#Ocean Views, #SelfCare, #Space Littering, #Roleplaying, #AmWatching, And Medical Mutterings

The above photos were taken on the evening of August 21st 2018, looking out to sea towards France.

They tell me - and I'm sure I've mentioned this on here before - that, from the part of the coast we live on, you can just about see a part of the French coast if you look in the right direction on a day when conditions are perfect. I don't know what part of the French coast it is, and you can only just see it, but the day those photos were taken appears to have been one of those days.

You'll see it best in the second photo, I believe.

I'm sure it's nothing special to look at from this distance, and you probably wouldn't know that was what it was if you didn't know to look, since I understand it's more a blob in the distance than anything. But I figured I'd get Kelly to take photos to show you anyhow, since he happened to look out of the window and say he could see it.

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All this month, Annette is posting self care activities on her blog.

We're already half way through the month, but head on over and check them out, especially if you're like me and could do with devoting more time and energy to self care. They're simple activities, but it's the little things that make the difference sometimes.

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in a post in March, I mentioned concerns about space littering.

Apparently I'm not the only one with concerns about it. At least, not if this article on the quest to conquer Earth's space junk problem is anything to go by.

I'm pleased to see it, and hope they figure out a good solution to tackle the space littering problem.

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Kelly, Dad and I are considering starting up roleplaying again. When things calm down, obviously. We're not about to start doing it with me constantly in and out of hospital like I have been. Not to mention being unsure of when my surgery will happen. But we've been talking about it, and discussing various races we might want to have to play something different. Like how I expressed an interest in playing a Dhampir. Nothing's been decided for sure yet though.

Speaking of roleplaying: I'd caught bits and pieces from when Kelly was watching the clips from Critical Roll doing their roleplaying sessions, but only recently got in to watching it properly myself.

As much as I'd like to watch it all from the start of their first campaign, I'm not going to try and catch up with every episode they've ever done, since their previous campaign lasted for more than 100 episodes. I don't remember exactly how many episodes without looking it up, but it was somewhere between 100 and 200. But I've been working on catching up with the episodes from their second campaign. They only started this campaign at the start of 2018, so there are only a little over 30 of those to watch... I think they recorded episode 34 this past week... I'm now on episode six. I would have been further along, but I haven't had the time to devote to watching them between health issues and other stuff. If it was a regular sort of series, I'd start fromepisode1 of campaign 1. But you don't miss much if you just skip to the second campaign with this kind of thing, since it's new characters in each campaign. If I have time in the future, I might go back and watch the episodes from their first campaign. We'll see.

I've also watched the two episodes of "Trinket's Honey Heist" that they've done. If you'd like to check those out as a taster, you can find episode 1 here and find episode 2 here.

If you're going to watch any of the episodes, clear some time, because the episodes are around three to four hours long. Yeah... I know. They're not exactly short episodes, since they're an entire roleplaying session. That's why I've still got a lot to catch up on, and why I say I haven't had the time to devote to them.

Oh, and... Just so you're aware: WARNING! Strong language used throughout.

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I recently watched "Ready Player One" - a movie I'd been really wanting to see. I'd read the book for it, and loved it, so was eager to see if the movie was as good. Kelly had heard part of the book while I was listening to it, so he kind of wanted to see it too. Anyway, we watched it last weekend. I'm meant to be doing review posts for movie reviews, but I don't see much point in doing an actual review post to review just one movie, so here's my review for it:

Ready Player One (2018 movie):
As a movie in its own right, it was really great. As a representation of the book, it kinda sucked. Had I not read the book before watching it, I probably wouldn't have any complaints. I mean, it was an action-packed movie, with great characters, and even a few touching scenes. But it was like they essentially took the basic idea of the book, grabbed the characters from it, and threw pretty much everything else out of the window. If I was rating the movie based on how well they brought the book to the screen, it would get a low rating. However, I try to rate movies based on how good they are by themselves, even if I've read the book they're based on, so my rating is based on that alone, and both Kelly and I did really enjoy it. With that in mind, I give this movie four out of five stars.

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Things went smoothly when I went for my blood test this past Thursday. My veins were even feeling co-operative, so getting blood was quick, and only required me to be stabbed with a needle once, which I was glad about.

If my bloods are bad, they'll get in touch soon to say so. Otherwise I'll have to call and ask if I want to find out the results.

I figure, since it takes a couple of weeks for them to come back anyhow, I'll just ask when I go for my next shot in a couple of weeks. Assuming they haven't contacted me in the meantime, I mean. After all, it will be almost time for that appointment by the time I could call them, and waiting an extra few days won't hurt if the numbers aren't bad enough for them to contact me. Plus, it's that or spend who knows how long on the phone waiting to talk to a receptionist. Much easier to just ask while I'm there, and have the attention of the nurse, while she has my file in front of her.

Also, it's now been three months since I was put on the three to six month waiting list for surgery. That means I officially should hear something about a surgery date very soon... Like in the next couple of months. Officially, I should be going in for surgery any time between now and mid December, assuming they keep to the timeframe they gave me. I hope they do. Cross your fingers for me, and maybe your toes too...