WIP Wednesday – June 14

Hey all, Sam and David back again today.

It has been an interesting week, to say the least. In the past week, Sam had a job interview, got the job, and had her first day of work yesterday. And we had the Downtown Summer Market last week, and that was pretty great too, so David can talk about that more in his section.

Anyway, welcome back to WIP Wednesday, our blog series where we like to check in and keep track of everything we’ve been up to each week. This means talking about what we’ve read, what we’ve watched, what we’ve played, what we’ve done…everything. Because honestly, if we don’t keep track of that then the days and weeks have a tendency to start blending together, which is unfortunate.

Sam

Reading: Rising Fire by Terri Brisbin, A Thousand Recipes for Revenge by Beth Cato, The Twice-Drowned Saint by C.S.E. Cooney

I’ll be honest: I’m feeling the urge to read some romantasy (fantasy romance) or just some romance in general, so I’m trying to sprinkle those into my already loosely planned TBR and such, but the urge is strong to just toss the TBR out the window. I don’t want to do that because I’m trying to keep up with reading and reviewing my NetGalley reads. But I read Rising Fire by Terri Brisbin in just a couple hours the other day–partly while taking a relaxing bath–and it was just really nice.

I’m still reading The Study of Poisons by Maria V. Snyder and Garden of the Cursed by Katy Rose Pool. There was a lot going on this week and it threw me a bit off schedule. As I settle into this new schedule with my work days and such, it should start to balance out a bit again. But I’m also thinking that I need to pick up The Art of Prophecy by Wesley Chu, and The City of Dusk by Tara Sim, because I am approved for their sequels through NetGalley, and I’d love to get them read and reviewed in time for their respective releases.

Watching: “Shadowhunters” Season 3 (in progress), “Pinocchio” (animated), “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” Season 3 (in progress), and a whole bunch of BookTube videos.

So look, because of the move and work and everything last year, I fell behind on a couple of my regularly watched BookTubers, and so I have spent some time the past couple weeks basically binge-watching videos to try and catch up. I’ve caught up on one and I’m like 6 videos behind on the other…but that means I’ve almost completely caught up. I’ve missed watching videos of people reading books and talking about books and recommending books and doing book hauls. It has been fun to get back into them, even if it has drastically diminished the rest of my TV binge-watching.

Writing: I’ve been thinking more about my writing, particularly when it comes to Camp NaNoWriMo in July. At the moment I’m still stuck between Harbingers of Death and Sink Your Teeth Into Some Good Books –as a note these are both working titles and might change by the time the books are completed. So for the moment I’m basically jotting down character and plot details and trying to get enough of a skeleton for me to work with. If one of the ideas has more traction then that will be my Camp project, but if both are equal then I will work on both of them over the next month.

Other: We did the Downtown Summer Market last Thursday and it was pretty great. I’ll let David share more information about that. But last Thursday I also had a job interview and was hired on the spot…and I had my first day of work yesterday. I won’t say a whole lot about the job, but it does involve a lot of counting and organization…but also has some slow times where I am able to read or write, so I think I’m going to enjoy the job for now.

Of course, I’d still absolutely love to either find a job working in a library, or to find a job where I can work from home, so I am still job hunting. I just don’t need to look with the same urgency that I was these past weeks.

Aside from that, David and I have been playing Diablo IV whenever we have the time to play together, although David has a few other characters that he plays when I’m not available to play. It’s still fun, and we’ve completed Act II, although we still have so many side quests and dungeons and Lilith shrines to find to complete some of the regions. I like that you can look up how many you’ve completed versus how many there actually are. It’s useful if you want to complete all the things.

David

Well once again Sam’s section is always more detailed and eventful than mine is since what I do does not have a big variety like Sam’s stuff but here it goes.

Printing: The process of building up an inventory continues at the moment. We are hoping to make use of some ‘Fall’ themed colors in order to get ready for spooky season. I have gotten ahold of some bone colored filaments and some that transition with blacks, golds, reds, and purples. Hopefully more pictures will start up soon so you all can get a preview.

Progress on the Green Goblin mask is going okay, just working on smoothing out the seams of having put the pieces together. Might try a different way for the rest of it.

Gaming: As expected Diablo 4 and Tears of the Kingdom are still prominent in my gaming time still. I did make quite a bit of progress in The Depths today while exploring . I did not manage to find any more shrines above though. It might be time for me to actually do the upgrades to the PuraPad that I have been holding off on for so darn long.

I have been experimenting with a few of the classes of Diablo 4 so far I think my favorite is the Sorceror, though my main would be the Rogue that teams up with Sam’s Druid. I might switch back to trying to do a good AoE range build though as I do not like playing melee classes in any game.

Watching: I have been up to date on all the anime I am currently watching. I did however make a few more episodes of progress on One Piece, which puts me at around episode 630 I believe lol. I have so much to catch up on, but it is always fun to watch. I have been trying to watch more videos on editing models and sculpting models in blender I just need more time to do more in depth ones.

Well, that is all from us for today. Please let us know what you’ve been up to in the comments, because we’d love to hear all about it. Thank you so much for stopping by and we’ll be back soon with more geeky content.