Tired and Disturbed

It's been a day. We woke up late this morning and Omaha made these wonderful blintzes, but after getting the girls dressed and ready to go we did a few routine things about the house before heading out to a birthday party at a friend of Yamaarashi-chan's that she sees rarely these days. I'm not sure why, but I felt alienated and tired all day. I spent most of the party in a corner, trying not to get too involved and instead reading Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold. The birthday girl injured herself on the rental bouncy castle and had to go to the hospital, but the dozen or so little girls carried on without her.

We left about five so we could get Yamaarashi-chan back to her mother's house by six. When I got home, I found my main box had crashed and this message waiting in the log:

 
hdb: dma_intr: status=0x7f { DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete 
    DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error } 
hdb: dma_intr: error=0x7f { DriveStatusError UncorrectableError 
    SectorIdNotFound TrackZeroNotFound AddrMarkNotFound }, 
    LBAsect=260013951, sector=18796514 
hdb: DMA disabled 
ide0: reset: success 

Great. Lovely. Wonderful. Well, it is the oldest drive in the box; I wouldn't be surprised if the heat was causing some of that though. It recovered, but it's tossed that error at least once since then. I took the cover off the case in the hope of cooling them down, but those drives are running at least 75C or so.

And I left my usenet troller on and when I got home, there were a couple of new things on my hard drive, including an anime porn that I'm not going to name; it was just so gross that I'm hoping I can erase it from my brain. I did get a batch of self-titled "Brain-rotting super cute jpop"; I'll probably listen to it tomorrow.

Retrospectacle

I've installed SMARTmon on my system and it's reporting that my root drive is a little hot, but I've taken the covers off and it seems to be cooling down. Other than that, no dramatic errors appear to be cropping up. I'll keep my eye on it for a while and hope that it was just overheating. Given that the Windows™ drive also showed errors, it may have been motherboard temperature rather than drive temperature that caused the issues.

I had the pleasure this evening, after cleaning the kitchen, of sorting through some ancient porn, to wit, Playboys from the 1970s. And, y'know what, I married a very beautiful woman. Before the '90s, before plastic surgery, Photoshop, and private personal trainers starting manufacturing impossibly long-torsoed, long-legged, sleek and glistening women, the women of Playboy were, well, the girl next door.

And they were. In ways that you simply can't find these days. Remember the old porn theory? That porn turned men into ravenous, raping beasts? The new porn theory is that since normal women cannot possibly look like what the Internet easily serves up every day men have trouble relating to normal women; what they see in companions pales in comparison to online smut, and so women have a much harder time getting over the twins hurdles of looks and ease-of-use-- so to speak.

I liked wandering through those ancient tomes. Those were real women. They had bodyfat. They had real breasts. They looked like my wife. Okay, so that had really big hair too, that was the '70s, that was the fashion.