Thursday, October 31, 2024

9:05 I am at the end of 4 hours of fiddling with switches, routers and more switches. For some reason i will explain later, i moved the PC in the bedroom, hooked directly to the first switch after the fiber box which is again in the bedroom, and it worked all day like this.

However when Angela came the TV was not working. So i fiddled again with the (very week) contacts in the connector (sprang a couple of them back with a hook made of a needle) inside the TV and made it work. However, now the PC won't work. There was a red LED on by the connector. Tried several cables,  plugged it directly in the fiber box,  nothing.

Out of curiosity, i moved the PC back after the router in the living that plugs with a long cable in the same switch after the box that i use as an Ethernet (not to be confounded with Internet) hub, or where it was before today and where the TV is where it was working for months and it was working. So i pulled some cables, one more switch and fed the PC with Ethernet (and Internet) from living back in the bedroom.

Again out of curiosity, i tried to plug the PC again in the first switch, next to the TV and again it won't work though the LED next to the Ethernet plugnow was green not red like before and the yellow LED was flashing. Error message was "the router has not a valid IP" or something like that.

Because of all these i almost missed an email from management saying i have to remove until tonight a couple of foam sheets i have in front of the door. Those have been there on and off for years. I use them to get under the car and check for oil leaks. They are barely visible from any angle. I would assume is part of a bigger post Halloween sweep.

There was a great chance i didn't see that email that was sent 2 minutes before closing office, because Angela wanted to go to Spirit Mountain because of some event there (when the machines get loose usually).

The reason i moved the PC in the bedroom. To stay in bed. I figured that my leg infections are caused mostly by me sitting too many hours at the computer, cutting my blood circulation to legs, also to my... head for reason of stiff neck muscles. My calves and legs were stiff and painful. I believe the intermittent cough in the last weeks was due to minor embolisms from clots coming from my legs.

People who sit all day at computer at work they sometime get up, go for lunch, for a meeting and then they get home. But me, no. I was sitting and eating there all my waking hours and the only breaks were for walks but that ended after my toe gut mysteriously punctured in early July.

Before today i was in big trouble. Numbness and stiffness would spread from my toe, leg, to the other leg, torso, back, arms, hands and more recently throat area and areas around eyes. Had trouble speaking.

Was really scary and antibiotics of course won't help because there was too little blood supply to my legs. So i've been in bed for almost 24 hours, like Heffner, and i think i'm already seeing some results.

Pain and stiffness in legs got downgraded by several points on a scale of one to ten and in the rest of the body was almost gone. Trouble is, over the years, i got more and more used to leg pains and was not paying attention anymore.

9:45 I forgot to pour water in the washer (with one of those cleaning tablets) and the washer started to smell really bad like sewage. Smell that spread in the whole apartment. BTW the floor is bulged in the whole apartment, due to floor being wet under.