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08
Sep
2026

Soon I’ll be having surgery on my broken foot!

categories: music; word count: 199 words

I have to get another set of X-rays done to guide the surgeon, but I am looking at surgery with regional anesthetic or twilight sedation in the coming weeks and I could not be more excited that I will regain the ability to walk normally! I’ve continued to have the broken foot examined by various members of my care team leading up to the appointment I had to wait for and can’t complain about how well the pain it’s caused has been managed, but I look forward to not having any broken bones when they put a screw into that bone. If I can handle giving birth to two children I think I can handle laying on the operating table while they do this, though additional precautions will be taken due to the fact I have epilepsy. These are the same precautions taken whenever I have surgery on the back of my neck for the migraines that the same individual also caused, so I think I’ll be fine. I’ve sent a few questions to my doctor’s office about anesthesia decisions as they relate to my epilepsy diagnosis, and I hope to hear back from them within the next week.

06
Sep
2026

“Never Had a Dream Come True”, S Club 7

categories: music; word count: 355 words

Everybody’s got something they had to leave behind
One regret from yesterday that just seems to grow with time
There’s no use looking back or wondering
How it could be now or might have been
All this I know but still I can’t find ways to let you go

I’ve never had a dream come true
‘Til the day that I found you
Even though I pretend that I’ve moved on
You’ll always be my baby
I never found the words to say
You’re the one I think about each day
And I know no matter where life takes me to
A part of me will always be with you

Somewhere in my memory
I’ve lost all sense of time
And tomorrow can never be
Cause yesterday is all that fills my mind
There’s no use looking back or wondering
How it should be now or might have been
All this I know but still I can’t find ways to let you go

I’ve never had a dream come true
‘Til the day that I found you
Even though I pretend that I’ve moved on
You’ll always be my baby
I never found the words to say
You’re the one I think about each day
And I know no matter where life takes me to
A part of me will always be

You’ll always be the dream that fills my head
Yes you will, say you will, you know you will
Oh baby, you’ll always be the one I know I’ll never forget
There’s no use looking back or wondering
Because love is a strange and funny thing
No matter how I try and try I just can’t say goodbye
No no no no

I’ve never had a dream come true
‘Til the day that I found you
Even though I pretend that I’ve moved on
You’ll always be my baby
I never found the words to say (words to say)
You’re the one I think about each day
And I know no matter where life takes me to
A part of me will always be
A part of me will always be with you

04
Sep
2026

What even is a Steam boot loop anyway?

categories: computer gaming; word count: 219 words

I didn’t even know that Steam boot looping was a thing… until I could not for the life of me get Steam to load so that my family could continue to enjoy the games we’ve invested into. You know, the ones we’ve paid for.

Then I had to use our Steam Deck to get back into the account, but the only reason that was successful was because I had to uninstall everything Steam-related from the desktop computer which was also the one that was giving us trouble. Several days after the fact James’ games are almost completely reloaded back onto the desktop (“gaming PC”), and this is something that I wish we never have to experience again if for no more of a reason than the expansive size of my son’s computer game collection and the length of time it involves leaving the computer on for days and nights to slowly but surely re-download, even if it’s plugged directly into the back of the modem for this reason. Times like these make me even more annoyed than I already am the fact that Steam essentially has a monopoly on the computer gaming franchise as a whole.

You may not like Steam, but at the end of the day to effectively game on the computer you need to use it.

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