Plague has come upon my house

A week ago, Laila had a weird sore near her nose, one of those illnesses that toddlers just seem to get. We took her to the clinic, the nurse took one look at her and was like, "It's impetigo, put some antibiotic cream on it and it'll go away, I'll write you a prescription," we got the cream and started putting it on, and no one else got it. Except there seems to be some rider illness that came with it, a cold or stomach bug or something. sashagee has spent the last four days feeling ill and even Laila has been feeling under the weather, though it hasn't affected her energy levels at all (of course). Except for today, where she finally took a nap after three days of no napping. Fortunately for us since sashagee needed time to recovery.

Been playing a lot of Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail, the new expansion, since it came out a couple weeks ago and my impressions are that the story is bad but the gameplay is fun. For example:

Level 100 Dawntrail spoilers

Shadowbringers is all about how Emet-Selch declares that anyone who isn't a super-special survivor of the previous world isn't fully human and therefore he's justified in killing them because it's not murder, and we spend the expansion proving him wrong. In Dawntrail, we declare that the Endless (digital copies of people created by preserving their memories after their deaths) are not fully human so we go and delete them all.

Endwalker is about how pure peace and contentment leads to stagnancy, and a bit of friction and struggle is what makes life worth living. In Dawntrail, the main character (Wuk Lamat, who's basically Estelle Bright from Trails in the Sky) is trying to attain the throne of a massive empire so she can bring peace and happiness to every citizen so they can smile all the time, which in Endwalker we were shown will inevitably lead to the entire civilization losing purpose and eventually deciding to commit mass suicide, and we're tagging along because, well, that's the game's story so we have to.

The game does go full Final Fantasy extreme nonsense with invading robots from another dimension later and I loved that part, and the actual fights are incredibly fun. But...well, we'll see how the story develops later.

Still having a lot of fun though.

aaronhparker invited us to a block tomorrow on Shabbat down where he lives. It's supposedly the biggest block party in the city, thrown by the longest-existing block association, so as long as Laila doesn't take a very long nap, we'll go and see how it is.