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What the Hell am I Talking About?

Today, I finally figured out how federation with this blog works. When I first started this blog, I couldn't figure out why in the world I could see the user profile for my blog but never see any of the blog's posts through my mastodon. It .. erm ... turns out you have to follow the blog's user profile, or whatever it's officially called, to get the posts. So in order for me to get my own posts, I ended up having to follow myself. How do comments work? I ... actually don't know. I'm probably going to talk to myself for a bit and see how that works. Until now, I've never had a way to share the blog's user profile.

The Annoying Part

The ... unfortunate ... part is that when rant.li posts my posts in a way mastodon can read them, it posts them ... in full. Meaning that my giant rambles, neatly separated by headings, read on mastodon like a large, very huge, enormous pile of annoyance. Well ... maybe that's just my opinion. So ... for those of you reading, if you want to subscribe to getting over 10000 character dumps into your mastodon feed at completely random times, here's the strangely complicated process. Actually, there's really two ways to do it.

Method 1.

Follow the blog account when I boost it. Yes, despite how ... convoluted it may be, I will be boosting the blog with my main mastodon account. So if you follow me there, you should theoretically be able to follow the blog when you see me boosting it.

Method 2.

If you can't or don't see the blog posts being boosted from my main account, you would want to do the following. Go on your instance's website. At the top is a search box, search for cadence022@rant.li ... and it will provide you results. The profile you're looking for will show the same bio that shows at the top of the main blog page.

Comments

Since to a lot of you these may start appearing as normal posts, please feel free to leave comments. I don't know if I'll see them, but if you haven't gotten a response within 48 hours, feel free to bug me on my main mastodon. And with that, I am out of here for the time being. I will possibly be back later with another ramble, or tomorrow ... just depends on how I feel about my life.

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What Have I Been Doing?

A whole lot of stressful things honestly. Our landlady has decided that instead of conducting herself like a sensible adult, she'd like to push us out of the house by ... turning off the electricity on the day she told us to be out by. So we've been looking for a new place to go ... it's definitely happening now whether we want it to or not. This is the second time someone's just decided nope, we're not working with you, and chosen to sell a place we were living out from under us.

Ramblings

CW: This bit is a bit heavy, feel free to skip down to the area that says “Back to the Update” if you're not in the headspace to read about drama right now. When we moved here, my father told me that this house would be mine forever, that he'd pay off the house. Several years later, he did the same thing he's always done. He cheated on his wife, and just like every other time, the woman involved used her power with the court system to “bleed him dry” apparently. As he buys a new house for him and his number 6, and goes out to dinner every other day. Sometimes I wonder if he ever got over Stephanie. He was never big on posting on Facebook before her ... but after her he's been weirdly obsessed with it. Anyway, so he cheated on his wife. His now ex-wife, Jennifer, was left with the house. Jennifer is disabled due to something Jennifer did to herself. I'll get into that later. He cheated on her. This ... Jennifer ... decided that instead of actually working with us to help make an arrangement that would work out for both of us, it would be an absolutely grand idea to do everything from lashing out at us because she doesn't have money to pay the property tax (we paid her rent), to threatening to turn off the electricity because of some other money drama (we still. paid her!) She's also implied that I should go live with my father ... I'd rather empty a hive full of angry bees into my own stomach. Yes, living with him is that tedious, and I'll get into that later too. This is going to be a long one. I probably shouldn't be rambling about all this in public, but I need to put it somewhere ... guess I could go with my journal but I fi9nd I don't really care who knows. So to answer the question, what have I been doing? I've been dealing with a particularly rage-filled woman with nothing better to do with her life than harass a pair of disabled people because she's as dry as the Sahara, and apparently, even if she wasn't, not even her own husband would fuck her. Then again that actually tracks, give him 5 or so years and he gets bored. It's a miracle he lasted 8 years ... and he's already married to someone else again.

What Did Jennifer do to herself?

This isn't really relevant to the current goings-on, but it does show a pattern. On New Year's Eve, my father and his new wife decided it would be fun to go out. Jennifer has MS (important context for later). They both came back drunk ... back then my father was somewhat nice ... I celebrated New Year's alone but he came back 45 minutes later. That was considered good for the time. We were laughing and chatting and having fun. Jennifer decided to go downstairs (their bedroom in that house was downstairs, why would you make someone with MS walk down stairs to go to bed every night?) Naturally, drunk+MS+stairs=someone's gonna fall on their face ... and as usual the math added up. She fell down the stairs. My father, being the absolutely useless thing he is, responds by ... sobbing and running down the stairs. Don't do that! If someone is in medical crisis, sobbing while they're in that much pain is not going to help them. He's done that with me too. Eventually he carried her to bed, and I went off to the bedroom I was using while I was there. The next morning, around 5 or so, knowing she was still probably feeling it, knowing she was probably hung over to some degree, went outside, in the ice, it was around 20 or so degrees at the time, probably lower. She did this ... to smoke a cigarette. She fell down and ended up with frostbitten fingers. The doctors flat out told her they could have saved her if she came in the day it happened. But she didn't. She went to the hospital ... 2 days later. By then it was far too late. She lost most of her fingers. She became really quite bitter after that ... which ... part of me understands that. She'd just lost parts of her body. I'd probably be a bit upset myself. But ... and this may be controversial, I still feel she did it to herself. She should have been resting off a hangover, not going outside in under freezing weather to smoke cigarettes. This ... actually leads neatly into the other thing I said I'd go into earlier in the post.

Why Living with My Father would Be Tedious

I'm not very good with prioritizing, but I'm going to try to take these in somewhat of a prioritized list, from lowest priority to highest. First, by nature, I am a night owl. I stay up at odd hours, and generally my schedule doesn't mesh well with the “societally expected” schedule. When I've stayed with him in the past, he has actively become enraged because I slept during the day. Leads neatly into my next point. Though I have some exposure training with loud noises, my father likes to throw his weight ... and his fists, around with extreme, unprejudiced regularity. You don't do something he wants you to do, you're probably going to get to watch him punch something or slam something. It's his method of control. Not defending it, but stating that ... that's how it is, and nothing anyone does is going to change it. Despite the fact that he likes to throw his weight around, when I last stayed with him, I was the one accused of being a “bull in a china shop”. Why? Because I dared ... get this ... to use a microwave. Yep. He'd told me the night before, that I had food in the fridge and that he'd made me something. Nice of him. He said I could have it whenever I wanted. Me, taking that literally because of course I did, goes out quietly and makes it around 6 the next morning because I was hungry. Not 3 minutes in, he comes charging out of his bedroom to rip me like 18 new assholes because I was being like a bull in a china shop ... for the record, I had put a paper plate in the microwave, closed the door and started it warming up the food. To this day (it happened in 2018) I still do not understand how using a microwave is like a bull in a china shop. And lastly, there's the whole ... medical thing. When he's scared, or in a medical situation that's out of his depth, he usually goes between crying and being enraged at the very concept of a medical issue. One time when we'd first moved into this house, one of the roommates had an allergic reaction and had to go to the hospital. Not 3 minutes after they left, I got a raging phone call from my father about how he didn't want his house to be a “revolving door of ambulances”. Another time I had to go to the hospital, I got a screaming call literally while I was on the stretcher, paramedics loading me into the vehicle, and my father screaming his absolute head off over why I dared to go to the hospital. That one's ... the biggest one. I really don't want to go live with my dad. Oh ... and just to throw together a nice ending paragraph on this ass disaster, if I lived with him, I would never be allowed to leave, as he's not behind anything like uber. I'd never get to get food delivered, he's not behind uber and food delivery is uber to him. I'd never get to go to my doctor appointments by myself, medicaid transit, on the rare occasion they do their jobs, is still uber and ... again, he's not behind uber and things he doesn't believe in don't happen near his house. If he went to appointments with me he'd know about any medical issues they talked about with me ... because he kinda just ... intimidates his way into most appointments where I'm concerned with his face and his voice and his punching fists and his stupid mustache. I don't actually know if he has a mustache ... but he seems like a mustache guy. And really, at the base of all that, I don't want to live with him because where he lives ... if you're around him things never last more than 10 years. Either he gets bored, runs off and cheats on the person then leaves them like he did to my mother, or they tell him they “don't want older men” which I'm still about 95% convinced Stephanie broke up with him due to the kidnapping prank but ... that's another story. This is a pattern with him. He left my mother. Two years later the bank took the house we were living in and we had to move. He got to stay with his happy little family. Of course, like I said before, that didn't last long. I may tell that story some other time, but I feel I've rambled quite enough about my father and his drama for one post.

Back to the Update

AS I mentioned ... or may have mentioned ... before, I did a stream either yesterday or the day before, feel free to visit the YouTube listed in the signature to find all the things I do when I'm not typing random tangents. I'm probably going to try to do one today, but we'll see. I also did a stream ... Thursday? Either Thursday or Wednesday. I normally don't link the streams in my blog posts, but I'm trying to get better at it. Now ... if I can just remember how to do links in markdown ... Right, I've figured it out. I always forget how to do this, took a bit of google searching. Watch the Playing with Cars stream here And ... Watch the Forza and Tangents stream Here Like I said, I'll be trying for a stream sometime today, but if I don't get one out today, I'll aim for tomorrow, and one way or another I'll try and come back to you with a bit more of a positive blog post next time.

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What is the cause of the stress?

We have mentioned this in past posts up here, but our bank account is negative. Another one of our monthly auto-pay things took and we're negative $60 now. We also need $55 to pay off the internet bill. If anyone wants to help us out with that, it would be seriously appreciated. We don't like asking for money, but have continued to try to apply for jobs and gotten no results. At this point, the financial stress is affecting our ability to eat, and is causing z to have an ulcerative colitis flare. If this keeps up we could end up in the hospital.

Other things on our mind

If by some miracle we can get some cash together, pay our bills, and get our stress levels down to a manageable level, we will be attempting a YouTube live stream for you all. The YOuTube channel link is below if you want to visit that page and see all our other content over there. That's pretty much it for today. If anyone wants to help with the financial issues, feel free to visit our support links in the signature. If you can't that's nothing to feel bad about, we appreciate that you stopped by to read the post. Thank you for reading, and as always feedback is welcome via our contact pages listed below.

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Mastodon Updates

We did manage to find a new mastodon home, though it's the big mastodon.social instance, unfortunately or fortunately depending on how one looks at it. Fortunately because there's a possibility that my reach may go up and I may be able to get my posts around more reliably. Unfortunately because the whole point of the fediverse is decentralization ... I just looked at the user count on this instance. 3020540 users on one instance isn't really all that decentralized. But to be completely point blank honest, we got tired of moving our stuff from small instance to small instance because the little instances kept going down. Once got frustrated about having to move for the 3rd time in 6 months, and got screamed at because, and I quote, mastodon is ever changing, if you don't like moving instances to keep up with the times, go back to twitter. Um ... no thanks. Yes, mastodon is ever changing. Doesn't mean people should have to move instances every 3 months. But that's done with, and part of me is glad we're on the big instance. It's been up since 2018 at least.

What's next?

Right now, we're just trying to get some cash together to survive. We will possibly get on youtube and make a livestream, if we can get our stress reactions to a manageable level because trying to stream while stress hormones make mush out of your soul really doesn't work. Might do so anyway ... play some hearthstone for you guys or ... I don't know, get out the video game controller and pull up forza for a bit. Thought about singing on livestream, but A, I'm really self-conscious, and B, if I did that I'd have to get the setup just right or you'd have instrumental playing at one time and my voice like 3 seconds after. I know it can be done, we've seen the hackerlink vods on youtube. For those of you who don't know, hackerlink is this girl (she probably has a different name but the name on the page is hackerlink) she sings random songs on her stream and it's rather neat to watch. A bit confusing because she keeps calling random things “sick pranks”, but her voice is pretty so I ignore the confusing bits and pay attention to the music. She was introduced to us by a friend who also enjoys music, but we're leaving their name out of this because we haven't been given permission to post about them and posting about people without their permission is quite rude. I think we've said all that there is to be said today. We'll probably be back with another one of these tomorrow or in a few days, and will try to get on youtube for you before then. Feel free to visit the mastodon, the link in the signature has been fixed to direct to the new profile.

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Why are we stressed out?

For those of you who follow our mastodon, you'll know this, but for those of you who don't, this is something new. We got all the monthly benefits we're going to get this month, but are almost definitely not going to have enough cash to pay off rent, internet, electric, and our other payments we have. I'm honestly worried we may end up homeless, and since both of us have chronic paina nd autoimmune disorders, this could be dangerous. With that out of the way, back to our regularly scheduled blog update.

What Have We Been Doing?

Besides stressing ourselves out over this financial issue, we've also managed to do a YouTube livestream in the past couple days. It was fun, being able to play Hearthstone and talk to the viewers. I like doing it. I've also been resting because ... yet again, more chronic pain. It's a bitch. But I did get something on the YouTube for people, and that makes me very happy.

Blog Related Updates

Not much to say here, but we are sorry we didn't manage to get another post in near the end of November. We are glad to be back here now though, and posting for you, even if it's not entirely for a good reason, we're trying to make as much of this post positive as we can. So in a way, 4 or 5 days is better than the month/months we went without posting in the past. So we're trying to get better. And we plan to do a livestream maybe sometime tonight or tomorrow if we have enough energy.

Money Related Updates

Note: This section is not here as an attempt to make anyone feel obligated. If you are able to help and wish to, please feel free to visit the links linked in the signature and do so. If you can't help, please try not to feel guilty or in any way obligated. We understand that everyone has their own situations, and their own needs, and may not always, or even usually, be able to assist, and we thank all of you in advance for reading this post and the below section at all. (Yes, this was copied from a past post, but it still stands.) Due to receiving our benefits, we did get the negative account balance sorted before the bank took any insufficient funds fees. But ... due to the negative account balance, which occurred due to some bills, we now don't have enough cash to pay our beginning of the month bills. So that's our new goal, anything that comes our way will go to that, and to cleaning supplies and other household essentials. For instance, I still need to get a wheelchair so that I can go out more often, which would likely help me not to feel as much pain. When I was in one in the past, it did help a little bit, so long as I didn't use it all the time and did some stretches and exercises.

YouTube Updates

We discussed this in a couple of the previous sections, but as mentioned there, we did a livestream a couple days ago. The link for the YouTube page is in the signature, and the link to the live page is in our mastodon. Visit This Page for the livestreams However, we've put the link to the livestreams page here anyways. As mentioned in the last post, when we're actively streaming, that link will take you directly to our active live. When we're not streaming, it will take you to the page that displays our lives in order of newest to oldest.

Financial Life Goals

As mentioned in the past few posts, we're trying to get more consistent, so we're keeping up the life goals sections. 1. Most importantly, we're trying to get the cash to pay our bills. The goal for that, as listed on our mastodon, is open-ended, anything we get will go toward that. 2. We're also still working on getting the money together to go to the SSA for Z's stuff. Again, don't know how much of that z wants shared, but that's still happening.

Non-Financial Goals

To keep with the consistency of the last post, we're now moving onto non-financial goals. They're pretty much the same as what they were 4 days ago, but I'm putting them here for the sake of consistency. 1. I'm still hoping to get more posts put up on the blog so you guys have more content to read. 2. I am also hoping to get back into the recording schedule for the YouTube, along with livestreaming. If Z is interested, we'll do some combination streams.

Updates Regarding LInks

Over the past few days, I have also added some products to my kit.co page, which can be viewed from the signature. I know a lot of people don't like product placement, and that's why these are near the bottom of my pages. That way you can read the content you came here to read, and if you want to go look at my product pages, you can do so. It's mostly tea and snacks and random kitchen gadgets, but they're there to be looked at and bought should you wish to buy them.

Closing

We hope you have enjoyed this post, or have otherwise been enlightened by it. If you wish to support us financially, those links are in the signature. If you wish to visit our YouTube page that link is both in the signature, and available above if you want to go directly to the lives page. As always, stay tuned to my Mastodon for any spur of the moment live updates, with us they come at the most random times of the day. If you have any feedback or wish to contact us for any other reason, those links are in the signature, both our email and mastodon. See you in the next one.

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What have we been doing?

Basically, it boils down to ... resting on account of lots of chronic pain, being sick, and cleaning little bits of the house when or if we have the energy. We also did a youtube livestream, though that was at a ridiculous time at night, so we didn't get any views, which was rather sad. We'll have to try and do another one here in the next couple days, and/or upload some of our old recordings that we recorded back in September, restart the upload schedule.

Blog Related Updates

We are sorry that we didn't maintain the guaranteed 1 post a week that we thought we could. As explained above, chronic pain and the changing seasons hit really hard this month, and we haven't been as on top of ... much of anything ... as we'd like to be. Part of that is pain related, and part of that, we must be honest, is money related.

Money Related Updates

Note: This section is not here as an attempt to make anyone feel obligated. If you are able to help and wish to, please feel free to visit the links linked in the signature and do so. If you can't help, please try not to feel guilty or in any way obligated. We understand that everyone has their own situations, and their own needs, and may not always, or even usually, be able to assist, and we thank all of you in advance for reading this post and the below section at all. The past couple of weeks have been difficult for us financially. We've barely been able to buy groceries, and that only because we have EBT money and use it very sparingly. It turns out if you're careful feeding two people is a lot less annoying than feeding 3. But things that aren't covered by EBT are harder. Cleaning supplies, for instance, are difficult to buy. Medicines, especially those not covered by insurance, are particularly difficult to buy. And bills, particularly those from the more technology-based companies, like to just take money from your account on the due dates, without sending you any kind of warning. Which is what happened to us. We are currently negative $160 due to some bills that were paid automatically. Again, if you can't help, please don't feel guilty, reading our posts and engaging with us on mastodon is incredibly helpful as it is. However, if you are able and desire to help, the pay links are in the signature at the bottom of the post, please definitely feel free to do so.

A bit of a Ramble

If you got past that section and are still here, reading this post, thank you very much again. We really hate having to write about our money things in our blog, having to talk about needing mutual aid help, or what some would call e-begging. It doesn't make us feel good inside. We've been trying to apply for jobs that we can realistically do for about 2 years now, and get no responses. We don't know if it's something we're doing wrong or just that those companies found other applicants who fit the job better. It could also be that we don't have a high school diploma ... which we could fix if we had money ... kinda a circle of increasing poverty there. Can't get a job without a diploma. Can't get a high school equivalency without money, which you can't get easily without a job, which ... oh wait. you can't get without a diploma. Of course, if I'd stayed in high school in the first place I'd have one of those ... but I didn't. I had a good reason, I still believe that. My mother was being a bitch and I couldn't make it stop. I got overwhelmed, and I had to leave. But ... that's a story for another time.

YouTube Updates

We discussed this a bit earlier, but we're trying to remain consistent with some of the format from our previous posts, so there's now a heading here for YouTube updates. We did a livestream, as mentioned above, it lasted about an hour and 20 minutes. You can see out page of livestreams at the link below. click here to see our livestreams When we're actively streaming, that link will take you to the currently live stream. When we're not, it'll take you to a page showing our live tab, where all the previously streamed videos live. Unlike twitch, they don't get taken down after 14 days. They sit on your channel, so people can watch them. It's quite useful. I hope you enjoy them just as much as we enjoyed making them.

Life Goals

As mentioned in our last post, we're trying to get more consistent, and so we've kept up the life goals section from the last post. 1. We're still working on getting the money together to go to the SSA for Z's stuff. Again, don't know how much of that z wants shared, but that's still happening. 2. More importantly, and of higher priority, we're trying to fix our negative account balance. That goal is currently $160, though if we can't get that fixed we'll end up with insufficient funds fees and I'll have to up it based on those.

Non-Financial Goals

Keeping with the format of the last post, we're now moving on to the non-financial goals section. One day I'm hoping we can take out the financial goals section altogether. 1. I'm still hoping to get more posts put up on the blog so you guys have more content to read. 2. I am also hoping to get back into the recording schedule for the YouTube, along with livestreaming. If Z is interested, we'll do some combination streams.

Closing

This post is a bit longer than all the other ones, but all the same, we hope you have enjoyed it. We tried to separate things out by heading as much as possible, and where possible, put things into lists. Hopefully the markdown thing worked, and the lists came out the way I wanted them to. Hope you enjoyed, and we'll be back when we're able. If you want to visit any of our links, as always, they're in the signature. Thank you for reading.

Contact Us

If you have any feedback, or want to talk to us directly, you can contact us in the following ways. Email us Visit our mastodon page View and follow our Ko-Fi Blog

Support Us

If you enjoy our content, and wish to support our work, feel free to send us money in the following ways: PayPal CashApp

Other Links of Interest

This is a new section that we've decided to put in as of 11/08/2025. Here, we've listed all our other links of interest, which you may find neat to visit. Visit Our Youtube Here Visit our LinkTree here The linktree has many interesting things on it, and also links back to this blog. Visit our shopping page here What is this? This is an aggregated page of all the Amazon products we enjoy or have enjoyed in the past. We use the name Life Upgraded (now Cadence's Finds) on there because we feel the products we've bought and recommend on this page have upgraded our life significantly. This next part is something we have to put near any page recommending product links for legal reasons. We are not pushing our links on anybody, but they're there if you want to see them. Note: I am an Amazon Affiliate. If you choose to buy any of the products listed on any of the pages above, I may make a commission from such purchases. We may add more links to this signature later, if we find more that you may be interested in. Always feel free to visit the YouTube, the Linktree, or the Ko-Fi, listed above, for any other updates that aren't posted here. As always, thank you for reading, and we hope you enjoyed or were otherwise enlightened by this post.

Continued Updates from a few days ago

As mentioned a few days ago, we are still working on cleaning up the house from the whole roommate situation. It's a whole lot better than it was, but there is still a lot of progress to be made. One of our goals for the rest of this month is to buy some more cleaning supplies, and some more dishwasher pods. We may end up having to replace some dishes, though that will likely come later. We'll keep you updated on that.

Game Related Updates

We did, as mentioned a few days ago, get into some hearthstone. We enjoyed it quite a lot, and will likely be continuing to do so today. If we have the energy, we'll make some recordings with OBS and try to get back on our upload schedule for YouTube. We're not sure how much talking will be in these recordings, but at the very least we're hoping to get some gaming content up for you.

Blog Related Updates

Assuming the routine in the house remains relatively the same, we're thinking we can at the very least guarantee 1 post a week. If we're lucky, we'll be able to continue giving you these daily updates, even if we're just repeating and updating what we've already said. In order to vary up some of the topics we discuss up here, we may read back on some of our old posts and take concepts from them to write small “Rambling Musings” posts. For those who haven't read Rambling Musings, also known as Afternoon Musings, Evening Musings, or Morning Musings, if we feel like putting a time label on them, these posts were basically just us rambling and writing about what was on our mind. We're hoping to bring them back, and put some of them up here again, even if they're small and random. Our blog has always been a place of many tangents ... so we'll try to gradually bring back that old atmosphere.

Updates Related to Audio Posts

Since we're going to be doing some research and lots of house cleaning over the next few days, along with going to the SSA to help Z when or if we can get the transportation money, the audio post, also referred to on the YouTube channel as audio vlog, will likely not be happening for a few days. If we can, we'll try and make one by this Thursday or Friday. If we have time between all our tasks, we will do a livestream for you guys and play some battlegrounds and maybe a ranked battle or two. We are also hoping to get back into our Forza motorsport stuff, but keep getting distracted with various other endeavors. As interesting as Cosmic Rage can be, I can't help but think you'd find it highly boring if we streamed roleplay on a text-based game for you. Also, that game has a lot of drama, much as we try to avoid it, and we've always made our opinions of drama quite plain.

Signature Link Updates

We haven't added any new links to our signature, but for those of you who enjoy looking at our kit.co page, we have added a few new products to some of the kits. If you find that page inaccessible and actually want some of those links brought over to the blog, let us know and we will willingly write up product bundle pages that people can actually read and click through. We may do this anyways, but if there is interest, we'll put a higher priority on it. We will likely be starting back up our cross-updates to our Ko-Fi page, so for those of you who follow us there, you'll get emails when we write new blog posts up here, assuming we remember to post the link to the Ko-Fi. We are as always going to continue posting the links to our newest blog posts on Mastodon, so for those of you who follow us up there, always stay tuned for the latest blog post link. Once we find it, we will also be adding the RSS feed for this blog to our signature, so those of you who prefer RSS updates can use that.

YouTube and Podcast Updates

As mentioned in our last post, we do post audio posts, or audi vlogs, on the YouTube from time to time. We're gradually regaining our energy for ... life in general, so are hoping to start those up again. We have a podcast, Life Unfiltered, and we may link that in the signature as well. But we may also be putting our audio posts up there as well as on YouTube. We won't put our gaming updates up there, because gaming doesn't quite fit with the content vibe we're going for with Life Unfiltered, unless Z agrees to put games up there. That podcast is a shared thing between myself and Z, so we talk about every post that goes up there before it goes up.

A factual error I made

In the last post, we stated that each post starts as a heading level 1 on the main blog page. This is, in fact, incorrect, and we apologize for the wrong information. Both the post, and the signature, start with heading level 2's, so when reading the blog's main page, you can skip past the signature by hitting your shortcut to go to the next heading level 2, not the next heading level 1. We've done our best to remember to put the rest of the post at heading levels 3 and 4, so that you can get between posts with as little inconvenience and annoyance as possible. Again, apologies for the factual error, and we are doing our very best to fix it for you.

General Life Goals

We're going to try and put one of these bits at the end of each of our posts, before the closing and recap. Right now, we are working on the following. * We have to go to the social security office to get some government stuff sorted for Z. I don't know how much of that information Z wants discussed, but I have been told I'm allowed to say that much. Since it's Z's stuff, I try not to go beyond the limits of what information Z wants out there and what information Z doesn't. * In order to get to the social security office, we are trying to raise money for transportation. * Z also has some doctor appointments to get to in the next few days. We need to raise cash for transportation to those too. * We had to use our EBT cards to restock the house after our ex-roommate left (she wasted a whole lot of resources and we had to fix that) so any other cash that comes in will go to food and bills.

Non-Financial Goals

We're hoping that one day these will be 1 single section and we won't have to list our financial goals up here all the time, but since we do, this section is for the ones that aren't related to money. * As mentioned above, I'm hoping to get more posts written up on the blog. * I am also hoping to get back on a recording schedule for the YouTube. Before we dropped off we were releasing every day at 10 AM central time, so if we can manage, we'll start doing that again for you, along with the live streams. * If Z is interested, we will do a few combination streams, where the two of us play a game together.

Closing

We hope you have enjoyed this admittedly rather scattered blog post. We'll be back whenever we can be, hopefully within the next few days, to write more for you all. If you want to visit any of our links, as usual, they're in our signature. Thank you for reading, we'll see you in the next one.

Contact Us

If you have any feedback, or want to talk to us directly, you can contact us in the following ways. Email us Visit our mastodon page View and follow our Ko-Fi Blog

Support Us

If you enjoy our content, and wish to support our work, feel free to send us money in the following ways: PayPal CashApp

Other Links of Interest

This is a new section that we've decided to put in as of 11/08/2025. Here, we've listed all our other links of interest, which you may find neat to visit. Visit Our Youtube Here Visit our LinkTree here The linktree has many interesting things on it, and also links back to this blog. Visit our shopping page here What is this? This is an aggregated page of all the Amazon products we enjoy or have enjoyed in the past. We use the name Life Upgraded (now Cadence's Finds) on there because we feel the products we've bought and recommend on this page have upgraded our life significantly. This next part is something we have to put near any page recommending product links for legal reasons. We are not pushing our links on anybody, but they're there if you want to see them. Note: I am an Amazon Affiliate. If you choose to buy any of the products listed on any of the pages above, I may make a commission from such purchases. We may add more links to this signature later, if we find more that you may be interested in. Always feel free to visit the YouTube, the Linktree, or the Ko-Fi, listed above, for any other updates that aren't posted here. As always, thank you for reading, and we hope you enjoyed or were otherwise enlightened by this post.