I also have a busier weekend than I'd like, but I noticed that I had two days of time off for the year that weren't scheduled. I can roll them, although if I do I have to use them in the first quarter. I've honestly probably got plenty of time off for next year, so what seemed smartest to me was to schedule a little "staycation" and use those days up this year before December is over while my wife is still away and I can literally spend some days where I don't leave the house at all. So, I scheduled Friday and Monday off. Saturday, I have some meetings that I'm supposed to go to, but depending on the weather, I may blow them off. Sunday I have church, but it's in another building with a bigger crowd than normal. That may be literally the only time I leave the house. Except for maybe grocery shopping. I'm running low on a lot of things. Maybe I'll pick some stuff up tonight. Anyway, that's a long rambly way of saying... I'm going to spend a lot of time at home in the next few days, so what I'm reading is a significant question, because I'm going to knock back (hopefully) quite a few things. So:
- I'm reading Lords of Darkness, an early Forgotten Realms 3e book. On PDF. When I finish, I'll let FR rest for a bit; I think the faiths and pantheons (which might actually be exactly its name) product is next, which honestly I'm not that excited for. Plus, I've got other trawls waiting. I'm about a third through this; I should easily finish before the weekend really even starts, I think.
- Next up on PDF I'll turn to the next Pathfinder Adventure path product, just because that trawl is the longest with the most products and I'm still very much at the beginning of it. I'll start Curse of the Crimson Throne, and once I finish the first episode, I'll stick with it until I read all six, I think. This is another one of the reasonably well-regarded APs from the series, so I'm happy to go through it, I think. I already know it fairly well; I've listened to the radio play adaptation, for instance. I'm sure that I won't finish the AP before the weekend is over.
- I may have to throw something something in there out of sequence, especially if I do end up running as a substitute GM in the next couple of weeks on Thursday night. Which I need to also nail down this week and see if I'm doing it or not, if I am, what am I going to be doing and when I'm I going to do it, etc.
- I really want to read the last book of the Dark Waters trilogy, and the last of the two trilogies of Arkham Horror novels that I have this weekend too. I've been carrying the book around for a couple of weeks but still haven't started it. Once I get started, it'll be a fairly quick read. I'll probably pick up my Solomon Kane collection after that. I bought that ... geez, probably fifteen years ago, and still haven't read it. It's making me feel guilty. Not that it's the only book like that. That's part of the reason I'm doing these trawls; to read books that I bought, was excited about getting, but for whatever reason never got around to reading. That's even worse for digital (pdf) books than for real books, but it's a problem I recognize that I have all around. After that, I've got plenty more to read; the Horned Helmet four-book series, a Robert Ludlum omnibus that includes The Holcroft Covenant, The Bourne Identity and The Materese Circle, a Barsoom omnibus with the first five novels, and more. And of course, I still have my mythology books. I was so pleased to have bought those, but they're harder to read than I expected. I'd like to at least make a bit of a dent in my Celtic book, although I don't plan on finishing it before the end of the year.
- I read just a few pages of the last Heirs of Ash, a kindle book I have on my phone. I'd like to finish that.
- I put away the Pathfinder Chronicles books that I had out and decided to push them to later. Instead, I picked up Monster Manual II from the 3e era, and decided to do that first. After that, it's Races of Eberron, since that kills two birds with one stone and gets my Eberron Trawl started up again. After that, maybe I'll start my Pathfinder Chronicles/Setting trawl for real. I've read some of those books, although not in order, in the last year, and I just acquired two more physical books that I haven't read at all yet. I don't want those to go on the list of "books that I've owned for a long time but haven't read yet" pile.
On top of reading, I've been very slowly watching the Critical Role animation, and I'd like to probably knock back a few more episodes. I had thought about watching Andor while my wife was away, but maybe I'll try and watch it with her when she gets back, along with the new Stranger Things season. But I've got Seinfeld, X-Files and Supernatural that I've been watching a bit here and there, and I'm kind of in the mood for some more James Bond. I watched The Living Daylights shortly after my wife left, and I meant to watch at least another one, but I'm not sure if I wanted to continue with Timothy Dalton and License to Kill, or pick up Daniel Craig's Casino Royale again. And I've kind of been jonesing to watch The Untouchables again. The Kevin Costner movie from the 80s, not the old TV show from the early 60s with Robert Stack. Even though I wouldn't mind trying that out. I stuck his image in; a promotional shot from the show, just for some visual interest on the post. Oh, and I've kinda been jonesing to watch the Michael York Three Musketeers and Four Musketeers again. It's been a few years, and those movies have been on my mind for a while.
I don't want to over plan, though. If I do, I'll start to feel guilty about all the things that I want to accomplish and am not accomplishing, and I'll schizophrenically start going back and forth between different activities, unable to focus. My number one goal for Friday, Saturday, and probably Monday is to sleep in. I'm not as good at it as some people; I tend to wake up and can't go back to sleep, but as tired as I've been, that won't happen too early. Read some pdfs. Read a novel. Maybe my Kindle novel too. Knock back a physical gamebook. Watch some stuff, as I feel like it, with plenty to choose from.
Now, maybe you can see why I'm not necessarily worried about my wife being out of town. I've got so many things that I want to do still while she's gone that there's no way I'm getting very many of them actually done. And this is just hobby reading and watching of some things, not even anything productive. I'd still like to make some YouTube videos and prep for upcoming gaming too, and I've got a few chores around the house that are starting to beg to be done.
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