hasn't been taken over by shoggoths! Their youtube comments might have been taken over by social climbers, though.
- Hibike! Euphonium 2 8:
Aww, Reina taking care of sick Kumiko!
- Fruits Basket (2019) 4: Kagura's violence no longer seems as funny, for some reason.
I'd read the beta of the 13th Age Book of Ages
(Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan) and the published version seems substantially
identical. It's still full of great ideas, I just don't want to use D&D to
play them!
In Empowered and the Soldier of Love (Adam Warren, Karla
Diaz), Empowered has to save the city (again) because her teammates are
useless (even more than usual) from a magical girl with the powers of love
and a magic pangolin. This goes about as well as you might expect. Notable
for not having Adam Warren art because, according to the author notes, he
can't draw frilly stuff and would probably die if he tried, which seems
legit based on his existing art.
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3 May 2019 - Friday
After four days of wearing grown-up shirts, I ran out of ones that I
like, so I tried wearing a tshirt with my slacks. Apparently I use my
forearms for cooling but not my calves, because I felt about 73% less
stuffy. Also no one pointed and laughed (especially not the guy sitting
one row in front of me in the office, who wears cargo shorts and cusses
like a sailor but is the VP of Eng), so I think that's about as much of
a grownup as I can be for now.
I'm surprised it took this long for
Elementary to
introduce Col Sebastian Moran and Moriarty, but clearly they are in this
for the multi-season haul.
As advertised, Land of
the Lustrous is about living gems, but is nothing at all like Steven Universe! It is
very mysterious, in fact, but also nonbinary (although it's hard not to see
the gems as female a lot of the time). We'll have to see where it goes.
The latest book from Eva Darrows,
Belly Up, is not genre like The Awesome but I
liked it a lot anyway. It is about a teenaged girl who ends up pregnant,
but it is not horrible because she has an awesome family and best
friend. Surprisingly, it is not even as intense as Dead Little
Mean Girl.
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2 May 2019 - Thursday
The first event was a little later today, and also I knew what I was
doing, so I was able to sleep in more than yesterday, but not as much as
I would have liked. Also the train didn't work quite right, but I
couldn't do anything except wait for them to get their act together, so
overall the morning could definitely have been worse
This second (and thankfully final) day of the user summit was
presentations by customers about what they were doing with the product.
Some of the presentations were pretty bad (poor English, which as a
monolingual I can't actually condemn, but it might have been better to
have someone else deliver the presentation; terrible unreadable slides;
general scatteredness), but others were good, even if I did sometimes
think, "wow, the capitalism is really piling up in here". But someone has
been running the product for eight years without downtime,
which makes supporting it seem both more and less doable. Also,
the new nonvolatile memory from Intel looks really slick.
I undoubtedly should have stuck aorund to network, but my brain hurt
after two days of conference, and the food wasn't as appealing, so I
left right after the last scheduled thing.
Today's commute reading was
Last Bastion (Rachel Aaron, Travis Bach), the sequel to
Forever Fantasy Online. Unfortunately, this volume is also
all about the immediate battles (and Roxxy being a butthead), not about how
this predicament came to exist for them to even be in, and not even much
about suddenly being in new different bodies. The very last line
suggests that we might get some of that in the next book, but is
probably false cake.
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1 May 2019 - Wednesday
I didn't want to, but I got up at 4:30 to walk to the train station
to ride the train to San Francisco to ride a bus to the hotel where the
user summit is being held. It actually worked out just fine, which is
good, because I'm not sure I could have handled any deviations from the
plan.
The summit had many people, and it was very warm, and a lot of people
don't know how to give presentations, but except for when I was falling
asleep it was reasonably informative. The morning was mostly technical
stuff, which I need to know, so that was good. Also they gave us plenty
of food, with a buffet including dim sum for dinner.
On the commute home, I finished Spinning Silver (Naomi
Novik), which was very good. It is the best version of Rumplestiltskin but
it is also Beauty and the Beast and several more fairy tales combined into
one coherent narrative and all the women are brave and smart and all the
men are beautiful gits and it is great! Also Jewish.
Then when I finally got home, we watched the last two episodes of
Planet With, which
were a bit Gurren Laganish. I think the series was a little
long, there was too much fighting and not enough philosophy, but I do
not demand those six hours of my life back or anything, and it's always
good to see compassion and forgiveness espoused as virtues.
I have to get up again tomorrow.
Words:
FAIL.
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