This post is a day late and, given taxes and the recent stock market behavior, decidedly more than a dollar short. It was an intentionally light week, though, so I’ll keep it brief-ish.
- Mostly, I read. I finished rereading Excession at 2am this morning. I think it’s still the Culture novel I’m most impressed with, although The Player of Games will always be my sentimental favorite.
- When I wasn’t reading I was doing puzzles. I’ve started working on a magazine full of multi-Sudoku, which adds a lot of variety to what can become a very samey solve process with regular Sudoku. I also (after several years) finished the last interesting and doable puzzle in a particular issue of Nikoli Puzzle Communication; there are some puzzles left in the magazine, but they’re either Japanese word puzzles, have rules too inscrutable for me to decipher, or are Number Links, one of the very few puzzle types I just can’t stand.
- Speaking of puzzles, I picked up Everett Kaser’s newest game, Mycroft’s Map, which I helped beta-test. It’s as good as all of his other games. I need to write an article about them someday…
- I finished the fourth season of Transparent, which was good but not amazing; I’d be perfectly content if they never produce another episode of the show. I also caught up on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, which went back on the air a month or so ago. I need to watch The Punisher so I can watch season two of Jessica Jones, but I can’t quite bring myself to be excited about the first show. Sigh.
- We played Power Grid at Fercott Fermentables on Tuesday. It was good.
- I had dinner out a couple of times during the week, once at someone’s house, once at a nearby restaurant; in both cases, it was a good catching-up session with old friends and coworkers.
Now to curl up with Inversions, the next book in the series. Reading: it’s awesome.