Today's Notes 1/14/21

Good afternoon everybody,

Let's talk about last night's stream of ESPN Major League Baseball... or rather last week's stream of it, where we had that three game set against the Diamondbacks... I didn't save the game last week, so imagine my surprise this week when I know the stream should be a 3-game set against the Cardinals... but I'm facing the Diamondbacks. Yeah... I didn't realize it until I looked at my clips to see the home runs I gave up to Luis Gonzalez. So last night, I had to replay the D-Backs series, winning 2 out of 3, and also start the series against the Cardinals, splitting the first two games, and I was too tired to go for the third game (sixth overall of the night). That said, probably the best moment of the night was the grand slam I clobbered as Jim Thome in a game I ended up losing 7-6 (because I was down 7-2 at the time).

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 session did involve lower body exercises, burning 461 calories, over a 30 minute workout when one doesn't count stretching. This was the 34th day in row following the switch from the first game. Also unlocked the Great Score Achievement which was to have a score of 16,000 or more with Intermediate Combo #2 on the low setting. I already have it's high setting cousin of Ultra Score. Also popped into Animal Crossing New Horizons this afternoon, and there were a few things of note, one being Sherb apparently ate every apple on the island and other being that Skye looks awesome with the 'Adventure Dress' which is basically an Alice in Wonderland outfit. 

With it being Thursday that mean's Star Trek Online is on the agenda, and the real question is... what exactly will I be doing during it as I have gone through all the story content with my Cardassian in the Klingon Empire (including the Cold War, Lost Dominion and Specters story arcs). It is a Red Alert weekend so we could just do that and just bullshit the entire time, or try and do specific task force operations because randomizing that often results in seeing the same handful over and over again. This is where Star Trek Online's weakness as an MMO is greatly exposed in terms of not having enough diverse content that doesn't feel samey. Yes there are space and ground warzones, but those good lucky finding enough people to even form a team to try and complete things on Defera to deal with the Borg! This is why I miss the the big exploration areas and the random mission generators and the missions players used to make using the Foundry.

My copy of RWBY Fairy Tales of Remnant arrived today, and it is is certainly a nice little hardback book, and since we know that some of the Fair Tales within the context of the show are 'true', it's a nice piece of extended lore. And I really got to sit down and watch all of RWBY from the start and the newer stuff to get myself back up to speed.

And on that note, we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden at about 9:30 PM EST!