The Finite

Subjective: CC of spontaneous syncope and absence seizures requiring resuscitation. Sleeps poorly and inconsistently.

Objective: No apparent distress

PE: Non-compromising crack at right posterior corner. Dust present. Keys and touchpad intact.
Gen: Responsive and alert, WD/WB (well-designed/well-built)
VS: Clock speed 2.2Ghz, HDD 320GB, RAM 4GB
Power supply intact
Screen: Hannstar, undamaged and luminous
Peripherals: USB Hub, VGA out to HSA monitor,

Assessment: 5 y/o MSI A6000 with intermittent freezes requiring hard restarts. Recent onset of spontaneous shutdowns

Potentially CPU Overheat issue, arrange canned air de-dust and cooling pad. Alternative: Winter use only.

Severe low-level software fault? OS reinstallation (Raring)

Motherboard component failure? Palliative care recommended. Donate parts.

Hard drive failure: Backup and transplant

Plan: Initiate cooling PRN and monitor temps q2h. Begin full-scale vital file backup immediately. Consider acquiring new desktop components. Or a tablet.

Tommy Tran, Owner

I messed up a Mexican lizard. But he was totally asking for it. Let me explain.

I have a little trouble sleeping one night so I go out onto the balcony for a nip of Oso Negro. I get out onto the cool dark balcony and find my empty tumbler sitting on the table from earlier in the day. It’s dark, but there’s just enough starlight for me to open the bottle and pour. I top off the glass with some ice water from my water bottle. I raise it to my face, but I stop because I can hear and feel something drowning in it.

It’s this.

By this point he is literally up to his eyeballs in vodka water which I immediately pour out. I rinse him off with more of my water because it’s probably sucky to get a highball to the eyes. After a while he stops struggling and flailing and just sits there. I dump him out onto the table and he just chills there for a while. Then he slowly walks off the edge of the table and onto the underside where he hides from me as I make myself another drink. (In a different glass of course.)

*A skink is a lizard-like reptile.