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HDD Got Replaced

Got the repaired HDD yesterday, but due to some issues which I’ll describe below I only installed and checked it today, also copying everything back on it in the process. At least this time around it doesn’t have bad sectors from the very beginning, as the old one had, but with a label that says […]

Tongues of Serpents and Fate of the World

Finally managed to finish reading Tongues of Serpents today, after letting it sit on my desk for a good month and a half after I started it, and put up a tiny one-paragraph review as well, so at least that should count as doing something. I now see that a seventh book was also released, […]

Managing Panic Attacks and Not Much Else

Writing something’s even harder when I seem to be struggling with panic attacks again, but I can at least try to write about these, seeing as they started last night. It probably was just after midnight when I suddenly got very dizzy for a moment, there was the obvious adrenaline rush, which caused a momentary […]

HDD Issues Again…

One of my HDDs is quite clearly about to bite the dust, making very worrying sounds and twice freezing my system intermittently while it sounded like it was trying to get unstuck. It’s possible that it’s the old one, which I only put in for backup purposes, meaning that I won’t need to go through […]

It’s All Downhill from Here…

The latest studies I heard of state that, on average, human bodies start to degrade, both physically and mentally, at the age of 28. Supposedly sustained training can make this degradation practically unnoticeable until around 35, and mental abilities that have been developed at a young age and rely on performing repetitive actions are an […]