Comments | nightwind69: So I have acquired a new talent!

nightwind69

So I have acquired a new talent!

Mar 03, 2010 22:41

What would that new talent be, you ask? I am frigging amazingly awesome at:

REMOVING THOSE STUPID GODDAMNED (AND I MEAN THAT IN THE LITERAL SENSE; GOD HAS DAMNED THEM AND THEIR CREATORS TO HELL) FAKE ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE PROGRAMS FROM COMPUTERS.

Isn't that awesome? I removed one from Frosty's ex-husband's computer. I removed one from a friend's ( Read more... )

geeking, tmi, yay menopause, general ranting

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synaltern March 4 2010, 05:49:59 UTC

Cheers for INFP! (I used to be INTP, then the depression went away. Funny, huh?)

And periods. Ugh. TMI for me too, I suppose. I went five blissful years of, "Oh, there it is. There it goes!" before, "Ok, take the painkillers before it gets bad."

But two and a half weeks? I feel for you, though mine are shrinking. Good, but what the hell?

Screw menopause. I'm immortal. :P

nightwind69 March 4 2010, 05:58:08 UTC

Ah, but even if one is immortal, one will eventually run out of eggs and/or the ovaries will say "SCREW THIS!" and decide not to work anymore, and...Yay menopause. What is needed is eggs/ovaries that last until we croakify. Sure, that means periods all the time, but it also means protection from heart disease and...well...no friggin' eternal periods. :p

Yeah, guys just totally don't know what they're missing. :|

Wow, another INFP? We're supposed to be, like, the rarest or somethin'. I suspect that we all hang out online, though, bein' all feely yet introverty. All the mush and none of the, you know, OMG!PEOPLE!

synaltern March 4 2010, 06:31:35 UTC

Among the rarest definitely. And so was my former type. I think I straddle the two.

Ah, the avoidance of people. Completely ruined the social life I never had/wanted, I tell you. Pfft. If they'd quit being idiots...

The Internet is a wonderful invention. Lets you network where you want to instead of wherever is physically nearby.

nightwind69 March 4 2010, 22:07:10 UTC

*nods* Makes me wonder what, exactly, we did before there was Internet. Kind of like how I wonder what we did before there were microwave ovens... We're so spoiled.

Meh, who needs a social life when you have online fandom? Yep, yep, dorky nerd over here. :)

raisedbymoogles March 4 2010, 18:03:42 UTC

*cheers you on - mighty slayer of spam!*

nightwind69 March 4 2010, 21:58:10 UTC

You know, spam I can deal with. This stupid thing and its variations takes over your computer, constantly spits bogus virus warnings at you, won't let you open certain programs, hijacks your web browser to some proxy server somewhere. One of them that one of the computers I cured had one that replaced the desktop background with this charming bright green and red image that said SYSTEM INFECTED!!! Just...nasty little bastard. Have to go into safe mode (If you can get your computer into it!) and attack it that way and then manually remove registry keys and...ugh. All to get you to "activate" this bogus software and pay $40 for it. HAH! Not me, no sir. :)

raisedbymoogles March 5 2010, 03:12:38 UTC

Ugh, I have seen those! They are evil!

metal_equine March 5 2010, 20:44:51 UTC

Oh good grief, I've had those. They're obnoxious and that's putting it mildly. Hoping the more tech-savvy peoples here can fix it. :(

As for menopause... If going through that means lots of randy hormones I shudder to think what will happen when I hit that mark. Pontus recently dubbed me "least likely to have "a headache"". Good thing he's young and energetic <.

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miss_lithi March 4 2010, 21:43:07 UTC

Awesome for killing the spamfuck programs. My computer was infected as well and it killed my PC entirely, had to buy a new one.

And holy shit to the 2.5 weeks of bleeding. I'd freak the fuck out.

nightwind69 March 4 2010, 22:05:21 UTC

Really? Wow, the worst that happened to me was with one of the kids computers. Once I cleaned out the shitty thing and rebooted, there was a corrupt Windows DLL. I don't know if it was caused by the virus or its removal or if it was just coincidence since it's a 14-year-old's comp and God know what he does on it... Thankfully, we had that comp's software so we could just reinstall Windows over the current install to fix the broken DLL. So far, no flaming PCs. :)

Yeah. 2.5 weeks. On Saturday, it will be three full weeks of period. So. Much. Fun. I've started taking iron supplements because I'm just thinking that this can't be good. But girly doc, whom I called on Tuesday and went, "Ummmm...?" didn't seem overly upset so long as it didn't go on for another 2 weeks or so. Still, I feel more tired and am starting to get out of breath up here sometimes, so methinks I need moar hemoglobin in my body...

velvetg March 5 2010, 03:01:39 UTC

Poor you. I confess I kind of like the idea of menopause. My ovaries are pretty inept anyway, so it would be nice to know that I don't have to pay attention to them anymore. Is it heavy blood going on this long? I've had long periods and more commonly long bouts of spotting, but that's just light stuff. Enough to be inconvenient, but not crampy etc (well, except after childbirth, but that's more understandable).

nightwind69 March 5 2010, 05:58:07 UTC

It kind of fluctuates. It'll do the "OMG! It's the Noah's Flood of periods!" thing for a few days and then it will taper back down to just spotting, then it will start spurting again a few days later. Seems to be more spurting than spotting, though. Hence, the iron supplements. It scared the piss out of me when I couldn't catch my breath the other day after walking the couple of blocks to the post office... Given the general dearth of oxygen up here, lack of hemoglobin is probably not A Good Thing.

I used to be one of those who said, "Menopause? Yes, plz!" Now...Now I'm all, "What the HELL was I THINKING!?" But then, my ovaries have never been particularly troublesome -- Don't have cysts and they don't suddenly sprout Mysterious Growths or anything like that -- and I don't have endometriosis, which I imagine would be greatly improved by menopause. :) So...yeah.

mommimus_prime March 5 2010, 04:33:25 UTC

Oh, yeah, son accidentally clicked on one one time and it took a week to figure it out. Guh, awful, awful thing.

Ooo, menopause, let's not think about that. I'm in my not having a period for six months phase again and will then have one every two weeks. I've also been having hot flashes though I've been telling myself it's just the warm laptop and the heat coming on. And I only have the hot flashes when I'm in the not having a period phase. When I have a period, I ache all over. Can't just stop having them, bleah.

nightwind69 March 5 2010, 05:51:20 UTC

Yeah, the first one I had to remove, it took me forever to figure out. Now...now I know exactly what to do. Still takes a few hours, though, with all the scanning that needs to be done. :p

I have not yet had the hot flashes, thank God. I hope that I won't have them. I also have not experienced insomnia, although I'm told that's common. For me, it's "just" been Weird Period Things and some fairly severe bouts of depression, since I've always been afflicted with rather depressive PMS. I've been having a period more or less every other week for a while now, so basically constant PMS of the depressive flavor. The herbal regimen I'm on seems to have helped with that. Took a while for it to build up, though.

Yep, it was a long drawn-out process for my mother. She wasn't totally finished with periods until she was in her early 60s, although she started menopause later than me. Still, I'm thinking I'm looking at 10 years of "fun." I can't wait. :|

mommimus_prime March 5 2010, 14:22:36 UTC

I've never had difficult periods, cramps and crabbiness being the worst of it but did have pretty severe endometriosis which made other things uncomfortable and required some intensive treatment just so I could have my kids, one of which was the "evil" Lupron to stop my cycle for about 6 months. Had hot flashes then too but no other problems and was pregnant the month after I stopped it so it was a successful treatment ( ... )

nightwind69 March 6 2010, 01:07:12 UTC

I've heard that endometriosis is pretty heinous. A woman I used to work for ended up having a hysterectomy because she was so debilitated by it. She wasn't interested in having kids, so it was a viable "treatment" for her. But glad the treatment worked for you, so that you could still have your anklebiters ( ... )