First Pokopia, then Tomodachi Life, and next month we get a remake of the best StarFox game and it looks amazing. Nintendo are on an amazing run, and if the leaks about the Ocarina of Time remake are true, it might be a generational one!

Brad Root is okay in my book. Just okay though.

So a bunch of my medications, I take 4 now, plus 2 supplements and baby aspirin every morning, ran out at the same time. I ordered refills, but some had none left, meaning Walgreens would have to reach out to the doctors. One of those prescriptions was Meslamine, which I take for my Ulcerative Colitis. I was originally supposed to get a 3-month supply, and it was going to cost $265. That's more than I've ever paid for it, but WHATEVER. I was willing to pay it. It's better than the alternative, which is living on the toilet, hoping my insides stay inside. Today though, I had a televisit with my GI doc. He saw the order from Walgreens, but wanted to up my dosage, and make it only 1-month instead of 3. Cool, sounds good to me! After the call, I check with Walgreens, and they have the order. It's $391 for 1-month. Over $100 more than the 3-month supply. I reach out to see what the hell is going on, and they say my insurance is to blame. They say the previous order, that was never filled, was already claimed (they paid $0.00 of it btw, all on me), and so they won't approve the new order. Now here's the thing, I never got the first order, and even if I did, they didn't pay anything towards it anyway. Putting that aside though, if it was all going to be out-of-pocket for me anyway, which did the price get higher for fewer pills?? I need to move to any country with a modern healthcare system. This is ridiculous. Hopefully my $300,000 surgery for my cochlear implant doesn't get rejected too!

I know it's probably not going to be, but this actually looks good. Is it possible to get a good live-action He-Man?

It's rare for something to get me to draw fanart these days, but I really love this little game and the goofy little characters in it.

I finally did it, I was on a big stream. So the other day, some ding dong replied to a random reply I made to an Airbagged post telling me how he knows where I live and that he's informed the FBI, so “have fun.” I clicked on his profile, replies only, all to people like me who don't like Asmon. I post a joke response and laugh it off. The next morning, I woke up to a 3-day suspension from Bluesky. lol, lmao even. I'm back now, 1 day later. Turns out someone on Reddit went through Bluesky to find negative posts about Asmon and then shared them in a post to target us I guess. I was one of the 20 or so included in it, which is why I got threatened and why I got banned. I guess the Bluesky moderation team didn't think it was that big of a deal. It's weird, I didn't know they had snowflakes in Texas.

It's been a busy couple of weeks for old Dan. I've been to so many doctors, many times multiple in a day, being poked, prodded, tested and more. Talking about so many aspects of my health in preparation for surgery! December 5th,, that's the day my ENT wants to install a cochlear implant on my right side. Then I'll be able to hear! First, I had to go see a hematologist, who told me I'm iron anemic and have been since July. I dunno what happened in July, but okay. I have to get 5 infusions of iron into my blood, then another lab and a follow-up. My ENT wanted me to see a rheumatologist too, so I did that today. She said she doesn't think my hearing loss is due to an autoimmune disease because the steroids didn't work, but that I might still have one anyway because of how fucked up my whole deal is. Gotta get lab work for her too. So I've been running around, getting a CT scan, an MRI, and going to get my balance tested, and did I mention lab work? All of this is in preparation for Friday, December 5th. One small thing, insurance needs 30 days notice to pay for a cochlear implant, and the hospital won't do the surgery until insurance approves it. So, it's all been pushed back to February 20th, next year. I'm gutted. I was so looking forward to starting the new year with my implant, learning to hear better, and getting back to a semi-normal life. This is such a slap in the face. I feel like it's a stark reminder of my new handicap and that I need to learn to cope with it without hearing, just in case. It's time to learn ASL. Time to switch to iPhone. Time to get fitted for some of those Meta AI glasses. I'm not looking forward to any of it.

I haven't posted anything in the last couple of days, and that's because I've been trying to evolve what I've started with here. So far nothing I've made feels quite as good as this does yet, but that's 100% because this is my first attempt and I already styled the front and back ends and all that. I will almost definitely use this same design, or a slight variation of it on the final CMS. (I should mention that I'm currently talking about the back end of the site, I love the 2000s blog-o-sphere feeling on the front end still 😚👌) I've been working with Laravel to try and build a bigger CMS though, one that controls not only the blog, but a portfolio on my main site and allows me to build pages for both sites and update them from the same spot. I'm still working with Claude, but being a bit less hand-holdy about it. I tried using Google's new Antigravity to build it out last night, which feels like cheating big time. It was very confident it nailed it, but nothing actually worked. I think it was because it was being slammed by so many people trying it yesterday. I'll try again later, maybe this weekend. Until then, I'll keep working with Claude on the one I actually need to help with.

I woke up around 7:30 this morning, which was probably about 30 minutes too early. I was almost immediately greeted with a text message from my dad. How did he know? Anyway, he wanted to come over. My balance is still not great, so climbing up on ladders isn't something I should be doing, and he was insistent that if my gutters weren't cleaned right away, that my home itself would be at peril. So I told him to come on over. As I said, I'm not one for ladders yet, so he would go up the ladder and scoop out the gutters, and then rinse them with the hose. I would do the rest, cleaning up the ground below him, getting things out of his way, moving the ladder, getting the hose ready, etc. It went fairly quickly as it's been dry out. I appreciate the help, but being nearly half his age, it makes me feel a bit worthless, despite everything going on right now.

While he was here, I mentioned that I wanted to move my TV. I had put my LG C1 in the basement and set up my consoles and what not down there over a year ago, but I don't like being down there now. It feels too disconnected now that I can't hear sounds from upstairs. He agreed to help while he was there, but since I hadn't unplugged a single cable yet, we agreed that he'd come back in an hour or so. I unhooked everything, took the old TV off the wall and ran all the HDMI cables for the new setup through the way. I texted him to come back, and my god. Between my balance, me getting weaker over the past year from all the… everything, and my undying fear that I will split the C1 in two, just getting it up the stairs was an exercise in patience. I thought I was going to have a panic attack and fall down backwards on top of him by the time we reached the top. We got it upstairs though, and put it on the wall. I gave him my electric piano to take home to my mom, and said goodbye. 

It took me hours to get all the cables hooked back up, and I still left one off. The TV is up though, everything is plugged in. The apps are signed in to. It's all good, just took way took much effort on my part compared to just a year ago. I did get this cool metal Metroid box cover in the mail from Nintendo today, so not everything was a struggle!

Metroid has always been one of my favorite Nintendo franchises, despite it not getting enough love. This game looks like it could be one of my favorite games of the year. I cannot wait to play it, I just hope it has better accessibility options than Pokémon Legends Z-A does. 😬