TV

How I Met Your Mother
1x07 Matchmaker [2nd watch]

Leverage: Redemption
1x10 The Unwellness Job

Richard Osman's House of Games
9x18 Week 4: Wednesday
9x19 Week 4: Thursday
9x20 Week 4: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Video Games

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition

TV

Dexter: Original Sin
1x09 Blood Drive
1x10 Code Blues [series finale]
It was originally announced that this had been picked up for a second season, before they walked that back and cancelled it. I don't know if they knew about the recommission while writing/filming, but either way, thank goodness it doesn't end on a cliffhanger or with a bunch of stuff unresolved! Indeed, the ending is almost perfectly setup to flow into Dexter season one.

Richard Osman's House of Games
9x16 Week 4: Monday
9x17 Week 4: Tuesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Video Games

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition

Today, cleared a fort to find a spell tome I wanted... only to discover I don't have high enough magic (because I've focused my skills elsewhere) to actually use that spell. I guess I should probably follow the game more naturally and stop seeking stuff out with outside knowledge.

TV

How I Met Your Mother
1x06 The Slutty Pumpkin [2nd watch]

Richard Osman's House of Games
9x12 Week 3: Tuesday
9x13 Week 3: Wednesday
9x14 Week 3: Thursday
9x15 Week 3: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Fiction

Swords Against Death by Fritz Leiber
VIII. Claws from the Night

Video Games

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition

I keep thinking I should start a proper quest/storyline, and I keep ending up exploring and discovering random places and doing random dungeons. There's just so much to see and do! But it also feels a little aimless right now. But I'm also wary about 'committing' to a plot when there's still swathes of the world I haven't seen and could still explore. But do I really want to keep going at that til I've seen everywhere, then do all the proper stories (aside from the small handful I've already done)? I mean, I'm already well past the average completion time for the entire game (today I reached 132 hours).

Well, we'll see.

TV

Dexter: Original Sin
1x07 The Big Bad Body Problem
1x08 Business and Pleasure

Video Games

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition

Tabletop Games

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Trick-Taking Game

TV

Dexter: Original Sin
1x06 The Joy of Killing

Richard Osman's House of Games
9x10 Week 2: Friday
9x11 Week 3: Monday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Tabletop Games

Daggerheart:
Dragon Heist in the City of Splendors
&
Curse of Strahd

A new routine of actually remembering to mention these every Monday (because they're ongoing all the time but doing it every day feels excessive) begins... here.

TV

Dexter: Original Sin
1x05 F is for Fuck Up

Richard Osman's House of Games
9x06 Week 2: Monday
9x07 Week 2: Tuesday
9x08 Week 2: Wednesday
9x09 Week 2: Thursday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Crime Is Mine (2023)
[#2 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026]

Video Games

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition

TV

Dexter: Original Sin
1x04 Fender Bender

How I Met Your Mother
1x05 Okay Awesome [2nd watch]

Richard Osman's House of Games
9x04 Week 1: Thursday
9x05 Week 1: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Video Games

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition

Tabletop Games

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle

Collection Count

Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.

While that All the Anime order I mentioned still hasn't arrived, a package from Australia turned up having only been dispatched at the end of last week. Really highlights the ridiculousness of whatever AtA have done to mismanage their Christmas sale orders. Anyway, it has finally been dispatched now and is due Monday.

Number of titles in collection: 3,660 [up 5]
Of which DVDs: 977 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,683 [up 5]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 502 [up 4]

Number of discs in collection: 8,794 [up 12]
Number of films: 4,697 [up 6]
Number of additional cuts: 483 [up 3]
Number of TV episodes: 10,188 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,280 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Dexter: Original Sin
1x03 Miami Vice
Amazing restraint for this franchise to have got through 108 episodes, almost all of them set in Miami, before using this title.

How I Met Your Mother
1x04 Return of the Shirt [2nd watch]

Richard Osman's House of Games
9x02 Week 1: Tuesday
9x03 Week 1: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]