Posts Tagged ‘life’

27
Jul
2020

Let me not bust right in there on day, what, one?

categories: personal; word count: 324 words

With the exception of very few video games, although I may have pre-ordered them, I (and by I, what I really mean to say here is we) do not begin playing them on day one. Very few of them we will start on day one, and if we do start them on day one, either that is for the multiplayer aspect of it because we have a lot of friends who might be playing it and willing to play it with us and give us items or want to play alongside us. I do not have the time to devote to play a game on day one, and we have more than enough of a backlog not to make that feasible. I’ve also been burned by just enough people who take gaming that seriously not to want to jump into almost all of these games on day one, and I don’t want to burn myself out on gaming again to the point I don’t pick up games in a certain genre or games at all for several months. (As I mentioned in a previous entry, and for more than just that reason but… for a lot of that reason, this is why I burned out and essentially “retired from” YuGiOh! the card game. As mentioned, there were a lot of factors that went into that decision, but I would be lying if I didn’t mention the fact that one very specific individual and his actions influenced that to the extent that he did. It wound up being an extremely personal thing for me, and just as personal of a decision that I made for me that wound up bettering my mental health a lot.)

I’m also the kind of person who enjoys playing things on my own timetable… or, again, on our own timetable.

Telling me when to do what “just because” has never gone over well for reasons, as it is generally ill-advised.

26
Jul
2020

Current medication list because, well, I can.

categories: personal; word count: 170 words

Neurological medications:
Lisinopril, 5mg once daily
Olanzapine, 10mg once daily if needed
Promethazine, 25mg once daily if needed
Trokendi, 300mg once nightly (200mg + 100mg pills)
Zomig dissolvable melt, 5mg up to three times per week

Respiratory medications:
Albuterol, two puffs inhaled up to every four hours as needed
Albuterol, one vial nebulized up to every four hours as needed
Claritin, standard dose
Prednisone as prescribed not during the pandemic unless really needed
Symbicort, two inhalations twice daily
Singulair, standard dose

Other medications:
Depo-Provera, taken every ninety days

Like I’ve mentioned, I am going to ask to be taken off of the lisinopril at my next consult with my neurologist because not only am I not seeing anything beneficial from it, but I have begun to gain some weight from it… and I’m going to ask to be put on an antidepressant since the Olanzapine has surprisingly been helping out.

A bit. For me. All of this is comparative because it is me we are mentioning here. I’m not expecting miracles…

21
Jul
2020

Nope, we are not breaking quarantine for this.

categories: augmented reality, personal; word count: 394 words

Apparently you can “safely exercise” (our governor is a dunce who can’t even comprehend basic science) around here as long as you wear a mask and maintain proper social distance, but no, we are going to continue to quarantine as long as there is a pandemic going on and… not leave the house unless we are embarking on necessary travel. Bub and I could, if there weren’t a pandemic going on, by this logic play Pokemon Go and go to the nearby PokeGym and Stop because it is a cemetery and it is doubtful that we would interact with anyone that isn’t in our household, but… again, there is a global pandemic going on, I am at high risk if I do manage to catch this, I do not want my child catching this, and this is an unnecessary risk to even consider taking, so no. We are going to continue to quarantine for as long as there is a global pandemic going on and I do not care what “advice” our foolish, ludicrous governor, his “strike force team”, or anyone equally as asinine has. None of these folks displays a clear and thorough understanding of science.

I do miss the walk to the nearby cemetery, though. My lungs start off strong after I’ve medicated them with albuterol prior to the walk, then as we turn off of our road and begin walking down the old farm road and I’ve taken the outside position nearest the farm road for safety reasons and my lungs realize what we are doing (again). Then when we get to the gazebo in the cemetery that allows us to access the Gym and the Stop, begin accessing those things, wait for my lungs to stop having the opinions that they are assuredly having, use my inhaler as needed. And when we were done at the cemetery doing everything that we needed to do and I had completely rested, make the walk back down the farm road, then turn and walk back down our road, at which point my lungs would resume having opinions at the distance that we had walked, then go home and I would rest again from the distance that we had walked. My lungs don’t like exercising…

When this pandemic is over, we’ll resume playing Pokemon Go no matter how much albuterol I have to use.

20
Jul
2020

All for the misdeeds of a comparative few.

categories: MMORPGs, personal; word count: 450 words

I’m still getting used to the idea of having amber sunglasses (80% sunglass, amber-tinted) that I can put on, and have been figuring out when the best times are to wear them, especially when I’m indoors. Figuring out when to wear them when I’m outside has been a lot simpler, especially when it’s not dark outside. And as much as I know that they’re not going to be some kind of miracle “catch-all” for my migraines, having something useful like this in the tool box isn’t going to hurt, especially when I have a neurologist hell bent on not adhering to my last neurologist’s plan of care for me when, at the very least, I was prescribed one thing that actually helped, especially at more than one dose (Fioricet). When I see my neurologist for my second visit with her, I’m going to ask if I can be put on an anti-depressant as a maintenance medication since those have some efficacy in reducing migraine frequency and mitigating migraine severity, and the olanzapine that she has me continuing to single-dose for severe migraines does seem to be helping a bit. If she’ll replace the lisinopril that she currently has me trialing with that, I would be happier than I am now, because that medication has had me gain some weight as a result of moving up to the dose that she wants me to take, and I’ve been told that having that come about as a result… isn’t exactly the best (it’s worth changing meds).

I’m also still bothered that you can’t have your Homunculus auto-attack for you in Ragnarok Online now, even if you’re obviously not away from the computer letting it have a free-for-all, which has been against Gravity rules since the start of time when they were even introduced. This incapacitates the alchemist(/geneticist/creator) class beyond making them a glorified swordsman without the specialized skills or just someone who can make and throw potions and Vend. As I’ve mentioned, this punishes everyone who played and enjoyed playing the class for the misdeeds of a comparative few who were eventually going to get banned anyway, because no one who ever afkmists ever really does so long enough not to get caught.

I also found out that Ragnarok Online 2 was essentially cancelled for not being popular (or maybe lucrative?) enough, although it’s still available as a game… I guess it’s just not going to be updated beyond a certain point. I did download it off of Steam for nostalgia’s sake, although forced-WASD has never been and will never be my type of gameplay, and I do intend on giving it a brief whirl when the kids are in bed sleeping…

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