Week in review: Week to 28 February
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pedantherThis week I earned a level-up in Ingress, and am now at Level 12. I've actually had sufficient XP to meet the requirement for Level 12 for a while - and indeed, at the moment of my promotion to Level 12, already had enough XP to meet the requirement for Level 13 - but, while XP is sufficient for the lower levels, the higher levels also require a minimum number of achievements in game activities like capturing portals and creating fields, which I've been slower to attain. I had been looking forward to Level 12 because that used to be the level at which the full range of higher-level abilities was unlocked, but it took me so long to get from Level 11 to Level 12 that in the mean time they changed the promotion ladder so that the full range is now available to everyone above Level 10, so getting to Level 12 has been a bit of an anti-climax. I suppose I'll push on and try to reach Level 13 anyway, since I've almost got enough achievements for it already.
On Sunday, I had several hours free and the weather was nice, so I decided to go for a walk around the golf course. The local golf course has a track that runs all the way around the outside of the perimeter fence, and people often use it for dog-walking and similar activities; the course is on the edge of town and surrounded on several sides by undeveloped bushland, so there's a nice view and occasional wildlife. I've been all the way around once before, accompanying friends who were walking their dogs, but this was my first time on my own. I had a good time, and was glad I'd thought to bring a water bottle, and probably should have thought of sunscreen as well.
The February prompt in the monthly themed reading challenge is a book with a word in the title related to a body of water. I read Sea Wrack and Changewind, a collection of short stories by Sharon Lee that came out last year. The stories all share a setting, and often characters, with the novels of her Carousel trilogy, and I probably wouldn't recommend the collection to anyone who hadn't already read the novels; I hadn't realised how long it's been since I read them myself, and I kept running up against moments where a story took as read some detail that I couldn't recall.
As if I didn't have enough reading challenges already, I came across a Book Chain reading challenge and decided to give it a go. The idea is that, after the first prompt (which is "a book with 'a' or 'the' in the title"), each prompt is defined in some way by the previous book, whether broadly (the second prompt is "a book that's in a different genre from the first book") or narrowly (the third prompt is "a book that has a noun or adjective in its title that also appears on page 50 of the second book"). I'm counting The Visitors and Sea Wrack and Changewind as book one and book two, and we'll see how it goes from there.
At the board game group this week, we played Paladins of the West Kingdom, which took all evening. It's the complicated kind of game that I usually don't enjoy, and I'm not sure whether I did enjoy it.
Had a productive week at work.
On Sunday, I had several hours free and the weather was nice, so I decided to go for a walk around the golf course. The local golf course has a track that runs all the way around the outside of the perimeter fence, and people often use it for dog-walking and similar activities; the course is on the edge of town and surrounded on several sides by undeveloped bushland, so there's a nice view and occasional wildlife. I've been all the way around once before, accompanying friends who were walking their dogs, but this was my first time on my own. I had a good time, and was glad I'd thought to bring a water bottle, and probably should have thought of sunscreen as well.
The February prompt in the monthly themed reading challenge is a book with a word in the title related to a body of water. I read Sea Wrack and Changewind, a collection of short stories by Sharon Lee that came out last year. The stories all share a setting, and often characters, with the novels of her Carousel trilogy, and I probably wouldn't recommend the collection to anyone who hadn't already read the novels; I hadn't realised how long it's been since I read them myself, and I kept running up against moments where a story took as read some detail that I couldn't recall.
As if I didn't have enough reading challenges already, I came across a Book Chain reading challenge and decided to give it a go. The idea is that, after the first prompt (which is "a book with 'a' or 'the' in the title"), each prompt is defined in some way by the previous book, whether broadly (the second prompt is "a book that's in a different genre from the first book") or narrowly (the third prompt is "a book that has a noun or adjective in its title that also appears on page 50 of the second book"). I'm counting The Visitors and Sea Wrack and Changewind as book one and book two, and we'll see how it goes from there.
At the board game group this week, we played Paladins of the West Kingdom, which took all evening. It's the complicated kind of game that I usually don't enjoy, and I'm not sure whether I did enjoy it.
Had a productive week at work.
