so, on my way out for a bike ride today (it hit 17 today, and that might be the last nice day this year - or until january, anyways), i noticed an ambulance stopping at the neighbour's house. this is an old woman who frequently sits outside with or without her adult kids and chain smokes drugs. the stench can be outrageous, enough that you can sometimes smell it inside.

it's a pretty predictable outcome, but i don't know what happened. heart attack. stroke. complications of cancer, brought on by marijuana addiction. or even just psychosis.

we'll have to see if the smell changes or not...

i'm in for a few days, and the first thing i noticed was my computer was trying to connect remotely, again. they want to put me through some kind of network to log my traffic, but the idiots don't seem to realize that the computer is offline. they don't seem to be able to slave the chromebook (which is what connects) the same way, so they're left trying to hack into an air-gapped pc. it's beyond retarded. and, they're not evidence-driven.

so, i'm going to have to reinstall, and i'm thinking about flashing the bios, before i have to parallel in with a bus pirate and reprogram it. this is all delicate, and prone to "bricking", for lack of a better term, so i don't want to continually do this if i'm sure they're going to undo it. again: i don't want to compete. this isn't a game. i just need to use the machine to work.

as i'm in for a few days, and will seemingly need to spend the next several more days on this never-ending systems admin, i'd might as well get to the asimov reading a little early.

i'll get blood test results tomorrow morning, probably. and, my next appointment is on monday. we'll have to add those 4 extra adrenal hormones.

what's my write-up going to be for this week? i don't know, actually. i'll need to think about it a little.