The first Monday after a holiday week is always the worst. Especially since I tend to turn into a vampire when I don’t have to get up for work, going to bed well after midnight and sleeping until mid-morning. This morning’s alarm arrived too early, and I didn’t enjoy it. :)
But Mr. M and I had a nice Thanksgiving. The actual day was pretty chill for us, since we didn’t do Friendsgiving until Saturday, so it was a day for Diablo IV. We’re playing the second season, and got our first character to level 100, then started on a second character.
For me, Diablo has always been a game where I click on bad guys and loot pops out, and this season delivers. There’s an event where you can kill vampires to summon a mini-boss, and it’s in the open world, so random other players can show up to help. If you get a group of like six people, the screen just becomes explosions and loot. It’s awesome! 😍
For Friendsgiving, I made pie, as per usual. After the great Pecan Pie Disaster™ of a few years ago, I always err on the side of too done, but I think I’ve finally got it figured out, and I wrote it down this time! 🎉
I should’ve cooked the pecan five minutes less and the pumpkin five minutes more, but they were both still delicious. :)
On turkey day, I broke down and bought a Kindle Scribe. I’ve wanted one for ages, and nearly bought one in July, but didn’t quite do it. The Scribe arrived on Saturday, and I’m on the fence about whether I’m going to keep it.
Writing on it is surprisingly good, but some of my books don’t support two-column mode in landscape, and that is my preferred reading method for such a large device. That’s how I read on my iPad, and all of my books work there, so I’m disappointed the Kindle doesn’t support it.
It seems to be mostly books I’ve gotten from BookFunnel or ARCs that I’ve sent to Kindle via email, so it’s likely fixable, but opening a hundred books in Calibre and re-exporting them in the right format sounds exhausting, so I might just send it back. Sad face. :(
Today I have to get the rest of the Rocks & Rapiers posts scheduled and then clean the kitchen. It’s a disaster in there and something must be done before they bring in the men in those plastic hazmat suits to declare it a biological hazard.
Wish me luck. :)
Hmmm pie 🥹 I could eat a pie, but making it and cleaning everything after just makes me go 🫠
Good luck with your kitchen cleaning, may the kitchen gods bless you!
I cleaned my oven last week! Had to do it by hand because the *ahem* the buildup was so much that using the self cleaning feature sets off our smoke alarm. It was a lot more kneeling and putting my head and shoulders into the oven than I had anticipated; all sorts of Hansel and Gretel jokes were going through my head. Luckily my kids like me and the oven wasn’t on.
Good luck with your cleaning! It’s not always fun but that sense of satisfaction when you’re done is nice. Oh and a clean kitchen. Wouldn’t mind some of the cleaning magic from R&R though.