Going in Blind
Jul. 16th, 2021 06:50 pmPretty dead this week. Eris has apparently been under more stress than usual for reasons I don't fully understand, but it's meant a lot of late nights in the past week and a few nights where I didn't get a four-hour block and was consequently wrecked. She's been extra particular and tempestuous. My parents, having heard of my plight, are sending me parenting books, which I expected I'd read a lot of before I became a parent.
I'm worried about the COVID numbers. Estimated infection rate is rising, and hasn't been this high on the way up since March 2020. It could be that vaccination means that speed of outbreak is not a crisis any more, but I'm worried that delta variant won't be the worst that we see. Would be nice if there isn't a high prevalence when Eris starts kindergarten in the fall. Pediatric vaccines this fall seem unlikely. The Tokyo Olympics look like they'll be interesting.
Europe is dealing with historic floods.
I enjoyed watching some of the end of SGDQ last weekend. The best part, I thought, was this blindfolded run of Mario 64. This one was a 70-star run, that is, a normal completion of the game as opposed to finding tricky ways of circumventing barriers to allow skipping huge chunks. Eris was also fascinated.
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kihou has launched a Kickstarter for their surreal-art-card TTRPG, Dreampunk. Check it out if you like improv storytelling, visually-inspired narrative games like Dixit, indie TTRPGS, and surrealism. Looks sweet!
I'm worried about the COVID numbers. Estimated infection rate is rising, and hasn't been this high on the way up since March 2020. It could be that vaccination means that speed of outbreak is not a crisis any more, but I'm worried that delta variant won't be the worst that we see. Would be nice if there isn't a high prevalence when Eris starts kindergarten in the fall. Pediatric vaccines this fall seem unlikely. The Tokyo Olympics look like they'll be interesting.
Europe is dealing with historic floods.
I enjoyed watching some of the end of SGDQ last weekend. The best part, I thought, was this blindfolded run of Mario 64. This one was a 70-star run, that is, a normal completion of the game as opposed to finding tricky ways of circumventing barriers to allow skipping huge chunks. Eris was also fascinated.
My friend
kihou has launched a Kickstarter for their surreal-art-card TTRPG, Dreampunk. Check it out if you like improv storytelling, visually-inspired narrative games like Dixit, indie TTRPGS, and surrealism. Looks sweet!
