- Watched a bunch of Andor season two yesterday.
- Such a damn pretty show.
- Which got me thinking about the shitshow that is The Wheel of Time.
- I know, I know.
- I’ve been rereading some of it.
- So the discrepancies between the two are … vast.
- More than that, however, you can tell Amazon threw money at WoT, but … it’s all terrible.
- The writing is bad.
- The characters have been made two-dimensional.
- It looks like it was shot by amateurs.
- I finished season three of The White Lotus, and that is the most beautiful show I have ever seen.
- Andor is also beautiful.
- They both look like they were made by film professionals, not streaming-TV crews.
- Like, did no one tell the WoT crew how to frame a bloody shot?
- Hell, they don’t even seem to know the Rule of Thirds.
- And the lighting is crap.
- It’s all crap, is what I’m saying.
- Hi!
- (Waves hand)
- Do we actually talk Andor?
- Not yet.
- I’m only three episodes in, so … we’ll wait.
- Books, right?
- So much slower this year than last, and I’m doing a shit job of writing down what I read.
- I’ve read four or five of those Dungeon Crawler Carl books by Matt Dinniman.
- Four?
- Maybe I’m on book five.
- Either way, they’re fun.
- LitRPG is bizarre to me.
- That the genre even exists.
- I’ve read two series so far.
- Cradle by Will Wight and Carl.
- Carl has blown up.
- It’s like dramatization of a D&D campaign, only the setting is different every book.
- And there’s a talking cat.
- They’re fun.
- Disposable.
- I’m taking a break with The Wheel of Time.
- Books three and four, then I’m out on that for awhile.
- That series is … daunting.
- Fourteen books of 700-900 something pages each.
- I reread the whole series back in ’21.
- Started in April, finished in June, reading nothing else in between.
- Was a good time.
- I read them as they came out, which was challenging.
- That was my first “waiting desperately for the next one” experience.
- For books anyway.
- In real life, that was probably the gap between The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi.
- Mom got me out of school early on the last day of sixth grade to go see Jedi.
- I think it was sixth grade.
- … I don’t want to look it up and do the math.
- Braining is hard at the moment.
- I think all the surgery drugs wore off finally and now my body is fighting to repair the skull hole and killing whatever the “thing” is at the same time.
- Resting HR is up about six, seven points.
- Sleep is for shit.
- Healing fatigue sucks.
- But … healing.
- YOLO!
- We talk about music in here a lot.
- Delivery of said music, however …
- I have a pair of Pixel Bud Pros.
- I cannot live without them at this point.
- First, I can’t wear any of my over-the-ear headphones right now because they smash my brains.
- Necessary.
- But also, these things have fantastic noise cancelling and work amazingly on Zoom and whatnot.
- They can connect to two devices at once.
- They actually have bass.
- I wish I got paid to shill for this stuff.
- Coming soon.
- This recovery life … I gotta admit, I need to figure out how to get paid to live this way.
- Get up. Have coffee. Write. Have lunch. Write some more.
- Yes, I write for a living.
- But there’s a gulf between that and what I’d rather be writing.
- These lists are a bridge for sure.
- They have saved my mental/professional life.
- Which gives us another segue.
- Maybe.
- Have you read the research on the four-day workweek?
- No loss of “productivity,” fewer taken sick days, an increase in contentment and happiness in the workforce.
- Not here in America, mind you.
- …
- I can’t end this thing on a rant, so I’m going to stop there.
- Stop buying into the bullshit.
- Okay.
- Where was I?
- (Consults the notebook …)
- (Yes, I actually made a list for the List today.)
- (The hell is the matter with me.)
- Playlists?
- The new mixtape or burned CDs.
- Problem I’m running into is how to share songs.
- The Teenager converted us to a Spotify family after a successful psych campaign.
- We were all Amazon Music.
- So I sling Spotify links around like candy.
- But not everyone can listen to them.
- What a pain in the ass our subscription-based world can be, you know?
- Glad some asshole who doesn’t create the music’s getting richer!
- (This is what differentiates the Black List from the Work List.)
- (Like, here, I can say I’d like to punch a certain State Superintendent sycophant in the face. Multiple times.)
- (Yes, fighting is bad.)
- “If you could fight anyone, who would it be?”
- I could do a top-five on that.
- But it’d be a Kali fight because I never got to where I liked punching people back in my sparring days.
- Hitting them with sticks and knives? Sure.
- Would need to talk to my therapist about that.
- OMG I loved doing Kali, btw.
- Became the ninja I always wanted to be.
- I have stories about that, too.
- Now this one’s gone long, and I only hit like half the stuff I wrote down.
- Snap. Back to reality.
- I gotta go water the veggies in the pocket full of sunshine.
- And then probably pass out from skull fatigue.
- High five.
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