Happy Halloween, all!

I finally got in the Halloween mood on Thursday when 15 or 20 kids came by for candy.  The whole Beggar's Night concept is still irksome.  I asked my class the other day why the city reschedules trick-or-treating for a weekday and the consensus was that it protects kids from drunk drivers.  And it has always been that way.  I ( Read more... )

Yesterday I left my laptop at home, as I tend to do on days when I attend my Latin America lectures because the battery does not last long enough so I borrow stinky_monky's laptop.  Unfortunately, I forgot to turn my laptop off when we left the house, so it was on all day, and it was broadcasting me as active on Gmail's instant messenger.  Thus, when I got ( Read more... )

And we're back up and running. All seems to be well. As tim_wright pointed out, I hope I didn't back up the virus and reinstall it today. We'll see...

And I'm back in Columbus. But not in that order. Maaaaagic.

hamlin42's comment to Friday's post reminded me that I never really explained why I was in Los Angeles (or at least I didn't explain it to ( Read more... )

I'm about to wipe away my computer's memory.  It started having some major problems the other day, so I let Jurgen Prochnow check it out (it's what he does for a living), and after confirming that all of the hardware seems fine he suggested reinstalling Windows because there might be a virus somewhere in there that the anti-virus software can't ( Read more... )