Everything is running about an hour late this morning and I think I deserve a donut or something for not screaming at the top of my lungs (yet) in frustration. The problem is not the fact that Jack-Jack woke me up a little after 7:00 this morning, nor the matter concerning Queen Bit throwing up on my carpet. What’s causing the delay is the fact that my PC, you know the one that had the video card issue last week, decided that it just wanted to mimic Bit and throw up all over the place. There was a complete meltdown over RAM allocation forcing a hard reboot and a system restore to get everything running again. Even now, I’m not totally convinced that anything is fixed and running as it should be.
What this means, is that I’m now officially in the market for a new PC. I’ve checked and there are some options we can utilize without putting me over the Social Security-imposed asset limit. There’s this option or this option via Amazon. Neither HP nor Dell have options within the price range that come with the 32 GB RAM and it’s the RAM that’s most important. I know Adobe claims you can run its apps on 16GB machines, but the more they lean into AI, which is where they’re definitely going on everything, the more RAM is necessary to do the graphics processing. I’m not helped any by replacing one 16 GB machine with another.
We are accepting donations toward this fundamental addition via Venmo [@C_I_Letbetter] or CashApp [$ciletbetter]. The sooner we can get this matter resolved, the less likely I am to go bald within the next week.
Yesterday ended up being a huge sleep day. I had wanted to maybe work on a new video, but after completing four images (with no small amount of trouble), I trashed the whole idea and went to bed for most of the afternoon. I punted on dinner as well and was back in bed for the night by 8:30. Am I lame? Without question. Kat was out enjoying an event, meeting long-time Facebook friends in person, and being all social and stuff while I was snoring so loudly I ran off the cats (the dogs take my snoring as a challenge and try to match it). One thing about it, though, if I’m sleeping I’m probably not getting into as much trouble as I possibly could if I were awake.
When I took the dogs out this morning, I looked around at the amount of sunlight and realized that 12 or so years ago, I would have been up and had a full three-look shoot in the can before the sun was this high. Danelle would have playfully (sort of) complained about my consistently early call times. The model would have worn a jacket until the last possible minute. And when we were done, I’d head for the nearest coffee shop. As intense as those mornings could be, I miss them like crazy now. I miss the creativity, the camaraderie of a great team, and the feeling of having accomplished something wonderful before 8:00 in the morning.
There was also the realization this morning that I’ve not been out to coffee with anyone in well over a month. I’m not sure why, exactly. I know there were some days/weeks when I needed to stay in, but those have been past for a hot minute. There’s no reason for me to not be out enjoying people. Good luck getting me to actually hit someone up, though. I’ll forget to do so by the time I get this post published.
So much creativity still runs through my brain and it hurts more than I can communicate to not be able to do a damn thing about it. I am frustrated by the amount of time I have to spend in bed. I am disappointed in my own ability to follow through on possible alternatives. I absolutely hate the amount of pain that hits out of nowhere at random times of the day. This is not being a fun existence.
This coming week doesn’t offer any solutions. Temps are going to be too high too early in the day. Once I take the dogs out first thing in the morning, we’ll be staying inside as much as possible. I’m thankful that our AC is working well, though we may have to turn up the thermostat a notch or two so it’s not overworked. My heart goes out to all the animals, both two-legged and four, who have to wander outside during this heat wave. I hope they can all find appropriate shelter.
I may try that video again. This morning’s system restoration reset a bunch of things, so I may be able to get the necessary number of images processed. Or maybe I’ll go back to sleep. Who knows? I never do.