Yup. I just finished it myself. I was hoping there would be some sort of reward for slogging through such a poorly written book. Nothing. I’m irritated. It was pointless. I don’t know if it would have been any better as a short story, honestly… but maybe, with some adjustments. I saw somewhere that it was inspired by a nightmare? That would explain it a bit… but still it was too long and felt pointless.

To Sleep in the Sea of Stars had it’s issues… too many things happen virtualy the same way with slight differences multiple times, but it had a narrative, it was interesting and new, and I enjoyed it overall. Unfortunately he rambles a bit (Eragon book 3) and needs to be rained in sometimes, which is unfortunate because he has some good ideas. I hope the new book in the Eragon series doesn’t suck. I recently found and read the set of three short stories in that series and I really liked them, probably because they were short and to the point.

I guess there are worse things in the world right now to be complaining about.

I do this too. My Mac & Cheese usually always has broccoli and hot peppers or other veggies and whatever extra meat I have… brisket, rotisserie chicken, salami, tuna, chilli, etc

I basically eat all sandwiches on cinnamon raisin bagels if I can. Eggs, bacon/sausage, and cheese for breakfast? Yes. Pastrami and Swiss with mustard and sprouts? Yes. Tuna salad with Swiss? Yes. I get so many weird looks. But whatever. I like it. :)

Relay Pro (android) use to be the app I’ve used for reddit, but I uninstalled it at the start of the debacle and will not be returning to reddit for the foreseeable future due to the nature of what reddit has become. It is no longer a community led platform and instead a thing owned by a larger company with leadership that just wants to make money off of the people who use it. I believe the fediverse to be the future of the community that made reddit what it was and that community should not be owned by any one company/organization. There will definitely be growing pains and decisions to be made here on how best to handle so many things, but I have confidence in the community that it will be sorted out and we will get through the growing pains. It will result in a much better platform that will help take us through to the next stage of worldwide community, connectedness, and information sharing.

I prefer this quote because, IMHO, a god does not exist…

“Is god willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him god?”

-Epicurus