Cav's Place

The three days mentioned in the previous post are now over and, at least so far, things seem to have somewhat worked out, so at the moment I’m not quite so panicked anymore. Of course, the mouse still needs to actually be fixed and keep working after I’ll get it back and it’ll only take one significant issue caused by the newly installed programs to get me in a far worse state, plus that I’ll need to switch one again after a month, since I’m only using it as a trial and asking for it to be purchased in that version under the current circumstances would feel like too much to me, even if dad would perhaps agree.

Sunday evening I went to Altex as planned, but all that happened was that I was told I’d better take the mouse to the service myself, since they have an inventory this week, then once that’s done they’ll have to sort out what is to be shipped and where, then the delivery company will need to deliver it and then bring it back after it’s fixed, so there may be several days lost which I’ll be able to save that way. The employee I talked to also seemed very surprised when I said I had read on-line that scroll wheel issues are common for this model and, just like the other one did when I went to sort out the warranty certificate issue, said they didn’t have a single Kone XTD fail under warranty so far even though they sold plenty, so I must simply be very unlucky.
Probably worse, since I was there I then went to a nearby hypermarket, different from the one I usually go to, to get yogurt and some tea, and all I accomplished was to spend slightly more than I would have otherwise, since I could have very easily picked those things up the next day, after the movie. As such, there was absolutely no reason to go there at all that evening and things could have ended up worse, since there was a moment when I stopped outside the hypermarket and stared blankly at my money while switching things around, my mind simply deciding to take a break after needing to talk to people, but thankfully the only thing I seem to have lost then was the receipt.

What that meant was that, instead of a day meant for unwinding, Monday was stressful and particularly tiring as well, since I could only drop the mouse off before the movie, and also had to go early enough to also be able to return here in case that’ll prove impossible or I’ll actually have it replaced on the spot. To cover all possibilities, I simply had to find a way to fit going to some place at the outskirts of the city that’ll require a fair amount of walking from the nearest metro station, spending some time there, coming back here, heading to the movie theater and actually arriving there, all by 1:30 PM, and the only way to do that was to hardly get any sleep, waking up at 7:30 AM.
In fact, I woke up around 7:20 AM, after maybe about an hour and a half of sleep, my internal alarm clock “ringing” first, managed to be out the door around 8:45 and arrived there at 9:50. Thankfully, it was easy to walk most of the way from the metro station, my concerns about potentially missing sidewalks proving unfounded, but those last few narrow streets were unpleasant, especially considering the snow and the dogs barking and snarling from behind rickety fences, though I guess it was rather funny when the guy who had been walking a few steps in front of me stopped right on a street corner to pull his dick out of his pants and take a piss, without even taking a few steps aside.
Once there, I found that there were two people before me, so waited for a while, but when my turn came things went well enough, with the exception of the e-mail, which does tend to be an issue when I have to say it instead of writing it. Spelled it out, but the guy seemed to miss one of the numbers and I only noticed it when I read the document he gave me, after walking outside. They do have my phone number as well and what I understood was that they’ll send both an SMS and an e-mail, but I still went back and waited again for a little while, until the other person, who was free, thankfully asked why I was back and said she can change it for me. So let’s see if she did it right and how long it’ll be until they’ll say I can pick it up, assuming they actually will fix it and not refuse for who knows what reason.

At that point it was around 10:15 AM and I was already heading back, eventually reaching the mall where the IMAX theater is at 11:30, leaving me with quite some time to kill. Of course, there are plenty of stores there, so I could look around for a while, but I wasn’t looking to buy anything and I see no reason to even enter the higher end clothing stores, of which there are plenty there, so even if I didn’t rush at all I was all done by 1 PM and didn’t feel like picking up my reserved ticket so early. As such, I wandered around aimlessly a little longer and eventually picked it up around 1:15, then simply sat on a chair until 1:30, when I moved to one of the two tables that are in front of the entrance to the IMAX hall. A girl was sitting on the other side of it, busy writing some things down, so I only sort of sat on a corner of the other small couch, to avoid any impression of getting into her personal space, and only quickly wished her good luck with the work over my shoulder when they allowed people to enter, as she quite clearly didn’t seem to be waiting for the movie.
Plenty of others were, however, and I think about 80 seats were taken when it started, which is quite different from the 11 of us that were there a year ago. Somebody sitting next to me was actually commenting on that, saying that it can at times even be hard to find tickets still available in the evening or on weekends, at least if you don’t count the first few rows, but he also went earlier on a weekday not long ago and there hardly were 15 people, so this was rather unexpected. Even more so since people should have known not to expect much from The Battle of the Five Armies, I may add, but it was good enough if you didn’t demand more than, well, exactly what the title says you’ll get.

Now I also wanted to add what happened yesterday to this post, regarding the antivirus mess, but the word count says I’m at about 1200 already and I’ve been writing it for quite a while, so I’ll stop here and perhaps get back to that later, when I’ll have more things to say as well, as at the moment I just know that nothing got obviously messed up right away on either computer… And that my first impression of Comodo Firewall is that it’s awesome.