The Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)

. On the family walk, we saw a kangaroo. One of my siblings thought it had a joey, but I didn't get a good enough look to form an opinion on that point.


. At the board game meet, I played Kadath and Love Letter. Kadath is a two-player game where players take turns to place tiles, trying to end up with a decisive number of tiles with their colour face-up. Each tile, when placed, affects the colours of some of its neighbours. Each turn, the player gets a choice of three tiles, and can see (and somewhat affect) the three tiles their opponent will have on the next turn. I played two games with the person who brought the game in, and we won one each.


. When I wasn't working or rehearsing, or playing board games or going to family gatherings, I was mostly re-reading.


. The newest local supermarket has the kind of arrangement where there are multiple checkouts but only one queue leading to the checkout area, lined with snacks and novelty items that you might be inspired to add to your basket while you wait. I was stuck in the queue for a while recently, but the time went lightly thanks to the family in front of me, which consisted of a small energetic child who never stopped talking and an unruffled parent giving laconic responses.

Topics of conversation included "Look how long I can balance on one leg", "Look at that!" (a novelty stapler shaped like a panda) ("Do polar bears look like that?" "That's a panda" "Do pandas look like that?" "They're usually larger") and, of course, multiple iterations of "Can I get that?" "No".

At one point, the queue passed a display of single-serve Coke bottles: "Can I get a Coke?" - "No." - "Why not?" - parent indicates the enormous bottle of Coke already present in the shopping basket - "Oh. Are you going to share that with me?"