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Monthly Archive March, 2016

Checked Off the List: Ten Kilometers on Next to No Sleep

Checked a little test off the list today, running ten kilometers on the track during that free hour left, between 7 and 8 AM, after they resurfaced it. This meant waking up at 6:15 AM, so getting about half an hour of sleep, maybe up to 45 minutes at best, in the morning, after about […]

Definitely No Tropico 4 Review This Weekend…

Was still in bed today when I decided I wasn’t going to even attempt to write that review over the weekend, one of the reasons being that, on top of simply not feeling like I could manage it, my parents were about to leave for a while, so I was going to fix myself something […]

Getting Books, Finishing Tropico 4 and Waiting to Plant Trees

I actually managed not to write any personal posts last week, so let me start with last Tuesday, when, shortly after I got back from buying a few other things, I was called by the shop I had ordered The Slow Regard of Silent Things and Sword of Destiny from, letting me know they had […]

End of Season: Kasai at 502, Prevc at 15, 22 and 2303

Since the ski jumping season’s last competition took place today and I wrote a post mentioning the records set on Thursday, I just want to quickly follow up with the final numbers. Those are 502 Ski Jumping World Cup competition appearances for Noriaki Kasai and 15 wins, 22 podiums and 2303 points obtained during a […]

Quick Review: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

It’s true; you may not want to buy this book. It’s too short but the price doesn’t reflect it, the illustrations and at times even the writing style make it look like a children’s story despite being anything but, and it most definitely doesn’t do the things a story should. It doesn’t depict a series […]