all made up with nowhere to go

On Thursday it was the hottest day of the year. It got up to the 33°C in town, which is the hottest I've ever known it be. I am incredibly grateful that I was in work all day, and that work has air conditioning. I do not want it to ever get any hotter than that, thank you very much.

I guess at least we didn't have several weeks of 25°+ this year, but even so, nope. Do not want.

Thankfully, it's a lot cooler today (by almost half the temperature), and there's been rain for the second day in a row, which we need anyway (the river levels have been woeful this year).

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I finally finished the first campaign of Critical Role! \o/

I honestly thought I was never going to get to the end, or bother getting to the end, so this makes me happy. I loved the way everything came together at the end, it was so awesome. I think I might have seen a couple of connections where there were none, or maybe they were coincidental, IDK.

I thought I would have a gap between campaigns one and two, but nope, I started two right away! Because I have nothing better to do, apparently!

I am on episode three. I'm not sure how I feel about things, but this is how I felt on episode three of the first campaign, so things may change and probably will.

I keep wincing every time Taliesin Jaffe speaks in character because his Irish accent is awful (and trust me, I know about awful Irish accents; mine isn't brilliant but it's better than that). I like that Marisha's and Ashley's characters seem to be the polar opposites of what they played before (not that I dislike any of them, it's just interesting). Hearing Liam O'Brien speak German is WEIRD but also is giving me encouragement to, I don't know, practice some more? Not like I don't have the time, right? I also think I like Nott, which is weird because I didn't like Scanlan (but did like Taryon, so *shrug emoji*?)

I don't like the new opening credits, but I didn't like the old ones, either.

I think that's all I've got to say about that, for now. Well, apart from it makes me want to play D&D/other TTRPGs but first I need to find some willing victims other people who are interested. Or something.

Tomorrow is comics meet day, and I'm not looking forward to it because I need to have words with one of the people who goes to it, because they upset me at the last meet. I don't want to do it, but I also don't want to sidestep it, because it's not the first time they've been shitty with me. And I don't want them to be shitty with me, because I'm good enough at doing that myself. I don't need anyone else to do it for me. I also don't want them to be shitty with anyone else. So yeah, I need to yell at them and tell them to stop being a creep, essentially.

I'm fairly certain I can do it. I've got better at talking to people when they upset me, but this person is a bit of an unknown quantity, as I don't socialise with them outside of the comics meet, so have no idea how they will take this. I really hope they learn from it, but I honestly don't know.

(Though you watch - this'll be the one time they don't turn up. I've spent all this time being angry and mentally preparing myself for this, and they won't be there).

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In other, more pleasing news:

I have a credit card that I applied for over a decade ago, and which got foolishly used and ran up the limit several times over several years. Welp. The good news is that I am THIS CLOSE to paying it off for good! I've got about £400 to be paid off now, which is the lowest it's ever been. And I've done most of that in the last twelve months, and I'm really pleased with myself.

Once it's paid off, I'm going to cancel it, because I don't want it, and I hate being in debt. (Also I have other debts that need paying, and I'd like to try to diminish and/or pay those off if possible).

So. At least that's one less thing to worry about.