Moths and Flames

Game Master Signore di Fortuna

Sorry, I guess I've had a lot on my mind lately.

Bubba, I want you to know that we really enjoy having you stay with us while we're on vacation. The two situations are completely different. You're a Brother to us, and one of our best friends. Getting to spend real in person time with you is something we look forward to every year. It's almost become like a yearly tradition. I just wanted to make sure you knew how we felt, and that our visits with you are nothing like my dumba$$ allowing someone to stay with us for an undetermined amount of time that came to an abrupt end after finding out that he had been lying to us. The two situations are COMPLETELY different, and I didn't for one second want to make you feel like that's how we feel about you because we don't.

I'm just gonna add to this and say that I really do look forward to our visits. You're one of the few people I enjoy playing video games with, one of the less than 10 people I sincerely call a friend and one of the 5 people I would call best friend.

One of these years, when I can stop having medical stuff done and actually save some money in our pockets, we'd like to come to New York. I've only been in upstate New York when I was visiting Cindy and the girls.

I've only been to Hornell...that felt like the trailer park of New York.

Lol

Hopefully we come out of this situation alive. Is there even anyone in the cages?

I wasn't worried about that but thanks for the clarification anyway. I had a similar situation quite a while ago with a drunk house-guest and plenty of false promises so I get it. At least yours hasn't broken anything.
I look forward to the visits too just not the travel bits.

I feel the same, although sure what my numbers are, but there probably pretty low. To depressing to keep track I suppose. I'll be sure to remind you of that the next time I accidentally ragdoll you in EDF.

I think I managed to cram in about 50hrs of Zelda in 3 days.

Somehow, it doesn't feel the same playing EDF without the mild PvP at the end of a mission.

I think it's common for people to have less friends after high school. Probably because it's easier to write off the jerks without having to see them again. I don't worry about it enough to look it up, but I think it's normal to have a low number.

We'll see how road tripping works this year. Maybe it won't be as bad as flying or taking a bus :)

@Kelda: Yes, there are people in cages but you've been too busy fighting to notice.

He wouldn't really get drunk, but he has seizures and it reminded me too much of the situation with my cousin....so, I didn't want him bringing alcohol into my house, but he did, hid it, and lied about it. It was just something I wasn't willing to put up with.

I didn't even have that many friends in high school either. I didn't like large groups of people, and considered most of the idiots I went to school with to be fake and too immature for me to waste my time on. I only had 1 real friend in high school, and she ended up killing herself about a year or so after we graduated. The only other best friend I've ever had is Misty, and we've been best friends since kindergarten. We still stay in touch and everything, but don't know when I'll get back out to SoCal to see her.

I think road tripping will be fun, it just depends on how much sugar I have. Bruuawwhhhahahaha. Lol

Ok

Lol.

Teehee

When I went to see Cindy and the kids, I was about 30 minutes South from the Canadian boarder, and my train took me to Syracuse, which was the closest station to them.

They lived in Evans Mills, but she took me around different parts of Water Town, and a large park above the town so I could get pictures. That's where I almost fell off the cliff cuz there was so much snow that you couldn't see where the edge was. I also got to see where those people with the horse and buggy things live, and went to a shop where they made everything by hand, and they had all kinds of home made preserves, candies, and other delicious treats.....mmmmm sweets.

Anyways, it was pretty and all that...but I know there's soooo much more than that.

Heh, I remember that.

Yeah, that's when I realized exactly what kind of person Cindy was.
Karma sort of bit her in the ass pretty bad though for lying so much about her kids health to gain sympathy and use people.

Last year they found out that Matt, her husband, has cancer. He's gone through several treatments, a bone marrow transplant, and has lost a lot of weight. I didn't believe it at first bcuz of how many things she lied about, so she actually posted his diagnosis paperwork on Facebook along with pictures of him in the hospital.

Now she had a real reason to seek pity from others.

I am so sick and tired of this body. Just for once, I need these moron Dr's to listen to me and just do what the hell I ask them to, instead of making assumptions about things they know nothing about.

How can you know what's going on with my hormones if you don't check them? How can you call yourself a Dr, but go off of what you consider "normal" for my treatment, or lack thereof?

Why can't they just for once listen to me and act like decent human beings and take care of these issues instead of dragging them out thus causing me more pain? I'm done pu$$y footing around. Either these Dr's will start doing what I tell them to do, or I'll find someone who will.

I need the rest of my disgusting insides taken out, then I need the endocrinology people to find out why my garbage a$$ hormones are off, why my calcium levels are high, and whatever other crap Dr. Khrist needs to know before going in my brain to remove this damn cyst cuz I'm done dealing with that too.

Oh, I also needthe eye people to realize that I know my body better than they do, and if I say I need bifocals, just give me the damn bifocals and shut up.

People that show up at our branches are not getting any less crazy, and this has been a rough week mentally and physically for us both. Add all the crazy Dr stuff, and family stuff going on, and the stress levels have been through the roof.

I'm just tired of playing these games with the Dr's while they get rich off of me while I'm made to suffer because they're too stupid to listen.

It's been a really rough week for the both of us, so probably won't get much posting done till the weekend.

Still don't really know exactly what caused this problem, since the er doc didn't seem sure himself. But I'm hoping it starts getting better soon. If it's still going on by Monday, I'm calling the doctor back.

Tornado warning in effect. In basement right now taking cover. Back of shed blown off already.

It's been a rough week and this weekend is his mom's birthday. Sorry for the delay, but hopefully we'll get back to it soon.

No problem. Saturday we're starting a road trip to Kansas to see Sivan's dad, going north first through Canada to see a couple of my relatives (and to avoid Ohio).

I'll have my phone so likely be able to post.

Okay, just stay safe and have a good trip.

Should we put this on hold until you get back from your trip, Mark? Karen doesn't want to overwhelm you with a bunch of posts before you're able to respond.

I should be able to get a few posts on over the next couple days, starting tomorrow.

Okay fully back. Astoria, looks like this lady is from the magic school.

How was your trip?

Overall good. A few harrowing or unsettling moments, like the GPS sending us on a 5 hr detour through upstate NY farm country through some sketchy areas, or driving through an insane thunderstorm on the St Loius skyway.

But is was fun, a good experience, helped Sivan with her PTSD about driving, though still took a toll physically. She got to spend time with her dad, X got to see him and hang out with cousins his own age, and I saw family in Canada.

Sounds like a trip you needed to take.

Yeah.

Between Baldur's Gate 3 and Diablo IV, I don't know if we'll see much of Andrew.

So...with that in mind, what do you want to do?

What about what Bubba wants to do? What if he's just distracted right now?

Andrew? Have you lost interest in the game, or are you just preoccupied with other stuff right now? What do you want to do?

Sorry. Mind has been elsewhere and I lost track of some stuff.

It's okay, I know you do other stuff and have a life outside of this game.

Just worry when we don't hear from you in a while.

I'm so tired

I'm at the hospital now. Waiting to be called back for the scan.

So, it didn't take as long as I thought it would. While the technician was doing the ultrasound, some areas were more tender than others, and she seemed to spend longer on those areas. She said it would be read today and Dr. Keller should get it today, but has no idea how long it will take her to get back to me. So, we'll just have to wait and see.

Glad it went pretty smoothly, And it makes sense they spent more time on the tender areas, hoping to find whatever was the issue I guess

Obgyn took the longest. Appt was at 2:30, didn't get called back until almost 3:30, and didn't get out of there till almost 5. She was really thorough. It had been a year and a half since I'd seen her, so she also wanted to know about what else had been going on with me health wise. After telling her everything, we talked about stuff and decided that a full hysterectomy might not be the answer. It might not even solve the problem, and it's a SIX WEEK recovery. No bending, no lifting, no lots of things. I can't afford to miss 6 weeks of work, and my sanity would leave me being stuck at home doing nothing for 6 weeks. Plus, because of my other health issues

Anyways, I have a bit of an infection, but because I told her all the problems I've been having with antibiotics, she's treating it a different way. I'm gonna stay on the Northindrone for now, but she's okay with putting me back on the Oralissa, as long as I keep my vitamin D, and calcium since it sucks the calcium out of your bones.

She wants to make sure we're doing everything we can to help alleviate my pain, and consider all our options before resorting to major surgery that could be more dangerous than beneficial.

I feel better after seeing her, and Henry was really impressed with her, and he trusts her, and I trust him and my Dr to have my best interests at heart.

Good! A good doctor can be pretty hard to come by, but if you have one, they make a world of difference.

After everything I've been through, and all the crappy Dr's I've been to, it's hard for Henry to trust any of them. So, the fact that he was impressed by her, and trust her, says a lot.

She's sure that if she can just help me manage my pain, and get me to menopause, that I'll start feeling a lot better.

If you're wondering why I'm still up, I'm having those nasty rotten egg burps again and can't get to sleep.

That sucks.

Yeah, it really does.

Tired I am, sleep I must.

Get some rest, hope you have a good night!

I mean there's really no way for level 2 characters to fight a wildfire much less multiple ones.

Range on sleep is 120ft at Caster level 2. From there, even if those unaffected charge us I'll still get at least one shot off before we have to deal with them in melee.

See, this is why I deal with magic in these games as little as possible. It's just too much for my Swiss cheese brain to keep up with.

Okay, so with that kind of range it's actually a feasible plan, and about the only one we got. It's a good plan, a solid plan, yeah I like it.

Today is my half day at work since I work Saturday, so I'll try to respond to stuff later this afternoon.

We went to a friend's house yesterday for Friendsgiving, and we actually ended up staying till almost midnight talking and getting caught up with people we haven't seen in a while. We're gonna be watching the F1 race today, but should be able to post at some point.

I'm sorry I haven't posted much today. I've been sick and slept nearly all day. I called into work today cuz I woke up from a nightmare, and I was feeling really really sick. I've been feeling gross for a while, but my body finally said enough is enough.

Get as much rest as you need. Actually took a sick day tonight because I have 3 I need to use before the end of the year, and I've only had 4 hrs sleep.

Well, I'm back at work today even though I'm not 100% just yet. I slept most of yesterday when I wasn't in the bathroom, or trying to get fluids in me. I still feel a little dehydrated today, but I got my water cup here.

I'll respond later after I've had some rest and time to decompress from everything going on. Just too much at one time, and my thoughts are too muddled.

Totally understand, take your time, I'll be here.