Daily entry no. 1 of ?
Sunday, June 23rd, 2019 13:19Every time I read one of ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
alexwlchan's daily entries, I wish I were also writing them, and so, though I think it's extremely unlikely I'll keep up this habit for long or as regularly as they do, I might as well start. Today is a reasonably good day for it, as David and I were in Bangkok last week and I would also like to write up a blog post about that.
Currently I'm sitting on the sofa in our flat, with Sinister the cat spread fluffily all over the next cushion, and David playing Dwarf Fortress on the seat next to him. Sinister is snoring, which is my favourite sound in the whole world. Every so often I reach over and fuzzle his face, not just his cheeks and ears but the whole thing including his closed eyes and gums and the sides of his nose, which for some bizarre reason he loves. I think he and his brother Dexter missed us while we were away.
We travelled to Bangkok on a Thursday and returned on a Thursday, which threw planning of Gamespace meetups, which occur every second Thursday, into chaos but at least meant having three quiet days for recovery afterwards, as I don't work on Fridays. I've mostly spent that time reading Revenant Gun and flailing about it on Twitter; a friend I recently met on there responded to my tweets about it by saying that it's been their special interest since they binged all three novels in a week, so it's not just me! I never (used to) re-read books, but I've read Ninefox Gambit and Raven Strategem twice each now, and am looking forward to a second go at Revenant Gun. The experience has been illuminating. Each second read-through has been faster than the original, but possibly even more enjoyable. I might have been missing out all these years.
We've also played Stellaris and some Innovation, a game our friends Axelle and Christopher introduced us to, which is somewhat like a card-game version of Civilization. It's small, cheap and very replayable.
I don't know why I got out of the habit of blogging—this is easy. I've already written four paragraphs before getting on to Thailand. ... Oh, right, it's because I get into the habit of describing everything in such detail that writing about a week's holiday seems like an interminable task.
( Bangkok, then! )
( Cut for human remains and other squick )
( Bangkok continued )
Well, I guess that's today's daily entry done! Next up, I will probably read some of Eleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England, which I started about 30% because of the title, to be honest. I expect tomorrow's post to be 95% shorter than this one.
alexwlchan's daily entries, I wish I were also writing them, and so, though I think it's extremely unlikely I'll keep up this habit for long or as regularly as they do, I might as well start. Today is a reasonably good day for it, as David and I were in Bangkok last week and I would also like to write up a blog post about that.Currently I'm sitting on the sofa in our flat, with Sinister the cat spread fluffily all over the next cushion, and David playing Dwarf Fortress on the seat next to him. Sinister is snoring, which is my favourite sound in the whole world. Every so often I reach over and fuzzle his face, not just his cheeks and ears but the whole thing including his closed eyes and gums and the sides of his nose, which for some bizarre reason he loves. I think he and his brother Dexter missed us while we were away.
We travelled to Bangkok on a Thursday and returned on a Thursday, which threw planning of Gamespace meetups, which occur every second Thursday, into chaos but at least meant having three quiet days for recovery afterwards, as I don't work on Fridays. I've mostly spent that time reading Revenant Gun and flailing about it on Twitter; a friend I recently met on there responded to my tweets about it by saying that it's been their special interest since they binged all three novels in a week, so it's not just me! I never (used to) re-read books, but I've read Ninefox Gambit and Raven Strategem twice each now, and am looking forward to a second go at Revenant Gun. The experience has been illuminating. Each second read-through has been faster than the original, but possibly even more enjoyable. I might have been missing out all these years.
We've also played Stellaris and some Innovation, a game our friends Axelle and Christopher introduced us to, which is somewhat like a card-game version of Civilization. It's small, cheap and very replayable.
I don't know why I got out of the habit of blogging—this is easy. I've already written four paragraphs before getting on to Thailand. ... Oh, right, it's because I get into the habit of describing everything in such detail that writing about a week's holiday seems like an interminable task.
( Bangkok, then! )
( Cut for human remains and other squick )
( Bangkok continued )
Well, I guess that's today's daily entry done! Next up, I will probably read some of Eleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England, which I started about 30% because of the title, to be honest. I expect tomorrow's post to be 95% shorter than this one.
