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Currently, my office is my couch with my laptop on my coffee table and my keyboard on my lap–along with my cat sometimes. Such as right now. He is standing on my knees (on top of my faux fur throw) and staring at the vicinity of my face. I don’t know why he’s not sleeping or lying down, but he is energetically licking his fur. Probably because I just fed him. I expect he’ll curl up in a ball in a few minutes and take his tenth nap of the day.

He is sniffing the air as I eat my lunch-which includes mayo and grilled chicken. Now, he’s loafing on my lower legs and probably about to fall asleep. I love this about autumn; he wants to get nice and cozy. In the spring and summer, he fucks off and does his own thing. Which is fine as well, but I do like a warm cat on my legs. He is a short-haired cat, but he gets nice and fluffy in the winter.

I have a computer room. I got a swank desktop in order to play Elden Ring, which was really smart. They drop the specs for the PC less that two weeks before the game was released (ten days, I think), which was not nice of them. They don’t care about their PC players, though, and never have. When Dark Souls came out, PC players petitioned for a year to get the game on PC (there is no PC port for Demon’s Souls, sadly). When the port finally came out, it was, as the kids say, hot trash. It was nigh unplayable. Thanks to a modder, durante, dsfix was born. That’s the saving grace of PC gaming–you can mod the hell out of anything. He made it so the game ran smoothly and did not freeze-stutter all over the place. I tried running it without dsfix and it was horrid. I think he ended up with a job in the industry because of the dsfix? Or that might be an urban legend. But he is a god among men for saving Dark Souls: Prepare to Try and we will always praise his name.

I’m still bothered by my doctor’s insistence on my weight, but here’s a weird thing. My clothes are fitting better. A pair of shorts that were tight on me months ago are now swimming. There’s the possibility that they stretched, but not that much. My weight is still high so my guess is muscles. My body is made for muscles, thankfully.

Side Note: I am insanely pleased with my biceps. And my ass. I’ll get to that in a second. Yes, I know I’ve blathered about it before, but I don’t care.

When I had to use my desktop briefly, I loved having my dual screens. It was so nice not to have two sets of browsers squished side by side. On the other hand, my desktop does not have an SSD so waiting for it to do anything was torture.

Side Note II: It’s really funny how tech rapidly goes from ‘never in a million years’ to ‘ how the fuck did I ever live without this?’ in a heartbeat. I still remember when I vowed I would never let emails replace handwritten letters and when I vowed that I would never use emojis. Then, when SSD became a thing, I scoffed at it because how much difference could it really make? A lot as it turned out. It’s funny because I am a weird mix when it comes to technology. On the one hand, I use it heavily and know more about it than most people. I said to my brother that I know a bit more than people in general and he said I knew a lot more. It’s hard to judge because I just use it the way I use it.

I rail against new inventions as being intrusive before unwillingly adapting them and then fully embracing them. Currently, I’m thinking about my next laptop because this one is on its last legs I think. I need my brother to take a look at it. I’m also thinking about getting a sit/stand desk with an ergonomic chair because I want to be more active without, well, being more active. I hated actively doing exercise whenever I tried it. I hated the gym. I hated brisk walking. I hated yoga. The only things I didn’t hate was lifting weights and dancing. Or more to the point, I liked the results of weightlifting and didn’t actively hate the activity while I loved dancing.

Taiji has been a godsend now that I’m obsessed with weapon. Not only is it something I really enjoy, but it’s excellent exercise. There’s a weightbearing set that I used to do, but I stopped when I got in my car accident. I would like to pick it up some day, but in the meantime, the weapons are an excellent weightbearing exercise.

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