Trinsec @Qoto @trinsec@social.cleverlibre.org

I've finished reading _De goede grap van Norman Foreman_ by Julietta Henderson. Original title is _The Funny Thing about Norman Foreman_.

It was an alright read. There are two main characters, Norman and his mother. The chapters are written from their perspectives, alternating between those two. The roadtrip in the story was at least something, they did meet interesting and weird characters on the way. I can't help but feel that the story could have been a bit more dynamic. The guy travelling with them was almost a HAL 9000. Very convenient. :P

My annoyances are that the mother was quite an overthinker in the extreme of 'We better go home, because it's too scary'. Norman was the other way around and kept thinking about what his recently deceased buddy would've said about the trip. After a while that got a bit tedious to read over and over again.

When they finally came closer to the end of their roadtrip, the pace accelerated like crazy. And you know what? That part was actually very fun to read. It's ridiculous, very unlikely, but still fun to read. That was a very welcome diversion.

The ending was just a bit underwhelming. I mean, it was totally expected but still... I've read books before which has roughly the same kind of deal and they managed to milk their endings more. I wanted to see some more about Norman's performances there, but ah well. Onwards to the next book I guess.
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I think ferns are my favorite plants. They're so cool to look at.
#Gardening

Heh, today's worldle is a tiny bit too easy. :P

#Worldle #132 1/6 (100%)
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... lol. From a CD labeled 'Emulator Gallery':

"It is now possible to play hundreds of well known and classic games on your pc computer using the emulators supplied. Including emulators for Amiga, Amstrad, Apple, BBC, Commodore 64 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Comes complete with lots of free games."

Neat, I can emulate Apple! 😁

This shit is from 1997.
#Games

It's sometimes funny when you check out your old CDs. Here I have a CD with Baldur's Gate, but only the first 2 chapters. It's an "introductory journey" which "allows you to experience the first two chapters of the 7-Chapter epic adventure and 1998 RPG of the Year". It needs Windows 95/98.

I've got the game complete at Steam and GOG nowadays. :P
Wonder if I should throw away those kind of CDs..
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Netflix algorithms really suck. Do I watch one programme briefly where a guy is doing his day job but is on the hunt for delicious food in his spare time... now I get bombarded with all kinds of such programmes and most are just stupid. :P

Why can't it instead suggest me some cool scifi after I've watched a few Star Trek episodes?! :P
#Netflix

A few days ago I finished reading The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman and I liked it enough that I wanted to continue on with the next book in this series: **The Man Who Died Twice**. With the same team of our old people who try to solve murders in their peculiar way.

This time it is serious enough that the MI5 and MI6 are getting involved as well. And the mafia from USA. And some local gangsters. We get to take a peek at Elizabeth's past, watch a bunch of CCTV footages, and frame people in order to get justice done. I mean, people shouldn't have beaten up poor Ibrahim, they had it coming!

I have to say that this started out a bit slow, and I thought 'aw no, I don't really want any secret service involved'. But it did turn out to be a pleasant read once again. Whole sections that _could_ have been boring, weren't boring because of the great interactions of our bunch of septuagenarians. I love the interactions with Joyce, and I love the chapters from her perspective. Though the chapters with Ron and Ibrahim are fun as well.

I read that there are four books planned in total, so there are 2 more books in this series to look forward to. I definitely would want to continue reading about our lovely geriatrics and their antics. And apparently film rights of the books have been sold to Steven Spielberg, so I'm curious if there's any movie forthcoming. I think it'd make a fun movie.
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Ha, neat. Managed to get a perfect score there.

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Mm, this one was actually enjoyable to play. I also like the little touch that there's definitions of the words below after solving.

Felt a bit down today so I decided to work in the garden for a while. Now there's a corner in my backyard that's very clean, I guess that makes me feel a little better. :P

I've removed a shitton of tough grassy weeds which was almost everywhere, and then moved a lot of rubbish to the shed. It's nice to see this spot very empty for a change.
#Gardening

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Oh, huh, okay, that went pretty smooth. #Logic ftw.

Finally finished reading this book, The Thursday Murder Club written by Richard Osman. Yup, the guy who's presenting in Pointless and Richard Osman's House of Games, both currently on BBC. I was interested in this book because he's proven himself with a fairly dry (British) humor in those game shows that I liked and hoped to see the same in his book as well.

It was an fun read. A retirement community has a small group of geriatrics who try to solve murders. On Thursdays, mind you, because that's when the Jigsaw Room is available for their meetings. Conveniently they've also found a name for their club.

At first just cold cases, but then a real murder pops up. Oooh, exciting! So they try to solve that one. They get in touch with 2 cops who were assigned to the murder case, quite interesting how they got in touch too. And then another murder happens. Ooh, even more exciting!

Suspects start popping up left and right, but are they really the murderers? They learn a lot more about those suspects than they thought, but did they even get closer to solving the case?

Anyway, it's a nice read. Every character is clearly defined. You'd expect Joyce to be overly excited at the prospect of getting jailed, you know.. she'd get *experience* in what it's like to be a prisoner! Oh and would you like a slice of cake please? Elizabeth is quite the pushy person, it's gonna be done whether others want it or not! And you can count on her on solving a few side cases! Ron's good at impromptu commentary and Ibrahim happily joins in with some facts.

I see there's a second book out in this series. I might seriously consider to give that one a read as well so I can continue reading about the antics of those octogenarians. Or were they septuagenarians? Either way, pretty damn old!
#Books

OneNote and Excel need to mate and get babies and have a half-wiki solution. :P

Oh well, I'll just make a database in Obsidian instead and utilize Dataview like there's no tomorrow.
#Work

A garden view from my backdoor. I've made sure that whenever I walk under that tree (which consumes the upper half of this picture), its branches won't touch my head. Been trimming it over time for exactly this and it's great. :)

I'm not overly tall, though, so visitors will still need to duck. And they do want to duck because that tree's filled with murderous tall needles. I call them 'moordnaalden' in Dutch. :P
#Gardening

I don't think Mike Myers is funny...

It's starting to become tradition that my dad and I are doing DIY stuff in the rain. :P

Well, ok, the new shed actually gave us shelter for the most part. There's that!

*Tries to write in English about a Dutch thing*
*Fails miserably*
*Gives up*
I don't think my brain wants to English this morning. :P

Oh right, before I completely forget about this weird dream, I'd better jot this down. It's funky, funny, and just outright weird. If you want to make a novel out of it, I demand to be credited!

So, my dream last night was about monsters absolutely scared of cute looking baby wild animals (like a cutesy cartoon cheetah and such, just in 3D. If you know the game Space Ark, it's pretty damn close). Monsters live in the forest, they have to flee. Farmers insta-demolishes forest (just like you'd see in cartoons basically) and make farmland. The cutesy wild animals drive the monsters away for them...

Then somehow I'm in a small group of.. well, humans. Found a large metal door, opened it, and locked it behind us, so those cutesy animals couldn't chase us anymore (we're not monsters... but hey). We'd entered another forest area, kinda level-locked by that door like in games. Saw some monsters which were shy. Ok fine. Saw some sort of a .. uh.. sorta starport Inca style with fancy sparkly lights, and we had the idea we have to leave this planet before the cutesy wild animals and the farmers took over the whole damn planet, ultimately flattening everything to convert into farmland...

It really got weird.

Oh one of the monsters (which kinda looked like a giant hippo from Madagascar) wasn't happy with our presence. So they went off to open that door.. but then regretted it instantly as those cutesy wild animals started chasing them, and suddenly the previously hidden forest was fast getting flattened and demolished and insta-converted into farmlands and my group had to hurry up to figure out how to call a starship to leave that place...

Then I woke up, wahhhh. :P

(I also remember one of those monsters being a tiny body with a huge alligator head, cartoon style...)