First Snow and More Updates
After waking up today, I started going through recent events and trying to find the best way to order them in this post, since the only clear idea for a non-personal post that I currently have deals with something that’s not very clear yet, so I should wait a while longer before writing about it. However, that changed somewhat when I finally got up and raised the blinds, as what greeted me was snow, both on the ground and in the air, as large snowflakes kept falling.
It looks like it’ll melt soon enough, due to both the temperature being perhaps a little too high and the fact that it seems to be mixed with a little rain, not to mention that the snowflakes are now much smaller than they were an hour ago, but it certainly is something. This may yet be one of those “winters” without enough snow to stay on the ground overnight, I guess I’ll see that tomorrow, but at least I finally saw some of it, even if only in the second half of January. I’d need way more than this for that nice feeling of a proper winter, but at least it’s a start.
In other news, today marks 30 days since the first symptoms of this cold. Granted that for the past ten or so I can’t say that I felt particularly ill anymore, as what symptoms are left are quite normal throughout the cold season for me, but I know that at least a good part of these are left from that cold and not just the regular mild stuff, plus that I do occasionally feel that there’s still a small amount of crap in my lungs, so still need to limit what slides down from my nose and try to spit it out, usually once or twice per day.
On the other hand, I’m no longer exhausted, as I was for several days after the worse symptoms finally went away, when I could hardly even move, my body obviously demanding compensation for the more than two weeks spent coughing and trying to spit crap out almost constantly while getting little to no sleep. I’m still unusually hungry most of the time, however, which is very strange for me but I guess pretty normal, seeing as my body most likely used up any reserves it might have had and now wants to restore them.
Since I was feeling better, I could go and buy some things at the start of the week. There were four things that I really needed and found something at least somewhat suitable for each, though I’m hardly happy with two of them. Still, those two were really getting to be urgent needs, one of them because I kept putting it off for the past two years, and what I found was cheap enough and should have me covered for another year or two, so I guess it’s not bad. I’d have preferred something more expensive but that would be more likely stay in good condition for a much longer amount of time, but that’s increasingly difficult to find either way, considering our current throwaway culture…
The purchases also included a few things that were getting close to becoming needs, a few others that I simply wanted at this time and a few more that I bought because I noticed they were needed around the house, not just for myself. Unfortunately, this meant that this was the most expensive such “shopping trip” I ever made, the total being about a third higher than the previous such negative record, if I may call it so. Now the exact amount may not sound like quite so much even for someone earning what I heard is the average salary in Bucharest, and would most likely be very little for people living abroad, but it gave me a very unpleasant feeling, especially considering that I spent a fair amount last month as well, considering what I did.
Still, there are a couple more things that will relatively soon become needs, so I’ll be having another look next week to see if I can find something for those “slots” as well. I don’t have much left on me, but it should be possible to get something, assuming I’ll somehow find what I’m looking for. After this, I really hope that nothing else will pop up and I won’t need anything more in particular for quite some time, because I’m feeling bad enough already, not to mention that it’s hard enough to buy anything myself either way.
On a lighter note, I’m still playing Empire Earth and just managed to finish the second campaign of the original game yesterday, after also finishing the first campaign of the expansion earlier this month. Unfortunately, I already felt rather uncomfortable because a few units that used firearms were introduced in said second campaign’s sixth scenario and then this type of warfare was the norm for the final two scenarios, which took place in the 1800s.
I’m not sure what I’ll do next, because the third campaign from the original game and the second from the expansion take place in the 1900s. That means that I’ll have to deal with modern warfare, which I really don’t handle well and have next to no interest in, so the computer is already making rather short work of me and I have little motivation to put much effort into it. But I’ll keep trying for a while and see what happens. It’s not like I’m exactly keen on playing anything else at the moment, so it’s probably either this or nothing and I might as well try.
But now I grabbed a little something to eat and the newspapers from the kitchen, so I’ll stop this here, go through those and then see what else I can do this evening, while also continuing to keep an eye on that issue that I said at the beginning of this post that I mean to write about as soon as I’ll know more about it. You should be getting that post next week, if all goes well.
