I just finished up The Locked Tomb trilogy on audio and now I'm reading the dead tree version of The Priory of the Orange Tree. I tried to start it on audio about a year ago but it was too dense for the short listening blocks I have these days. It's been a while since I read any epic fantasy and I'm enjoying it a lot so far.

I'm just explaining why parents might opt for a larger car especially if they have multiple children. It used to be mini vans, now it's SUVs or crossovers which are probably not much bigger than station wagons.

Also car seats are enormous and don't fit well into compact cars unless the passenger side seat is all the way up and maybe not even then. Good luck if you have more than one kid that needs a car seat too.

The air bike is the way to go to get to harder to reach sky islands. I think you can make them last longer by fusing gems.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that finds the underground creepy. I still haven't explored all of it. I cheese most of the fights with bows. If you have bombs, freeze items to fuse, keese eyes, and muddle buds you're pretty golden.

This sounds incredibly judgy, the whole thing. Garbage like this is what causes parental anxiety and guilt. It's okay to not cherish every moment, it's okay to not enjoy whatever developmental stage your child is experiencing. Not enjoying things does not mean you're not showing up and doing your "best work" for you children.

I don't miss the baby stage either. I would have a lot of kids if they came out at 18 months development stage.

I've read or started to read 10 of them. I had a hard time getting into a Master of Djinn and didn't finish. All Systems Red is fine but not great. I didn't care for Name of the Wind or Binti. I loved Seveneves, The Fifth Season, and Ancillary Justice though.

It's just gentrification and elimination of affordable housing. Presidium Group bought the apartment complex I used to live in on Riverside and changed the countertops and then demanded double the rent. They were also very aggressive about coming into our apartment whenever they wanted to do "renovations".

I feel like plumbing and electrical work are things you should just pay professionals to do. The risk of things going very sideways is just too high for me.