16/8
The last few days have been sneaking away quietly without making me notice I haven't done any updates at all. Am more than halfway through my last week (for this summer at least) at Parkhallen and feeling as tired as usual after the earliest mornings. Didn't help that the people around me kept creating annoying sounds after I'd gone to bed, so that I fell asleep much later than I really wanted to. Got kind of annoyed at myself too, for getting annoyed by those sounds. That's a behaviour inherited from my mother I could have done fine without ... And I used to be good at locking out surrounding noises and concentrate on what I was doing, but maybe sleeping is a bit different ... The mood lowering started earlier however, when dad made me help him with the roof of the store he's building. Helping him with various construction projects is often a sure way to disrupt my good humour, especially when the conditions were like yesterday with lots of mosquitos attacking you as soon as you stood too still. Just when the bites from Saturday began to disappear too ...
Saturday? I was outside on Saturday? Yeah, attended a class reuinion or whatever party (reprise of the party last year, but sadly without Tomasz). Lots of mosquitos attended the event too, and I was pretty slow in changing from shorts to jeans (and didn't use any repellant either) ... Managed to avoid scratching those bites though (advantage of getting older?) so they go away without leaving too many traces. Anyway, it was a pretty decent event, but getting drunk still isn't my favourite pastime so I didn't ... Didn't get enough sleep either, the mosquitos were indoors in force too, and I never sleep too well in a hot sleeping bag ...
Have developed a dislike for this computer's sound card and speakers. CD audio volume is too low, much too low, in relation to the other volume levels, and the sound totally lacks any kind of bass punch. And if I turn down wav volume and increase speaker volume to even it up, Winamp's volume control restores wav volume as soon as I play an mp3, giving my ears a nasty shock, grrr ... Feel the need to upgrade, should have spent some on a real sound card right away ... On a related note, I still can't get to 1600*1200 resolution. New Nvidia drivers let me go to 1600*900 (what kind of a resolution is that anyway?), but limits my choice of refresh rates on all resolutions below what the monitor can achieve. Don't like being stuck below full functionality, need to experiment more ... Want to see games run in 1600*1200 ...
Some strange bug is in effect on the Parkhallen website. The shopping system ignores commas in weights. Type in 0,3 kilos of mushrooms, and it registers you for 3 kilos ... That sites could do with some renovation in general too ...
Hmmm, tomorrow the Palm's batteries have lasted for two months. Don't play Desdemona as much as before I guess ... And don't have as many just-before-falling-asleep-notes when you really want every minute of sleep you can get. Want to get back to the more intense noting of the first time though, that's when it really has a point to carry it around.
