Outpost of the World

TMW your decades-old external drive is no longer recognized by your computer and is clicking at you. 

I should've taken the time to get *everything* off the drive, not just the stuff I wanted on the new one. I knew it was very old. I knew it was having trouble. I just thought I could squeeze another year out of it. 

A drive recovery program is running right now, and it sees the drive as "Lost Partition" so I have hope. Not much, but I do. If I recover my music library I'll be happy. It's taken almost 24 hours so far and it's about maybe 5% done, by my calculations. I'm really bad at math, though, so I'm hoping it's a little farther along than that.

Went to Sprouts yesterday. Fresh veggies, frozen veggies, veggie burgers. Some other stuff I don't remember, but it was all needed. We didn't have a single goddamn vegetable in the house before that trip. I had to dip into money I was trying to save for upcoming bills, but it was worth it.

I hope.

Dad found the Barnes & Noble gift card. I bought some things I don’t strictly need on Amazon but really, really wanted (Bubblegum Mogu Mogu juice, more drink mix, and a floral culinary syrup sampler) as well as three undershirts for Cal (although I feel like we way overpaid for them, it’s the brand he wanted…) There was also a Christmas DVD in the cart and I went ahead and bought that. It was less than $5. 

I’m quite irate at the state. I’ve been without income for almost a month, and they gave me a single week’s pay this week. Even taking the waiting week into account, they owe me two. I’m going to be so pissed if I never get that missing week.

In terms of video games, there were indeed cheats for Breath of Fire 3. The only problem? A bug in which if I use the front character’s field action, that character freezes. Not the game. Not the emulator. The CHARACTER. I can fix it by turning off the cheats and pressing the direction button rapidly, but man, that’s annoying. 

Anyway, gonna play some BoF3, speaking of it 

I finally got my disability debit card, and my app is all set up. Now is the waiting for the funds. God, I hope there’s backpack in that payment.

I”m not feeling well today. I think it’s going to be a take-it-easy day. I tried to go back to sleep just now but my head hurts and I was BORED, so that’s a good sign that I don’t need more sleep. The boredom part, not the head hurting part. But I can’t get comfortable. Might go for a quick walk once the medicine kicks in.

Apparently there was a thunder storm last night that I slept through. Unusual for me.

I’m gonna go see if I can have some of Dad’s Tums. I don’t have much to say now, anyway. 

So last night Cal’s phone payment came out. That was $90 I had forgotten about. Fortunately we had the money that kind soul donated for the car insurance, but that drops the amount we have to offset the additional payments to $100.

And I still haven’t gotten my debit card from the state. I feel sick. Hopefully I get that today.

I’ve come up with a plan to repair the files damaged in the bug on 4tw. I’ve got a repair project, and a repair log file where I’m listing the files that I’ve rewritten the ending. I’ll do one per day, and then write normally for the rest of my writing. Hopefully this gets me out of this rut I’m in.

So Cal has, I think he said, 54 hours last week, and we’re starting this week with 2 hours of overtime. All because this organization does absolutely no maintenance on their heat/cool systems between seasons. That has to be it, because this happens EVERY TIME the weather changes. I’m not complaining much, as we desperately need the money, but I’d like for Cal to be able to not spend his weekend working once in a while.

In other, work related news, when Orlando laid me off, he told me to hold onto the computer equipment in case he decides to hire me as a contract worker sometime down the line. That was 2 years ago, and communication from him has been minimal. I texted him asking if I can just buy the equipment off him. No answer, and I’m wondering when I can consider this stuff abandoned. I’ll probably give it a week and then ask Dad about using Linux to crack the admin password because I’m tired of it taking up space when I have plenty of things I can use it for.

Gonna go grocerying soon. As soon as my stomach settles from breakfast, I think. I might take a zofran. I don’t know. I think I might need it today.

I feel icky in general today, but the heat’s finally broken, so I’m hoping to be able to enjoy some time outside. 

I texted an older friend I haven’t heard from in a while; I know him through his wife, we used to work together. She had a stroke a couple years ago; he said that she’s improving every day, and that he’s preparing for retirement! Happy for them. I’m a little jealous that Mom’s stroke lead to her death; not that I want Ellyn to have died, absolutely not, but why couldn’t Mom have recovered, too? 

I feel like a horrible human being for this. 

We’re going to be going to see them sometime in July, hopefully. It’s been a long, long while, and I miss chatting with Ellyn. I might text Orlando, too, if for no other reason than to ask him if I can buy the computer off him. It’s been, gosh, three years? Four? I think it’s time. 

Anyway, going to go to the grocery store in 8 minutes, so I better get going.

I might go back to sleep after this.

So yesterday I had to deal with two collections accounts, one of which was mine, although I’ve never gotten a bill (I know the testing was done, they just. Didn’t give me a bill, and I can’t pay what I don’t have a bill for).

The other was not, and I’m getting really pissed with the guy who had this phone number before me not paying his bills.

In other news, Cal put his phone on snooze RIGHT BY MY EAR this morning, which wasn’t fun.

Yeah. I’m going back to sleep.