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January 12, 2026: Root Canal
The numbness is gone and I don't feel that much pain. Feels more sore than anything. The operation wasn't too bad but the young girl assitant working with the dentist was attempting to have a conversation with me while I was numb from half of my mouth. I completely forgot how to talk to women but all I could say with a mumble was that I like listening to everything. She asking what kind of music I'd like but if you know me, I could go on and on about the types of music I DO like but couldn't at that moment. She also said I looked very different from the photo they had of me from the last time I went which was before the pandemic. I was chubby back then so I probably looked like I was on my way out (I'm not). The way she said it seemed like she was more concerned than impressed that I lost so much weight. I couldn't tell you if she was cute or not since she had the surgical mask, but we were both alone in the operation room for a while in an akward silence. It's not like I could be talkative tbf. I was numb in the mouth before the operation. The scariest part wasn't the drilling or any of that. It was when they were doing the xray and the girl was spilling spaghetti while trying to measure my tooth using a ruler tool in the gui with the dentist trying to guide her. Personally I would had just asked them to pull out my tooth because I'm an old man and don't care anymore about looking good but my mom didn't allow to negociate cheaply. I'm paying in parts so it won't hurt me but I gotta find some work or sell something real soon.
I'm eatin some rice right now now that I'm not numb. Nice soft white rice. Doesn't hurt to eat. I can't eat hard foods at the moment. Not that I like hard foods to begin with. It was pretty nice and cool today. I feel like I'm alive when it's nice and cool. I feel pretty good now. I think I got over my sickness too. That's nice I guess considering I was feeling kind of misserable in the weekend.
January 8, 2026: I can't believe it's 2016!
I guess January is a cursed month for me because I cannot avoid getting sick around this time. Although this is not the worst I've been sick, it was still pretty miserable yesterday. I threw up all afternoon and didn't eat until today which thankfully I managed to keep inside my stomach along with LOTS of water to rehydrate. Of course, I'm never prepared so I didn't have any sports drink to rehydrate me. I'm still somewhat burning with minor fever and a minor headache. I can still do some chores or minor tasks but nothing too physically demanding which sucks. I was bed ridden this entire day, watching some YouTube videos and listening to music. Not productive at all but there's nothing else I could had really done.
I just remembered Shot Show is around the corner. I'm bummed I haven't made it a yearly segment earlier because I felt like there was more optimism and intersting stuff to talk about in those years compared to now. Of course, just like E3, a lot of new products get "leaked" before the show and I'm going in expecting more of the same, nothing ground breaking, but I only keep up to see where the gun industry is now. Since we're in a republican controlled goverment, we have what's known as the Trump Slump where there's no panic buying because at the moment, there haven't been any calls to ban guns at the federal level (at least not yet) so prices for guns are actually almost at pre-2020 levels which is kind of nice if you don't have one already but ammo prices are still kind of shit, especially for imported ammo so I haven't been able to shoot in a loooong while.
Pietro Berreta is now offically a 500 year old company this year When it was a just a family runned forge in the 1500s making arquebus barrels which saw use by the Venetian fleet / Holy League in the Battle of Lepanto against the Ottoman Empire and has continued to be a family runned buisness all of these centuries later. It's crazy to think of a company being that old. A lot of American gun companies aren't even around anymore or are just in name only. They have to be doing something right to be around for that long. Their shotguns are incredibly expensive and almost cost as much as a car. I have a Beretta Model 81 and it's the one pistol I wished I had my first because it's so soft shooting and compact enough to conceal carry but I carry my Bersa Thunder 380, Ruger LCP, Taurus Spectrum, or Walther PPS M2 because I'd have that pistol a safe queen even if it has a few dings from the previous owner. Shame I can't get .32 ACP at the moment so I couldn't carry it even if I wanted to. I should buy the Model 84 if I ever get the money somehow. That one is chambered in .380 which is more easily obtainable and is better ballistically. I don't know if I like the new one that came out not too long ago but there's a surplus of older ones that are available online right now that are cheaper. I don't know much about their rifles but I know that the ARX160 looks like a fish. Kind of reminds me of the XM8 which I'm still upset about because the US never adopted it. Instead we live in this nightmare world of AR deriatives which I understand why it's like that but it's kind of boring when everyone and their mother has an AR-15 service rifle.
Oh and I'm not fixing that typo in the header. I know what year it is, but I still can't believe it's 2026 already. It doesn't feel like it. I don't even believe it's January because it's been so hot lately. So yeah, turns out I'm really going to need to have a root canal done pretty soon and it's going to cost an arm. Not a leg thankfully but still a pricey procedure. I know it's going to be awesome but I have to do it. It could get way worse if I don't take care of it asap. But at least I'm addressing it.
Ugh...tax season. They better not take any money away from me like last time.
January 4, 2026: I Hate January, Just start a Buisness Bro, AK Bubble.
It's not even cold. Why do I keep getting sick around this time of year. And even more so right around the time when I'm supposed to go to a dentist. That's really awesome. Obviously, I'm not dying or waking up in sweat or have any fever but the headache and fatigue is noticable enough to make me feel like a downer. My appetite is honestly more than it usually is which sucks because I can't do cardio to burn it off like I usually do. And then to top it off, I can play vidya in bed or use my laptop for the most part but I'm too stressed and fatigued to do something productive. I hate feeling like I wasted my time. I'm here laying in bed and thinking "I wish I could make a new music track, write a story, maybe even try making a little vidya game because I'm looking out for something new to break the monotony but alas, I cannot in this state. It's not so much that I feel like I'm dying because I'm not (I think). I'm not sick enough where I'm incapcitated but I'm sick enough where I don't want to do anything else other than to just lay down and watch videos, play some low intensity vidya and listen to music. Maybe this is the flu, or maybe it's a bad case of food poisoning. I kind of feel nauseated but it's not to the point where I feel like I might. I'm going to drink a lot of water so I can avoid that one time where I was feeling feverish and didn't hydrate the night before. Strange considering I thought it was allergies or congestion and I was feeling fine the night before.
I could had sworn I had something I wanted to talk about but my brain doesn't feel like working right now. I thought about an idea of making my own buisness while I was laying in bed. I don't have that entrepenuer mindset to be the kind of guy to run my own company or sell product. I feel the same way about learning to code. I had a brief conversation about the state of learning to code and wondered if was even worth it with all the layoffs, outsourcing and ai displacements. Obviously, everyone (initially) wanted to learn to code so they can work at the big tech companies and be set for life. I don't think that dream is viable anymore. I got a 3D printer and it would cool to do something like making car parts since a lot of engine parts these days are all plastic shit. I wouldn't be able to cheap out by using an EZ fillament like PLA since it's too brittle and heat intollerant to handle the sort of temps and abuse in an engine bay, but I think something like Carbon Fiber Nylon, PETG, and maybe TPU could work for things like air intakes, coolant housing covers, or little minor things that tend to break after one year of owning a modern car. I still have to learn to git gud at cad design and I'm not at the point where I can just imagine something and will it in 3D modeling. I'll admit, it's a lot easier than doing actual modeling in something like blender but you have to take into account that printing in different materials, you to take into account fit and thickness of the parts you're making. I have basic caliphers and even getting the right dimensions on freecad, printing the model would result in some offsets in the size because I'm using a .4mm nozzle or other factors like the material I'm using to print. I'm making my headache worse thinking about all this. From what I heard, a lot of 3D modeling jobs are outsourced too. That's just wonderful. I should really stop making excuses. The only way to overcome this dread is just do it for myself. Who gives about what "the market demands", I should just pratice making parts for my car that I need or make something cool in cad that I would be proud of. Anything to push my reliance on consuming although I would still be consuming filament rolls.
And the one thing that especially gets to me whenever I'm doing something creative and I may had said it before, but I never feel like my work is good enough. I suppose that can be a good thing because it means I'm improving (or so I think) my craft but I am always haunted by all of these ideas that I should had done or regret something I done whenever I make something. I'm extremely irritated by any little imperfections...well except for my spelling. I can never get that down no matter what I do Haha. I really need to not be so sloppy.
AHA! My brain is working all of a sudden. I actually wanted to talk about AKs recently because just like how trucks used to be vehicles for the working man, AKs (and SKS if you were really poor) used to be rifles that you buy if you were too poor to afford an AR15. Now AKs and other combloc rifles are seen as botique rifles where a "good" one will cost you over 1,000 USD, and the ammo is on par if not more expensive than 5.56/.223. Sure there's American and Polish companies that make AKs that are less than 1000 bucks but the quality on these rifles are dubious at best and I heard some recent horror stories about 5.56/5.45 American Made AKs blowing up and injuring the shooter so yeah....don't buy American AKs. I have a 7.62 PSA GF3 and though it's been fine so far from the years I owned it, I don't shoot it as much as I like anymore because the ammo is pricey anyways. Import AKs are now just a status symbol for larpers who think they are guerrilla fighters. Granted, unlike trucks, the expensive AKs are going to last you a long time unlike any truck made in the current decade but it just goes to show. I know I'm speaking in regards to current American gun culture becaues AKs are probably worth a goat and a chicken in some third world countries at war. Most people would rather have an AR-15 but I can't deny that the AK is cooler IMO and I find shooting AKs to be much more comfortable than an AR if you can believe that. Forgot to also mention that WASRS from Romania (or DEM MUDDA FUCKIN DRACOS IF YOU A REAL G) are somewhere in the middle where they won't blow up in your face but they may have a bad finish or canted sights but those aren't the end of the world. They probably won't cost you an arm or a leg (figuratively and literally) but you might get snobbed at by elitists. Not that it matters becaue shooting is expensive now and I haven't done it in a very long time.
There's this...well...kind of stupid trend in modern culture where the more "Blue collar" you look, the more manly you are when most of these guys with soy beards and blacked rifle coffee tattoos are some of the most Nu-Kratos people on the planet. They like to talk about being like their ancestors when in reality, a lot of the quote on quote hard working men of the past wore suits and were clean shaven despite the fact that they probably worked in a horrendous job like mining or working the field. I don't see the tactical advantage of having facial hair. It seems more like a luxury or a nusance like having really long hair. I used to have reasonably long hair but I had to cut it off because the maintence and fatigue it gave me was too much to deal with especially when it's hot. I dunno, I just thought it was funny. Most new trucks cost as much as a home morgage these days and they have all of these dumb luxury features like heated seats, a tablet interface, and other shit that breaks because it's all made in Mexico.
January 3, 2026: New Year
I had some pretty bad sinus headaches and fatigue this afternoon. Turned out it was the stupid candle in my room that I left on overnight. I took that out, aired out my room, and now I feel a lot better now. I was worried I was coming down with the flu again as is tradition around this time of year. I cannot afford to get sick right now. I have my dentist appointment right around the corner and I have to get my teeth fixed or I'm going to be in miserable pain. I've been extremely frugal with my money, just in case if I have to dump a large amount for an operation. Worst case is probably a root canal. I never had one but my cousin has one and he said it's nothing. I don't know if my tooth is dead. It sure doesn't look like it. But it's been years since I've gone to the dentist becaues I'm cheap. I'm honestly leaning towards them just pulling the bad tooth out because it won't cost me an arm and a leg and I don't care about my looks anymore. I've been passed my prime since my early 20s. It's only now that I started to notice my body decaying.
Last year was the year of the snake. Now it's the year of the horse....so..(does the Miles shrug)..neigh? I wish I could own a horse. I've rode one before that belonged to my relative's ranch. Mounting the horse was pretty difficult since I'm short and I needed some assitance to lift me up. But once I was on it, moving around in a horse feels very natural. I probably weigh nothing to the beast but I was able to make a trip down the road and then back to the ranch at a steady gallop. I'd rather have a horse than a car if I could. Back before all of these out of staters and Indians started moving in and making my hometown miserable and congested, it used to rurual enough to see some ranchers riding their horses on the side of the road. I think it was perfectly legal too as long as you weren't in the fast lanes. I'd imagine the droppings might be a problem but I've seen some horses with those bags for catching them on carriages so that there's no horse shit on the road.
I wasn't paying attention yesterday night but there was a major raid in Venezula where some US Delta Force (Cool games btw especially Blacked Hawk Down) captured Maduro and his wife. I suppose it's kind of cool that they accomplished it in 3 hours without any casualities or colateral damage but Venezula was never on my personal hit list. The whole drugs and immigrant crisis could easily be solved by closing the border but our politicians are too retarded to do that. If anything, Mexico is more of a threat to the US than some irrelavent South American Country that's not capable of maintaining its economy because it's close by and actually is a narco terrorist state. Sucks for them but it shouldn't be my problem. I'd rather see US special forces dropping a nuke on India or taking out Netanyahu in an Osama style raid. So now that Maduro is out...wat nou? Do we get cheaper oil? Uh...cool I guess but I think having less retards on the road would be better and even it out. Fun fact, a lot of food production is heavily reliant on pretrolium for things like fertilizers, peticides, and machinery that contaminates your food and makes you like marvel movies O ALGO. It won't happen in our lifetime but eventually when the oil supply dries up, there's going to be pretty awful food shortage as a result. Best case, this is going to be another Panama invansion where nothing really happens. The last thing this country needs is another forever war but this time in Latinx America. Just in time to brush up on my spanish although I'm not exactly learning from reputable sources. I've been watching meximutt slop memes with auto english captions and it's too funny for me to ignore.
I've been playing Wario Land 4. Both on my Anbernic SP and on my original Gameboy Advance SP. I know everyone is aware of all of the great Nintendo franchises like Mario, Zelda, Pikmin, etc etc but I feel like Wario games are slept on. Warioware on Gamecube, DS, GBA, and Wii are a ton of fun especially if you're into splitscreen gaming like I am. The Wario Land games are pretty good too and I think Wario Land 4 is my favorite out of all them. It was one of my first GBA games I got for Christmas back in 2001 alongside Lego Bionicle. I got the Purple GBA without the backlight which was eventually replaced with the GBA SP. I miss that purple GBA but the SP is cool in it's own right. I have the special edition NES and I liked how it folded like a laptop. The one thing that does suck about the SP is that it doesn't have a headphone jack. You had to buy a seperate dongle (sound familiar?) and I thought that was pretty stupid of Nintendo to do. The Anbernic thankfully has one but the buttons feel alot more clicker than I'd like, even with the gaskets I printed for the dpad and buttons. Otherwise, the game plays great on both systems but I'm farther ahead in my original cartridge than I am in the rom.
Oh yeah. Christmas. It was alright besides the tooth pain. I bought Bitwig Studios for myself. My cousin gave me a gift card which I used to buy a plain cotton black t-shirt that feels fresh. I got him a 1TB SSD because his drive is dying. I played Yume 2kki Online on New Years. The day before (Tuesday), I went on an expedition with a group to see some fireworks at the "Pollution District" and then again with some of the same people to another location with a beautiful view of the stars. My new years was quiet and I slept in right after midnight. It was nice and cozy.