Sick again

I remember getting pretty sick sometime around this time last year (I checked my posts and it was at the end of February 2017) and was thinking that I was getting sick again.  It wasn't as surprising this time around since it was my dad who came down with the flu last Thursday and then two days later my mom and I both started coughing on Saturday evening.  I was mostly coughing and trying to control the cough so that it wouldn't mess up my throat.  But eventually I started to have body pains and fatigue.  I thought I'd be okay after one day, but it only got worse.  By Monday, my cough got worse, I was getting a headache, I felt weak and the body pains got to the "skin and hair hurts" stage.  I would feel shivering cold Sunday and Monday nights and was covered in sweat after a few hours of sleep.  By Tuesday and Wednesday, my throat was a bit raspy and my abs and shoulders were sore from the coughing.  Despite all this, I was not bedridden in any of the days.  Thinking I was finally recovering on Thursday, my allergies hit like I knew it would and make me suffer an extra three days with watery/itchy eyes, stuffy/runny nose, burning sinus pains, congestion, sneezing along with the coughing that I still haven't recovered from the flu.  Right now, I'm just coughing and feeling a bit weak from the ordeal, but I should be fine for the most part.  From what I'm told, the flu that's spreading around the country right now is one of the worst ones in 32 years.  Well, I got through it so hopefully I've built up an immunity to it for a long while.

Throughout that week, I mostly spent it catching up on PC games and clearing hard drive space for the arrival of Dragon Ball FighterZ and to install Tom Clancy's The Division which I bought during the Winter Steam Sale.  I most spent the week playing through Dragon Quest Heroes which turned out to be really fun despite all the mixed and negative reviews I read about it.  As for Dragon Ball FighterZ, the came released this past Friday and it was thankfully small (4.7 GB) so I had no problem fitting it on my hard drive.  I haven't finished Story mode on it, but the game itself has been a lot of fun.  Online Multiplayer works on a dedicated server basis which made it the best connection I've had playing a fighting game with one of my friends.  I've tried playing a few fighting games with this friend and our connection hasn't always been the best.  But Dragon Ball FighterZ has mostly been a great experience so far with a few instances of it freezing up or lagging out.  I want to finish Story mode tonight since Dissidia Final Fantasy NT comes out tomorrow and I want to be able to play it by then.



I finished my first remix of the year to celebrate the return of Sakura back into Street Fighter V.  I'm really happy with how the remix turned out.

Sakura's a fun character and it's nice to finally have an Arcade mode in Street Fighter V, but the netcode still sucks so my friends are kind of reluctant to play it as much.


I thought about what I want my next step in projects to be and I think I want to create at least one remix for the Shoot-em-Up remix album before I start working on my original compositions and projects that will lead up to another wave of job hunting I'll do.  There's a lot of work I want to do, music I want to create and games I want to play this year.  I'm hoping it'll be a great year because I'm looking forward to it.