Cav's Place

Had no plans to get anything this time around, neither from the fair nor from that little bookstore with books in English located relatively nearby but which only participated once, when I discovered them there, and has since decided to just have discounts for the duration of the fair without attending, but of course I was going to at least have a look at Bookfest, just out of curiosity. Also decided to try crossing Herastrau Park to get from the metro to the location of the fair instead of going around it as before, and I didn’t get lost, so that definitely went well enough.
The weather forecast was rather worrying, with showers during the day and storms later, so when I found myself waking up at 8:25 AM, after probably some two and a half hours of sleep, I stayed up. After eating something, checking everything a few more times and managing to get myself in a reasonable enough state for something like this, I left at 10:45 and, while the sky was overcast both on the way there and on the way back, it didn’t even rain. Better yet, though I was worried I’ll find myself in a storm, when I came back out of the metro and had some more to walk to buy a couple of things before making my way back, it was actually sunny. The storm only came around 8:45 PM, so well after I got back, which was at 4:35 PM, and I didn’t exactly notice rain before that either.

The bad news have to do with health issues, the first being that the atopic dermatitis that keeps pestering me seems to have decided to attack my face lately. It is known that it’s a frequently affected area, but I was lucky so far, as it had only appeared in the eyebrow area and in one rather hard to spot place under my chin, so at least it wasn’t exactly noticeable. However, now I first saw a quite visible spot around my chin and then an almost perfect circle on my left temple. Now that I think of it, I imagine it’s been there for quite a while, but whatever hair I have left had covered it sufficiently, so I imagine that either some of it fell off now as a result of it or it moved or advanced slightly, so now it’s very visible and this is making me feel even worse about going out.
The second issue has to do with a tooth, which seems decided to keep nudging me for the past few days. At first my whole jaw hurt due to my lower left wisdom tooth, which has been so lazy so far that it hasn’t poked out at all yet but which seemed to have decided to have a little go at it for a few days. Then that calmed down, but I noticed that I was left with an obvious dull pain, mainly during and for quite some time after eating, on the upper left side, and last night there were a few sharp jabs as well. I believe this is the second tooth there, which may well be chipped or have lost its small filling yet again, but what worries me is that it may be the third, which has had a fair amount of work done on it back in 2007 and which I was told back then will probably last for two more years like that, before something more complex will need to be done, so it’s definitely well beyond any “warranty” by now.

What makes this worse is that another protest is scheduled next Wednesday, on the World Environment Day, and I definitely mean to attend that as well, so at this point I sure hope neither the tooth nor the dermatitis will get any worse, because I really can’t see myself getting to a doctor, if not two, and then also to a protest in a few days. Then again, another problem with the protest is that the current forecast shows possible storms that day as well and the chosen area is completely in the open, so we’ll see what happens, because rain is one thing, but hail, lightning strikes or high winds that may cause trees or other things to collapse are something else entirely and being outside under such conditions would definitely be unwise.
I know I’ll probably need to at least take care of the tooth, and the sooner the better, especially since it may still be quite simple to fix at this point, but I hope it’ll at least allow me to wait until the week after that. And I also hope that what appeared on my face really is caused by that same old atopic dermatitis and not something else, seeing as the shape does make it quite suspicious, and that it’ll go away on its own after a while, since I quite clearly can’t use the cream I have for when it becomes unbearable on my face. I guess I could have it checked out if it gets worse, but it’d be quite pointless to have to see a doctor yet again for a problem I know I have, I know can’t be cured and which I have been managing reasonably well for so many years.

Otherwise, writing’s been going particularly badly lately and I haven’t exactly submitted anything on MobyGames since the start of the month, but something posted on that forum reminded me of Castle of the Winds, I tried playing it again and noticed that it worked. I remember playing the first part of this way back in the day and tried downloading it again a couple of years ago, but for some strange reason it wouldn’t work under Vista, so now I tried again, finished the first part yet again very quickly and now I guess I’ll try wasting a bit of time with the second. It doesn’t seem like I’m managing much else, so playing a game, even if such an old and basic one, would at least count as something.