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Hello, me, it’s you again... And before I started this entry just now, I thought I’d be able to say today was a decent day other than the cat yowling at night. I was wrong. When I sat down to type, a sharp pain ran through me. From my bottom through my abdomen, and if I take my arms off the arm rests or move too much, it causes more pain... I don’t know what’s causing this, but I hope it goes away.

Some good news from this week is that the infection I mentioned last week hasn’t spread and/or gotten bigger, so that’s nice, I guess. It’d be much better if I could get rid of it and the tooth causing it, however.

In other news, early this week I ended up playing with a six year old and his legos for an hour or two. I was there talking to two adults, his grandmother and his aunt who were looking after him, and somehow I ended up playing with the kid for a bit. He’s the kid I’ve mentioned in a past entry or two whose grandmother thinks he’s special, and I think he’s just a regular kid. He’s adorable, and well behaved, but still as best I can see, he’s a normal child. I will say though it sounds like he’s been playing video games that aren’t meant for his age range. He said he’s played or his friend had played shooter games where there is some graphic content like heads exploding and blood getting everywhere. I didn’t say anything to the adults, but I don’t think kids that young should be playing games like that. Sure, he could play shooters and all, but something more age appropriate. He could also play things that have fantasy violence, so at least it isn’t super graphic things he’s seeing. I’ve heard the kid already has nightmares about being hurt by the guys his mother dates, I doubt the graphic violence of some of the games he plays or sees would help. It wasn’t my place to say anything, so like I said, I didn’t. Anyway, As we played with the legos, I got him away from trying to have me and him pretend shoot one another with our lego people, and instead got him to shoot “zombies” which were other lego people with their arms outstretched. I did a zombie voice and had said the zombies wanted to eat his brains, and he pretend shot at them, with his lego man. Then I made him a “fort” out of legos, which was really just a simple tower with two or three legs to it. Then he asked for a car with a gun on it, and I made him one of those as best I could. He ended up taking the tower, the car, and his lego man to his grandmother’s, which I will admit was flattering. It was also rather nice that his aunt told me that the kid usually wants to play with them, but they can’t or don’t want to because they’re tired or don’t know how to play with him, or something like that. It made me feel a little less awkward about playing with him when I wasn’t asked to look after him. Then again, the aunt could have been saying that just to be nice... sweatdrop

Another thing that came up that day I played with the kid was the aunt and the grandma asked me if I wanted to have kids stare I hate this question. The answer is yes, but getting to that point for me is very difficult for a number of reasons I’m not going to go over, because I don’t like talking about it in public. I did mention to them that me and a friend were both kind of tired of being alone and we get along pretty well, so we had talked about getting together if we didn’t manage to meet and get romantically involved with other people. It’s not untrue, though I didn’t mention the friend was someone online that lives pretty far away. It’d be nice not to be lonely and to be able to hang out with someone like the friend I mentioned because we get along and share so many interests, but in reality, it’s unlikely we’ll ever meet. Neither of us can move or even travel to where the other is due to lacking funds, so we’re both kinda screwed. I haven’t mentioned this to the friend though. I don’t really want to bring our conversations down when they’ve been so nice and engaging.

I should talk about something else... I’ve been wanting to play a shooter game recently, but not really any of the ones I have. I have the three Mass Effect games, Red Dead Redemption, Left 4 Dead, Grand Theft Auto 4, and Destroy All Humans 2. Of the Mass Effect games, I only really love the first one, I enjoy the characters in the second one, and the third makes me sad because of how it much brought down the series. I’ve tried to play Red Dead Redemption, and it’s glitched out a lot, and the f*cking cougars were too damn powerful. The one glitch that made me quit playing it was the one that deleted my save, which pissed me off then, and still does now somewhat. Left 4 Dead is boring. I’ve played through most of GTA4, but tend to get bored or forget what I was doing, and then I go off to play another game. And I’ve already finished Destroy All Humans 2. I remember saying it was a decently fun game, but I don’t really feel the need to play it again. Maybe it wasn’t as fun as I thought it was and I was just being positive about it at the time? Whatever the case, I don’t know what to do now with the itch I have to play a shooter. None of the games I have I want to play, or I’ve played enough of and don’t want to play now. What to do...?

I think that’s about all I want to say this week. There were some world events I could comment on, but I’m not terribly well informed on them, and all I would say is the same thing the people I watch for news would say: the people doing the riots and sh*t are f*cking crazy and they should all go to jail for the damage they’ve caused. There are other things that get my disapproval or sympathy, but no one cares about what I have to say on those matters either. Plus, like before, others have already expressed themselves on those subjects and I’d agree. So... until next week, I guess. Oh and, that pain from the start of my journal entry writing has gone away as I end this. My day just got a little better 3nodding

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