We drove over to Rileys and met up with Jeremy there. Wit and his gf stopped by, but didn’t stay for the festivities. We watched Startrek: Into Darkness and played with the expansion of FTL. I did pretty well, getting to the final boss on hard mode. My strategy of choice in the expansion was area control boarding with the crystal ship style b. It was very powerful, except if running into an automated ship early on. Luckily the failures made for some early deaths, so I didn’t have to deal with terribly annoying deaths mid game. I made it to one jump away from the final boss, but the regular ships in the last stand were able to take me down on hard mode. I should have used the cloak more often, but it kept slipping my mind.
Steph and I decided to sleep in on Saturday, so we hung out in bed. The kitties didn’t really let us sleep since they started asking for attention at 9 am. They were still very cute. I cooked some breakfast and we went to Beachhead to hang out with Jeremy. Steph and he painted some minis and I worked some. Then we went into Palo Alto to get some liquid nitrogen ice cream at a place called scoop. it was pretty tasty, and we shared a triple scoop bowl.
This is another book in my Brandon Sanderson reading spree. He is a really good writer in that he can make a captivating universe, with complex histories, and developing characters. I appreciate the detail and complexity his characters show, and how they act consistently and understandably.
This book especially shows it off, with several of the main characters being of very different mindsets. This story is very intriguing, and I prefer the story of Kaladin being my favorite. He is such a tragic hero that comes back from the tragedy.
I really liked this book, and especially the mythology that came from the earlier books in the Mistborn series. The modernization of the book did not make it lack at all in the magic category. The introduction of guns certainly changed the uses of the magic, but didn’t change the interesting parts. The new speed bubbles were a little strange, but they were still pretty neat.
I like the movie, and while they mention some other super heroes, the did like all the other super hero movies and mainly ignored their existence. The new hero introduced was a little underpowered, except his ability to survive massive g-forces without blinking.
This was a very good book. I think I like the first one better, but the entire series of the Mistborn is fantastic. The final battle was a little underwhelming since it was pretty much glossed over. I supposed there wasn’t much variety to cover, but I would have liked to hear a little more about it. The main characters endings are very interesting as well. They have a lot going on and the plot takes a step back to a higher realm at the end. I’m not sure if I like that step back or not, but I’ll have to think on it.
Stephanie did a little painting of Archer and it turned out pretty well. Her subject was very cooperative and sat by the entire time being relatively still. He managed to keep out of the paint this time, which was nice. They are such cute kitties and Steph is a pretty talented artist when it comes to the coloring and blending.
This book was very good, and had a lot of great suspense. With the Final Empire fallen the government and world leadership must be built from the ground up, and it makes for a really interesting social thought experiment. The working of the third metallurgical art also comes into play. The world is greatly expanded and the characters develop greatly. The plot has a few really good twists to it as well.
The kitties watched closely as I painted some with my watercolors. I decided to do some simple nature scenes, that had a simple beauty. This led me to a sunset scene and a tree by a waterfall. They didn’t turn out as nice as I was hoping, but I still enjoy them. The kitties liked watching the brush and archer batted at the brush twice. Once he even got a little bit of paint on one of his paws and it ended up on the canvas. The small sapling next to the big tree in the picture is the result of that paw. The painting was a great way to relieve some of the stress that has been building up, since I’ve been working so hard.
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