thanks everyone for the get well soon wishes.
The flu is nasty and he had a few pretty crappy days but is slowly getting better.
Currently he is in "in appartment-quarantine", meaning he has the bedroom for himself and does only leave when going to the loo.
That plus the disinfecting regimen (that's where the 80l of alcohol are coming in handy ...) should protect me at least a little bit.
In other news, the HP power supply arrived. The amp meter is somewhere in the case, the accompanying screw somewhere else, and the packaging was a mother of a fuckup using shoe boxes thrown into a large shipping box, then the power supply on top, plus another couple of shoeboxes to bolster it.
In yet some other news the dead x99 board has been returned for repair, but I have one other board which is working satisfactorily, even though 64GB of RAM for a W7 may seem to be a bit over the top.