Variations on the same theme

Books
The Summer War, by Naomi Novik. Sweet little fairy tale novella about curses and love and nobility and oaths.
How to Find Love in a Book Shop, by Veronica Henry. Ensemble romance novel in which several couples find their way to happiness as one of the protagonists comes home to inherit a bookshop in a rural English village after her father dies. Another sweet one.

Music
Qveen Herby, Isle Of Qveen. Seven short songs adding up to 16 minutes. They're clever witchy rapping bops. Will listen again.
Sarah Nixey, Sea Fever. Really interesting vocalist. The first part is nature oriented, the second part goes somewhere else and I need to put some listen time in to really get it.

1. When the Clock Strikes Twelve (Dave Collis GMing)
Next adventure in his Rivers of London verse. Last time I made my character in the regular game mad by what I did with the character in this game, so I'll have to see if I can do better this time.

2. No Roads Lead to the Mathemagical Lighthouse (Arref Mak GMing)
Next adventure in the Addamz Family game (Addams Family x Amber crossover). The delight in this game is watching the characters all be nuts and win anyway.

3. Free Republic of Ygg: An Eggcellent Adventure (Me GMing solo)
My next adventure with my motley crew of silly-billies, whom I adore. This group has included plant people, a guy with the Pattern carved in his chest, a chicken bard named Hen Solo, and a surprising variety of steampunk and fantasy normies. What I throw at them generally depends on who I get, and I've got a good crew to hunt the dragon's egg.

4. Brand Mismanagement (Dave Collis GMing)
The only game I have to come up with a new character for. I don't know what Brandy's schtick is but I am having a think about it.

5. Pendrad 2026: The Sweet Confusion of Chaos (Arref Mak GMing)
Next in the Fae game, which is always wild and fun and I need to get the notes to Ray.

6. Meanwhile, Calm Winds & Quiet Waves (Kris B/Avon GMing)
I'm only playing one Meanwhile game this con, which makes me sad, but I'm glad I'm playing this game. Naval shenanigans are a common theme in this game and while I'm sorry we didn't get to go back to the pirate well this time, I'm glad someone went there.

7. Meanwhile, We Delved Too Deep (Me & Michael GMing)
This one is sort of a follow-up to the game we ran at ACUS last year, this time featuring the plot around the underwater dwarven mountain that the players didn't chase down. We have one new player in our group and it's one of my favorite people.

8. Amber Rising (Adam Easterday GMing)
FTF session of this online/in-person hybrid campaign for the four of us at the con.

Not a lot of progress this fortnight on actual stuff and one case of falling back: I was too sick to go to the play we had tickets for. We're about to buy tickets for the summer round of concerts.

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I think the biggest progress barrier is the liminal state around the kitchen, which is moving forward slowly but not yet ready for us to put all the stuff in our dining room in. So I think my anniversary gift is going to be putting away my dishes and pots and pans, at least the ones I use, and getting rid of the rest of them.

Late is better than never. Obviously we didn't get any music done last month and given than I'm not fighting off what I hope is a cold, I may not do any this month. I really want to go to the Earlybirds Dance Club so I need to get off my keister and get well.

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The only ticket we actually bought last month was to the Texas Monthly Taco Festival, but we have a bunch of things we're considering and since, assuming I'm well enough, we'll be seeing friends on Tuesday, we'll maybe figure out which of these shows we want to go to.