We did alright, I guess, on our last day of weekend.  I failed to wake up at a reasonable time, but well, more sleep never really hurt anyone either, right?  Got some more work done on Rhythm Quest, did another room's worth of timings for the ALTTPR site.  I've been playing through Trauma Center: Second Opinion again (after getting myself a working wiimote), just the latest of the games that I'm replaying.  I'm going for all XS ranks, which hasn't actually been too bad; even the difficult missions to XS haven't been excruciating or anything.  Which makes sense, I think New Blood was the game that really made us tear our hair out trying to go for XS ranks -- both because the wiimote is more sensitive in New Blood (why???) and because of how strict the scoring is.  Second Opinion has a few "gotcha" missions where you have to for example let more lacerations or tumors happen so that you can get additional points or whatever, but for the most part it's not too bad.  It's also crazy how when you jump back into one of these without any prep, you get super overwhelmed because you don't remember the specifics of dealing with each GUILT type, but once sort of remember what you need to, it's that much easier.

Dealing with Kyriaki remains sort of the bread-and-butter most-enjoyable aspect of Second Opinion by far.  Nothing else really has quite the same rhythm and flow to it and you really feel great when you're just drilling it through -- suture suture, ultrasound, cut cut, gel, laser laser, suture suture, ...  The missions in Trauma Center have always played in a weird difficulty design space where some of them are hard until you know exactly what to do (e.g. multi-tumors, you need to know whether you should tackle them one by one, or assembly line style, or...), then there are some parts that are hard just because of wiimote shenanigans (certain sutures, especially a ton of them in New Blood, ugh).  Where Trauma Center I think becomes most interesting is when you're given multiple conflicting objectives to deal with at once.  Of course a bunch of different missions and GUILT types try to bring this up, but I think Kyraki is a great example because when you first encounter them you're not really sure exactly in what order to do everything, but after you get the hang of it you really find the ideal pacing.  The Kyriaki + Paraskevi mission is another great curveball added to the mix, although it's not entirely that interesting because it's so obvious how to handle it (just prioritize the Kyriaki, since you can just stun the Paraskevi if it's just in one piece.

Of course this is exactly why I hated the design of most of the mission types in Trauma Team (because they tend to remove the competing-needs interesting parts of missions), but that's neither here nor there I guess.  Anyways, Triti has to be the most frustrating type of GUILT in Second Opinion by far.  I thought it would be Deftera because of its RNG nature, but no, Triti takes the cake.  It requires a lot of precision but also speed, and you randomly get screwed over by the thorns turning into vapor, and ugh.

Anyways, besides that, I've also been watching through the third season of Hibike, which I've been enjoying so far!  I have some minor qualms about it, I think, but they're outweighed by the good, I think.  I'm definitely interested in giving the entire series a rewatch, I think it's just been too long since I saw a lot of it and I think I'd benefit from seeing it all again.  Maybe after Kanon, lol.

Keyboards have still been enjoyable, though I think I might want a sort of changeup at some point when I've got a bunch of free time lying around.  I might swap the HMX Gachapons out of the Cycle7 and replace them with the WS POM+s that I like so much and remember how those feel like.  Unfortunately it seems like the batteries I got in the Cycle7 are not in a great way somehow, but eh...it's fine and we'll see.  Spent way too much money and time on that, for sure, but at least the board is still working fine in its original form.

Oh, and I broke my streak of last-locating stuff in the weekly ALTTPR seeds the other day, so woohoo.

Life has surely felt a little relaxed but also a little empty lately, but understandably so given that I've just been holed out at home for the past N weeks.  Maybe this next week I'll finally venture out and maybe have some tea and grab some groceries; I guess we'll see how I'm feeling mid-week and whether my two laceration-like canker sores are on their way out by then (blech).  It's not been like..."bad" to just sit at home and play Caesar 3 and such, but it hasn't exactly been great either.  I guess it makes me appreciate what I had going on in my life before it got wrecked by Covid.

Tomorrow is Monday, sure, but also, just another day...