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A Series of Irritating events
Mar. 22nd, 2008 12:30 amNot serious, just annoying.
So far Wednesday saw my least pleasant dental experience. Now to be fair I've been lucky with my teeth, and relatively with dentists, who generally for me have been nice, good, reasonably thorough and not a source of pain. On Wednesday saw a short two minute appointment, that involved blowing air around my teeth, declaring I have a decayed tooth in need of a filling (my first dammit), and checking there was nothing wrong with a painful area of my gum, by jabbing his mirror into it. Oh yes and being ordered to go to reception and to book an appointment for a filling. I walked out, and now have booked a second private check up and will need to get around to checking the details of the health insurance I have through work. I get the impression the NHS dental contact has changed since my previous appointment a year a go, and it shows. So if I'm going to pay money, might as well pay more and get it done well, because at the end of the day I want to keep my teeth in a good as condition as I can. I'm not sure what is more irritating the first filling or the check up that found it, either way though the compound affect was aggravating.
Then today, well yesterday really (Friday for those I am confusing) I disconnected and opened up my computer to clean out the dust that as I expected had built up, and unlike every other time I've done this, afterwards it wouldn't boot. Power to the motherboard, but nothing more than that. A few minutes of checking leads and trying things, then became several more minutes of trying more things while on the phone to a more hardware savvy friend of mine resulted in still no booting, and then finally after swapping back to my older graphics card blue smoke and the signs of a shorted dead motherboard from two chips of undetermined purpose. Now I've been having intermittent problems with crashes, and blue screens, but not too much to be particularly irritating and not something I could pin down any particular cause for, other than possible issues with a couple of my games (except for the ones that happened when I wasn't gaming). So there is a possibility that there were intermittently problematic motherboard faults all along; the random behaviour fitted with previously mentioned friends experiences, and a previous similar issue I had fixed while it was still under warranty was reported to be a bios issue. There's no reason to suspect any other bits of hardware have had any problems, and next Sunday there will a seeing of the old friend, and testing components out on a spare board of his. I'm currently now debating new board or new machine, or something in between like a mostly new machine plus additions of my current better bits of hardware. Still this is annoying and leaves me without my computer for a bit.
On the one hand I am aware of how much mood, and the perception of results can alter the outcomes of events. On the other I do find it hard to shake that often apparently true basis that bad things come in threes, based upon the supporting experience I have chosen to notice and to remember. Now while![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
purplegirl23's Shakespeare action figure's desperate wind powered bid for safety, in which he sacrificed his freedom so his backing and quill could escape, could be the third bad thing, I'm going to be careful just in case.
Either way the events described above have just annoyed me. I dislike being angry, mostly because I have no useful way to deal with it, so I tend to seethe until enough time has passed for me to calm down. Thankfully ever since I had the mental crystallization of my threaded brain theory, I've gotten better at using it to my advantage and controlling it, so I've pretty much dumped the anger on to a background thread to work itself out with out getting in my way, or to stay there until I discover a useful need for those particular emotions. I've found I can almost feel the areas of my brain working, or have some sort perception of such, and right now I can feel parts of my brain working away at the anger, and the tenseness of jaw that always accompanies feelings of irritation and frustration. Hopefully it shouldn't disrupt my sleep.
Other than that driving to Newport seems to continue to be OK, though I'm still adjusting to leaving the house at 7am. I'm still finding swapping between driving my car (1.4 Rover 45) to the work pool car (1.8 turbo diesel Toyota Corolla) somewhat odd. On the one hand the Toyota is much more powerful car and it really shows because it can move, on the other hand the Rover being petrol has a much smoother power curve. So with the Rover if I want to pull away I can do so easily and quickly if I need to; yet with the Toyota moving off until the power hits is slow, but suddenly jumps when the power arrives. This inability to pull out quickly has only caught me out once (but to not negative effect thankfully), but is still somewhat disconcerting. Still at least my personal fuel costs are lower now.
From tomorrow till Monday I'm back in Wales this time though to meetpurplegirl23's parents which should be interesting.
So far Wednesday saw my least pleasant dental experience. Now to be fair I've been lucky with my teeth, and relatively with dentists, who generally for me have been nice, good, reasonably thorough and not a source of pain. On Wednesday saw a short two minute appointment, that involved blowing air around my teeth, declaring I have a decayed tooth in need of a filling (my first dammit), and checking there was nothing wrong with a painful area of my gum, by jabbing his mirror into it. Oh yes and being ordered to go to reception and to book an appointment for a filling. I walked out, and now have booked a second private check up and will need to get around to checking the details of the health insurance I have through work. I get the impression the NHS dental contact has changed since my previous appointment a year a go, and it shows. So if I'm going to pay money, might as well pay more and get it done well, because at the end of the day I want to keep my teeth in a good as condition as I can. I'm not sure what is more irritating the first filling or the check up that found it, either way though the compound affect was aggravating.
Then today, well yesterday really (Friday for those I am confusing) I disconnected and opened up my computer to clean out the dust that as I expected had built up, and unlike every other time I've done this, afterwards it wouldn't boot. Power to the motherboard, but nothing more than that. A few minutes of checking leads and trying things, then became several more minutes of trying more things while on the phone to a more hardware savvy friend of mine resulted in still no booting, and then finally after swapping back to my older graphics card blue smoke and the signs of a shorted dead motherboard from two chips of undetermined purpose. Now I've been having intermittent problems with crashes, and blue screens, but not too much to be particularly irritating and not something I could pin down any particular cause for, other than possible issues with a couple of my games (except for the ones that happened when I wasn't gaming). So there is a possibility that there were intermittently problematic motherboard faults all along; the random behaviour fitted with previously mentioned friends experiences, and a previous similar issue I had fixed while it was still under warranty was reported to be a bios issue. There's no reason to suspect any other bits of hardware have had any problems, and next Sunday there will a seeing of the old friend, and testing components out on a spare board of his. I'm currently now debating new board or new machine, or something in between like a mostly new machine plus additions of my current better bits of hardware. Still this is annoying and leaves me without my computer for a bit.
On the one hand I am aware of how much mood, and the perception of results can alter the outcomes of events. On the other I do find it hard to shake that often apparently true basis that bad things come in threes, based upon the supporting experience I have chosen to notice and to remember. Now while
purplegirl23's Shakespeare action figure's desperate wind powered bid for safety, in which he sacrificed his freedom so his backing and quill could escape, could be the third bad thing, I'm going to be careful just in case.Either way the events described above have just annoyed me. I dislike being angry, mostly because I have no useful way to deal with it, so I tend to seethe until enough time has passed for me to calm down. Thankfully ever since I had the mental crystallization of my threaded brain theory, I've gotten better at using it to my advantage and controlling it, so I've pretty much dumped the anger on to a background thread to work itself out with out getting in my way, or to stay there until I discover a useful need for those particular emotions. I've found I can almost feel the areas of my brain working, or have some sort perception of such, and right now I can feel parts of my brain working away at the anger, and the tenseness of jaw that always accompanies feelings of irritation and frustration. Hopefully it shouldn't disrupt my sleep.
Other than that driving to Newport seems to continue to be OK, though I'm still adjusting to leaving the house at 7am. I'm still finding swapping between driving my car (1.4 Rover 45) to the work pool car (1.8 turbo diesel Toyota Corolla) somewhat odd. On the one hand the Toyota is much more powerful car and it really shows because it can move, on the other hand the Rover being petrol has a much smoother power curve. So with the Rover if I want to pull away I can do so easily and quickly if I need to; yet with the Toyota moving off until the power hits is slow, but suddenly jumps when the power arrives. This inability to pull out quickly has only caught me out once (but to not negative effect thankfully), but is still somewhat disconcerting. Still at least my personal fuel costs are lower now.
From tomorrow till Monday I'm back in Wales this time though to meet
purplegirl23's parents which should be interesting.
