tragical_mirth | Reading

Finished Daredevil: Born Again this afternoon. Very good TV. D'Onofrio continued to be incredible. Uncomfortable parallels to ICE and its related awfulness.

Decided to start Maul - Shadow Lord tonight, since I'm dropping Disney+ at the end of the week. It's alright so far. Always good to hear Sam Witwer as Maul, and this looks to be as much crime drama as lightsabers and all that.

Today's reading was a short story by Neal Asher. Good, weird, enjoyable. Added some Asher to the reading list today at the suggestion of a Discord pal.

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Joke's on me - not going to talk about the job tonight.

I love big anthologies of genre fiction. I used to get the "Year's Best" SF and fantasy collections on a, well, yearly basis. By their very nature, anthologies can be hit-or-miss, but I was never disappointed with the collections and if there was one story that I didn't like, there were at least three that worked for me.

I'm currently a few stories into 21st Century Science Fiction: The New Science Fiction Writers of the New Century. It's a good mix so far, two authors I'm familiar with and one new to me.

The Louisville Kings got a terrific upset win over the D.C. Defenders today. The Kings were moribund through most of the first half, but after their QB took a bad, borderline targeted, hit, they lit up, scoring 27 unanswered points and winning 30-13. Heck of a game.

Had a fun little moment walking into Meijer this morning. I was wearing one of my Dodgers tees and a fellow walking out had a Blue Jays cap on. Looks were exchanged.

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I wonder sometimes how some of our clients stay alive. Last week, we had a crisis with one involving an ER visit and hospital stay and discharge to a rehab facility. Discharge documents got sent to my team and while waiting for something else to process, I took a look and ... holy cow the medication remediation section. Two full pages, single-spaced, just listing their meds. I cannot imagine. I don't know that I would have the bandwidth to keep up with 40 medications for a slew of conditions, so respect to the caretaker for helping the client.

In other news, Knowledge Fight has come to an end. 1130 episodes. Sounds like things just couldn't keep going; Dan came close to saying "irreconcilable differences" during the final episode. The subreddit has lit up a few times, lots of second-guessing, armchair quarterbacking, all that. I know I'm going to miss it. I understand the decision, and good grief the coping skills that Dan must have to survive the years of immersion in the Infowars environment.

I came close to making a drive up to Fort Wayne over the weekend with the dual purpose of avoiding Derby in its entirety and visiting Goodman Games' warehouse sale and convention. Couldn't justify the four-hour one-way drive. BUT. There was a heck of an announcement - Goodman picked up the Elric license! It's a great score and a great successor to the Lankhmar license. It's at least a year away, according to the announcement, so plenty of time to speculate and forget the details.

45 days until the abbreviated Origins visit. 66 until Charcon. 85 until GenCon. Gonna submit my events for Charcon in a few days. Hopefully getting the GenCon badges sorted soon so I can assemble my wishlist for whatever unclaimed time I have in Indy.

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Douce-amère.

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