Ok, ok, you saw this post coming, right? The apocalypse— I mean COVID-19, the pandemic that has basically taken the world by a stormy surprise, leaving everyone stuck at home. All everyone wants to do is to be assured that they are taking the proper precautions to avoid catching it. Those of you with young kids and older adults living in your household are probably even more concerned. Let’s face it nobody wants any loved one to come down with this nasty bug.
I work right in the big apple, the bustling city that literally NEVER sleeps, and surprise surprise, now the entire city has basically mandated a shut down all to avoid unnecessarily spreading this bug any more than it already has. I can’t go to work even if I wanted to. For those of you living in large metropolitan areas you already know how easy it is just to catch a regular cold. The Facts are: Germs are everywhere and catching them is easy.
“We don’t want people to be scared, we want people to be prepared” That’s literally how every statement, conversation, or newscast about COVID-19 starts, and I can see why. Fear always tends to make things worse, but I don’t blame you if this virus is making you a little apprehensive, and possibly stir crazy.
Going Stir Crazy? Me too!
A long line of projects await for me while being stuck at home and one project has frustratingly kept me occupied amongst the raging apocalypse is adding a water cooling system to my computer….
Watercooling my PC:
Funny enough (or maybe not so funny), I was on Google Hangouts one day, and suddenly I see smoke pouring out from my computer. I look over and my graphics card is on FIRE!!! So I yell, my husband comes running over panicking, I’m panicking, and I unplug my machine, and the fire subsided. But still, that burned most of my components, and my GPU was fried. I don’t even know what made it fault out like that because I was not doing anything that my computer couldn’t handle on a normal day. After that, I had no PC to use, because obviously I was scared to even touch it or turn it back on.
Thankfully, my insurance covered the damages, and with that money, I was able to dive into something I’ve never tried before but always wanted to…watercooling: using water inside of my PC to cool down my components.
Burnt GPU
Burnt Cables
Taking my machine apart
New components
Drawing out my watercooling
Watercooling the GPU
Crazy right? But it’s actually a big thing in the PC building community. It’s also a very complicated with a sharp learning curve if you don’t know what you are doing! For the past few weeks, I’ve been learning about water cooling, what parts I need, how I want to set my build-up, etc. I ended up buying 99% of the parts I need, and assembling it the past 2 weekends, but each time I discover a part I am missing (like right now, my loop is half-filled with coolant, because I realized I need more coolant than what I originally purchased…so I’m now waiting for that to come in the mail). Meanwhile, the Coronavirus has me working from home, so I’ve been doing everything on my husbands computer (so thankful for this machine)!
Ahh well, more time for me to cook while stuck at home. That’s the latest in my world at the moment 🙂
Need some recipe ideas while you’re stuck home?
I’m sure you have all gone to stores and seen the empty shelves where toilet paper, water, and bread used to stand. This time can be stressful, families with their kids stuck at home, employed husbands and wives restless attempting to work from home can be chaotic and let me tell ya, trying to find food options with everyone panic shopping is HARD. I mean, tell me what you can make with arugula, rutabagas, and mustard? EXACTLY, soo that being said, let me help you out!
Here are 5 healthy recipes that you can make with the leftover foods that many people didn’t want to buy during their panic purchasing sessions at the stores.
The anxiety and worrying stories being told in the news can lead to a dreary and hopeless outlook on our current situation but sometimes the news doesn’t always show you the good moments life still brings. So, let me relieve you of some of your worries and present you with a couple of uplifting facts.
China has closed down its last temporary corona virus hospital
103-year-old Chinese Grandmother has made a full recovery from Covid-19 after being treated for 6 days in Wuhan China
3 Maryland corona virus patients have made a full recovery and are able to return to everyday life
Patients who are getting treated at the Sfdarjung hospital in New Delhi have recovered
Check out some positive facts that have happened since the Covid-19 outbreak.
Within this rough time that we all are living in hope and goodness still have the amazing habit of shining through all the bad. So why not keep it up? Let’s continue to be kind and not scorn those who need help during this time.
Social distancing is helpful, but fear and hate are not.
PS: Just thought you’d like to see a photo of my two cats, because cats make everything better. Stay safe, stay healthy <3
