Cav's Place

I’d have written a personal post on a Sunday either way, but the plan was to write about planting trees yesterday and leave the other stuff for next week, so it wouldn’t really have been what I mean by the “Sunday updates” I mean to avoid. But between needing to interact with people and being around so many all that time yesterday, being just exhausted after the work and so little sleep, and the computer issues which continue, I’m quite a mess. More so than usual, I mean. So I pretty much just sat here, watched a couple of things, didn’t even continue that 11th “Divine Empire” scenario in Disciples that I started Friday, even though I’d say that’d have been a “safe” thing to do on the computer, and I’m only getting around to throwing a quick post here now.

About Emsisoft, the issue that causes it to invisibly disable at least the surf protection and behavior blocker modules repeated itself, but I had debug logging enabled for the past few days and last night I caught it when it happened, twice. Also caught a crash, though that seems to have only been of the interface, and I seem to remember some release notes mentioning something about such occasional crashes. So I sent those logs last night, among quite a series of e-mails I rather flooded the support guy with, even though the amount of detail in those things makes me feel like somebody sat here in my room and looked over my shoulder for the entire period covered, and the fact that they’re in plain text makes it even worse.
Didn’t get a reply yet, or at least there wasn’t one when I last checked my e-mail this evening, but let’s see what happens, because the issue repeated itself once today as well. I think that’s actually the first time it happened during the day, as so far I was noticing an odd pattern of it only happening at night, and it also broke another pattern I was noticing, having to do with what I had open. It maintained another one though, having to do with what it logs as having blocked just before it fails, and something the support guy mentioned in passing during our exchange so far actually made me suspect a potential cause having to do with that now that I thought about it, and I changed something which should make it not happen again if I’m right, but I really think I did my part in sorting this out either way. Now the ball’s in their court and sure hope they’ll fix it quickly, so I won’t have to worry about anything like this again!

Other than that, on top of the sunburn and the torn blister and the other spots that sting or are sore after yesterday, last night I also “managed” to burn my left upper arm as I was trying to iron some of my clothes. Had the iron close to me on the table, reached over it and my arm touched the tip. Moved away immediately, so it’s not a bad burn, but I’m left with a red area in the shape of that tip, stretched as my arm briefly moved over it, which stings a fair bit. Or it did until I put a bandage there after waking up today, as it hasn’t been that much of a problem after that. That torn blister on my right thumb does get in the way though, as it stings quite a lot. The sunburn on the back of my neck still bothers me a little as well if I try to turn my head, and would rather not touch that area if I can help it, but I initially feared I won’t even be able to put my head on the pillow last night and that wasn’t a problem. Taking a shower, earlier that night, wasn’t too nice though.

But at least I slept pretty well today. Being dehydrated as well as exhausted helped with that, as I didn’t wake up to go to the toilet at all, and didn’t even feel the need to go when I woke up at some point during the morning, probably due to dad making some noise, so I only got up around 1:45 PM. Actually thought it was later at first, but it’s good enough I guess, even if it was around 5:15 AM when I finally got in bed last night. Had only finished eating a little over half an hour before, after I rather lost track of time while taking that shower and then dad also asked me to translate a quick statement, and considering all the Emsisoft mess I was sorting out and the mood that put me in. Even left what I used in the sink, not washing right away, which I really don’t do.

Speaking of sleep, though I’ll otherwise leave aside the stuff related to planting trees now, I’ll add here that, seeing as I had to be at the meeting place at 7:30 AM and would have therefore needed to wake up no later than at 6 AM, I tried to sleep earlier instead. So it wasn’t even 9:30 PM when I first got in bed and maybe managed to get about half an hour of sleep, or up to half an hour, before getting up to go to the bathroom at about 10:20 PM. But that was the easy part, as before 11 PM I tend to be sleepy, while after that I usually “wake up” whether I nap or not. So after tossing and turning for a while when I got back in bed, I got up a few minutes after 11 PM and was at the computer until almost 12:30 AM, when I got back in bed… And tossed and turned for the next couple of hours, getting up to go to the toilet once again as well, a few minutes before 2 AM. It was likely almost 2:30 AM when I finally managed to fall asleep, and about 3:40 AM when I woke up again. So I got up at that point, as I hadn’t eaten or gotten ready that night, so I meant to get up no later than at 4 AM in order to have a chance to do it all.

But this ended up having over 1000 words again, plus that it’s getting close to midnight, so I’ll end it here. Hope to write the post about planting trees soon as well, but maybe not tomorrow, because I won a free ticket to Untamed Romania last week, valid only until Friday, and I’m thinking of using it tomorrow. Was thinking of going on a day when I’ll also go buy some things and there’s little reason to do that tomorrow, as I’m not out of anything yet, but I could still have a look, and maybe it’s better like this anyway, because when I’ll go buy things I’ll check out all the places again and therefore won’t be able to afford spending that time watching the film except perhaps after I’ll be done, dropping everything off first and then going back. So it couldn’t be something done “since I was there” either way.