Now

Phew, first quarter of 2024 behind us, so I suppose it's time for a quick update. On the start of the year I flew to Mallorca 🇪🇸 and finally got to meet the rest of the company! What a lovely bunch of people, can't wait to see them again this year again, this time in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Seems like this year is one to remember when it comes to travelling — in February we flew the whole family 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 to Valencia 🇪🇸 for few days. It's a lovely city and people in Spain are so nice, open, warm and welcoming! A stark contrast to Germany... Anyway, I had already planned two trips to Poland 🇵🇱 but had to rebook due to kiddos ilnesses. If all goes well, end of April I'll travel 🚆 with my youngster for my dad's 70th birthday party.

Reading

As I finally finished excellent "20th Century Boys" manga by Naoki Urasawa, I felt the need to read something completely different. From the recommendation of my boss I grabbed "How to Do the Work" by Dr Nicole LePera. I tend to trust my gut feeling a lot, epecially in work environment — I don't think it actually comes from my gut (duh!), but rather from the experience (or so I hope), and this book seems to shed some light on where does it orginate from really. I only just started going through it, but so far so good 🤞🏻

Playing

Back in December I wrote that no game could have properly hook me up since I finished Fire Emblem: Three Houses, quote: "So there is one game I'm hoping that will break the deadlock and hook me up properly — Persona 5 Royal. Let's see how it goes..." And holy shit did it deliver! I clocked in over 120 hours and, at times, I was absolutely obsessed with it. One of the all time best games I ever played. If I had to point anything that I didn't like (and believe when I say it didn't really matter while I was playing), it would be a slightly too linear gameplay (as opposed to open world, for example) and two boss fights I had to approach multiple times on a merciless level (I played normal otherwise) to actually complete them. Fantastic game and I will probably have a second round at it in few years. Yet again Switch didn't fail to deliver in handheld mode 👌🏻 What's next? Most probably a bit of a break and then... Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition. Let's see how this one goes.

Watching

I was looking for some lighter to watch series for quite some time now and I stumbled upon recommendation for this one. I approached it without any expectations and I was hooked immediately. It's not groundbreaking by any means, but it's a very solid show with good writing and acting. I enjoyed characters, their stories and loads of well made action. There weren't too many surprises, but it didn't feel disappointing — quite the contrary, it felt right in some weird sense. I do wonder if there's going to be second season, but I won't hold my breath and I wouldn't mind if it ended with the first one either.

Listening

I guess looking at my Last.fm profile I may as well just come out clean: I'm completely hooked by BTS. Yeah, I know, I'm as surprised as you are. My wife was listening to them obsessively for the past few months and she was nagging me to watch some of their performances etc. I was dissmisive for a very long time, but then one evening came and one song stuck in my brain. And that's how it started — that one song became an album, and from there I completely sunk in 🫰🏻 More...