Let’s Hope It’ll Be Enough
It was obvious that my computer needed to be cleaned inside when I got a CPU temperature warning a couple of weeks ago. Of course, I have the warning set at what should be the upper limit of the “completely safe” range, so getting it didn’t mean that there were any immediate problems, but it did mean that it had gotten hotter than it usually does, so I quickly cleaned the dust off the case’s vents, which was enough to get it through that day, and then planned to open it up and clean it better as soon as I’ll get a chance. However, last week I simply couldn’t get myself to do it, so it was a good thing that it made it till today as it was, without any other warnings.
The problem now was that I couldn’t find any of the smaller brushes that I used in previous years, seeing as cleaning the coolers is something I did in the first part of every summer ever since I got it, and using the bigger one that I did find was far from ideal, not allowing me to reach many places. And when you add the fact that the hairdryer that I use to blow the loose dust away only produces hot air and therefore can only be aimed at the heat sink in short bursts, to avoid making it extremely hot, it only follows that I couldn’t exactly do a good job.
I did remove a whole lot of dust, but the worst of it is probably still there, hardened and blocking airflow, which explains why I’m now looking at internal temperatures that are 5°C above what I had during the first summer after getting this computer, and those temperatures may increase even further… The problem being that if they increase by even 2°C more, I’ll get that warning again, which would indicate that I actually made it worse, somehow. Sure hope that’s not the case…
Otherwise, read a second one of the books I got, namely The Eternity Artifact. Thought I might as well get it out of the way, since it’s not part of any series and it’s also the only one that’s not fantasy, so did that, posted the usual two-paragraph review and now I’m wondering how much should I wait before picking up another. I mean, between the two orders, I did get a total of seven books, but it may well be about a year until I’ll get some more, so I’d rather space them out instead of going through all of them in a few weeks and then being left without anything to read for who knows how long yet again…
As for writing, the plan was to start going back to fill in some of the many blanks this month, but so far none of that is happening and, as always, every day that passes makes it even more difficult to do pretty much anything at all. But maybe I’ll at least manage to post something somewhat more detailed here next week, such as a post about our president getting suspended and all the other crap that’s been going on here lately, which could all be very briefly summarized as USL doing exactly what I’ve been warning everyone about over the past six months or so and very quickly replacing PDL’s admittedly rotten practices with even worse ones of their own….
