Cav's Place

Too lonely to sleep, or to think, or to dream… Apparently even to spell, considering how something I wrote this morning, after giving up on the idea of trying to sleep for a while, ended up… So I’m sitting here and thinking about what might have been and what most likely can never be, and […]

I seem to be gathering reasons to be really angry over these past few days. Or, better yet, people seem to keep providing me with them. There are three major ones just now, caused by three different people. The first two are friends, or at least people I like to think of as friends, and […]

I have finally finished moving those really old posts, written over nine years ago, here. Took a very long time because I had to make room for them, since they’re all personal posts and one of my rules for this blog is that the personal posts must make up less than half of the total. […]

It’s certainly not better than the first one at least. It passed the first test I put it through, but failed the second. Further tests initially marked 48 bad clusters, then only confirmed six of them, though it struggled through all that 48-cluster area. What’s more, it started making worrying noises after those clusters were […]

I hoped I’d be back to “normal” yesterday, after finally getting a replacement for that failed HDD on Wednesday. It didn’t work out, because the “new” drive was dead on arrival… I just put it in, turned the computer on, heard four rather ugly sounds and saw the system hang while trying to detect it, […]