Cav's Place

I should write something here, so here’s another Friday update. Third one in a row, and also the third first post of the week in a row on a Friday, which will almost certainly make for the third week in a row with the two posts being written on Friday and Saturday. What I mean to write tomorrow won’t be the third Saturday protest update in a row, however, but a short post that’ll only mark a certain moment, so I’ll see about getting myself to write the next protest update next week.

Started the week by getting myself another Paysafecard PIN on Monday, for a difference of 67 cents, which also required walking a fair amount since the machines I knew of didn’t seem to work. Those additional 67 cents were needed because GOG.com had Return to Krondor 60% off and I can’t recall ever seeing that more than 50% off, so thought I might as well buy it then, since I wanted to play it only ever since I played Betrayal at Krondor, which if I remember correctly was in 2000. Sure, I know it’s not as good, and a lot of time has passed since then, which changed even my demands and expectations of a game, but I’m quite sure I’ll get through it someday.
Probably not in the immediate future, however, seeing as, after just starting Return to Krondor and wandering around a little, I seem to have gotten back to Age of Wonders II yet again, finishing a few more scenarios. In fact, I spent most of the day playing today, though I didn’t actually finish anything yet, only getting rid of my one enemy, so now I’m simply watching the other two wizards fight each other while I finish researching everything and maybe train my hero somewhat more in some battles against the remaining independent armies. If neither will defeat the other by the time I’m done, I guess I’ll have to declare war once again in order to be able to win, but at least this time I’m only actually allied with one, so the choice will at least be obvious.

I also did a little reading this week, though no more than a few pages before yesterday, when I actually went through a few chapters. This happened after the author offered me a copy of Prophecies Awakening in exchange for nothing more than a fair review, after I had entered a giveaway for it. What I mean is that I didn’t win it in the giveaway, so didn’t get a paperback sent to me, but the author selected some additional users to send the digital version of the book to and I was among them.
Though it’s on the short side, reading it on the computer means it could easily take me two weeks, but I’ll try to finish it somewhat sooner since I seem to have gotten myself into proofreading mode and sent a couple of messages with several small issues I already noticed, the author saying he’ll make a list in order to make all the corrections at once when I’ll finish it and upload a new version then, since his proofreaders apparently missed all of these. What may get rather awkward is the fact that he also said he could use someone like me for proofreading the extended edition of the second book in the series as well, which isn’t yet finished, and that made me particularly nervous, seeing as it implies more responsibility than simply sending a few messages with some things I happen to notice, so let’s see how it’ll go.

Also this week, I participated in two protests, Tuesday and Wednesday, and at the moment I’m considering attending the one announced for Sunday as well, which is meant to show solidarity with the Ukrainian protesters, specifying that it refers to the peaceful ones and not the extremists, whether by their actions or by their ideology. I’ll write more about all of this in the next protest update, whenever I’ll get around to writing that, but I must say that Wednesday’s one truly was a matter of changing as quickly as possible, throwing everything I thought I may need in my backpack and rushing outside, because it was supposed to be a flash mob starting at 4:30 PM and I only saw a post about it at 3:10 PM.

Yesterday I went to the dentist again, after a filling that had been replaced about a year and eight months ago fell out yet again, and for the first time I went there alone. Seeing as I sent them an e-mail to make the appointment and was told to just call next time, because they don’t check their e-mail, I won’t be doing that again, since dad will need to be the one to call them and schedule. Sure, he could make the next appointment at a time that works for me, but since I was told there may be another small cavity but I’ll need a scaling before she can be sure, I’d probably be too afraid to go alone anyway. Only had that done once, back in 2007, and it was the worst part of all the work done back then, needing to be done in stages.

As for the last part of the title, we finally seem to be having some actual winter again, after those few days back in November. There’s even a small amount of snow scattered on the ground now and it’s supposed to snow more over the coming days, the temperatures staying clearly below freezing. There are also warnings of high winds, so much so that I saw a news piece stating that a code red may be declared in certain parts of the country because of it, but I do believe we’re terribly overreacting when it comes to the weather in recent years. Even I remember the time when days much worse than this were normal throughout winter, and I’m only 29! But, of course, others, and by this I’m referring to people all over the world, forget very quickly, as an Associated Press analysis points out. If you prefer humor, check out today’s xkcd as well.