At least it was only one day

I did not accomplish nearly as much as I wanted to this weekend, but isn't that always the case?

Friday was Starlight Radio Dreams, so I showed up, sat with meowtima, and ate fish and chips while we watched the show. At intermission, lisekatevans arrived fresh from her other show in time to perform in the second act, and worldbshiny joined us at the table. The others left immediately after the performance ended, but lisekatevans had brought friends visiting from Ohio, so she invited me to stay for a drink and chat with them afterwards. It was lovely, even when I got out after eleven and it was faster to walk four miles home than to wait for the bus. At least it was a lovely night for a walk, and I'm a fast walker.

Once again, I loved the episode of NPC, which this time dealt with a trap-filled maze dungeon. I've dealt with enough of those in the games I've played over the years.

Saturday I lost the whole day to playing Stellaris and was pretty disappointed with myself because of it. That hasn't happened for years and I had so many other things I wanted to accomplish--work more on the next coding challenge, read the first issue of Dill, clean the bathtub, finish up Hibike! Euphonium--and none of it got done. And in the end, I didn't even win! The ReapersContingency showed up as I was in the middle of building a stargate network and one of their Forge-Worlds was in the middle of Ayleid space on a crucial hyperlane chokepoint, so they wiped out my scattered fleets and started advancing on the homeworld. I gave up after that.

Sunday I started a new game, this time as a different kind of space elves, and again played longer than I wanted to, but I got presentable and headed out the door in time to make the performance of Prometheus Bound at the City Lit despite a bit of trouble finding the theatre. lisekatevans had warned me that as Greek tragedy, the show would be a bit different than theatre I'm used to and that's not even counting that most of the characters were puppets. A lot of it was characters proclaiming to the audience rather than interacting, even in scenes where they were together on stage, which admittedly my love of kagura had conditioned me to expect. The puppet dancing as the chorus sang was less expected. I thought the person playing Prometheus and lisekatevans (playing Io) did a very good job, especially considering they were the only humans on stage other than ninjas holding the puppets, and lisekatevans said that the director told her that she should be concerned with the gadfly stinging Io and to stop looking at Prometheus. That must make it hard.

Kratos: "No one is absolutely free except for Zeus."
Hephaestus: "That is true."
Kratos: "Then get on with it!"

I had not previously realized that the main character of God of War was named after an actual Greek deity.

Afterwards, lisekatevans invited me out to Ethiopian for dinner with some other people who had come to see the show. When dinner was done, two of the people peeled off to make the trpi back to Hyde Park past the Cubs game, but lisekatevans, one other person, and me went to ice cream. But when we arrived, lisekatevans looked at the time and realized her boyfriend would be in town earlier than she thought, so she excused herself. The other person and I ended up talking for two hours, and when she left to go to the beach she invited me along. We walked north to the terminus of the lakefront trail, then she went off to the beach and I went back to my apartment and stayed up too late reading.

Monday I set a hard limit on Stellaris playing and so actually got a lot done! The whole apartment is clean (except the bathtub...), sheets washed and laundry done, lunches made, food shopped for, and I thought of a way to rewrite part of my weather project so as not to have two separate methods of displaying the temperature depending on whether the page is first loaded or the temperature is toggled between C and F. If only I could have been that productive the whole weekend.

Short week ahead and nothing on the schedule unless that OneTable dinner I signed up for approves me (I have no idea why that one requires approval). Hopefully I can get more done this week, like figuring how to format a fetch() request...