Yet another weekend ends….

Still sick. I think I’m going to skip the flu shot this year. Just because I think I’ve already had it this year. For the most part, I can manage it now without any medications. Though if I can devote more than 8 hours to sleeping, I will be properly dosing the Nyquil. Well, not Nyquil, but the Wally World house brand equivalent.

Tried to buy a legitimate Windows 10 license for my computer. So, I went to the Microsoft store and ordered the download version. I paid for it via PayPal. I was intending to use my PayPal line of credit (which is how paid for my laptop Windows upgrade). But instead they drew it from my checking account. So, my account is currently overdrawn. But I will learn from my mistake, and own up to it. In a side note, my tower will have a legitimate Windows 10 install. But that will have to wait till next weekend. I am getting things ready though for it.

What I’ve been doing that past couple of weeks it switching my sleep schedule to port-and-starboard so I can have one day off with daylight. But I think next week, I think I’ll just sleep during the day, and stay up relatively late. I will adjust….

The changing of the seasons…

I haven’t run my air conditoner in the past week. And in the week before when I ran it, the compressor rarely kicked on. So Tuesday morning, I took it down. And I ran the heat that day, too. Summer is definitely over, and the transition to fall in underday. I guess it’s time for pumkin spice everything now….

Been feeling kinda sick this past week

Started out last Monday when I woke up with chest pains. Don’t ask me why I didn’t call 911 or go to the Emergency Room, but it just didn’t feel like a coronary. I went to work Monday night, and worked my shift as scheduled. When I got on the bus home the next day the pains had subsided (basically it just nerves/psychosomatic). But when I went to work the following Thursday, I had the aches and pains. You know, the aches and pains you get when you get sick. It was a premonition. And I could tell that this was going to be not very good. Then the sore throat hit, along with aches. Sunday, my cough started. Monday I barely made it to work, but I somehow kept functioning to work. By the time I got home Tuesday morning, I was ready to curl up with a botlle of Nyquil and sleep it off. But my congestion and my cough were at the worst. But there was something about 10+ hours of sleep that help relieve my symptoms considerably. And no, I didn’t just curl up a bottle of Nyquil. I followed the dosing instructions precisely.

I’m still sick. But I’m feeling better. Though something tells me I can probably skip the flu shot this year, since I think I’ve already had it….

Not much happened on my weekend…

Not much has happened on my weekend these past two ‘days’. I have found a way to have an day off on my weekend (I work nights now, btw"). Basically my Friday is Tuesday morning. I try to run my errands on the way home. Tuesday I then go to sleep all day (making a point to turn my alarm off). Wake up in the evening, and I start my laundry.  About 2 am Wednesday morning, I go to bed again, for about 4 hours. That gets me up Wednesday morning, and I’m awake enough to have an actual ‘day’ off. If I need to take day to go mall-ratting, or just enjoy a cup of coffee in downtown Seattle, this is when I do it. Late Thursday afternoon (about 7-ish), I’ll take another 4 hout nap, and then I’ll stay up until late Thursday morning, when I’ll go to bed to wake up to go to work.

It is a little complicated, but it enables me to have an actual day off, and still have my circadian rhythm set for working night shifts….

My comments on what’s going on in the other Washington…

So much has goneon in Washington. Not this one, but the other one:

• John McCain passed away. He was a hero and a stateman. True statesmen are bound to no party. He wasn’t afraid to cross party lines, either to work with the other party, or to just follow his conscience.
• Cohen flipped. And sang. And identified President Cheetos-Face as knowing about it.
• Manafort was found guilty. Literally within 2 minutes of Cohen flipping. And he has another trial coming up.
• President Cheetos-Face’s top two Congressional supporters were indicted.

President Cheetos-Face ran on a platform of draining the swamp. It appears as though he replaced the swamp with a cesspool. The way things appear, I don’t think he’ll finish out his term.

Normally, I take a step back from partisan politics. Going back to Eisenhower, both parties have had equal time in the White House, and the political spectrum has swung both ways multiple times peacefully. America has always been great, but with current situation, we need to do much better. And the sooner President Cheetos-Face is constitutionally removed form office, the better….

New computer arrived today….

Last week as you my know, I f*cked up my computer and had to order a replacement. Ordered it off of eBay. I got a HP Pavilion 500-314. It was replacing a HP Pavilion 500-214. I deliberately ordered this specific model so I could part out my old computer, and put all the upgrades (especially the 4 tb hard drive, and the 24 gb of RAM) into the computer. So there were some concerns with my computer (it was used and ‘refurbished’ so I knew that I wasn’t getting something fresh from the factory):

• The RAM: the eBay listing said it had 8 gb of RAM. When I got my HP Pavilion 500-214 (factory refurbished by HP), it had 8 gb, but it was all on 1 DIMM. This one had 4 2 gb DIMMs.
• The hard drive. This specific model of computer was first produced in 2014, and it came with Windows 8.1. The hard drive was made in 2010. Again, it appears as though it was parted out and replaced with an older part.
• The operating system. It was listed on eBay as having Windows 10 Pro, but the included hard drive was not bootable. I think what happened is that the seller just copied another Windows 10 harddrive and put it in the computer. Fortunately, I was able to simply install my old hard drive (lock, stock, and barrel) into my system. It took about 20 minutes to reinstall some drivers, and I was back up and running. Although this means that I will be buying Windows 10 Pro for it when I decide to run it. The new computer is sufficiently similar to my old computer that I can get away with moving items over, but I don’t think that’ll work with my Windows 10 license…

Yes, my computer has issues, but they were items that can address. Technically it wasn’t bootable when I got it, but I still left positive feedback for the transaction, because it was a computer that works….

Why do I want cake today?

I just got home from work, and there’s an overwhelming desire for cake. I just can’t figure out why. Oh, well. Happy Birthday.

And if it’s not your birthday, have some cake anyway…