Cav's Place

Since I forgot to change the date of that scheduled post before posting the initial version of the one posted just before midnight on December 7, it ended up showing up for a moment, though I realized it and sorted it out right away. And then, a little after 12:05 AM, I went to the bathroom, to use the toilet and wash. I was done at 1:10 AM, but then I spent a little time on the computer and moved what I could easily move without turning it off, to have a little less to do after dinner, so it was almost 1:25 AM when I went back to the kitchen, but I still easily stuck to the dinner schedule, actually finishing at 3:35 AM. However, it was just over half an hour later when I really got to work on moving the desk back, and it was almost 5:20 AM when I thought that I was done and turned the computer back on… Only to realize that I had mixed the power cords and the one going into the computer was the one that should be left available for the old one, so I had to turn it off again and switch them. And it was 5:55 AM when I got in bed, by which point it was very clear that my digestive system was dealing with something.
On top of that, I also had a stuffy nose when the workers who were supposed to drill those holes in the walls rang the doorbell and woke me at 8:20 AM. Either way, dad told them to start with the living room and I rushed to change and remove the cardboard covering my window, after which I helped dad when they needed water and stood around while they worked, their power strip being moved to my room when they got here and staying here while they worked on the other bedroom as well, so my window had to stay open and the bug net moved aside until they were done and I only shut it again at 10:30 AM, when I heard them ask how to get back out and then immediately supply the answer themselves, saying that they’ll go through the balcony. And at least they did drill the hole on the other side, even though the plan supposedly calls for it to be drilled on this side where I have the computer, so it’s a good thing that I moved the desk, because they called someone about it, saying that they should all be aligned and there are even talks about moving it for the apartment from the fifth floor where dad had seen that it had also been drilled on this other side, but they did insist on the phone that we had furniture on that side… Only for dad to repeat, loudly, that he had moved the furniture from there, because at the same time I asked him whether it was really all right for the hole to be drilled on that side in his bedroom, so if the person on the other side of that call heard that, it’d have sounded really bad, and the guy actually snapped at dad to shut up because he was trying to say that it was furniture that can’t be moved, and later I heard him say that it has to appear like that because those in charge won’t care about a computer desk, but only about large furniture covering the wall.
Either way, I was once again frozen, on top of having only slept for some two hours, not feeling well, and seeing that my face was quite yellow when I went to the bathroom. But I had to at least vacuum the obvious dirt from my room, and dad also wanted to cook, so I took what he needed out of the freezer, and also washed what was in the kitchen at that point and cleaned up a little, before getting back in bed at 11:15 AM, at least to warm up a little, since the workers were drilling those holes at other apartments. But the noise was relatively distant, at least at some point, so after a while I did get back to sleep, and when I was woken up I fell asleep again almost immediately, at least until the drilling became much louder. According to dad, that must have been when they got to drill the remaining hole upstairs, for the living room, which must have been why that sort of noise didn’t last that long and after it ended, a little after 3:20 PM, I crawled out of bed to pee, hoping to be able to get back to sleep after that. However, despite only checking the time again and deciding to get up when it was almost 4:30 PM, I couldn’t do that. But at least my digestive system seemed to have gotten through most of the problem, though on the other hand my nose remained stuffy, and dad later asking me to hold the garbage bag open while he struggled to pour the contents of the vacuum cleaner’s bag in it and therefore clouding both of us in dust and dirt for quite a few minutes definitely didn’t help. Either way, some time after midnight I crawled back in bed and had another little nap, after which I couldn’t persuade myself to get back up for a longer time than what I had spent sleeping, so I only went back out of my room close to 1:50 AM and ended up eating dinner between 3:45 AM and 4:35 AM. And no visits were recorded for December 8.

At least I could sleep quite well, waking up a few times but getting right back to sleep until 2 PM, when the noise got louder and I was kept awake for a longer time. But I eventually managed to catch a couple more brief naps until dad getting back and another “round” of louder noises made me get up, just before 3:45 PM. And then I had lunch, did the day’s squats, and went out at 7:35 PM, with the recyclables with the deposit symbol, picking up one more on the way to Penny Titan and putting them in the machine from there before getting what I wanted and a bun, with the evening discount of only 30% from there, to be able to use another one of those vouchers from their coins campaign, along with the one received for the recyclables. And after arranging the purchases in the backpack I entered that Mega Image with it, seeing that the bakery discounts, still of 50%, were already made, but just buying some garlic and adding it in the backpack before deciding to stick to the idea of running the following day and therefore not coming back too late.
Still, I did make the detour to Carrefour on the way back, once again entering with the backpack and getting some expiring chickpeas that actually have the same expiration date as those I purchased back in July, when they had a regular discount, and which I’m yet to use, so these were much cheaper and I really shouldn’t have bought those, not that I could have known it then. Either way, I got a bag of cat litter as well, scanning it to confirm that the price was the one from the catalog, since the price label listed a slightly higher one, and then I also used the voucher received for previous purchases when I paid. And then I added the chickpeas in the backpack, grabbed some recyclables on the way back, put them in the machine from the nearby Mega Image, and cashed in the voucher, only leaving the cat litter aside when I went to the checkout to do that… And then I grabbed one more recyclable right after walking out, plus one without a label that seemed to fit the label that I still had, but I wasn’t going to go right back and put those in as well.
I was at the door at 9:55 PM, having carried 12 kg, and I only weighed 45.5 kg. Then I cleaned the litter box and went to drop a bag of trash down the chute, washed what was in the kitchen, ate a sweet pastry, diced two small apples, mixed them with some sugar, and ate those as well, and just after 12:20 AM I went to the bathroom, to use the toilet and wash… With water that was below body temperature, so it wasn’t even 12:50 AM when I was done, and then I got under the blanket, thinking to stay there until I’ll stop shivering… But that didn’t seem to be happening, so I had to make do with just warming up to some extent, since even so it was past 1:35 AM when I went back to the kitchen, and after also taking a cold pill that was most probably expired since September of 2024, I ended up eating dinner between 3:40 AM and 4:10 AM.

The workers woke me early in the morning, with what sounded like scraping and cutting either foam or EPS outside my window, and at one point some loud banging as well. I don’t know when it started, since it was a while before I checked the time and saw that it was close to 8:50 AM, but they eventually moved away and I caught another little nap or two until a few minutes after 10 AM, when I stepped out of my room as dad was getting ready to leave and asked him what had they done. But he didn’t know, having just heard the banging but saying that he hadn’t seen anything changed, so after spending a few minutes on the computer, until he left, I went to pee and blow my nose, what came out being a deep yellow with a greenish tint and rather chunky, and then, a little after 10:20 AM, I got back in bed, managing to get back to sleep quickly and staying asleep until 1 PM, when the alarm rang and I got up. Then I had the usual stuff, the yogurt being a bio (organic) one expired for a few days and replacing one of the almonds with an apricot pit. I had two left to crack, but unless there was a tiny core that flew off when I managed to crack the shell and I couldn’t find it, the second one seemed dry. Either way, I left at 3:40 PM, wearing the full running gear, one armband, and that thing that goes on my neck, the reported temperature being 10-11°C, dropping by a couple of degrees by the time I finished. And on the way to the park I was stopped by a couple, or more exactly by the guy, who asked how many kilometers I run per day, seeming a little disappointed when I said that it’s just once per week, and usually ten, sometimes 16, but then asking a few more questions about running and seeming to also have a discussion with the woman through me, in a way.
The time was 48:55.89, with sector times of 4:19.79, 5:10.03, 6:10 (6:09.50), 4:37 (4:36.94), 5:14.41, 6:06 (6:05.40), 4:28.44, 5:09.03, 5:55 (5:54.53) and 1:47.82, making for lap times of 15:39.32, 15:57 (15:56.75) and 15:32.00. I was hoping to be less slow than the previous week, but didn’t really know what to expect, and that first sector wasn’t exactly promising. But it could have been worse, and the second sector wasn’t quite that bad, so I was thinking that I should just cover the first lap in less than 15:30… Only to be shockingly slow on sector three, leading to once again wondering whether I’ll even stay under 50 minutes. And sector one of lap two only made those concerns even more founded, though I then did enough over the next two sectors to at least cover the lap in less than 16 minutes. But that required already starting to push by the end of that lap, and just staying under 50 minutes was not a target that I cared to aim for, so I pushed harder from the start of lap three, hoping to somehow squeeze under 49 minutes after all and thinking that I might just have a chance after sector one of lap three… Only for the following sector to change that. But I still went for it on sector three, even if I didn’t really think that I still had enough in me, and did just enough to give myself a chance at the end of the lap. I still had to gain some seconds over the final sector, however, so I pushed every step of the way, even if my nostrils were tightening and I even breathed in through my mouth, through gritted teeth, a few times, but I did manage a surprisingly good time on that final sector, ending up frustratingly close to the previous week’s time. But it was still worse than then, and that was a bad time anyway, so this was only worse…
Towards the end of lap two I started feeling like I hadn’t left everything in the toilet and the feeling continued on sector one of lap three, when I also felt some warnings from the back of my left hip, but then both of these issues went away. On the other hand, at the end of the long straight of sector one of lap three I felt that I had pushed too hard and had to slow for a few seconds, though I then managed to push through the issue. However, my nostrils started tightening as I continued, the problem becoming more notable towards the end of the lap and getting even worse on the final straight, as I already mentioned. Otherwise, there was a pretty normal amount of weaving and going the long way around, but no notable issues caused by people, except perhaps slowing a little on sector one of lap two, as I made my way through a roadblock. And on sector three of lap three I might have also slowed a little while trying to get a better look at the time. But I kept running on both of these occasions, so they wouldn’t really be worth mentioning if I had anything else to list.

After having a quick look in the nearby Mega Image on the way back, I ate lunch, put jam on a large doughnut and ate that as well, did the day’s squats, changed, albeit leaving the running t-shirt on, cleaned the litter box, and went out again at 9:10 PM, dropping a small bag of trash down the chute and taking those recyclables with the deposit symbol that I came back with the previous evening, picking up some more on the way to Kaufland and putting them in the machine from there. That label wouldn’t stay on that one that I was trying to place it on and after a few tries the machine printed the voucher and asked for assistance, probably signaling a fraud attempt, but I just moved to another, was more careful, and it worked on the first try, so I got a second voucher. Then I washed my hands and it was almost 9:45 PM when I entered the store, finding that the bread that had a good regular discount those days was already bagged and that the price label listed the full price, but I took it, looked for a price checker that worked, confirmed the discounted price, and took three of the four remaining loaves. Then I also took two expiring mixes of roasted and salted almonds, cashews and walnuts, which had a great discount, plus a few bananas and a handful of Moldovan plums, the evening discounts being good but not great, used the vouchers received for the recyclables at the self-checkout, and took my time to arrange the purchases in the backpack, walking out right at 10:30 PM. And on the way back I checked two Mega Image locations, entering with everything and then just walking back out, and picked up a couple more recyclables.
I was back at 11:20 PM. Then I cleaned the litter box again and went to drop what I had gathered down the chute, ate a banana, put the purchases in their place, and at 12:45 AM I went to shower, with water that was even colder than the previous evening even though during the day it had been burning hot. And the site continued to list everything being normal in this area, though there is a nearby area where it’s listed that the water temperature doesn’t meet the required parameters. Either way, after trying to let it run a little and noticing that, if anything, it seemed to get even colder, I just went ahead with it and was done just before 1:10 AM. Then I washed what was in the kitchen and cleaned up a little, including sweeping the floor, dealt with one of my breads, took what was the last cold pill that I could find that didn’t have damaged packaging, and which wasn’t even expired yet, and opened one of those nut mixes and ate the cashews and walnuts, plus just a few of the almonds, keeping the rest of the almonds to use before runs, and since the whole thing has some 950 calories and the ingredients list almonds as making up just over a third, I got over 600 calories just from that, maybe more like 650. And then I ate dinner between 4:35 AM and 5:15 AM, the abdominal pain which I had started feeling after getting back and which I initially thought might have been caused by needing to pee quite badly and struggling to hold it in on the way back that evening only getting worse after eating those nuts and the situation definitely not improving after dinner, though at that point it was clear that I had a lot of gas. But things did seem to get somewhat better by the time I went to bed, at 6:55 AM.

I’m pretty sure it was past 10:30 AM when I was woken up by awfully loud drilling, but I didn’t need to pee and remained curled up under the blanked for quite a while before crawling out just enough to check the time and see 10:48 AM. And then the drilling started getting more distant and probably even stopped at some point, so I could get back to sleep, being woken up again around 1:10 PM or so, since it wasn’t yet 1:15 PM when I got up to pee and exchange a few words with dad before getting back in bed. But I was just wasting time, the noise not letting me get back to sleep, so a little after 1:45 PM I got up again, cleaning the litter box and getting on the computer as dad was getting ready to leave. But I was too sleepy to do much of anything, so at 3:20 PM I got back in bed yet again, despite the noise, most of it coming from upstairs by then, the workers who’re retrofitting the building seeming to have moved away from this area. Still, after just lying there for quite a while I eventually managed to catch some brief and agitated naps, only getting up again several minutes after 6:10 PM. And at night I ended up eating dinner between 3:50 AM and 4:30 AM.

At least I could sleep quite well until the afternoon. I did get up to pee once, and was briefly woken up a few more times by noise, but I was mostly asleep until just before 2 PM, when it seemed that dad was about to leave, so I waited for him to do so and then went to pee again before getting back in bed. However, the noise got much worse after that, in good part coming from upstairs, but a fair bit was from outside as well, and at one point I heard a worker wonder whether someone was at home, so what naps I still got were brief, agitated, and filled with those highly realistic bad dreams. But I definitely wasn’t going to move around and risk being seen, especially after hearing that question, so I only got out of bed several minutes after 5 PM, when I knew that the workers were gone. And then I did the day’s squats, cleaned the litter box, and at 8:35 PM I went out, with the recyclables with the deposit symbol.
After having a quick look in that Profi Go and picking up two more recyclables on the way, I reached the Mega Image that closes at 10 PM several minutes before 9 PM and put the recyclables in the machine. Then, seeing that no cheap buns were left in the bakery area and not really caring for anything else if the discounts were still going to be of 50%, I waited for the cart with the products that were discounted by 90% to be brought and wanted to make sure that I won’t miss it… Only to notice a good price for cabbage and think that I could take my time to select a good one and remove the outer leaves, since the employee was placing the discount labels on the bakery products, yet when I looked again I saw that the cart had been brought, and I had once again missed anything more interesting, only some sauce being left, which I didn’t care for. But I had seen some chicken parts that had a 50% discount and which dad could use, so I bought those along with the cabbage, which I had weighed first, at the unmanned checkout, to know what the total would be. And then I used the voucher received for the recyclables when I paid, after the cashier accidentally scanned the regular bar code for those chicken parts at first, so I said that the total couldn’t be right and he saw what had happened and corrected it. And then, thinking that the handball match was starting at 9:30 PM, I jogged back, though I picked up another recyclable and meant to put it in the machine from the nearby Mega Image, only for it to report that a bin was full as soon as the person who was using it when I got there was done, so I came back with it.
I got back at 9:35 PM, noticing that something had bitten me on the right leg, right where the top of the sock was… And that the handball match actually started at 9:45 PM. Either way, I ate a few plums and rearranged some things in the fridge to make room for that cabbage, and a little before half time dad got back, looking really unsteady on his feet and just barely dragging himself to the couch, quite literally dragging his right leg with his hands and complaining of terrible pain in that area that’s been bothering him. So I exchanged a few words with him, but I meant to have another look in the nearby Mega Image at half time, expecting the bakery discounts to be made, so I dashed back down at that point to do so… Only to find no bakery discounts and, despite standing around for several minutes, no sign that they were going to be made. On the other hand, I saw that the price of cabbage was a little lower than what I had paid in the other location, but all of it from this location looked really bad. So I had nothing to get and just came back up.
Dad was getting ready to take a bath when I got back, but he also seemed at least a little drunk, so I asked him about that and he said that it’s nothing compared to the pain, which I took as an admission, becoming concerned that he may fall asleep in the bathtub again. Either way, I then went to drop a bag of trash down the chute, then ate lunch, mixing some partly melted candies which had been brought by dad during summer, in the heat, into it instead of eating them separately, and then waited for dad to come out of the bathroom, so it was past 12:35 AM when I could finally go… And just over 35 minutes later when I was done, even though I also used the toilet before showering, because by that time the water, which had definitely been hot earlier, was barely around body temperature. That made me crawl in bed again, only getting back to the kitchen just before 1:55 AM and ending up eating dinner between 4 AM and 4:40 AM, during which time I also checked the price of cabbage at Mega Image and saw that the lower one was the correct one, so it wasn’t like that at this nearby one just because it was so bad and I had for some reason ended up paying a little more at that other location… And by now I noticed that it should be even cheaper at Auchan, and I could end up going there one of these days, so I shouldn’t have bought that from there, and it’s not like I touched it yet. But, to return to that morning, dad got up to go to the bathroom while I was getting ready for bed, so we talked a little more and I got in bed at 5:55 AM.

I could pretty much sleep until just before 11:30 AM, when dad was about to leave and loud noises started coming from upstairs, so I got back in bed after going to pee, but getting back to sleep was quite a problem and I was just catching agitated naps. And the thing is that I only decided to get up when I noticed that it was starting to get dark, checked the time, and saw 4:26 PM, and at that point it had been mostly quiet for some time, but I had also remained pretty much awake just during that time, at most drifting off very briefly once or twice, and I’m not even sure of that. Either way, when I later turned on the TV tuner’s software, the image went briefly dark again, making me think that it may have something to do with that. But what I was really anxious about was that my cousin from my father’s side was supposed to come in the evening and take a look at what had to be done around the apartment, and dad had said that he should be here around 9 PM… Only to get back around 8:30 PM and say that it was supposed to be around 10:30 PM instead, which pretty much threw a wrench in my plan to make mamaliga in the evening. And things got even worse when it was actually almost 11:10 PM when he got here. At least he agreed with my ideas and dismissed dad’s, so after he left dad had to admit that I knew what I was talking about when he had snapped at me over what he considered to be senseless plans. And, even if it was so late by then, I then did make mamaliga after all, “cheating” in order to be able to say that I took a first bite in my room before 3 AM and having a little more in the kitchen, but actually starting to eat in my room close to 3:20 AM and finishing at 4 AM. I got in bed at 5:30 AM. And no visits were recorded on December 13.

As for today, the initial plan was to post something else, but that’s not written while this personal update is, and I’m going out again this evening, so let me start from the morning and say that I managed to get back to sleep quickly after the first time I got up to pee and also after waking up when dad left, but after going to pee again, around 11:20 AM, there was some noise from upstairs and it took me quite a long time to fall asleep again, probably only doing so after it was pretty much quiet again. And even after I did, I only managed some agitated naps, with bad dreams, before the alarm rang, at 3:20 PM, and I got up to watch handball, also doing the day’s squats and making the system backup during the match, since Windows updates are paused until December 15 and I learned that some November updates have been offered even to those who don’t use a Microsoft account to enroll for extended support, and also that the option to pause updates gets disabled, so I have to see what I’ll do about that and whether I can avoid dealing with the matter for a while longer. Either way, I ate lunch during the final, with some nicer bagels instead of bread, leaving a few to munch on towards the end of the match, and now I’m rushing out.
However, before I do, it seems that I need to once again mention that the middle button of my mouse seems to be double clicking even worse, and it is still under warranty until February, but it’s not being produced anymore, and even the brand vanished, being completely taken over by Turtle Beach, so I wonder what may happen if I’ll send it to be fixed, because I want this model, not the money back, which I won’t be able to use to get another one like it, or having it replaced with the newer model, which has three buttons less.