Monthly HapPENings: April

Oh . . . I guess it's time for one of these again.

While March went by super slow for me, I can't tell if April was a quick month or if it dragged on. So much happened, yet so little did. Again, it wasn't a great month for me. I really hope May starts looking up.

There were some nice things that occurred, like a couple of family birthdays and some increased interaction with a few friends online. But there was also stuff like me having to buy my second car, because I got into accident with my first one and totaled it. Thankfully, I wasn't hurt badly, nor was I declared at fault for the accident. I also got a gaming laptop, as my old computer was giving me grief and couldn't handle my games very well. The new one cost me $800 with no tax instead of the retail price of $1,450 plus tax. I'm super satisfied with it; definitely one of the best purchases I've ever made. Plus, I was put in charge of one of the departments at work, which has had its share of joys and stresses.

So yeah, April was a very mixed bag for me.

Bookish HapPENings

Once again, I finished no books in the past month. Haven't been in the right mood for it, for some reason. Maybe if I forced myself back into it, I'd do it more. I dunno. Let's see if this section is longer in May.

HaPENings on the Screen

I watched Aquaman for the third time, as Tracey hadn't seen it yet, and I still found it entertaining. Definitely better than some other DC movies we've been given lately--but not much more than decent in terms of original plot. There are some great action sequences and fantastic cinematography, with expert underwater graphics. You need to at least the movie so you can appreciate its technical side, from impressive long shots to the switches between wide- and fullscreen.

I finally finished S4--well, technically I watched the last bit in May, but whatever--and it ended off a lot stronger than I felt like the show had been in a while. Not quite the same level as the first half of S3, but getting there. Unfortunately, I knew how the season was gonna end, thanks to having it spoiled a long ways back. But now I'm curious as to how the next season will play out.

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I finished S2 of Avatar, which ended things off in a really bad way for the heroes. Now as S3 kicks off, they're on the clock and determined to end the war once and for all. I've barely seen any of the new season, but I'm loving it even more than the other seasons--which was to be expected. I look forward to seeing the twists that are ahead!

So I might be currently enjoying S1 of Arrow more than I did S4 of The Flash (not that the season is bad, not at all; there's just something about Arrow that I'm liking a little more). So much has happened, and I'm only halfway through the season! His backstory on the island is super intriguing, and I love how they tend to give it in little pieces rather than dumping everything on us in one episode. Plus, his vigilante work is very gripping and continues to get more intense. I wonder how everything is going to go down . . .

Speaking of things getting more intense! S2 of My Hero Academia is ratcheting up the stakes, and it has me so nervous for the characters--one in particular. The new villain they've introduced, who is known as the Hero Killer, is just as creepy as the hand dude from S1. I literally have no idea where the plot is going to go for the rest of the season, but I love it! I'm already looking forward to watching the next episode.

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Attack on Titan: Junior High is the spinoff I didn't know I wanted until I watched it. Don't get me wrong, I love the main show, but it tends to be on the heavy, intense side of things. Junior High throws all that out the window and becomes a comedy season of twelve episodes that focus on the main characters' lives in school. There are multiple ways that it's humorous, from doing things like taking lines from the actual show and using them in different scenarios for a comedic effect, to exaggerating people's traits to an extreme. If you're watching AoT, once you're finished the first two seasons, you can watch this at any point. I highly recommend it for a lot of laughs and fun times.

Gaming HapPENings

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I've been playing a lot of Super Animal Royale lately. I'm not sure why, out of all the games that I could play that now can actually run--or run so much better--on my new laptop, this is the one I keep returning to. As the name and picture suggests, it's a battle royale game. You parachute down onto an island and try to be the last man standing as your arena gets smaller and smaller thanks to a hazard of some sort closing in. The twist comes in the fact that you're cutesy animals on a cutesy island with some not-so-cutesy weapons that you use to rise to the top. It's pretty fun, and I'd like to think I'm getting better at it. (Preston, if you're reading this, I don't wanna hear any negative comments from you about how I play.)

Writerly HapPENings

Just as the book section, this one is very short because I haven't been in the right headspace for it. It's not that I don't want to write at all, but--well, it's hard to explain. Again, I hope I'll have a bit more to talk about next month.

That was my April; how was yours? Did it go by fast or slow for you? Did anything fun or noteworthy happen? How're you getting through this weird time we're living in?