Cav's Place

Just managed to finish Blades of Heaven, so I guess it’s a good time for this week’s personal post and then I’ll have three days to figure out something else to write about. Or to see if I want to figure out something else, that is, because I wanted to start a rant last night and tomorrow may be an even better opportunity for it, so I might just do that and get it out of the way, then think about the review and start trying to convince myself to write it next week, because I certainly won’t try any sooner.

Thankfully, the computer cleaning truly was effective, so everything seems perfectly fine despite the current heat wave. In fact, right now I’m looking at 67°C for each core and CPU cooler at around 2300 rpm, while the most I saw were some brief moments when temperatures reached 69°C but cooler was still below 2400 rpm, so quite some way away from the 70°C and 2700 rpm I was seeing before, when the weather was slightly less hot.
Otherwise, not counting the recent Windows Update oddity, didn’t notice any more real reasons for concern, whether we’re talking of hardware or software, and even my UPS got tested again by some recent power failures, so the computer may just make it till next spring or so without needing anything replaced. Not that I imagine I’ll be any more keen to upgrade then, of course, as I highly doubt software developers will suddenly decide to turn back from their current chosen path over the next few months, but I know I’ll need to do something, because six years is already a lot and seven will be a terribly long amount of time to largely stick to the same computer.

This will probably be too much information for anyone somehow stumbling into this post, but I’ll also add that I wasn’t able to do much about the infected patch of skin on my head, but the sickly greenish-yellow stuff that’s there at least seems to have hardened and the red area around it isn’t expanding, so my body probably started doing something about it. Granted, after initially struggling to keep it clean with alcohol and then rubbing some calendula cream, I stuck to soaking something in chamomile tea and keeping it there most of the time, which probably helped, but at the same time I’m noticing largely the same thing happening with the smaller spot on my left arm which seems affected by the same problem, even though I did far less for that.
Now infected patches of skin aren’t new and in fact it was to be expected when adding heat and sweat to the atopic dermatitis I know I have, but we’re talking about by far the biggest area affected by anything of the sort so far and it’s on my head, so I’m still quite worried about it and will continue to be until I’ll be sure it healed. Still, today it didn’t really sting anymore, while the one on my arm seemed to have mostly stopped burning, which should probably be good enough developments to mean that I’m not about to panic again quite yet.