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It's hot. This is gonna sound stupid, considering I basically live in the desert and should be used to this crap by now, but I hate that it's hot.
I'm really tired, probably a combination of the heat, the fact that it's too hot to eat much of anything, and the hours I've stayed up waiting for scans to finish in the ongoing attempt to fix my computer. Which brings us to...
State of the Virus: Insidious little fucker. My tech guru at http://forums.spybot.info has had me run various malware scan and removal programs, and a couple things to log all the junk my system is running, and I swear every one of them finds bits and pieces of crap that shouldn't be there. Bit by bit I think we're getting rid of this thing. I've only been getting help for the past two days or so- there are a hell of a lot of people with this virus- and already Anna's running closer to normal. Before things were so slow that it was almost like having dialup again.
The only thing is, most of these scans they're having me run are full system ones, and since I have a lot of crap on my computer, it takes them an avarage of 2 hours to run. Longer if I do a bunch of other stuff. Upshot being, I'm mostly leaving the computer alone even though it's running a hell of a lot better. /State of the Virus
On a side note I have to say, if you've got virus-y computer problems and are in over your head in trying to get rid of them, the http://forums.spybot.info people are awesome. If I ever get nuked with anything else (let's hope not) I'll go back there in a heartbeat.
Moving on. Too much working at the computer and sleeping, not enough fluid intake- my kidneys are starting to get pissed at me again. I really really don't need this, you know? So now I'm drinking so much water and diet Sprite that I swear I'm drowning in it. Hope I'm drowning the kidneys, anyway.
Let's see, what else is going on? The grandparents are out of town, and they've got neighbors watching their place and watering plants, so we're cool there. Going to call my aunt & uncle and see if they want to go catch "The Dark Knight" with us. Otherwise Mom and I will probably go check it out on our own this weekend. With my aunt and uncle or not, we'll do our usual "we ain't paying your snack nazis a dime" thing, aka buying some candy at Target, stuffing the boxes with tissues so the candy doesn't rattle, and smuggling said candy into the theater in our purses. We usually buy bottled water, only because we haven't figured out a way to smuggle that in yet. :)
I've seen people smuggle potlucks in, though- usually during big premere weekends when the theater employees are more concerned with keeping people from blocking the fire doors and other crowd control stuff, 'cause if the fire marshall shuts them down they make no money.
I also saw some people bring McDonald's into a movie, including ice cream. How they got away with that I couldn't tell you- you could smell french fries ten rows away.
Anyway, I'm off for a nap. I think my computer's recovered enough that I could risk Trilly tonight- if, you know, I'm not Typhoid Mary, and anyone wants to risk talking to me. :)
I'm really tired, probably a combination of the heat, the fact that it's too hot to eat much of anything, and the hours I've stayed up waiting for scans to finish in the ongoing attempt to fix my computer. Which brings us to...
State of the Virus: Insidious little fucker. My tech guru at http://forums.spybot.info has had me run various malware scan and removal programs, and a couple things to log all the junk my system is running, and I swear every one of them finds bits and pieces of crap that shouldn't be there. Bit by bit I think we're getting rid of this thing. I've only been getting help for the past two days or so- there are a hell of a lot of people with this virus- and already Anna's running closer to normal. Before things were so slow that it was almost like having dialup again.
The only thing is, most of these scans they're having me run are full system ones, and since I have a lot of crap on my computer, it takes them an avarage of 2 hours to run. Longer if I do a bunch of other stuff. Upshot being, I'm mostly leaving the computer alone even though it's running a hell of a lot better. /State of the Virus
On a side note I have to say, if you've got virus-y computer problems and are in over your head in trying to get rid of them, the http://forums.spybot.info people are awesome. If I ever get nuked with anything else (let's hope not) I'll go back there in a heartbeat.
Moving on. Too much working at the computer and sleeping, not enough fluid intake- my kidneys are starting to get pissed at me again. I really really don't need this, you know? So now I'm drinking so much water and diet Sprite that I swear I'm drowning in it. Hope I'm drowning the kidneys, anyway.
Let's see, what else is going on? The grandparents are out of town, and they've got neighbors watching their place and watering plants, so we're cool there. Going to call my aunt & uncle and see if they want to go catch "The Dark Knight" with us. Otherwise Mom and I will probably go check it out on our own this weekend. With my aunt and uncle or not, we'll do our usual "we ain't paying your snack nazis a dime" thing, aka buying some candy at Target, stuffing the boxes with tissues so the candy doesn't rattle, and smuggling said candy into the theater in our purses. We usually buy bottled water, only because we haven't figured out a way to smuggle that in yet. :)
I've seen people smuggle potlucks in, though- usually during big premere weekends when the theater employees are more concerned with keeping people from blocking the fire doors and other crowd control stuff, 'cause if the fire marshall shuts them down they make no money.
I also saw some people bring McDonald's into a movie, including ice cream. How they got away with that I couldn't tell you- you could smell french fries ten rows away.
Anyway, I'm off for a nap. I think my computer's recovered enough that I could risk Trilly tonight- if, you know, I'm not Typhoid Mary, and anyone wants to risk talking to me. :)