Just some little updates about things lately.

I’ve been playing a lot of Pokémon Pokopia lately, but I don’t think it’s gonna hit my March 2026 Game of the Month. Minecraft-alikes, even when they’re super well executed like this one or the Dragon Quest Builders series (PP is basically DQB3, it’s even from the same team), just don’t hold me. I did my time in Minecraft alpha sixteen years ago. But also I kinda really love Pokémon, so.. hm. Otherwise I’m still playing Ys 8 and Caves of Qud, but I’m also just kinda getting video gamed out, to the point that I don’t think anything will actually be my game of the month. I should probably pick up books and manga again.

My neurology appointment is at the end of AUGUST! That’s so frustrating :\

Olive’s dental work, for which he has to go under anesthesia, is in a month. We need to get him an electrocardiogram though because a week or two ago he had an event where he lost control of his back legs for about ten minutes. It was absolutely terrifying and eerily similar to Duster’s stroke a few years ago… I panicked which delayed rushing him to the emergency vet, but we did go. It was probably the quickest and cheapest visit we’ve ever had at the evet! He presented with absolutely no issues whatsoever and has been fine ever since. ???????? This cat is.. really something else. Like, okay, I don’t want anything to be majorly wrong with him, just like I don’t want anything to be majorly wrong for myself either! But going to the ER and walking out with a “you’re cat is/you are totally fine” is actually really frustrating. What happened?? They think it was either a blood clot event (hence the ekg) or some kinda vasovagal nerve event. The latter may just simply be a one off and nothing to worry about. So it’s all…

Look, he’s 13 years old. He’s the third elderly cat I’ve lived with to be rushed to that specific evet. I watched two of them die there. It’s terrifying. The thing about Olive is that, with Duster gone, I need Olive to live forever or else I’m afraid I’ll feel completely untethered to any aspect of who I was more than eight years ago.

I’m also working on some other words about feelings and such, but I’m.. just not sure what I can even post anymore :\ I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting on my part in how things fell apart last year… I’m not sure how to move on from this :/