Posts Tagged ‘life’

14
Jan
2021

That took nowhere near as long as anticipated.

categories: consoles; word count: 302 words

Bub’s microSD is completely set up with no issue and he has all of the games that he currently owns on it!

Well, the digital ones.

I did get him some digital games when the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic was… being treated as more severe of a thing, a crisis, simply because I didn’t want to have to wait for them to come in the mail when there was bound to be a delay and could just as well switch Amazon orders from physical copies to digital copies. I did that until the mail was not quite as… delayed, at least on the end of games and other things actually being shipped out (“non-essentials”, and as a gamer I believe they are not a life-and-death thing).

In other news, I’ve been reunited with ten doses of Fioricet at two pills and twenty doses of Fioricet at one pill depending on how I take it. I try to take at least one as soon as I am aware that a migraine is actually just starting to become a migraine (“could this be a headache?”, no, never, not in my world), and I’ve gotten better at timing this. Not perfect, but I have gotten better at it. Since I now see the local pain management clinic for my migraine needs with my neurologist “on call” because she doesn’t feel comfortable co-treating unless absolutely necessary, I can work with them to coordinate being on the proper medications at the right doses and exploring things such as Botox. A few years ago, you wouldn’t have caught me dead consenting to be injected around the face and neck, let alone anywhere at all unless absolutely needed, but here we are.

If that ever actually happens I anticipate making sizable dents in my (our) gaming backlog, I really do.

12
Jan
2021

Why must you do the thing, Nintendo Switch?

categories: consoles; word count: 195 words

Or Internet?

Why must you do the thing, router?

Why must both of you do the thing in tandem?

I’ve had to babysit the Switch to ensure that everything does download, because as soon as there’s lag — and there invariably are spots of lag whenever the kids are playing on their WiFi-connected devices or there’s inclement weather — the Switch drops whatever it’s doing, and based on my observations of it, you have to manually set everything to resume downloading once that has happened. Luckily it managed to get half through our game collection before that happened, and since it’s at 100% power I am babysitting it through the rest of the way or as much through the rest of the way that I can before I go to bed for the night. If it’s still downloading games then, I’ll do what I did last night and set it up to automatically download while charging, hoping that it actually finishes the second time around. I have some hope for that as long as the Internet holds at the speed it’s at, but… not a whole lot of hope. I just want our games on a better microSD…

09
Jan
2021

I mean, beggars can’t be choosers here, so…

categories: blog maintenance; word count: 227 words

It seems like a lot less people write in WordPress than they did in the 2000s.

I’m fine with that, though, because I enjoy using WordPress to write with.

I suppose it’s just a matter of finding other bloggers, especially ones that use WordPress (and it’s even better when it’s self-hosted WordPress!) and adding them to my blogroll, although even if they don’t use either one of those two things that’s fine too. I don’t write for anyone else but me, although that doesn’t mean that I don’t like reading what other people have to say and having a more active, robust blog than I do now in terms of comments. It seems like it’s a ghost town out there since, comparatively speaking, so few people blog openly like this. And that doesn’t go to mean that all of my posts will be open — once I get more readers, or enough readers, I might make password-protected posts in here, that way I don’t wind up locking everyone out whenever that time may be. I suppose I should figure out what those posts may be about, and consider coming up with a password or multiple passwords for these posts that aren’t really easy to guess…

I mean, that may be awhile out, but it’s better not to forget about the whole thing and scramble to work on it.

05
Jan
2021

Why are subjects so hard to come up with?

categories: books, personal; word count: 286 words

At some point, I’m going to be replacing this computer sooner than later. I have my eye on one that has roughly the same specs (specifications) as this one, and I can just take my 16GB DDR4 RAM out of this one and put it into this computer. It’s also… smaller than this computer is, but I think a lot of the newer computers are being made to be smaller than their counterparts, and that doesn’t bother me any. Sometimes the fan runs just fine in this, or nearly fine, and other times I can hear the fan spinning from across the room even though I’ve used compressed air on it more than once. I wish this computer wouldn’t be on its way out, which it kind of is by the sound of things, because that would save me money. I already got a slightly newer Kindle for Christmas because my old Kindle Keyboard, complete with 3G, was lagging badly or just plain freezing to the point where it had to be put in standby mode or restarted numerous times to do anything…

Meanwhile, I’m reading The Adventurous Eaters Club by Misha Collins and his wife. First of all, it’s Misha Collins, the actor who played Castiel in Supernatural. Secondly, it might give me some tips and tricks that I can use to make mealtime fun and more palatable for my two children than it already is, even though both of them are autistic. One day in the future I might just write my own book on that though. It’s a thought here.

At the end of the day, these books can help a bit, but autistic kids tend not to eat like neurotypical kids do.

03
Jan
2021

I don’t think I’ve actually addressed this here.

categories: personal; word count: 235 words

Even though I… don’t believe in the existence of an afterlife, in the extremely small likelihood that I am wrong in that department (and this isn’t me holding out false hope as much as it is me “covering my bases”), I’ve joked to people and told them that I don’t want my mother to even recognize me. So far, to that end, I’ve actually done several things that I hope will cause my mother not to recognize me if there indeed is an afterlife or the capacity for one to be a ghost for any reason. They are all things that I would have done at some point in the future though, but doing them now is for a special reason. So far, I’ve done the following:

· gotten cyberlox for my hair since I’ve wanted to own, and wear, them for years
· dyed my hair another color, which I stopped doing when Bub was young for… some reason
· gotten rid of some of the clothes in my closet that I knew I would never wear again
· researched Satanism, outed myself as safely as I could as a Satanist, and began living my life like one

These are all things that are tangentially related to not wanting her to recognize me in any capacity.

So far, I think I’m doing good in that department. I’m going to love doing even more things in the new year.

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