This was another one of my jams when I was in high school. I think all of SES was, though, to be honest.
Music Monday: April 5th, 2021
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April 2021 archive
I was finally able to get in at the optometrist!
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This is not a sponsored post. This is me waxing poetic about being blind as a bat.
I found out that my current frames have been retired, so I got these:
They’re not my tried and true frames, but they look like they will do well enough.
I also got these again in sunglass form for my migraines, with the lenses having a dark amber tint:
For the last several years, I’ve been getting my glasses from Zenni Optical. They ship pretty quickly for being as popular as they are, and their glasses have always been high-quality based on my experiences…
This year, my left eye got a bit… better in vision (?), but the astigmatism is worse. My right eye now has astigmatism as well, although it’s very slight and my new prescription should completely correct that. Heh.
Lo and behold, I have more opinions on Walker.
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I’m still not going to watch the Supernatural series finale. Ever.
However, I do have a few opinions about Walker as they relate to Jared Padalecki’s acting.
I feel like he didn’t take enough of a break between Sam Winchester and Cordell Walker, and it really shows in… well, everything. I also feel like he’s trying to carry the show as both lead and executive director (producer? not quite sure how to word this), and it’s coming across in nearly everything that Walker does. There are characters that Jared can act well, such as Sam, but a lot of that might have had to do with being paired up with Jensen Ackles (Dean Winchester) and being able to play off of him. All in all, I feel like Walker is going to do a slow burn at some point and… not be renewed, and a lot of people are going to think that’s entirely Jared’s fault. Jared is trying so hard not to be Sam in Walker, though. That much is rather obvious.
When it comes to the show that Jensen has moved to, I will not be watching that as long as Jim Michaels has anything to do with it. Such a shame, too… I wanted to follow Jensen’s career, but I can’t follow him to The Boys in good faith right now. If Jim actually leaves the show at any point I might be more open to it…
I still miss what Supernatural had the potential to be with the final two episodes, too. I really do.
So I have a new television set now, y’all.
My former (old?) television set kind of… fell forward and onto our PlayStation 4 and Wii U, causing the screen to get messed up in a way that was not fixable. It was also just old enough for me not to be able to replace it with an identical television from the vendor that I got it from, so I sucked it up and got the cheapest “new” television that they had with enough HDMI slots for all of our consoles and games to seamlessly play. With a button, I can also summon Hulu and Netflix… well, with two buttons, respectively. It is kind of surreal to do.
Whenever I do manage to get us a PlayStation 5, I’m going to have to switch out which HDMI cable is plugged in with the PlayStation 4 unless I get another splitter, which I already saw coming. I may get that splitter depending on how many HDMI cabels I have to plug in and unplug, though… it all depends on how organized these things manage to keep themselves, as sometimes things like these have the penchant for at least attempting to wander off. I’m still not entirely sure if I want to get the digital version of the PlayStation 5 or what, although I am also aware that I will more than likely be at the mercy of scalpers, although I’ve already found a few good scalpers with decent prices that I am considering buying from. I guess we’ll have to see how that goes. I’ve already chosen several games that I want to get us on this new console as well.
I’m not sure if I already mentioned this, but…
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I’m not sure if I ever mentioned it here, but I’ve since decided to move back to the main servers on Among Us because the roles on Skeld.net didn’t always… cooperate, if that made sense, they weren’t playing like the ones that some of the most popular YouTubers have, and I just felt like if that weren’t the case I would be much better off playing on the official servers. So that’s what I’m back to doing for now. But I have heard that they use different mods and quite possibly, probably, a different server to play on, so there is also that.
I also formatted an external hard drive that I had used for various college-related odds and ends so that Bub could have all of his games readily available, and I am so glad that I did. It’s a 1TB hard drive, so it’s bigger than the hard drive currently in our computer, and it’s already half full of Steam games. I don’t think I’m ever going to completely fill it since we have the majority of what we want already on it, and the majority of games that Bub likes are not particularly huge. But still, there is that occasional large outlier to contend with.
If I could, I would go back to college and get my bachelor’s degree in psychology (or maybe even biology if they have it at this campus!), but I don’t need to do anything that would imperil my chances at successfully getting disability for myself, and there’s the fact that maintenance medications for migraines make expressive and receptive language more difficult as well as complex thought in general. It would take a lot out of me, and I may not have enough to give, and I wouldn’t want to fail any of those classes due to it. Gabapentin is not quite as bad as Topamax or Trokendi, but it… is. It is. We’ll just leave it at that. It just is.