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So far, so good! I continue not to be contacted.

In about a year my high school graduating class will more than likely have their twentieth class reunion.

Exactly as I did with the ten-year reunion I’ve made it abundantly clear that I do not wish to be contacted over this and have no interest in attending it or keeping in touch with anyone from my actual graduating class. There’s an actual note in my high school records that I’m not to be contacted by them for any reason after graduation, one that the principal of the school — at the time — put in there herself at my request. It indicates that any attempts to contact me after graduation or invite me to class reunions will be treated as harassment, and I still don’t want to be contacted by any of them. I am missing out on absolutely nothing.

It seems that a lot of people from my graduating class are friends with each other on social media, but I’ve been content only having friended one person from high school that didn’t even graduate with me. About a year and a half after high school graduation people from my graduating class finally seemed to get the hint that I didn’t want to continue to correspond with my graduating class and stopped trying to friend me on social networking sites. It’s nothing malicious on my end, it’s just that I didn’t spend a significant amount of time while I was in high school attempting to make friends with them, and it had actually gotten to the point where I had separate points of contact for people that I went to school with and everyone else. I didn’t like being contacted by that many of them when school was not in session, although it took nearly four years to drive the point home to the point they are not attempting to contact me now to get me to join Facebook groups or RSVP for the next reunion. If any of them attempted to contact me I would block them on sight.

I am almost finally done updating the laptop!

I’m still going to have to get larger hard drives for it at some point in the future, but so far this is progress.

All of his Battle.Net games are loaded onto it and all of the EA games he has are loaded onto it. I’m just shuffling things from Steam around on the three available hard drives, and that seems to be giving me a bit of wiggle room to get all of these games of his onto this computer. His PC game collection has slowly and steadily grown over the years, and I use the laptop for other reasons in the event I need to be able to use — or do something on or with — another computer, so it certainly has its purposes. Bub has known that I’ve been downloading his games onto it for a day now and is happy as long as I continue to do that for him.

I hate how annoying these purchases have to be.

I got our gaming laptop back and the keyboard is no longer scuffed! Bub is stoked.

In the interim, I am now shopping around for a three to five-terabyte HDD that will fit inside the HDD bay of a laptop to maximize the space that Bub has to hold games. If these aren’t made yet, I’ll keep my eye out until something gets made that I can improve his hard drive space with. At this point, I might settle for a larger external HD, even though I don’t like the idea of having to hook an external hard drive up to a laptop unless I have no other choice. Admittedly I am better at putting hard drives into desktops than I am laptops, and hooking up external hard drives to… whatever they need to be hooked up to than this, but I’ll manage.

I am also continuing to pre-order games for Bub that will come out around or before Christmas, to cover a few of those purchases at a time per month so that they don’t get to be too much in the last few months before Christmas! Monster has been collecting DVDs to watch in the portable DVD player that a friend of mine was nice enough to gift him, so I pick up a few of those each month with the intent to be able to give him something he really wants for… well, his birthday and Christmas. Luckily some of the more obscure cartoon DVDs that he manages to find through Google or YouTube are available for really affordable prices.

If I can manage to find a larger HDD for a laptop than what we currently have though, I will go on and get it.

Bub is officially thirteen years old today, folks!

If I’m not mistaken here, this should be the second picture I took of him after he was born.

I got our gaming laptop back today in addition to the other presents that he was given (and very much enjoyed, to include the cake)! At some point — sooner rather than later, I’m hoping — I can swap the HDD in it out for a 4TB HDD or a 5TB HDD, that way he can have all of his games stored on his laptop and we won’t have to worry about having to connect an external hard drive up to the laptop to hold some of his games so he continues to have access to them. I just have to find one with an affordable price that’s not being scalped.

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