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Games Kingdom Hearts 3 (Done: Wonderful) Bloodstained (Coming June 23)  Resident Evil 2 Remake (Changed my mind) Prey (Found this one at Fred's for $7 but was a bad disk. Bummer. Refunded it. Will seek it out again later. Update: Bought a good disk, started a game and then stalled.) Spiderman (Done: Excellent.) Kingdom Come: Deliverance (May be a while) Spyro Trilogy (Edit: After several chances to buy it cheaply I have never done so. Clearly I am not that into it.) Movies Ant-Man & the Wasp (Seen: Good) Venom Spiderman: Far From Home (Great!) Avengers: Endgame (Excellent!!) Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grunkapuffalow (Bought, but fell asleep during it.) Shazam (Enjoyable) Aquaman (Seen: Good) Captain Marvel (I don't know this character, but will give it a shot. Update: It was okay.) Detective Pikachu (for as little investment as I have in Pokemon, the trailer still looks entertaining. Update: Saw it ... it was pretty good.) Sonic - After that trailer,

The limitations of internet service in the boonies becomes more apparent as gaming moves along, possibly to the rumored digital only, horrific idea of gaming as a service. If consoles go that direction, I will be a dedicated retro-gamer. I have a DSL data cap of 150 GB, and it's $10 more per 50 GB increment we go over. Since we're a modern family, each of us with our own device, console streaming, two computers, and tablets, we eat through it. Not only that, but our download speed works out to 0.3 MB/second. We get by watching Netflix and YouTube with relatively few interruptions, but not concurrently with downloads. Downloads, if they occur at all, are done overnight. Game Download Commitment - I have to really want to play the game, I don't download it. There is no "Guess I'll try this game." and get bored, delete and forget it. A game download is a commitment relative to the size of the download. Each game is evaluated by whether it's worth the data

The other day I spent a few hours in an ineffectual, anguished fugue. When I was done, I picked myself up... and sally forth. Kind of like that Jake Johannsen comedy show, you get to the last one and are like "Ok, where are my pants?" I'll post that routine, but I'm not telling you where that part is within it. Just watch the whole thing. It's not that long... Time to get back to the plan. I had this posted on my office cabinet to remind me of things that enhance dopamine production.So here's the list: Meditation (Prayer, Listen to Music [Classical "Jim is Now a Blind Cave Salamander", Power Rock ("The Touch"/"Dare" Stan Bush), my usual Metal]) Sleep - Get enough. I have valerian (the herb, not the movie or the books it's based on, though I think I did fall asleep during it. Not that it's a boring movie... I dunno if it is or not, since I was asleep.) in case I need some chemical help in that regard. Exercise - I c