I’m getting to that point I’m posting less and less now, as you can see. Sure there’s been a lot of news but most of it I’ve been too fed up of trying to think of funny titles for the segments (that I haven’t used before).
Two things stand out here, which have before– the cat, and Blender. And also having issues with our toilet (which may play into this) First off, the cat as that’s more important news. She stopped coming in my room, and has been staying in my old room instead. And also she has been getting.. worse. As in, she isn’t wanting to drink water anymore and my mother is convinced the cat has kidney failure. At least that’s what she thought, but thankfully the cat actually used the litter box and it was urine. My mother has been giving her Cat Milk; a milk-like cream that’s easy on a cat’s digestion.
I also came up with a possible theory why the cat isn’t drinking. About a week ago I was doing my thing and my mother was washing dishes. Started to hear the toilet bubble. Ran in, and then told mother about it. She stopped using the sink and the water in the toilet drained almost immediately after.
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It happened later that evening. This time I took a plunger.. trying to pop the damn air bubble. Toilet almost overflowed but I was able to stop it just intime, and it seemed like at the time the bubble finally burst. …But that was only the beginning of our problems when she woke me up the day later, telling me to call some random number as I was still very sleepy and didn’t know what the fuck was going on. She said the front yard was flooded with sewage water. Ohh fuck.
So we got my mother’s water company out here and they got the problem out. It was roots in the pipe (as it happens once every other year). Yet the person never did a test to make sure the water was safe to drink. Had me a bit paranoid when I needed an Alka-Seltzer. But I smelled the water and I didn’t smell anything abnormal. As far as we know, the water is safe. Though for some reason I believe this is linked to why the cat won’t drink. So I suggested to my mother that she’d use filtered water instead. And it seems my theory might not just be a theory, but fact. Maybe she smells something wrong with the water that we don’t (or can’t). Suggested we’d get them out here again to do a test just to make
sure (and to ease my mind).
Right, so the second thing is Blender and I are now officially a thing. But I’m hoping and praying this helps to spice up our relationship more. But this isn’t the only thing with Blender I wanted to talk about.
The second thing is, last week was not a good time for him. He was (and I do
say ‘was’ as that’s (thankfully) no longer an issue for him anymore) having issues with his computer suddenly shutting down and restarting; mainly when playing VRChat or even doing Unity work. Many of his tech friends said “it’s a failing PSU”, including Shaw. I had my doubts and wanted Blender to run some stress tests. …But everything pointed to the PSU. And to make matters worse, the problem was getting worse. Plug he can’t do anything about it as his mother won’t allow him to have access to his own money. Being the kind person I am, I said “I’ll buy you a new PSU”. He was shocked I offered and
feeling “you don’t have to do this”. ..Hun, I love you. Plus, I’m not just doing this for you. I’m doing this for us, as this damn PSU you have is keeping me from being with you.
All I needed though, is him to do some research by asking his friends on how much wattage he needs and what brand of PSU he wants.
Then I finally showed him what I currently have to one of his friends, and an 80 PLUS Gold version of it. The friend felt it was a good deal. So finally we had a PSU. Now I just needed the 3 digits on the back of his mother’s cred– erm I mean his mailing address.
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Entered it in and paid for it. Said it would arrive by the 12th. In the meantime I told him not to use any high drain apps to give his computer some time to live.
It was the 9th, and I felt sorry for him. Decided to hop on VR and then call him, then share my screen and I can be his eyes and ears. Told him he could tell me which friends of
mine (that he’s friends with) does he want to see. He had me see Shaw first. Shaw wasn’t too happy at Blender for him giving me his mailing address, feeling he could had gone to his post office instead. But I told him as he was going AFK that I can be trusted.
While I waited for Shaw to get back, asked Blender “are you able to go to your post office though? ..Maybe Shaw was right, and that would had been safer for you.” He said it’s too far from him, and his mother likely wouldn’t let him go by himself. So, looks like I made the right call afterall.
He got the PSU a day earlier than scheduled. I (sort of) helped him, though he mainly did the work himself re-remembering how to install one. After it was installed, he showed me what he did and I took a look at it. He did a me of plugging the wrong plug into his graphics card which I told him to fix (reminding him what happened when I did that). And after he did, I had him only plug in the power cable and press the Power button on his case for 5 seconds to de-static charge the PSU safely into the wall (to properly ground it).
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He started it normally after following my instructions. Saw it go past POST and I’m jumping for joy. Then there was this really, really, really long black screen event until finally his Windows 10 screen pops up. Nearly had a heart attack, then asked
him “wait.. are you using an HDD as your boot drive?” He said “yes”.
..Okay, now it makes sense! Geezus I forgot how ridiculously slow a computer boots with an HDD compared to an SSD. He really needs to get one.
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Outside of that, it seemed as if Blender went into a very Jero-like route of acting like I don’t exist anymore, by not even asking if I’m OK and stuff like that. It was near 11pm when I had enough and called him out on it. He wasn’t trying to ignore me afterall. He just never had Discord opened. Which begs the question of why not.. especially when it comes to us. But the more I ranted, the more I felt this was going nowhere. But like Blender, I don’t want the relationship to end either. So I thought that maybe just maybe if we became an official thing, it could be the adrenaline shot we need.
…But to tell you the truth, I don’t think it’s going to help (at all). And the problem is.. is the fact there’s not a lot of “oompf” of trying to spice this relationship up. He expects me to be calling the shots when it comes to it, yet I don’t really want to as I’m scared this will cause me to feel I’m ‘controlling’ him. Instead I’d rather have him be all “hey hun I’m bored, do you feel like playing/doing X?” The only thing he says is “I have nothing to do” and in a way I feel “what do you want me to do about it? If you wanna do something, tell me what you wanna do.”
He doesn’t have good social skills, and I dunno if that’s something that can be trained. Plus he tends to forget things (mainly, things I say). For example, I said how we could play Sea of Thieves and he ends up forgetting the next day. Which makes me sort of feel “I guess he’s not that interested afterall”. I dunno. I’d just rather like it if he was the one speaking up instead of myself all the time.