A Panicked Friday Update
I guess I need to post something here this week, right? In that case, let me try to ignore the fact that I’m going from one panic attack to the next and whimpering and wanting to just curl in a ball and block everything out, and see if I can start with the good, which is that earlier this week I actually went through two more sections I wrote. Took me an outrageous amount of time for three and a half pages, but it’s the first time I do that in months, so at least it’s a start, even if I still have plenty to go at the moment and when trying to do one more yesterday I gave it up as a bad idea after the first paragraph.
Another good thing may be that I submitted over 20 mobyranks yesterday on MobyGames. Submitted a few last month, but just one at a time when I stumbled into them, the last time I submitted several for one game in one day being more than two months ago, but now I definitely have my eyes on Divinity: Original Sin and, while I obviously won’t be playing it too soon and have no intention of purchasing it until I’ll either know I’ll start it right away or see it for the equivalent of no more than 50 RON, including Paysafecard fees, on GOG, I wanted to see what some reviewers have to say about it and decided to submit all I found while I was there.
On the other hand, I had one huge scare regarding my computer a few days ago, when I noticed that it was reporting all SETI@home work units as completed almost instantly. I actually noticed it on the 15th, but when I later checked I saw it had done the same on the 13th as well, and some other invalid reports were listed even earlier, though it appears that the lists are cleared rather quickly, so I couldn’t know when the problem actually appeared. I had finally gotten around to updating BOINC on June 27, so that may have caused it, but it’s odd that only the second BOINC project running was affected and only if it was a SETI@home work unit, Astropulse ones running fine.
After asking, I was told it may be a software issue, but may also be a sign of the CPU overheating or even failing, and I knew it wasn’t overheating, so I obviously panicked. Worse, after uninstalling BOINC, deleting all project data and reinstalling the old version I was using before updating, two work units were once again reported as completed extremely quickly, though not quite as quickly as before. However, there were no more problems after that and the report for the second of those work units lists a normal early termination due to detecting 30 spikes, which seems to be the maximum number allowed, within the 45 seconds spent processing it, so let’s see if the other user who received it will report the same result. As for the first, there is an obvious problem there, but so far three different results were reported, so it’s possible that the work unit itself has an error.
Still, while that was probably the worst concern regarding my computer, there’s also the matter of my antivirus finding something obvious, and then something else that I considered suspicious when I had it scan again. What it found was an exploit that should have been patched quite some time ago, and I did apply that patch and all others that were released since then, so the fact that it existed doesn’t mean it actually did anything, but there’s only one way I can think of that the file itself may have ended up on my computer and that would indicate that a trusted site was compromised, so I asked them about it and I’m still waiting for a reply.
Otherwise, I once again lost a tooth filling. Just like last time, it seemed that something hard was stuck between my teeth for the past couple of weeks and last night I finally worked some dental floss in there and, after some 15 minutes, managed to get it out, the “something” obviously proving to be the filling which had once again fallen out. The thing is that it’s probably the same filling that fell out then as well, so I’m thinking they should replace it without charging me this time, since it hasn’t even been six months, but I sure hope they’ll find a way to make it stay there now!
That’s not the only dental problem, however, since a tooth on the right side also started hurting slightly when I press on it, and for a couple of days it also hurt when touched by something cold, though that pain went away on its own as suddenly as it appeared. Somewhat more worryingly, that tooth also had its filling replaced a few times before they could make it stay in place for the past five years, so now I’m worried that, even if the problem itself may be relatively easy to fix, I’ll just end up with another that will keep falling out. In addition, I’m also worried that what did fall out now may actually be a piece from the filling in the tooth next to the one I think it’s from, which is the one that had quite a lot of work done on it back in 2007. I don’t think it’s from there, but it may be, and either way something may be wrong with that anyway, which will definitely be more difficult to fix, and at the moment I’m too scared of everything to see if I could make sure.
There were some other things I meant to add, but I guess I should stop while I still make some sort of sense. Earlier I started whimpering simply because a piece of watermellon which I had brought here to eat fell back in the plate and splashed my desk a little, so you can imagine my state of mind… And tomorrow I have a march I was thinking of participating in, though at the moment I have no idea how I’ll manage that… Nor how will I manage to go to the dentist on Monday.
