Beautiful Bavaria (Weeknotes

🛬 The beginning of the week marked the end of our trip to the Dominican Republic. Due to weather delays, we arrived back in Columbus after midnight Tuesday morning. But, we were both very glad not to have been stuck somewhere.^[1]

📷 I posted a few Punta Cana snapshots over on my photo blog.

🎨 I downloaded CreArt: Painting by Numbers a little while ago. It seems silly to paint by numbers on a phone, but it turns out there are times when that’s exactly what you need. The app allows for a bit of creative license, so every masterpiece is not exactly the same. But who cares? It’s a relaxing way to while away the time when you find yourself with nothing better to do than wait.

📮 I ordered a new scanner and used it to put my QSL card collection. The scanner was very inexpensive and scans both sides simultaneously. I still can’t get over how fast it is!

Reading

🕷️ I finished Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Loved it! This is everything that good Science Fiction should be. It also completes what I call my “Spider Trilogy,” three completely unrelated books that happen to involve spiders or spider-like creatures.^[2]

Watching

🕯️ For the first time since its initial release, I watched The Believers with Martin Sheen. There are a few problems with this movie but it holds up fairly well. Creepy stuff.

🐻‍❄️ Speaking of creepy, we’ve been watching season 4 of True Detective (“Night Country”) and it certainly fits the bill. I assume this headed toward some perfectly rational resolution in the end, but at the halfway point this is some of the weirest shit I’ve seen on television in a while.

📒 We also started watching Bookie. Episode 1 was laugh-out-loud funny, but episode 2 fell off quickly. Not sure I’ll hang around for this one.

That’s all from this end, friends. Talk to you soon!