Cav's Place

Didn’t have much hope for getting it back this week, but in the end it seems that waiting for the shop to fix the UPS before posting anything here worked, because I have it now. Unfortunately, I gave it to them just as I bought it, in the original box and with everything else that came with it, but got it back without the USB cable, which wasn’t listed as having been included in what they received. Then again, the CD and the manufacturer’s warranty papers weren’t listed either, the note only mentioning the box and, supposedly, a power cable, but they gave those back, possibly because nobody ever got them out of the box. Seeing as this model doesn’t have a removable power cable, so there was no reason to list it as an accessory, it was probably an honest mistake, somebody listing power cable instead of data cable and dad not noticing it then, and it’s not exactly a problem anyway, as I still have the one from the UPS I had before this one, but it is somewhat annoying.
Either way, what’s important is that so far it seems to work, or at least the problem it had developed, which made it unable to even start anymore, no longer exists. Whether or not the next power fluctuation or failure will cause it to reappear, I don’t know yet, as last night when I tested it with only the monitor plugged in the voltage only went up to 241, so it didn’t even start correcting to be able to test even the most commonly used function, seeing as I often get over 250V at night. All I did was run two consecutive battery self-tests, which went fine but are hardly relevant considering the 1% load resulting from the monitor alone… Then again, that 1% load is rather weird in itself, as the log tended to show a 3% to 5% drop in load when I turned off the monitor before.

In other news, some strange machine popped up behind the building yesterday. Nobody was around it and nothing happened all day, but today there are workers there and it seems to be digging. From what I heard so far, it appears that the people working at that heating station or whatever it is decided to dig for water and hook up their own supply after conflicts with the water company. Exactly what this entails and what sort of developments and consequences we can expect as a result of it, I have no clue at the moment, but I doubt it’ll be pretty.

Yes, I know that a week ago I was saying I’ll probably add my current computer upgrade plans to the post written after I’ll get the UPS back, but ski jumping is about to start and I’m going to watch that, so I’ll once again leave that for another time. There’s not much to say about it anyway, considering the changes I made, and it’s definitely possible that I’ll end up writing about it as early as tomorrow, seeing as I need a second post this week and at the moment, while I obviously have several topics I’d like to write about, I’m lacking any sort of motivation to do so.