The Long Week

when Madre comes home?

The week seemed to have lasted a long time.

I have been told that Madre will have the cast on her leg off “the week from next Tuesday”, that is, the Tuesday after Easter. I am also told my sister the editor is going back to Escanaba after next week. In my mind these two events are unrelated. I had thought that Madre would not be coming home until the end of this month. This means I will be taking care of her house again (and cleaning up after my sister and her cats) until she returns. My sister claims that Madre will be coming home after the cast comes off, but that may not be so, necessarily.

It is such a mess. I had been freaking out a bit after hear last week that Madre had not been eating for days due to stomack flu. I do not know whether anyone had been there to take a look at her, but she has been taking in nourishment after we got her some Ensure from her house. She seems to be okay now.

meanwhile chez Mère

For some reason Madre got a new bridge from her Internet service provider. Maybe it is the same reason I got one, but I do not know what that is. Anyway, I had to call Frontier for help in installing the bridge (DSL modem) because I needed the ancient information necessary to configure the bridge.

I have removed the branches and corn cobs from the pile in the back of her back yard, cutting them into manageable pieces and carrying them in my car to the back yard of my sister the ex-teacher. There, I have put them in a neat pile for use as firewood.

yard work

The weather has been improving, enough for me to dethatch the yard so that I can spread seed, weed (killer) and feed (fertilizer). The yard looks so mangy after the long, hard winter.

the ill main box

I have installed on the main box a processor monitor to keep an eye on its temperature. The box has been crashing (and then, usually, restarting) for the past several weeks. This has been mostly happening after running Minecraft (and its Java foundation) for awhile. And some Minecraft worlds have chunks missing. It is odd: The missing chunks are 16 × 16 shafts going down into the Void; you can see ores, cut-off caverns, and lava pools down to bedrock. Mobs float down the shaft. If you are caught in it, you choke and die as if you are in the Void.

I have concluded that it is now too hot inside that Silverstone Sugo SG01 case, so I have bought a Sugo SG03F, the same kind of case I got for my server and for Madre’s box. I will transfer the contents of the main box into the new case. I will also see if I can find a new power supply that puts out more power than the 450W supply in the main box. This is cheaper than replacing the motherboard itself.