: Hazy days...

As I wrote in my last post, I got sick several days ago. And I still am. So the last few days have been pretty uneventful. I've pretty much been completely drained of energy, so I've done next to nothing, except sleep and sit on the couch in front of my computer. I haven't even really felt like playing any games. Still, I had the opportunity to participate in the SW:TOR beta, so I played it a little. You can read about that over at my gaming blog.

I think I've been a bit too passive the past few days, though, and I think Wenche might be a bit annoyed at me about that. Not that I've been completely passive, I've done the dishes a few times and helped a bit with the laundry, but it's less than I usually do. I guess I should remedy this tomorrow. I'm feeling better than I have been, and I really hope it's even better tomorrow. Knowing my luck, though, I'll probably wake up tomorrow feeling worse than ever. Heh.

To be honest, the last few days is more or less a blur to me. I guess that's what happens when you're barely doing anything for several days. What I do remember, though, is that Wenche went out to a job interview on Monday. And she got the job. It's not much, just something through NAV again, but it still means more money, and it's on a farm that she describes as her dream place. So she seems happy about it. If the issue of transportation gets sorted out, that is. But she says NAV is going to figure something out, so hopefully that wont be a problem this time.

: Sick, again.

Ugh. I feel like crap. Again. It started yesterday, kinda. I had a sort of faint soreness in my throat all day, but didn't really think too much about it. But when I went to bed last night, I knew that it would get worse. And it did. My throat is sore, my head feels heavy, I feel weak and semi-feverish. I don't think I actually have a fever, though. Not yet, anyway.

The last few days I've been working on a post about legalizing drugs, and today in the paper I read about that Christer Falck guy talking about wanting to make alcohol illegal. Normally that's something that would've made me want to finish my post, but I just don't feel it today. And I have a feeling I probably wont feel it the next couple of days either. I just really want to go back to bed, even though I know I shouldn't.

: Ayumi

Woke up to some bad news today. 

Gina, the owner of the house, knocked on my door, and told me someone had called her about a cat that might've been hit by a car. The caller thought the cat belonged to her, as it ran down to "our" house after the car hit it. They didn't know how hard it had been hit, but I figured it couldn't have been too bad if it ran away. 

Unfortunately, I was wrong.

Gina hadn't actually looked for it yet, and I wasn't really awake yet, so she said she'd walk around the house to see if she could find it anywhere. A couple of minutes later she came back and told me one of my cats was lying behind the house, not moving. She hadn't approached it, though. So I threw on some clothes and walked around the house myself, and found Ayumi... Dead.

One of very few pictures I have of Ayumi... RIP.

I don't really know what else to write...

: Dead phone... UPDATED

I guess it's only fitting that only a few days after I wrote en entire blog-post complaining about my phones shortcomings, I manage to forget to take it out of my pocket before putting my pants in the washing machine. And didn't notice it until it was almost finished. Needless to say, my HTC Desire doesn't work anymore. It's completely dead. So yeah, even though I was starting to have a few problems with it, I hadn't planned on getting a new phone until at least after New Year's Eve. I guess that plan didn't work out.

Fortunately, I have the money my mother gave me from her inheritance after my grandmother. I put most of it away in a savings account, but I guess it's ok to take some of it now to buy a new phone. I'll just put whatever money I get for christmas back into the account, or something. I was planning on using that money, if I get any, on a new phone anyway, which is part of the reason why I was going to wait until after New Year's to buy one.

So yeah, I've ordered a new phone, and of course I went with the Samsung Galaxy S2. Another reason why I wanted to wait, was to see if maybe the prices went down, or if maybe there was a sale after New Year's, but yeah. My Desire is dead, and I really don't want to go back to a regular phone. And since I have the means to get myself a new smartphone, and a very good one as well, I just went with it.

UPDATE: Well, seems I was a bit hasty in choosing where to buy it. I ordered it from Expert, where it is rather cheap (also, there is no Elkjøp in Gran, I think), thinking that I could just pick it up at the store, like they do at Elkjøp, and save a few bucks compared to just buying it directly in the store. But, unfortunately, Expert's collect at store system doesn't work that way...

Instead of checking whether the item is available in the selected store, and then notifying them that I'll come in and pick it up, they actually ship a package with the ordered item to the selected store. It doesn't matter if they have it in the store or not, it seems; I asked if there was any way to swap it, so that I could get one they already had, and then they just kept the one that was shipped whenever it arrived, but the clerk I spoke with said they couldn't do that.

Ridiculous.

What I should've done was to order it at Elkjøp, and choose to pick it up at Elkjøp Dokka when I arrived. At least I know that would've worked, as I've done that before. Now I have to wait until at least Tuesday to get my new phone. Bleh.