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Cake day: September 25th, 2025

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  • I remember that box. Pretty sure it still exists at my parents’ house. Our connection wasn’t the greatest and I remember flipping the dongle switch a few times to get the Atari to work on the tv.

    Addendum: I just remembered that this Atari box was hooked up to another box that had the dongle switch on it that I had to flip and that in turn was also hooked up to the VCR, which was hooked up to the TV, which we had to switch to channel 3 to use.




  • As someone with the skin complexion of a jar of mayonnaise, burns after ten minutes on a cloudy day, and got sun burned to the point of sun poisoning and second degree burns once in my youth - yeah, I’m going to chase that bigger number. Skin cancer also runs in my family. Once had a dermatologist tell me that I shouldn’t go out of the house without a minimum of spf 50 on all exposed skin, period. Doesn’t matter the time of year. I don’t tan. I freckle and more freckles mean more checking for the ABCs of skin cancer. Just had an age spot (according to the dermatologist) removed not too long ago because the freckle became raised, rough, and irregularly shaped.








  • I have, for my child. A local branch of a charity covers all of the pediatric oncology patients’ prescriptions so the families don’t have to worry about it. They also have prepaid cards that they give out monthly to families to spend on whatever they might need.

    It’s fucked that I’m moved to tears over this practically every time I fill his prescriptions before we head home. Having the medicine he needs shouldn’t have to send someone into bankruptcy if the charity branch didn’t cover it.

    I hate the price of prescriptions in this country.