We were getting 80F+ temperatures in the middle of October. Not just once, but repeatedly. Today, however, the rains finally arrived and “Augtober” can be nailed into its coffin and buried in the deepest pit we can find.
If “endless summer” is what we have to look forward to in the Pacific Northwest going forward, I want to know where I can go to escape from it.
I picked Satisfactory back up a couple of months ago in anticipation of the Update 6 patch landing on the Early Access branch. Instead of starting yet another new save, however, I decided to keep going on the save I started back before Update 4 landed. This neatly avoided having to climb the tech tree all over again, not to mention it takes advantage of the fact that I deliberately left the Spire Coast region alone the entire time so far. (The developers warned everyone that major map changes were coming to that area.)
Update 6 and its quality-of-life improvements arrived at the same time that I unlocked my very first ever “Turbofuel” recipe. I needed more electrical supply anyway (the lines on my power graphs criss-crossed a lot more than I was really comfortable with) so I decided to try out the more potent variety of fuel generation.
Here’s how that turned out.
(more…)Remind me to, at some point, backfill my impressions of the Spring 2022 anime season, because it had a lot going on, most of it genuinely good.
Anyway, since I am actually watching more than merely one or two new “first episodes” this season I figured I should jot down some thoughts. Here goes, listed by the order (mostly) in which I viewed them:
(more…)And no, I’m not going to trawl through the years worth of archives to see if I’ve done that joke before. It’s my website and I’ll repeat myself if I want to.
I fell down on posting in September, and that’s largely because summer is awful and this one was particularly awful and somehow it’s not even over yet because here we are, partway into the tenth month of the year and still seeing high temperatures in the upper 80s Fahrenheit.
Good thing global warming’s a myth, eh?
The job’s fine, everyone in my closest circle of humans is fine, I’m playing a lot of Three Hopes and have picked Satisfactory back up again, etc. (I continue to expand my current/existing Satisfactory savegame and have started a new co-op game with both of the kids. We’re out in the desert this time, where none of us have started a savegame before!)
Dunno, I might do some Satisfactory posting soon. It’s nice to be back in that groove again.
Other than that, I’m just trying to keep my head down, my mask on, and survive all the things I need to survive.
On an absolute last-second whim, I headed out this afternoon to take a hike around one of my favorite nearby attractions, the Tualatin Hills Nature Park. It’s just two stops away via MAX light rail, but between the pandemic and everything else I just haven’t made it over there in a couple of years.
At 2:38pm Pacific time, I emailed Honeywell’s support folks requesting any available tracking info for the replacement AC unit, since I hadn’t heard back from them since the previous Thursday when they agreed to the warranty replacement.
At 2:41pm Pacific time, a quick tap on the door to the apartment heralded the arrival of the replacement AC unit, thus rendering the email I’d just sent absolutely pointless.
Now imagine a lifetime full of this sort of thing and you begin to understand why I feel so emotionally tired all of the time.
