Mold, Runs and Emsisoft
Since Monday I finished The Cavalier Club but still didn’t manage to review it, I’m just going to quickly post a personal update now and then leave the weekend for that. Not exactly looking forward to it, but it’s a book I won, after all, so I want to write a proper review for it, not just a quick one, and that may take a while.
Tuesday and Wednesday were more or less dedicated to spraying the walls in my room, since mold had appeared once again quite some time ago. Unlike before, I didn’t do it all in a single day anymore, instead moving the bed and the bookcase and spraying all the areas where nothing was visible, just to be sure, on Tuesday and then asking dad to move the desk the next day, when he also sprayed what was left before leaving for work. This may not be the best way, since it gives the mold a chance to move from one area to another when it’s not all sprayed at once, but it was more manageable and, either way, it’s been a while since I’ve seen any behind the bookcase or bed.
The computer did give me a bit of work to do after putting it back in the desk, however, and not only because of all the cables. The headphones came apart again when I probably held them somewhat strangely as I was putting them back on the desk and one of the screws holding the monitor’s cable in place initially refused to screw in and then came out with the part that was supposed to hold it there. So I simply glued that part of the headphones back on and then struggled with that screw, first managing to pry the two apart again and then, since the tools I found didn’t help me do it otherwise, use the one from the plug to screw the other one in well enough to stay in place. Not sure what’s going on with the fans though, as they kept reporting staying at 70%, which seems to be the minimum for the “performance” setting, ever since the weather got cooler, while now the percentage changes with the CPU temperature even at these values, seeming to aim for 75% at 50°C, 70% I believe being only at 40°C or less, but at the same time the actual speeds don’t seem to have changed much, and in fact I’m quite sure they didn’t change at all for the front and side ones, as 1000 rpm is a very easy value to remember.
Considering the once again higher temperatures, reaching around 10°C, I also ran twice this week, Monday and Wednesday, so I can still say I didn’t actually miss any week so far, the two I skipped before this having been covered by the two when I ran twice last year, and this week’s second run covers next week as well, when highs should again fall well below freezing. The times were 21:24, with intermediates of 4:44, 10:12 and 16:32, respectively, on Monday, and 21:45, with intermediates of 4:40, 10:12 and 16:39, respectively, on Wednesday. Did have some hope to get back to only 5% slower than the record, so to 21:22, but after just missing that target Monday, likely only because I only checked the time at the intermediate points and didn’t know I needed to push just a little bit harder at the end, I seemed to simply be too tired on Wednesday, after moving furniture, little sleep and considering that I went to run after coming back from buying a few things.
And yes, I did finally manage to purchase a license for Emsisoft Anti-Malware, though it wasn’t easy, as they don’t have any resellers here, I don’t have access to any card that may be used for international purchases and the wire transfer option would have carried fees exceeding the actual cost of the license because they don’t accept RON as a currency and banks from here charge insane transfer fees for international payments in other currencies, the reasonable ones being limited to international RON transfers and exchanging money here, without sending them abroad. Still, though I felt terribly awkward about it, I asked Alma if I could ask dad to send her the money so she’ll be able to order it for me and she readily agreed, so after I was unable to get on-line before she went to bed on Wednesday, it was all done last evening. So now the choice is truly final and, after a year spent testing, I have a properly activated security solution, valid until January 14, 2017.
