A New Challenger Appears

Well, not really. Another diagnosis for the wife: confusional migraines. It's like a more severe migraine that can cause other issues, which do line up with her symptoms. That, POTS, and arthritis in her spine just like to keep her down. Our helper is leaving next week for an opportunity in her field of study, which is great for her, but means my wife is interviewing more people to help her during the days. So that's added stress for both of us, which causes even more issues. ♪♫ Life is but a dream ♫♪
We'll make it through everything, though. Our girls are doing well, at least. No more sickness. Our youngest is finally crawling more (she was only butt-scooting for months) and she's standing up a lot. She'll be walking soon.

I won a bid on eBay for a Steam Deck - it's an LCD model with the drive already upgraded to 1TB. It hasn't arrived yet, but I'm really hoping it will before Friday (it's shipping out today, a Monday). Hopefully it'll be in good working order. If so, I'll be able to finally play more of my Steam library - and tinker with it to get my GoG games and other sourced games working. Likely I'll install Baldur's Gate III, Halo MCC, and Beyond Two Souls first. And then slowly get through my backlog. I like the idea of it suspending my place so I can pick it up a few days later and jump back in. If it doesn't work correctly, I suppose I'll have to go through the eBay support, as it is covered under buyer's guarantee and listed as working... But surely it won't come to that.

Friday will not be a fun day for me, however. There's a cyst growing by my left bottom wisdom tooth that wasn't there a year or so ago, so it's got to go. And since they're already there, I'm having them go ahead and remove all 4 of my wisdom teeth. I've taken off the following Monday and Tuesday, just in case. My parents will be watching the girls all weekend to ensure proper care and rest for the first few days, which is nice. Very blessed to have my parents. My wife's dad actually just brought us 6 boxes of diapers unexpectantly as well, which is also a huge blessing. But yeah, that's why I'm hoping to have the Steam Deck by Friday. To have free time in recovery to mess with it. If I even feel up for it - unsure how the extractions are going to leave me.