On rainy days I enjoy a quiet house, some D’Angelo’s Voodoo Album playing in the background and seeing the rain fall from my window. They are very enjoyable and productive days, working from home. That being said, it has been raining for 4 days now! Ya parale (Stop it now)!

🔗 Yes, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is bigger than Odyssey - Rock Paper Shotgun

I would actually say in terms of range it is probably a bit larger than Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. I do not have the exact figures at this stage, but we have not only created the whole country, which is in this case England, but also a good part of Norway too. There are other secret worlds, which I can not speak about today, which contributed to the size of the game. It’s not a small game. It is a game which is clearly ambitious, which will offer many, many hours of gameplay for the players.

If you somewhat know me or have been reading my blog, or even if you’ve never read it or care to know me - 😅. You should know (or will learn) that I am a huge fan for AC: Odysse. I have clocked over a hundred hours on this game. Now, learning that the next installment of this franchise will be bigger… I. Can. Not. Wait.

Today was Marley's first visit to the Dentist, like ever, a pediatric one of course. Believe me when said that I was probably as nervous as she could have or even more. I had no idea how this was gonna go down. Will she freak out? Will she whine a lot? Will I freak out? Etc. Neither Marley or me have ever been to this place before.

Well the place was really inviting, as soon as we walked in everyone was super nice and attentive, and they had a nice playground on the waiting area (which I was assured they disinfect after each visit). The place must be new because it looked very clean, smelled good and, again, looked new.

Once we got called in, my daughter transformed. She was supper compliant and extremely — and unusually — quiet. But who can blame her? She got her teeth pictures taken with no issues whatsoever. Then the pet I was more worried about, the cleaning and the check-up. During this whole process the entire staff was very friendly towards Marley, and me, making Marley feel comfortable.

It was super cool! They got her headphones and sunglasses on. She had Toy Story playing on the ceiling and everything! I’m not gonna lie, I want to start coming here too if I could- 😅. And again, she did so good! She never complaint, she never whinnied and she was very compliant to every instruction. I would say this went as good as I could have hoped!

Very proud of Marley.

As most of you may know — and if you didn't know, you will now — I am a pretty big craft beer enthusiast. Although I am into IPAs and Stouts mostly, I still like to try different styles from deferent breweries. Every time I travel I make it a point to visit — if possible — as many of the local breweries as I can or at least buy local beer if I happen to stop at a local restaurant or market.

I have used different methods in the past to keep a record of what I have tried and any notes about them. The first app I ever used was Untappd, the problem I have with this particular app is that with time it kinda became the Facebook of beer tracking and there a lot of features and things I neither care nor need. Then I had discovered, probably the best beer tracking app ever made, TapCellar and god knows how much I miss it! Sadly this app was retired. Later, Mr. Drafts himself, Tim Nahumck created a Drafts action to try to mimic what TapCellar would do and it was perfect! The only problem was (or is) that I never see Draft as the final place for notes thus I always had a problem deciding where to send them after. I did try DevonThink, tried Bear Notes, Apple Notes, and even Ulysses. But for whatever reason, they never stick with me.

Another app that was made and that it was also a beautiful simple app was BeerTap. It had more scoring components than TapCellar but it was simple and beautiful. This app is dead (in my best Olaf's voice). Sad.

So, what have I been doing? I have been logging them into my second brain -- my blog. It's great, it works, I have this fancy Shortcut that was made by @sku_b in the Micro.blogs that lets me document and format it in a manner where I can then just sent it to my blog via Drafts. The problem comes when, maybe I forget to tag the post so it goes to my beer category or if I need to search. It is not as easy as if I had a dedicated app for beer tracking.

The ideal would be to have a place to store all this information that it's not just my blog. Someone needs to get into making one of these apps again and take my rupees !!!

In the meantime, well, let us see what I can come up with.

IN OTHER NEWS

I did not fix my Joy-Con drift issue, I am sad.

Name: Old Devil’s Tooth Barleywine
Style: American Barleywine
Brewer: Sockeye Grill & Brewery - Idaho
ABV: 10.3
IBU: 100+
Rating: 5/5
Notes: it has been a while since I’ve had a Barleywine, they can be a hit or miss. This one it’s pretty good though.

Name: Sins Of Our Fathers Imperial Stout
Style: American Imperial Stout
Brewer: Crooked Fence Brewing - Idaho, United States
ABV: 10
IBU: 20
Rating: 5/5
Notes:

It has been a few years since I’ve had it and the weather definitely calls for it.

I had an aha! moment of sorts today, or rather it was last night. As I had mentioned before, my gaming console of choice for the pasts few months has been the Nintendo Switch. There are many reasons like ease of use, you pick it up and play. You can continue – very easily – were you left off in the game. The portability of the device, it can play it on the tv (which is rare that I do) or handheld, this way I can play while others are using the main tv. But last night I had another thought, so many of the games on the platform are relatively cheap! Or at least the ones I gravitate around the most. Yes, they might be at the same price in other consoles, but there’s something about indie games that feel right at home when played on the Switch.

Which by-the-way. Have you all checked Huntdown yet? It looks so Metal!

It’s been a weird couple of weeks, hell a weird couple of months! Ever since the pandemic and the stay-at-home orders hit everything it’s been Crazy-Town Banana-Pants in many ways. The thing in my mind recently has been both my mental and physical health, mostly my physical. I think I was doing pretty good about working out at home, putting the time and effort. Then I had some back issues that needed to be taken care of. Today I actually had my last session with my therapist. Everything it’s back to normal and in the event things get uncomfortable again, I know exactly what to do.

That being said, I haven’t actually been working out for a few weeks now, other than running. I think the reason I have picked up running is mainly because it gets me out of the house. Working out requires me to be inside. Yes, I can workout in my backyard but still, I rather go out to the wilderness of my subdivision. It’s either that or I have just become lazy.

Running seems like a good thing to do, it’s good cardio and helps me mentally.

Today iA Writer, one of the many text editors I have used and enjoyed, released version 5.5 for both iOS and macOS. And this is a very exciting update because it includes some publishing improvements like support for Micropub, meaning I can publish to my hosted Micro.blog site from the app.

This is something I was able to do in other ways like with my beloved Drafts. But when it came to adding images to the post and such, doing so felt a little bit of a hack. Now, it's much easier and this is probably my most compelling part of the app's update.

Very excited for this!

Here's a random image just because I can.

We had a company call today, addressing the company’s plan to get everyone back to their sites if they have one. Long story short, I have no idea when I am returning to my cozy trailer and desk. I’ll be getting some PPE from the company in the mail in the upcoming weeks but that is it.

In the meantime I have come to terms with the girls, they can do all the mess they want, as long as they help me clean before their mom gets home.