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I started my 12th chemo treatment on the 8th, and though I'm starting to feel some side effects, I have enough energy to do some hobbies and hang out with friends again. Honestly, cancer's starting to feel like the "new normal." My nurses are more optimistic every time I see them, so hopefully ...

My health was in the background all 2023. Instead, the entire year, I made it my mission to fix my relationship with my dad. He never accepted me as "I came out wrong," so he cut me out of his life as much as possible. Mom's death softened him and I think he has been making small efforts to try ...

I read my Bible and prayed and all, but I never felt comfortable at church in my teens. I grew up immersed in the church since I was a baby, so I passively accepted everything that happened there as a normal part of church, good or bad. Was my church's culture based on the Bible, though? ...

Just a quick update about treatment changes, traveling to a research center, and how my health is. I'm doing okay. :)

My oncologist added a new medication to my treatment, and once again, God has been very gracious with side effects. She always ...

I love old school YouTube, especially late 00s-early 10s era! Tag videos take me back the most. Tag memes (when memes were shareable templates moreso than standalone expressive images) were all over DeviantART, too. Instead of everyone generally following the same headlines with more or less ...

WeeklyGameJam (now defunct) was a theme-based game jam hosted through itch.io each week. It was fairly laid-back for a jam, giving devs a full week's time, allowing for premade assets and code, and accepting late submissions. The host, Joshua Mclean played and critiqued the submissions on ...

Welcome to Blessfrey.me, my webdev playground written in BottlePy! Twice a month, God willing, I post my projects and personal reflections. Originally in PHP, Blessfrey.me now thrives on Bottle Python web framework. To celebrate my website, I'll share some of my front end and back end code, ...

Several people have asked me how to learn Japanese, so I'm going to keep all the resources together in this post.

The most you immerse yourself in Japanese, the more you force your brain to actually use and learn it. The ...