Links and Accomplishments, November

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This is what I looked like for most of last week…

… I guess I’m doing these monthly now? As it turns out, traveling for a week and then being sick for the next really saps one’s will to write blog posts.
Links

The theme for this month’s links is ambience. When I work, I often listen to ambient sounds; they’re one of the few things I don’t find a distraction. Some options, depending on mood:

• Coffitivity. the sounds of coffeehouse chatter
• Rainy Mood. Rain, just rain.
• Jazz and Rain. For when sorrow like a ceaseless rain beats upon your heart (to paraphrase my beloved Edna)
• Relaxing Piano Music with Ocean Sounds. For the depths of New England winter.

Accomplishments

Writing
- Wrote 6,803 words on Lioness
- Wrote blog post: Return to the Sceptered Isles, part one: Dublin
- Attended writing group
- Submitted “Remember to Die” to Abyss & Apex
- Submitted “Powder of Sympathy” to Uncanny

Reading (one gets a lot of reading done on planes…)
- Read Valour and Vanity, Mary Robinette Kowal
- Read 21 Days To A Novel, Michael A. Stackpole
- Read Psmith in the City, P.G. Wodehouse
- Read Dickens’ Fur Coat and Charlotte’s Unanswered Letters: The Rows and Romances of England’s Great Victorian Novelists, Daniel Pool
- Read The Disaster Artist, Greg Sestero
- Read/listened to Tremontaine, episodes 2-4
- Alpha-read chapters five and six of SC4 for Django

Other Media
- Watched Tales of Terror (1962)
- Watched The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
- Listened to Happier with Gretchen Rubin, episode 36
- Played/playtested Trade Empires
- Played several games of 7 Wonders
- Played several games of Kingdom Builders
- Played two games of Mysterium
- Played Among Nobles
- Reached VR8 in TESO with Falanu
- Reached 40 in TESO with Br’ihnassi
- Won a game of Beyond Earth on Mercury difficulty (Brasilia, Transcendence victory)
- Watched the RiffTrax of The Wizard
- Watched Rifftrax: Total Riff-off episode 6: Brazilian Bigfoot

LARP
- Wrote NPC PEL for Cottington Woods 3.4
- Attended Imaginary Consequences in the UK, where I…
- Played in Dying of the Light
- Played in Musþeof
- Played in Burning Orchid

Social/Travel
- Went to see Crimson Peak with Nat and Vik
- Visited Mel and Will for board games
- Had dinner with Alon
- Did a bus tour of Dublin
- Visited Kilmainham Gaol
- Visited Trinity College’s Old Library for the Book of Kells and the Long Room

Health
- Did 11am/3pm office exercises x 3
- Did Hacker’s Diet Introductory Fitness Ladder workout (rung 2) x 2
- 40m walk x 3
- Had a massage
Rejection Log

- “Remember to Die,” 24-day form, Abyss & Apex (thank god it didn’t take half a year, like I feared)
- “Powder of Sympathy,” 12-day form, Uncanny