Posts Tagged ‘life’

20
Nov
2021

Next time maybe I’ll just go digital here.

categories: personal; word count: 232 words

Something that I got Monster was supposed to arrive yesterday, but was unexpectedly delayed with the last tracking scan being on the delivery truck… and now it says that it will be here by Monday. If I had known that there would be a delay like this while the thing was on the delivery truck of all places I might have, probably would have gotten it digital. It was meant to be one of the newest Pokemon games available since we’ve been playing them together since Monster was like… three, and since Bub was born. Sure, that will more than likely involve juggling space on the microSD cards, or games’ other internal storages, at some point, but it beats the alternative of shipping progressively getting slower on things (especially around the holidays).

If this doesn’t come, I will report it to FedEx as missing the first day that I am able to since it was supposed to come through FedEx, and then simply never get anything from Walmart again unless it’s in person or me doing something like picking up medications from Walmart… again, in person. What sucks is the fact that my insurance now allows most of our medications to be shipped to our house, which would be nice if it weren’t for the fact that FedEx would be the ones shipping and delivering them. Maybe I won’t take my chances…

31
Oct
2021

Well, that should have ended predictably for him.

categories: personal; word count: 317 words

Someone on my governor’s Facebook page said something really ableist about how I needed to teach my disabled children to rely on themselves rather than other people, and through the help of my friends finding out where he worked that got reported to the Human Relations (HR) department of his job. We’ve confirmed that it is his job by virtue of their response to us — they’ve also stated that they will take the appropriate action to it, so I can only imagine that they are not pleased that one of their employees foamed at the mouth about how disabled children of all people “needed to learn to rely on themselves”. It was said in an extremely ableist context, although the fact that it was ableist was clear to most people to begin with off the top, so it should be no wonder that it was actually reported to the Human Relations department of his job. I mean, this sort of thing happens on social media now when people can’t keep their mouths shut about things…

Also, it’s Halloween today. Because we are still in the midst of a global pandemic and the majority of the populace seems to have forgotten about that, the kids will be sharing a two-pound bag of candy amongst themselves in the living room rather than going out Trick-or-Treating. I would have given it to them yesterday since that was when our city “had” Trick-or-Treating to avoid having it fall on a Sunday and a school night (but more so on the fact that it fell on a Sunday this year), but Monster was adamant that they wait to open the bag of candy until it was actually Halloween, and for some reason Bub went along with this rather than open the bag of candy himself and turn it into a fight that I would’ve had to break up. That still surprises me.

28
Oct
2021

Well, I’m glad I got my money back on that.

categories: personal; word count: 315 words

About a month and… some change ago, I decided to order the Yuffie Kisaragi cape (what would you call this, anyway? a cape?) from AUScosplay. I knew that it would take about a month to get here, and I didn’t mind that because of how far out in advance I was intentionally placing the order. I wanted something that would cover me, and my arms and upper body, so that we could record video of us playing MMORPGs and video games without people becoming concerned about errant bruises left on me by accident from Bub’s meltdowns, and I figured that if I were wearing something stylish — something that I liked and wanted to wear anyway, were I to own it — it would cover those marks up without question. And it looked really nice.

So I patiently waited a month, hoping along the way that at some point AUScosplay would send me an e-mail with tracking or… well, actually ship the thing. But I got absolutely nothing from them at any point in the process. I sent several civil, polite e-mails inquiring about the status of my order and not a single e-mail was ever responded to. That rose several serious questions as to whether or not I would even get the item.

When the month mark came and gone and still no cape, I filed a complaint with PayPal since I had gone through them, indicating that I had not gotten what I had ordered and that I would like my money back since it had already been a month. They told me that I would have to wait until early November for a decision, but miraculously decided entirely in my favor three days into that, and I was refunded the full cost. I’m thinking that they might have done this to more than one person because of how quickly PayPal ruled in my favor…

26
Oct
2021

We’ve predictably hopped aboard the Diablo 2 train.

categories: MMORPGs, personal; word count: 438 words

In our spare time, we’ve continued to play Diablo 2: Resurrected.

I think that between the two of us, we have all of the characters that we could want, although if Bub wants me to make a barbarian or a paladin I would be open to making those for him and learning the basics on how to play them. Right now that’s outside my wheelhouse since I personally tend to play magic and support the most on MMOs, but if he wants me to, I’ll make those for him and then look into how to play them in such a way that it doesn’t wind up disastrous for everyone involved. This might be really amusing.

We might also get back into Diablo 3 on the PC, although that will probably not be until the craze surrounding Diablo 2 starts to die down. Who knows. As stated, whenever I have my way I make sure that we play with friends before we play with people that we don’t know, although the nature of the beast in Diablo games on Blizzard is that sometimes you can’t help that, because sometimes you have to party up with people that you might not know really well to get quests done or to do certain things. When it comes to MMOs, though, I go through phases where I personally want to play them a bit less than I had been playing them — the exception to this would be Bub, because I will gladly play with him (almost, within reason) whatever he wants to play, the only exception to that being if he ever cued that he wanted to play World of Warcraft. I think I’ve written in here about my reservations regarding that game in the past, and they still exist. To be frank though, I have reservations against pay-to-play MMOs in general and would never seek them out of my own volition unless something, somewhere, changed. I would rather pay once and be done.

In the coming months, I need to get a new cell phone (the battery in my current phone, which I use to keep in touch with all of our doctors, specialists, and the boys’ therapists is… degraded, and I need to be able to rely on it when we are out of the house), a new computer chair (Bub has spun in this one to the point that it is creaky and wobbly, and I wouldn’t want anyone sitting in it to fall out of it), and quite possibly a new computer desk. I’ve had the desk that I have now for quite awhile, and the wobbliness of it is inescapable.

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