In the meantime, we've been playing Kingdom Hearts (as mentioned). And it turns out that A Fragmentary Passage was really short, so we already beat it! This is a bit of a relief, because it means we probably won't have to put off playing Kingdom Hearts III while we wait to finish 2.8. It just means we'll have to put it off when work starts to crunch us again. But so far things are looking good. We're a little bit worried about some ongoing projects with impending new installments, but it's easy to not worry about them by just not thinking about them.
And I don't think I have anything else interesting to say. Today I'm thankful for making good progress on work today, all the pretty pictures in today's assignment, having time to play Kingdom Hearts, having time to exercise, and beating A Fragmentary Passage. Now we just have to beat it on Critical Mode...