November 28, 2011
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1 We're baaaaaack!
2 Seems like forever.
3 I got three viruses while we were gone.
4 Two were computers, one was a cough. Not sure if the cough was a virus or what, but it was pretty aggressive.
5 On Saturday BOTH my desktop computer AND my laptop had moments of crashiness. My laptop is still in the shop, but it took all day to try to figure out what happened.
6 The desktop just suddenly started opening about a million Internet Explorer pages, just at some random moment. It righted itself, and I brought in some military cyber protection dudes.
7 The laptop got hit much worse. I tried to get onto my GMFlex site and it suddenly took me to some program disguising itself as a virus removal. I can't even remember the name of it, but it's out there, and it literally murdered my hard drive.
8 Fortunately I hope to become a thousandaire on Wednesday. The District hasn't changed its mind about giving me a bunch of money yet, so I'm looking forward to it.
9 The funny thing is, the day I slipped that little announcement into the DN, Ponch wrote and told me to expect something to come in and take it all away.
10 That is SO true too. On the rare occasions when I have suddenly gone up money, something that costs exactly what the windfall was happens. One Thanksgiving a couple of years ago I was somehow up around $900. The day before Thanksgiving, my refrigerator completely broke down.
11 I had to run to the store and buy a floor sample for the nine-hundred. I hustled all afternoon to make it happen, got it through the front door and into the slot, AND got rid of the other one all before Helene came home from work.
12 Heroic antics, to be sure.
13 Anyway, you gotta laugh.
14 Moving on, Part One: Whatever this cough/hack is, I just wanna cry. Nothing I took would get rid of it, and you don't want to sit and complain about a cold anyway; nobody cares.
15 I got this stuff called Mucinex that seems to have toned it down a lot, even since yesterday afternoon. I kept coughing so much I thought I'd break a rib.
16 Somehow I managed to work all day yesterday to get as caught up with grading as was humanly possible, write letters of rec for seniors, edit personal statements, and get this week planned.
17 All in a day's work. It's just that I got to bed last night way past midnight, so my oddly fun schedule of "early to bed, early to rise" seems vastly interrupted.
18 No big. That Mucinex stuff stopped working in the middle of the night. Ah, vell. It's Monday after a holiday. Everybody just needs to slip through the day.
19 Anyway, I'm keeping today's DN fairly short. Nobody wants to hear about a guy with the sniffles, or going through a little run of bad luck/good luck.
20 We all have boushit that happens to us on a daily basis.
21 No news. Ah, I cut meself shaving. So truly, no news.
22 Always good news. Always.
23 AnywayZ...
24 We'll be seeing you all soon. I hope you all make it gracefully through a foggy morning.
25 Fly low.
26 Have a great Monday.
27 Peace.
~H~
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