Time sure flies when you’re having fun, but as someone with ADHD, I really don’t have a concept of time, and especially when I get side tracked with other projects and video games, I sort of neglected this site for the better part of the past decade.
In a way I do regret it, but I must move on with life, and I do plan to try to make use of this website again, maybe slowly, but surely. I’ve always wanted to get into a bit of content creation, but I feel something simpler like blogging may be more up my speed.
So the past several years has been quite the journey for me, roughly around when I stopped writing any new posts, I’ve been more focused on my home theater progress at home, especially as I had more frequent forums like AVSForum. Though things had been rough since I lost my really good friend Doug back in 2016 who really helped encourage me on getting more into the DIY nature of home audio equipment, such as building subwoofer enclosures. I still miss him greatly to this very day.
Then in 2017, I lost the first cat I’ve ever had in my life, who passed away at the age of 19. He came to us when he was a little kitten back in 1998, and he had been with us ever since.
The funny thing about it was my mom never liked cats until he came into our lives, he was my little buddy and he’s pretty much what made me fell in love with cats, especially tabby cats. When making my own characters for my own story building, a lot of them were based on tabby cats, as a form of a humanoid cat-hybrid. Which my friends who I’ve created stories and role played with over the years would know they were my favorite. How my main OC, Reese got away with being a wolf-hybrid sometimes makes me wonder myself! Though I have no regrets there regardless! I’m happy with his design as well as the rest of my characters, and I’m thankful that my beloved cat had a form of inspiration on me, especially to keep my memory of him strong to this very day.
Now, late 2019, is when things began to change direction for me, when I got into Splatoon 2. The funny thing is, I never thought to give this game a chance when Splatoon came out on the Wii U, let alone when Splatoon 2 came out on the Switch. It wasn’t until a couple of friends got me to try and I got hooked, to the point I got into the competitive scene on there. Those times became somewhat of a blur, but I’ve met some of the greatest friends of my life through this game.
2022 came around, and we finally adopted two beautiful kittens I adored the moment I laid my eyes on them:
Sadly about a year later, we discovered that my silver tabby had to have surgery due to a fracture in his left hip in the femur bone, caused by some sort of disease that causes it to be weak with lack of strong development of sorts, I could never remember the exact terms our vet described, but it was genetic. We did the leg saving route which required a false joint procedure, which was rather successful for him, but our vet did say his other leg could be at risk for the same thing.
Come 2024, my other cat had developed the same issues, which he needed the same surgery as his brother, since that litter of kittens ended up dealing with the same thing, from what our vet told me. I though everything would be fine, since his brother recovered no problem. My heart was shredded and broken to pieces when I got the call he passed away on the operating table… This was incredibly hard for me and my family, since he was the baby of our home.
To this very day, I still miss him a lot, he was my little fetcher, he would chase the cat toy across the room, and bring it back to you to play fetch.
Our other one learned how to open doors on his own, but this one just was our little fetcher, it was adorable.
He at least got to be a CRT kitty at some point, I still remember when our first cat would lay across this same very CRT monitor of mine, when it was my daily driver.
After a bit of time, I know it was also hard on his brother, but as time goes on, we managed to handle ourselves better, but we’ll still always miss my bob-tailed baby.
Here in 2025, things are going okay, though, as my silver tabby wants to blend in with the amp rack in my home theater rack sometimes:
There has been a lot of updates regarding my systems and setups over time, but all too much to really go over in this post. Health wise I’m doing well, and so is my family and my cat, we’re all doing the best we can.
I’m wanting to make my next update something computer or audio related, whichever comes to mind first. Until then, thank you for spending some time reading up on this!
