Weeknotes for 2023-01-13

This week I’ve been in the Netherlands for work, so between jet lag and meetings I’ve been pretty wiped out. Still, I’ve managed to get a few non-work related things done as well.

This week I managed to:

• Took care of some tedious but essential admin work for our household finances.
• Finished reading The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher, which was all kinds of excellent. Delightfully wicked folkloric horror that kept me turning pages even when I shouldn’t have. Highly recommended.
• In podcast news:
  • Complete the sound design on two episodes of Explorers Wanted from my hotel room when I couldn’t sleep.¹
  • Released episode 158 of Explorers Wanted, Stoked for the Void.

  Still separated, the crew attempts to find each other and uncover more mysteries that surround the inhabitants of the Foundry.

  • Was pleased to see that the show continues to chart in China (five consecutive months now!) and in the Netherlands. It’s both exciting and a little humbling.
• Read the leaked OGL 1.1 draft. Hey, Hasbro? Wizards of the Coast? Go fuck yourself.²
• Continued to set up Obsidian, this time using the Tasks plugin to set up a full GTD-like system including templated reports embedded in daily notes.³
• Watched two new flicks on the flight over here.
  • See How They Run: A fun pastiche of Agatha Christie mysteries set in 1950s London, with lots of winks to the audience. I think it may have been a little too self-satisfied with itself, but Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan are delightful together as foils investigating the case.
  • 3000 Years of Longing: A new take on a legend of the Djinn in a bottle starring Tilda Swinton as an academic studying cultural narratives and Idris Elba as the aforementioned lovelorn djinn. This is one I was excited about, and it was enjoyable. As always with stories of wishes, there’s some questionable choices, and I haven’t yet decided what I think of those overall. It’s a movie I’d recommend seeing, but maybe not in a theatre. It’s beautifully shot and performed, but I was left a little unsatisfied, and I’m not sure I could tell you why.
• Watched the first episode of Dimension 20’s Neverafter, which has a very promising start! I’m looking forward to seeing Brennan Lee Mulligan GM more horror.
• Speaking of Brennan Lee Mulligan, I am very excited about Worlds Beyond Number, an upcoming actual play podcast with a mix of campaigns, one-shots, and rotating GMs. It has a powerhouse cast consisting of Mulligan, Aabria Iyengar, Erika Ishii, and Lou Wilson.

That’s about it! As mentioned above, the jet lag has been brutal this trip, so I’m honestly shocked I got this much done. I’m here for another week, so hopefully I’ll have adapted to the time difference by then.