Two slightly more notable things to report this month:
- I donated blood for the first time! I’m sure that everyone I know is sick of hearing about this, but it really is something that I’ve wanted to do for a long time, and am really pleased that I finally got around to. It is somewhat scary before you’ve actually done it, but now that I have, I’m horrified that I waited so long.
- I’ve been going on bike rides for the first time in … ten years?! I “moved away” from home in 2004 to go to university, and I haven’t really had a bike in my possession since, although I have ridden them a few times in the intervening years, mostly while travelling. So owning a bike is something that I’ve wanted to do for a long while as well, and I finally bought one last month. It’s taking me a while to get over my self-consciousness and also worry that I will be either run over or eaten by a wildcat on a remote rural road, but it’s been happening gradually and I’m really pleased. I mention this because if you’ve ever worried that I will keel over due to being horribly out of shape before I finish this project, you can rest a tiny bit easier.
Watching
Enterprise
My quest to watch all of Star Trek continues with Enterprise, which is slicker and has better pacing than TOS SORT OF, but is also weirdly regressive and just generally ugh. This show has more white guys in the main cast than any of the Treks since the original one, depending on whether you count Wesley Crusher as part of the main cast of TNG (and I’m not counting robots or aliens as white dudes, but I am counting holograms). That’s just the most blatant problem, though, except for the weird treatment of the character of T’Pol, who is the first female Vulcan to appear as a main character on a Trek show, and is also constantly sexualized. I’ve gotten into the second season now, and the show seems to maybe be finding a little bit of direction, but suffice it to say that I’m not enjoying it much.
Brooklyn Nine Nine
I had heard a small number of good things about this show and so I decided to randomly watch a bit of it on Netflix one day, and WOW. I thought it was hilarious.
The World Cup
This got its own category last month but now that it’s over my excitement is a bit tempered. I had a great time watching the last few Albiceleste (ah! team nicknames!) games, though, even though they didn’t quite pull off the last one. And I won some dollahs, so it was all worth it. I may be an Argentina fan 4 LYFE now, though, and I’m strangely interested in learning more about the country as well, so I guess that all worked out well?
Playing
Threes!
Apparently unlike most people who got caught up in 2048 (which no I will not link to), I had actually seen Threes! before its knockoff took the internet by storm. My brother showed it to me over his February break from university, but since I had a rule not to put any games on my phone, I basically just played it on his and then didn’t think about it much. That is, until 2048 started popping up on Facebook and Twitter. I’m sad to admit that I played a ton of 2048, even going so far as to develop a strategy that got me to a high score of 4096 a few times. Having done that, though, and realizing that if there was this browser game I might as well just bite the bullet and install a game on my phone, I finally got Threes!. Let me tell you, after the weeks of looking at the comparatively bland 2048 interface, Threes! is an absolute joy. All of the tiles are adorable and they say hi to one another, and this is literally the only mobile game where I find the sound effects and music so delightful that I don’t immediately and always have them turned off, which is the highest praise I am able to give. My high score is 768 right now, and the 768 tile is a dragon sort of monster thing, and it is amazing. The gameplay is a bit more challenging, too, so if you’ve mastered 2048, or just want to play a beautifully designed tile game, I highly recommend you spend a few dollars on Threes!.
Reading
Full House Reviewed
I can’t pretend that I didn’t absolutely love Full House as a preteen. In fact, while I was a Trekkie even at that age, I never read any of the Star Trek novels, but I did have some Full House chapter books. (I also had a novelization of the movie Monkey Trouble, which I have never seen to this day.) I’ve seen some Full House as an adult, though, and while my love of Star Trek hasn’t gone away, Full House is terrible. Enter Full House Reviewed, a blog featuring humourous/scathing recaps of all the episodes. I decided to take a break about halfway through, but I'll likely be getting back to it soon. You won’t regret reading it.
I think this just became my longest Distraction post ever.
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