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#oneaday Day 853: Hey I'm grump

I have been grumpy for the past couple of days, as you have probably noticed. In my defence, 1) I think I am perfectly justified in the things I have been grumpy about, and 2) I have not been feeling well. I have had just that general feeling of "the ick" since I woke up yesterday morning, escalating to an on-and-off stomachache and myriad poos today. I don't think there is anything left inside me to evacuate. Delightful!

Still, it has been an excuse to vegetate on the sofa beneath a duvet and drink proper Lucozade, which are two things you can only really get away with doing when you're ill. And, thankfully, I have a surfeit of riches to enjoy in the video game department right now: I've just recently finished Silent Hill: Townfall, so now I'm on Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, which seems marvellous so far, and I'm also dipping into Star Wars Galactic Racer and Little Goody Two-Shoes, the latter of which is a nice spooky season follow-up to Silent Hill. Oh, and hopping back into Super Mario Galaxy 2 at the times where the stomachache and/or need to poo precludes anything that requires me to pay attention, like following a story or flying a plane.

It is also… fortunate(? I guess?) that this has happened during a week I have off work. I mean, obviously I would prefer to not be ill at all, but if you're going to be ill in a manner that is not exactly debilitating or preventing you from doing normal things, it is better to do so at a time where you are not expected to be sitting at your computer doing something vaguely useful and being at the beck and call of Microsoft fucking Teams.

Anyway, I am hoping I will feel a bit better tomorrow. Andie has gone away for a few days as her mother is having a hip replacement operation tomorrow and will need a bit of looking after, so I'm on my own in the house until some point next week. Assuming I do feel better tomorrow, I want to make at least some vaguely "productive" use of the day — and I use the term loosely, because I am on holiday. By "productive" I mean either recording some new YouTube videos, or perhaps going to the cinema to see the new Resident Evil movie, which I have heard lots of good things about. Or perhaps even both!

I have not been to the cinema for a very long time. The last movie I saw in the cinema was with Andie, who doesn't watch a lot of movies other than stuff she has Legitimately Acquired and puts on in the background while she is working. That movie was Bridesmaids, which came out in 2011. I have watched a couple of movies on DVD or Blu-Ray since then, but not many, so I just thought it might be a nice… novelty to go to the cinema by myself, go see something that Andie most definitely will not want to see, stuff myself with popcorn, treat myself to the comfy chairs and so forth. I will make a decision on that in the morning; I'm more inclined to go do that tomorrow on a weekday when it will be quiet, rather than at the weekend, but if I am still feeling like The Great Mighty Poo is performing a selection of arias inside me tomorrow, I may rethink that plan.

Anyway, I am off to chew on some chalk, drink some milk and lie face-down for a bit, I think. To a brighter and hopefully pain-free tomorrow!

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#oneaday Day 781: Broadcasting from Tiredsville

I am exceedingly tired. I slept like absolute garbage last night — although I suspect literal garbage actually probably sleeps quite well — and have been feeling the effects all day: a complete inability to focus, a total lack of desire to do anything apart from "just go back to bed", and just a general feeling of "ugh".

I'm not really sure why I slept so badly last night — conditions in the bedroom (ooer) weren't particularly different from any other given evening, as we had the air conditioning blasting, I had my blackout sleep mask on with some calming noises playing, but still I kept waking up, feeling uncomfortable and/or needing a piss. At 4am I got up and evacuated what must have been over a litre of piss from my body. That'll learn me for Hydrating.

I'm going to get an early night tonight, I think, so I am writing this post in good time to be able to do that, and I'm probably going to skip a walk around the Common this evening also. There are times when you have to listen to your body, and my body right now is telling me that it needs some decent rest. So that's the plan for later tonight, at least.

In the meantime, I have plenty I could be doing, but I think I'm probably going to play some more Terranigma this evening. I've been playing a lot of Splatoon Raiders — it's a great "lunchtime game" with how bite-sized each individual "raid" is — and I want to make some progress on Terranigma. Interestingly, my video on its immediate predecessor, Illusion of Time, overtook my video on Soul Blazer in a fraction of the time in terms of views. Neither have done amazingly in terms of total views, but as I always say: the views are not why I'm doing this. I do this because it's fun, and because it's nice to have a sort of record of the things you've experienced and your thoughts about them.

Same reason why MoeGamer exists, really. I have loved writing about the games I have enjoyed ever since I was a young child — I bet my parents still have the ring binder with all my dot-matrix printouts of "reviews" I wrote when I was a kid somewhere — and I don't see that changing any time soon. It's my way of just sort of "getting a bit more" out of an already rewarding and fulfilling hobby. The feeling of creating something, even if it's just some blurted-out thoughts representing your opinion about something, is always satisfying — and I can look back over both this site and MoeGamer and feel pride in what I've created to date, and excitement for what is still to come.

Also it gives me a sort of perverse pleasure that MoeGamer has now lasted considerably longer than the site I was laid off from when I made it in the first place. I guess passion will always trump commercial interests.

Anyway! That was a random string of consciousness, for which I make no apologies. I am off to have some dinner, play Terranigma and then at least attempt to be in a position conducive to getting some sleep before the clock strikes midnight.

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