I just finished up The Locked Tomb trilogy on audio and now I'm reading the dead tree version of The Priory of the Orange Tree. I tried to start it on audio about a year ago but it was too dense for the short listening blocks I have these days. It's been a while since I read any epic fantasy and I'm enjoying it a lot so far.

Also car seats are enormous and don't fit well into compact cars unless the passenger side seat is all the way up and maybe not even then. Good luck if you have more than one kid that needs a car seat too.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that finds the underground creepy. I still haven't explored all of it. I cheese most of the fights with bows. If you have bombs, freeze items to fuse, keese eyes, and muddle buds you're pretty golden.

I don't miss the baby stage either. I would have a lot of kids if they came out at 18 months development stage.

I've read or started to read 10 of them. I had a hard time getting into a Master of Djinn and didn't finish. All Systems Red is fine but not great. I didn't care for Name of the Wind or Binti. I loved Seveneves, The Fifth Season, and Ancillary Justice though.

I feel like plumbing and electrical work are things you should just pay professionals to do. The risk of things going very sideways is just too high for me.

It really bothers me that the bench is not under the tree.

I used to have a boring data entry job and I listened to audiobooks every day. It was great. Now I mostly listen in the car or while doing chores. I kind of miss having those long lengths of time to listen.

Emily Blair, the Austin Apartment Association’s executive vice president, “While the City is exploring the proposition of an ordinance such as this, it is imperative that existing standards are enforced and supported while carefully factoring in the potential housing affordability ramifications for within the rental housing community.”

This is basically a threat. You require us to have air conditioning then we'll raise rents.

It was interesting. You don't really think kids are that exposed to diet culture but it's in everything.

Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Virginia Sole-Smith. I just started it so no opinions yet.

No, you can't expect kids to learn how to act in society if they're prevented from existing in society. Besides most pub style places are already adults only after a certain time.