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Peering out from their prison.
It was a stay-at-home weekend, for which I was grateful. We got mucho yardwork done, and I got injured in the process. I seem to have been in a mood to hurt myself this weekend.

First, I cut the back of my hand while reaching into the sink. Then, I got a splinter in one finger from the handles on the wheelbarrow. Later, while I was disassembling a rusted shelf frame with a sledgehammer, I lost my balance and slammed my shin into a lower strut. At first, this merely hurt. A few minutes later, though, it felt wet, and I spotted a huge bloodstain on the shin of my jeans. The injury was tiny but deep, and I may have bruised bone in the working.

Later, I made macaroni & cheese with Maytag Blue instead of Parmesan and first scalded the back of my other hand with molten cheese sauce, and then while putting the ramekins into the oven brushed the back of my arm against the upper oven rack.

I have got to stop hurting myself like this. I'm not emo. If I was an animist, I'd suspect the universe was getting back at me for the wonderful, mind-boggling, curiously illicit-seeming (although it was legitimately up-and-up all the way) rendezvous I had had the night before. Of that, I can't say more in public.

Sunday, I hurt myself less, spent a lot of time driving Myself, Kouryou-chan and Omaha hither-and-thither: haircuts, monthly warehouse grocery run, library run, Omaha had an evening meeting.

I finished playing Prey on my new computer. Is it possible for a computer to have too much cooling? Wish never seems to get much past 38C (100F), and even running Prey all-out (two processors, GPU demands set to maximum) it barely cracked 47C (117F). I'm not inclined to overclock, so the five fans and Harley-Davidson sized CPU radiator now seem excessive to me. Still, they're all surprisingly quiet.

The cats are now fully healthy, as you can see. Rambunctious and a bit obnoxious, but otherwise fine. Neither is as cuddly as Dinah ever was, but both will tolerate a hug now and then.

Date: 2011-02-21 08:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lynx212.livejournal.com
Glad the cats are well but wish I could say the same for you. *hugs* If you had been up to no good I would definitely call Karma but it seems you just had a run of bad luck.

I have to give you props for continuing to do things because at some point between the shin incident and cooking I think I would have tossed in the towel, settled in a quiet corner with a book and waited for dawn...lol

Date: 2011-02-21 11:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elfs.livejournal.com
What? And miss the rest of the day? Nah. Omaha and I are the stupid type: we get up out of our sickbed and do stuff, even if that incapacitates us for the next week afterward... :-/

Date: 2011-02-23 05:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lynx212.livejournal.com
LOL you sound like a trooper!! That's the spirit...in it to win it till the end! ^_^

Date: 2011-02-23 04:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] woggie.livejournal.com
I figure "too cold" for a computer is when the machine lowers the temperature of the room by a noticeable amount.

It hasn't ever happened to me, although I suspect it might be possible for some configurations.

Date: 2011-02-27 08:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lisakit.livejournal.com
It wasn't karma, the universe was just jealous. It hadn't seen that much action since the big bang.

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