Spring Green

Earlier in the week I went ahead and got scruloose to give me a buzz cut and it feels so much better. Just in time for a heat wave, even, although the heat's not as bad here as it is in a lot of other places--a horrifying thing to say when it's currently 31°C out with a humidex of 39°C. (Personally speaking, I'm indoors nearly all the time anyway, and the heat pump is keeping it cool, but scruloose is cycling to work as usual. o_o)

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On the garden front, at least a couple of the tomato plants are starting to show blossoms. Would they be further along if we hadn't moved them to a spot with less direct sunlight? (Long story; not ideal; not our idea.) Dunno.

The lettuces are doing well, though! We've now eaten multiple salads from the planter, mostly via the route of taking the largest leaves from a bunch of different plants at once, rather than the "cut and come again" method of entirely cutting a at the base and leaving it to grow back again basically from scratch. So far the plants all seem to still be growing new leaves. We also just planted a second round of seeds of just a couple varieties (Freckles and Butterhead Brighton) last weekend, and by midweek they'd already visibly sprouted.

We have three or four spinach plants, only one of which is doing any substantial growing, so I don't think we can call that a raging success. And it's too soon to really have any idea about the couple of cabbages we planted. But hey, lettuce!

Reading: I'm currently between novels, but since my last reading post I've finished The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (which I enjoyed quite a bit, and didn't realize was Natasha Pulley's debut novel until I was at the end) and both Carl's Doomsday Scenario and The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Matt Dinniman), the latter of which I finished last night.

I decided to read some more of Dungeon Crawler Carl after several people mentioned they liked it better after the first installment, and after I said that to Kas and he then kept reading and said that was his experience too. (I think he's on the second-more-recent book now.) So I put a hold on the second book, which finally came in a week or a week and a half ago, and when I finished reading that, the third book was immediately available, so I kept going. Now, naturally, there's something like a theoretical twelve-week wait (IIRC) for the fourth book, while the fifth is available right now. What a strange pattern.

Anyway, I did like these two books a lot more than the first one and (as you can guess from the above) I figure I'll keep going. I don't remember being as appalled about the lack of copyediting on the first book as on the next two, but maybe I was distracted by the level of gore? (I've taken a quick look around online for info about the series' publication history, and if Dinniman has retained the ebook rights [?], I guess the ebooks aren't/haven't been subject to the same editing pass that it sounds like the newer print edition has had? Or are there different English ebook editions as well?) ( a gross example )

Meanwhile, in "extremely random cookbook reading", last night I started reading For the Love of Kewpie (The Kewpie Mayo Cookbook): A Cookbook and Celebration.

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Watching: scruloose and I finished Justice in the Dark! I don't remember enough about the actual plot (other than the relationship aspect, from which the romantic/sexual aspect was ostensibly excised) from back when I read the novel to comment on it as an adaptation on that level. The main cast is fantastic. I think this is the first drama I've seen after reading the source material, and I'm really impressed by that element. (And of course, unsurprisingly, once again sad about Guardian's lack of budget.)

I think this season of Witch Hat Atelier has finished? We watched an episode last night and I think have two remaining, if so. I did see that season 2 has been announced. (Anyone know offhand how much of the manga season 1 covers?)