Monthly Update #28: August 2021
I started off strong this month, playing a few games within a week or so. Then I just kind of lost interest. I think it's that I've been at my computer non-stop with this lockdown (and busy WFH), so I've pretty much spent a lot of time either doom-scrolling on reddit in bed (along with watching the occasional daily 11am NSW Press conferences as we get gas-lighted by the Premier), making plant purchases, and coming up with grand plans of what I want to do to my tiny apartment. (A lot of ideas I need access to Bunnings or something haha).
I'm thinking of making an IKEA Greenhouse cabinet thing, but need to figure out a way to wall attach it from the side - where I want it to go is high up, with no wall behind it... I don't want it crashing on top of me one day! I'm looking at something like this (Instagram link).
I haven't seen family since early June, and saw a friend for the first time recently as I drove her to get her COVID vaccination. Definitely feels different living alone in lockdown, than last year when I was living with parents!
I also realised I didn't actually upload any screenshots this month!! I uploaded a couple just now I took during the month, but nothing spectacular. Doesn't help LiS and Ken Follett's both weren't ultrawide compatible :(
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I added nothing to my backlog this month!!
Never heard of the word doom-scrolling before. Yikes. I thought you might be referring to /r/Doom/ but apparently not. Lockdown sucks.
Haha yes, it’s become a popular term in the Sydney subreddit!
Same as above. This is the first time I encountered the term “doom-scrolling.” There’s actually a name for what I’ve been doing since the pandemic started. :O
Haha exactly. Its just a popular term at the moment in the Sydney subreddit! I didn’t know their was a name for it before either!
Congratulations on all of your assassinations! How did you like Pillars of the Earth? Also double congrats on managing to not add anything to your backlog.
I enjoyed it! I am not usually a fan of the whole medieval Christianity period, so I enjoyed it a lot more than I though I would.
I did find it seemed to rush the ending a bit, and have a weird travel tangent which seemed to change the pace of the story I wasn’t as keen on.
The whole forbidden romance and manufactured drama also annoyed me - and then how the step brother pretty much disappeared until a cameo at the end where he has a kid.