About

Avionics and aircraft maintenance technician at a regional airport, about eight years in.

I fix avionics for a living, which mostly means I spend my days with technical manuals that assume you already know the terminology and get frustrated with you if you don't. Reading dense hard SF or a rulebook that front-loads three unfamiliar terms into one sentence doesn't scare me the way it seems to scare some people, I've been doing some version of that at work for eight years. I got into board games through a coworker's Thursday garage game night, not some lifelong hobbyist origin story, and I only started writing any of this down because I kept forgetting which games actually held up on a second play versus which ones just had a good first impression. I read mostly hard SF, dense literary fiction with real structural ambition, and nonfiction about how systems and institutions actually work under pressure. I finish everything before I rate it, no exceptions, and I notice component quality and board ergonomics before almost anything else, which I blame entirely on spending my working hours around parts that have to fit exactly right or something stops flying.

Where I am: Wichita, Kansas

Started this mostly to keep track of what actually held up on a second play. Still mostly for that.

What's here

Book reviews, board game reviews, and whatever else I feel like writing about. No schedule, no affiliate links, nothing sponsored. I write about a book or a game when I've actually finished it and have something to say, which is why the dates on here are irregular.