Feeling isolated...

[kallistii]

I'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.

Comments

[pheloniusfriar]

Hey, I hear you on isolation... I've been feeling very much that way myself here in Ottawa, but I struggle with what I can possibly do about it given that my life is a flaming dumpster fire that seems to be occupied every waking second with some new crisis or demand (many self-inflicted, many not). It'd be great to hang out when you get back. As for NYC, I have vowed not to willingly set foot in the US while it is in the middle of a civil war.

Fyi, I had completely missed your post on the 21st (I think I checked here last the day before you posted). We can talk about it when you're back, but it does explain quite a lot.

[kallistii]

It looks like I will probably be here well into April. I am not expecting you to head to NYC! I'm not happy being here while a certain person is prez...but family is too important to allow that get in the way of taking care of my aunt.

I would love to get together when I get back.

[pheloniusfriar]

Yeah, family falls into "not willingly" in the sense that's it's not optional. So... we have to do what we can do. Do you have a gaming capable computer there? Maybe we can do some stuff online to keep you from going completely barmy ;).

[kallistii]

The laptop I bought just before I headed out does have some good specs, it's got a Nvidia Quadro K1100M, which is about equivalent of a GTX 750...so no ultra settings resolution gaming, but 1080p at reasonable graphics settings. It does have an i7 quad core CPU, though.

I have been playing Tourchlight II, and a Crossout, the latter is a car combat game with some influence from Mad Max...and a few times, Goat Simulator. :-)

With some help from my Aunt, I can buy games as well.

What are you playing?