Cav's Place

I have recently found myself going down what for me is a highly unusual YouTube rabbit hole, namely looking for older Romanian songs, or occasionally newer songs by old Romanian bands and singers. I now seem to be out of that mood again and back to occasionally glancing with growing apprehension at the one hundred or so names on my list of bands, the vast majority of which fitting with various degrees of certainty into the female-fronted symphonic metal genre, that I think I should look into more closely at some point, but it started from looking for various older Romanian love songs that I probably hadn’t heard since the ’90s. I gave up on that after being repeatedly disappointed by the poor quality of the lyrics when compared to what I’m used to now, but then I ended up at Pasarea Colibri and Phoenix, so I was quite surprised when I happened to see that a free concert in the memory of Florian Pittis, the main act of which obviously being Pasarea Colibri, will take place in a nearby park.
The concert was scheduled for Sunday at 7 PM, so it was quite clear that I’ll be out later than I’ve ever been since I got thrown back here, but since having any interest in listening to anything in Romanian is so highly unusual for me and the type of music was highly unlikely to attract a troublesome crowd, I thought I’d take advantage of the opportunity and can’t say I regret anything about that, despite only getting back at 11:20 PM. The last, and I think only, time I’ve been to a concert was around the year 2000, or probably even earlier, when dad took me to some crap organized by a radio station, and the warm, relaxed and friendly atmosphere present Sunday was entirely unlike anything I remember from back then. I mean, if I was there alone, well after dark, and still felt reasonably comfortable among the several thousand people who attended, it definitely must have been a nice crowd.

Moving on to the unpleasant part of this post, if it ever rose above that level in recent months, my confidence in my computer’s stability is definitely back at zero as of yesterday, when I suddenly found myself staring at a blue screen while just listening to music and reading a thread on a forum. Seems to quite clearly be a software issue, as apparently error code 4A almost always is, and the listed culprit was BitDefender, but a few quick searches revealed that, while this error was usually caused by faulty or outdated hardware drivers before, various antivirus products, including even Kaspersky, have been causing it with increasing frequency in recent months. So I sent a support request and all I can still do now is wait for a reply and see if it happens again… But I somehow doubt they’ll do much to fix what’s probably an unusual issue with the 2011 version of their program, which is the last usable one, before they took away pretty much all customization options, when they’ve been working on BitDefender 2014 for months now.