Ryan Leeds

I am writing this post from my not-overheating laptop!

I finally bought a fan for my laptop, now that I have a place to deliver it to! I am using way too many exclamation points! I blame my hyper-local apartment blogging!

However, when I got the screws off and opened up my laptop, my fan didn't fit. Apparently the guy at eBay sent me the wrong fan or claimed said fan would fit my laptop, but it wasn't the right one. No matter how I twisted or pushed, it wasn't going in there.

Now, I had promised myself some Dragon Age after I got a new fan because Kris got me it for $winterholiday and I would finally be able to run it. So I was hellbent on getting this fan to work. That, and my computer had been randomly overheating even more. And when I got pissed off that I couldn't find the screwdrivers (which I obviously later found -- they were in another bin) and I booted up my computer, it was being glitchy even though it didn't feel that hot.

(As writing this, I have been told not to play Tactical Sekt while San is sleeping, as it sounds like angry bees when it is quiet.)

So what did I do? I got a pair of scissors and started cutting off the plastic that was making the fan not fit. When I got to metal, I bent it out of the way. When that didn't work, I removed the metal frame entirely. I made that fan work because fuck if I wasn't going to play Dragon Age after I finished work.

At first this didn't work. My computer was like WTF ARE YOU DOING. That was before I removed the metal which was making it sit just quite not right. But it is working perfectly fine now! I have been playing music for hours and it still hasn't overheated! It's not hot at all! (I used to be able to listen to about one song before it shut down.)

This is very exciting!

The other exciting thing is that yes -- I had a place to deliver the fan to. I have an apartment! It is tiny and I am sharing the tiny with San, but it is a place to live. I am now allowed to stay up into the early hours of the morning to work, rather than getting it all done by 11 in a horrible place to work. I only have to go to Starbucks when I don't want to make my own coffee. Fuck, I have my own coffee pot. I CAN COOK MY OWN FOOD WITH MY OWN DELICIOUS CHINESE VEGETABLES. (99 Ranch is amazing.)

Today we were lazy and just got prefab food from 99 Ranch. Soy bean sprout salad, spiced turnips, and two-for-one-because-it-is-ten-o'clock-and-they-are-closing sushi. We also got buns (pork for San, green onion for me), sticky rice in banana leaves, shrimp dumplings and lots and lots of sauces and curry. (Which we needed badly.)

AND CORDY SHOULD BE COMING SOON. (I need to talk to Thief.)