Feeling isolated...
Mar. 26th, 2018 12:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kallistiiI'm feeling very isolated here in New York. For a certain amount of time I am OK with my aunt's constant repeating...asking me if the door is locked, or what time it is, or what is the temperature or what is the date...10-20 time an hour. But lately, it's really been getting on my nerves. The people here that I know have problems of their own, and are functionally unavailable most of the time. The people in Ottawa I would love to talk to are not answering their phone, or I have no idea when they are available for a call...Or worse, I want to call, but get tied up dealing with my aunt. Maybe tomorrow, I will be able to head out and do some stuff to get me out of the apartment and have some *me* time.
Of course, add to all this, my aunt's main form of entertainment, the TV has been failing...I may have to buy a replacement TV for her soon. It's typical of equipment at is around the same age...there was a large batch of very low quality capacitors that made their way into a number of otherwise reputable manufacture's equipment. The typical failure mode is that it has a hard and "soft" power button...soft one is usually controlled by a remote, and it turns off the power to the main part of the component, but not the actual power supply...and it's in the power supply that these capacitors are...so when you try turning on the system, it won't turn on...but if you use the master switch or unplug it for a while, then try turning it on, it comes on again and is fine for some variable amount of time. Then it does the same thing...and eventualy, event unplugging it and replugging it in won't work anymore. And what is worse is that you don't know how long it is going to last! After the first time it does it, it may only do it a few more times before it fails...or it could last months!
Well enough depressing stuff from me...please let me know if you saw my previous post on March 21st, as i was trying a feature I haven't used before that I don't know if I used it correctly, so please, please let me know if you saw it, even if you didn't want to comment on it. Thanx.
Of course, add to all this, my aunt's main form of entertainment, the TV has been failing...I may have to buy a replacement TV for her soon. It's typical of equipment at is around the same age...there was a large batch of very low quality capacitors that made their way into a number of otherwise reputable manufacture's equipment. The typical failure mode is that it has a hard and "soft" power button...soft one is usually controlled by a remote, and it turns off the power to the main part of the component, but not the actual power supply...and it's in the power supply that these capacitors are...so when you try turning on the system, it won't turn on...but if you use the master switch or unplug it for a while, then try turning it on, it comes on again and is fine for some variable amount of time. Then it does the same thing...and eventualy, event unplugging it and replugging it in won't work anymore. And what is worse is that you don't know how long it is going to last! After the first time it does it, it may only do it a few more times before it fails...or it could last months!
Well enough depressing stuff from me...please let me know if you saw my previous post on March 21st, as i was trying a feature I haven't used before that I don't know if I used it correctly, so please, please let me know if you saw it, even if you didn't want to comment on it. Thanx.
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