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Here’s hoping my luck holds and this works well!

The replacement Steam Deck that I’ve begun to finance will be coming from across the state, and the person who sold it to my son is going to be shipping it out tomorrow… so it’s actually close enough to where we live that it might be here later on in this (coming? not quite sure how to phrase this) week if we’re lucky! As soon as I’ve confirmed that it functions and charges, simply because I have to see for myself, I’ll leave a good review for the person who was kind enough to sell their old Steam Deck at this price and start setting it up for my son. He already knows that his current Steam Deck no longer functions, which has made him sad.

In the interim, I’ve been completing the kids’ homeschool notes for the last nine-week period, which is what I go by when writing progress notes. I’m almost done, and I’ve gotten to where I start these a little bit sooner!

My credit rolled over, so guess what I did, everyone?

I had to put a replacement Steam Deck on credit for Bub like the first one that I got him because the one that he’s had for… well, years (has it really been that long?) refuses to charge in spite of everything we’ve done to try and save it. We bring this everywhere he goes to calm him down and keep him calm by making most of his games, and favorites at that, accessible to him, so having functioning video game consoles is critical…

This is something I wish I didn’t have to do, but the Steam Deck permanently became non-functional.

I hate the fact that I will have to pay this off, but getting an identical make and model was a lot cheaper!

So it seems that I don’t have a choice on the matter.

Bub’s Steam Deck will not charge, and it’s something that we bring absolutely everywhere. He treasures it.

I’m going to have to finance a new Steam Deck for him. I’m waiting for my credit to roll over, which has the games that I got him for Christmas on it that I intend on paying back as soon as this pay period (or cycle, whatever you call it) ends, and then I’ll put a new Steam Deck on credit for a six-month period where I won’t have to pay any interest on it if I pay the entire amount of it in the allotted six months. This is what I did with the first Steam Deck, but for a much higher price since scalpers were picking all of them up making them incredibly difficult to purchase. So whenever that happens, I’ll pay what’s currently on my credit so that I don’t have to worry about interest, then I’ll purchase this new Steam Deck and wait for it to arrive here…

This won’t be the most awful thing for my credit, but I do like not actually owing money to anyone.

I should not be surprised at this, and yet I still am.

It looks like Bub’s Steam Deck will no longer charge, so I’m going to finance him another one next month.

Since there is a more abundant supply of them, I don’t quite have to worry about scalpers inflating prices.

I’ll also manage to pay a whole lot less for it, so I’ll be able to pay this off much quicker if we can’t get his current Steam Deck to charge. I anticipate being able to pay the entire thing off in two to three months depending on how I do it and what my budget looks like month to month, and I’ll have six months to pay it off without having to pay any interest on the purchase. I think I’m going to go for the exact model he has…

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