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The local is pretty small, but it is extremely well federated at this point so hashtags work beautifully there thanks to him effectively being connected up with over 4000 other instances over a network of relays. It also keeps me from actually wanting to do the thing where I just run my own server. Gaz is good people and we’ve known each other for ages at this point so I am happy to support his venture. However, I like the idea of being on a server that is run by someone I have a personal relationship with. One server is as good as any other server when it comes to bulk communication with your friends.

Why did I move? There really is no valid practical reason.

I had been planning on migrating this weekend to, but after a conversation with a friend, it seemed silly that I was spending so much time hem hawing around. If I am reading text, my brain stops listening to the incoming words from the audio. I’ve said it before, I don’t seem to have the ability to process two different sources of speech/text at the same time. I could probably play Guild Wars 2 as well, but what I really want to do in that game is focus on more story… which conflicts with my ability to engage with an Audiobook. So more likely than not I am going to be diving back into either Path of Exile or Last Epoch, which are mechanically interesting games but don’t require much in the way of narrative processing power. Since I am venturing forth once again into the realm of Audiobooks, that means I can play games while listening along to the story. So I have my path set now, and I am looking forward to crawling into the book when I finish with work this evening. The queue of folks waiting on Nona the Ninth is still massive, and as a result, it felt the better call to accept the new option and wait for Battle Ground knowing that in theory, I should get it again before too much longer. The queue for Battle Ground was relatively short, and there is an option in the Libby App to effectively let someone cut in line without losing your “first priority” spot in line.

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Then this morning… even more conflict arrived as I was pinged by the Libby App that much much longer waiting hold on Nona the Ninth, the next book in the Locked Tomb series had also come open. I went to sleep last night happy in the knowledge that I could borrow that book with a clear mind and looked forward to consuming it. The reason why I burned through this book with such purpose, is that a few days into reading it… I was notified that my hold on Jim Butcher’s Battle Ground had come available from the library I am using to access the Libby App. It feels for a long time like the characters are rolling a boulder up a hill, only to have it come crashing back down upon them… the stories that are woven in the moments of motion however are deeply compelling. It excels at creating small tense vignettes that are set against the backdrop of a much larger intergalactic conflict. It is a novel less about the actions that are happening but about the challenges and growth that the cast of likable characters go through along the way. Dewes takes the raw material of the first book and its characters and refines it into a much more enjoyable narrative experience. The Last Watch was a good read, but it had quite a few rough edges. I’ve been using Bookwyrm lately to track my reading and this is my first five-star book on that app. I don’t really want to turn this blog into a “book review” blog, but also as always, I have shared my life’s journey with you in whatever direction it takes. It is weird the baggage you carry around with you for decades, that ultimately turns out to be complete bullshit. This probably seems funny to a lot of people considering some of the nonsense spreadsheets that I occasionally break out when I do a deep dive into evaluating something. I am beginning to think the whole “I read slowly” is another mental block much like the “I can’t do math” one that I struggled with for most of my life. Granted two of those nights I stayed up until midnight reading, but still, four days for a book is a pretty good clip for me. I started The Exiled Fleet, the second book in The Divide series on Sunday evening and wrapped it up last night before falling asleep. She will sit down on a good weekend day when we have nothing going on and might read three books in a single day. Over the years I have always told myself that I am a slow reader and that I can’t consume books anywhere near as fast as my wife does. Good Morning Friends! Well, that was a bit of a whirlwind journey.

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