Was your gift as good as this one I got?

Christmas Blues and a whole new level of... Huh?

Adminisk8or

12/26/2022

So I was a day late to posting, sue me. It was a good week... then again, perhaps an odd week, now that I'm recounting the first interesting thing that happened...

I had a dream- not uncommon- and in this dream, I remember I was playing a flying simulation game, but it sort of turned from me playing the game to me being in the game- and I was going along in the level, when I remembered a cool Easter Egg I almost skipped. I turned around and flew into this sort of narrow canyon, and I found an odd individual standing next to a hole in the ground. Things changed, as they do in a dream, and I found myself now controlling a ball, and I rolled myself into this hole- and then it pulled a Mario64 and I was in a cannon and ready to aim. I blasted myself off eastward over this ocean or sea- it seemed very vast, and yet not at the same time. I somehow blasted myself almost to the other edge of this body of water, and as I was nearing the water's surface, I noticed what looked like an island. I managed to land pretty close to it, and swam my way over towards it. Turns out it wasn't an island, but a message and a flower in a bottle. I made my way back across the ocean/sea to the shores I came from, and after some weird nonsense, I met up with some of my cousins. Excited to show them the cool Easter Egg I found, I opened the bottle and pulled out the contents... but it wasn't a message at all... it was a suit. And apparently, it reminded me of the one Rick Astley wears in his number one most watched music video... and I then proceeded to put it on and do a funny impression. What was the point of me explaining all of this? Because, for the first time ever, I have been rick rolled... in a dream. And it was by my own gosh darn self. I have no further comments on that.

But hey, if there's one thing that dream foretold, I did in fact meet up with one of my cousins this week, and it was good to catch up with him.

Other than that, it was a really good Christmas. Well, I say that, and it should be true, but for some reason, between both me and my wife, it felt like a somewhat blue Christmas. I even thought to myself, it doesn't really make sense- everything around is great and fine, why do I feel down and tired? I suppose it was just a case of the season depression for the both of us. Today, we both feel a little better, but sometimes the pressures of the season get to us- whether we mean for them to or not- and then little things can start piling up on our minds, and we find ourselves wondering why we aren't "feeling merry"; and if you're anything like me, you then start telling yourself to get it together, you live a pretty privileged life, all things considered, and you shouldn't be all down like this. And of course, that makes things all the worse. I suppose I could go on about it all for many books, but I'm not an expert on such matters, and even if I were, it'd be too much to read.

So, blue Christmas or not, it's been a good one, and I'm happy inside. I've also started setting up and getting ready to switch my routing and firewall-ing over to OPNSense. We'll see how it goes this week, hopefully.

Until next time, see ya!