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rodents suck
Dec. 19th, 2007 02:30 pmMy stupid rats chewed on the cable on my wacom tablet, and it now won't work anymore. Unfortunately the cable is fixed to the tablet, so I can't just use a new USB cable, also with the many finicky small cables making up the cable I can't just fix it myself like I could with a power cord. I tried reconnecting the strands, but didn't manage to get it working again. :(
Why can't they make standard cable insulation bitter with some added chemical rather than letting it remain sweet as it is now? Surely it's not just pet rodents who love the taste of cable better than many actual food stuffs, that has to be a problem in buildings and such at least sometimes.
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yuletart entry will have to be completely traditional media, because there's no way I can afford a new tablet right now, not even a cheap one like mine was, not least because of the same destructive rodents' vet bills. Gah, I haven't inked or colored on paper in ages.
In slightly better news, when the vet removed the remaining stitches from Krümel's eye on Monday he said it healed quite well. There's still a hematoma in his eye that'll have to heal, and he still has to take an antibiotic daily and eyedrops several times a day, but the chances are better now that he will be able to keep his eye. I have to come for another check in a week, or rather it ought to have been a week from Monday, but that's in the middle of Christmas, so I'm going to take him on the first day after, i.e. the 27th. Meanwhile Krümel seems mostly okay, though for some reason he keeps that eye squinted almost closed most of the time, but from what I can see of it, it doesn't look worse or infected, so I figure it's just because it's still healing or something, and hope for the best.
Why can't they make standard cable insulation bitter with some added chemical rather than letting it remain sweet as it is now? Surely it's not just pet rodents who love the taste of cable better than many actual food stuffs, that has to be a problem in buildings and such at least sometimes.
Argh. I guess my
yuletart entry will have to be completely traditional media, because there's no way I can afford a new tablet right now, not even a cheap one like mine was, not least because of the same destructive rodents' vet bills. Gah, I haven't inked or colored on paper in ages. In slightly better news, when the vet removed the remaining stitches from Krümel's eye on Monday he said it healed quite well. There's still a hematoma in his eye that'll have to heal, and he still has to take an antibiotic daily and eyedrops several times a day, but the chances are better now that he will be able to keep his eye. I have to come for another check in a week, or rather it ought to have been a week from Monday, but that's in the middle of Christmas, so I'm going to take him on the first day after, i.e. the 27th. Meanwhile Krümel seems mostly okay, though for some reason he keeps that eye squinted almost closed most of the time, but from what I can see of it, it doesn't look worse or infected, so I figure it's just because it's still healing or something, and hope for the best.