As the 2025-2026 college football season winds down, it would appear that this season's college football playoff will be out of reach for most schools in the country. My alma mater will be one of the many school who will not be in contention for a college football playoff berth and I am perfectly okay with that. We're nowhere near the status of the elite schools in the current college football landscape and in their present state, the USC Trojans aren't quite ready to play with the big boys, at least not yet. I don't know if USC will be that much better next season, but one can only hope.
Having said that, that doesn't mean that USC isn't capable of laying the wood when the time comes.
USC beat the ever-loving snot out of the lowly UCLA Bruins yesterday, to the tune of a 29-10 ass whoopin'. UCLA would be lowly regardless of their record, but with their final record of 3-9, that title of "lowly" has all but been confirmed, framed, and etched in stone. UCLA has a myriad of problems that they'll need to address this coming off-season. That doesn't mean that they'll be good next season, but they can sure as hell try.
Tomorrow we will officially be in December and before you know it, 2025 will be in the rear-view mirror. As I've written before, I am not particularly fond of the holidays. I haven't cared much for the holidays since I was a teenager. I don't like having to battle crowds of people whenever I decide that I want to visit any store. In general, I don't like people as it is. I absolutely loathe crowds. My dislike of people and crowds will once again force me to complete much of my holiday shopping online, which I do not mind. I don't even mind paying extra for expedited shipping if it comes down to it in certain instances.
I've already started my Christmas shopping. My hope is to be done buying everything for everyone by December 15th. I think that's a reasonable goal. I also have two December birthdays (the 8th and 19th) for which I will need to buy gifts. Being that I'm not the type to do the whole Merry Birthday thing, that means that I'll be buying them each two separate gifts. It's not even about the money. I just haven't decided what to get them yet.
Work might slow down a little bit, for which I will be grateful, but I know that I'll be busy for the next two weeks. I don't mind being busy. It kind of comes with the territory when it comes to work and I don't complain about it. I figure that once December 15th rolls around, I'll be good until the middle of January. Until then, I'll keep plugging away.
Earlier today, I found myself experiencing what I can best describe as a minor vertigo attack during the late morning hours. I was on YouTube, as I typically do during the day, and I stumbled across some game play videos of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, which would be the latest edition of Call of Duty, the 2025 iteration of the series. Apparently, this game moves a lot faster than I remember. That, or maybe the game got quicker since 2024's Black Ops 6. Battlefield 6, which I've been playing for the past few weeks, doesn't move anywhere near as fast, so maybe my brain got used to the slower-paced player movement that Battlefield 6 features? With my eyes having become briefly focused on the BO7 game play footage, I eventually found myself becoming increasingly nauseous and at times, even a little dizzy.
Before I started playing Call of Duty all the way back in 2014, I used to completely avoid playing any game that featured a first-person perspective. This was usually because these games moved too fast for my brain to keep up and I could never become acclimated to the movement and effectively having to go without the benefit of peripheral vision. These kinds of games used to make me nauseous and dizzy, not unlike what I happened to experience today. I guess you could say that I was experiencing a form of flashback, one that I hadn't experienced in well over a decade. After spending weeks playing Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare in 2014, not only was I able to successfully train my brain to play the game and not go through those aforementioned symptoms, but I actually ended up becoming really good at the game. This training would allow me to play other first-person games in the years following Advanced Warfare's release, not only subsequent Call of Duty games, but now ironically, it's chief competitor, that being games in the Battlefield series.
Whenever I would get those vertigo attacks years ago, I would look to take a nap and in my own way, allow my brain to reset itself. I struggled to take that same nap today. At most, I may have fallen asleep for maybe 15 minutes before I'd wake back up. I eventually gave up and allowed my nausea to dissipate naturally. As I write this, the nausea is gone. I'm no longer dizzy either. I was eventually able to return to normal, enough to where I was able to play Battlefield 6 a few times this afternoon.
I mixed in a shower today too. I don't why I felt compelled to mention that, but I did. It is rare that I go more than 24 hours without showering. That's probably because I work seven days a week and each time I'm at work, I always run the risk of running into people. The last thing I want to do is be around people when I might happen to smell like a bum's nut sack (much credit if you know from what movie I borrowed that eloquent description).
I'll be off to bed in about two hours, so I'll go ahead and end this entry right here. I hope to write more during the coming week, though I make no guarantees. I will be busy with work stuff tomorrow and Tuesday, so there's a chance that that could take priority.
And into December we go...
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