Lemonade Today

With my Angels in a slump, my book club reading a novel I’m not really enjoying, and coming to the recognition as to why I didn’t get further in Defiance, I figured it was time to jump back into a bit of rambling.

Slumping Angels

Looking at their record, I suppose they are still doing pretty well, but my Angels are not 9 and 8 after starting the season 5-2. So I guess that’s 4 wins and 6 losses since I last mentioned them in a post, and that’s not really where I want them to be. They’ve played pretty well, but then they also have suffered a string of injuries. I’m just hoping the game last night did not result in a long-term injury to Mike Trout.

He got hit by a pitch in the elbow and had to leave the game. Definitely not what I wanted to see.

With another few games against the Cheaters, I hope my team returns to form and starts back on their winning ways. Time will tell.

Too Much Friction

I really wanted to jump in and make some good progress in Defiance 2050 before the game died off, but I really just could not get into it. It wasn’t that I was unable to play the game – it was easy to download and create a character, but I just did not click.

Maybe it was the fact that I didn’t see anyone else on the server or that I did not recall some of the early fights, but I was not enjoying myself. There was no grouping, and while I usually have no problem with solo gameplay in an MMO, I don’t like ghost towns.

Perhaps the time has just moved on. With looter-shooters like Destiny 2, Borderlands 3, or even The Division much more enjoyable, perhaps the time HAS come to escort Defiance into the sunset.

I’m sad, don’t get me wrong. Like I said earlier, I really wanted to run around in the game, enjoying the storyline, the critters, and the setting. Instead, I just never got very far and was not really enjoying myself.

Oh well. I put Rift on my list to explore after Defiance went away, so I think I’ll start my journey there sooner than I planned.

The Family Upstairs

I don’t usually read mystery novels, but I can get into them when I asked to read them in one of my book clubs. This one, by Lisa Jewel, however, was not my cup of tea.

I’m not sure if it was because I felt the story conveyed such miserable people or the point that I really did not relate to anyone in the story. Perhaps it was the fact that in the middle of a pandemic, I was not interested in reading a story with domestic abuse, murder, people being conned out of their life savings, and I don’t know, I just was not interested.

I think the book was well written, and at a different time, I may have enjoyed reading it, but I really felt like I was only reading this because I wanted to participate in my first book club meeting in a year.

It’s a Wrap

I suppose things were interesting with the well-rounded bit of blech that I dealt with. I was out of sorts with my Angels not performing the way I’d like to see them play; I was playing a game that really did not fit the way I was feeling, even though I knew it was gonna be shut down soon; and I was reading a book that I would normally have never read and was reinforced as to why that is. On the whole, it was not a good day.

But I did put together a ramble, so I made lemonade from lemons, I guess.

Ramble 2021.02.11| Lemonade Today