Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

Well, I turned 29 last month. I thought that THIS year, I wouldn't be too depressed or unmotivated to write an entry about what I got for my birthday this year and would manage to do so AND finally post about what I got for my 27th and 28th birthdays as well. (I mean, I did post about some of my 27th birthday gifts, but in an unconventional entry and also didn't mention all of them.) But, sadly, I was still too depressed/unmotivated to get around to posting it - just not for the same reasons this time.

And today is the 15th anniversary of my LiveJournal. For years I've had an idea for something cool to make and post for the 15th anniversary of my LJ (or even the tenth anniversary since that's how long ago I thought of it!), but with so many other things on my to-do list, I never got around to working on it even when I was feeling okay - guess I'll have to aim for having that be an 18th or 20th anniversary post or something. And again, I was hoping to at least post an LJ comment stats entry for this year like I used to do every year for the anniversary of my journal, but I guess I'm once again not motivated enough to get around to that.


You know what's an even more odd milestone than the fact that I'm 29 years old, or that it's the 15th anniversary of my journal, or even that I'm coming up on my fifth anniversary at work (and am already well past that if counting before I was hired on full-time)?

The fact that I haven't posted an entry to LJ or DW in EIGHTY-SEVEN DAYS.

I didn't even realize it had been that long until about a week ago! To be fair, in July there were comments on the LJ version of my May entry so I have an excuse for not noticing it had been that long, but still... EIGHTY-SEVEN DAYS.

That's the third-longest hiatus between entries in my ENTIRE history on LiveJournal - and the only two hiatuses that were longer were December 2007-June 2008 and June 2008-February 2009.
Do you know how long ago that was? THIRTEEN YEARS ago.
So long ago that LJ wasn't even my favorite hobby yet and for over a year all I did on LJ was post a few entries and join one already-inactive community. I really do mean a few entries - the entry in 2009 that ended the hiatus and marked the beginning of LJ becoming my favorite hobby? That was my TENTH entry out of 1,535. (For that matter, it feels like it's been a while since my 1,500th entry, yet apparently I've only posted 36 more entries since then including this one?)

Does... Does that mean LJ is no longer my favorite hobby? Even when I was worried about rumors about LJ shutting down, or about drama on LJ, or the possibility of offending people - and even those when I INTENDED to go on a hiatus from posting for a while because I was worried about what people think! - I still liked LJ enough to post to it at least once a month, or at the very least more often than once every 87 days. That makes me sad. :(


I'm definitely still not going to LEAVE LiveJournal, but... wow. :(

I miss my LJ friends from the old days. I miss having friends on here that I feel understood by. Not to say that I DON'T have active friends on LJ or DW who understand me, but I don't feel as understood as I used to. If more of my LJ friends from the good old days were still here, I'd probably be more motivated to post. I worry a lot about what my newer LJ/DW friends think (or might think) about entries and comments I wrote in the early days, when I did a lot, lot, LOT of oversharing on LJ (something that I'm probably not even any better at avoiding now).


I don't know what else to say right now. There's many things I want to post about, but some of them good and some of them are bad (and the bad ones are very different from one another) so I'm never sure how to post about both good and bad things that happened without coming across as insensitive or tone-deaf like I end up doing pretty much EVERY time I EVER try to post about anything.

YES! I'm FINALLY done fixing all of my entries in 2007-2010! (Hopefully...)

Of course, I still have 2011 to at least 2017 to fix if I ever want to get my peace of mind back...

It took me five months just to fix the 2007-2010 entries (or more like 2009-2010 because there weren't many before that)... do any of you even remember that I decided last September to finally start working on fixing everything that was messed up in my entries?


In other news, last week I somehow managed to forget to bring my phone to work on Friday... I never forget my phone! :(

Well, today is the day that Miiverse is shut down at 10 PM PST. (which would be midnight in Central where I live, so... I guess for me, it's not actually today? Whatever.)

Out of all the drastic changes this year (so far), I think this is the only one that I'm not all that upset about. Miiverse started out as probably the most positive online community ever, but it didn't stay that way for long - eventually it went so downhill, it's been years since the last time I visited Miiverse itself. I'd still read posts whenever they appeared in game (Super Mario 3D World, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Nintendo Badge Arcade, etc.), but I think the last time I went to Miiverse itself was 2014. Maybe 2015. I didn't even hurriedly try to find a way to save my own posts somewhere. (Though while looking up information about the discontinuation, I did notice that there's a way to request a downloadable archive of my posts, but I doubt I'll have time to figure out where to go to do that in the next few hours.)

...okay, forget what I said about not being all that disappointed. NOW it's making me kind of sad. :( Maybe I'll try and get an archive of my posts after all.

EDIT: Submitted the request! That was easier than expected. So easy, I must've done it twice by accident because it told me I submitted it already. :)

While I'm on Miiverse for the last time, have some random stats about my Miiverse account:

Following 53 users

13 followers

256 posts (hey, a nice nerdy number! And I wasn't even trying to have any of these be interesting numbers!)

1,788 Yeahs

Last post was on November 23, 2016 in Nintendo Badge Arcade. (Though it ALMOST was not the last post; for Valentine's Day 2017, I had every intention of celebrating by putting badges of the lovely Mary O. and a bunch of hearts from Zelda on my HOME menu because I'm the sort of dork who would at least consider doing that and posting that to the Nintendo Badge Arcade community. I did in fact make such a HOME menu, but didn't post it because it wasn't Valentine's Day yet - and for whatever reason, making it again on Valentine's Day and posting it slipped my mind. Probably because that was so soon after work started.)

I only made two Miiverse posts overall in 2016, and none in 2015 - the last one before that was on July 29, 2014 in the NES Remix 2 community. (I'm not surprised that this was so soon after Lucina and Robin were confirmed for Super Smash Bros. 4 - I do remember how the last time I checked Miiverse regularly, it seemed like EVERY SINGLE POST in the SSB community was like "With my Levin Sword, I'll _____".)

Speaking of which, my bio is:

"I'm a sensei; i.e., SNES am I!
(translation: I've been playing video games since the NES and SNES. My all-time favorite classic game: Super Mario World!)

I can't wait to play Super Smash Bros. 4, but I'd be even MORE excited if people would stop whining about the roster being just SLIGHTLY different from what they want. I really hope that there'll be less of that once the game's released..."

...SSB3DS has been out for over three years, and in a couple of weeks, that'll also be true of SSBU. I went THREE YEARS without updating that bio. Why do I have the sudden urge to turn up the hearing aid that I don't have?


Well, whatever. At least now my Miiverse posts will be turned into an ice cube so future generations can thaw them out and marvel at my same-length legs! :)

It's weird to think that I graduated college nearly a year ago... I still remember thinking I'd have a really hard time making it through certain classes!


Also, I'm trying to post more often about things that happen in my life (to kind of prove that even though I've been posting a lot of online quiz results lately, that's still not all I ever post)... but there probably won't be a lot of such posts until I start work.

Signs of the times...

( EDIT IN 2018: Great, another entry where I put both good and bad things in the same entry. To make up for this, I'm retroactively putting them under separate LJ-cuts. The bad stuff is under this one... )

Now for something more light-hearted:

( The good stuff is under this one )

Will your alcohol marry this entry? (wait, what?!)

Just another manic Monday
Do you look forward to returning to work/school on Mondays or do you live for the weekend? What do you enjoy most about weekends? What do you dread most about school and/or work?

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Weekend, PLEASE!

What I enjoy most about weekends: weekends.

What I dread most about school: school. (And essays.)

Repost (open Saturday and Sunday)

Not only is there no longer any chance of getting Ours Will You 1-Up back up on its first anniversary, if it's not back in 27 hours and 32 minutes it may never be back before the apocalypse. I better get to work!

On a note that I'd say is completely unrelated, but that doesn't go far enough, school has been REALLY hard lately. Too many things I have to be creative to do in one week.

Repost creatively