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I have a cold. Achoo! Our old fridge used to shut off by itself at random times. A couple of days ago, it just wouldn't come on. Now, they're cramming things in their smaller, personal fridge but it's getting too full, nothing's getting cold. The "new fridge fund" should be ready before the week ends. It was started around the start of the year after someone was especially PO-ed after finding out the fridge was off the whole night. The time has come to use it. Hopefully, it's enough to cover the cost of whatever they find at the store that they like.

Snacks from South Korea. Salamat sa pasalubong!

10/10/14 Friday chicken + salad dinner 10/11/14 Saturday We took a video of me playing the piano. It looked like I was giving the finger when I played keys on three scales for a measure. Embarrassing. I deleted it. {myositis}

10/9/2014 I hear the bells down in the... (ringtone)! *Yawn* Hmmm...hello? Zalora delivery, ma'am, may I know the nearest street...? Good morning! Received after two days. Thanks, Zalora PH. Dinner. Pancit from a neighbor and a strip of fried chicken.

10/1/14 It's really hot here, isn't it? Especially at noon and midnight (yes, midnight). Ayayay! I felt sick on Sept. 28, around 2.30 a.m. Sudden nausea. I stopped working and went to bed with a barf bag. I did not vomit. Today, my stomach acted up. It woke me up. Rumble... nothing. Rumble... nothing. I thought that was it, I was fine. Then, rumble! Toilet! What's happening?! Nausea, diarrhea. Could be stress... or the fish oil supplement I started on Sept. 27? I don't know.

So far, within a day, it's been hot one moment and cold the next. It's a cycle. It has been raining most afternoons too. The hot/cold cycle is a pain at night. I'd keep under the covers for a few minutes, then I'd need to push it off me. I'd do this over and over, several times a night before I could sleep.

De-latang mackerel na ginisa (two months ago) Lunch at Rack's (last month) Lunch at Rack's (last month at Festival Mall, Alabang)

I have a partitioned HDD, partitioned while we still used XP. The man allocated 20 GB for the system. Did maintenance work regularly and kept that baby running smoothly. Fast-forward X years, I updated to Win7. Problem is most of the system partition is used even with the bare minimum of programs installed (only what i need, the biggest hog is adobe reader), free space was only 3.+ GB. Boot up was fast enough but still, it may suffer if it gets any lower. So, I still go through regular disk cleanup for a few megabytes of space (and peace of mind). Then Glenda happened. After the power flickered, it created a system restore point which ate up memory. After a normal start-up and restart, it deleted itself. But memory was down to 2.4 GB -- not OK. I didn't want to start over (format, etc.) for more space which typically takes a very long time. After defrag+cleanup it was still a low 2.6 GB. I could try extending the partition but no, too chicken. So, what else could I do for n

7/15 Tue Typhoon Glenda came here early evening. Strong winds followed. Howling winds. 7/16 Wed 2am Power flickered twice. Restarted desktop to properly shut it down, fingers crossed power keeps steady till it finishes. Gone to bed. Howling wind. Power went out around 4am. Weather was OK by mid-morning. No running water. Power restored 8 pm. 7/17 Thu Power gone a couple of hours before dawn. Gone again before noon until 4 pm. Still no water. Started raining early afternoon. Little to no water by early evening. 7/18 Fri No scheduled power outage today - thank goodness (Meralco started rotating power shutdown yesterday due to low generation daw ). Trickles to no running water. Globe cell reception still iffy since Glenda hit. Electricity situation desperate in areas where strong winds took down poles and damaged power lines. Overheard: some people out there taking advantage, offering to charge devices for a fee. Sad.