Trying out the new Stops app and it’s film style grain. I like the simplicity of this app.

Finished reading: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern 📚

I don’t know where to start. The Starless Sea was very intriguing, and nothing like I expected. I didn’t want to put it down.

Finished reading: Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game by Joseph Goodman 📚

Ok, yes, I skipped reading most of the spell and monster sections, because that was a lot. But I’m really excited to try this system at some point. The impending death, complete randomness of things, this really sounds like a fun system to play.

I love my watching my computer’s uptime count up. Current uptime on my M1 MBP:

❯ uptime 16:14 up 72 days, 19:55

[Scones] tastes like a muffin, but it sucks all the spit out of your mouth.

• Ted Lasso

I hate scones for exactly this reason, and this line got a good chuckle out of me.

Finished reading: The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty 📚

Really enjoyed this one. Having Djinn as the subject instead of the typical European/Tolkien fare was a nice change.

I’m a fan of Kraken Rum, but not so much their limited edition Black Roast coffee rum. It had a sickly fake coffee flavor. This bottle label was the only good thing about the bottle.

Finished reading: The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik 📚

Really enjoyed this series, and this one wrapped things up with a solid ending. I think I’ll be looking for more of Naomi Novik’s work.

Finished reading: The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik 📚

The cliff hanger from the first book felt insignificant, but once I got halfway through, I didn’t want to put this down. The lead up to the the final pages sucked me in like a maw-mouth. Looking forward to book 3.

My Dungeon Crawl Classics handbook has arrived. I was not expecting a college textbook sized tome.

Pretty sure this is proof that both college textbooks and WotC D&D books are grossly overpriced.

My D&D book collection. I haven’t played in about a year, and hope to play again soon. I have no plans to get rid of these books, except maybe the 4e ones (ugh, bad), but WotC won’t be getting more money from me. I have a few other TTRPG handbooks headed my way to review.

Set up a new micro.blog theme. Still playing around with ways to combine omg.lol and micro.blog.

Micro.blog is amazing. I’ve been using it for a few years now. Omg.lol is also amazing, but I haven’t done much with it yet as I need to figure out someway to combine them to work together.

Finished reading: Ink & Sigil by Kevin Hearne 📚

Really enjoyed this one. It was a bit interesting, I can’t say I’ve ever read a book written with Glaswegian dialect written out, but after a couple chapters, it got easier. A modern day setting, with old fantasy elements.

Played Magic the Gathering for the first time in over a decade. Pulled out my old decks to play with friends. We had a good time, and even played with my Planescape cards to throw chaos into the battlefield. Might have to pick up some booster packs in the near future.

Finished reading: A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik 📚

Already ordered the sequel through my local library.

The fountain pens of 2022.

First is a Kasama Una, to celebrate a job change and escaping the corporate hellscape of my previous employment.

2nd is a Moonman/Majohn T1, to replace a yet again cracking TWSBI 580.

3rd is a Schon Pocket 6 Faceted, a Christmas gift, and one I love.

Finished reading: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree 📚

This is certainly the best book I’ve read this year. Yes I know it’s only the 2nd. But it’s also the best book I’ve read over the past year. I need more cozy post “d&d campaign” books in my life.

Sad day today. Deleted the Dark Sky app, as it will stop working after tomorrow.

Gave the 3yr a sour Skittle.

3yr: I don’t like it.

Me: That’s ok, you don’t have to like everything.

3: Do you like it?

M: Yep, I think they are delicious.

3: Oh, I like them too.

3: Can I have another?

Santa brought a Christmas train this year. I had a ton of fun setting it up under the tree, and seeing their faces this morning was priceless. The other presents didn’t matter for a good 10 minutes.

It’s a winter wonderland here, and I love it. So nice to see significant snow.

The 2022 Best of Bootie mashup album is available now. I look forward to this every year, these mashup albums are some of my top played music.

I’ve been really happy with iTerm, but Warp.dev looks really cool. Time to try it out.

We got snow finally! We’ve been eager for snow this year, and finally got about 4in in total. Hopefully it sticks around and we get more before Christmas.