Tuesday: it's my last day off in November for the year. I scheduled a couple of doctor's appointments for next month, and while I thought I'd get some work in on an interactive fiction project I've been stalled on, I ended up closing out of it with no changes of note. Instead, I transcribed some achievement data to various pages on this website that I've had open on my computer for months. I also spent an hour or so copying support card ratings from this UmaMusume tierlist into a notepad corresponding to the cards I've obtained and which level of limit break I've unlocked. My best card (by an order of magnitude) is the Kitasan Black SSR Speed card people were rerolling their accounts to get, but even with the limit break crystal we just received, mine's still just shy of max limit break. It doesn't make sense to make this my shared card when so many other players can be found sharing the maxed version. The only max LB SSR cards in my collection that are even worth considering are the Haru Urara Guts card everybody gets and the Silence Suzuka Stamina card from the... half-anniversary event, I think? The important thing is, despite not spending money on a bunch of carats, I should have enough of the currency needed to guarantee success on the banner I'm looking forward to at the end of December. (This would be Tosen Jordan. I spent too much time playing Gold Ship's career, and Tosen Jordan is positioned as... not rival, per se, but moreso just her opposite.)
In the evening, we bundled up for the possibility of rain or snow and headed for Santucci's. The theme of this week's trivia was "food," and after considering a few options, we elected to play this week as "Yes Chef". Our usual bartender wasn't present, but we were still quite satisfied with an order of seasoned fries plus our usual personal pan bacon ranch pizza. During the trivia rounds, we struggled a bit with identifying the food-themed cartoon characters, but we still coasted to an easy first place win.
Back at home, I logged into the Legion Remix event in World of Warcraft again. I created a dracthyr hunter so that I've have a character of every armor type represented, and I used questing and dungeons to level my void elf priest and lightforged draenei paladin to the mid-40s. There have been a lot of complaints about WoW lately, both in terms of the changes to the Remix formula and the introduction of predatory currencies in the upcoming Midnight expansion, but I still have too much fun with the Remix gameplay to step away myself, yet.
Monday: this is now my Friday, but I was excited to be able to dedicate most of my time to catching up on January's Trade Sanctions emails. After work, we met up with Julianne for trivia night, and our team was seated right by Jimmy's window. With the three of us there, we did a small Caesar salad and a small pizza, which was just about perfect. We finally broke out of our trend of tying for third place and failing the tiebreaker... by tying for third place and winning the tiebreaker. Julie was very pleased. Back home, I caught up in Hearthstone and World of Warcraft's respective anniversary events, but that meant I got to bed way too late.
Saturday: rough morning paired with high call volume thanks to the Black Friday/Cyber Monday promotional period beginning. (We're in the "promo preview" week, so sales have started early.) Needed to work on my project, but my time was 99% occupied with chat support and taking calls. Not looking forward to next weekend.
We figured the grocery store would be busy, but Julie went early enough to miss the crowds. We'd considered going to the gym, but I felt pretty beat down once my work day ended, so we just had the sausage and spinach pasta for dinner (to use up the rest of my extra cream cheese) and watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Once I finished a couple of Hearthstone games, we tried for some Civ VI. My computer had to crash three times and be rebooted before we could get it to start, but we did eventually get a game going, though this too eventually froze. I've got to turn off animated portraits again, since a recent update restored them automatically.
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Friday: on this date, I recorded a 40-minute video and uploaded it to youtube. I set it to private, because this video was recorded with the intention that it would explain critical context and details regarding an interactive fiction project on which I was about to begin work. As of November 17, 2023, this project is still underway, and the circumstances have not yet arrived in which I will make this video public, but I think I'll schedule a date for it to go live automatically if I don't otherwise take action. That was about seven years ago, so... another seven years from now, perhaps? Check my channel on November 16, 2030, I guess.
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