Archive of ‘computer gaming’ category

21
Apr
2022

I mean, this is only taking forever but yeah.

categories: computer gaming, personal; word count: 410 words

This time, I’ve been in the process of getting a lawyer to help me get disability benefits. So far it’s basically been a game of phone tag getting my pain management clinic and psychiatrist’s office to fax things to this lawyer’s office so that they can go over them and see if my case is a good fit for them. I don’t even mind the idea of a lawyer taking backpay from any settlement that I am awarded because that means that I will have won and will finally start getting disability benefits that I have been owed for years. With my migraines, Social Security has refused to equal it to the closest epilepsy listing for years, even when I have pointed out that this is the proper protocol with them. They just refuse to do it. The ALJ that I have gotten twice over the years is racially biased, as she treated me a lot better when she thought I was Black (and my full first name seems to be more common amongst African-American girls and women, although I thought that my voice made it clear that I am white over the conference call for the hearing… I digress). But now Social Security is going to have to deal with reports regarding anxiety and depression from my psychiatrist, which is another listing that I may be able to get if not equal. I’m finally having that worked up and being put on better, stronger medication to attempt to ameliorate symptoms of it. My psychiatrist is open to other medications as well, concurrent ones, so I am thinking about asking for a medication just for anxiety in addition to Lexapro.

If I can, though, I’d like to make something out of streaming. It can be something that I… do, especially when I feel well. It’s something that I would love to do and make a thing, although I am also aware that it tends to take years to get noticed enough to where it is self-sufficient. Tomorrow the cord needed for the gaming desktop should be here, I should be able to start it up (why didn’t the person selling us the monitor just give that one cord to us?! they said that they were sending everything with it, but I… sigh), I can begin to install things and move around the USBs a little bit. This ought to be fun! And take me a little while. I’m not worried.

10
Apr
2022

Since I don’t want to forget to write here…

categories: computer gaming, personal; word count: 237 words

I was able to get in with the psychiatrist that my primary care doctor wanted to refer me to on Friday, and I was switched from nortryptline to Lexapro. For some reason, even taking it precisely as I had been told to, I got a fever the first two days. I know that I’m not taking it with anything else that contains serotonin modulators, or even medications that same day that do that. So I guess this is just something that I’m going to have to ride out for a week, and if it doesn’t improve talk to my psychiatrist or his nurse over the phone about whether or not I need to be changed to another medication. I do hope that this one works though!

Meanwhile, I got the kids a desktop that they should be able to use to do everything that they could ever want to do! It’s going to be worth the piece of mind of never having to crack into this thing… well, not unless I’m maxing the RAM out on it supposing that it isn’t already maxed, I’ll need to check on that. I think that’s all I’m going to have to do with this thing. It will game, it will stream, it will run everything that we could ever want or need a desktop for. It’s a shame that the All-in-One couldn’t, but it is what it is. Thanks, Manchin.

05
Mar
2022

I have a functioning chair now, thank goodness!

categories: computer gaming, MMORPGs; word count: 103 words

I didn’t know that we had managed to amass a whole bunch of Steam point with years worth of purchases, so I went ahead and used some of those. If only you could use them to buy more games, though… I had amassed a lot of them over the years making purchases for Bub, and I didn’t stop to think about using them until I read an article that mentioned them and then I was like “ah, maybe I should check”. Sure enough…

I’m still scouting out MMOs that Bub might enjoy playing with me and have narrowed down the list a little.

22
Feb
2022

We now have a gaming and streaming desk!

categories: computer gaming, personal; word count: 209 words

Even though our washer… continues not to work as it should (and the decision is soon going to have to be made whether to try to replace individual parts in the hope that we’re able to figure out, and replace, what caused it to stop working, or just get a completely different one), our gaming and streaming desk is now put together. All I have to do is reorganize the wires at the back of the desk a bit better than they are and I think I’ve got everything on it that I need to have on it, let alone satisfactorily. And then there’s the more minor issue of making sure that the desktop is completely loaded, because although it is still impressively fast it won’t load the most recent version of Windows on it, and there are certain things that I’ve been able to get this one to do or load onto this one when it ran the previous version of Windows that… wait for it, that one gives me grief on, even though they are roughly comparable. I suppose I’ll find out the majority of it later…

Knowing us, in the interim we’ll probably have to buy a new washer though. This thing seems like it’s kaput.

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