I just clocked Underrail (with the expansion)

Tuesday's brain-poking was just dealing with the trauma of the previous session.  Yes, I am that broken.

Wednesday, after a morning of getting game stuff sorted I had a friend-date afternoon out with REO Speedwagon (I say inflicting a new terrible nickname on a friend who doesn't like to identified on the internet).  We went to Long Dog at the beach - it is a nice enough cafe that gets massive bonus points for the view.  Watching waves is nice.  And he dropped me at uni in time to grab some dinner before game.

The game session was weird.  It was a purely social session with the characters not even getting through a single conversation in the whole game as they were enjoying awkwardly flirting at the openly asexual people in the town they had stumbled across.  Players are so much trouble.

Thursday evening I had my worst experience at Nando's ever (and I have fallen over from muscle cramps there before).  It was stinky like old rubbish and the service was extremely slow.  At least I got to go out to Simon and Joe's afterwards to watch Deadpool 2 with David.  To complain about Nando's and complain about how Deadpool 2 is no Deadpool.

Friday, I was planning to do nothing but got a text just after 9am to tell me the University Book Shop had a book in for me.  I mentioned it in the messenger chat I was having with my dad so a few hours later he turned up to take me to get it.  Which means I got the book and also means I got the ride in a car along side the ridiculous farmer's protest through town.  So many tractors and utes, and rather too many protest signs that were either anti-Maori racism or misogynistic attacks on the prime minister.

Late afternoon I started reading Rainbow Rowell's Any Way The Wind Blows, and by lunch time on Saturday I had finished its 575 pages.  I may not have slept as much as an old man like me needs to.

Last night a friend came around, which was nice.  Except he recently moved from smoking to vaping, and while he was very respectful about not smoking in other people's space he started vaping in my lounge without so much as warning.  And proved far too resistant to my attempts at passive aggressively suggesting it wasn't ideal.

My psychotherapist has been encouraging me to be better at healthy conflict.  The whole thing proved that assertiveness is still not a thing I am ready to do.

Today I finally finished Underrail.  I had sort of intended to replay with a different build and try out different choices - but I don't have the patience.  I shall continue replaying something else I am partway through instead - or maybe even play one of the games I have bought and failed to complete (or play at all).

Am also finally doing the 24 hour collection I have been putting off for weeks and have so far managed not to spill anything and mess it up.