A Nod to Nothing
Pretty much as it says, a lot of nothing about nothing
Tuesday, July 09, 2024
The Least You Could Do
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
June 25, 2024
I don't think I've ever titled a post with the date. Seemed about time. Honestly, a good post would probably include my comments on David Tennant's political "opponent" having the support of JK Rowling [a red flag if there ever was one], or this commentary from Chat GPT trying to spoof the last president's quote about his "wounds" that I rewrote for...
Me as a manager: "As a manager, my features have their fair share of bugs. If you were to examine closely, you'd see the scars everywhere. Underneath, though, lies a robust framework waiting to shine. I've encountered numerous setbacks—I've got more bugs than perhaps any manager out there.">My brother who is currently unemployed: "I've got gaps all over my resume. If you scrutinize it closely, you'd notice plenty of holes. Despite that, I bring a wealth of potential and capability. I've faced setbacks and challenges—I've got more gaps than most job seekers out there."
My friend who started his service business: "I've got mistakes all over the merchandise I make. If you looked closely, you'd see imperfections everywhere. Despite that, I strive to deliver something beautiful. I've made plenty of errors—I've messed up more promotions than anyone else, I reckon."
Klund the pickleball obsessive: "I've got dinks and volleys all over me. If I took this shirt off, you'd see a decent player underneath, but also plenty of scars from my losses. I've been on the losing end more times than I care to count, I can tell you. Probably more than any other player out there."
But...hmm...formatting due to cut and paste...ignore it...my personal story today was I went to breakfast at Jensen's in Burnsville and at the end of breakfast realized I didn't have my keys. I walked back to my car down at the park, retracing my steps, fully expecting my car to be gone. But...still there. Locked [so keys not inside] and no keys along my path. I stood there looking resigned, and two park maintenance guys pulled up in a maintenance vehicle, "Hey, are you looking for car keys?" Why, yes I am. "Our boss has them." Twenty minutes later, he hands me the keys. As far as I'm concerned, I shouldn't have done anything the rest of the day, because that was the sum total of any luck/fortune I had banked. Shout out to the Burnsville park service. You made my day.
[Post: I fixed the formatting as it was messing up the whole page and highlighting everything white, although that was the least of it].
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Water and Construction
The Friday before last I pedaled a 60-mile ride up around the cities - both of the Twins - and back home. Part of the reason it was such a long ride wasn't because I was particularly motivated to do sixty miles, but because the Cedar Ave old bridge route through the river valley is both flooded AND under construction, the 55 bridge is under construction, the Greenway is under construction... so I ended up routing down to the yacht club, up and across 35E, along Ford Parkway, into Minneapolis, around the lakes, pie by Harriet. And then unwind via the Bde Maka Ska and Lake of the Isles back to the river and St. Paul.
I did push it a bit, partially because I wanted to verify whether I had the legs and bottom for a hundred mile ride at the moment for our trip to southern Minnesota. The legs might have made it. The bottom definitely not. I've got a new saddle and shorts sitting at home to try out today and see if it makes a difference so no one catches me naked and calls me old scabby butt. OSB....kind of like ODB...maybe it would be cool and give me some bicycling cachet.
Since then, the rain, work, and running [I'm attempting a 5k reboot] have kept me off the bike outdoors, and I suspect now I'd even have a difficult time with some of the alternative routes I was using, like over to Shakopee or down by the yacht club.
Maybe it would make more sense to take the 494 bridge, but damn is that ever excruciatingly boring. There's nothing I hate quite so much as the MoA and corporate Bloomington as ride scenery.
But today....today looks good and I've had this thought a few times....why don't I just park my car at the lakes and bike from there? I should have thought of it before. But driving my bicycle somewhere other than an overnight -- and I'm pretty sure that's an issue at the usual haunts in Minnesota as well, like the Cannon Falls/Red Wing trail, with all the flooding -- via a car before pedaling is antithetical to how my bicycling brain works. Why would I waste time driving when I could be pedaling from moment zero?
Today might be the day though. Get past the water and ... most of ... the construction before rolling around. I have a few places picked out where I think I could park without a meter, and the convertible will allow me to mount the rack, so I can double down on fresh air. Might make the drive before riding a bit more palatable.
Good luck to everyone else out there trying to find a place to ride. You have my sympathy.
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Layoffs
I was trying to ponder what events I'd weathered since I started at my current employer. I was talking to the head of IT today and he had no idea my team had not only moved between managers [my boss, my reports' skip boss] three times, but that we'd actually entirely switched the space we worked in from "engines" to "cloud". So I thought I'd try to capture it here before I forget it...in the last year and a half...
- New Hire
- Added two new devs to team
- After three months, long covid from employee orientation for about a year.
- Had to personally lay off a dev on my new team for layoffs and lost a tester we liked.
- Switched from the highly technical C++ and macros suite boss I had picked to work for to a different director > engines to cloud [big shift in focus].
- >> UK vacation, my wife needs double knee replacement
- Layoffs - lost our favorite onshore tester and her boss, both of who had been at new hire with me.
- Picked up half of a second team to "fold" into my existing team [their manager and other team members in the layoffs].
- Half of team repurposed to work on sunsetting / transitioning two other projects for two months although originally to supplement my team.
- 3/4 [3/5 if you include a second lead who doesn't report to me] of those new team members stay with their other projects after two months. One stays with my current team and the project to sunset is now in perma-fallow with us while an alternative is devised [not my team, but we own maintenance/alerts].
- Move from Director to Sr. Manager as my manager to align org tree
- Another tester leaves, although voluntarily.
- Public to private equity and all that entails.
- >> wife's heart issues
- Extensive layoffs after private equity details worked out including losing one of our main product owners for the second time
- Mixed in there several rounds of will the lead stay with us or not as we move between bosses [we had several intermittent months of not knowing where he couldn't work on our features].
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
So much music...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Wykoff and the Mystery Cave
Sunday, May 05, 2024
Reading March / April 2024
Recommendations:
The Eyes and the Impossible recommended by Sarah Morris. Kids' book, but absolutely wonderful. I'd recommend it for anyone.
Bookshops and Bonedust the prequel to Legends and Lattes. I liked Legends better, but it was a good read. I always tell people that, so far, Baldree is in that spirit of books around constructing family, not big antagonists. Becky Chambers is in that same vein imo. There IS an antagonist, but they're not the core of the book.
What Moves the Dead and What Feasts at Night. I read them in backwards order, but I strongly recommend. The first one [in proper order] reminded me very much of a different book, and then Kingfisher addressed that exact book in the afternotes.
The Daughter of Time. Considered to be one of the best historic mysteries written. Although I had to ask Christopher Crowhurst to try and clarify a bit of British 1950s habits for me. All about a laid up cop investigating the murders of the two princes in the tower by Richard III. The outcome made me laugh. Great book if you're a Tudor/Stuart history major like I was. Probably a much harder read if you're not as it can get convoluted was regards the royals and nobility.
Graphic Novels: The Good Asian and Stamped standout. Both of those were amazing. Stamps was a hard read. So dense with history and the impact of racism on black self-perception. If that's what they're outlawing in various states, they're doing students a disservice. That GN is good for the brain. The Good Asian was noir with a ton of history behind the story.
Amongst our Weapons - I've loved the Rivers of London series. I'm sad I'm catching up to "now" [Amongst was published in 2022].
Oathbringer - the Stormlight series is solid, although the women can be a little male attached despite clear efforts to make them not. There's a term for that that's associated with the Bechdel Test, the Mako Mori Test. A fun bit of literary criticism to know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mako_Mori_test
I didn't address the Dan Ariely book, Misbelief. I'd skip it if I were you. More like a blog imo, where he's thinking out loud for a few hundred pages.
- The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers. 256 pages. 2023.
- Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi, adapted and illustrated by Christian Gill. 288 pages. 2023.
- I learned about Uplift Suasion... https://truthout.org/articles/ibram-x-kendi-on-recognizing-21st-century-racist-ideas-and-policies/
- The Department of Truth, Volume 1: The End of the World by James Tyrion IV . 144 pages. 2021.
- Udemy: Alteryx Designer Core Certification Megabundle [prep for Core Certification] by datacurious.ai. [9 hours].
- 4/30/2024: Bookshops and Bonedust, Legends and Lattes prequel by Travis Baldree, 339 pages
- 4/29/2024: Bookshops and Bonedust, Legends and Lattes prequel by Travis Baldree, 339 pages
- 4/28/2024: Bookshops and Bonedust, Legends and Lattes prequel by Travis Baldree, 339 pages
- 4/27/2024: Bookshops and Bonedust, Legends and Lattes prequel by Travis Baldree, 339 pages
- 4/26/2024: Bookshops and Bonedust, Legends and Lattes prequel by Travis Baldree, 339 pages
- 4/25/2024: Bookshops and Bonedust, Legends and Lattes prequel by Travis Baldree, 339 pages
- 4/24/2024: Bookshops and Bonedust, Legends and Lattes prequel by Travis Baldree, 339 pages
- 4/23/2024: Bookshops and Bonedust, Legends and Lattes prequel by Travis Baldree, 339 pages
- 4/22/2024: Bookshops and Bonedust, Legends and Lattes prequel by Travis Baldree, 339 pages
- 4/21/2024: Amongst Our Weapons [Rivers of London, Book 9] by Ben Aaronovitch, 303 pages
- 4/20/2024: Amongst Our Weapons [Rivers of London, Book 9] by Ben Aaronovitch, 303 pages
- 4/19/2024: Amongst Our Weapons [Rivers of London, Book 9] by Ben Aaronovitch, 303 pages
- 4/18/2024: Amongst Our Weapons [Rivers of London, Book 9] by Ben Aaronovitch, 303 pages
- 4/17/2024: Amongst Our Weapons [Rivers of London, Book 9] by Ben Aaronovitch, 303 pages
- 4/16/2024: Amongst Our Weapons [Rivers of London, Book 9] by Ben Aaronovitch, 303 pages
- 4/15/2024: Amongst Our Weapons [Rivers of London, Book 9] by Ben Aaronovitch, 303 pages
- 4/14/2024: What Moves the Dead, Sworn Solider 1 by T. Kingfisher, 176 pages.
- 4/13/2024: What Moves the Dead, Sworn Solider 1 by T. Kingfisher, 176 pages.
- 4/12/2024: What Moves the Dead, Sworn Solider 1 by T. Kingfisher, 176 pages.
- 4/11/2024: What Moves the Dead, Sworn Solider 1 by T. Kingfisher, 176 pages.
- 4/10/2024: Unpublished novel, 500 pages
- 4/9/2024: Unpublished novel, 500 pages
- 4/8/2024: Unpublished novel, 500 pages
- 4/7/2024: Unpublished novel, 500 pages
- 4/6/2024: Unpublished novel, 500 pages
- 4/5/2024: Unpublished novel, 500 pages
- 4/4/2024: Unpublished novel, 500 pages
- 4/3/2024: Unpublished novel, 500 pages
- 4/2/2024: Unpublished novel, 500 pages
- 4/1/2024: Unpublished novel, 500 pages
- 3/31/2024: Mother Jones, Vol 49, Number 2. March/April 2024. "Vanished", Saving Venus Fly Traps, I want to Know How Much I was Used, Worked Up [Unions], more. 60 pages.
- 3/31/2024: Oathbringer: Book 3 of the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. 1220 pages. 2017.
- 3/30/2024: Oathbringer: Book 3 of the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. 1220 pages. 2017.
- 3/29/2024: Oathbringer: Book 3 of the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. 1220 pages. 2017.
- 3/28/2024: Oathbringer: Book 3 of the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. 1220 pages. 2017.
- 3/27/2024: Oathbringer: Book 3 of the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. 1220 pages. 2017.
- 3/26/2024: Oathbringer: Book 3 of the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. 1220 pages. 2017.
- 3/25/2024: Daughter of Time, The by Josephine Tey. 206 pages. 1951.
- 3/24/2024: Daughter of Time, The by Josephine Tey. 206 pages. 1951.
- 3/23/2024: Certified, Alteryx Core Certification
- 3/22/2024: Daughter of Time, The by Josephine Tey. 206 pages. 1951.
- 3/21/2024: Daughter of Time, The by Josephine Tey. 206 pages. 1951.
- 3/20/2024: Daughter of Time, The by Josephine Tey. 206 pages. 1951.
- 3/19/2024: Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things. Dan Ariely. 320 pages. 2023.
- 3/18/2024: Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things. Dan Ariely. 320 pages. 2023.
- 3/17/2024: Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things. Dan Ariely. 320 pages. 2023.
- 3/16/2024: Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things. Dan Ariely. 320 pages. 2023.
- 3/15/2024: Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things. Dan Ariely. 320 pages. 2023.
- 3/14/2024: Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things. Dan Ariely. 320 pages. 2023.
- 3/13/2024: Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things. Dan Ariely. 320 pages. 2023.
- 3/12/2024: Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things. Dan Ariely. 320 pages. 2023.
- 3/11/2024: Good Asian, Volume 2. By Pornsak Pichetshote. Graphic Novel. 176 pages. 2022.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang_Apana
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massie_Trial
- https://librarycollections.law.umn.edu/darrow/trials_details.php?id=5
- 3/10/2024: What Feasts at Night: Sworn Solider 2 by T. Kingfisher. 160 pages. 2024.
- 3/9/2024: Key to the City: London, Game Playthrough
- Key to the City: London - Final Thoughts
- Key to the City: London - rules and monument supplement
- 3/8/2024: What Feasts at Night: Sworn Solider 2 by T. Kingfisher. 160 pages. 2024.
- 3/7/2024: What Feasts at Night: Sworn Solider 2 by T. Kingfisher. 160 pages. 2024.
- 3/6/2024: What Feasts at Night: Sworn Solider 2 by T. Kingfisher. 160 pages. 2024.
- 3/5/2024: Good Asian, Volume 1. By Pornsak Pichetshote. Graphic Novel. 128 pages. 2022.
- 3/4/2024: Mother Jones, Vol 49, Number 1. January/February 2024. "American Oligarchy". 68 pages.
- 3/3/2024: Call Fox, Rivers of London Graphic Novel 5. Ben Aaronovitch. 2018. 112 pages.
- 3/2/2024: West of Sundown, Out Beyond the Dust n' Dark [volume 1]. Graphic Novel Tim Seeley and Aaron Campbell. 2023. 160 pages.
- 3/1/2024: Detective Stories, Rivers of London Graphic Novel Volume 4. Ben Aaronovitch. 2017. 112 pages.
Saturday, March 09, 2024
Key to the City: London
I am watching Rahdo's video Key to the City: London walkthrough, and the jerky camera action is making me sick to my stomach. At first I didn't realize why I wasn't feeling good. I briefly entertained, "Did Caribou give me tainted coffee?"
It's like The Blair Witch, but with London architecture [although The Blair Witch never made me nauseous like it did to many other people].
I paused and started the video twice and it got better. For Klund if he sees this, based on the bid/bluff/when-to-cut-and-run-for-benefit nature of this game, it's a lot more cutthroat than I expected for a touristy London game. It'll be a good game for after-hours Gameholecon gaming along the lines of Power Grid.
Sunday, February 25, 2024
Balatro
I don't know how obvious it is from my posts, but in addition to being an obsessive board gamer, I am also a somewhat obsessive video gamer. This isn't going back nearly far enough, but Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Xbox, Steam [doh, forgot Wii, and others]....and, of course, simply downloading/buying and installing for, um....40 years? Wow....that seems like a long time.
I downloaded this tonight. Rather than doing something fantasy or scifi based, Balatro took straight up poker hands and turned it into a level climber. It's difficult to say "that's brilliant" because it really should have been done before. But, damn....that's brilliant.
If you like poker, this is a FUN game.
Reading January/February 2024
I'm publishing my reading list for January/February a bit early so I don't lose it down behind a lot of other posts. I aimed for 40/50 pages a day, which is really 50/day almost to the page not including the two graphic novels. Oops, images before the day-to-day list this time, but that's ok. It'll mix it up a bit.
I did actually get some other reading done as well given I have a whole week before March, but the book I'm reading is over 1000 pages, so I'm not deluded into thinking I'll finish before end of month. I wrote a separate post on Witch King. Avoid the Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror Volume 4. Some excellent writers in the collection, but not their best work imo. Sanderson's writing is enjoyable. As I understand it, I have two books left in that series and the fifth one comes about November 2024? I better read them more slowly.
- 2/29/2024: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 4. Edited by Paula Guran. 2023. 354 pages.
- 2/28/2024: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 4. Edited by Paula Guran. 2023. 354 pages.
- 2/27/2024: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 4. Edited by Paula Guran. 2023. 354 pages.
- 2/26/2024: False Value, Book 8 of Rivers of London. Ben Aaronovitch. 2020. 303 pages.
- 2/25/2024: False Value, Book 8 of Rivers of London. Ben Aaronovitch. 2020. 303 pages.
- 2/24/2024: False Value, Book 8 of Rivers of London. Ben Aaronovitch. 2020. 303 pages.
- 2/23/2024: False Value, Book 8 of Rivers of London. Ben Aaronovitch. 2020. 303 pages.
- 2/22/2024: False Value, Book 8 of Rivers of London. Ben Aaronovitch. 2020. 303 pages.
- 2/21/2024: False Value, Book 8 of Rivers of London. Ben Aaronovitch. 2020. 303 pages.
- 2/20/2024: The October Man, Rivers of London Novella. Ben Aaronovitch. 2019. 140 pages.
- 2/19/2024: The October Man, Rivers of London Novella. Ben Aaronovitch. 2019. 140 pages.
- 2/18/2024: The October Man, Rivers of London Novella. Ben Aaronovitch. 2019. 140 pages.
- 2/17/2024: Alteryx Designer: The Definitive Guide. Simply and Automate Your Analytics. By Joshua Burkhow. O'Reilly. 2023. 815 pages.
- 2/16/2024: Alteryx Designer: The Definitive Guide. Simply and Automate Your Analytics. By Joshua Burkhow. O'Reilly. 2023. 815 pages.
- 2/15/2024: Alteryx Designer: The Definitive Guide. Simply and Automate Your Analytics. By Joshua Burkhow. O'Reilly. 2023. 815 pages.
- 2/14/2024: Alteryx Designer: The Definitive Guide. Simply and Automate Your Analytics. By Joshua Burkhow. O'Reilly. 2023. 815 pages.
- 2/13/2024: Alteryx Designer: The Definitive Guide. Simply and Automate Your Analytics. By Joshua Burkhow. O'Reilly. 2023. 815 pages.
- 2/12/2024: Alteryx Designer: The Definitive Guide. Simply and Automate Your Analytics. By Joshua Burkhow. O'Reilly. 2023. 815 pages.
- 2/11/2024: Alteryx Designer: The Definitive Guide. Simply and Automate Your Analytics. By Joshua Burkhow. O'Reilly. 2023. 815 pages.
- 2/10/2024: Alteryx Designer: The Definitive Guide. Simply and Automate Your Analytics. By Joshua Burkhow. O'Reilly. 2023. 815 pages.
- 2/9/2024: Alteryx Designer: The Definitive Guide. Simply and Automate Your Analytics. By Joshua Burkhow. O'Reilly. 2023. 815 pages.
- 2/8/2024: Alteryx Designer: The Definitive Guide. Simply and Automate Your Analytics. By Joshua Burkhow. O'Reilly. 2023. 815 pages.
- 2/7/2024: Alteryx Designer: The Definitive Guide. Simply and Automate Your Analytics. By Joshua Burkhow. O'Reilly. 2023. 815 pages.
- 2/6/2024: Alteryx Designer: The Definitive Guide. Simply and Automate Your Analytics. By Joshua Burkhow. O'Reilly. 2023. 815 pages.
- 2/5/2024: Alteryx Designer: The Definitive Guide. Simply and Automate Your Analytics. By Joshua Burkhow. O'Reilly. 2023. 815 pages.
- 2/4/2024: Alteryx Designer: The Definitive Guide. Simply and Automate Your Analytics. By Joshua Burkhow. O'Reilly. 2023. 815 pages.
- 2/3/2024: Alteryx Designer: The Definitive Guide. Simply and Automate Your Analytics. By Joshua Burkhow. O'Reilly. 2023. 815 pages.
- 2/2/2024: Alteryx Designer: The Definitive Guide. Simply and Automate Your Analytics. By Joshua Burkhow. O'Reilly. 2023. 815 pages.
- 2/1/2024: The Witch King by Martha Wells, 2023. 424 pages.
- 1/31/2024: The Witch King by Martha Wells, 2023. 424 pages.
- 1/30/2024: The Witch King by Martha Wells, 2023. 424 pages.
- 1/29/2024: The Witch King by Martha Wells, 2023. 424 pages.
- 1/28/2024: The Witch King by Martha Wells, 2023. 424 pages.
- 1/27/2024: The Witch King by Martha Wells, 2023. 424 pages.
- 1/26/2024: The Witch King by Martha Wells, 2023. 424 pages.
- 1/25/2024: The Witch King by Martha Wells, 2023. 424 pages.
- 1/24/2024: The Witch King by Martha Wells, 2023. 424 pages.
- 1/23/2024: The Witch King by Martha Wells, 2023. 424 pages.
- 1/22/2024: Words of Radiance, the Stormlight Archive, Book 2 - Brandon Sanderson, 2014. 1088 pages.
- 1/21/2024: Words of Radiance, the Stormlight Archive, Book 2 - Brandon Sanderson, 2014. 1088 pages.
- 1/20/2024: Words of Radiance, the Stormlight Archive, Book 2 - Brandon Sanderson, 2014. 1088 pages.
- 1/19/2024: Words of Radiance, the Stormlight Archive, Book 2 - Brandon Sanderson, 2014. 1088 pages.
- 1/18/2024: Words of Radiance, the Stormlight Archive, Book 2 - Brandon Sanderson, 2014. 1088 pages.
- 1/17/2024: Words of Radiance, the Stormlight Archive, Book 2 - Brandon Sanderson, 2014. 1088 pages.
- 1/16/2024: Words of Radiance, the Stormlight Archive, Book 2 - Brandon Sanderson, 2014. 1088 pages.
- 1/15/2024: Words of Radiance, the Stormlight Archive, Book 2 - Brandon Sanderson, 2014. 1088 pages.
- 1/14/2024: Words of Radiance, the Stormlight Archive, Book 2 - Brandon Sanderson, 2014. 1088 pages.
- 1/13/2024: Words of Radiance, the Stormlight Archive, Book 2 - Brandon Sanderson, 2014. 1088 pages.
- 1/12/2024: Words of Radiance, the Stormlight Archive, Book 2 - Brandon Sanderson, 2014. 1088 pages.
- 1/11/2024: Words of Radiance, the Stormlight Archive, Book 2 - Brandon Sanderson, 2014. 1088 pages.
- 1/10/2024: Words of Radiance, the Stormlight Archive, Book 2 - Brandon Sanderson, 2014. 1088 pages.
- 1/9/2024: Words of Radiance, the Stormlight Archive, Book 2 - Brandon Sanderson, 2014. 1088 pages.
- 1/8/2024: Words of Radiance, the Stormlight Archive, Book 2 - Brandon Sanderson, 2014. 1088 pages.
- 1/7/2024: Words of Radiance, the Stormlight Archive, Book 2 - Brandon Sanderson, 2014. 1088 pages.
- 1/6/2024: Words of Radiance, the Stormlight Archive, Book 2 - Brandon Sanderson, 2014. 1088 pages.
- 1/5/2024: Words of Radiance, the Stormlight Archive, Book 2 - Brandon Sanderson, 2014. 1088 pages.
- 1/4/2024: Words of Radiance, the Stormlight Archive, Book 2 - Brandon Sanderson, 2014. 1088 pages.
- 1/3/2024: Words of Radiance, the Stormlight Archive, Book 2 - Brandon Sanderson, 2014. 1088 pages.
- 1/2/2024: Undiscovered Country: Volume 4: Disunity, 2023, 192 pages.
- 1/1/2024: Minor Threats, Oswalt, 2023