Wordless Wednesday: May 11th, 2022
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May 2022 archive
Good news, everyone! I ordered the Steam Deck!
I finally found a Steam Deck whose price wasn’t absolutely prohibitive given that these things sell out worse than the PlayStation 5, and I ordered it for Bub’s birthday! He’s going to love this! When it comes to the house, I’m going to load up all of the Steam games he already owns onto it and then hold onto it until his birthday when I will then give it to him. He already knows that I’m getting it for him though (that was actually how I figured out that he wanted one, or would like to have one all to himself… sort of like the rest of the mobile gaming consoles that are here in this house). Once it actually gets to this house I’ll make it a formal tag on this blog as I’m loading it up. I’m sure that process alone will take some time, even if I got Bub a 1TB microSD card to go into the microSD slot that these things come with to maximize the amount of space that he has available. I figured to go hard, then go home getting him the one with the most space.
Music Monday: May 9th, 2022
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I happened to be bumping this due to Spotify and decided to carry it over. Thanks again, Spotify!
Thinking about getting the kid a Steam Deck.
I have some credit through a line on PayPal, and for some reason using less than 10% of it and paying that off in full when my statements hit caused my credit score to lower a bit from what it had been… so I’m like, hey, if “they” (the arbiters of credit scores since this appears to be a uniquely American thing) want me to prove that I can handle a little bit of self-made debt by paying something like this off every month until it is paid off, there is that as an alternative. So I am considering that. Bub has already made it clear that he would love to have a Steam Deck, and they have a microSD card slot that I could easily add more space to by popping a 1TB card in. I could also pay it off with the child support that his father’s family has voluntarily paid since 2019. The order has, barring some brief periods where the “chief ombudsman” of the child support office has forced it to remain open in spite of there being approved good cause waivers on it (and her name’s Stephanie Neely, by the way), been in non-enforcement since it was declared unsafe to enforce.
Anyway, this thing is about as difficult to find and purchase as a PlayStation 5, so wish me luck, y’all!
Just in case it bears repeating (again)…
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If you’re knee- or neck-deep into fandom, I’m not sure I want much to do with you.
I don’t want anything to do with some of you at all, and I’ve made that clear.
For some of this to continue to persist is an invasion of privacy and violation of boundaries, because I shouldn’t have to repeat it more than once. But I’ll continue to repeat it for as long as it takes to get you off of my shit and out of my lives, and this means all branches or “lanes” of fandom (I am reluctant to use some of the same stock terminology as has been run into the ground, but most of you — those of you who aren’t knee- or neck-deep into this — should get my drift). I was in one fandom-related server on Discord that I thought was going to be cool for… a few days, but then I decided that the best thing to do was keep any activity that might even remotely be construed to that to Twitter and not have it anywhere else. I don’t intend to go to any of these conventions. The only thing that I am collecting from Supernatural are challenge coins, and that’s only because I am a sucker for them. Everything else from fandom in general I am out of.
I have gotten a few good screenshots from my friends on a server in Discord explaining… fandom shit to them, and Supernatural to them, and I might post those later although they had to be redacted a little bit.