Other What's ruining your life right now?

Anxiety.

I am going to meet up with a fellow BMXer tonight and help him build his old skool bike. It's not even a mile away and my nerves are shredded. Thing is, I know I will probably be OK once I get there, but nerves ugh.

 

Looks like my gaming rig has died.
Playing PUBG and it shut down all of a sudden.

I can smell burning and after checking lots of things (inc. new BIOS battery, as it needed changing), I saw sparks on the board after pressing the start button.

There goes my best ever and fave mobo - Asus Maximus VI Impact.

That's gonna be a hard act to follow.

The loan Skylake CPU offered last week hasn't arrived, and no reply from the generous sender

So, looks like a new s1150 Mobo is required - preferably Z87/Z97. Bang go my upgrade savings .

Could be worse, no one's injured or sick.

 

Thanks ML, not sure whether i mentioned that it was mini ITX...
I have no pride, just annoyance at the moment. Sad to waste a good i5 4670K and DDR3 1866.
What have you go out of interest?

 

Hmm. I'm considering selling my Asus Maximus VII Impact Z97 board as it has two memory slots / 16GB limit and I'm looking to get a mATX board with 4 slots for 32GB limit. Perhaps we can do something here if you don't want ML's board?

 

Mother in law died Wednesday morning of pancreatic cancer, she'd come to llive with us for a couple of years when our daugter was born so we could continue working full time. Then moved in with her new partner who she subsequently married almost 3 years ago, but only a few miles away so she was always around to take our daugter to her swimming lesson on Mondays. She was very very close to our daughter who bravely has decided that she wants to speak at the funeral

Then my youngest brother was found dead last night of either a heroin overdose or complications resulting from sepsis due to leg infection (brought about by drug addiction and poor circulation due to type 1 diabetes)

Wife and myself are somewhat dazed atm

 

Yeesh... That's bad man... Inbox is open if you need/want someone to vent/talk to...

 

Bloody hell @teacherboy , that's just awful. Really sorry to hear both of those bits of news.

 

So sorry to hear that, real tragedy for your family. Losing a relative is tough enough, but 2 in as many days is almost unbearable.
Again, if you want to talk, just ask.
We've all had losses, some more or less expected, but it all hurts.

 

You have my sympathies. Sorry, man.

 

Thanks all - it's always good to know that there is compassion out there and that most people are fundamentally good and will have time to have an ear bent by strangers to vent whatever ails them. Life as they say does go on and I can now cross off on my giant list of "How to Adult".

1. Consoling a wife and child over the loss of a much loved mother/nana.
2. Burying a sibling.

Strange how grief swings between massive sadness and outrageous glibness - interspersed with doses of immense practicality.

At least I can take comfort from the fact that neither of them now have to endure the physical or mental pain that they had this last year (or several years in the case of my brother)

 

I dropped my TWA demitasse teacup, blown to smithereens : (

 

RIP Verne Troyer

 

Intel: Here's our desktop wifi kit...

Motherboard makers: Lol... it won't fit in any of our boards...

 

microsoft deciding that a stylus is now no longer a writing/drawing implement but is now a greasy finger free touch screen panning implement. ive spent the better part of a morning trying to diagnose why my cintiq went apeshit. had to roll back their "update" with a reg hack.

 

Anxiety again. Got a 3pm appointment to the Pdoc and am scared crapless already. Ugh. Hoping I get larger pills to help out.

 

Wacom and Windows 10, especially with Photoshop in the mix, have been doing my tits in for a week. I have no idea how this could be so complicated - It wasn't such a ballache before 1709!