reading watching playing jan 13 2023

I should be cleaning my house / lawn.

I recently finished The Westside Book of Methods, and I'm in the middle of the bible and Viking Age Iceland by Jesse Byock.

The weightlifting book is good. I've been trying a 'conjugate' program for lifting that I got from an only slightly-evil workout website. The program has been working well and has been pretty safe for 6 weeks now so I thought I should actually read one of the books. It's a bit disappointing that there is still sometimes a large disparity of information between printed books and public websites. Well whatever. There was a hugely beneficial explanation of why lifting light-but-fast contributes to making you stronger (it's because a pound measures force, not mass...). There's also an excessive litany of all the injuries the author sustained throughout his lifetime of weight training.

The Iceland book is pretty fun. The settlers were people who had traditions already, then moved to an island with no native population and no aggressive animals, and it turned out their new home had no wood and is mostly glacier and volcano. The situation is unique and the book presents mostly concrete daily-life stuff so I like reading about it.

I've been trying to read the bible cover-to-cover since I was a kid and I've always quit. I'm not religious and I don't like the stories. I've always thought that reading the entire bible will make me smarter. I think this time I'll finish it. I'm up to Ruth.

The cartoons I've been watching are Akiba Maid War, Do It Yourself, and Bocchi the Rock.

Akiba Maid War is a fun show about making relationships. It also neatly acknowledges how ruinous it can be to have a shitty job. Do It Yourself is cool if you like watching other people work. It has a commentary about automation vs manual labor that, somewhere in there, I don't think is really real. Bocchi the Rock is fun despite being a show about illness a.k.a. disease.

I'd sort of like to watch a real movie that isn't bad. I have netflix, hulu, etc because of my family. Every time I search for something I want to watch they don't have it. It's pretty demoralizing. Netflix did have pui pui molcar the last time I checked, which is nice.

I've been playing Dragon Quest Builders 2, Project Zomboid, and Unreal World.

DQ Builders 2 has been encouraging me a lot while I play DQ Builders 2. I wish there was more sandbox gameplay patched around all the shit the game asks you to do.

I play zomboid off & on. I kind of believe it's an abysmal game. The firearms suck for no reason, you can't make a killdozer, there's no flamethrower, it's pretty monotonous. It's still fun to move around and make plans and try to live. Plus you can landscape. I'll probably quit playing it for a year.

Vanilla Unreal World is alright if you want to go on a churl's adventure. I believe Unreal World has the potential to be extremely fun with a creative mod like hippogriffs or hippopottomi.

Alright see ya gn.