Working on getting a job, more mysteries and sci-fi, more Traitors, some music, and some Persona. This weekly digest may end up short again due to more job stuff showing up at the last minute to occupy my time. I am writing this on Wednesday. On Tuesday morning I had a virtual job interview and then work that night and on Thursday morning I have an in-person job interview for the same job that I am not super keen on but will take if I have to. On Friday I have another in-person interview for a job I like the sound of a bit more. I also am continuing to throw in job applications whenever I get an email notification from one of the places I really want to get into. This takes up a lot of time I otherwise would have spent writing. Because this is also, still, a work week Tues-Sun. A couple weeks ago I was awarded what is basically an employee-of-the-month prize for August which meant I got to go watch a game and get paid for the shift at the same time. There was some free food that wasn't super appetizing, but some quite good desserts. I sat with one of the girls who works in the other half of my team and we chatted during the game and left in the 8th inning because we were losing and wanted to get home before the crowd. Honestly, being able to sit down for a shift and being able to leave early was the main reward. My supervisors were very nice though and dropped by to say hi and congratulate me. They had to write a paragraph about why I got the award and that was also very nice. I just wish this recognition could be turned into... you know... another job. But this job is seasonal and nobody can do anything about that. In fact there might not even be a season next season, players are negotiating a new contract and might strike or get locked out. Last week I also signed up for an Intermediate Red Cross First Aid/CPR course because I keep seeing it in job listings. I tried to get it done maybe a year ago paid for by the employment assistance agency I was working with but trying to get that approved took so long and took so much nagging I gave up. I haven't done it since I was in school and this is the more advanced version, which I hadn't realized when I signed up for it, but I guess doesn't hurt. Half of it is online so I have to work through ~8 hrs of content before the in-person training day two weeks from now. So that is also occupying some of my sitting-at-computer time. I'm currently 30% complete. Reading Still reading Catherine Aird novels. Currently on His Burial Too (1973). She is giving her protagonist detective Sloan and sidekick Crosby a bit more personality but they are still pretty limited. And all of her works are set in the same county in England so there isn't a huge diversity of settings. Very pastoral for the most part. Reminds me a bit of Reginald Hill, but Hill is much better at memorable characters and writing mysteries that are about things that are more than just the mystery at hand. Also similar to Ngaio Marsh whose novels were similarly a bit flat. Anyway, it's pre-bed reading, it's not meant to be deep. Had to return one of the science fiction anthologies I took out from the library half-read, The Golden Age of Science Fiction by Kingsley Amis, ed. (1981). Not a huge loss I think. Although there was very little overlap with the previous anthology I read none of the stories I read from the first half particularly stood out to me, not the way others from the previous anthology did. I have two more anthologies out from the library somehow so there is still more science fiction short stories to read. Watching Still watching The Traitors AU, currently on E05 & 06, but 07 & 08 have just come out so I'm behind again already. Episode 6 in particular was really fascinating. Some intensely uncomfortable psychological manipulation happening as well as some interesting attempts at strategy that I don't think are going to pay off. Listening Same as the last couple weeks, Jungle and the new Mass of the Fermenting Dregs album Iwaou. Great rock and vocals as always. Playing About 10 hours into Persona 5 Tactica and I think I'm putting a little too much effort into trying to get the battles done perfectly so I turned the difficulty down from Hard to Normal. 😅 If I keep restarting battles at the rate I have been this game is going to be 80 hours long instead of the 40-60 it's probably meant to be. I find some of the stages more difficult than others, I can tell what the game wants me to do but I can't always then put that into practise. My brain tends to over-complicate things. And this definitely isn't just a FF Tactics or Fire Emblem re-skin, they've done a pretty good job of applying Persona 5 combat/movement into a more isometric turn-based tactical set-up. In fact there is some QoL stuff that I wish this game had that other tactical games do, for example you can't zoom out to look at the map top-down, so sometimes the camera angles make it hard to tell where enemies are and what their attack ranges are. Posting 28 Aug, 2026 2026 Week 35 Digest 25 Aug, 2026 2026 Week 35 Links 22 Aug, 2026 2026 Week 34 Digest ⇄ Reply: mastodon+email ＄ Tip: ko-fi+liberapay 2026 Week 35 Digest was last edited: 1 week, 3 days ago