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Sunday, September 21, 2025

Power Rangers Legacy Helmet DVD Collection eBay Listing

I re-listed my eBay listing at $450 because I found by sheer coincidence another listing of the Power Rangers Legacy Helmet DVD collection with a total price of $496.15 now:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/187530393969

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers The Complete Series, Seasons 4-7, 8-12, 13-17 (DVD) | eBay

https://www.ebay.com/itm/286833046861

Two Years to Get Advanced Features

After two years of trying, my main YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@MrKARproductions3 finally has Advanced Features enabled. I think it will stay this time. My other three YouTube channels were eligible for Advanced Features a few months ago, and I have had those features enabled for all three of those channels for a while before my main channel got the features enabled: https://www.youtube.com/mrblacksmoviereviewsClassics, https://www.youtube.com/@therealweeklynews4, and https://www.youtube.com/@nightmareonthe13th1.

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Migraines During 8th Grade Middle School Year

I never said anything before. Hardly anyone knows this outside my family (mainly my mom Susan, my dad Tim, and my older brother Bryan), and students, teachers, and mental health professionals who knew me at that time. I remember having migraines frequently during my 8th grade year of middle at WH Gaston Middle School during 1995-1996. I know part of that was an after effect of my medication allergic reaction February 1995. I remember those would happen at any moment and any time, out of nowhere. I would never know when it would happen. I remember the feeling when a migraine would first start, I would feel a slight throbbing, and then a migraine would kick in shortly after. I remember we tried different things, and what I ended up doing was calm my mind. Doing that became the best way for my migraines to stop. The rest of my 8th grade year went very well once that went away.

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Power Rangers Legacy Helmet DVD Collection Mercari Listing

This is the Mercari listing of the Power Rangers Legacy helmet DVD collection that I am wanting to purchase. The lowest total price I want pay is $1,020.62:

https://www.mercari.com/us/item/m95370849877

Monday, September 1, 2025

This Month is 20 Years Since I Have Been an iMac and Apple User

This month, I am not sure what day, is 20 years that I have been an iMac user and Apple user primarily since the PC I had did not work good earlier in 2005. Being an iMac user has been a fantastic experience. I have used three different iMac desktop computers, my first iMac September 2005-May 25, 2011, an iMac G5 (which I still have very fond memories of using), my second iMac, a 2011 iMac October 29, 2011-February 22, 2019 (I did a lot with this iMac, and worked very well for me), and now my third, and current iMac, a 2017 iMac February 24, 2019-present (this has been a wonderful iMac to use. I have learned different methods and ways of using computers with iMac than I ever have before. I have been backing up my data with external hard drives for the first time ever with this iMac). I had already learned how to Mac computers during college, but I had not used a Macintosh computer at home in a long time. I was 24 when I began being a Mac user away from colllege. I have not looked back, and I am glad that I transitioned to Mac back then, three years after graduating college at The Art Institute of Dallas. Using Mac made me get my passion and skill of video editing back again (meaning capturing video into the computer, and editing that. I remember I edited a Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban music video trailer with Adobe After Effects back in May 6, 2004, but that was with trailers I downloaded, not DVD footage yet). I had been out of it for a while since 2002. Using iMac helped me get the knack for it again, I missed it, and I have not looked back since. I am very glad to have began being an Apple user when Steve Jobs was still alive. Using Apple (and more affectionately, Macintosh computers) has changed my life in many ways, and I am glad that it has been a part of my life for so many years.

Saturday, February 1, 2025

This Month is 30 Years Since My Allergic Reaction

This Month is 30 Years Since My Allergic Reaction

This month, I am not sure what day, is 30 years since I had a major allergic reaction to 10-15 different medication I was taking at the time for my disability. It turned out it was mainly one, Navane, that caused the allergic reaction. I remember my jaw locked to the right for half the day. I was in 7th grade middle school with my dad in the lunchroom when it happened. I remember my jaw slowly moved back and forth from the center to the right several times until it stuck. My dad rushed me back home (we lived at Buckner Baptist Children's Home at the time, now Buckner Orphan's Home), and got mom, and we hurried to the hospital. I remember getting a shot of Benadryl and was put into a hospital bed quickly. I took off most of my clothes because my body was incredibly hot. It took a long time for me to fall asleep. Once I did, and then woke up, other family members were there with me. I was 13, and all that medication and allergic reaction could have killed me. I really feel like I got a second chance at life after that. I feel like I did die for a little bit, and then I was revived. After that allergic reaction, I was taken off prescribed medication for my disability permanently. Ever since I have been off medication like that, I think my mind became clearer and I was able to finally think for myself. I became my own person with my own feelings and thoughts after after so many years. The rest of middle school for me was fantastic. Then high school became better. 5th grade of elementary school was the first time when I had a teacher who believed in me and always tried to keep the kids from doing anything. He was a fantastic teacher. I remember also being put in a seclusion closet during my early years of school, probably before elementary school. I feel the kids beating me up, bullying me and the stress of that and mental health professionals not knowing what to do with me compounded to make that allergic reaction happen. My childhood dealing with mental health professionals and kids beating me up, bullying me and making fun of me was like a real life Escape from New York for me. I am so glad that I had my parents Susan, my dad Tim, and my older brother Bryan (53 right now) to help and support me during those stressful, troubling, and trying times for me. I love, adore, and cherish all of you. Amanda has also been great for our family, and I am glad that we helped her get through troubling times in her life too. Thank you for being in this family.