Sun Aug 10 10:00:01 UTC 2025
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Slept from one to seven without waking in the night.

Mostly sunny.
Highs in the lower 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.

Started reading Dniel O'Malley's The Rook.

Forty-minute walk in the morning.
Sunny and not too hot yet.
Saw a mourning dove, a rabbit, and a dragonfly.

Washed clothes, washed linens.

https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2025/08/interview-sean-mccoy.html

> We didn’t want Mothership to feel like a fun romp around the galaxy with talking aliens or knowable alien civilizations like in Star Wars or Mass Effect. We wanted space to feel like a lonely desert highway to nowhere.

> And the whole like “person go cuckoo” vibe isn’t our thing. Nearly everyone now openly struggles with their mental health and that’s a positive thing. More people seek help and get treatment. We wanted to find those breaking points where someone snaps because of the immense pressure they’re under. In 1e we moved away from more clinical language when we described panic for exactly this reason.

> We call it "Survive, Solve, Save: Pick Two." Survive the ordeal. Solve the mystery. Save the day.

> The big one for me is Brian Evenson. One of my absolutely favorite authors. His story. "The Dust," in the collection A Collapse of Horses is the closest thing to a direct inspiration for Mothership outside of the Alien franchise.

Servings: grains 1/6, fruit 0/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 2/2, meat 1/3, nuts 1/0.5

Brunch: burrito
Lunch: corn chips
Dinner: