Your Day

dimlitcandle  sorry but I couldn't resist

I couldn't believe how on point my observation of Setzer being like Han Solo was when the second airship you obtain from Darill's grave was named the Falcon! They had to have known on some level... Speaking of I finished the game not too long ago, and in a somewhat spectacular fashion at that. Sabin managed to kill off Kefka's final form by himself in one turn by comboing him to death ( using a relic combination that allowed him to strike 8 times and I might have casted quick but still  ).  You should give the game a go when you have the chance, I had alot of new favorite characters from the series by the end of it and the goofy moments are some of the best I've seen.

With that done I can finally get to playing Xenoblade Chronicles X after having it backlogged for awhile. Though I don't know very much about the series itself having played none of the games prior so this ought to be interesting...

I got a new job. And by a new job, I mean an additional part-time retail job.

Remember the scene in Ghostbusters where the Ghostbusters are asked if they're gods, they say "no,' and things get worse? I was swiftly reminded the same exact same thing can happen in retail if your supervisor asks if have any prior commitments "tomorrow."

On one hand, I immediately realized what was happening after I said I was available and I felt like I made a rookie mistake. On the other, I was the only new employee available, I wanted to make a good impression, and it's an additional source of income. Just a few dollars closer towards getting a GeForce GTX 1080...

lol wow. When I'm in grocery stores, a lot of the time I'll see things askew or out of place and put them back myself. Certainly if I decide not to get something, I'm putting it back. I'm OCD enough though that if I'm even looking at a display and something is not sitting correctly, I'll go ahead and fix that lol.

I know I'm from a very rural area where things are different, but it's just crazy to me how impersonal and hurried everyone is in a more urban area. It's like they just can't give thought to what they're doing. I also pick up a lot of trash on the way to/from places a lot of the time since I walk. It's somewhat ridiculous the kinds of things I come across doing that, lol.

So I dozed off at work earlier, and in my head I imagined like a JRPG subplot to the tune of Lufia 2's overworld theme. Can't recall the details lol, or why it would be that song, haven't heard it lately...but I do really like that game and its music.

Last night, I was starting my playthrough of the Dragon Force 2 fan translation that's been out for about a year now.

Really excited for Koji Igarashi's new game, obviously...and seeing Resident Evil 2, certainly.

Yes, I am STILL firmly in the mid to late 90s.

My dear dimlitcandle, we both live in Indy. If its a choice between the PC and seeing VHD, I will gladly loan you my DVDs of VHD and VHD:B so you can get yourself a new PC.

I guess my day starts with a story.

I was raised in Appalachia. I didn't have much, my parents were divorced and kinda abusive. I say 'kinda', because they didn't know how to raise a kid. I was No. 1 of what became 7. I was mocked in school a lot for what later would be diagnosed as Type 2 Albinism along with Aspergers and Syncope. And I was a nerd... SOTN was literally the only game I owned for a year, so I've got the whole thing burned into my head now. Built computers out of trashed parts from the high school I went to. Life was hard, and after I finally graduated and escaped my family... I got involved in something and became a scapegoat. Lost a year of my life, mentally regressed, etc. Trauma. Layers, like an onion. Got married, got divorced. Dated, got dumped. Repeatedly. Could never get the hang of 'socialization', or even 'romance'. Found out I had Fibromyalgia. Lost my job, and after a couple of dating/living together situations ended up homeless. Got nerve damage during several snow storms from frost bite. I was in NY, because that's where you go when you want to try hard to make it big. Made sense at the time.

But this isn't a sob story.

A lady from PA, retired librarian, took me in. Gave me the house her step-daughter pretty much abandoned. Got on medications and started to slowly recover. Rebuilt the inside over a period of five years, because it was a mess. Started working on an associates degree. It was slow... I broke my arms falling down the steps (which took months to heal), and then summers I worked under the table odd-jobs on "good days" so I'd have at least -some- necessities. And then there was physical therapy. doctors, etc.

Anyway, it finally paid off. And today (or yesterday) I got this in the mail...




I'm still pushing to raise money for a BS, then actually go to a real campus and get a Juris Doctorate.  With my GPA and sheer will... won't be hard if I can find a way to pay, a cosigner, or whatever.  I hope to go to University of Pittsburgh School of Law, then eventually become a lawyer.  Mostly because it's all brain work, arguing points, researching similar cases, etc; and I'm good at that.

So yeah... Today was the first step in a success story.  Idiot kid from middle of nowhere starting to make something of himself.  Say what you want, but I'm proud of myself today.

Oh my gosh. I had kidney stones a few years ago, and they caused me the worst pain of my life. I couldn't keep anything down because intense abdominal pain makes me puke. I was okay after taking some prescription painkillers and getting a shot of painkiller at the hospital (after an agonizing three hours), and luckily I was able to pass them without issue.

I haven't had any other stones but the experience put me off ice cream. I was eating a tub of Ben and Jerry's once a week around the time I had the stones, so I think that is what caused them. Now I have ice cream only once a great while, as a special treat.

Anyway, I wish you luck and I hope everything goes well!

My day sucked. Why? My laptop is dead and I use it for just about everything including playing Bloodstained and recording the podcast. I've sent off for a new hard drive, in hopes it will get here soon, that it will fix the problem, and that I can get the OS reinstalled.

EDIT: Ok... so after I ordered the hard drive... I put the HD back in the laptop and powered it just to see if I could hear it spin. Guess what... it works. Let's see if I can't cancel an order...

I'm pretty good today actually. After having some troubles with a kidney stone, today has been a day without pain so far.
So I'm hoping this keeps up and I'm awaiting it getting removed.