elfs | Weekendy goodness with catblogging.

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.