Week in review: Week to 6 June
Jun. 8th, 2026 08:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedanther. A thing happened. This isn't the right place to talk about it, but it was significant enough that a week in review would be incomplete without acknowledging it.
. At the weekly gaming meet, we played Unfathomable: From the Abyss and Bomb Busters. From the Abyss is an expansion that adds a new class of NPC monsters as well as new abilities and obstacles for the players. My first impression of it is that it makes things more complicated but not really more fun, though I might think differently if I played on a day when I was less tired and grumpy.
. Rehearsals are still going well.
. At work, I was presented with a problem that took several attempts to solve, but I got there in the end and feel good about having done so. (A puzzle that will probably never be solved is why the client, judging by the documents they showed us, let the problem sit an entire year before they got around to mentioning it to us, instead of punting it to us as soon as it appeared.)
. I'm trying out a thing I saw described in a Youtube video as a way of working on a large backlog of books, games, movies, etc.
The idea is that you place a box somewhere that it will be in your field of vision when you're wondering what to do with some free time, and in it you place three of each thing you have a backlog of. They should vary in density and mood, so that there's more chance of finding something you're in the mood for, and if your backlog is non-physical (such as streaming movies or Steam games), you should find a physical object to represent each thing.
My starting box has three movies, three TV series, three books, and three podcasts:
(And one jigsaw puzzle, because I know which jigsaw puzzle I'm doing next.)
I also have a backlog of games, but I haven't got around to picking three yet.
. At the weekly gaming meet, we played Unfathomable: From the Abyss and Bomb Busters. From the Abyss is an expansion that adds a new class of NPC monsters as well as new abilities and obstacles for the players. My first impression of it is that it makes things more complicated but not really more fun, though I might think differently if I played on a day when I was less tired and grumpy.
. Rehearsals are still going well.
. At work, I was presented with a problem that took several attempts to solve, but I got there in the end and feel good about having done so. (A puzzle that will probably never be solved is why the client, judging by the documents they showed us, let the problem sit an entire year before they got around to mentioning it to us, instead of punting it to us as soon as it appeared.)
. I'm trying out a thing I saw described in a Youtube video as a way of working on a large backlog of books, games, movies, etc.
The idea is that you place a box somewhere that it will be in your field of vision when you're wondering what to do with some free time, and in it you place three of each thing you have a backlog of. They should vary in density and mood, so that there's more chance of finding something you're in the mood for, and if your backlog is non-physical (such as streaming movies or Steam games), you should find a physical object to represent each thing.
My starting box has three movies, three TV series, three books, and three podcasts:
(And one jigsaw puzzle, because I know which jigsaw puzzle I'm doing next.)
I also have a backlog of games, but I haven't got around to picking three yet.
