Said "should go to sleep"to Hyena, via Skype last night. Right when I said it, the lamp in his bedroom turned off on its own.
Relaxed the body before falling asleep. Also took off the shields on the skull. Felt something unhealthy drip down through the nostrils. Woke up tired, with a mild headache.
A few days ago, received the new charger for the laptop. Got a new battery for the laptop today. Plugged it in .. nothing. Knew that the power button had given up. Sighed and went to the lab where I was headed anyway. Looked at those tiny wires under a microscope and thought I could barely spot some defects through the isolation.
Looked at it, thinking how I would go about cutting those wires and re-soldering them. Suddenly, the whole laptop fell under the table. Fuck. Never before have I managed to drop a computer from such a height, without any protection. Felt bad about it, with adrenalin rushing throughout the body .. is it still alive? For how long does the hard-drive last now that it has been smashed to the floor like that?
Found the power button completely ripped off .. it had flown quite a distance from the laptop. No longer had to worry about how to cut the wires and resolder them. Took a scalpel and filleted glue off the contacts. Soldered it back. Worked. Stuffed it back and pumped it full of some random superglue so that it wouldn't fall off every minute or two.
The feeling of being tired wore out a few minutes after forcing through it with will.
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