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  • I’m very loosely playing with the idea of a Yearly Theme. I had some trouble coming up with a theme, but did feel a Year/Season of Less would be a good place to start – I have a tendency of taking on a lot more than is healthy and then get snappy at the people around me, so I thought being a bit more aware of what I’m taking on would be a good idea.
  • In line with the Year of Less, I had a talk with my podcasting co-host and we have put “Trigger Point”, our monthly podcast, on hold for three months as we revisit our priorities.
  • In addition to playing Pathfinder, I've now gotten into Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition. It's a completely different kind of game where “shit happens” doesn't necessary mean TPK, and it allows for players to be a little more creative. Is this a commentary on how to create a constructive workplace? I don't know.
  • I'm trying to get back into writing, but did not want to start a completely new project (see Year of Less, above), so I decided to combine it with my Vampire: The Masquerade game by novelising the game sessions as a character journal. This allows me to flex my writing muscles and explore the complexity of my character more deeply than 4-hour gaming sessions every fortnight would give me.
  • Was trying out the gym at work to try to slow down the rate my body is falling apart, but with the recent Coronavirus situation, the gym has been closed until further notice…
  • The company I work for hasn't made any announcements about when we'll be working from home yet, so for now it's all business as usual; driving into the office every day to crunch out Excel spreadsheets and Infopath forms.
  • Nearly forgot, I’m trying out contact juggling – anyone remember David Bowie in Labyrinth? (and yes, I know he wasn’t the person actually juggling those crystal balls)

This page is inspired by Derek Sivers.

Following on the heels of my previous post, I’ll also be joining this year’s Camp Nano.
With everyone staying at home for the next few weeks – and maybe longer – this may be a good time to get some writing done.

I keep forgetting to mention that I’m starting a novelisation of a Vampire: The Masquerade 5th edition game I’m playing.

You can find it here: https://vtm.sleepyowl.ink
There’s currently an intro and two sessions – it takes more effort than I would have thought to novelise a game.

I plan to link the RSS feed to my micro.blog account, so if you read my blog primarily through MB, then you’ll see it there too.

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Random question: clasp your hands together, fingers entwined, like how some people pray before going to bed…

(Do it before reading the actual question, I don’t want this to influence your actions)

Which thumb is on top (ie. closer to you)? Left or right?

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Just ran Federico’s Apple Music Wrapped shortcut and Apple Music’s own Replay to see what are the top songs I’ve been listening to in 2019.

Interesting to see the difference. Needless to say, Apple’s own services would be more accurate.
I may or may not be embarrassed by my song choices last year.

Apple Music Wrapped (Federico Viticci)

  1. 廢話 – Juno Mak & Kay Tse
  2. I Was the Only Shepherd – Tripod
  3. River Deep, Mountain High (Glee Cast Version) – Glee Cast
  4. [The Way I Am (Acoustic) – Charlie Puth
  5. Bad Liar – Roses & Frey](https://music.apple.com/au/album/the-way-i-am-eden-prince-remix/1485044865?i=1485044867&uo=4)
  6. As Time Goes By – Frank Sinatra
  7. Good Morning – Max Frost
  8. I Will Go To You Like the First Snow – Ailee
  9. Let It Go – Stellar Kart

Apple Music Replay

  1. I Was the Only Shepherd – Tripod
  2. Sunflower – Post Malone & Swae Lee
  3. That’s Why I’m Sending You – Tripod
  4. 廢話 – Juno Mak & Kay Tse
  5. The Hot Dog Man – Tripod
  6. Kempt – Tripod
  7. Rock Eisteddford – Tripod
  8. Climate Change – Tripod
  9. Do You Want to Build a Snowman – Kristen Bell, Agatha Lee Monn & Katie Lopez
  10. Krap Karate – Tripod

Edit: I just ran Sam Gross’ tool for analysing Apple Music play history. The 2019 results are as follows:

Because I’m bad at posting in a timely manner…

PAX AU 2019 – which was over a month ago.


I tried their mystery mini challenge; paint a random mini with three random colours. I drew a dwarf mini, with a lime green, pastel blue and caramel brown paint. Anything I mixed turned into a khaki green, so I went all in and made my dwarf a Mardi-Gras-going-dwarf instead. Needless to say, I didn’t win.

I’m also a sucker for mystery bags, so I brought three sets of mystery dice from @random.encounter.dice. The results (from left to right): Sea Hag, Ironfist, and Rizen. Not my usual preferred colours, but that’s what’s cool about mystery bags, getting something unexpected.