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pshaw_ravenHere's some recent Disney photos, including starting line pics and some crowd scenes Fox was able to get. Gideon's Bakehouse, some of the Fab 50 statues, food (obvs), and one very random Skyliner pic. I deeply dislike the Skyliner, but we're forced into using it to get certain places. During one of it's numerous stops and stalls, Fox was able to zoom in and get a picture of this safety placard showing how to clip on to the pylon for maintenance work. I may add more race photos in later, but so far I only see one where I don't look like Jeffery Dahmer. Fox says my facial expressions are "determined" rather than the way I describe them, which is "derpy, but also murderous."
Last night I accidentally finished Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. I say "accidentally" because I was not expecting to beat the final boss on the first try. But I did go in with the best armor in the game, a seriously overpowered great sword, and a ton of healing items. I'm also at 99.90% map completion so that's going to bother me. I started a new game and briefly played Zangetsu, who has a pretty good move set, but it looks like he doesn't pick up items? I know he wouldn't collect shards, but I'm hoping for some different story and dialogue from him.
Once I get that map at 100% I plan to move on to finishing Bendy (stuck on the level four boss ATM) and I'd like to start Axiom Verge, which I just picked up on sale.
On the printed side of the world, I have just started on the Battle of Borodino in War & Peace. How many different ways is Tolstoy going to describe Bonaparte as "fat?" Because he is pretty relentless in his descriptions and it's hilarious. His passages talking about Napoleon's military "genius" are also dripping with sarcasm. I would expect no less from a Russian author, though. I am probably about five hundred pages from the end now, and I feel like I can reasonably expect to finish by the end of the year. So far it's been a very worthwhile journey.
Today's plans include more laundry, finding the instruction booklet for my meditation clock, and getting back into the swing of drawing every day. I needed to reset the meditation timer and found that I don't remember how to do it, and the company doesn't seem to provide PDFs of the instructions. So it's either trial and error, or hunt down the little booklet, which I'm 95% certain I didn't throw away. No running today, but this weekend gets me back into training with an eight-week ramp up to running Dopey in January. It's going to be tough but I'm sure I can manage it. I have a six miler tomorrow, followed by a 90-minute run Sunday. Then the long runs start increasing by two miles each week until you hit twenty, which is usually enough training distance to get you through a marathon. And all the training load gives me a terrific excuse to bake more.
Last night I accidentally finished Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. I say "accidentally" because I was not expecting to beat the final boss on the first try. But I did go in with the best armor in the game, a seriously overpowered great sword, and a ton of healing items. I'm also at 99.90% map completion so that's going to bother me. I started a new game and briefly played Zangetsu, who has a pretty good move set, but it looks like he doesn't pick up items? I know he wouldn't collect shards, but I'm hoping for some different story and dialogue from him.
Once I get that map at 100% I plan to move on to finishing Bendy (stuck on the level four boss ATM) and I'd like to start Axiom Verge, which I just picked up on sale.
On the printed side of the world, I have just started on the Battle of Borodino in War & Peace. How many different ways is Tolstoy going to describe Bonaparte as "fat?" Because he is pretty relentless in his descriptions and it's hilarious. His passages talking about Napoleon's military "genius" are also dripping with sarcasm. I would expect no less from a Russian author, though. I am probably about five hundred pages from the end now, and I feel like I can reasonably expect to finish by the end of the year. So far it's been a very worthwhile journey.
Today's plans include more laundry, finding the instruction booklet for my meditation clock, and getting back into the swing of drawing every day. I needed to reset the meditation timer and found that I don't remember how to do it, and the company doesn't seem to provide PDFs of the instructions. So it's either trial and error, or hunt down the little booklet, which I'm 95% certain I didn't throw away. No running today, but this weekend gets me back into training with an eight-week ramp up to running Dopey in January. It's going to be tough but I'm sure I can manage it. I have a six miler tomorrow, followed by a 90-minute run Sunday. Then the long runs start increasing by two miles each week until you hit twenty, which is usually enough training distance to get you through a marathon. And all the training load gives me a terrific excuse to bake more.
