Adam told a story today.

He was working from home and eating a nice hot country style sausage. Since Adam tends not to chew his food very much he swallowed a large piece of sausage and it got stuck in his throat. It was deep enough that he couldn't swallow it, or anything else. But it was also deep enough that he could dial an ambulance and go to the hospital to remove the sausage in his throat.

In the hospital they gave him a bucket to spit in because he couldn't swallow. Adam got so dehydrated that by the time the nurse came to rehydrate him via IV, they poked at him for 20 minutes trying to find a vein.

When you swallow too much stuff they stick a tube down and try to pull it out but in this case the sausage was too large. So they just pushed the sausage down his esophagus into his stomach. Adam described the experience as being extremely uncomfortable.

I asked him if that had all happened when he was, like, five years old. No, he said. It was last October.

Anyways this is the best excuse for hospitalization I've ever heard firsthand.

The moral of the story is to chew your food thoroughly before swallowing.

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Tomorrow I am going to eat Italian food and probably build a computer. I might have made a mistake with the hard drive I bought for my research backup. I'm going to get comp'd when the prof comes back from France but Seagate has kind of rubbish reliability rates. For my build I have an SSD which I paid through the nose through, and one of Justin's mystery Seagates. I could pay ~$60 for a different brand of drive but really I still have the external HD, the research external HD, and my laptop, which is perfectly fine. Mostly.

IDK, it's started stuttering a bit more during certain games and I got nervous. Not to mention that the Windows installation has been fucked up since 2011 because I thought it would be a brilliant idea to just remove a user account by deleting the folder, which resulted in not being able to make a guest account on the machine, not that anyone ever needs a guest account on this machine.

(Also... Dishonored 2 is coming out soon this year.)

I promise I'll post a build log and parts list later. At the beginning of this process Justin promised that I would get to do the most important part ("you can hold the camera!") in the construction process. But the distribution of work will be reversed. I think he might be a little bit annoyed at this point because of all the interrogation, going from 0 to 60 in knowledge of stuff, and unpaid consultancy fees.

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The Harry Potter Audiobooks.

I wrote about this before but I was still at the Chamber of Secrets when I wrote that. Now I'm on book 5 because I'm at a really, really boring (but necessary) part of my research and have made the following observations:

1) Book 4 got a LOT DARKER than I remembered. I totally missed out on the trauma aspect of Book 4 all the other times I read it. I don't know how I missed it.
2) I missed a lot of the other undertones. I think I'm doing this reading thing wrong.
3) Harry's semi stream o' consciousness comes across a lot more as his "voice" rather than an external narrator in the audiobook
4) The Book 5 bloat is really obvious.
5) Since when did Harry start antagonizing Dudley on purpose?