Hell Fakinaway

Slept in really late this morning; didn't wake up until 9AM, but I needed it. I am constantly going to bed too late during the week, which doesn't work well with my weight training workouts as my muscles never quite have the chance to recover and there's always some pain. After that sleep, I am back to 100%. I actually remembered to do my laundry and tidy up after work yesterday, so it's a lazy weekend, except for cooking. Which is very much a weekend activity since I never have time to cook during the week, so it feels like a leisure time task.

I'm going to fry the last of my Hokkaido potatoes with some mushrooms and onions. Usually I'd add fresh dill, too, but finding fresh dill in Japan is quite difficult - some tiny organic stores sometimes carry it but usually I end up using parsley instead. Which isn't bad; I love parsley, but... fresh dill. ;_;

Going to finish Nanotale today and maaaybe go back to Yonder. I really enjoy Yonder but some of the collectible achievements require you to wait until a particular season to collect the item/s, which takes a long time sometimes. My attention doesn't really want to focus in that way lately (do other things in-game while keeping in mind that if the right season hits I have to go and do something else). My strategy in RPGs is usually to complete one zone/biome first as completely as I can (main quests, side quests, etc) before moving elsewhere, but that's pretty much impossible in Yonder unless you use a walkthrough (which I don't like to do unless I'm well and truly stuck).

That was something that kinda bugged me about Garden Story, too, particularly needing things from other zones to get equipment upgrades in your current one, all of them unlocking at the same time (as you raise the zone/settlement level). I prefer the methodical approach: one thing at a time, but the way it works in Garden Story, you're better off farming a little from every zone each day until you have all the items to get ALL the things. Keeping many things in the air at the same time gives me stress. Garden Story needs better fast travel, too. Their latest update promised that but all I found was a couple of new bridges, which don't count as fast travel. :P

Went on a walking tour of the city with a co-worker today, and ended with a late lunch at a Thai/South-Asian fusion restaurant. We were the only ones upstairs and got to sit by a window so I was a lot less anxious than every other time I've gone out to eat lately, but the whole idea of it still gives me stress.

Anyway, the restaurant had a really cute ordering system upstairs; you write your order on a tiny piece of paper and then attach it to a little sliding clip on a plastic rod that is curved at the top but descends straight down, so if you move the clip over the curved part, it slides down into the kitchen/food prep area for the restaurant staff to see. I tried to do some searching to see if the system had a name but kept coming up empty.

I actually managed to finish Legacy of the Void! Now I'm going to get back into the Painscreek Killings, which I'd started on a whim a couple of weeks ago but still need to finish.

I was going through the list of games I play to see if there are any I can recommend to my kids on my bulletin board, but literally everything I play is rated 18+ by the local rating authority so while I don't mind telling kids I like this game or that, I don't want to showcase games they won't be able to play. Granted, kids here play games that are not recommended for their age all the time, but I don't feel right encouraging it in a school setting.

Today I learned that Stone Age humans used tobacco in some way. Mind blown.