Pastebin Monday 10/09/17

I'm still hanging in there.  I managed to take a shower and have a decent breakfast for once.  The shower at my place has been broken, it took a week for it to be fixed, only for the pipes to have problems and leak water all over the kitchen below me.  I'm feeling too uncomfortable to eat downstairs at any time of the day and much prefer to eat in my room.  I thankfully can take showers at the Horticultural Building at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, where I work for the US Forest Service for the remainder of the time I am here.  I am so glad Lyft is a thing.  I ended up going to a truck stop to take a shower because I'm on my weekend.

I'm hoping I can check out a mobile hotspot from the library so I can at least have full internet access for an entire week.  I can play games and watch movies, but the isolation from everything gets to me and I'm lonely as all fuck.  I think the reason I'm so willing to talk with visitors at work as part of my job whenever I can because it seems like it's the only face to face interaction I've been getting for weeks on end.  My landlord is fucking miserable and never hears me out, and only seems to talk to me when he wants to complain about something he never bothered to mention before.

Thankfully I don't have much longer to deal with this.  I never asked for being able to finish this job come at this sort of a price.  I knew that I had to make sacrifices with taking this job, but ever since the accident, it seems like he wants to make my life as miserable as possible.  And sadly it seems like I can't find anywhere else to stay at the moment.  I thought about staying in a hotel, but they cost too much around here and there aren't many good ones.

Des will be visiting me the weekend after this one to take me to the doctor and I will stay in a nice hotel with her.  It'll be so nice to sleep on an actually functional mattress with bedsheets that actually fit.  But most important, I won't be lonely for once.  Human interaction is something I miss so much.  Whatever I can do on my phone is so limited because of the spotty reception where I live and the very limited data I have on my plan.

In 19 days I will be done with this job and moving out as soon as I can.  This situation takes a toll on me when I come back from work and so ready to collapse from everything going on from an emotional perspective.  You know how embarrassing it is to tell my supervisors that I have been unable to bathe at home and unable to keep up my hygiene because he doesn't bother to turn on the hot water?

I'm very much tempted to find a hotel room to stay in for two nights around the time I have to go back to the courthouse about my traffic case about 17 days from now.  That way I have a place from where I can rest the night before I go to court, have a place from where I can reliably get to there, and also have a place where I can leave my phone since I cannot bring it with me there.

Not much has been going on with speedrunning because life is being miserably out of my control.  I booted up Hercules for the Game Boy on emulator, where with the help of save states, I was able to beat a game where I couldn't make it past the very first stage as a child some 20 years ago.  I'm going to see what I can do with a possible speedrun, but it may be a one shot thing and move on to something else.  The game is that bad.

Cool Spot for the Genesis is something I will probably mess around with the most for the remainder of the time that I am here.  My main category will be Any% Easy since I don't feel like running it on Normal mode and I'm not touching Hard mode.  I may run the game for a bit to see where I can go with this version of the game.  UNCOLA% will be something I work on once I get more comfortable.  The goal of that category is to enter all 6 bonus stages to collect the letters spelling out "UNCOLA" and then beat the game.  I will be playing that category on Easy, but there will be 6 out of 11 stages where I will need to collect 75 spots instead of the 30 spots required to finish a level on that mode.  Routing that category will probably see me look at the Normal mode run that already exists and adjust the route from there.

Valkyria Chronicles III will probably resume later this month once I feel more up to things.  I did some routing at the very beginning of this month, based on InfiniteSheldor's routing work for Easy mode from the middle of last year, all the way up to Chapter 12.  I could do the first half of the game more efficiently, so I will restart my playthrough, change around some things, and place trust in my own skills by turning the enemy phase animations completely off.  It's going to be my longest speedrun, but when I feel ready to properly run this game, I will be ordering another Playstation TV, get a JPN account, and put a digital copy of the game on there.

I guess that's it for now.  I have this problem with mirrors and looking at myself in them.  I keep on admiring myself and how good I look, and what a shame it is that I haven't been able to maintain myself like I could otherwise.  Being handsome ain't easy.