Humble Bundles Red Sonja bundle includes their previous bundle at the $20 level. It's nice that the $10 level is the new stuff, even though I own a bit of it probably from the previous bundle. Will buy at the $10 level.

$10 Level

Red Sonja: Atlantis Rises #1-4
Killing Red Sonja #1-5
Red Sonja #100
Altered States: Red Sonja
Giant-Size Red Sonja #1-2
Red Sonja: Travels v1-2
- One More Day [own], Monster Isle [own], Vacant Shell, RS Goes East
Red Sonja v3 #1-6 [own]

+$10 Level

Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword v1-13 [own]
Red Sonja v5 #1-28 [own]
Red Sonja: Birth of the She-Devil #1-4 [own]
Red Sonja: The Superpowers #1-5 [own]
Adventures of Red Sonja v1-3 [own]
Further Adventures of Red Sonja v1 [own]
Legends of Red Sonja #1-5 [own]
Queen Sonja #1-6 [own]
Red Sonja (2013) v1-3 [own]
Red Sonja: Worlds Away v1-5 [own]
Red Sonja: Age of Chaos #1-6 [own]
Red Sonja: Ballad of the Red Goddess [own]
Red Sonja: Black Tower #1-4 [own]
Red Sonja: Monster Isle [own and part of Red Sonja: Travels]
Red Sonja: Revenge of the Gods #1-5 [own]
Red Sonja: Vulture's Circle #1-5 [own]
Red Sonja: Wrath of the Gods #1-5 [own]
The Invincible Red Sonja #1 [own]
Vampirella/Red Sonja #1-12 [own]
Red Sonja and Cub OS [own]
Red Sonja: One More Day [own and part of Red Sonja: Travels]

Sat Aug 09 2025

Sleep 0730 to 1330 (6 hours)

• Sonic Mobile apps is nice in that if you get a phone call it’ll ring like a phone. But if it’s in the background too long I guess iOS kills its connection so it’ll send a notification asking you to open the app. Since I never really get phone calls it does get annoying so I’ll turn notifications off for that app.
• Last night and tonight we played DDO with the old party where CSr and DW and I each play two characters. We did Legendary Peril of the Planar Eyes at R5/R6 and did the first two Soul Splitter at R6. I forgot how good we are with these characters. At R6 still mostly easy though Soul Splitter 1 (Finding Dorris) we lost all three primary characters. That quest has constrained spaces and we weren’t as familiar with it as others.

Sun Aug 10 2025

Sleep 0230 to 1100 (8-1/2 hours)

• Bought macOS Resident Evil 2 full unlock ($10) on sale. Hopefully will do a couple more before the sale ends Aug 21.

Mon Aug 11 2025

Sleep 0315 to 1215 (9 hours)

• Fidelity guys finally caught me as I answered the phone before checking who it was. I politely declined their financial advice service. Mostly because I don’t have the flexibility to do anything. 401K has limited choices which leaves my regular stocks of which I don’t have much of and need to keep selling anyways.

Tue Aug 12 2025

Sleep 0430 to 1130 (7 hours)

• Peninsula Health Care District has a pilot in my area code and I received a Deterra bag. Put your expired drugs in, half fill with water, close pouch and dispose in trash. Pretty neat and I do have a lot of expired drugs though the pouch is only good for 45 pills so I guess dispose of the most dangerous ones — I think I still have codeine from when I got a tooth pulled several years ago.
• Reading the FAQ there are also locations to drop off expired medications for disposal.

Wed Aug 13 2025

Sleep 0300 to 1100 (8 hours)

• Went to dentist for cleaning.
• Stopped by Trader Joe’s for milk and orange juice.
• Stopped at Monterra to deposit cash. It rejected one bill. I’d guess it rejects less than 5% of bills which I have a small pile of and someday will deposit manually.
• Dinner at C3’s. Joy Sushi and I got a bento box with salmon teriyaki and California roll.

Thu Aug 14 2025

Sleep 0430 to 0845, 0900 to 1130 (6-3/4 hours)

• AT&T Customer Data Security Breach Class Action Settlement. Filled out the form. If you have documented loss (which I guess would be insurance claim or police report) then you can get up to $2500. Otherwise you get a share of whatever is left over. Nice payment options including PayPal and Venmo, though I’ll settle for paper check to avoid PayPal fees for what will be a small amount of money and I don’t want to hand over my ACH details.
• A second class action, this one is for Capital One 360 Savings. I guess they were paying less interest rate than they claimed. This one strongly recommends using electronic payment as paper check payments less than $5 will not be sent and your payment is forfeited. This one I’ll use PayPal and we’ll see what happens.

Fri Aug 15 2025

Sleep 2300 to 0600, 0945 to 1300 (10-1/4 hours)

• CB got laid off (today I think). Sucks but she’s a PE (Professional Engineer) so can probably get another job easily.
• Too many Windows 10 updates so we played Gloomhaven. I switched character to the bard.

Looking at Apple Arcade 2023 games I'm looking forward to trying these three:

Retro Bowl: American Football. I think I looked at this once before and it seemed too complicated.

Slay the Spire: Card-based rogue-like. Was very popular streamer game for a while.

Stardew Valley: Farming game with dungeon delving. I make fun of it sometimes but have never played it or seen it played.

I finally finished looking at the Apple Arcade games released in 2022, some of which are already off the store. Five games were good enough for me to save for remembrance or to play again in the future.

Jigsaw Puzzle by MobilityWare+ — Kind of a relaxing and zen-like activity. Engages your mind without being taxing.

Bloons TD 6+ — A cute tower defense game with quite a bit of complexity

GRIS+ — An elegant non-violent platformer with a storyline told without speech or text.

Monument Valley+ — I replayed it and maybe doesn't stand the test of time but it's still a nicely implemented small game.

Alto's Adventure - Remastered — Another old classic with elegant gameplay and good for a few hours fun. It has one new environment with its own challenges.

Monument Valley and GRIS I played to finish. Alto's Adventure I played for a while and got to the new environment a few times. Bloons TD 6 I played a lot and then got stuck on a certain level.

Jigsaw Puzzle is the only one I see myself playing again. At the highest detail it's quite a task to finish a puzzle but rather satisfying since you're always making a bit of progress each session.

Sat Aug 02 2025

Sleep 0230 to 0630, 1 hour nap (5 hours)

• Gaming at Sophia and Woo’s (D&D Session 26). Woke up early to feed cat. Couldn’t get back to sleep. Was a bit punchy. We did get almost 4 hours of gaming though it was mostly Dave S doing stuff.
• Group dinner at Dave’s Hot Chicken because that’s where Jonathan wanted to go. Unimpressed.

Sun Aug 03 2025

Sleep 0330 to 0730, 0800 to 1200 (8 hours)

• Even after 8 hours of sleep (with a break in between to feed cat) I was still tired all day.

Mon Aug 04 2025

Sleep 0230 to 0730, 1115 to 1415 (8 hours)

• Recovering sleep.
• Need to check if I still have Medi-Cal or not.
• Vaults of Vaarn 2E Backerkit. “Vaarn is a science-fantasy tabletop RPG setting…It draws inspiration from novels such as Dune, Hyperion, The Book of the New Sun, and the graphic works of Moebius.” 1E was being released in ‘zine form and I have the first three (of four) issues, although it looks like issue 4 is not part of 2E as it was set outside Vaarn. It uses its own system based on Knave and it is £18 PDF. Probably won’t buy it.

Tue Aug 05 2025

Sleep 0145 to 0715 (5-1/2 hours)

• Spent an hour trying to find out if my BenefitsCal change of income was reviewed since I expect to lose Medi-Cal. Went to CoveredCA where you can also report income change so I did it there. A bit of a confusing system. In any case if I go to CoveredCA it won’t let me apply for anything else until the change of income is reviewed. Guess I’ll give them a day to process (which admittedly would be really fast for government) and call them Thursday.
• Actually the CoveredCA home page says go to BenefitsCal to speed up process which I guess is why I submitted my change there in the first place. Don’t quite remember.

Wed Aug 06 2025

Sleep 0615 to 1400 (7-3/4 hours)

• Stayed up late enough that easier to stay up another hour or two then feed the cat an early breakfast.
• C3+S dinner. Leftovers.
• Went to see The Fantastic Four: First Steps with CSr.
• RapidWeaver Elements 1.0 released from RealMac — I use their RapidWeaver Classic product. It’s been around for a couple of years as a paid beta. I don’t care enough about a fancy and interactive web site to switch over. In fact a wiki is probably what I’ve wanted all along except that wikis imply a database which must also be maintained which is why I haven’t ever fully committed to putting my web site in a wiki.

Thu Aug 07 2025

Sleep 0330 to 0800 (4-1/2 hours)

• Leagues Cup (between the US MLS and Mexico Liga) phase 1 ends Saturday. In phase 1 everyone plays three games then it’s back to regular league play. The best four teams in each league advance to phase 2 maybe in a couple of weeks or next month. Kind of nice because all these games I get behind on watching so with this format no chance of me accidentally seeing who advanced (which happened last year) before I’ve finished watching phase 1 games.

Fri Aug 08 2025

Sleep 2230 to 0700 (8-1/2 hours)

• Toyota Walnut Creek for car service. $524.
• Breakfast at Buttercup a few minutes walk away. Eggs Benedict with Pastrami, Hashbrowns, Cherry Pie, Coffee. $40.
• When I went to feed unit 317 cat he hadn’t eaten breakfast. Turns out the guest there hasn’t seen the cat all day. Hope it didn’t escape and run away. Anyway guest said he’ll call unit 317 owner in case he knows cat hide somewhere special.

The Witcher Tabletop RPG Bundle is $15 for 4 books, a GM screen supplement, and a free PDF. This is published by R Talsorian and uses their Interlock System which has been around for almost 40 years and also used in the current Cyberpunk 2020 RPG.

The Witcher RPG (2018) - 336 pages.

The Witcher: Easy Mode (2019) - 32-page quick start. This is a free download.

Lords & Lands (2019) - 16 pages, GM's screen.
A Witcher's Journal (2020) - 160 pages with monsters and supplemental rules
A Book of Tales (2021) - 176 pages with six adventures.
A Tome of Chaos (2022) - 216 pages with more magic spells and stuff

Looking in RPG Geek these are the official released products. The RPG line is on hold since Sep 2023 until The Witcher 4 computer game is released and that is currently 2027+.

What is here doesn't seem interesting enough to buy (especially since I've never played the computer games) but at least seems like enough material to run a campaign.

It's the third time for The Expanse and Modern AGE bundle. I’ve been listening to Ty & That Guy podcast which is going over each Expanse tv show episode so this bundle is more interesting than before.

$18 Level

Modern AGE Basic Rulebook (192 pages, $19)
Modern AGE Companion (128 pages, $18)
Threefold (184 pages, $20) - campaign setting
Enemies & Allies (128 pages, $18)
Missions: Warflower (21 pages, $5) - adventure
Modern AGE Game Master's Kit (18 pages $4)

+$17 Level

The Expanse RPG (260 pages, $27)
Ships of the Expanse (144 pages, $20)
The Expanse Game Master's Kit (46 pages, $10)
Abzu's Bounty (138 pages, $19) - adventure path
Savage Op (11 pages, $4) - adventure

Other Expanse Products Not in Bundle

Beyond the Ring (128 pages) - supplement that covers the 4th novel
Secrets of Lemuria (23 pages) - adventure
Sol System (112 pages) - supplement


The Modern AGE part is not interesting so a tough pill to swallow (The Expanse is standalone and doesn't require Modern AGE). The Expanse part doesn't cover the whole line, which is not that big in the first place. I am unmoved.

Sat Jul 26 2025

Sleep 0930 to 1530 (6 hours)

• Gloomhaven with DS and DW. We finished the last quest and did another one. Both for the Brute and I guess we should concentrate on finishing out the Level 9 characters as that’s the max level.

Sun Jul 27 2025

Sleep 0345 to 0930 (5-3/4 hours)

• Nemo in Riyadh for Esports World Cup doing content. She streamed at 2000 local which is 1000 here and I happened to be awake. Because of heat EWC is more of an evening to very late evening event so I expect streams will start 1000 or later my time so I need to get up early-ish this week.

Mon Jul 28 2025

Sleep 0430 to 1230 (8 hours)

• American Express web login is a little annoying because it wants to verify on you iOS App by default and I don’t see a way to change it. I’ll try deleting the app on my iPhone and iPad.
• Finally used my Nordstrom’s gift card (received it Jan 01 2024). XL Ralph Lauren t-shirts and underwear for $98 (with tax and free 2-day shipping). Let’s see if it fits and if so maybe I’ll buy more before their sale ends August 03.

Tue Jul 29 2025

Sleep 0315 to 0945, 1 hour nap (7-1/2 hours)

• I’ll be looking after unit 317’s cat for about 10 days. Cat will live there and I need to go give it breakfast and dinner.

Wed Jul 30 2025

Sleep 0815 to 1415 (6 hours)

• First day looking after unit 317’s cat. Went there and gave Banksy his dinner (dry food) and cleaned litter box.
• Mac App Store versions of Resident Evil are on sale: 2 ($10, 67% off), 3 ($10, 75% off), 4 ($20, 67% off), 7 biohazard ($8, 60% off), Village ($10, 75% off) are on sale. They all require M1 processors so I assume they use Apple Metal graphics.

Thu Jul 31 2025

Sleep 2345 to 0345, 1400 to 1600 (6 hours)

• Tried the pool thermometer and when I put it in pool (upside down so the water flows in) and waited temperature didn’t seem to change. Checked it after a few hours still the same. Took it home and used warm water and it did register the 90 degree temperature and as the water cooled it slowly went down so I guess it does work. Will try again tomorrow.
• Vortex tech came by at 0930 and the front door closer (of the door that has the key lock, which is the door used all the time) is leaking so he had to go back to the warehouse to get a replacement and then replaced it and was done by 1330. He also fixed an issue where the other door’s bottom lock wasn’t engaging and screwed in the loose base plate (that keeps the door from swinging inwards).

Fri Aug 01 2025

Sleep 0030 to 0730, 90m nap (8-1/2 hours)

• Darn. I switched Twitch payment to Apple Card so I could buy 100k bits and then forgot to change it back so my three subscriptions re-subbed using Apple Card rather than my credit union.

Going through Kickstarter to find three items that caught my eye.

Games > Tabletop Games - Looking for board games or RPGs. So much of this seems to be STL files for 3D printers and I guess they're easy to make since no manufacturing cost.

Publishing > Nonfiction - Was thinking maybe there's a military history book ok KS but didn't really find any. Panzer Camouflage v4 is part of a series that "covers the equipment and camouflage schemes of all sides of the conflict in the interwar period and covers the events of World War II" but not really my interest.

Music - I like several genres so I looked through the whole category. Nothing caught my eye. I think here you need a really good album cover or artist picture. Too many are kind of plain. Rukatama 1994 EP (Vinyl Limited Pressing) for a JPop solo artist.

Comics > Graphic Novels - A lot of sexy and NSFW stuff. Atomic Robo and the Peril of Prometheus is part of a long-running series and I've read a bunch of them which I got from a bundle.

I've done this before and it used to be I'd find three interesting items in each category but I guess nowadays there's less of that on Kickstarter.

What I may watch:

Journey to the Center of the Earth (8 half-hour episodes)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (6 half-hour episodes)

Spanish kid's shows where the main teen is a descendant of Jules Verne and everything he wrote is actually true but in an alternate dimension. Mostly got on my list because I saw the image for 20k Leagues with an attractive Latina Captain Nemo (Paty Cantú).

Big Mouth (16 hour-long episodes)

South Korean drama/thriller where a barely-managing-by lawyer gets involved in a high-profile murder case because one side thinks he's bribable.

Ironheart (6 45-60 minute episodes)

Riri Williams creates the Ironheart suit and fights crime in this MCU series. Ironheart appeared in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) and is a character I have in Marvel Strike Force.

Miraculous: Tales of Lady Bug & Cat Noir season 6 is slowly being released so I'll catch it next time as I'd want to watch it completely in one run.

But I think that may be it. Nothing really interesting to see and MLS v Liga Leagues Cup has too many games to watch.