{"id":972,"date":"2023-04-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/?p=972"},"modified":"2025-07-09T23:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T03:07:12","slug":"media-diet-march-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/media-diet-march-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Diet: March 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 3 of 6 in the series Media Diet<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

I spent more time on fitness this month than I have in a long time, and that left less room for media, which is fine by me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Children of Time<\/strong> by Adrian Tchaikovsky \u2013 I wanted to like this book more than I did because it was innovative (spiders as main characters?!) but it took a bit of an effort to finish it. The writing is dry and heavy, sometimes boring, the characters were pretty shallow, and the ending was a poor return on the time invested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Games<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dyson Sphere Program (replay)<\/strong>\u2013 In what has become an annual tradition, I played through one of my all-time favorite games for the third time, which is probably a record for me. There weren’t a lot of improvements over last year, just some tweaks, but each time I’ve gone further and faster. If they release the big “combat” update this year I may not wait until next year to do it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Television<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ted Lasso, Season 2<\/strong> \u2013 It’s always great to see a good show get better, and Lasso did just that. With one exception (Episode 9, which completely missed it’s mark) it was improved and refined. The excellent casting paid off as previously lesser characters stepped up and new characters fit in seamlessly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sports<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

World Baseball Classic<\/strong> – This is the first time I’ve watched any serious amount of the WBC, in large part thanks to friendly time-zones, and it was fantastic. I’d love to see better pitching, most of the MLB’s top players weren’t allowed to participate, but it was still great baseball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Red Sox (Spring Training)<\/strong> – Prior to the WBC, I also watched more of this than perhaps I ever have, and it was nice in a very casual way. I’m not terribly hopeful of the Red Sox chances this year, but I’m generally more excited about baseball than I have been in many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Progress<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Didn’t finish these in March so I’ll update when I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n