Cav's Place

With the deadline being either today or tomorrow, I dropped off the papers I needed to drop off for the Gendarmerie’s appeal this morning, getting all of about two and a half hours of sleep in the morning as a result. Then again, I think I dropped off what I needed to, because the women who were there were busy with the coffee and chocolate they had just been brought and didn’t seem to pay much attention to me, so I hope the fact that I wasn’t asked for the envelope and notice was because they somehow knew it was still before the deadline and not because they simply didn’t care to and I may end up later learning it was considered that I submitted that too late as I didn’t add any evidence to the contrary.
Like I needed another reason to be worried about this, on top of simply needing to deal with the Court again, being scared by another protester at the end of Saturday’s protest, when he told me you need a lawyer for an appeal and aren’t allowed to represent yourself, and learning last night that another whose appeal date already passed lost, the original decision being completely changed. Another won it, however, meaning that the original decision was maintained, so I’ll have to check the others I know as well, two more having dates set next week, and get an idea of what each panel of judges thinks of the matter, to see what I can make out of it. And then, of course, hope that the part about needing a lawyer isn’t true.

Moving on, after getting back I put in the cable needed for my TV tuner to finally have sound once again, since the new motherboard no longer has a four-pin audio port and the external cable which the tuner should have come with and which could have been used for this as well was probably left back in Iasi when I got thrown back here. It works now, but it took so long since it would appear that Leadtek no longer has any partners or distributors in Romania and this type of audio output hasn’t been in use for quite some time, so I couldn’t simply find the required cable, with a small four-pin connector on one end and a 3.5 mm jack on the other, and therefore asked dad whether he knew anyone who could make one, which finally happened yesterday and he brought it last evening, when I was in no state to deal with it right away.

After that, went for this week’s run as well, which once again ended up being slow and untimed as I yet again forgot my watch. Remembered sooner this time, but still didn’t feel like getting back for it, which was actually better since after so little sleep and having already been somewhere else and back, and also considering the higher temperature and the state I’ve been in lately, I’m quite sure the time would have been disappointing even if I would have pushed. As it was, once again pretty much everybody passed me, several multiple times over the ten laps, and I didn’t even try to sprint anymore, even needing to slow down on the last lap after a better start. Could have probably gone about a minute faster in total, maybe two if I really pushed, but while I don’t know the time I did have, I firmly doubt shaving even two minutes off it would have gotten me even close to the previous record.

Did at least eat properly after coming back from the track, since nobody was around and I could just go to the kitchen and make myself something which I then took to my room. Also showered after that, and then managed to get another two or so hours of sleep, waking up only once despite the washing machine running for a while and various other noises. And now I’m going to watch the Europa League match, finally with sound once again, as I was saying, and then I guess I’ll just spend tomorrow getting ready for the next protest, scheduled for Saturday. I was considering reinstalling Windows then, trying to get things done properly, but at the moment I think I’ll wait until the week after the next.