Here I am again. I know I have been pretty bad about writing
updates, and worse about being able to check in on friends and see how
everyone is doing.
I just can't seem to catch a
break. Just when I think I'll be able to get back into a good routine
centered around this, it never fails that something always happens to
throw things into utter chaos. Murphey's Law.
Not
complaining about it, just laughing at all the ironies and making note
of much flailing and swearing that ensued. Imagine it in the comical
sense of watching my spotty-stripe self run around flailing and maybe
swearing in ancient Pictish or some Lovecraftian tongue.
First,
my computer that is used for basically everything I do, from digital
edits of images and video to crafty creative and social media related
things like being able to browse Facebook or similar sites, to playing
games like Skyrim, Fallout, and a handful of others that help me keep
some semblance of my (in)sanity.... well, it started acting very weirdly
months ago, freezing and hating on web browsing and programs.
It
got worse and started randomly shutting down and restarting for no
apparent reason. Right in the middle of me working. Lots of lost edits. Then just
restarting no matter what I did, without warning. I posted more about it
on Patrreon, so head there for that full story. Thankfully I fixed it.
Which is why I can post now! Yay!
During
the time that was happening, our AC broke. We were without air
conditioning for a week. In 90F + heat. Those sorts of conditions are
pretty miserable for normal people.
My health
problems and faulty autonomic system not regulating body temperature
right, made it gazillions and trillions times worse. I was overheating
like nobody's business.
It made me real
sick and triggered flairups of epic proportions. Bless my amazing aunt
for covering the cost of repair and small portable AC unit till we could
fight with the warranty people.
I glued myself in front of the window unit and stayed in one spot, with only the little portable AC to cool the entire house.
I barely managed to avoid a trip to the ER from heat stroke.
I
was pretty delirious during that time, but I remember thinking it was
funny that all the animals were huddled in the room by the portable AC
trying to stay cool. The rest of the house was an oven.
Near
the end of that ordeal, our dishwasher started leaking water all over
the kitchen floor. Thank goodness we didn't start it as we were going
to bed. I heard the water from the other room. I actually thought it
was one of the cats or dogs drinking, and went to investigate because it
sounded weird. Much flailing and spazzing followed as I went grabbing
for towels to soak up the water. We're still waiting to have an extra
$75 to get that fixed. Put down a drip pan right against the leaking
edge to catch any water for the time being.
Now
that I am not melting into a puddle and my computer is behaving itself
again, I will be getting back around the catch-up game. Apologies for
masses of responses, comments, etc. that you might get from me at one
time.
Hope everyone is well and look forward to catching up.
