November 2020 archive

Adding to his collection, I’m adding to it…

I’m still getting the occasional game to pad Bub’s collection, even if we won’t be playing it for awhile due to his age, the rating, being busy with other games, that sort of thing. So far, I’ve picked up Witcher 2 and Witcher 3 for him for a few of those reasons… there’s the rating of both of those games to contend with (and the reason for those ratings), and the fact that we’re busy with other games right now. I’ve heard a lot of positive things about how open-ended the games are, and if there’s one thing that Bub loves doing with me in video games, it’s traipsing around in games that let you wander around wherever you want almost within reason. This is why games like Skyrim appeal to him in the manners that they do… and, well, always have.

Meanwhile, I am thinking of removing my stereo from my bedroom. I’ve had it since I was a child, and it’s actually so old that it has cassette decks on it and a record player. The only functionally useful thing that it still has attached to it is access to FM radio. It’s just sat here since I was a child, largely unused over the years. It also reminds me of my mother, which is another reason that I want to be rid of it as soon as I can manage to unplug it from the slight mess of cords that are back behind my television. For a number of reasons that involve saving up space and being rid of just one more thing that reminds me of someone that I would like not to be reminded of, I would like to be rid of it at my earliest convenience, whenever that can be.

I figure I should start an exercise tag, so…

So I’ve been walking 0.10 kilometers per day on my treadmill now that it’s together, although one of the things that has bothered me about it is the fact that the belt (thing you walk on, whatever you should call this) is a bit looser than it should be, and that was messing with one of the side railings on the bottom of it… but I think I got the side railing “on there” hard enough for it not to start to come off any more when I walk on the treadmill, which is a slight improvement from where we were. I’m able to walk that 0.10/day slightly faster than I was when I first started, although it continues to be the same strain on my lungs as when I started, which may be and probably is attributable to my asthma. No surprise. You get what you pay for.

And part of the reason that I did get this treadmill was because it was comparatively more affordable.

Once walking this far every day gets easier, I’m going to look into the virtual races that I’ve mentioned here and sign up for an easy, light one. Some of the sites that I’ve seen have five-mile ones that you can do entirely at your own pace, so that might — probably will — be where I start. You can also log your times on the actual website or in apps that they come with, of those that are a bit longer, since I still have to hold onto the arm rails to use this treadmill and my arms not “moving around” won’t track movement for walking purposes for my FitBit. With time, I hope that I’m able to confidently walk on it to the point that I don’t have to hold onto the arm rails, although this may involve finding a way to completely straighten it if possible…

I suppose the only way to figure out how comfortable I will get with the treadmill is just a bit more time, although like I’ve said, this has a lot to do with the slightly loose belt coupled with the incline that it’s still at.

The state of affairs is clearly a lot of opinions.

Good news: My gum infection hasn’t managed to spread any further, and is currently being… managed, for lack of a better way to put it. Come to find out that being on the amount of medication that I’ve been on for asthma has more or less always irritated my gums, but now it’s become a bit more noticeable to me. However, brushing my teeth at the frequency that I have and using mouthwash as liberally as I have (“the purple kind”, too) has only helped matters out. My gums do not like the current state of affairs of anything.

However, the prognosis is better than I had originally thought it was, which is comforting.

Not-quite-so-good news: I’m not managing to stay off of prednisone during this pandemic, although I am making a considerably more concerted effort to do so. If I could stay off of prednisone long-term, that would be great, but that is not where we are at right now, and I suppose that has a lot to do with why my gums do not like the current state of affairs of anything. (Symbicort does as well.) My lungs are having as many opinions on issues as my gums are, although those are more noticeable because lungs are larger than gums and they are my lungs. I’ve also grown weary of explaining to people why certain groups of people can, and should, wear masks with exhale valves… you know, the ones who will not have asymptomatic periods if they are exposed to COVID-19 and actually catch it, who need to be protected from catching the virus more than they need to protect others from catching it from them, but I digress here, I do. It’s a lot of complex science…

Bub now has Super Mario 3D All-Stars, and I’ve pre-ordered Cyberpunk 2077! Two worthwhile purchases.

Shit Satanists Actually Say, volume one.

Them: Satanic canals are planning on world domination and ritual abuse and sacrifice.

Satanists: Which Buffy universe is better.”

Quoted from a friend as they were debating Buffy in a Discord chat.

“Because Satan gives us eternal life through Lucifer Morningstar, the true believer is secure in that salvation for eternity. If you have been genuinely saved, you cannot “lose” it. Salvation is maintained by the grace and power of Satan, not by the self-effort of the Satanist.

It is the grace and keeping power of Satan that gives us this security.”

This was a friend putting Satan in place of God and Jesus ripping a church bulletin… or whatever you call it.

“If I’m a Satanist but I can’t be “unsaved” does that mean I can fistfight God when I die?”

Another friend.

The moral is that we’re not as bad of a lot as people think we are. But peculiar, some of us, loud and proud.

1 3 4 5