Otherwise, the week was pretty great, very busy with work but we had Tom over on the weekend which is always awesome. Haven't even had a minute to be bored.
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| Week 17. |
Regular Monday, we had a day off since we work Saturdays.
On Tuesday we went to work as usual. Meanwhile my mum went to pick up one of her old classmates that's dropping in for a visit. So we saw them at the end of the work day and spent a little time together but I won't lie I was so tired I kind of just wanted to go deflate in my room by myself. However, afterwards I did get some energy back and we watched Project Hail Mary with Mo's friend over Discord. I'm gonna be real, I don't really like anything Andy Weir-written. The humour is just so derivative, and if the joke's not gonna be good why take away from the tension of a good sci-fi? It's just so Disney-fied, I liked Rocky but he's like E.T.-lite almost. I don't know, man. I also just don't think Ryan Gosling has the acting chops he thinks he does.
On Wednesday the Expanse beta was finally out. My brother's friend is playing first so I'm avoiding anything about it until I can finally get my hands on it and see for myself. Work was normal. I hadn't heard from my bestie from uni for a few months. I call her V on the blog and she has a habit of doing that but this time was longer than usual. Luckily, our mutual friend E is a social media tracking expert and found another friend of which we knew who was able to contact her. Woo, she's not dead! It did make me wonder though, if there's anyone I knew from before I stopped using all social media who's tried to get in contact with me only to be unable to. Nah, probably not!
Thursday we went to work at Noel's instead. He looks pretty good, he does cough often but is otherwise moving about. I was scared that he was totally immobile but he's holding out strong. Heard that when he got his cancer diagnosis, a lawyer and him backtracked and with the help of all the unions he's been in determined that he was exposed to asbestos which is carcinogenic. If I ever hear any motherfucker say shit about deregulation again...
He's suing the company responsible good and I'm glad. Fuck them. Lots of people are dying or dead because they thought it's okay to expose workers to asbestos. It's just such bullshit.
We re-furbished and re-painted some gates he had, it was in a nice and cool garage which was a great change of pace from the sun-baked fields.
Friday we went back to Noel's, but this time to work on these rock-metal cage contraptions that work as fences and also anti-flood protection. They live in a flood-heavy zone, they even had to boat around in the latest flood. Hopefully these hold up when the next one comes. They should, it's like tons and tons or rock! On the way back, we biked, two huge dogs chased us down the road and one even tried to take a bite out of my brother. I mean, huge dogs! Like if that thing stood up it would be human-tall. I don't get dog owners like that, man. First of all, it would have mauled a kid. And they could have been hit by a car.
When we got back, bad news. Rose, a family friend and a friend of Monique, passed away in the night in Paris. She was with her family. Also cancer. She was really cool, really didn't care what anyone thought and said what she wanted but she wasn't cruel. I miss her.
I got a call from my French teacher, Aicha. She said there's some spots in a B2 course and she'd like me to join. Like, duh! I love classes. So I have a meeting with her on Monday for the sign-up process. Hopefully nothing goes wrong...
Went out to the kiwis on Saturday, it was a very cloudy day. A little rainy even. Amazing. I invited Tom over for Sunday and surprisingly he said yes, usually he's super busy. Mo went out and bought us kebabs which was the bomb, nobody wanted to cook.
On Sunday I went to the grocery store pretty early to get some stuff to make milkshakes. Tom came over at about 2PM and I made some for everyone. I have a weird interest in sweet drinks. I also have an urge to make some mocktails...
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| Sugar overdose! |
We played some MW3 and then moved straight to Deathrow and this time we finally fucked up those training droids. I have no idea how tutorial enemies were somehow harder than actual enemies but yeah...
In the evening time I finally got to try the beta. I have very mixed opinions that I've already rambled on about in the Owlcat survey. Almost no notes when it comes to gameplay and the visuals, they are pretty amazing. But the story, the dialogue, and the voice acting... so underdeveloped. It feels like a first draft and it seems I'm not the only one who thinks so. Hopefully they do some very serious re-writing. And! And there was basically no Belter creole or even Belter accent. Fuck right off!
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| Some shots from the beta. |
I'm pretty exhausted but there is yet more to do come next week. So I'm gonna brace for that.
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| The end. |
This Week I'm Excited For...
To see Aicha and sign up for the B2 course. Don't wanna get too excited in case it interferes with work or something but I do feel I progress the most in an academic setting so this would be pretty great.
Song Of The Week...
Kind of been a messy week for music so I did somehow miss that mad routine released a new EP, insomniac! Double life is so catchy, it's moody and dark, I really dig it. The diverse vocals are especially great.
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