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I am terribly behind at reading again.

In my defense: it's been a stressful month and then a week or so ago I started coughing up blood and have been having to have scans and take antibiotics and grapple with the realisation that, oh, actually I was quite sick indeed.

It was weird, because I had almost no secondary symptoms - like, even the cough wasn't severe. So I could feel like I wasn't sick at all right up until the sheer effort factor of getting up to pee had me shaking by the time I got back to the couch.

And in the meantime, my computer had to spend almost a week back at the service centre, because when I put it in for repairs a couple of months ago, they addressed the issue with the power fluctuations by replacing the external power supply... which worked for a while, until the short in the port it plugs into fried the new one enough that that started malfunctioning too.

I suspect words might be exchanged at the service centre, because they had to spend most of a week working on it as a priority job, and then replace the power supply again, replace the motherboard (which the port connects to), and replace the port, with all the hours of disassembly, reassembly, and testing that involves, and all they charged me for was the motherboard itself. The cost of the power supply and labour was waived.

Without my asking, but come to that it would have been quite the argument if they'd tried to charge me for most of that. The new power supply wouldn't have been necessary if they fixed the issue I reported the first time properly, and the motherboard probably still would have needed replacing but that would have been a minimal task if they'd done it when they had the thing disassembled for the other stuff.

Who looks at a power supply with a plug that has visible scorch marks and is partially melted and thinks: "We'll just replace this, and everything will be fine!" without working out how that happened?

All of this, plus a bunch of (blood-)family stuff, has taken out the last few weeks for me. And also for the people I live with.

I'm trying to come to terms with it being okay that my problems are problems for my loved ones too. That's how family works. It's how it goes.

Current Music: FFIX: Chocobo Lagoon
Current Location: my couch
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From:[personal profile] lilysea
Date: March 4th, 2019 03:30 pm (UTC)
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Oooof. I hope you feel better soon!

and much empathy and solidarity: I've spent the past 14 days on bed rest, with a virus that made it a struggle to get to the loo.
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From:[personal profile] sami
Date: March 5th, 2019 12:44 am (UTC)
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Oh no! I hope you feel better soon, that sounds utterly miserable.
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From:[personal profile] sovay
Date: March 4th, 2019 06:53 pm (UTC)
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That's how family works. It's how it goes.

That is how it goes. I'm just sorry there are so many problems for you to deal with right now. (Computer on top of cough is insult/injury.)
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From:[personal profile] sami
Date: March 5th, 2019 12:35 am (UTC)
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It really is. Plus I knocked my five-and-a-half-year-old tablet off its resting place and shattered the screen, a replacement that's actually like it is not available.

[personal profile] velithya spent most of a day researching options, and came up with iPad 6+Apple Pencil being the best-seeming available, but it turns out I find the iPad 6 to be unbearably hateful so we returned it and now I have a second-hand Surface Pro 3... which promptly Windowsed itself into a placemat (bit thin for a brick) and took a full day to fix.

INSULTS EVERYWHERE
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From:[personal profile] sovay
Date: March 5th, 2019 02:48 am (UTC)
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Plus I knocked my five-and-a-half-year-old tablet off its resting place and shattered the screen, a replacement that's actually like it is not available.

Oh, that's unfair.

*hugs*
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From:[personal profile] sami
Date: March 5th, 2019 03:28 am (UTC)
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I appreciate your sympathy because it is, indeed, unfair. It is so unfair it is JUST UNFAIR.
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