JUN 28

2025

Saturday: spent the first hour or two awake just lying in bed and playing Pocket Camp. What finally got me moving was the need to treat the cats before cleaning myself up. We took the subway up to the Frankford-Market blue line, which we then took right back to the east side of town, where the showcase had been last Friday. Denise and Larry had conscripted us into the family for a luncheon at Uncle Joe's house, which turned out to be an apartment a couple blocks north on 4th street. While we managed to spend most of the walk in the shade, the summer heat was still enough that we were starting to sweat as we arrived. It was a nice party with some great food, including pretzel sandwiches, an amazing ham-and-cheese assembly, homemade mac-and-cheese, bruschetta, various dips and spreads, sloppy joes with pizza-infused filling, Julie's brownies... even the disponsable utensils were made of wood. We discussed the cruise next year, Denise's intervention in her brother-in-law's medical emergency, various photos from Larry's childhood, and the ways Philadelphia has changed over the decades. I had a cider I enjoyed and another which I could take or leave.

When 5 PM arrived, we excused ourselves so that we could get home and prepare for our trip, tomorrow. Julie got notes for the catsitters prepared, and I cleaned up the litterboxes. She made dinner of eggs and hash, which I ate while watching a Deltarune video and cleaned out my Hearthstone quests. Now that it's after 11, I should finish packing before I clean up the water fountain, but I thought I'd post this update first.

2024

Friday: login queues were pretty long, but I was able to get into the Dawntrail pre-release launch by around 5:30 AM or so. I unlocked viper and played around with it for a bit; I also started the MSQ and elected to visit Urqopacha first. Unfortunately, all the energy I'd put into prepping for the release (and my inability to sleep at practically any point in the preceding 10 hours) meant that drowsiness overtook me, and I soon crashed in the office bed. Then I got up for an hour or so, and there was practically no login queue, so I played for another hour before I again became fatigued. I had a bowl of cereal for brunch and the first half of my pizza for dinner. The day vanished in a haze of semi-consciousness.

2023

Wednesday: calls were marginally better, but work's still pretty miserable. At Julie's request, I did set up the Wii U again so she can get her Dr. Mario fix. I was planning to get to bed earlier, but I got distracted by videos of Hearthstone's singleplayer modes like Dungeon Run and The Dalaran Heist, so I wound up staying up way too late.