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Week in review: Week to 30 August
Aug. 31st, 2025 11:48 am. At board game club, we had another Sunday afternoon session, and also the usual evening event. At one or the other, I played Dune: Imperium, The Tainted Grail, Mansions of Madness, and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game (only the runner-up for most awkwardly named LOTR-themed game I encountered this week, because I also came across Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings™ Game). Three of those were co-operative games, which we won with margins of varying widths; Dune: Imperium is competitive, and ended up a very close competition, with only one victory point separating the winner from the player who ended up in last place.
. I finished reading The Night Marchers, my April book for the random selection reading challenge, without ever warming to it. My chances of getting caught up in the story weren't helped by the fact that the printer hadn't trimmed the page block cleanly, so I had to keep stopping several times a chapter to separate the pages with a letter opener.
. I got a good time at Parkrun again: not as fast as last week's record, but still faster than the previous record.
. In the afternoon, I sat out on the front porch in the sun for a while, reading, and watched a butterfly and a couple of bees investigating the flowers that are starting to appear on the volunteer plants in the front yard.
. I've started reading Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow, one of the reading challenge options for March. I'm not sure what I think of it yet.
. I've already finished the jigsaw puzzle I started last week. Either I'm getting really efficient at organising and solving jigsaw puzzles - which is not necessarily a positive, because the value of them is in having one around when I need to relax by bringing order out of chaos, not in having finished them - or I've been in particular need of the relaxation lately. (Work has thrown up a few challenges lately, and so has the committee.)
. I wrote a journal entry every day this week. A couple of times I didn't get it done in the morning, and was tired in the evening, and considered skipping a day, but then I told myself it would only take about half an hour and then it would be done, and I could probably manage that, and so far I've turned out to be right.
. I finished reading The Night Marchers, my April book for the random selection reading challenge, without ever warming to it. My chances of getting caught up in the story weren't helped by the fact that the printer hadn't trimmed the page block cleanly, so I had to keep stopping several times a chapter to separate the pages with a letter opener.
. I got a good time at Parkrun again: not as fast as last week's record, but still faster than the previous record.
. In the afternoon, I sat out on the front porch in the sun for a while, reading, and watched a butterfly and a couple of bees investigating the flowers that are starting to appear on the volunteer plants in the front yard.
. I've started reading Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow, one of the reading challenge options for March. I'm not sure what I think of it yet.
. I've already finished the jigsaw puzzle I started last week. Either I'm getting really efficient at organising and solving jigsaw puzzles - which is not necessarily a positive, because the value of them is in having one around when I need to relax by bringing order out of chaos, not in having finished them - or I've been in particular need of the relaxation lately. (Work has thrown up a few challenges lately, and so has the committee.)
. I wrote a journal entry every day this week. A couple of times I didn't get it done in the morning, and was tired in the evening, and considered skipping a day, but then I told myself it would only take about half an hour and then it would be done, and I could probably manage that, and so far I've turned out to be right.
