Feh. This inability to upload is really frustrating, and I'm stuck thinking about these two pics I wanted to put up, which is kinda preventing me from blogging.

And I'm falling behind on my watching. I'm pulling down at least six or seven shows this season, but I've barely watched any of it save for a bit of Neir Automata. I'm finishing up the second season of Shield Hero, which shows you how far behind I am.

As much as I love Spy x Family, I keep bouncing off of episode 17. Right about where Anya is planning to show off the picture of her dog. I keep pausing for some reason, and I have a bluescreen before I get back to it. That some reason is probably because I hate humiliation scenes so much, and I can just tell one is coming.

I actually HAVE managed to eliminate a few causes of my bluescreens. One was that my CPU was running a little hot because the cooling puck was building up a little corrosion and gunk. Fortunately the design I chose is a) easy to disassemble and b) clear, so I could see what the problem was. That dropped a good 5-10 Degrees (C) off my temp, which helps. The second was a crash that happened roughly every other day between 3:00 am and 4:30 am. For some reason I'd get up in the morning and there would be a 50/50 chance I'd have to log in again. Bluescreen View didn't tell me anything useful other than the time, and that it was a K-Mode Exception failure. Well, that time was very useful when I finally looked at the task scheduler. Seems there was a scheduled task to run some Microsoft Telemetry program. Which must be way out of date anyway, and possibly updated to some version incompatible with Windows 7. I deleted those tasks a week and a half ago, and no early morning reboots since.

I still die horribly watching YouTube videos. Oddly that happens very reliably if it's a video about guns. Hmmmm.

On the downside, after reinstalling the cooling puck, I really should have tightened the hose clamps more. A VERY slow drip eventually nuked my 980 card. Fortunately I was able to swap in a 650 card I forgot I had, and that's working okay, games are slow, YouTube still crashes, but it's live until I can finally take a crowbar to my wallet and build a new machine. (My main concern is that Win10 supposedly hunts and kills uTorrent, and I depend on that program's labeling system to track what I'm watching).

I wrote a story for the Jim Baen Memorial short story contest. Got the first round rejection notice with zero feedback a week or so later. So I turned it into my first submission to Analog. Wish me luck.

Posted by: Mauser at February 25, 2023 09:42 PM (BzEjn)

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