September 23 update.
Had a pleasant weekend! Not much to it, did some cleaning and yardwork, chilled a lot, played a fair bit of UFO 50 and some Tekken as well. The Leo experiment is over for now -- the character is fun and has a lot of depth, but I've gotten too predictable in my play and learning a new character can help me break out of that.
So I've been picking up Lili. She seems a little less linear than Leo, and is maybe less reliant on being able to comprehensively use her toolkit. She's got stuff I like (stance with like 100 options, evasive mixup stance, crouchdash), but doesn't feel clunky.
Apart from that, I'm starting to prepare for winter. Trying to figure out what all we should try to clean within the next few months. Trying to get my computers all working properly. I was hoping flashing my main rig's BIOS would fix the ongoing problems... but it still seems like it's acting up. Maybe it just is kinda sickly. It happens.
update to the update: it is possible the flash did not proceed as planned; it occasionally makes it to the BIOS configuration, but not yet a full boot. I think the motherboard is just done, or at least done enough that I'm ready to retire it. o7