The cat (the black one) is home; he appears to be mending nicely. The vet is mostly convinced that he had a nasty pulmonary infection but we have to take him in on Monday for one more follow-up X-ray to make sure the fluid around his lungs isn’t returning.

Other than that, a solid hour of staring at my computer has failed to yield anything resembling inspiration.  I had a mixed day at work today; I lost my temper with fourth hour for a minute but did well otherwise.  I think I’ve said this before but I’ll say it again because it’s still on my mind:  I can’t tell if I’m more frustrated this year than I have been in the past or if the frustration is just getting to me more than it has in the past.  Hell, I’m not even sure that those two scenarios actually describe meaningfully different things, if I’m being honest.  Maybe I need to start meditating or something; I dunno.  Or start drinking.

(No, really:  I don’t drink at all.  There is room to argue that a goddamn glass of wine once in a while could be a good thing.  This is a legitimate theory.)

On my second or third run-through of the Eminem album, and I still have no goddamn idea what the hell is going on with it.

Here’s a thing, I don’t know if you’ll care:  I’ve downloaded Baldur’s Gate on my iPad and it’s been eating a fair share of my time, to the point where I’m looking up leveling strategies on the Internet in between paragraphs here.  I don’t know how the hell I played it when it first came out; it’s balls-hard, for starters, and more than often the best way to get through a situation is… well, a bit opaque.  There’s a dude right away who killed the shit out of me like fifteen times until I had a combination of finely-iterated good strategy and pure luck that got me through without losing any of my characters.  At this point I’m going to start fiddling with the difficulty; I’m too old to give a damn about hardcore mode anymore and I just want to relax and play the game.

I’m thinking about buying the Marvel Lego game.  The Kotaku review made it sound really fun.

Also I’ll easily hit 7500 steps today.  So all the gaming isn’t making me too terribly fat.

The end.