All of a sudden, these days

I've been getting into things lately, which is nice. Like, at any given time I'll have a book or a game or a TV show that I'm really into and spend a little time on each day. I realize that this sort of arrangement is so commonplace for normal people that you're probably wondering why I'm talking about it, but the thing is that I've never really been one to spend my free time in an especially concerted fashion. I'd just kind of find something to do, depending on what I was in the mood for that day (hour, etc). ...Especially in recent years, since I often don't have the energy to actively do much after work.

Come to think of it, this change may have begun back with Meteos and Apollo Justice. Then a book or two, and for several weeks it was House, but this has been displaced by Advance Wars: Days of Ruin, which is kind of a weird game. I know this fact has been commented on endlessly, but wow that game is so much darker than its predecessors. In the last game, you were playing as orange star and blue moon and other lucky-charms-based armies fighting to capture the oozium facilities or whatever. In this game, the planet has been bombarded with meteors and you're trying to survive famine, civil war, and biological weapons, and it's all just a little unexpected. The game is also unexpectedly moralistic; there are these overarching themes of hope and duty and such, but, for example, the last mission I completed was like this little epistemological parable about why it's bad to have false hope. But then the tactical briefings still have the same levity as before. It's odd.

Speaking of video games, Cliff Harris never fails to delight

Oh, and the other day I noticed that my shampoo has caffeine in it. Huh.