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My Internet is working better… I mean, I hope.

We had severe storming the night before last, which resulted in damage that our ISP had to fix (not actual damage to our modem, router, or lines… other damage, and I don’t claim to be an expert on any of these things). Because of that, I dropped a lot of frames when I attempted to stream Chrono Trigger as planned last night, but things are looking better now than they were! I think I’m going to stream Chrono Trigger tonight to make up for it instead of Alice: Madness Returns like I had been planning, but sometimes concessions just have to be made. Meanwhile I have some completely awesome friends who are attempting to bring some retro programs that a lot of us used in the nineties and early millenia, and I think they’re going to be successful at it — I’ll write more about it here as time goes on, but I’m an alpha tester for one, and I’ve mainly delegated myself to quality of life issues and things like “well, how much can I click on to see if any errors come up that I can report?”. Or… however else you would word “come up”, because migraines are fun.

When I can talk about one of (okay, probably the primary) the passion projects that is going on right now that some programmers — and some of my friends, to include the overlap that are some of my friends who are also programmers, “there ain’t no gettin’ off of this train ride we’re on” — I may post screenshots, but only with permission. This is amazing. This is great. This is definitely extremely nostalgic. I just love this.

Don’t tell me something I don’t already know.

My pain management clinic wanted to make sure I knew how disabling my migraines actually are — yeah, don’t get me wrong, I’m aware, I just try to ignore as much as I can for as long as I can (and trust me, this has not been a tenable option for a long time) — as far as employment prospects go. I have found a lawyer who is more than willing to take my case on to help me get disability, though. He’s only going to take a certain percentage of my backpay if successful, which I am more than fine with. As soon as his office got the function report back from my pain management clinic, someone immediately contacted me with new client paperwork to fill out, which I filled out and sent back to them, and I gave them a copy of my state ID. Then he contacted me a few hours later to tell me that he would be the one taking my case, asked me if I had requested the hearing yet (I had), and made sure that I got the papers back to his office that allowed them to request more recent copies of my medical records. Done and done. You don’t have to tell me twice here…

I’d still like to make something out of streaming, but I acknowledge that there are and will be limitations there as well, especially with where my migraine frequency and severity are at. Plus, in the long run, if I do make something out of streaming, there is a waiver in place that will allow me to keep Medicaid eligibility as a disabled person up to a certain point because I can prove that I need it to continue to be able to stream.

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