Bah, humbug.

I don't really like the holidays. Watch out, we've got an edgelord over here, I know, but honestly, I weigh the pros and cons and all the extra stress and craziness that the holidays bring against a day or two opening some stuff up and it just doesn't work for me. Work sucks (I know) an extra amount because it throws all of the schedules out of whack for 2-3 weeks, I spend just about as much time going back and forth with family trying to figure out gifts and plans than actually spending time with them, and the general public just seems so occupied with their own business that they forget all common decency exists.

Maybe it's because I'm hard to shop for and hate shopping myself that adds to it. Maybe I see the holidays marking the end of another year that I'm not terribly thrilled about. It could be something else. But I see other holidays like Thanksgiving or Fourth of July and there's just so much less stress and havoc involved with them that whenever the calendar turns to December, I get filled with dread and anxiety and I want it all to just be over so I can get some normalcy back.

This is all exasperated, yet again, by my inability to have reliable internet. I really wish I didn't complain about it so much, but I can't help it when I seem to end up with more days without it than with it. This time around, we were quoted more than three weeks before someone could come out to look at it. Luckily, this date has moved up a few times already, looking like potentially someone can come out on the 12th, but that's still nearly two weeks without anything resembling solid service. We looked into switching somewhere else, but thanks to the magic of telecommunication oligarchies, the only other provider that will even attempt to give us service only does so at a tenth of the speeds as what we're supposed to be getting, and I just don't trust it. So for now it's this or nothing. Just gotta deal with it, I guess.

For now, just gonna keep practicing 96 stuff offline as best I can, without a visual reference it's kinda tough, but there's still plenty I can work on anyways. Also gonna try to enjoy a few things offline; I started Crash N-Sane Trilogy last night, got about a third of the way through Crash 1 and really enjoyed it. Also probably gonna play a bunch of ZOOTR since that eats up most of a weekday evening so I'm not thinking about all the stuff I'm missing/not doing online. Tried Song+Shopsanity tonight and really enjoyed the wrinkles both add. If/when I can stream again, I'll probably tack those on occasionally to my weeklyish ZOOTR stream. Finally, with Smash Ultimate coming out on Friday, I'll probably dive into the (hopefully) lengthy amount of single player stuff it has. Maybe I'll figure out who the heck I wanna play against real people once I get internet back lol.

Well that's it, sorry about all the poopy whining, but that's about all I can do ┐( ´ ～`)┌

-Glib