Week in review: Week to 23 May
May. 24th, 2026 01:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedanther. I've been pondering, as I occasionally do, the fact that I read a couple of webcomics regularly that have never been listed in my fiction log posts because I didn't initially think to include webcomics and by the time I started I couldn't reliably establish when I began reading them. It would not be unreasonable to assume that I've been reading both of them the entire time I've been doing the fiction log posts, since both started before then, but I have the kind of mind that doesn't want to put that down in writing if I'm not sure. When I was thinking about it this week it occurred to me that, while I don't have any way to fix the date that I started reading Freefall, I did at least note in a blog entry when "Freefall: Chapter Two" started, so I could theoretically backdate that much -- then I looked it up and realised that even that would require editing nearly a decade of fiction log posts. It doesn't feel like it's been that long.
. I rewatched the documentary Heart of Batman, about the creation of Batman: The Animated Series. One of my favourite bits is the section where two writers who had previously worked on the old Superfriends cartoon talked about how valuable it was that Avery Coburn, the Broadcast Standards person who worked with B:TAS, was someone who understood about the difference between the spirit of the rules and the letter of the rules, and would often say "You can't do it like this, but here's a way you can put your story point across within the guidelines for children's television" instead of, as many BS people would have, simply going "You can't do that".
. At the board game meet, we played Moon Colony Bloodbath and Star Realms: Colony Wars. Moon Colony Bloodbath is a variation of the kind of game where you build up a city or a theme park or whatever and the one with the best set of features wins. The variation is that, as the game progresses, an increasing number of things go wrong with your moon colony each round -- accidents, air leaks, robot rampages, etc. At first, it's easy to plan ahead for the occasional problem, but toward the end of the game you're repeatedly faced with cascading strings of disasters taking out large sections of the moonbase before you have a chance to respond. The winner is the last person to have any moonbase left.
. The light bulb in the ceiling light in my car burned out. I managed to find out what kind of replacement bulb to get and replace it. The most difficult part turned out to be figuring out how to get the light cover open.
. My current health plan includes occasional appointments with an exercise physiologist who is working with me on a set of exercises to do regularly to improve my cardiovascular health and help balance the amount of time I spend seated at a computer. It's a good set of exercises, challenging but not too difficult; the difficulty as usual is remembering to do them when there isn't an appointment imminent.
. The run on XCOM 2 has continued to go well, and stalled out a couple of days ago because I've got to the part where I'm past all the chokepoints and have a fully-levelled team, and now I know I can do the rest of the run without any serious issues, which is where I tend to lose interest.
. We had our first end-to-end run-through of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown in one of our rehearsals this week.
. I rewatched the documentary Heart of Batman, about the creation of Batman: The Animated Series. One of my favourite bits is the section where two writers who had previously worked on the old Superfriends cartoon talked about how valuable it was that Avery Coburn, the Broadcast Standards person who worked with B:TAS, was someone who understood about the difference between the spirit of the rules and the letter of the rules, and would often say "You can't do it like this, but here's a way you can put your story point across within the guidelines for children's television" instead of, as many BS people would have, simply going "You can't do that".
. At the board game meet, we played Moon Colony Bloodbath and Star Realms: Colony Wars. Moon Colony Bloodbath is a variation of the kind of game where you build up a city or a theme park or whatever and the one with the best set of features wins. The variation is that, as the game progresses, an increasing number of things go wrong with your moon colony each round -- accidents, air leaks, robot rampages, etc. At first, it's easy to plan ahead for the occasional problem, but toward the end of the game you're repeatedly faced with cascading strings of disasters taking out large sections of the moonbase before you have a chance to respond. The winner is the last person to have any moonbase left.
. The light bulb in the ceiling light in my car burned out. I managed to find out what kind of replacement bulb to get and replace it. The most difficult part turned out to be figuring out how to get the light cover open.
. My current health plan includes occasional appointments with an exercise physiologist who is working with me on a set of exercises to do regularly to improve my cardiovascular health and help balance the amount of time I spend seated at a computer. It's a good set of exercises, challenging but not too difficult; the difficulty as usual is remembering to do them when there isn't an appointment imminent.
. The run on XCOM 2 has continued to go well, and stalled out a couple of days ago because I've got to the part where I'm past all the chokepoints and have a fully-levelled team, and now I know I can do the rest of the run without any serious issues, which is where I tend to lose interest.
. We had our first end-to-end run-through of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown in one of our rehearsals this week.
