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pedanther. Baen have now published Penric's Travels, their second collection of Lois McMaster Bujold's Penric novellas, set in the same world as The Curse of Chalion.
. Learned League, the online quiz contest I play in, recently had a one-off quiz on the subject of The Newbery Medal. The question and answer set is viewable to non-players after the quiz finishes, and I figure a few of you might be interested in seeing how well you do with the questions.
. A problem I have when I'm listening to a podcast (or trying to watch a talking-heads video that might as well be audio-only) is that I don't seem to be able to settle and just listen; I concentrate better when I'm doing something else at the same time. But it can't be something too engrossing or then I get distracted. I tend to default to playing casual mobile games, which feels suboptimal for a number of reasons. Recently, as a consequence of changing to work from home, I had a few boxes of old paperwork from the office that I needed to sort through and divide into stuff to be kept and stuff to be junked or recycled; that felt like just the right level of engagement (and perhaps it helped that it was a definitely productive activity), but alas even a neglected filing system only contains so much old paperwork. Perhaps I should take up knitting, or crochet, if I can find a hobby shop that's still open.
. Another for the collection of cleaning solutions I've had for years without remembering: it turns out that the microfibre dusting glove that's been sitting forgotten in the hall closet is just the thing for dusting the table with the black tempered glass top that looks great when it's clean but I've been leaving to accumulate dust because dusting it was such a pain.
. A postman knocked on the door recently to deliver a parcel, which proved to be my copy of Half Truth, a board game I backed on Kickstarter that's designed to be played on casual social occasions. Just the thing to fill out the days when I can't visit or have visitors!
. Learned League, the online quiz contest I play in, recently had a one-off quiz on the subject of The Newbery Medal. The question and answer set is viewable to non-players after the quiz finishes, and I figure a few of you might be interested in seeing how well you do with the questions.
. A problem I have when I'm listening to a podcast (or trying to watch a talking-heads video that might as well be audio-only) is that I don't seem to be able to settle and just listen; I concentrate better when I'm doing something else at the same time. But it can't be something too engrossing or then I get distracted. I tend to default to playing casual mobile games, which feels suboptimal for a number of reasons. Recently, as a consequence of changing to work from home, I had a few boxes of old paperwork from the office that I needed to sort through and divide into stuff to be kept and stuff to be junked or recycled; that felt like just the right level of engagement (and perhaps it helped that it was a definitely productive activity), but alas even a neglected filing system only contains so much old paperwork. Perhaps I should take up knitting, or crochet, if I can find a hobby shop that's still open.
. Another for the collection of cleaning solutions I've had for years without remembering: it turns out that the microfibre dusting glove that's been sitting forgotten in the hall closet is just the thing for dusting the table with the black tempered glass top that looks great when it's clean but I've been leaving to accumulate dust because dusting it was such a pain.
. A postman knocked on the door recently to deliver a parcel, which proved to be my copy of Half Truth, a board game I backed on Kickstarter that's designed to be played on casual social occasions. Just the thing to fill out the days when I can't visit or have visitors!
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Date: 2020-05-06 11:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-05-06 11:07 pm (UTC)Knitting and crochet are good ways of consuming vast amounts of time, especially when you find yourself trying to debug the pattern from first principles...