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Weeknotes 26-16

Waow last pre-vacation weeknote!!! It’s patriot’s day as I’m writing this so yay no work :^) After a week of really nice weather we had a week of Actual Spring, which is to say rainy and cloudy and mid-50s. At the very least it looks like mariah being a 晴れ女 will cause the rain to stop for the beginning of next week when she’s here! In order to catch up to mariah on On the Calculation of Volume I read the last half of 2 and went out and bought 3. 2 was realllllly good, pretty different than the first, which mostly felt like tone setting and plot setup, the Endless Eight of 2 (and I assume 3’s) Disappearance.

Good week for group social hobby time, went to the weekly pinball tournament and my group got 4th place purely because of how good one of my teammates was at Popeye lmao (3rd place high score on the machine itself). Fun as always!! On Sunday I went with some coworkers to the bi-weekly mahjong club meet and we had this really nice lesson from one of the teachers, guiding us through a full multi-round game. Super fun!!!! We’d been playing chinese-style, where the dominant strategy is to just get a “chicken hand” since those are so easy to get, so playing riichi was a pretty different mindset. It’s sooooo fun to pon and chii but every time one of us would the teacher would be like “okay, what’s your yaku?” and most of the time it didn’t make sense to pon or chii since it would break up a good set, or remove flexibility, or most importantly just remove the ability to riichi since that’s such a powerful yaku. It’s so interesting!!!!! I definitely want to play more, though I do agree with the teacher that for just fun socializing chinese style is better, since I was soooo invested in thinking and strategizing playing riichi. And of course we played more ping pong at work, the beautiful game.

Honestly not much happening otherwise!! Have not been playing games at all which is so tragic. Well I think I played like one day of Overwatch but no Marathon…… I need to get back to it.

Things I’ve been into this week!!!