Painting the Horizon

WTF.

Okay, so my fridge is, like, really cold. It's so cold I've taken to keeping a water bottle in it because the water just doesn't come out the tap that cold. I've tried fiddling with the thermostat but it doesn't feel like it's doing anything.

So today, I go into the kitchen and open the fridge, and... the opened pepsi bottle looks weird. I look closer and see that it's half-frozen. It's sitting on my desk as I type because I just can't stop WTF-ing at it. There was another, unopened bottle right next to the frozen one, and it was fine. I've got several other liquids in the fridge, such as the aforementioned water bottle and a plastic container full of pineapple chunks in juice. None of those seemed abnormaly cold at all, just this one mostly-full 1,5L bottle sitting in the middle of everything.

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My laptop isn't doing very well. It keeps crashing in a way that makes the screen go black and all programs stop running, but doesn't shut the machine itself down. It won't recover from the crash without being shut down manually. All I know is the problem is not with overheating (the fan runs perfectly and the computer doesn't always have time to warm up before it crashes) or the battery (it will crash regardless of whether or not the battery is attached).
I'd take it to be checked/repaired, but I suspect whatever the bill from that would be, it would exceed the laptop's actual value.

So I'm buying a desktop, and I'm reading up on processors and graphic cards to avoid a bad purhase. I won't be able to afford anythig too fancy, but I hope to be able to get a sturdy and reasonably efficient machine that will last me a couple of years and at last relieve me of Windows Vista (I learned to tolerate you, Vista, but I will never like you). Perhaps I can finally stop fretting about how well I'll be able to run Cataclysm when it comes out.

Haha, that didn't work out so well.

The charger of our car's battery sort of gave out yesterday. We got a couple of guys to hit it with a hammer, which made it work for long enough for us to get to a garage. The mechanics there hit it with a hammer again, enabling us to drive back home.

We're going to hop on a train tomorrow morning. We still have most of our travel funds so we're taking a train to Seinäjoki and see if there's any fun to be had.