2023 Week XXIII

 Hello Internet,

Today I took all three kids to our local Art in the Park while Noodle stayed at home and rested.  I reread my last post, and I feel like I complain a lot.  Strangely, a lot of my anxiety has been coming from my feelings of anxiety and an overarching feeling of inadequacy.  We've found a daycare for Kangaroo.  It is very cheap, and I know that money doesn't mean quality, but I cannot help but worry.  It's irrational.  My thoughts are irrational.  I keep worrying that they won't care for him as well as I do, but last week I was so tired that I could hardly care for him.  Parenting, and life, are a strange, mercurial dichotomy.

Art in the Park was fun and may very well become a family tradition.  When I was a child, my parents would take us camping twice a year at a local swap.  It was a giant flea market that was multiple miles long.  We would go out in tents in Autumn and in Summer, and we would stay up late and cook hot dogs and smores.  I would spend hours roaming, and I would find old, broken toys for dimes.  Mostly, I would find alcoves and hidden places in the trees to play.  I was always making believe.

This had a similar energy.  Just rows and rows of stalls and people plying wares.  Obviously, it isn't as big, but The Swap, as it was known in our house, is not the same as it was.  It has grown.  The roads are paved now, and there's electricity and showers.  My mom still goes, but it, like everything else, has become a capitalist hellscape.  

All I want is some nasty park stall food, some icies for the kids, and the blazing heat to help us sweat it out.

In other news, I am revising my schedule yet again in preparation for autumn and a return to work.  I will be updating Towers soon, but I do not know that I will be putting my revised schedule up for anyone to see.  That might just belong to me personally.

Sincerely,

RWS

P.S.

-Short Rest-

-Short Rest Schedule-

1. Fullmetal Alchemist/Free/Critical Role: Campaign 3 Part I

2. One-Punch Man/Metal Gear/Outlaw Star

3. Discworld: The Color of Magic/DnD5e/Firefly

4. My Hero Academia/Fable: Anniversary/Seven Deadly Sins Season 1

5. Soul Eater/Mass Effect 3 Jean Shepard/Gargoyles

6. Boruto: The Next Generation/Nostalgia/Young Justice

7. Rest/Persona 3 Portable/Dimension 20: A Crown of Candy

Books

Tower: My Hero Academia: Vigilantes

1. Book: Fullmetal Alchemist Vol. 6, Ch. 24: “Fullmetal Alchemist”—Extra 60% (3—5)

2. One-Punch Man Vol. 18, Punch 92: “I See”—94 25% (2—4)

3. Discworld:  The Color of Magic: Page 1—210 0%

4. My Hero Academia Vol. 16, Ch. 140: “Suneater of the Big Three”—137 20% (3—10)

5. Soul Eater Vol. 2, Ch. 4: “Demon Sword part 1”—5 75% (4—4)

6. Boruto: The Next Generation Vol. 10, No. 39: “Proof”—39 100% (4—4)

7. Off

Games

Tower: Dragon Age: Origins Kallian Tabris 100%

0. Stardew Valley

1. Free Play

2. Short: Metal Gear 0% (0/5hrs)

3. DnD5e/Movie

4. Multiples: Mass Effect 3 Jean Shepard 2% (1/56hrs)

5. Free.

6. Long: Persona 3 Portable 74% (61/83hrs)

7. Free Play

Shows

Tower: Fullmetal Alchemist Season One 92% (25—26)

1. Critical Role: Campaign 3 Part I Ep. 3: “Trail and the Toll”—11 (Level Up to 5) 18% (3—11)

2. Anime: Outlaw Star 19% (6—26)

3. Online/Owned: Firefly 29% Disc 2 (5—14)

4. Netflix: Seven Deadly Sins Season 1 83% (21—24)

5. Disney+: Gargoyles Season 1 46% (7—13)

6. HBO: Young Justice Season 1 42% (12—26)

7. Dimension 20: A Crown of Candy: “Keep Sharp”—19 16% (4—19)

8. Movies: 14% (2—7)

Disney/Bambi

HBOMax/My Neighbor Totoro

Star Wars/Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Owned/Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Marvel/X2: X-Men United

Anime/.hack//LIMINALITY: “The Case of Yuki Aihara”

DCAU/Batman: Mask of the Phantasm