i posted some forum questions, and while the responses were not helpful, my counter-response forced me to think about it a little bit more carefully and i need to focus on processor variables.

my memory is blurry on this. i know i've experimented with environment variables. i can't remember if i had them in the script, or if there were changes on the last install.

i think that that's something i should focus on experimenting with a little bit.

but, i'm going to eat and watch the canadian election debate. i hope trump gets fired. but, i'm a canadian and it's more important to me...

the weird behaviour i'm experiencing could be the result of a threading error. in fact, now that i'm thinking about it, it really makes a lot of sense to think that it is.

if something is broken, this seems like the most likely target for being broken. but i may have just dropped something.

i reset the fan the other day because it was running kind of hot and spinning out. that took the temperature down. while the reset can't be the cause, the temperature might be a symptom. but we're not talking about really hot, either. just relatively hot.

i don't think it's damaged. but i need to play with some things.