Sat Mar 30 2024

Sleep 0445 to 1245, 30m nap (8-1/2 hours)

• DVG - Warfighter Chtorr on Kickstarter. War Against the Chtorr is an old novel series about an alien invasion of Earth via ecological terraforming, though the series has stalled at four books written 3 decades ago. There was a GURPS supplement based on this which is why I read the books. The KS is a combat missions card game where you equip your troops then send them out in missions that are resolved quickly. The main thing is shepherding your troops and resources through multiple missions rather than the missions themselves. A bit pricey at $160 + $20 shipping for everything.
• DDO servers have been down since early this morning to this evening so far. It does bring out a few people who have complaints about Standing Stone Games but overall people understand this happens when you're a small company.
• We played Gloomhaven. A small easy scenario so we might need to move up to normal difficulty.
• We tried Dead Island: Riptide. Runs ok in CrossOver (Steam install) with some tweaking. Control is slightly laggy which really doesn't help my motion sickness. Woo was also having trouble so we will probably not play this game.

Sun Mar 31 2024

Sleep 0415 to 1045 (6-1/2 hours)

• I was printing my tax return (37 pages) and the Brother printer (connected to WiFi) was only printing 6 to 10 pages and then stopping without an error. I guess the memory was full but strange it didn't pause the print queue and instead ignored the extra data? Don't remember if this happened before when I printing out Modules B1 and B2.
• I've been having an evening headache several times this week. At the same time turning my head hurts a bit. Still not too bad.
• Tried making rice porridge again, this time using long grain rice. Still came out basically like mushy rice and no soup. I'll give up trying to make porridge in the rice cooker.

Mon Apr 01 2024

Sleep 0515 to 1300 (7-3/4 hours)

• Bought Warhammer FRP Enemy Within Bundle.

Tue Apr 02 2024

Sleep 0200 to 1100 (9 hours)

• Trader Joe's for some stuff. Freeze is pretty full.

Wed Apr 03 2024

Sleep 0715 to 1245 (5-1/2 hours)

• Dinner at C3's. Porridge and Things. The plain porridge (HK style) is so good. It comes with three toppings so it tastes quite fine.
• Laser Kittens session #3 with Cjr. The humans accidentally teleport themselves outside the house, along with three cats. Fluffy, Popcorn and Carol are arrested by space police.

Thu Apr 04 2024

Sleep 0145 to 0900, 1230 to 1400 (8-3/4 hours)

• Horror on the Orient Express: The Board Game on KS. The CoC-based board games are nice but I guess I'd rather play CoC RPG. Anyway, the KS is $98 for the game ($170 MSRP!) and the first expansion ($35 MSRP).
• Now that I think about it a bit more I'll skip DVG - Warfighter Chtorr KS. Mostly can't get past that it's an abstract card game. And I mean abstract at the tactical level -- I like having units moving around on a map. Like for CoC, just because it covers a topic I like doesn't mean I have to buy every game for it.

Fri Apr 05 2024

Sleep 0600 to 1400 (8 hours)

• Not sure if I've mentioned this before. In GarageBand if I record more than 12 hours (not sure how much longer, possibly 14+ hours) then try to export to disk the output is blank (no sound). I have to save the project and restart GarageBand and then export works.