Week in review: Week to 24 January
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pedanther. At the board game meet, I wasn't interested in the big game of the week, so I stayed on the casual table, where we played Cockroach Salad, The Mind, Ingenious, and Tacta. The person who suggested playing Ingenious was actually one of the people I'd played with a few weeks ago, who'd enjoyed it enough to want another go.
. I started a new game of XCOM 2 with the difficulty setting moved down a notch, and have been having a much better time in the sense that I've been zooming through it with no serious difficulties, but I'm not sure how much fun I'm having. It's allowing me to avoid the unpleasantness I was getting mired in when things went badly wrong, but I'm not feeling particularly elated when things go well; I'm not sure whether that's because it now feels insufficiently challenging for the victories to feel significant, or just because I've been having a down week in general.
. I still have a few chapters left to go on the Raffles book, and haven't decided whether it's worth pushing through for the sake of ticking off a reading challenge prompt. For now, I've put it aside to read other more enjoyable things, including Stephen Briggs' stage adaptation of Monstrous Regiment (I've been thinking about proposing one of his adaptations to the Rep Club, but if Monstrous Regiment is typical we're going to have trouble finding a big enough cast).
. The Traitors finale was suitably dramatic and I think the victory was well-earned.
. There was a screening of a documentary film about George Orwell and what he had to say that was relevant to the current state of the world. I was interested enough to get in the car and head to the cinema, but on the way I had second thoughts about whether I really wanted to spend my evening watching a documentary about the current state of the world, so I turned off a couple of blocks early and refueled the car and then went and did something else more fun.
.thedarlingone is doing a series of blog posts where they organise their digital music collection by going through the tracks in alphabetical order and post capsule reviews of each. My digital music collection could do with organising, too; I have not yet made up my mind whether I want to do the same thing, but I've got as far as opening an alphabetical listing, looking at it, and then going in search of an app to fix the metadata on a bunch of tracks.
. I started a new game of XCOM 2 with the difficulty setting moved down a notch, and have been having a much better time in the sense that I've been zooming through it with no serious difficulties, but I'm not sure how much fun I'm having. It's allowing me to avoid the unpleasantness I was getting mired in when things went badly wrong, but I'm not feeling particularly elated when things go well; I'm not sure whether that's because it now feels insufficiently challenging for the victories to feel significant, or just because I've been having a down week in general.
. I still have a few chapters left to go on the Raffles book, and haven't decided whether it's worth pushing through for the sake of ticking off a reading challenge prompt. For now, I've put it aside to read other more enjoyable things, including Stephen Briggs' stage adaptation of Monstrous Regiment (I've been thinking about proposing one of his adaptations to the Rep Club, but if Monstrous Regiment is typical we're going to have trouble finding a big enough cast).
. The Traitors finale was suitably dramatic and I think the victory was well-earned.
. There was a screening of a documentary film about George Orwell and what he had to say that was relevant to the current state of the world. I was interested enough to get in the car and head to the cinema, but on the way I had second thoughts about whether I really wanted to spend my evening watching a documentary about the current state of the world, so I turned off a couple of blocks early and refueled the car and then went and did something else more fun.
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thedarlingone is doing a series of blog posts where they organise their digital music collection by going through the tracks in alphabetical order and post capsule reviews of each. My digital music collection could do with organising, too; I have not yet made up my mind whether I want to do the same thing, but I've got as far as opening an alphabetical listing, looking at it, and then going in search of an app to fix the metadata on a bunch of tracks.
