Fierce Women of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror from Humble Bundle is a bunch of novels and novellas from Open Road Media. Although there are novellas in the bundle (which are about 1/2 book size) there are also omnibus volumes so I guess 65 items is fair. One thing about looking at the omnibus images those must be generated art as the Witch World books are quite different thicknesses but look all the same in the images.

The bundle is $18 and includes:

The Iskryne series

• A Companion to Wolves (Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear, 2007)

• The Tempering of Men (Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear, 2011)

• An Apprentice to Elves (Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear, 2015)

Karen Memory

• Karen Memory (Elizabeth Bear, 2015)
• Stone Mad (Elizabeth Bear, 2018) - next in the series, Angel Maker (2025)

The Highroad Trilogy

• A Passage of Stars (Kate Elliott as Alis A. Rasmussen, 1990)
• Revolution's Shore (Kate Elliott as Alis A. Rasmussen, 1990)
• The Price of Ransom (Kate Elliott as Alis A. Rasmussen, 1990)

Crossroads

• Spirit Gate (Kate Elliott, 2007)
• Shadow Gate (Kate Elliott, 2008)
• Traitor's Gate (Kate Elliott, 2009)

The Keeper (Sarah Langan, 2006) - Langan is an award-winning horror writer
The Missing (Sarah Langan, 2007)
Audrey's Door (Sarah Langan, 2009)

Newsflesh books

• Feedback (Seanan McGuire as Mira Grant, 2016) - book 4

Newsflesh collections

• Rise (Seanan McGuire as Mira Grant, 2016)

Newsflesh short fiction - all the below also in Rise

• Countdown (Seanan McGuire as Mira Grant)
• How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea (Seanan McGuire as Mira Grant)
• The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell (Seanan McGuire as Mira Grant)
• Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus (Seanan McGuire as Mira Grant)
• All the Pretty Little Horses (Seanan McGuire as Mira Grant)
• Coming to You Live (Seanan McGuire as Mira Grant)

Parasitology

• Chimera (Seanan McGuire as Mira Grant, 2015) - book 3

I didn't sort the rest as I realized this is too much stuff to buy. I'm only really interested in Witch World books which for $18 would be a good price but I also don't want a bunch of stuff I'm going to virtually toss.

Mind you if this were a comic book collection or a table-top RPG collection and the same scenario I might still buy it. But for novels I feel I would try to read many of these and waste my time.

Beauty (Robin McKinley)
Deerskin (Robin McKinley)

Black Helicoptres (Caitlin R Kiernan)
The Tindalos Asset (Caitlin R Kiernan)
Agents of Dreamland (Caitlin R Kiernan)

Burning Girls and Other Stories (Veronica Schanoes)

Child of Venus (Pamela Sargent)
The Shore of Women (Pamela Sargent)
Venus of Dreams (Pamela Sargent)
Venus of Shadows (Pamela Sargent)

China Mountain Zhang (Maureen F McHugh)

Dream Snake (Vonda N McIntyre)
The Starfarers Series #1-2 (Vonda N McIntyre) - Starfarers, Transition
The Starfarers Series #3-4 (Vonda N McIntyre) - Metaphase, Nautilus

Fathom (Cherie Priest)
The Family Plot (Cherie Priest)
The Toll (Cherie Priest)

Larque on the Wing (Nancy Springer)

My Real Children (Jo Walton)
Necessity (Jo Walton)
The Just City (Jo Walton)
The Philosopher Kings (Jo Walton)

Points of Departure (Pat Murphy)
The Falling Woman (Pat Murphy)
The Shadow Hunter (Pat Murphy)
The City, Not Long After (Pat Murphy)

Probability Moon (Nancy Kress)
Probability Sun (Nancy Kress)

The Female Man (Joanna Russ)

The Quantum Rose (Catherine Asaro)

The Salt Roads (Nalo Hopkinson)
Skin Folk (Nalo Hopkinson)

The Winterlong Trilogy (Elizabeth Hand) - Winterlong, Aestival Tide, Icarus Descending

Trouble the Saints (Alaya Dawn Johnson)

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (Kate Wilhelm)

Witch World: Estcarp Cycle (Andre Norton) - Trey of Swords, Ware Hawk, The Gate of the Cat
Witch World: High Hallack Cycle (Andre Norton) - The Jargoon Pard, Zarsthor's Bane, The Crystal Gryphon, Gryphon in Glory, Horn Crown
Catseye (Andre Norton)

A Woman of the Iron People (Eleanor Arnason)

Glimmering (Elizabeth Hand)
Wylding Hall (Elizabeth Hand)
Black Light (Elizabeth Hand)

Now that Apple Creator Studio is out what do I have that (sort of) replicates it:

Pages: Create Documents
Numbers: Make Spreadsheets
Keynote: Design Presentations

• These three don't need a replacement since they're still free to use with only a few features paywalled.

Final Cut Pro: Create Video

• Apple's iMovie seems like the logical choice for amateur video creation

Logic Pro: Make Music

• Apple's GarageBand is pretty nice though I only use it to record podcasts
• Audacity - similar to GarageBand in terms of recording, I use it to compress my podcasts to 22kHz mono as Garageband doesn't have a way to compress it that low
• Levelator v3 - great for leveling out podcast sound, though now only available on Archive.org

Pixelmator Pro: Edit Images

• I have the old Pixelmator Pro from the Mac App Store. Might no longer get updates but for now it works fine.
• Affinity Studio is free (subscription for AI features). It does pixel and vector graphics and page layout.

Motion: Animate Effects

• Not sure if iMovie can do any of this.

Compressor: Encode Media

• Handbrake is more of a way to encode video for different devices but along the way you can reduce file sizes.

MainStage: Perform Live

• An unusual app that I don't have any alternative.

Sat Jan 24 2026

Sleep 0245 to 1045 (8 hours)

• Even though it'll be another 10 months, cancelling my RapidWeaver Classic subscription is probably for the best. It's pretty much in maintenance mode so you only get bug fixes but even then bugs are not being fixed. My showstopper -- application crashes just after a global search finishes and displays results -- has been there for months. I noticed recently that deleting a blog entry gives you a warning that it'll be permanent but only a cancel button that behaves like ok (delete entry) so the warning is effectively useless. Without a subscription RapidWeaver will keep working until an OS update breaks it permanently. But with a subscription it's slowly getting less and less usable though still largely just fine.

Sun Jan 25 2026

Sleep 0315 to 0915 (6 hours)

• Last night we played a Gloomhaven quest which took a really long time and we lost Then we played a couple of long NY Times puzzle games. CSr is using Steph's account as she has a subscription which opens up both new games and advanced goals for some of the free games.
• And then I woke up early to do Twitch mod duties.

Mon Jan 26 2026

Sleep 0400 to 1130 (7-1/2 hours)

• Mom's therapy appointment. She's moving pretty good now. Can get in and out of bed (the couch). Can get to/from garage entrance (there's a small step). Can get into and out of car by herself (though someone needs to take care of the walker).

Tue Jan 27 2026

Sleep 0345 to 0845, 45m nap in car (5-3/4 hours)

• Mom's doctor appointment. Progressing well and everything looks good. Probably keep knee brace on for full three months: on Wednesday it'll be at 70 degrees and +10 degrees per Wednesday. Next appointment in six weeks.

Wed Jan 28 2026

Sleep 0130 to 0900, 45m nap (8-1/4 hours)

• Parents Internet data usage about 650 GB for the month. I watched videos but didn't download Twitch VODs (which are huge) and watched Twitch at 480p (I assume live stream is also big like the VODs).

Thu Jan 29 2026

Sleep 0315 to 0945 (6-1/2 hours)

• I was thinking why I wasn't using Anything to create apps. It comes down to you 3k credits for signing up and I don't want to waste them. If you give me X amount of free credit but that's it then I'm afraid to use them. If you give me a little bit of free credit per month and it's "use it or lose it" then I'll make sure to use those credits. I think if you want people to try your service maybe the latter model is better.

Fri Jan 30 2026

Sleep 0315 to 1015 (7 hours)

• Gloomhaven. Re-tried last scenario with max level characters and this time was a comfortable win.

D3 Waifus 4U Bundle is a $25 bundle of 9 D3 Publisher games.

• Full Metal Schoolgirl (Oct 2025, $50, Windows 64-bit DX 12) - 3rd person shooter with cartoon graphics
• Ed-0: Zombie Uprising (Jul 2023, $30, Windows 64-bit DX 12) - 3d person combat. "A rogue-like action where traditional Japanese characters (Samurai, Sumo Wrestler, and Ninja) destroy hordes of zombies. Since everything is randomly generated, no run will be the same. Decision making will be essential but there are some RPG elements as well."
• Samurai Maiden (Dec 2022, $60, Windows 64-bit DX 12) - 3rd person sword fighting with cartoon graphics.
• Maglam Lord (May 2022, $40, Windows 64-bit DX 12) - Action RPG with cartoon graphics. "a vibrant action JRPG straight from the depths of hell! Boasting exploration, real-time combat, weapon crafting and relationship building."
• Onee Chanbara Origin (Oct 2020, $60, Windows 64-bit) - 3rd person sword fighting game.
• Bullet Girls Phantasia (Jan 2020, $30, Windows 64-bit, DX 11) - "the latest installment of the all-female third person shooter "Bullet Girls" series. This game is a thrilling action-packed game where cute girls shoot assault rifles and bazookas in a world filled with slimes, orcs, and dragons."
• Omega Labyrinth Life (Dec 2019, $60, Windows 64-bit) - "Roguelike x Relaxation! Take it easy in the latest addition to the series where you buff your bust with every foe you defeat, Omega Labyrinth! Enjoy your daily life in an academy of fair maidens!"
• SG/ZH: School Girl/Zombie Hunter (Jun 2018, $40, Windows 64-bit DX 11) - "SG/ZH is a shooting action game where the story takes place at "Kirisaki High School". The school has been suddenly cut off by the outside world and surrounded by the crowds of zombies."
• Onechanbara Z2: Chaos (Jun 2016, $40, Windows 64-bit, DX 11) - "Onechanbara Z2: Chaos is the latest entry in the Onechanbara series. Two sets of buxom vampire sisters battle through over a dozen stages of high-octane real-time swordplay. Fight off the invasion in gruesome detail, occasionally transforming into a demon for short bursts of added power and speed."

This publisher doesn't seem to believe in lowering prices for old games. Other than the last game, Full Metal Schoolgirl, the other games don't seem to have great graphics. Overall these games don't look that interesting.

Another month of Netflix and I watched:

• Eternal Love (2017) - this was 58 episodes so watched 2 episodes a day throughout the month
• Vagabond 1.7 to 1.16 (2019) - I finally finished Vagabond
• Hi Bye, Mama! (2020)
• My Holo Love (2020)
• In Love and Deep Water (2023) - a Japanese vacation cruise murder mystery
• Invisible Us (2024)
• Cinderella Closet (2025)
• The Great Flood (2025) - a Korean sci-fi action-drama movie as the world suddenly floods

In retrospect was not the best month of tv shows. No great Korean romance series to anchor the lineup.

Sat Jan 17 2026

Sleep 0230 to 0730. (5 hours)

• Gaming at Dave S's place so that Christopher and I can switch being at parents.
• We got a couple of hours of D&D in. Leveling up characters. Then reading X1 handout and buying/outfitting a ship. Then sailing to the Isle of Dread which was mostly Borin rolling Navigation checks and a couple of random encounters.
• After the game we walked to Cold Stone for a bit of ice cream and beer at Jack's. Then walked back. I think I rubbed this spot at the bottom of my foot because it feels tender.
• Drove to parents. Foot definitely bothering me. Not a blister yet.

Sun Jan 18 2026

Sleep 0300 to 1100 (8 hours)

• Limping around the house bothers mom so she keeps nagging me about it. Great to be with parents :(
• Apparently the guys had scheduled a game tonight since tomorrow is a holiday. Luckily I saw the Discord messages so I hopped on 10m late. We played DDO Vault of Night which took us to 0130 (a good half hour or more fighting the last boss since we did little damage and he kept healing) and then did Plane of Night which took 20m.

Mon Jan 19 2026

Sleep 0400 to 1100 (7 hours)

• Mom's appointment at Laguna Physical Therapy & Hand Rehabilitation. Small business with room for maybe a max of 10 simultaneous patients but probably 5 comfortably.

Tue Jan 20 2026

Sleep 0400 to 0900, 1530 to 1730 (7 hours)

• Calendar keeps reminding me to leave for CW's family events since they have a shared calendar I subscribe to. Don't see a way to limit "Time to Leave" alerts to specific calendars so I guess I'll turn off that feature.

Wed Jan 21 2026

Sleep 0330 to 1100 (7-1/2 hours)

• GURPS Basic, Fourth Edition, Revised is coming this March. The FAQ says $100 for the book (it's one book now) and pdf.

Thu Jan 22 2026

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

• I wish Twitch allowed two payment methods, one for subscriptions and one for buying bits and gifting subs. Or generally even support for multiple payment methods and you can choose which to use at point-of-sale (with a default payment method for subscription auto-renewals).

Fri Jan 23 2026

Sleep 0400 to 1000 (6 hours)

• DDO: Dave S was out so we played DDO with our A characters. Got three quests done in Legendary Isle of Dread.

Dynamite Character Crossover Comics Bundle is an $18 from Humble Bundle.

There's definitely enough that I don't own to make it worthwhile (and for the Non-Female Leads I may have bought them previously and trashed them).

Female Leads (one or two)

• Barbarella Holiday Special (2018, 48pp)
• Barbarella/Dejah Thoris TPB (2019) - [OWN issue #1]
• Blood Queen vs Dracula #1-4 (2015) - [OWN as part of Blood Queen Omnibus]
• Elvira in Monsterland #1-5 (2023)
• Elvira Meets Vincent Price TPB (2024)
• Elvira Meets HP Lovecraft #1-5 (2024)
• Green Hornet Miss Fury #1-5 (2024)
• Purgatori Must Die TPB (2024)
• Red Sonja/Tarzan TPB (2019) [OWN]
• Red Sonja/Chaos: Age of Chaos TPB (2022) [OWN]
• Red Sonja The Superpowers TPB (2022) [OWN]
• Sonjaversal v1 TPB (2022) - v2 not in this bundle
• Red Sonja Hell Sonja #1-4 (2022)
• Lords of the Jungle: Featuring Tarzan and Sheena TPB (2016) [OWN]
• Vampirella vs. Dracula TPB (2012) [OWN]
• Vampirella/Army of Darkness TPB (2016) [OWN]
• Vampirella vs. Reanimator TPB (2019)
• Vampirella/Dejah Thoris TPB (2019) [OWN]
• Vampiverse TPB (2022)
• Vampirella The Dark Powers TPB (2022)
• Vampirella vs. Purgatori TPB (2022)
• Vampirella vs. the Superpowers TPB (2024)
• Vampirella/Dracula: Unholy TPB (2024)
• Vampirella/Dracula Rage TPB (2024)

Mixed Leads, Mostly Females

• Prophecy TPB (2013) [OWN]
• Chaos TPB (2015) [OWN]
• Legenderry A Steampunk Adventure TPB (2015) [OWN]
• Swords of Sorrow: The Complete Saga TPB (2015) [OWN]
• Die!Namite TPB (2022) [OWN]
• Die!Namite Lives TPB (2023)

Non-Female Leads

• Army of Darkness vs Re-Animator TPB (2006)
• Monster War TPB (2006 Top Cow/Dynamite)
• Army of Darkness Ash vs. The Classic Monsters TPB (2007)
• Masks v1 and v2 TPB (2013-2016)
• Sherlock Holmes vs. Harry Houdini TPB (2015)
• Greatest Adventure HC (2018)
• Project Superpowers Omnibus v1 TPB (2018) - v2 and v2 not in this bundle
• Army of Darkness vs. Reanimator Necronomicon Rising TPB (2024)

Eichhorn Mörk Borg Bundle is a $20 set price bundle of (mostly) Mörk Borg supplements by Christian Eichhorn. I already have some of his products from a previous bundle but this one has no overlaps for me.

Supplements

• Apocrypha (76pp, $15) - from a Jan 2022 KS.
• Hallowed (48pp, $15) - formerly titled Bone Heart Crusaders, from a Jul 2023 KS.
• Monsters! (48pp, $15) - from a May 2023 KS.
• Refuse (48pp, $15) - discarded ideas from previous books.

Adventures

• Death & Taxes (48pp, $15) - adventure with "a demon infestation, a shortage of silver coins due to the king's ravenous taxes, and an economic depression caused by mandatory daily festivals", from Apr 2024 KS.
• Monochrome (48pp, $15) - adventure: "the miserable and cruel Countess Anthelia seeks to hasten the end of the world by constructing many huge telescopes", from a Jan 2025 KS.

Tri-Fold (2-page) Adventures

• The Factory (trifold, $2) - mini-adventure
• Holy Femurs (trifold, $2) - mini-adventure
• Rat Cellar (trifold, $2) - mini-adventure

Generic Supplements

• Commercial Pack of Maps ($5) - 40 maps for use with any RPG

It's $101 retail on DriveThruRPG. He sells discount bundles for about 20% off. Not sure these would go on sale but I assume if so it'd be 30% off so on theoretical sale it'd be $70. So $20 is a great price.

Sat Jan 10 2026

Sleep 0115 to 0815, 30m nap (7-1/2 hours)

• Vent cleaner company (The Vent Cleaner) came by this morning. I had to let them in walked out of my apartment without my front door keys -- I automatically picked up the keys on the counter and walked out but apparently I had left my front door keys in my other pants pocket. And then as I was thinking about it I walked into the courtyard and locked myself out of the building.
• Luckily I had my phone so used the call box to ring myself and the vent guys into the building. And I had picked up the misc keys so I had the office key and could grab my emergency backup we store in the office (along with anyone else who wants to store an emergency key there). I had only put in an emergency key a couple of months ago when I decided I'm never having guests at my place in any case.
• Vent cleaning was interesting. Guy comes in and moves my dryer forward then climbs into the back. Uses a power tool to unscrew the exhaust tube then has this blow dryer thing with an exhaust-sized hose that he uses to blow the lint out into the exhaust shaft. Someone on the roof has a vacuum cleaner with a long hose they drop in and suck up the lint. Takes like 10 minutes so 19 units is about 3 hours for two people. But there were two people working the floor so 1-1/2 hours with slack in case of difficulties.
• Donated via GoFundMe and I forgot that if I select PayPal it uses the last PayPal funding source and doesn't ask. I find that quite annoying.

Sun Jan 11 2026

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

• At my parents when I'm using this soft mousepad (which is still better than using the mouse on a cloth-covered dining room table), I have a hard time clicking Notepad links, it usually selects text or does nothing. When I'm home on a hard-topped desk then my Apple Magic Mouse clicks links just fine. Possibly the mousepad makes it seem like I click + move the mouse a little so it's not really a "activate link" command. If I use the Glorious Model O mouse the click usually registers correctly.
• Power outage from about 1215 to 1450. Luckily sun was out so got 100 minutes of reading in. PG&E is fairly good at estimating time to repair. Usually estimate comes within 30 minutes of the outage and the estimate (in this case it was 1445) is pretty accurate, I guess maybe it's "find out which part is broken, get part from depot, replace it". An email saying power was back came at 1450.
• Modiphius another web site transition to Shop. I can login with my current password (and when you put in an email address it triggers opening a little "login with Shop" window) but no UI choice to change my password.

Mon Jan 12 2026

Sleep 0330 to 1130 (8 hours)

• I forgot Gym Precision was coming by to do maintenance. Luckily he got here about 1230 (estimate was 1100 to 1400).
• Got a text saying I needed to schedule an appointment for 2 fillings. Earliest afternoon opening is March 17th which is great since that'll be six months after Mom's surgery so she'll have full range of motion.
• I thought this up in the shower: since Dave W doesn't like MechWarrior 5 the plan will be Fri/Sat play MW5 until Dave W arrives then switch to Gloomhaven/DDO. Gloomhaven we'll often have to break in the middle of a scenario until the next week but that seems to work ok. DDO has few very long quests -- and in that case we can run at a low Reaper level -- so we should be fine there.

Tue Jan 13 2026

Sleep 0430 to 1200 (7-1/2 hours)

• Apple Creator Studio bundle at $130 per year. If you're a professional I think it's a lot cheaper than something from Adobe. And for non-professionals Apple still has iMovie (instead of Final Cut Pro) and GarageBand (instead of Logic Pro), though nothing free instead of Pixelmator Pro.

Wed Jan 14 2026

Sleep 0530 to 1200 (6-1/2 hours)

• Started playing Slay the Spire+ (for the first time) after I went to bed and a couple of hours later I finished a run to completion and it was 0530.

Thu Jan 15 2026

Sleep 0315 to 0930 (6-1/4 hours)

• Got my Kaiser bill. Used it to register to kp.org/payonline (which redirects to https://ucp.aciondemand.com). From there I could pay my bill. Paying from my kp.org login still doesn't work, pay and set up recurring payments buttons don't do anything in Safari or Chrome. It's only by going to the help and watching that video that I got the kp.org/payonline link.

Fri Jan 17 2026

Sleep 0000 to 0500, 1145 to 1345 (7 hours)

• Prepping for tomorrow's D&D session.
• Printing out stuff I won't have a chance to do later.
• Playing too much Slay the Spire.

Wild Card Round was exciting. Four close games and then a comparatively boring defensive game. I'm happy the 49ers won so now they get to go to Seattle for game 3 -- they won in Seattle and lost at home.

Los Angeles Rams at Carolina Panthers 34-31 - The Panthers played poorly at first then got good and finally couldn't stop the last Rams drive for winning score. Panthers played better than I expected.

Green Bay Packers at Chicago Bears 27-31 - Packers were up 21-3 at the half was both unlucky and didn't look in sync. And then the Packers couldn't move the ball and the Bears caught up in the 4th and went ahead. Packers had one final drive but only got to FG range and they need a TD.

Buffalo Bills at Jacksonville Jaguars 27-24 - Jaguars played very well and should have won the game. They kept close to the Bills and banged up QB Josh Allen. In the final drive with a minute left QB Trevor Lawrence threw a bad interception to DB he should have seen. He had an earlier interception like that too.

San Francisco 49ers at Philadelphia Eagles 23-19 - Tense game from my POV. 49ers first drive led to a TD but after that the Eagles defense held very well until the 4th quarter. In the end the 49ers were up enough that the Eagles needed a TD on their final drive and they drove down the field to about the 49ers 20 yd line but couldn't convert 4th down.

Los Angeles Chargers at New England Patriots 3-16 - Patriots blitzed a lot and the Charges O-line couldn't hold them back and QB Justin Herbert kept holding the ball too long.

Houston Texans at Pittsburgh Steelers 30-6 - For half the game QB CJ Stroud just kept fumbling the ball (twice) or getting picked (once) but those two fumbles only led to two Steelers FGs and Houston led 7-6. Then in the 4th quarter the Texans finally started going with a FG, fumble recovered for a TD, then an interception for another TD. So I guess we can say the Texan defense won the game. And as I think I mentioned before QB Aaron Rodgers looks so old.