Cav's Place

In the early hours of January 15, after only starting to shave at 1:15 AM and then still having things to wash and clean in the kitchen, and also one of my breads to deal with, I ate dinner between 3:30 AM and 4:05 AM, and then I got in bed at 5:25 AM. I got up after the alarm rang, at 1:30 PM, but there was noise from that neighbor after 10:25 AM, though I did manage to get some more sleep, in fact getting back to sleep even after the drilling began and woke me again, at 11:30 AM. Either way, with state bonds continuing to offer interest rates that are below the expected inflation rate and investment funds having had an outstanding year in 2023, I had decided to take a chance and place something in one, even if 2024 is certain to be nowhere near the level of 2023 and may even bring losses, the idea being to see how it’ll do in the long term. So I left at 4:05 PM, with the recyclables, which I dropped off in a bin on the way to a branch of my bank that closes at 5 PM, so I couldn’t take too long.
I first had to deposit the money, and the ATM was rejecting some of the bills, but that number was dropping with each attempt and it eventually accepted all of them. Then I got in and said why I was there when my turn came… Only to be told that it’s required to set it up so a certain amount will be withdrawn from the account and invested each month. But I had read the information and that’s not the case, so I said so, and the employee asked and eventually confirmed that I was right. However, she then printed the general form, not the one for the specific fund which I had selected, and that doesn’t have a field for an initial investment, but only for a monthly one. And it also still listed me as an employee of my dad’s firm, so I told her that it wasn’t the case anymore and she said that she had made the change, though she didn’t print a new form. And when I received the SMS with the code needed to confirm that contract, it specified that it was also for monthly direct debit, and I again said that there won’t be any direct debit, and I won’t have any other money in the account anyway, and while she once again confirmed it, I was still uncertain and asked her to uncheck that box, but she said that she couldn’t and told me to leave it like that for two or three months and see that it’ll be fine. I wasn’t at all convinced, but I was out of the bank a little before 4:50 PM, after which I had a quick look through that Mega Image and this nearby store.
After getting back, I ate a cake brought by dad and lunch, and left again at 7:55 PM. I hadn’t taken a mask that first time, thinking that it might be strange to enter a bank with it, so that made me feel even more awkward while I was there, but I wore one this second time, when I went to Mega Mall and to the branch of my bank from there, and the employee that I talked to said that he was just the one dealing with investment funds, and with the one that I had picked and the other similar one in particular, and after I explained what the problem seemed to be he tried to check but said that the system didn’t let him, it just kept loading, so he just checked who had made the contract and said that she was a smart girl, the smartest one from that branch, and that the document was the correct one and that if she told me that it was like that, with that initial investment and no monthly withdrawals, that’s how it’ll be, but to check after two days to be sure, since that’s how long it takes to process. And then he told me a few things about the fund and printed two reports, to show me a comparison between it and that other one, saying that they were mostly the same, in truth. And he had taken my ID card in order to get my information from the system and hadn’t handed it back, and I only realized it after walking away, turning back to ask whether I had taken it, and he gave it back then, saying jokingly that it’s how he works, taking them and not handing them back. And after walking away again, I turned back one more time and withdrew the additional amount I had deposited, over what was necessary and the amount listed in one document as a fee, in case it would be added, though I was assured that it won’t be.
After that, I checked Carrefour and took pictures of some products and prices for dad, then washed my hands and entered Kaufland a little before 9:20 PM, just getting a few small things but taking more pictures of those products there as well, so he could pick and compare. I was putting the few purchases in the backpack when the closing announcement came, then I just checked that Mega Image and the nearby one, entering with the backpack both times and not finding anything to get.
I got back a little after 10:45 PM, sent dad the pictures, ate some walnuts, and went to the toilet and to shower just before 12:20 AM. I was done just before 1:10 AM, then I washed what was in the kitchen and ate a large bag of corn puffs while working on the salad. I started to eat dinner at 3:15 AM, but I still finished at 3:40 AM. On the other hand, the scroll wheel of my mouse was causing more and more problems, and the situation continued to worsen since then, though at times it feels sticky and blowing hard in that area changes the feeling, and may also affect the problems with the left button, so it is possible that something ended up in there, but I don’t dare to open it in order to try to clean it. And it is six years old, so I can’t really complain about reliability anymore… I definitely can and do complain about the fact that it started double clicking long ago, but that problem came and went all these years, remaining manageable until now, with a few brief exceptions.

Since I went out again the following day, I checked whether the amount had been taken from my account and saw that it still hadn’t been, which should have made it clear that things were very wrong, but I didn’t know that at the time. And while I did receive some documents by e-mail exactly 48 hours after things were apparently done at the bank, the first time, the contents and what I saw when I checked a little more should have confirmed that something was really messed up. But I was going to run the following day, on January 18, so I decided to wait a little longer and ask again after that, if nothing will change.

I didn’t have green onions for the salad made in the early hours of January 18, but I had one long red onion left, so I used that. Then, after waking up to pee just after 9 AM, I couldn’t get back to sleep even though only some faint hammering was coming from that neighbor, so things obviously got even harder when some drilling also started after a while, even if it wasn’t that loud and there were pauses. Still, I eventually did manage to get back to sleep, most likely after 10 AM, but I never looked at the time after getting back in bed. And it seemed that I managed to sleep until the alarm rang, at 1 PM. Then I had the usual stuff, but the apple was another Red Delicious one that was mostly spoiled, so what I could use from it was only about the size of a very small one. And, after just wasting time on the toilet, I also had a slice of cozonac from my mother, with added honey, as the sweet thing, and left at 3:40 PM, wearing the full running gear. The reported temperature was about 10°C, holding steady or maybe dropping by just 1°C by the time I finished, but it was cloudy and humid, after having rained earlier, and a woman who was handing out some fliers asked if I wasn’t cold as I tried to pointedly avoid her before waiting for the stoplight to turn green, but I told her that I was going to run.
The time was 47:41.61, with sector times of 4:22.85, 5:08.03, 5:55 (5:54.63), 4:29 (4:28.78), 5:01 (5:00.78), 5:50.59, 4:24.00, 5:01.32, 5:44 (5:43.78) and 1:47 (1:46.85), making for lap times of 15:25.51, 15:20.15 and 15:09.10. Since I wasn’t carrying additional clothing, I hoped to get back under 48 minutes, but the first sector was slightly slower than I thought it’d be, and that was also the case for the second, so it was clear that I won’t even stay on that pace over the course of the first lap, which was proven true at the end of it. And the physical problems I had over the course of lap two made me worry about even finishing the run, but all of the sector times were actually good, and the lap was just about on the pace that would normally be required in order to stay under 48 minutes, so I wondered whether I could do it after all and pushed hard from the start of lap three, and even more on sector three of lap three. I didn’t even think that I might be safe at the end of the lap, just wanting to give myself a chance, so it was surprising when I actually was safe at the end of the lap, managing a particularly good time on sector three, but I still pushed on the final sector and managed a good time on that one as well. It’s still not anything to brag about, but at least it was the first time that wasn’t poor since November.
It was quite wet, but the lane used to be soggier in the past, so maybe they did improve the drainage over time. And there were relatively few people and they didn’t cause notable problems, so there was just some weaving and going the long way around. There were a few moments when I might have slowed just a little when I was approaching a roadblock, but a way through always opened before I got there. On the other hand, lap two was unpleasant because of some physical issues, the first starting either right at the start of lap two or at the end of lap one, I couldn’t really remember even moments later, when I felt something around my left kidney, possibly even like something tearing, and a dull pain gradually appeared in that area and lasted for the first two sectors of lap two, while on sector three of lap two I had some rather serious abdominal cramps, likely the result of only wasting time on the toilet. But it all passed by the end of the lap and I could then push all the way to the end.

After getting back, I just changed, albeit leaving the running t-shirt on, and went back to that branch of my bank from Mega Mall, again without a mask, hoping to find that same guy whom I had talked to three days earlier, since he seemed to know what he was doing when it came to investment funds. So, after checking one more time and seeing that the money were still in my account, I went in, but that guy wasn’t there, so I talked to someone else and she first told me that I should go to the same branch that I had gone to the first time, then asked for help and then talked on the phone, maybe with the person who had made that initial contract, and eventually told me that the payment order wasn’t made that day and that the money were going to be taken on February 15, supposedly because that’s how the fund works, which was definitely incorrect. And when I asked, both before and after, if I couldn’t just invest that amount then, leaving nothing else to be taken later, she said that it couldn’t be done, and at first that it’d supposedly freeze the system. So it was a complete waste of time and after I got back I sent an e-mail, describing the entire situation… Which I should have done from the beginning. Either way, I’ll also mention here that there were no visits recorded that day, nor on January 21… When I once again forgot to change the date of that scheduled post, so it showed up, albeit only for a couple of minutes.

The matter was finally solved on January 19, after being called by the bank and told that I could indeed go back to an agency and sort things out, and I had planned to go out anyway, to buy some things for dad, so I told them that I’ll get to their branch from Mega Mall again and was told to call them when I get there, and when I said that I couldn’t call, not having active credit, I was told to ask the employee to call them, and send an e-mail if they’ll refuse, though I don’t see how they thought that I could send an e-mail if I couldn’t even call. Either way, I did the day’s squats and left at 2:15 PM, taking a mask with me, but not wearing it when I went to the bank.
I ended up talking to yet another different employee, but that was a good thing, because she didn’t see why what I asked would be a problem and saw no reason to call, sorting everything out and also updating my information in the system, first because she said that my signature was different and then because I saw that my employment status hadn’t been changed either. She also had a look at what had been done that first time and at first muttered something about not even having been signed up, and when I said that I had been and received the e-mail she said that I had been entered somewhere, but not in the correct place, and then she confirmed my initial impression about the payments, saying that I had indeed been set up to have 5000 RON taken from my account on the 15th of each month. So I was there for a while, but at least everything was finally done correctly, and after taking a little time to look through the documents after walking out I also withdrew the little money left in my account.
After having a look in two other stores, I entered Carrefour and finally put on the mask, though I pulled it down while smelling some deodorants, since dad wanted one to give as a gift, and I also got the last three of the cheapest ones for him, finding them hidden behind others, those vouchers also being granted for deodorants those days. So I got what I meant to get, plus two expiring sweet pastries, and at the self-checkout I used one of the 5 RON gift cards received when I handed over coins. The system worked just like before, however, so when I tried to use the gift card first, there was a message stating that an assistant will come, and when one did she told me to pay the rest and leave the exact amount that was on the gift card, so it’s a good thing that I had expected that and calculated the total in order to be able to do so, considering the bills and coins I had on me.
Then I continued to Kaufland, putting the purchases in a cabinet and getting some things from there as well. When I saw that I had time and there were unannounced discounts for various products, I wandered around for a while, but I didn’t get any of those products. And the self-checkout accepted one of the packs of wet wipes which I had gotten for dad but not the other, so I had to call an employee to override the error, and after I was done I used the scales from that area to weigh the packs and saw a noticeable difference in weight, but neither seemed to have been opened and I don’t know whether the one that wasn’t accepted was the lighter or the heavier one. Either way, I then arranged the purchases in the two bags, since I hadn’t taken the backpack, and got back just before 6 PM.

I used the last of the Kapia peppers received from Carrefour’s campaign in the salad made in the early hours of January 26, and I put some more of the old peanut butter on all of the slices of bread. Then I got up when the alarm rang, at 1 PM, but I had been mostly awake for a while at that point, only very briefly drifting off a few times. Either way, I then had the usual stuff, and for the sweet thing I added honey on the last usable slice of my mother’s cozonac, since the thin slice from the end that’s otherwise left even now isn’t something that I’d eat before a run. And then I noticed that a sock was tearing, probably just because of the running shoes, damaged as they are… And it’s one of the new ones, purchased after last year’s half marathon. But I couldn’t exactly do much about that, so I left a little after 3:30 PM, wearing the full running gear, with some things in the pocket of my tights, the gloves, that thing on my neck, and the jacket on the way, tied around my waist as I ran. The reported temperature was about 6°C, holding steady or maybe dropping by 1°C by the time I finished.
The time was 48:56.47, with sector times of 4:15.22, 5:17.73, 6:06 (6:05.59), 4:38 (4:37.81), 5:17 (5:16.66), 5:56.28, 4:32 (4:31.78), 5:10.09, 5:53.82 and 1:52 (1:51.49), making for lap times of 15:38.54, 15:51 (15:50.75) and 15:35.69. I felt slow on the first sector, so that time was better than I expected, but on the following sectors there were areas where I had to pretty much walk because of snow and puddles, the time lost because of that meaning that the lap was barely on the pace that’d normally be required to stay under 49 minutes, so at the end of it I was quite sure that I could only aim to stay under 50 minutes. Still, I also aimed to stay under 16 minutes on each lap, which should have also meant staying under 49:30, and while that was questionable after the first two sectors of lap two, I found a good way through the tricky area of sector three and at the end of the lap staying under 49:30 was the obvious goal and I was also wondering about 49:15… Which was frustratingly close to 49 minutes, so I pushed on lap three, though the difference was made by the fact that I was also able to lose much less time on the tricky area of sector two, so at the end of the lap I had a good chance to stay under 49 minutes, and I made it in the end. It’s obviously a pretty bad time, and it’d have been a poor one even without the snow and puddles, since they quite clearly caused me to lose over 30 seconds, but it couldn’t have been a full minute. Still, under those circumstances, I’m not particularly bothered by it.
It seemed that they didn’t try to scrape the lane, probably because the attempt would have likely destroyed it, so in some areas just a narrow part of it, on one side, was cleared of snow and ice, and in others not even that. Admittedly, there were also areas that were pretty much completely clear, most notably the part of sector two that comes after that area where there’s no lane, but that area wasn’t cleared at all, so there was soft, melting snow on the sides, a few centimeters deep, and puddles in the middle, and that caused me to lose a lot of time, especially on the first two laps. On the first, I slipped on ice just before that area, so I was already careful, and then I ended up in the melting snow, and when I tried to hop away I ended up in a puddle, so I then just walked through that area. And on lap two I had sort of figured out a path that avoided most of the puddles, but I caught up to a man who was walking slowly just when I was in that area and ended up having to walk behind him. At least I could follow that path on lap three, so I lost far less time, but still lost a little. And I also lost time on sector three, at the ship’s dock, since the lane was pretty much covered with snow and there were once again puddles everywhere else, so on the first lap I also picked my way through there rather slowly. I had pretty much figured out a path that avoided most of the puddles for laps two and three, but it meant weaving around a lot, so I still lost a little time. And I had to go wide in plenty of other areas as well, since I had to stay away from the unusable lane.
I guess I probably also lost a little bit of time whenever I took off the glove and put it back on, since I only kept it off on the final sector, but that’s negligible. Otherwise, I needed to snap my back from the beginning and it was a problem for a while, since I couldn’t do it, but I pushed through it. I also felt rather stiff at first, but that eventually got better, and about halfway through the temperature wasn’t an issue anymore. And some muscles from my right leg complained at some point, and some time after that problem went away there were some warnings from the left leg as well, but those didn’t last long.

Then I put the jacket back on, pulled that thing up, since I had no mask, and walked to Supeco, getting some spoiling black radishes and some expiring meat, and not being charged for the bag the black radishes were in. Then I put the purchases in a bag, left it in a cabinet that didn’t lock at that Mega Image, retrieved it after having a quick look, and also checked the farmers’ market, buying some apples. I asked for one kilogram and the guy apparently put two on the scales, and when I handed him the money he told me that I had to pay more, so I said that I had just asked for one kilogram and he said that he misunderstood and put some of the apples back, then put the remaining ones in a bag even if I told him that I had my own and tried to dig one out. And when I used the control scales to check, I saw that he had given me over 1.2 kg, even though I had only paid for one kilogram.
After also checking the new Penny on the way back, putting the purchases in a cabinet, without locking, and then retrieving them, I got back for the first time just before 5:50 PM. Then I ate an apple, one of the old ones, and what was left of the piece of cake from my father’s sister, initially meaning to just take part of it but eventually ending up eating all of it, even if it was a lot, more than enough for two good servings. I also put the purchases in their place, did the day’s squats, changed, albeit leaving the running t-shirt on, and left again when it was close to 8:20 PM, and that time I did wear a mask, as I normally do.
Since those vouchers were also offered for frozen products those days in Carrefour and I found a single small bag of frozen spinach left, I bought it, also using one of the vouchers received for previous purchases at the self-checkout. Then I put that bag in the backpack and, after washing my hands, entered Kaufland with it. It was almost 9:20 PM and nothing interesting and discounted was left in the bakery area. There were two things that I might have been interested in, but I scanned the labels and confirmed that they weren’t discounted, so I just ended up getting some beets. Then I added them in the backpack and entered that Mega Image with it as well, finding one of those breads and one other thing among the discounted bakery products and buying both. Then I put those products in a bag and made my way back, though I had a quick look in the nearby Mega Image as well, once again entering with everything.
I got back at 10:50 PM, put the spinach in the freezer, ate lunch, washed some of what was in the kitchen, and went to the bathroom at 12:35 AM, first washing the sink and then showering. I was done at 1:15 AM, then I washed what was left in the kitchen, peeled and cut the bad parts off some more garlic, and had dinner between 3:25 AM and 4 AM. The kitchen light turned off for a second before I went to shower, and it didn’t seem like there had been a brief power failure, and since the following evening it flickered a few times, I was worried that it might be a sign that the light bulb’s failing, even if I only bought it in July, but at least so far it’s still working.

In the first moments of February 1, I started feeling like something was wrong with my stomach and the feeling worsened while I started working on dinner, but I began to feel better after I opened the kitchen window, as dad was getting ready to go to bed, so it’s more and more clear that the fact that he keeps the stove on all the time doesn’t just make me uncomfortable, but it’s actually making me sick, and that’s without even talking about the long-term consequences. And when I later told him about it, he just said that he has no other way to warm himself and that the only solution is for me to not be in the kitchen when he’s at home. And supposedly having no other way to warm himself in fact means that, since the heating’s metered but the gas isn’t, being paid according to the number of people in each apartment, he wants to mainly heat the apartment with the stove, and this winter he decided to keep all of the heaters off except the one from his bedroom, which he keeps on all the time even if he only goes there to sleep, yet expects to feel warm while he’s in the living room, usually at the computer and generally just wearing a vest over the shirt, and without slippers on his feet.
To return to that dinner, I didn’t have green onions for the salad, so I just used a little garlic… And I only baked the beets at night and obviously turned the oven off too soon, seeing as one of those that I used then wasn’t properly baked, and that’s probably the case for most of those that I left for another time, but so be it. And I put some more of the kashkaval on the slices of bread and microwaved them all, in three batches, and then I also scraped what was stuck on the plate before taking the slices and the salad to my room, so I only started eating dinner at 3:20 AM. I still finished at 3:40 AM, however, and that was despite also taking a couple of minutes to quickly look for LED tubes on-line, since the one from the bathroom burned out again. It’s under warranty, but it remains to be seen whether dad will have it replaced this time around, at least in order to have one in reserve, after refusing to do so back then and buying this one, from the same store, even if the previous one had also failed under warranty.
After I got up, after the alarm rang, at 1 PM, I switched that LED tube with the old one from the small bathroom, to at least reduce the risk of something going wrong while making the switch, since dad wanted to do that even if I was worried that doing so might also cause that other one to burn out, in case the problem is with the fixture. Then I had the usual stuff, with the sweet thing being a slice of panettone, with added honey, and left at 3:30 PM, wearing the full running gear, with that thing on my neck. The reported temperature was 8°C, holding steady.
The time was 48:15.92, with sector times of 4:17.48, 5:08 (5:07.53), 5:58.78, 4:37 (4:36.94), 5:03 (5:02.56), 5:53.00, 4:31.32, 5:03 (5:02.43), 5:52.32 and 1:53.56, making for lap times of 15:23.79, 15:33 (15:32.50) and 15:26.07. I was hoping to get back under 48 minutes, but I felt slow on the first sector, so the time was a little better than I expected. However, if after sector two I was thinking that I should just manage to at least stay on the pace that’d normally be required in order to stay under 48 minutes on the first lap, I failed to do so, and after also having that poor time on sector one on lap two, I was thinking that I might even struggle to stay under the previous week’s time, to avoid embarrassing myself even more. So I pushed from sector two of lap two, setting aside the concerns about running out of energy before the end, and the times improved just enough to at least make me feel quite certain that I will stay under that previous time. However, I also realized that, if I could maintain that pace, I’ll also stay under 48:30, so that became the new target and I kept pushing, and after the end of the lap I thought that I should just manage to squeeze under 48:15 as well. I didn’t quite make it, probably because I had to weave hard right at the end, but at least it was 48:15… Which, of course, is still a poor time.
The fact that my nose was irritated after the run, and it’s yet to fully recover, probably shows that I really pushed and couldn’t have done much more. But, to start from the beginning, something seemed wrong with my hips at first, and also with my stomach, which wasn’t surprising, considering how I had felt the previous night, and the cold air was also hurting my lungs, so I was struggling, but those problems gradually went away. Otherwise, there were still some puddles in that area of sector two, but while it meant that I still couldn’t approach it exactly as I’d normally like to, I doubt that I lost more than a second or so per lap because of that. It’s possible that I lost a little more because of the wind, since a gust hit me on the long straight of sector two of lap two, and then it got windier in general, since there was another gust on sector three of lap two and a few more over the course of lap three. But there were no notable problems caused by people over the course of the three laps, so I just occasionally had to weave or go the long way around. However, as I already mentioned, right at the end I had to weave hard in order to make my way through, going from one side of the path to the other in a small space, which obviously also meant not carrying speed to the finish and therefore not being able to sort of jump, as I usually try to do.

I didn’t quite manage to finish this post before midnight, but I got this far, just leaving the part about the rest of February 1 for the following evening, when I edited the post in order to add it as well.

After getting back, I ate a banana and made something to eat for lunch, did the day’s squats, then changed, albeit leaving the running t-shirt on, and left again at 7:30 PM. I had dad’s metro card and, after buying some tea from Tei and putting it in the backpack, I took the metro to Pallady and bought a replacement LED tube, entering that store with the backpack, so getting the old one replaced under warranty wasn’t urgent anymore, but I still hope that dad will do it one of these days, at least so we’ll have a spare. Either way, I should have received 0.10 RON as change and didn’t, but I didn’t comment, deciding to take them out of what I found later, since it was my fault that I didn’t speak up.
After leaving the backpack, with the LED tube sticking out of it, in a cabinet at Kaufland, needing to try several before I found a free one that locked, I went to Auchan… And I found a bag of spoiling apples that should have probably been discounted by 30%, but somebody had made a big mistake with the discount label and the full price was discounted by 98%, with the additional discount applied to that value! The bag did contain a mix of apples of various kinds, and most of them looked pretty bad, but it was next to nothing, so I grabbed it, and I later found that the apples were actually better than they looked, the bad parts being mostly limited to the surface. Either way, I then also got some tea, plus water for dad, finding an older pack, so I wasn’t charged the deposit. The problem was that I hadn’t taken the large backpack, nor even any sturdy bags, only having two regular bags, so I split the water between them, added the other purchases in there as well, and hoped that they’ll hold.
After arranging everything in that cabinet and using the toilet, I entered Kaufland at 9:30 PM and saw that there was just one left for three kinds of buns that I could get, so I grabbed all of those, even if seeing one left of each kind made me a little suspicious that they might have been recovered from somewhere, if not even from the floor. There was one bread that I could get left as well, but that had a regular discount and scanning the label confirmed that it had no additional one that evening, so I didn’t take it. However, both the regular lettuce and those with root were listed as having good evening discounts, so I took one of each, plus a few bananas, which also had an evening discount. Then I wandered around for a while, going to the self-checkout just before closing time… Only for the lettuce with root to scan at the full price. So I called over an employee and told him that it was listed as having a 70% evening discount, and that I didn’t want it otherwise, so he apologized and took it off, not trying to check or honor the listed price, but so be it. And I didn’t hear any closing announcement, but the store had obviously closed by the time I was done, and after retrieving what I had in the cabinet and taking my time to arrange everything in a way that allowed me to carry the purchases, I had to use the emergency door to exit. But I was still somewhat uncertain, so after a few steps I set the bags down and rushed back to actually check the listed closing time, confirming that the store had closed.
The metro came seconds after I got back to the station, and what was strange was that it was once again one of those very old ones, which had also been the case on the way there, and I thought that those were only still being used on line four. Either way, while I was on the metro I put the LED tube back in the backpack, after having carried it to the station in one hand, above a bag. And I changed at Dristor, since I was carrying so much and most of the weight was in my hands, in those two bags, and the number of people who walked past me as I made my way to the other station and the fact that only one train was waiting and 11 minutes were listed on the board when I got there made me think that there will be a pretty long wait, so I slowed… Only to hear the announcement that the doors were closing, so I took those final steps as fast as I could and managed to squeeze in just as the doors closed, so I guess that the train should have already left and the board was listing the departure time for the next one, which hadn’t even arrived yet.
I was back just after 10:40 PM, with almost 19 kg. Then I installed the new LED tube and moved the other one back to the small bathroom, put some of the purchases in their place, ate something sweet and a bag of snacks, went to the bathroom, to use the toilet and shower, just before 12:20 AM, and was done at 1:10 AM. Then I put the remaining purchases in their place, washed what was in the kitchen, and managed to stick to the dinner schedule, but I went to bed at 5:20 AM… And at exactly 11 AM I was woken up by a loud pop or crack. It seemed to come from my room, but my perception was obviously unreliable at that point, and there were some faint noises from that neighbor, so it could have been a loud one from there, or a firecracker thrown outside, or my bookcase, since it does crack sometimes, but I obviously feared for the computer at first, so it’s a relief that it seems to be fine. Otherwise, there were no visits recorded on either February 1 or February 2.