don’t count on me leaving this room very soon. 😀
‘cept maybe to eat and bathe.
over the week i’ve lowered my cpu fan speed a few hundred RPM, making me worried when WoW crashed on me. hasn’t happened in a while, so it might just be evil Blizzard screwing with me. last night’s incident though was neither caused by my experiments or Blizzard’s general disregard for customer service.
it was closer to home. it was… TMnet!
here i was, roaming the distant Plaguelands, avoiding monsters and demons that i could never have beaten. i end up in the Ruins of Andorhal, a seemingly cosy countryside village now haunted by skeletons and ghouls. halfway through, the monsters didn’t seem to care about my presence, and i thought i was scot-free! i keep on moving, to reach the Scarlet Monastery where my party was waiting for me. but something was weird… all the way up never did i meet a single player, or a monster, or a friend NPC. felt like i was detached from the world itself.
then i get disconnected. and this continues a few more times till i realised that the international links were down and i could no longer connect.
looking at the time of the incident, it seemed that the downtime was scheduled somehow. seems just too convenient for a downtime to happen when most of the general population was asleep (it was about 3am). yet TMnet never sent out a notice, nor did they send out any apology for the downtime.
now that’s government service!
anyway, it’s about time i stopped purchasing unnecessary things and start saving for certain holiday seasons this year. target is Australia. so yesterday my family and i went to the Curve for some lunch and shopping. it would be the last shopping spree for me, hopefully. 😛 so i finally got my pair of gloves from the larger Ace branch. Leather Driver gloves intended for light construction. finally, something closer to my size. the male medium size were a bit too large still, so i just went what the heck and got myself the women’s size. no difference at all between them, ‘cept that they fit my skinny fingers better and were light blue.
at least they weren’t pink, or had polka dots.
so i’m probably going to start making holes in my puter next weekend. gotta start planning the work.
at the same time, got myself a new showerhead to try. the existing ones were getting rusty. didn’t have any clue of the actual Gallons Per Minute (GPM) effect, so i picked up a 1.5GPM water saver one. picked up some teflon sealing tape too, but my shower mount threads were so short that it would be a little too tough to put on.
this one definitely saves water, but i miss the pressure from the old showerhead. let’s see if my sister agrees when she gets back from sailing later today. 😛 anyway, the success of this showerhead being able to fit will let us start looking at new showerheads for the other bathrooms. probably get those fancy multi-mode ones.
it’s the start of another DIY frenzy. hope i won’t have to spend for this one though. 😛