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.
2019 Reading List
Read
- The Iron Flower by Laurie Forest – started: 13/12/19 finished: 25/12/19 [3/5]
- The Black Witch by Laurie Forest – started: 6/12/19 finished: 14/12/19 [4/5]
- Forging Hephaestus by Drew Hayes – started: 6/10/18 finished: ** [3/5]
- Super Powereds: Year 4 by Drew Hayes – started: 25/9/18 finished: 6/10/18 [4/5] re-read
- Super Powereds: Year 3 by Drew Hayes – started: 18/9/18 finished: 25/9/18 [4/5] re-read
- Super Powereds: Year 1 by Drew Hayes – started: 12/9/18 finished: ** [4/5] re-read
- The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss – started: 5/8/19 finished: 8/8/19 [3/5]
- Blameless by Gail Carriger – started: 1/8/19 finished: ** [2/5]
- Changeless by Gail Carriger – started: 30/7/19 finished: 1/8/19 [2/5]
- Soulless by Gail Carriger – started: 12/3/14 finished: ** [3/5]
- Poison City by Paul Crilley – started: 25/7/19 finished: 27/7/19 [3/5]
- The October Man by Ben Aaronovitch – started: 23/7/19 finished: 23/7/19 [3/5]
- Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson – started: 17/7/19 finished: 21/7/19 [3/5]
- Part-Time Gods by Rachel Aaron – started: 15/7/19 finished: ** [3/5]
- Minimum Wage Magic by Rachel Aaron – started: 14/7/19 finished: 15/7/19 [4/5]
- Dungeon Lord: Otherworldly Powers by Hugo Huesca – started: 5/7/19 finished: ** [3/5]
- Dungeon Lord by Hugo Huesca – started: 2/7/19 finished: 2/7/19 [4/5]
- My American Duchess by Eloisa James – started: 27/6/19 finished: ** [3/5]
- Renegades by Craig Alanson – started: 18/6/19 finished: 25/6/19 [2/5]
- The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee – started: 16/7/19, finished: 17/6/19 [3/5]
- The Android’s Dream by John Scalzi – started: 13/6/19, finished: 14/6/19 [3/5]
- The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson – started: 25/5/19, finished: 31/5/19 [3/5]
- The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson – started: 20/5/19 finished: 25/9/19 [4/5]
- Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson – started: 20/5/19, finished: 20/5/19 [4/5]
- Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman – started: 10/5/19, finished: 10/5/19 [2/5]
- The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang – started: 8/5/19, finished: 9/5/19 [3/5]
- Tiamat’s Wrath by James S.A. Corey – started: 7/5/19, finished: 8/5/19 [4/5]
- The Lady Astronaut of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal – started: 15/4/19, finished: 15/4/19 [4/5]
- Juliet’s School of Possibilities by Laura Vanderkam – started: 18/3/20, finished: 20/3/19 [1/5]
- Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal – started: 17/3/19, finished: 17/3/19 [3/5]
- The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal – started: 15/3/19, finished: 17/3/19 [3/5]
- Exile’s Return by Raymond E. Feist – started: 19/2/19, finished: 21/2/19 [4/5] re-read
- King of Foxes by Raymond E. Feist – started: 15/2/19, finished: 19/2/19 [3/5] re-read
- Talon of the Silver Hawk by Raymond E. Feist – started: 13/2/19, finished: 14/2/19 [4/5] re-read
- Maggie and the Mercury Retrograde by Anya Monroe – started: 22/1/19, finished: 23/1/19 [1/5]
- Skin Game by Jim Butcher – started: 18/1/19, finished: 13/2/19 [4/5] re-read
- The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle – started: 4/11/18, finished: 4/1/19 [2/5]
- The Productivityist Playbook by Mike Vardy – started: 27/12/18, finished: 14/2/19 [2/5]
Haha, I enjoyed today’s Slack app update notes.
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?
Top 10 Songs of 2019
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)
- 廢話 – Juno Mak & Kay Tse
- I Was the Only Shepherd – Tripod
- River Deep, Mountain High (Glee Cast Version) – Glee Cast
- [The Way I Am (Acoustic) – Charlie Puth
- Bad Liar – Roses & Frey](https://music.apple.com/au/album/the-way-i-am-eden-prince-remix/1485044865?i=1485044867&uo=4)
- As Time Goes By – Frank Sinatra
- Good Morning – Max Frost
- I Will Go To You Like the First Snow – Ailee
- Let It Go – Stellar Kart
Apple Music Replay
- I Was the Only Shepherd – Tripod
- Sunflower – Post Malone & Swae Lee
- That’s Why I’m Sending You – Tripod
- 廢話 – Juno Mak & Kay Tse
- The Hot Dog Man – Tripod
- Kempt – Tripod
- Rock Eisteddford – Tripod
- Climate Change – Tripod
- Do You Want to Build a Snowman – Kristen Bell, Agatha Lee Monn & Katie Lopez
- Krap Karate – Tripod
Edit: I just ran Sam Gross’ tool for analysing Apple Music play history. The 2019 results are as follows:
Klaus, 2019 – ★★★
Watched on Tuesday December 24, 2019.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, 2019 – ★★★½
Watched on Thursday December 19, 2019.
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.
Terminator: Dark Fate, 2019 – ★★½
It was a pretty mindless action flick, but Linda Hamilton was amazing.