Bundle of Holding has two Feng Shui bundles. I'm only minimally interested in the genre and it's nice this is not a medieval fantasy game. Still, don't think I'll end up buying this.

Feng Shui 2E ($26 variably increasing)

Feng Shui 2E RPG - "the classic game of Hong Kong-inspired cinematic action"

Hong Kong Task Force Double Eight - "originally released as part of the 2016 Free RPG Day promotion, is a full-length introductory Feng Shui 2 scenario"

Burning Shaolin Redux - "Burning Shaolin Redux is a re-release of a classic Coriolis/d20 adventure by Robin D. Laws"

Glimpse of the Abyss - "Glimpse of the Abyss is the definitive Feng Shui monster guide"

Secrets of the Chi War - "reveals new sites in the Ancient, Past, Modern, and Future Junctures", i.e. a settings book - in Feng Shui PCs travel to different sites which you can think of as movie locales.

Blood of the Valiant
Elevator to the Netherworld
Gorilla Warfare
Seal of the Wheel
Thorns of the Lotus - five faction splat books.

A Fistful of Fight Scenes - GM screen + 32-page booklet which "presents 15 sites for dazzling battles between your players and the nefarious factions of the Chi War."

Blowing Up the Movies - "Robin takes apart the workings of 24 action movies". A book of essays not specifically a Feng Shui supplement.

Feng Shui Ammo Pack ($18 fixed price)

Apeworld on Fire!
Burning Dragon
We'll Temporarily Have Paris - 30 modules each 34+ pp

Four Bastards - "a callous orphanage attack leads our heroes on a kung-fu campaign across time, from modern-day Hong Kong to 2056 Containment Site DS4S"

Seed of the New Flesh
Blowing Up Hong Kong
Friends of the Dragon
Golden Comeback
In Your Face Again - Five 1E supplements

Sat Mar 29 2025

Sleep 0445 to 1215 (7-1/2 hours)

• Watching Friday Night Baseball I just realized that AirPods Pro don’t switch to iPad when I’m playing games so I guess if I’m watching TV.app videos maybe it knows not to auto-switch whereas web video content it doesn’t know and will switch. I use DuckDuckGo browser to watch Twitch so maybe it won’t switch if I’m watching on Safari?
• CSr and I played DDO while Dave S watched me. Dave W arrived fairly late and we played two Gloomhaven scenarios until almost 0200.

Sun Mar 30 2025

Sleep 0400 to 0945 (5-3/4 hours)

• It’s a bit of a bug that MLS for past episodes they always have Season Pass tag even though some can be viewed with Apple TV+ subscription. For future episodes the tags are correct.
• Dad called and helped him debug why his iPad wouldn’t connect to home WiFi. It gave an error that indicated something was up with the router so I had them reboot it and that fixed it.

Mon Mar 31 2025

Sleep 0400 to 1200 (8 hours)

• Looks like Castle was removed from Disney+ (it’s a Hulu show). I did watch 5.22 to 7.4 and they were all ones I’d seen before so maybe I’ve seen the whole series.
• Received an email saying that Mr Cooper (in itself a division of one of the big banks) was bought by Rocket Mortgage (a division of Quicken).
• Restarting DDO Lantern quest means getting another 700 points in 18 days. Uhm, unlikely.

Tue Apr 01 2025

Sleep 0315 to 1115 (8 hours)

• Trader Joe’s for groceries. Bought a gallon milk and we’ll see if I can finish it before it starts going bad.
• Deposited $400 last of my cash (well, three $100 bills that are beat up so I’d have to deposit using a human teller).

Wed April 02 2025

Sleep 0530 to 1330 (8 hours)

• Updating my apps on my iPad. Get a This application requires iOS 18.0 warning with no indication which application update triggered it. (My iPad is old so iOS 17 is the last one it can use). Afterwards I can check and Ghostery is the only app that didn’t update. And I guess there is no way to mark it so that it won’t try to update next time.

Thu Apr 03 2025

Sleep 0600 to 1330 (7-1/2 hours)

• Finally took a few hours to move my web and wiki sites to my MBP Intel since that runs the current macOS and is supported by Homebrew. This was necessary because Mac mini llvm compile failed so I expect things will stop updating in that Homebrew environment.

Fri Apr 04 2025

Sleep 0300 to 0545, 1930 to 2030 (6-3/4 hours)

• Gloomhaven with the guys. This time I hosted and it worked well. Basically in Gloomhaven > Campaign > Load (Christopher’s save) which then forces a new save from me. Next time there are two saves one under Christopher’s name and one under mine with different dates so we know which one was last.

This BattleTech RPG bundle by Catalyst Game Labs is $18 for:

MechWarrior: Destiny (2020) - RPG based on Cue System, a narrative RPG system
A Time of War: The BattleTech RPG (Revised) (2022) - RPG with 2d6 roll mechanics

CAT-35252 Field Manual: 3145 (2013) - source book
CAT-35701 BattleTech: Legends (2021) - 52 MechWarriors and their Mechs
CAT-35900 Shattered Fortress (2022) - source book set in 3146 Republic of the Sphere
CAT-35901 BattleTech: ilClan (2021) - source book
CAT-35902 Tamar Rising (2022) - source book set in Clan Jade Falcon Occupation Zone in 3151

CAT-35SN501 House Arano: The Aurigan Coalition (2019) - source book based on PC BattleTech game

CAT-35001 Total Warfare (2006) - Classic BattleTech board game complete rules
Force Manual: Davion (2024) - source book for BattleTech board game
Force Manual: Kurita (2024)- source book for BattleTech board game

CAT-35680 Alpha Strike: Commander's Edition (2019) - board game rules for fast-play version of BattleTech

BattleTech Universe
Battlemech Manual
BattleTech: Recognition Guide, Vol 1: Classics
BattleTech: Recognition Guide, Vol 2: ilClan
BattleTech: Hot Spots: Hinterlands
BattleTech: Era Report: 3145
BattleTech: Empire Alone
BattleTech: Dominions Divided

I did not finish organizing this list because I realized this is such a hodgepodge of material. Why include the two board game rules plus supplementary material? At least most or all the material is Dark Ages or post Dark Ages. Still, BattleTech is such a massive universe of published products we'll just get overlapping bundles so I'd like something that I'm more confident will not be in other bundles.

I will skip.

Received my annual Social Security Statement which mainly tells me my estimated benefits depending on my retirement age, assuming I keep making the same salary per year.

Last year it assumed I would still earn $135k per year so my estimated benefits were:

Age 62 = $2600
Age 63 = $2797
Age 64 = $2986
Age 65 = $3235
Age 66 = $3484
Age 67 = $3733
Age 68 = $3932
Age 69 = $4230
Age 70 = $4628

This year the estimate is based on my earning $0 annually:

Age 62 = $2451
Age 63 = $2627
Age 64 = $2802
Age 65 = $3035
Age 66 = $3269
Age 67 = $3502
Age 68 = $3689
Age 69 = $3969
Age 70 = $4343

Not that much less. I was expecting it to be much lower since I've only had $100k+ salary for 15 years (benefits are based on top 35 years of salary).

Sat Mar 22 2025

Sleep 0100 to 0845 (7-3/4 hours)

• DDO and Crucible R3 again this time with Csr’s Bard/Rogue. More careful and we finished it with only three deaths. In Test of Agility you can be lucky and have no whirly blades in which case we got me and Dave S to the final room and he was able to get the Horn. For underwater I forgot you can have hireling pick up your death stone and then you can move your ghost and teleport your hireling to the ghost to keep moving forward through the water.

Sun Mar 23 2025

Sleep 0130 to 0930 (8 hours)

• One thing about Viki app is that it’s bad about keeping track of what you’ve watched. I look at tv show episode list and it says I’ve watched episodes I haven’t. The watching list also sometimes doesn’t update and I start rewatching the last watched episode instead of the next one. All the more annoying because a minute of commercials starts maybe 15 seconds into watching an episode, and if you jump forward over commercial breaks they’ll start playing anyways (reminds me of the old CBS web site tv watching experience) so kind of jumping around trying to find where you left off takes a while.

Mon Mar 24 2025

Sleep 2200 to 0200, 0715 to 1115 (8 hours)

• Stifel called saying we had an ACH to the old bank account and we should use the new one. I didn’t realize when they closed our bank account it was permanent. We had Marcyl sign to re-open it but it was actually a new bank account. Also, I’m not sure where that ACH came from since Stifel’s web site is not that informative.

Tue Mar 25 2025

Sleep 0500 to 1130 (6-1/2 hours)

• At least through end of April MLS has had 6 games on Apple TV+ each week. It’s a bit more than I’d like since watching one game a day means once Friday Night Baseball starts it’ll overflow with 8 games per week.

Wed Mar 26 2025

Sleep 2300 to 0400, 1100 to 1400 (8 hours)

• Dinner at C3. Costco rotisserie chicken with white rice and broccoli. CJr and I played some Super Smash game on his Switch (broadcast to their TV).

Thu Mar 27 2025

Sleep 0515 to 1315 (8 hours)

• Stillfleet Bundle of Holding ($21). Far future dark science fiction. Does not look that interesting. I’m more Star Trek rather than Warhammer 40K.
• HOA Meeting. Went well I think. I probably stress too much the days before the meeting.
• Saw that Dungeon of the Endless: Apogee is on sale for $2. Although it hasn’t been updated in 4 years it’s pretty much a complete game and as long as it keeps running on my iPad I’m fine with it.

Fri Mar 28 2025

Sleep 0145 to 0245, 0715 to 1215 (6 hours)

• Oracle has reportedly suffered 2 separate breaches exposing thousands of customers‘ PII. I’m not really worried about operational repercussions. From my observation even if an issue affected one or a few customers there would be engineers doing an RCA and figuring out how to prevent it from happening in the future then implementing fixes and that’s within like a one-week time period. For a security breach probably a longer investigation but I’m sure there are plenty of engineers and upper management focus to find the root cause and fix it.
• A bit of DDO until Dave S arrived then one Gloomhaven scenario.

This itch.io bundle from David Blandy is composed of his RPG products. Between Two Cairns reviewed some of the Eco Mofos pamphlet adventures and although mixed review I did see that this $20 bundle was ending Apr 01 1600 PST and it looks intriguing enough to buy. BTW Blandy's stuff on DTRPG is twice the price which I guess is his strategy.

Eco Mofos ($10)
Solo Mofo ($3)
EM01 To Put Away a Sword ($5)
EM02 Into the Antlion’s Den ($3)
EM03 Abyss Protocol ($3)
EM04 A-Hole in the Ground ($3)
EM05 The Silo ($3)

Lost Eons ($20, owned) - "solarpunk sci-fantasy"
Lone Eons ($10) - solo version
Lost Eons: Haven of Aves ($10)
Lost Eons: Land of Iron ($10)

Babel ($10) - journaling game
Gathering Storm ($10) - collaborative world-building game

Creeping Death on Station 66 ($3) - system neutral microsetting (on Mars)
Welcome to Brighthelm ($3) - system-neutral microsetting
Welcome to Mars ($3) - system-neutral microsetting
Welcome to Wrongwood ($3) - system neutral microsetting

Actually I think I'll skip this bundle because I'm trying to cut down on bundle purchases and will probably buy the Delta Green and BattleTech RPG bundles this month.

Buying just the Eco Mofos stuff individually is $15 (at the current 50% off sale price). And that comes from a different purchasing category so I might do that early morning Apr 01.

Addendum: Changed my mind again and bought the bundle. This is because the color Eco Mofos is $10 not $5 which makes individual purchase $20 so might as well get the bundle.

Humble Bundle has a Delta Green: RPG, VTT & Fiction Collection for $25.

The $25 level is all stuff from a previous bundle so if you have that bundle (which was $18) you don't have to rebuy it for $10 so that's decent of them.

Even though the $15 level is mostly VTT, handouts, and anthologies/novels (less interested in all those) there is still enough RPG stuff to be worth it so I'll buy at the $15 level.

$5 Level

Delta Green: Need to Know (quick start)

Delta Green: The Way It Went Down (anthology)
Delta Green: The Way It Went Down, Volume 2 (anthology)

Delta Green: Extremophilia VTT (Foundry)
Delta Green: Extremophilia VTT (Roll20)

$15 Level

Delta Green Viscid VTT (Foundry)
Delta Green Viscid VTT (Roll20)
Delta Green: Reverberations VTT (Foundry)
Delta Green: Reverberations VTT (Roll20)
Delta Green: Puppet Shows & Shadow Plays VTT (Foundry)
Delta Green: Puppet Shows & Shadow Plays VTT (Roll20)
Delta Green: Music From a Darkened Room VTT (Foundry)
Delta Green: Music From a Darkened Room VTT (Roll20)
Delta Green: Convergence VTT (Foundry)
Delta Green: Convergence VTT (Roll20)
Delta Green: Need to Know VTT (Foundry)
Delta Green: Need to Know VTT (Roll20)
Delta Green: Jack Frost VTT (Foundry)
Delta Green: Jack Frost VTT (Roll20)
Delta Green: Agent's Handbook + The Complex VTT (Foundry)
Delta Green: Agent's Handbook + The Complex VTT (Roll20)

Delta Green Digital Assets: Murder Board Pack 2
Delta Green Digital Assets: Esoterica Pack 1
Delta Green Digital Assets: Classified Pack 1

Delta Green: Through a Glass, Darkly (novel)
Delta Green: Strange Authorities (anthology)
Delta Green: Denied to the Enemy (novel)
Delta Green: Tales from Failed Anatomies (anthology)
Delta Green: Extraordinary Renditions (anthology)
The King in Yellow: Annotated (anthology + Kenneth Hite comments)

Delta Green: Puppet Shows & Shadow Plays
Delta Green: Convergence
Delta Green: Handler's Screen (own)
Delta Green: The Good Life
Delta Green: Dead Letter
Delta Green: God's Hunt
Delta Green: Dead Drops

The King in Yellow Tarot (78 cards + 28-page guide)

$25 Level

Delta Green: Agent Dossiers (own)
Delta Green: ARCHINT (own)
Delta Green: Static Protocol (own)
Delta Green: The Complex (own)
Delta Green: Iconoclasts (own)
Delta Green: Black Sites (own)
Delta Green: The Labyrinth (own)
Delta Green: Control Group (own)
Delta Green: A Night at the Opera (own)
Delta Green: God's Teeth (own)
Delta Green: Handler's Guide (own)
Delta Green: Agent's Handbook (own)
Delta Green: Conspiracy (own)
Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes (own)

Delta Green Evidence Kit: God's Teeth (own)
Delta Green Evidence Kit: The Labyrinth (own)

Delta Green Digital Assets: Public Interest 1 (own)
Delta Green Digital Assets: Law Enforcement 1 (own)
Delta Green Digital Assets: Murder Board 1 (own)
Delta Green Digital Assets: Known Vectors 1 (own)

Sat Mar 15 2025

Sleep 0400 to 1200 (8 hours)

• Gaming at Dave and Sophia’s house. We got about 90 minutes of D&D in. Dinner at Pho Nam which was ok.
• More Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. My gun finally broke although my other guns not so bad. We’re a bit over half way through the main plot.

Sun Mar 16 2025

Sleep 0600 to 1200 (6 hours)

• Bought The Sunless Citadel (3e) as my last GM’s Day purchase.

Mon Mar 17 2025

Sleep 0500 to 1300 (8 hours)

• After paying the second half of my property tax and this quarter’s HOA special assessment (one more to go due in June) I have less than $5500 cash. That gets me into mid-May so hopefully ORCL stock is better then.

Tue Mar 18 2025

Sleep 0200 to 0930 (7-1/2 hours)

• Ryan and Brian from R&S Erection came by for two work orders: fix slamming glass door (replaced a part) and peeling panel on a fire door (nailed/screwed panel back in though imperfect, will send us a proposal to replace fire door).
• Before we’ve had Vortex do door work. Not sure why we used R&S Erection this time.

Wed Mar 19 2025

Sleep 0300 to 1100 (8 hours)

• Trader Joe’s for groceries.
• Dinner at C3’s house (Corina working away). Delivery from Kajiken.
• Dave S called and he’s been laid off. He was expecting it and had applied for a lot of internal jobs and has been doing interviews. If he does get another job at Goggle it’ll probably be out of the country.

Thu Mar 20 2025

Sleep 0115 to 0815 (7 hours)

• Christopher Sr mentioned that his sleep therapist said waking up at about the same time every day is best for your Circadian rhythm. So I will try to wake up around 0845 each day.

Fri Mar 21 2025

Sleep 2000 to 0000, 0500 to 0845 (7-3/4 hours)

• DDO without CSr as he and CJr are at a Boy Scout overnight event. The three of us tried The Crucible at R3 and lots of dying without a real Rogue. At one point my client was bugging out so I restarted and when I came back it dumped me in Korvos and out of the quest so we didn’t finish it.

This time I had almost a month to watch before it expired again.

Love Next Door - 10 episodes as I continued from the last time
No Regrets in Life - 12 episodes which I was watching slowly but did the last 7 in one night
Something in the Rain - 16 episodes and so good
Wonderland - movie, kept putting off watching last half but finished in the last subscription day
The Last Kingdom - season 5 (10 episodes) and finished the series
Forecasting Love and Weather - 16 episodes
Destined with You - 16 episodes

I bought five items over five days. I think these were all reviewed by Between Two Cairns podcast.

AD&D 1E modules

C1 The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan
DL1 Dragons of Despair
N3 Destiny of Kings
N4 Treasure Hunt
UK1 Beyond the Crystal Cave

The Evils of Illmire - a 126-page zine (1/2 page size) module for Old School Essentials. "The Evils of Illmire is a "mini-mega" hexcrawl adventure module designed to provide dozens of sessions of perilous wilderness exploration and dungeon crawling."

The Sunless Citadel - D&D 3E 1st level adventure