WHAT-HO!

entry of march 5, 2026

mood: genuinely no idea but at least not bad
music: "greatest hits" playlist
currently: eating chips and waiting for the microwave

I forgot to write an entry yesterday, so I guess the only proof that I was alive for yesterday were the two mini-blogs. I guess this also means that I have to write about both today and yesterday in this blog post, and unlucky for you guys these were probably the two best days I've had in a while, so I guess you're going to have to read a lot.

Yesterday, Codename finally added Raistlin Majere to Idle Champions and it was probably the best moment of my life. I was in the middle of an actual D&D session with my wonderful friends in real life when I got the notification on my phone. I unfortunately couldn't buy his Master of Past and Present skin pack because I had to buy medical supplies with my card and haven't been able to get to an ATM lately, but I'll probably be able to buy it before the discount ends. He named his rabbit after Caramon and it's so stupid that I need to buy the pack as soon as possible. Plus, it includes a feat that will increase his damage and also a bunch of useful stuff for the event that's currently going on. I sure do love paying to win.

Anyways, you might be thinking, "Hank, why were you buying medical supplies?" and the answer is thankfully not because I got injured or anything concerning like that. If I say too much I'm probably going to expose who I am, but just to be vague, I'm in a club in my school and we had to buy some supplies for an event that we're hosting. I don't want to say too much about the event either, but I'm not really excited about it. There's also rumors that we're going to have a day off tomorrow due to inclement weather, so if it turns out that I bought all of this just for the thing to get canceled because of the weather I'm going to be bummed out. Either way, though, the trip to Walgreens for medical supplies won't be entirely in vain. I had to get a refill for my lamotrigine and I also got some cough drops and other stuff for my stomach, so at least I got some useful things out of it.

Aside from that, though, nothing really happened yesterday. I just got home and played a bunch of Idle Champions and got Raistlin within an hour of him being released, so that was pretty fun. I also did some schoolwork so I could catch up with my chemistry class, and now I have an A instead of whatever I had before. I don't check my grades so I have no idea what I had before, but considering I hadn't turned in a single test and was only doing notes, I'm guessing it was pretty shitty. I got home and cried about my homework and then ate a big ass bowl of pho with some fried squid on the side, and I guess after I ate I was so tired that I didn't have time to write the blog post. Which is why I'm writing about yesterday today. But I already talked about that so there's really no point in talking about it again, but at the same time there's no point in any of this so really, it's not that bad.

Today, I started learning how to play Promise (Reprise) on the piano. My finger dexterity and actual playing ability are completely fine, I'm amazing with keeping time, but the thing is my brain has issues and thus I'm terrible at sightreading. I wish I could instantly learn how to play pieces by just reading the sheet music. Unfortunately, I have to take an hour to just transcribe the notes into my personal finger/note notation before I can try to learn a full song. On the plus side, though, it makes it way easier to learn individual parts of the song. I can only play the intro right now, but I'm hoping that with enough practice I'll be able to play the whole thing by the end of next week. Wildly unrelated to the song itself, but I think that the facial model for Mary/Maria in the SH2 remake is incredibly pretty. And I'm honestly really sick now because Laura's Emotions just came on and a really specific part of the song just crushes me internally. It hurts. But it's worth it.

I feel bad when I talk about Silent Hill because I think I come off as a "newgen" or pretentious poser or whatever. Most of the time, though, I don't really care about that. I think I'm better than everyone else anyways (joke), so it doesn't really matter if people think that I'm not a real Silent Hill fan or whatever. I genuinely have text messages that go back to like, 2020-2021, of me talking about how much I love Akira Yamaoka's soundtracks and how I think Heather is hot or whatever. Please remember that I was like, 12 at the time. I'm not a creep. Still, though, it's crazy to think about the fact that now I'm as old as Heather was in Silent Hill 3 and I'm still the same weird ass bitch who was obsessed with the series when I was 11, 12. Life goes by way too quickly to dwell on other people's opinions of one's self, which is why I've given up on caring. Unfortunately, I'm terrible at being philosophical, so don't listen to me.

Going back to what I was talking about, I would say that playing piano is the highlight of my day basically every day. It's relaxing to play, and I'm genuinely so happy with myself because it feels like I'm making real progress. I've dropped so many hobbies, instruments, skills, etc, just because it felt like I was going nowhere with my work and I would never amount to anything in that field no matter how hard I tried, so seeing myself be able to play more complex pieces every week is nice. I've only been playing for around a month, too. The one thing that I need to work on is the strength of my pinky fingers, but I'm working on it. The fact that my fingers are hypermobile means that I have to deal with joint collapse occasionally, but it makes it easier to play certain chords with specific fingers so it's really not all that bad. Like I mentioned earlier, I also need to really work on my sightreading, but I'm not planning on performing in front of people and my teacher doesn't really stress sightreading, so it's not a huge deal. I'm having fun and that's all that matters.

I also bought some more medical supplies today for the same event that I was talking about, and while I was at the Walgreens I ran into someone who I haven't talked to in a hot second. I'm actually glad that we ran into each other because I was genuinely thinking of calling her earlier today, so I guess whoever's up there in the sky listened to my thoughts and decided to just send her my way instead of waiting for me to bring her to me. We've almost gotten freaky a few times before, but she's a college student so there's not really much we can do until I turn 18 and go to college or whatever, but it's still fun to talk to her and flirt with her even though it's mostly her flirting with me while I scratch my ass like a monkey.

Thanks for getting to the bottom of this page. As a gift, I'm going to let you in to a little secret. I'm going to be working on a page to store my playlists and share them with you guys, including the "greatest hits" playlist that occasionally gets shoehorned into the music part of the status box. I like to curate playlists regarding various moods, characters, events in my life, etc, so I'm going to have lots of fun explaining them to the world. Hank out.
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