July is gone

[oanja]

Went to visit my mom last weekend and we went to the summer cabin. It was really nice (there was the heatwave going, which was a bit too hot for me) and we had some of my relatives visiting and had a small graduation celebration for me (with cake) My cousins also brought their sup board and I finally got to try it. It was super fun and I want to get one next summer (it's like made for a small lake like we have at the cabin, there's hardly ever any waves)

Work starts tomorrow! I have no idea what I'm supposed to do or what time I should get to work, but I'm sure it'll sort itself out. I think school only starts next week, so I'm hoping there's time for planning and figuring out how we're splitting up responsibilities with the other people in our team. (two psychologists and one other school counselor)

I've actually managed to read and listen to books this month, which has been a relief. I've read the first Lord John book by Diana Gabaldon, and two of the short stories about him. I really enjoyed them, but sadly there seems to be no fic really, which sucks. I've also listened to two of the Vorkosigan books about Miles and I started Cetaganda today. I had to pick up another audiobook app to get there, as I didn't want to pay for the paperbacks. I've kind of put myself on ban for buying new books, which has led me to abusing this loophole about audiobooks xD I also listened to a Forgotten Reals book called the God Catcher, which I really enjoyed and I want to read something else by this author Erin M Evans. For some reason she's only written Forgotten Realms books, but if they're as fun as this one was I don't mind.

I've also been doing a lot of game prep for my Waterdeep Dragonheist game, if by prep we mean, watched and read a lot of random lore things. :D There's so much STUFF out there about everything in Forgotten Realms, it can get a bit overwhelming tbh, but at the same time it's fun to learn about.

I think there was something else I wanted to write about but now I've forgotten... Oh the weather, It's back to being super cold again, it was about +13C on tuesday, but it got a but warmer today. I don't miss the +33C weather at all, but this is a bit too cold for July, I hope it goes back to low 20's still in August. I love warm autumns.

Oh, randomly, I took a new selfie for an online dating site recently and had it on my computer, so why not post it I guess :D

I bumped into this gif today, while I was trying to find photos of short haired female characters (this is a nightmare, how is this so hard?!) and I had kind of forgotten how hot Cassandra is! The eternal injustice of not being able to romance her with a female Inquisitor, seriously Bioware, shame on you

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[sewn]

I am in an audiobook app trial month trap. I thought I’d only use my library’s app from now on, but then I got a voucher for another app (which kind of sucks :P). After this one I think I’ll just stick to what I can get from the library. Maybe youtube.

I’ve also banned myself from buying new books, but I keep picking up books from the Recycling Centre’s free shelf. And well, I have bought a few but from thrift stores so it doesn’t really count...

[oanja]

I totally agree that driftstore books don't count (or getting books on sale!) against book buying bans :D

I ended up getting storytel trial, as it has a lot more books in english and more scifi and fantasy compared to bookbeat. Now I just have to figure out if I want to keep paying for it in two weeks or not. If I do, I need to cancel my audible subscription as I don't want to do two at the same time. I noticed you said in your post that you don't like storytel and it's buggy, but at least from my limited experience of just one day, it seems to work fine on my phone... I hope that continues tbh. It's better compared to audible that I can listen and read as much as I want instead of audible, which only gives you one book per month.

[sewn]

Yeah I preferred Bookbeat as a user experience, but Storytel does seem to have a good offering of books. Maybe it’s my phone, but every time I pause and restart, the file has jumped back or forward a couple of minutes :/ It’s not a big thing, but it’s really annoying. I hope it keeps working on your phone!

I have tried Audible before, but I found it frustrating. It’s definitely too expensive (I’m super stingy, hence my dicking around with trials :P Maybe I should just pay for Bookbeat seeing as I used it almost every day.)

[oanja]

Yeah, that does sounds annoying. I hope my app doesn't start to do that too...

I think these kinds of services make total sense when you use them regularly, which makes the €/per day amount really low. :)

[lebateleur]

I was also surprised and disappointed by the lack of John Grey fanfiction.

My main D&D group is set to start Dragonheist in a few weeks...our DM is stressing out a little bit over the wealth of FR lore too. :)

[oanja]

There are so many good ships with potential too! This might be enough for me to sign up for Yuletide again this year, even though I had thought to myself that I wasn't going to do yuletide anymore :'D

Hahaha~ high fives your DM on the astral plane. :D But yeah, it's a pretty awesome module, I hope you have a great time with it!