This is an up to 30% off Summer sale. Since they also do 40% off sales I'm unlikely to buy anything this time around.

From stuff that has been reviewed in a Podcast I follow:

The Cross Stitch ($7, 30% off) - "stand-alone adventure for MÖRK BORG that can be played as a one-shot or part of a campaign", 40 pages though MB products tend to be light on words.

Kavlov's Sanctuary ($10.50, 30% off) - "a campaign module and adventure sandbox created for Mörk Borg, with over 70 pages and 20,000 words", 79 pages.

The Valley of Flowers ($10.50, 30% off) - "ENnie Award-winning fantasy campaign setting of mythic adventure in a world gone strange, designed for use with Old-School Essentials and Cairn", 150 pages

Sanctimonious Slimes vs. Expired Epicures ($5.60, 30% off) - dungeon delve "designed for use with Errant, but is broadly compatible with your classic fantasy RPG of choice", 26 pages.

I1 Dwellers of the Forbidden City ($3.50, 30% off) - an old AD&D module

The Curious Creeps in Crimson Creek - Revised ($7, 22% off) - "complete adventure and hexcrawl module for level 1-3 characters", 24 pages for Old-School Essentials.

T1 The Village of Hommlet ($3.50, 30% off) - an old AD&D module, the sequel wasn't released separately but T1-4 super module was released instead.

Buried in the Bahamas ($5.60, 30% off) - "introductory adventure for Pirate Borg and The Dark Caribbean campaign setting", 24 pages with more text than you'd expect from an x-Borg product.

Sat Jul 05 2025

Sleep 0745 to 1300 (5-1/4 hours)

• Foot feels as good as yesterday maybe better. Still swollen but I think safe to eat that last third of chicken thigh.

Sun Jul 06 2025

Sleep 0130 to 0330, 1830 to 2245 (6-1/4 hours)

• Last day of Nemo’s 100 hour streamathon. Three active moderators and we’re all tired.

Mon Jul 07 2025

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

• Foot feels pretty good. Maybe a little swollen but hard to tell — it is discolored darker. Went to the library and Trader Joe’s and walked ok although a bit of discomfort in my ankle. Had another 1/3rd piece of chicken thigh and a bit of canned salmon. Hopefully I can increase it a bit in a day or two.

Tue Jul 08 2025

Sleep 0500 to 1200 (7 hours)

• Foot is pretty much normal now.

Wed Jul 09 2025

Sleep 0215 to 0945, 45m nap (8-1/4 hours)

• Dinner at C3’s. Totoro Ramen and got the curry ramen (has chicken katsu). Ate a bit of the katsu and saved the rest.

Thu Jul 10 2025

Sleep 0130 to 0930, 1 hour nap (9 hours)

• Watched Murderbot 1.9. Eager for the last episode to be released tomorrow.

Fri Jul 10 2025

Sleep 2330 to 0145, 0500 to 0945, 1 hour nap (8 hours)

• Got a hair cut. Tomorrow going to Aunt Julie’s memorial service with CSr so wanted to look ok.
• Then went to Mi Rancho for chicharrones, instant coffee, and some pastries ($25).
• After dinner, went with CSr to mom and dad’s.

Humble Bundle's Star Trek Comics MegaBundle (ends Aug 2nd) I think is mostly comics I haven't read since I stopped collecting years ago. I have no digital Star Trek comics so whether or not I've read these before still worthwhile buying (and there is so much stuff for $24 it is a must buy).

Star Trek: New Visions v1
Star Trek Classics v1: The Gorn Crisis - reprint, I'm sure I've read this one
Star Trek Classics v2: Enemy Unseen
Star Trek Classics v3: Encounters with the Unknown
Star Trek Classics v4: Beginnings - I think I've read all these Classics (Classics are pre-IDW Star Trek comics)
Star Trek Classics v5: Who Killed Captain Kirk?
Star Trek: Boldly Go v1 to v3
Star Trek v1 to v13
Star Trek: Picard - Stargazer
Star Trek: Picard - Countdown
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Hive
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ghosts
Star Trek: Leonard McCoy Frontier Doctor - fairly sure I've read this one too
Star Trek: Mission's End - probably read this one
Star Trek: Khan - Ruling in Hell
Star Trek: Assignment Earth
Star Trek: Mirror Images
Star Trek: New Visions v2 to v8 - reprints Gold Key comics photo montage series (using photos instead of drawings), I've read a couple of these but pretty rare in hard copy
Star Trek: Nero
Star Trek: New Frontier
Star Trek: The Motion Picture- Echoes
Star Trek: Movie Adaptation - of the 2009 film
Star Trek: Manifest Destiny
Star Trek: Khan
Star Trek: Intelligence Gathering
Star Trek: Year Four - The Enterprise Experiment
Star Trek: Year Four
Star Trek: Burden of Knowledge
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Star Trek: Spock Reflections
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Dog of War
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Too Long a Sacrifice
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Fools Gold - I think I read this one
Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness
Star Trek: Countdown
Star Trek: Captain's Log
Star Trek: Aliens
Star Trek: Best of Klingons
Star Trek Alien Spotlight v1
Star Trek Alien Spotlight v2
Star Trek: Picard's Academy - Commit No Mistakes
Star Trek: Holo-Ween
Star Trek: Day of Blood
Star Trek: Year Five v1 - Odyssey's End
Star Trek: Year Five v2 - The Wine-Dark Deep
Star Trek: Year Five v3 - Weaker Than Man
Star Trek: Year Five v4 - Experienced in Loss
Star Trek: Voyager - Seven's Reckoning
Star Trek: Warriors of the Mirror War
Star Trek: The Mirror War
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Terra Incognita
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Through the Mirror
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Mirror Broken
Star Trek: Waypoint
Star Trek: Sons of Star Trek
Star Trek: Resurgence
Star Trek: Harlan Ellison's City on the Edge of Forever - maybe read this
Star Trek: Discovery - Adventures in the 32nd Century
Star Trek: Discovery - Aftermath
Star Trek: Discovery - Succession
Star Trek: Discovery - The Light of Kahless
Star Trek: Debt of Honor Facsimile Edition
Star Trek Classics: The Mirror Universe Saga
Star Trek: The Q Conflict
Star Trek v1: Godshock
Star Trek v2: The Red Path
Star Trek v3: Glass and Bone
Star Trek: Defiant v1
Star Trek: Defiant v2 - Another Piece of the Action
Star Trek: Defiant v3 - Hell Is Only a Word
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - The Illyrian Enigma

The Dark Eye Mega Bundle of Holding features one of Europe's first fantasy RPGs and apparently still going strong.

$25 Level

The Dark Eye RPG (418 pp, $30)
Aventuria Armory (162 pp, $20) - equipment + hit location rules
Armory of the Warring Kingdoms (36 pp, $7)
Magic of Aventuria (240 pp, $20) - magic profession expansion
Aventuria Almanac + Map Set (266 pp, $20)
Conspiracy of Mages (68 pp, $10) - solo adventure

+$16 Level

Aventuria Compendium (240 pp, $27) - "presents many new options for Dark Eye combat"
Aventurian Bestiary (130 pp, $11)
Gods of Aventuria (242 pp, $20) - supplement + new profession packages
Theater Knights I-VI (392 pp, $60) - six adventure modules that form a campaign
Legacy of the Theater Knights (52 pp , $10) - supplementary material
The Dark Eye GM Screen (56 pp, $10) - "includes Inns & Taverns, a 48-page booklet"

A bit unusual for Bundle of Holding in that base level costs more than upgrade level. Only one campaign plus a solo adventure. Not a really compelling bundle so I'll skip.

Sleep 0245 to 1100 (8-1/4 hours)

• MacWhisper’s last update added Nvidia’s Parakeet model. Transcribing three VODs totaling 9h 8m took 9-1/2 minutes for about 57.7x speed and normally would have taken more than hour. Transcription seems accurate too.

Sun Jun 29 2025

Sleep 0245 to 1130 (8-3/4 hours)

• Checked for Electron apps I have: find /Applications -name '*.asar' -print. It is OpenVPN and Discord.

Mon Jun 30 2025

Sleep 0530 to 1300 (7-1/2 hours)

• Ate a chicken thigh yesterday. Foot hurts today. Why is meat so yummy?
• Today still had a bit of protean — half a can of salmon, less than 4 oz.
• Actually what hurts most is my left foot achilles area. Feels very stiff and flexing it at all hurts. I can clomp around but maybe that’s doing damage.

Tue Jul 01 2025

Sleep 0630 to 1430 (8 hours)

• Foot getting worse? No meat today.

Wed Jul 02 2025

Sleep 0445 to 1045 (6 hours)

• Foot walkable but maybe getting worse slowly. Ate like 1/4 can of salmon with my meal. I’m really not setup for vegetarian. Should get some veggie pizzas; tofu and sauces (black bean or ma po tofu). Unfortunately can’t walk enough to do that.
• Nemo’s 100 hour streamathon started at 1400 PDT.
• Just realized that Silo — which I’ve often thought is a show where the unlit areas are so dark I can barely tell what’s going on watching on my iPad — is actually lit well enough on my Mac monitor that it doesn’t bother me. Most of my Apple TV+ non-sports watching is on my iPad so I hadn’t noticed it was different.
• ORCL is up to $229.98. So even after selling $50k worth (at the time) my individual stocks (the ones I can sell as everything else is 401k or Roth IRA) are worth $329k and previous high was $313k. If all it does is be stable at this price for a year I’ll be happy.

Thu Jul 03 2025

Sleep 0630 to 1200 (5-1/2 hours)

• Can walk about 80% of normal speed with a little discomfort and limp.
• Ate about 1/3rd of a chicken thigh tonight. Hope I don’t pay for it in the morning.
• More about DDO 32-bit to 64-bit migration. All accounts will (automatically) get 10 more character slots (too bad I bought some in the last sale). All accounts will get (via coupon code) 100 shared bank slots (which makes up for the extraneous character slots).

Fri Jul 04 2025

Sleep 2330 to 0730, 1430 to 1530. (9 hours)

• MacWhisper with Parakeet v2 working on a 20 GB video file (26+ hours) and it’s using 33 GB memory (My MBP M4 Pro has 24 GB memory). 17 GB swap used after I quit all other apps. Is it loading the whole video file? I thought it would just load the audio.
• Splitting it up into 6 to 8 hour segments — used VLC to export audio then Audacity to split it up — and MacWhisper tops out at about 8 GB memory. And it’s a lot faster — even taking into account the time to do audio export and splits — because going into so much swap space killed the transcription speed.
• Foot felt fine today, or at least good enough I think could go grocery shopping. Had another 1/3rd of the chicken thigh for dinner.

Ten best Mac games to buy during the Steam Summer Sale - An article recommending Mac games. Looking through I have six covered:

Broforce - side-scrolling shooter, runs on my Mac

Sid Meier's Civilization VII - massive turn-based strategy game. Have Sid Meier's Civilization VI, just the base game, and I think that's good enough. Runs on my Mac.

Baldur's Gate 3 - RPG. I have Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition and again should be good enough for an RPG Baldur's Gate experience. Runs on my Mac.

Cities: Skylines - CIty sim builder. I have it on Epic Game Store, just the base and there is a lot of DLCs. Unfortunately on Epic it's just Windows version while Steam also has Mac version.

Firewatch - First person investigative game. I have it on Mac App Store and works on my Mac.

Ogre - Steve Jackson Games wargame and runs on my Mac.

Of these I'd play Ogre, Firewatch, Broforce, BG3, Civ VII, Skylines in that order, to a certain extent prioritizing games I think I can finish (or are finish-able — Civ VII and Skylines are forever games).

Wargame Design Studio makes computer (Windows) wargames but they don't sell on Steam. Mentioned in Dispatches like them (or at least one guy loves them). Not flashy but good computer wargames.

They have some $0 smaller games and demos (though I guess the demos are cut down games that you can play fully rather than full games that you can only play for an hour or a set number of turns) which you can download and see if you like their UI and gameplay.

Four interesting games:

Grenada (Squad Battles) - US intervention in Grenada, 1983. 11 battles and six maps. Not sure if the scale is individual soldiers or squads. Grenada is quite unusual since the US was overwhelming which makes for a less exciting wargame.

Little Big Horn (Early American Wars) - US 7th Cavalry vs a lot of American Indians. Five scenarios and one map. I guess individual to squad level scale.

Modern Air Power Demo - US vs North Korea set today. The previous two were hex-based games but this one is a natural map — no hexes or areas or points and I guess more like playing miniatures. 29 scenarios.

Spanish-American War (Naval Campaigns) - Another game with a natural map since this is a naval game. 20 scenarios.