Posts Tagged ‘life’

04
Apr
2021

I was finally able to get in at the optometrist!

categories: personal; word count: 138 words

This is not a sponsored post. This is me waxing poetic about being blind as a bat.

I found out that my current frames have been retired, so I got these:

They’re not my tried and true frames, but they look like they will do well enough.

I also got these again in sunglass form for my migraines, with the lenses having a dark amber tint:

For the last several years, I’ve been getting my glasses from Zenni Optical. They ship pretty quickly for being as popular as they are, and their glasses have always been high-quality based on my experiences…

This year, my left eye got a bit… better in vision (?), but the astigmatism is worse. My right eye now has astigmatism as well, although it’s very slight and my new prescription should completely correct that. Heh.

02
Apr
2021

So I have a new television set now, y’all.

categories: consoles, personal; word count: 266 words

My former (old?) television set kind of… fell forward and onto our PlayStation 4 and Wii U, causing the screen to get messed up in a way that was not fixable. It was also just old enough for me not to be able to replace it with an identical television from the vendor that I got it from, so I sucked it up and got the cheapest “new” television that they had with enough HDMI slots for all of our consoles and games to seamlessly play. With a button, I can also summon Hulu and Netflix… well, with two buttons, respectively. It is kind of surreal to do.

Whenever I do manage to get us a PlayStation 5, I’m going to have to switch out which HDMI cable is plugged in with the PlayStation 4 unless I get another splitter, which I already saw coming. I may get that splitter depending on how many HDMI cabels I have to plug in and unplug, though… it all depends on how organized these things manage to keep themselves, as sometimes things like these have the penchant for at least attempting to wander off. I’m still not entirely sure if I want to get the digital version of the PlayStation 5 or what, although I am also aware that I will more than likely be at the mercy of scalpers, although I’ve already found a few good scalpers with decent prices that I am considering buying from. I guess we’ll have to see how that goes. I’ve already chosen several games that I want to get us on this new console as well.

01
Apr
2021

I’m not sure if I already mentioned this, but…

categories: computer gaming, personal; word count: 330 words

I’m not sure if I ever mentioned it here, but I’ve since decided to move back to the main servers on Among Us because the roles on Skeld.net didn’t always… cooperate, if that made sense, they weren’t playing like the ones that some of the most popular YouTubers have, and I just felt like if that weren’t the case I would be much better off playing on the official servers. So that’s what I’m back to doing for now. But I have heard that they use different mods and quite possibly, probably, a different server to play on, so there is also that.

I also formatted an external hard drive that I had used for various college-related odds and ends so that Bub could have all of his games readily available, and I am so glad that I did. It’s a 1TB hard drive, so it’s bigger than the hard drive currently in our computer, and it’s already half full of Steam games. I don’t think I’m ever going to completely fill it since we have the majority of what we want already on it, and the majority of games that Bub likes are not particularly huge. But still, there is that occasional large outlier to contend with.

If I could, I would go back to college and get my bachelor’s degree in psychology (or maybe even biology if they have it at this campus!), but I don’t need to do anything that would imperil my chances at successfully getting disability for myself, and there’s the fact that maintenance medications for migraines make expressive and receptive language more difficult as well as complex thought in general. It would take a lot out of me, and I may not have enough to give, and I wouldn’t want to fail any of those classes due to it. Gabapentin is not quite as bad as Topamax or Trokendi, but it… is. It is. We’ll just leave it at that. It just is.

30
Mar
2021

Lesson learned about “deleting posts”, I guess.

categories: computer gaming, personal; word count: 310 words

Not long ago, I accidentally deleted one of the protected posts that I had made in here.

It wasn’t about anything particularly major, but I’ve been testing out the ability to make them and deciding what would be “enough” for me to make a protected post… and then I went on ahead and did that. And before I had even become aware that I had deleted that post, I had run Sweep on here, so it was forever gone. At any rate, I learned my lesson when Bub’s paternal family found an old blog of mine². I don’t mind being open about some things, like how my lack of religion on a technicality has shaped and continues to shape who I am as a person. I don’t mind being open about a lot of things. But there are some things that I would rather not make accessible to every single person who finds my blog or happens to have the URL.

In other news, I’m glad that I have our computer controller’s keypad mapped to more or less everything that it needs to be mapped for to make playing games on Steam enjoyable. So far, it hasn’t let me down in any game aside from having to hit the X button a single time in Final Fantasy VI to switch targets so that I could throw a Phoenix Down at the boss, an undead train, and instantly kill it. I was struggling with being able to switch targets using the controller so just looked up how to do it with the keyboard and did it that way…

²: I didn’t even mind as much that they found the blog as I minded their reactions to me writing about the things that I did in it, as more than one person had begun to express valid concern about those things to me.

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