Sat Jul 18 2026

Sleep 0345 to 1045 (7 hours)

• Pinnacle Entertainment's new store kind of sucks in that you can't tell if a product you bought has been updated. Also the UI seems to be designed for mobile cause it has that big and sparse mobile look.

Sun Jul 19 2026

Sleep 0300 to 0915 (6-1/4 hours)

• Spain beats Argentina 1-0 to win the World Cup. Sadness.

Mon Jul 20 2026

Sleep 0245 to 0945 (7 hours)

• Besides the World Cup Final yesterday there was the Belgian Grand Prix which Kimi Antonelli won. After 10 races Franco Colapinto has 19 points and Oliver Bearman has 18. That would put my virtual team in 7th place in the Constructors' Championship.

Tue Jul 21 2026

Sleep 2345 to 0830 (8-3/4 hours)

• Cashed in the reimbursement check. Then will use the money to do another early mortgage payment so I'll be ahead three months.

Wed Jul 22 2026

Sleep 0814 to 1415 (6 hours)

• MLS resumes. We're not even halfway through the schedule though must be close since the all-star game is next week. In any case, for a few days I was caught up with MLS viewing and now I'll starting falling behind quickly with 15 games today and another 15 on Saturday/Sunday.

Thu Jul 23 2026

Sleep 0115 to 0945 (8-1/2 hours)

• HOA Meeting. Went well. Tree trimming coming up though I guess we want to limit the trees that will be trimmed. Termite inspection in mid August and I volunteered to be 2nd floor monitor though hopefully I don't have jury duty.

Fri Jul 24 2026

Sleep 0515 to 1145 (6-1/2 hours)

• DDO: DW and I finished Legendary Slavers at R3. The last fight is tough but we concentrated on the main bad guy who shields his buddies. Took three or four deaths then we killed him then another death and we mopped up the rest. I had forgotten at first that you can have a guy hide out in the SW corner of the room. When the bad guys think everyone is dead they basically patrol NW to about the middle of the room so that SW corner is a good place to raise the party then try again.
• Also DDO level cap went up from 34 to 36.

Humble Bundle Even Steamier Sakura Special Bundle presents 29 Winged Cloud games. Mostly NSFW anime girl visual novels. I already have a bunch of these, which I've never gotten around to playing, but if there's a few new games to me then probably worth it for $15.

Leveling Up Girls In Another World
Sakura Alien [OWN]
Sakura Alien 2
Sakura Bunny Girls
Sakura Bunny Girls 2
Sakura Dungeon [OWN]
Sakura Forest Girls [OWN]
Sakura Forest Girls 2 [OWN]
Sakura Forest Girls 3 [OWN]
Sakura Gym Girls
Sakura Isekai Adventure
Sakura Isekai Adventure 2
Sakura Isekai Adventure 3
Sakura Knight 2 [OWN]
Sakura Knight 3 [OWN]
Sakura MMO [OWN]
Sakura MMO 2 [OWN]
Sakura MMO 3 [OWN]
Sakura MMO Extra [OWN]
Sakura Succubus [OWN]
Sakura Succubus 2 [OWN]
Sakura Succubus 3 [OWN]
Sakura Succubus 4 [OWN]
Sakura Succubus 5 [OWN]
Sakura Succubus 6 [OWN]
Sakura Succubus 7
Sakura Succubus 8
Sakura Succubus 9
Sakura Swim Club [OWN]

So 11 would be new. Most are $10 so even with a 50% sale it's a good value.

Bundle of Holding has the previous Orbital Blues bundle and adding a second Afterburn bundle for $10.

Orbital Blues: Afterburn ($20, 264 pages) - sourcebook with starship manual, storyteller's guide, Tennessee Five (sandbox mini-campaign)

Eight pamphlet adventures ($20, 16 pages total)

• The Ground Forgets The Garden
• Hard Vacuum, Cold Feet
• They Laurel The Graves Of The Dead
• Hardsuit Holdup
• Nameless, Aimless
• Timawa Graffiti
• We Built This City on .repeat()
• Voidlock Tombstone

The Wanderer ($5, 56 pages) - solitaire adventure using "a deck of playing cards and a handful of poker chips".

4 non-orbital blues quickstarts (free, 220 pages total)

• Atrapos Quickstart (16pp) - "mythic fantasy roleplaying game of Odyssey"
• Doomspiral Quickstart (88pp) - a "labyrinthine love letter to Dark Souls and Elden Ring"
• Mad as Hell Quickstart (44pp) - "anti-capitalist demon-hunting exploration of activism and community"
• Paint the Town Red Quickstart (92pp) - "A game about depression, partying, falling in love, and themes of trauma, vice, and loneliness."

Since I bought the previous bundle I should buy this one.

Sat Jul 10 2026

Sleep 0130 to 0900 (7-1/2 hours)

• Four teams left in FIFA World Cup: Argentina (last cup 2022) vs England (last cup 1966), France (last cup 2018) vs Spain (last cup 2010). I guess it would be nice if England won since it's been six decades.

Sun Jul 12 2026

Sleep 0315 to 0900 (5-3/4 hours)

• Humble Bundle - Narrative Bundle, 12 games for $10. Pointing this out because No Longer Home, if you had used the coupon from last month's bundle, would have been $1.50 and a duplicate buy here.

Mon Jul 13 2026

Sleep 2315 to 0115, 0600 to 1200 (8 hours)

• Last night my Mac mini fan started making this whining noise. Maybe a bad sign but in the meantime too loud to keep in my bedroom.
• Made a Clone of the HD a non-SSD external drive and booted my Mac mini from it. Extremely slow boot but I did login and it is slow though maybe ok for server work. Oh well it's just for emergency so I don't hit the same issue I did with my now-dead MBP.

Tue Jul 14 2026

Sleep 0230 to 1030 (8 hours)

• Downloaded Moneydance, exported all my Banktivity data to QIF, imported hundreds to thousands of transactions. I must say Moneydance is a lot faster than I remember and feels faster than Banktivity (then again I think Banktivity 7 is running on Rosetta 2 whereas Moneydance 2024 is native Apple Silicon). I noticed split transactions did not import right though the final totals seem ok. Will be a pain to fix so I guess ideally I'd like to start this on Jan 01 that way I can go "2026 and earlier transactions may have issues". I guess the issue with that is that Moneydance 2025 was not released and 2026 so far no sign which means is Moneydance dead?
• Reasons for choosing Moneydance. I've used this back in 2006 though it was fairly slow back then because it was Java. Most alternatives I've seen are either subscription based, very expensive, or feature poor. Moneydance is $65 (direct from them) which includes one major upgrade (which makes it iffy buying the Mac App Store).
• Oh, macOS 27 (Golden Gate), to be released later this year, is the last one with full Rosetta 2 support so I guess I have more time.

Wed Jul 15 2026

Sleep 0600 to 1130 (5-1/2 hours)

• C3 dinner. Afterwards CSr, CJr, and I played a game of Unlocked, Ragnarok scenario which has a 90 minute timer (with average play you use up less of that time since wrong answers reduce the timer). Took us two hours but it was a fun game though tiring.

Thu Jul 16 2026

Sleep 0415 to 1145 (7-1/2 hours)

• Mongoose is doing a new version of Dark Conspiracy RPG, which will use the Traveller system. Was not my sort of RPG though I did buy the 1E and 2E bundle not too long ago. In general I'm more and more hesitant committing to Mongoose RPGs because they're quit expensive (all hardcover books, glossy pages, lots of full color art, which is nice and probably appropriately priced, but then the PDFs are quite more expensive than I expect).

Fri Jul 17 2026

Sleep 0300 to 1030 (7-1/2 hours)

• Twitch I think now deletes really old messages in user chat history. I wish they'd keep around deleted/modded message for historical context.
• Went to Safeway. Friday special not that great ($5 boneless wings, or potato wedges, or some sort of flavored sausage) and other things I wanted to buy not cheap enough when I could go to Trader Joe's for same sort of stuff.
• I wish PayPal had a way to keep separate PayPal balances so I know "this money is for this purpose and this money is for another purpose".

Humble Bundle The Blade Runner Collection is a comic book bundle. 17 items for $18.

• Blade Runner 2019 (2019) v1 to v3 - collects the 12-issue run. The protagonist is female Blade Runner Ash.
• Blade Runner 2029 (2020) v1 to v3 - collects the 12-issue run. Ash is still the protagonist.
• Blade Runner Origins (2021) v1 to v3 - collects the 12-issuer run. LAPD Detective Cal Moreaux is the protagonist.
• Blade Runner 2039 (2022) v1 to v3 - 12-issue series continuing Ash's story.
• Blade Runner Tokyo Nexus (2024) - collects a 4-issue limited series.
• Blade Runner Tokyo Nexus: To Lose Is To Win (2026) - 4-issue limited series, though perhaps it's only issue #1
• Blade Runner Black Lotus (2022) - collects a 4-issue limited series. Protagonist is Elle and the story is a sequel to the Black Lotus anime series.
• Blade Runner Black Lotus: Las Vegas (2025) - 4-issue limited series following Elle.

I do like science fiction and female protagonists so this bundle seems worth it.

Humble Bundle's Going Rogue Bundle is a "bundle of roguelike and roguelite action games!" 8 games for $10.

• Rogue Legacy (Cellar Door Games, Jun 2013, $15, Windows/Mac/Linux) - Side-view Rogue action/arcade game.
• UnderMine (Thorium, Aug 2020, $20, Windows/Mac/Linux) - "An action-adventure roguelike with a bit of RPG tossed in."
• Brutal Orchestra (Hellbent Games, Dec 2021, $20 retail, Windows/Linux) - "Hieronymus Bosch's Brutal Orchestra is a Turn-Based Roguelike Strategy Game with resource management and deck-building elements." Set in Purgatory.
• Home Behind 2 (Spiral Up Games, $8 60% off sale, Windows/Mac/Linux) - "Home Behind 2 is a Roguelike RPG which set in Scaria, a country engulfed in a ten-year civil war. Lead a patchwork group of revolutionary fighters into the depths of the government's territory as you struggle to overthrow a brutal authoritarian regime!"
• Nightmare Reaper (Blazing Bit Games, Mar 2022, $25 retail, Windows) - "Blast through a cursed nightmare solo or with up to 3 friends. A retro-inspired FPS where looter shooter weapons meets boomer shooter chaos and rogue-lite elements."
• None Shall Intrude (GrabTheGames, Jan 2025, $15, Windows) - "roguelite deck-builder with tile-based combat where you become a powerful Raid Boss."
• Lynked: Banner of the Spark (Dreamhaven, May 2025, $8 50% off, Windows) - "In this colorful action RPG, battle waves of enemies in solo or co-op, then return home and use their parts to craft a thriving town."
• Moros Protocol (Super Rare Originals, Sep 2025, $25 retail, Windows) - FPS kind of old Doom-like graphics. "You wake up aboard The Orpheus, a derelict warship lost in deep space and crawling with horrors."

None of these games look particularly interesting. Guess I was hoping for something more like classic Rogue (and Rogue Legacy is not it). Home Behind 2 looks a little interesting in that it's set in modern times whereas the rest are fantasy or science fiction. I'll pass on this bundle.

Sat Jul 04 2026

Sleep 0145 to 1015, 30m nap (9 hours)

• Drove home in the evening. Interesting with various fireworks displays going off.
• DDO: We finished Legendary Mines of Tethyamar doing all five at R7 with some deaths but not double digits. The final battle is easy if the healer is far enough away to heal and not get accidentally hit by the big boss. There are no mobs if you're careful.

Sun Jul 05 2026

Sleep 0430 to 1130 (7 hours)

• Mom gave me two more large bags of ground coffee so now I have like half a dozen in my fridge taking up too much space therefore after 17 days of no coffee tomorrow it's back to drinking at least some coffee.

Mon Jul 06 2026

Sleep 0400 to 1100 (7 hours)

• Drank two cups of coffee just before noon. Pretty alert today and into the evening.
• One thing I discovered trying to watch three Chinese ancient times romance-dramas is that I keep confusing characters and subplots because I don't quite differentiate Chinese people enough and a lot of secondary characters kind of have the same look to me.

Tue Jul 07 2026

Sleep 0345 to 0945 (6 hours)

• No sweat: Most claims stricken in AirPods Max condensation lawsuit. I've bought two AirPods Max and had both replaced, I think once for the first and twice for the second. All have died where it just won't connect to any device. The first one I wore in the rain and thought I guess that's the cause. The second I realized it was just condensation from normal usage (ok, my normal usage where I wear it for a few hours each day).
• Guess I went back to meat too soon because right foot is starting to hurt again, once again bottom of achilles area.

Wed Jul 08 2026

Sleep 0300 to 1100 (8 hours)

• Got my DDO alt to level 20. There's quite a power up at level 20 and doing quests at R1 is not so bad now.
• DDO: Last week I purchased Magic of Myth Drannor ultimate $65 at half price. The hireling is a Bard 14 who can do Reincarnate so now I have a permanent hireling that can do that (and can then use a regular combat hireling since those you can hire at character level).

Thu Jul 09 2026

Sleep 0500 to 1100 (6 hours)

• Nemo promoted Boishack and I to Lead Moderator role on her Twitch channel. I guess it's an honor that she trusts us.
• Also sent a warning to one of her cyberstalkers who confronted her after stream today. It's amazing how much of a relationship story he was building up in his head even though she never replied to his DMs. All from her Instagram posts (he thought she was sending him coded easter eggs in her posts) and IRL streams (what she wore or where she streamed were silent invitations to come meet her).

Fri Jul 10 2026

Sleep 0400 to 1100 (7 hours)

• MW5 CSr and I did a mission. DDO CSr, DW and I did one quest.

I've been spending my money buying a bunch of FMV Dating Sim games (which I mark Private because maybe I'm a bit embarrassed of my friends finding out what I'm playing). Anyway, let's see if there are other cool games to buy. I'll go by category even though every category page includes lots of stuff not in the category because Valve just wants to show you stuff it thinks you'll buy.

Adventure: Baldur's Gate 3 (Aug 2023) $45 (25% off). D&D that supports online multiplayer with four people.

Puzzle: HITMAN World of Assassination (Jan 2022) $45 Deluxe Edition (55% off). I've played one of the Hitman games before and it was a pretty fun stealth killing game (or set up somewhere defensible, start shooting and aggro everyone). But it is a puzzle game if you're going for stealth kill with minimal collateral damage.

Story-Rich: DELTARUNE (Jun 2025) $20 (20% off). A parallel story to UNDERTALE. I've seen Dexbonus play UNDERTALE and it seemed both a cool story adventure game that is not terribly difficult. I hope DELTARUNE is similar.

Strategy: Sid Meier's Civilization VII (Feb 2025) $35 Standard Edition (50% off). Mixed feelings about this as I think CIV has gotten too complicated and has too many DLCs. But it's still a AAA standard.

Action: I'll skip. Nothing looked interesting as it's not my genre and the games that did look interesting fit other categories better.

Sports: Offside (Jan 2022) $2 (50% off) Not really into sports games as they are either too action-oriented or manager games that are too detailed. Offside is a "Detective Mystery Sports Game and Yuri Dating Simulator set in Manchester".

Sci-Fi: RimWorld (Oct 2018) $28 (20% off) Alien world colony simulator where everything is randomly generated or AI driven. May be too complicated but if it's sandbox-y enough it's kind of fun seeing a colony being built by itself.

I guess that's it as I got bored looking at these games. Maybe I'll continue later though the sale is ending real soon now.

Humble Bundle's Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow and More! bundle is for various DC Comics runs of Supergirl. For $18 you get:

Supergirl TPB (2016-2018) - Four volumes collecting

- Supergirl (1996-2003 3rd Series) #1-9, Supergirl Plus (1997), Supergirl (1996-2003 3rd Series) Annual #1, and material from Showcase '96 (1996) #8.
- Supergirl (1996-2003 3rd Series) #10-20 and Supergirl (1996-2003 3rd Series) Annual #2
- Supergirl (1996-2003 3rd Series) #21-31, Supergirl One Million (1998) and Resurrection Man (1997) #16-17
- Supergirl (1996-2003 3rd Series) #32-43 and Young Justice (1998-2003) #12-13.

Supergirl (1996 3rd Series) ran 80 issues so this is not all the run.


Supergirl TPB (2016-2019) - Five volumes collecting

- Supergirl (2005-2011 4th Series) #0-10 and 12.
- Supergirl (2005-2011 4th Series) #11, 13-22 and material from the DCU: Infinite Holiday Special (2006).
- Supergirl (2005-2011 4th Series) #23-33 and ACTION COMICS #850.
- Supergirl (2005-2011 4th Series) #34-43.
- Action Comics (1938-2011 DC) #881-882, Supergirl (2005-2011 4th Series) #44-50, Supergirl (2005-2011 4th Series) Annual #1 and a story from Superman Secret Files (1998-2009) #2009.

Supergirl (2005 4th Series) ran 67 issues so once again not the whole run.


Supergirl TPB (2012-2015 DC Comics The New 52) - Six volumes collecting

- Supergirl (2011 5th Series) #1-7.
- Supergirl (2011 5th Series) #0 and 8-12.
- Supergirl (2011 5th Series) #13-19.
- Supergirl (2011 5th Series) #21-26, Action Comics (2011 2nd Series)#23.1A: CYBORG SUPERMAN and Superman (2011 3rd Series) #25.
- Supergirl (2011 5th Series) #26-33, Green Lantern (2011 4th Series) #28 and Red Lanterns (2011) #28-29.
- Supergirl (2011 5th Series) #34-40 and Supergirl: Futures End (2014).

Supergirl (2011 5th Series) ran 40 issues so for once a TPB run that reprints the whole series.


Supergirl TPB (2017-2018 DC Universe Rebirth) - Four volumes with

- Supergirl: rebirth (2016) and Supergirl (2016) #1-6.
- Supergirl (2016) #7-11 and a story from Batgirl (2016) Annual #1.
- Supergirl (2016) #12-14 and ANNUAL #1.
- Supergirl (2016) #15-20.

Supergirl (2016) ran 42 issues.


Supergirl TPB (2019-2020 DC) - Three volumes collecting

- Supergirl (2016) #21-26.
- Supergirl (2016) #27-33.
- Supergirl (2016) #34-42, Supergirl (2016) Annual #2, and a story from Superman: Leviathan Rising Special (2019 DC).

At least these volumes finishes the 2016 series reprint.


Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow TPB? - If this is the TPB it collects a 8-issue limited series
Supergirl: The Silver Age TPB - 2 volume set collecting material from Action Comics (1938-2011 DC) #252-307
Krypto The Last Dog of Krypton TPB (2026 DC) - collects a 5-issue 2025 limited series

Lobo TPB (2018 DC) - 2 volumes collecting

- Lobo (1990 1st Series DC) #1-4, Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special (1991), Lobo's Back (1992 DC) #1-4, Lobo: Blazing Chain of Love (1992) and Lobo Convention Special (1993).
- Lobo: Infanticide (1992) #1-4, Lobo: Death and Taxes (1996) #1-4, Lobo (1993-1999 2nd Series DC) #58, Authority/Lobo Christmas Special (2004) Jingle Hell and Authority/Lobo: Spring Break Massacre (2005).

Lobo Portrait of a Bastich TPB (2008 DC) - collects Lobo (1990 1st Series DC) #1-4 and Lobo's Back (1992) #1-4.

- Note that Portrait of a Bastich's content already reprinted in Lobo TPB (2018 DC). I suppose maybe this had a different print quality but unlikely to make a difference in PDF.


I assume Krypto and Lobo are included because they appear in the current Supergirl movie.

Even though the 1996 and 2005 series reprints are not complete it's apparently as far as DC Comics got around to reprinting.

A second note is the bundle delivers these comics on neonichiban.com. I look into it -- they have their own reader but also you can download PDFs if the content owner allows it, which as they say protects you in case neonichiban goes defunct. Unfortunately I did a spot check and Supergirl TPBs are not marked downloadable. Therefore won't buy this bundle.

2026-07-24: Did end up buying this bundle. I was thinking I'd be able to catch up on missing issues not in this collection but turns out they don't have those on the site. And as I look for some of my favorite 80's comic series I don't find them here so maybe they only have more recent stuff (and by that it seems 1990's onwards).

Sat Jun 27 2026

Sleep 0400 to 1100 (7 hours)

• One week of no coffee. Still get a bit of a headache.

Sun Jun 28 2026

Sleep 0300 to 1200 (9 hours)

• Right foot is a little swollen now, though walking doesn't feel as painful as yesterday.

Mon Jun 29 2026

Sleep 0300 to 0930, 1245 to 1400 (7-3/4 hours)

• AT&T Business services is so slow. It took them 6+ months to close our account as the request was routed from our account manager through various layers of bureaucracy. And meanwhile we're paying almost $700 per month. On the other hand if you want to add a service they move pretty fast.

Tue Jun 30 2026

Sleep 0400 to 1230 (8-1/2 hours)

• Foot is not too bad now. I can walk slowly and for more than a minute. Not sure I could get to the mail box and back.

Wed Jul 01 2026

Sleep 0115 to 0815, 1 hr nap (8 hours)

• Walking around without pain. Not at full speed and wouldn't want to run.
• Watched Supergirl (2026) with Christopher. It's fairly good and the tone (I guess because of the music and having a female lead) reminds a little bit of Captain Marvel (2019).

Thu Jul 02 2026

Sleep 0330 to 1130 (8 hours)

• At this point I'm pretty walking ok and gave in and started eating some meat again.

Fri Jul 03 2026

Sleep 0400 to 1030, 30m nap (5 hours)

• We went to mom and dad's for Fri and Sat. I drove separately and was listening to Billlie when I realized the two albums I thought were some sort of deluxe versions are actually background soundtracks for some video special they did. Not bad but going from upbeat music to more sedate instrumentals (no vocals) almost put me to sleep.