June '25 Roundup & Ramblings

 

Raw Data:

Novels - 11 ↓

Short Stories - 0 ↓

Manga/Graphic Novels - 1 -

Comics - 1 -

Average Rating - 3.35 ↑

Pages - 3217 ↓

Words - 1094K ↓

The Bad:

Bone Swans - 2stars of rotting granite in a swamp

Murder Geniuses - 2stars of Not The Shadow

The Good:

China Station - 4.5stars of Mrs Pollifax karate chopping a commie pinko to death!

Son of the Black Sword - 4stars of Larry Correia writing yet another kickbutt series

Movie:

Finished up the Yu Yu Hakusho anime with the Saga of the Three Kings. A good enough ending to the series as a whole and I think I'll be hanging onto my dvd's just in case I ever want to rewatch this again.

Miscellaneous Posts:

• Grizzly Bear - MTG 4E
• Currently Reading: Batman/Shadow: The Murder Geniuses
• [Journal] Pear Garden
• Calendars & Scheduling the Bookstooge Way
• Healing Salve - MTG 4E
• My Week XXVI
• Helm of Chatzuk - MTG 4E
• Sergeant Zip Wants You!
• Hill Giant - MTG 4E
• Shelf Control: Night Angel Nemesis
• My Week XXVII

Personal:

I was not particularly happy with June on a personal level.

Work was utter chaos for almost the whole time. I never knew who I was working with or what I was doing until that morning. I worked with Truckboy enough that I was beyond frustrated. He's not stupid, not at all. He can go on about vehicles and what to do in situation A-Z, but put him on the job and suddenly he doesn't listen, he doesn't pay attention, he turns his brain off and just looks at the screen in front of him without thinking about what it MEANS. By the time I was done with him I was ready to put my machete through his guts. It was that bad. I feel really bad for the other crew chief who has had him for the last 18 months.

Church on Sabbath has been good. It is my new routine and I thoroughly enjoy being able to sit in the sanctuary for the entire time without having an overwhelming desire to storm out during "certain times" (coughmusiccough). I really hadn't realized how much it bothered me until I didn't have to leave. I grew up keeping the Sabbath as a day of rest and going to church on Sunday. It wasn't until I married Mrs B that I began going to church on Saturday. That was a huge adjustment for me. So when we started going to a Sunday church in '17 I thought I would slide right back in. It's been good and I have enjoyed it but I have found that going back to church on Sabbath just feels "right" to me. I am thankful for that because I was very concerned it was going to be a big issue for me like it was initially. I am grabbing every tiny thing I can be thankful for this month.

Life is busy. I was surviving on a week to week basis and I really don't like doing that. I hope July can be different but I have a sinking feeling it won't be. Life just sucked in various ways in June and I'm not over that yet.

On the book front however, June was the highest rated book month I've had all year. That is something to rejoice about and so I do. And nothing says "Be happy" like a twinkie :-D

Plans for Next Month:

Same old boring stuff as the same old boring months that I've posted in the same old boring way for the same old boring years. I'm in a rut and for once in my life, I'm not real happy about it.