Raw Data:
Novels – 14 ↓
Short Stories – 0 ⭤
Manga/Graphic Novels – 2 ↓
Comics – 2 ↓
Average Rating – 3.25 ↓
Pages – 4397 ↑
Words – 1409K ↑
The Bad:
The Detective – 2Stars of 70’s psychosexual monologuing
Xenocide – 2Stars of 90’s mormon theology masquerading as a story
The Good:
Prisoner’s Base – 4stars of Nero Wolf goodnes
The King of Swords – 4stars of moody Eternal Champion’ness
In Defense of the Second Amendment – 5stars of possibly the best book of the year
Movie:
The first X-Men movie was pretty darn good! It was fun, it was a good origin story for everyone and it wasn’t filled with pretentious twaddle. This rewatch held up very well.
Miscellaneous Posts:
- Having a Dickens of a Time
- Circle of Protection: White – MTG 4E
- American Independence Day, July 4 (2023 Edition)
- Throne of Chains
- Clay Statue – MTG 4E
- Blogshido: I Know Post-fu!
- Clockwork Avian – MTG 4E
- The New Verboten Word
- Clockwork Beast – MTG 4E
Personal:
(there is a lot under this section, as I just kind of blab on and on and on)
This month flew by. Had some eye laser going on. Got sick in the middle of the month and was out of work for a couple of days with some sort of stomach bug. It was baaaaaaad. Food poisoning bad.
Lots of little stuff went on that just wore me out. I was tired during the week, never recovered over the weekends and carried on. I think I need to seriously consider cutting my caffeine intake, probably to zero. I feel like an engine revving while in neutral. Our new mattress is also killing both of us, so we are in the process of getting a different one. But that won’t be here until the second week of August. Oy vey, it’s going to be a long 2 weeks!
Being tired has left me emotionally on the edge. I’ve made a couple of bad decisions because of that. Thankfully, they were all small and Mrs B helped me realize what was going on before I made any medium or big mistakes. It is discouraging to realize that even an hour of sleep, or the lack thereof, can have such a big negative impact on my life. It makes me feel like I have to walk on eggshells for my own good. And that’s exhausting too. Hahahahaa.
Meatboy Intern continues to work out fantastically. I swear, that kid is great doing land survey work. Too bad he has to go and be an engineer. Just because it pays almost twice as much. That’s no reason to make MY life harder, now is it? Kids these days, no respect for their elders. In all seriousness though, he’s doing a wonderful job and I’m just trying to enjoy working with someone so competent. Once he leaves to go back to school we’ll see what happens.
We are also getting our windows replaced in our condo. The building is 40 years old and so things are starting to age out. We have to get very specific windows and man, they are expensive. Plus, being up on the 3rd floor means the installers are going to have to rent a boom truck, so we are spending money like we’re the government. Thankfully, unlike the government, we actually have the cash to back this all up. But it is really depleting our safety net.
I switched themes, so I am now using the Masu theme instead of the Penscratch 2 theme. That has made my home page look a bit different and has also affected how things look in my posts. My biggest question is, do you all see the links above as double underlined? Penscratch didn’t auto-underline links so I got into the habit of manually underlining my links. In the preview view, I see all my links as double underlined, as Masu seems to auto-underline links now. I am testing this in this post by NOT manually underlining a couple of links. I use chrome and the preview shows those links as single underlined and I was wondering what you all saw. If you wouldn’t mind, let me know what you see and what browser you use. Because of the change, I also lost a bunch of widget functionality, so there is no more boxes filled with the people I follow or the people who follow me. I also lost the simple Follow Button and am exploring options to get that back. Not everyone wants to subscribe via email, so that is getting that button back is my first order of business. While this theme is supposed to be a step forward, it really comes across as two steps backwards in terms of functionality. Which seems to be what WordPress.com is all about these days 🙁 I am slowly playing around to try to get some of that functionality back in other ways, so if I find anything, I’ll be posting about it.
Updated to add: Every function that I lost by “updating” to a new theme is no longer able to be done except by using html commands that only a “premium or above” subscriber can use. So what I used to be able to do for free, I now can’t do at all unless I cough up double the money to WP. That ain’t happening so my home page is pretty much staying how it is now. Every step that WP claims is forward progress always ends up being at least two steps backwards unless you pay more money. I am getting more and more discouraged by this continued behavior by WP.
On a positive side. We had our annual church picnic yesterday and there was a baptism. I am always super happy to go to baptisms, as it is that Christian’s public statement that they have accepted Jesus as their Savior. I also got to play over 2hrs of volleyball, straight. I LOVE volleyball. Helping the teens and kids get some self-confidence and learn to not be afraid of the ball is very rewarding. Just teaching them the basic skills gives me enjoyment too. Maybe they’ll end up loving it as much as I do but even if they don’t, we’ll all have had a wonderful time. Of course, this morning I am sore like you wouldn’t believe. But it was totally worth it. I would play volleyball every weekend if I could.
Plans for Next Month:
My reading is actually increasing a bit, so while I won’t be reviewing manga for another month, I have plenty of book reviews to fill all those days. So book reviews, book reviews, book reviews. You’re going to read book reviews until they come out your nose!
And please remember, the word “movie” is verboten in the comments. It will send your comment straight to the trash folder without passing the spam folder. That one day I got 100 spam comments was just too much. So I’m keeping this measure in place for at least another month.
A tiny change is that I’ll now be posting everything at 0600 eastern standard time. Having one time for week days and another for the weekend ended up causing me a tiny bit of grief (from being tired) and so I’m just going to make everything uniform from here on out. You all shouldn’t notice much of a change at all.
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