January 19: Time Princess Reading, Priestwife, and Groceries

I'm doing better at feeling like my 7-hour-work-week only takes 7 hours of my time, so that's nice. I've still been mostly just lazing around, drifting from one random thing to another. After work yesterday, I exercised and then mostly just played Time Princess. Oh, and I spent a bit over an hour painting the Death Jester, since I wasn't doing much else anyway.

Time Princess changed the daily quests so that there are more quests than you can get credit for. Overall, I like this, because it means you can skip some quests and still max out the rewards. Also, they raised the total points you could get per day so that's nice too. But it means I don't have to do the "spend 100 stamina" quest to max my quest points, and now I'm like "hmm, do I want to keep 100%'ing stories anyway?" In theory, this should be quick to do with stories I don't like, because (again, in theory) I'd follow the guide and fast-forward through everything without looking at anything and that'd be it. In practice, I keep stopping to read the new scenes anyway. Two of the stories I took to 100% were  the ones I consider the worst-written and worst-translated, and I still found myself reluctant to fast-forward instead of reading. Last night, I got to one I actually like and I know I won't want to fast-forward through its scenes. Maybe I'll keep 100%'ing stories even if there isn't a specific reason to do it daily. I feel like I spend too much time on Time Princess. But "reading the stories" isn't the part that feels like a time-waster. I should read more fiction anyway, and while my brain goes "illustrated interactive fiction doesn't count" this also means that my brain doesn't balk at reading it the way it does with books and even short stories. Don't tell my brain that comics and int fic and everything else counts, or it'll stop wanting to read that too.

On a related note, I read a comic archive over the last few days, "Priestwife" (https://priestwife.neocities.org/main). It's fantasy/horror. I don't normally read or watch horror. But the thing I really don't like about horror is less the gore/suspense/supernatural and more the unhappy endings. Priestwife gave a vibe of "this is about characters doing battle against horror but not losing to it" so I gave it a chance. I like the relationship between the two main characters, which is rife with all kinds of complexities but strikes me as full of genuine affection. Even from the first few pages, I was curious to find out more about them. The full archive is only 114 pages at present, so it didn't take long to finish. I got to the last page and literally said "aww" out loud when I realized there weren't any more. (Technically, I got to page 108 and went "aww." Then discovered while getting the link for this post that the navigation for pages 109-114 was broken but they were posted and I could get to them by modifying the URL, so that was a nice bonus. Although the comic only updates once per month and updated yesterday, so it's gonna be a while until the next update).

On Saturday, Lut added the stuff he wanted to the grocery list and asked me to add my stuff and send it to the store.  On  Tuesday, I finally added my stuff and discovered the soonest I could get delivery was Thursday. I groaned and reserved a time. On Thursday morning, I went to add something to the order and discovered I had reserved a time but not actually checked out so my groceries weren't ordered and my reservation had, of course, expired. I discovered the soonest available time slot was now Monday. And not just the soonest for the in-home delivery, but the soonest for any kind of delivery or pickup. I placed the order. Today, Lut made a list of things he wanted to eat in the next 3 days and I picked those up. Since this was an entirely me-created problem. Also, I was out of some critical supplies for myself (read: ice cream so I can make Coke floats.)

Tonight, I had some ravioli that's been languishing for six months at the back of the freezer. On Tuesday, I threw away some of the freezer stuff that had gone uneaten for ages, but I figured the ravioli was fine (it was). There's some dumplings I need to eat, too. Lut eats a lot of frozen food because he's too sick to cook and I don't like cooking. So even though we have an annual subscription for unlimited no-additional-charge grocery delivery, our freezer still ends up overflowing with stuff at every delivery. Right now it somehow appears full even though I only got a handful of frozen foods. (But this is because they are of awkward sizes and badly packed. I can shuffle them around to make space again.)

Lut and I watched the second half of season 3 of RWBY tonight. I'd been sort of dreading it because I remembered how grim it was and yup, still grim. I think season 4 was better in some ways and not in others, but guess we'll see when we get to it. Probably will play Kill Team tomorrow instead of watching more videos, though.