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Ugh... My router/modem died this afternoon. And then I realised I have completely forgotten my FB account's password.
Best day ever!
Nah, not really. But this has made me realise one thing: I don't usually need that awesome fibre connection that I have right now.
Really, I am perfectly content with the mobile modem I am using ATM to blog on my iPad while playing offline games on my PC.
And what a huge backlog of them I have!
But mostly I'm just playing the latest version of Towns, v0.50b.
I made a nice town previously that got wiped out by mass starvation when I gave them so many orders at one go they forgot to harvest food.
I returned too late to reload the monthly autosave.
So now I'm playing on a new Mixed map where the monsters are everywhere because it's got all sorts of terrain in a single map, ie more terrain containing hostile creatures.
Fortunately I managed to find a corner filled with fruit trees, so I levelled a mountain to use the dirt for a long mud wall to wall off my own little Garden of Eden.
Anyways, it's not that I don't need the fibre speed at all, but that I don't need it as often as I thought I do.
Regardless, I'm sticking with this. For some things, it's always better to have too much than too little.
But it still feels uncomfortable not having good Internet access on my PC. The mobile modem has a slow speed and it tends to KO temporarily when it overheats.
Ordered Long John Silver's today for dinner because Dealivery jacked up its delivery fees for almost all it's restaurants due to a shortage of riders.
The only options still with the $5 delivery fee were LJS and Subway.
Wanted Baja Fresh but with the additional $5 I was unable to get 3 burritos below $50.
So, LJS. For $47 I ordered more than enough and now I have a box and three drinks in the fridge for breakfast.
Not as fantastic as MCD but I am tired of their products. Now I am tired of LJS too.
The hammock is taking forever because the seller is using China Post.
Though I do business with Chinese factories, they have never used that postal service.
Now I see why.
Seriously, the Korean airmail is faster than this by far.
Unless, of course, the seller isn't even using airmail but surface mail.
You know what? That sounds about right. If surface mail is as fast as surface shipping for cargos, then 2-3 weeks sounds like the correct amount of time it takes for things to arrive from China.
Wow. They use surface mail and they still charge over S$20 for their hammock?
Seriously?
I am so glad I ordered it when it was only S$10 net because now they are no longer giving $20 discounts even when it's on sale.
My books arrived! Woot!
THU
The Starhub guy came over and discovered that our modem was dead. Free replacement.
All's well.
Didn't sleep much last night so I'm tired but due to my routine workout I'm able to resist sleep at 1.30pm despite the bed being right next to me.
Couldn't sleep because I was reading. It's been so long since I had good books. According to my Purchase History on Opentrolley, the last time I bought such books was in July last year. Bad memories.
Anyways, my books are here and I predict more sleepless nights to come.
I don't know if it's just me, but when I get my hands on books I really like I'd read so long I'd only stop when I no longer understand what I'm reading.
It's a gradual process. Initially, I'd have to keep going back to look for parts I had forgotten (even though I had only went through them less than a minute ago). Eventually I would get to the point where I realize I'm skipping whole paragraphs because I don't care for the details anymore and I just want the plot to keep moving. I would be unable to understand some of the things but I don't care as long as I get the general idea.
Finally, words would go into my eyes and out of my mind right away. My eyes still scroll through the printed fonts but nothing registers in my head.
That's when I close the book and go to sleep.
That's also how I know what it's like to be brain-dead.
I really don't mind this because it allows me to re-read the books another time soon after I finished them the first time. The second time I read them, things tend to make a lot more sense and details pop up that I don't recall seeing at all.
The Citygas guy came by today to check our gas meter after I call the company 2 days ago to ask for a check.
I had to - one month our gas consumption was 50kWh, this month we got billed for 100.
The man assured us that there was no leak but if we want to we can hire someone on our own to do a check on our gas installation. In addition, he told us we could just check on our own by watching our meter when we're not cooking.
Yes, facepalm right there.
Finally, he gave us a form that showed that he was there to check the gas installation which also included a number we could call to get a free change of gas meter.
In conclusion, it's weird but we really have been using more gas since last month. Must be all the gas I burned to make soups and curries. I tend to cook the bones for hours to just make the basic chicken broth.
The postman decided not to deliver my hammock :(
My bro got three packages today. THREE!
I got nothing :(
According to the delivery status reports on the Singpost website, it was delivered to the delivery base of my neighbourhood and it was on "Delivery in progress" since the afternoon. Then at around 7pm he gave up for some reason, updated with "Held on hand" followed by delivery to the post office near my home.
:(
My hammock :(
Meanwhile in Towns, I discovered I could build entire floors attached to a single unit of wall. All of a sudden, this opened a whole new world of architectural impossibilities.
I am now building each floor on a single unit of scaffolding. In the future, I plan to a sky platform that spans most of the map. Since plants here can't be cultivated on my sky platforms and they don't need sunlight, I'll eventually use the whole ground level as a farm.
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