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I'm concluding, for the bazillionth time, that Overdrive audiobooks aren't ideal for how I do audiobooks. I tend to listen to one book and then switch to a different one then to a third and fourth without going back to finish the first one. It may be weeks or months before I'm ready to move through whatever I found off-putting or anxiety inducing in the first book.

This particularly happens when characters are doing something that's both in character and stupid. Or when the list of likely plot events in my head includes something going wrong in a way that will irritate me.

We went to Hudson-Mills Metropark Saturday night. Scott and I walked for about 20 minute. The opposing team in Ingress had a lot of fields anchored to a couple of portals there, and we took them down. I'm pretty sure that the fact that a lot of the fully charged level 8 portals that our side had around here are now ghosted is completely coincidental.

There was a police car doing a sweep through the parking area as Scott and I were walking back. They didn't stop, but I wonder if they would have if we hadn't been in sight, if it had just been Cordelia sitting in the car.

It got dark faster than Scott and I expected. Twilight is a good time for walking out there in terms of not running into other people, but it's less than ideal in terms of being able to walk very far safely.

I captured eight unique (new-to-me) portals and hacked eleven uniques. Right now, I'm mainly after points, but I like knowing that I've been somewhere new. I need about another 600K points to get to the next level.

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Saturday afternoon, Scott and I tried to play Spirit Island. We found the rules confusing because the game has many, many moving parts. Scott's been watching play throughs since then, so that he'll have a better idea how things are supposed to flow the next time we try (maybe next weekend). I'm hoping that we can get to the point where I'm used to the complicated bits because right now they frustrate me.

Scott's sister has decided that there will be a family Zoom chat every Sunday evening from now on. She had us play Pictionary but did not try to get me or Cordelia to draw anything. Even if I had wanted to, my hands wouldn't have allowed it.

I have a bus draft of my Wayback Exchange story. I plan to post it tomorrow and then do more editing. There's a flash exchange going on that I think I could still write treats for and a couple of other things that I also wanted to treat but may not get to.

I'm considering signing up for Fandom 5K, but I'm not really feeling enthusiastic about most things I could request. I just want to write. Maybe there will be a good pinch hit for it. Signing up for exchanges is a vast amount of work, and I feel like a bad potential recipient when I can't manage more than a tepid yeah-these-are-good.