Cav's Place

As I’m starting to write this post, the listed system uptime is just reaching 20 days, and the screenshot I have, dated October 25, 2012, indicates that the previous record was just over 21 days and 16 hours. As such, if nothing happens before then, I’ll have a new uptime record early Saturday morning, which will reach 25 days if I can get to this month’s Patch Tuesday, or even 26 if I’ll wait until the next day to apply the updates. Sure, it’ll be on another computer and another version of Windows, as I was still using Vista at that time, but it is a new uptime record on a computer I’m using and may indicate that, despite my anxiety, things are working better now than they did then… Then again, considering that said previous record was set just when the main HDD was failing, it’s not in itself necessarily a sign that everything is fine.

Otherwise, my Internet access has been mostly fine ever since the cable was completely replaced, but it worked for a week even after the first fix, so I’m still feeling very insecure. Doesn’t help that Saturday evening it was very slow for a few hours, reported speeds being even less than a tenth of what they should be, and I still got no reply to the e-mails I sent. Even asked the guy about them on Sunday, when I called because it was down again and he said there was a power outage in his area, and the reply was that he didn’t even check his e-mail but he will. Well, four more days passed and I still got nothing, though admittedly there were also no other noticeable problems, except a potential brief outage around 1 PM on Tuesday, when I saw a logged connection error in between successful connections at 12:46 PM and 1:06 PM.

Moving on, I got that chipped tooth fixed Monday morning. Only one of them since the dentist said there was too little damage elsewhere and any filling would just fall off, so I can only hope I won’t get a cavity because it’s simply left like that, and also that this one filling that was put in will stay in place despite also being very small. You really can’t notice it’s there unless you look very closely and spot a difference in texture, as otherwise the color matches that of my tooth perfectly and even if I slide my tongue on it I only feel that different texture in one spot, where the material was probably very thinly spread on the tooth. So those are some good signs, since the fillings put in by my regular dentist in recent years felt different, and also different from those first ones put in and which have mostly also stayed in place.
The awkward part was that I went there with blood under my jaw. Had cut myself shaving the previous evening and apparently some more blood flowed after I finished and thought I had stopped it, and then I didn’t wash it off when I just quickly splashed some water on my face in the morning and, being in that area, didn’t see it in the mirror either. So I did notice some odd looks, but nobody actually said anything and I only learned why after the dentist was done and handed me a mirror to see how the tooth looked, at which point I also spotted the blood. Quite weird, and I wish they’d have told me right away and asked me to wash or wipe it off before she started working, but nothing to do about it now…

Initially meant to get this first post of the week out of the way on Tuesday, but also meant to start reading A Dance with Dragons this week and post after I do so. Since I’m only posting it today, I only managed to get myself to start it last evening, though I did read the first 80 pages already. Should manage to finish it in less than three weeks, but probably not less than two, though that’d have pretty much been a given some ten to 12 years ago. Will probably mean I won’t get much further in Modern Times this month, however, but after getting past the first two scenarios I had barely poked at the third over the past few days anyway.

And yes, since the weather got warmer again and we even had over 15°C yesterday, I went for another run on Tuesday. With a reported temperature of only around 10°C and plenty of clouds, it seemed a bit chilly at first, but it was fine once I actually got going and the time was 21:43, which I’m not too happy with but is two seconds better than what I managed last time. The first intermediate time was 4:45 and the third was 16:53, but all I can say about the second is that it was around 10:20. Several people with dogs were blocking the path just as I was getting under the bridge, and after I managed to pick my way past them I forgot to look at the stopwatch just as I got out from under the bridge, which is the spot I measure this second intermediate time at, only remembering a few seconds later, when I saw 10:23.
Based on the forecast I saw at the start of the week, I was initially thinking of running again tomorrow, since I was a week behind and therefore Tuesday’s run actually counts for last week. However, seeing as now it says cloudy and a maximum of 7°C, I’ll leave it for next week, when it should probably be over 10°C again on most days and I should therefore manage to find some passable weather for two runs and catch up. This means I won’t be dropping my running shoes off to be fixed, since I still didn’t do that, but by this point I’m thinking I’ll glue that part back together myself. Shouldn’t do that, since they came with a two year warranty and only lasted in proper shape for around nine months, but it may be simpler…