JAN 18

2026

Sunday: today was the last real day to make progress in World of Warcraft's Legion Remix event. I maxed out mage and warlock, and I ran as many Infinite Research activities as I could on my monk to try to buy out the mounts, toys, pets, and exclusive appearances. Julie made bacon and eggs for brunch, and I did take time out to play "that Poseidon game" on video. (This refers to a game that is exclusively available through Ryan Veeder's Patreon. To sign up, go to his website and find the appropriate link. The video is linked in the Feedback channel of his Patreoneer discord.) I eventually took a break from chain-running instances to make tortellini for dinner. The portions seem a little smaller than I'd like, but I'm not sure how well the recipe will double. We ate in the living room, watching the episode of Bob's Burgers in which Tina uses a tablet on wheels to attend school. I played more Red Dead Redemption 2 after we finished eating, though I started trying Julie's patience with my insistence on repeatedly robbing the well-dressed characters on this one particular boardwalk in Blackwater for part of the Bandit challenges. Decided to mix things up by doing some horsemanship stuff instead, but I should stop stalling and just do the Epilogue story already. I was glad at least to see the conslusion of the "Mr. Black and Mr. White" side story.

Before bed, I signed back into WoW to do this week's Timeways achievement on Convivia, my retail monk. This whole introduction of "single-button assist" settings has made healing a much more appealing prospect. I hope somebody at FFXIV notices, because I really want them to have fewer classes with a basic "1, 2, 3" rotation with extra mechanics draped over the top. For that matter, would it be that much of a burden on the system to create another Damage over Time class, please??

Anyway, I was up until almost 3 AM trying to wring the last dregs out of the diminishing returns I was getting in Lemix. I didn't get everything I wanted, but even if I had, I would have just found more stuff to want that was further out-of-reach.

2025

Saturday: after my update last night, I played as predicted while watching the Woolie VS stream vods for Indivisible. Today was a steady work day for chat support. After my shift, we walked to the gym, where I read Kayin's article on Quality of Life along with several of her earlier articles. After we got back home, we got cleaned up and reheated the cabbage along with some chicken that Julie had prepared. Tonight's entertainment was our (likely penultimate) episodes for Star Trek Prodigy; we've got around four left in the series. After we stopped, Julie switched over to more 30 Rock, and I alternated between solving picross puzzles and drowsing on the floor. Julie eventually went to bed, and I came in here to post this update while watching more Indivisible.

2024

Thursday: woke up around 4:45 AM and spent the next two hours just lying in bed with cats on top of me. I did eventually get up for cereal. Since the car was still covered in snow, I had to leave early so I could scrape the ice off; fortunately, Julie's plan to cover the windshield to prevent ice build-up paid off. While a bit of snow had melted and refrozen, the ice just formed a hard top layer on top of the snow packed underneath, so it was trivial to brush it off, particularly from the covered portion of the windshield. Once the car was clean, I did my shopping at Acme (where the asphalt of the parking lot looked frosted thanks to snowmelt and salt) before picking up sandwiches from Rocco's for our late lunch. I played a couple of rounds of Hearthstone since the Delve into Deepholm miniset released, but eventually we had to get dressed up to meet up with Julie's friend and her husband at Juana Tamale. Now that we're home, the cats are demanding attention, so I'd better cut this short.

2023

Wednesday: Continued the last bit of laundry from the night before, and afterward I ran some errands. By which I mean, I went to the pet store to pick up a new powered water fountain. John has no interest in regular water bowls, but he loves to drink from the sink or from the water that pools on the ledges in the shower, so we're clearly past due to replace the powered fountain we used to have. After that, I had lunch at Chipotle and picked up some groceries. I did the dishes, continuing my FFXIV video-watching, and in the evening we watched Archer while we had dinner. Julie's dish was an unfamiliar one, but it combined a number of vegetables (such as spinach, chickpeas, onion) over rice, plus (I think) curry? It was spicier than she intended, so we agreed to swap leftovers⃞I'll have the remaining meatball past, and she'll finish the rest of this. After she went to bed, I resumed actually playing Final Fantasy XIV, and I finished the first of the two opening chapters of the Endwalker expansion. (The Radz-at-Han chapter, not the Sharlayan chapter.) Oh, and also! I was very excited to join a new secret Discord server to replace a secret Twitter account I'm subscribed to that's shutting down because Twitter stopped supporting third-party Twitter clients! I say "secret," but really, all it takes is supporting Ryan's Patreon.