Posts Tagged ‘life’

15
Mar
2020

As of March 3rd, I earned a block from Jake Eakin.

categories: personal; word count: 136 words

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Craig_Sorger

Warning if you read that article: it deals with… some really intense stuff having to do with a child.

Understatement.

Ever since I found out that one of the participants in that murder has been profiting off of donations being an “anti-abortion abolitionist”, or whatever he calls himself, shouting and singing in front of healthcare facilities that perform them, I could not contain myself, and I began commenting on his Facebook wall espousing my repeated sentiments on the matter that a literal convicted child murderer of all things who “found God” (must look really good to the parole board, eh?) would now suddenly be advocating for “pro-life” measures…

Once Jake saw that he and his ilk could not successfully “convert” me, he blocked me. It was hilarious.

12
Mar
2020

Our PS4’s external hard drive has finally arrived!

categories: consoles, personal; word count: 431 words

Now all I have to do is download the games that we had put into storage due to lack of space onto it, which will probably take… the better portion of a day, and we’ll have everything downloaded that we actually own. With where our PlayStation 4 is at in the house, it’s not particularly close to the router, even though we do have an extender now which has made download times better than they used to be in the past. So I am thankful for that, even though they have almost never been “lightning fast” or even extremely fast. Sigh…

I also found out that my optometrist does not currently take the Medicaid HMO that I had to switch over to, which means that for the sake of convenience and ensuring that I am able to see properly I had to find an optometrist around here that does, so I will be seeing them this week. Apparently they had been bought out by… someone else, something else, I don’t know, so they have to renew contracts with everyone, and I didn’t want to have to wait an extra several months to see if they would renew the contract that they had with my current Medicaid HMO, so a new optometrist it is, I suppose. At least I like my current glasses enough to keep those frames. In case Bub ever inadvertently headbutts me, we’ve already confirmed that they are durable!

Meanwhile, I continue to do poorly on the inhaled powder steroid that I am on for my asthma.

I suspect that “given enough time”, I will officially “fail” this, and be able to switch back to Pulmicort.

Being on powdered mometasone seems to be taking my lungs back to the days of… several years ago, almost seriously, when I was flaring a lot more frequently and severely and could literally walk through my house at a brisk pace (or to the mailbox and get the mail at that same brisk pace) and seriously get winded. Now I’m doing that as a result of having been on mometasone for nearly a month, adherent to the schedule of inhaling one powdered inhalation from the container twice daily. I don’t want to be back to this, but here we are. With any luck I can get placed back on Pulmicort. Seriously. It’s really ironic that the Wikipedia article for it states, “Specifically it is used to prevent rather than treat asthma attacks.”, because in me, it has actually been causing more of them lately, and this has coincided with me beginning this med regimen…

11
Mar
2020

I mean, this doesn’t actually surprise me but…

categories: personal; word count: 222 words

It honestly seems like Discord administrators themselves (and I’m talking the global ones here) don’t seem to care about the rules that they have, because when I reported someone for being under the age that you are supposed to be to legally use the chat service, they didn’t actually do anything about it when I gave them concrete proof that the user was beneath the age of thirteen. This user decided to come back to the channel that I participate in on Discord and begin chatting again, which, as of the time that I saw him on it, effectively killed the entire conversation at the time that he attempted to participate. Even though this rule is in place due to COPPA, why even bother having the rule that you have to be thirteen years of age or older to use Discord if you’re not actually going to enforce the rule that… well, you have to be thirteen years of age or older to use Discord? It makes no sense. Make it make sense, Discord. Really now. The rule is fairly useless.

I was going to write about something else here, but then I wanted to bring this up before I actually forgot to.

Normally, it’s supposed to be a bannable offense when a user too young attempts to use Discord to chat.

17
Feb
2020

It’s actually been this cold around here, folks.

categories: personal; word count: 139 words

We’ve been having to wear our coats around here. This isn’t… normally something that has to happen too often, at least comparatively and statistically speaking compared to some of the other colder states. However, it has been just cold enough that Bub and I haven’t been walking to the nearby park as much as I’m sure he might otherwise like, simply because… well, it’s actually been that cold, and the park is just close enough to where we live for us to be able to walk to it, so by the time we got there we’d already have exposed ourselves to the winds that this kind of weather tends to bring, and then there’s the walk back.

And these walks are supposed to be enjoyable, so I’m just waiting for it to warm up a bit before we resume.

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