1. I think it smells like a cat pooped in here somewhere. But damned if I can find it.
2. Lynnster is totally on my good-guy list for introducing me to anti-virus things that actually work.
3. I both love this song and love knowing that Coble is probably feeling well enough to wiggle around just a little bit to it.
4. Oh, Dr. Wolfe. I hope there’s an afterlife just so you know about this. I had many favorite things about Charles Wolfe, but one of them was the way someone could say “I just discovered this record from 1928 and I don’t know who anybody on it is” and Wolfe would shut his eyes and put his arms across his belly and he could name everyone. “Oh, that’s for sure so-and-so on the piano. I can recognize the way his right hand is always just a hair early.” I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Every good thing that’s happened to me professionally in this town was a direct result of his intervention on my behalf. If I had a Hall of Fame I’d stick him in it.
5. The Butcher is so funny. Last night we were eating Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (blogging about them yesterday put me in the mood) and one of his fell, fully wrapped, into the garbage can. He picked it out and put it on the table. “What are you doing?” “I’m leaving it there hoping there comes a point when I forget that it fell in the garbage so that I can eat it.”
6. Hey, SuperMousey, remind me I have something cool about Bridgett to tell you later.
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Yes, the secret is out. I really do have three nipples.
Um, doesn’t that make you a witch? And just in time for Halloween! Though, I must say, I think you’re probably too far north to effectively incorporate that into your costume.
Also, it was cat poop! By the drums. I made the Butcher pick it up.
Everyones a critic.
Oh, Dr. Wolfe. I hope there’s an afterlife just so you know about this.
Oh, he knows. And he’s grinning like he did when he debuted that Louis Armstrong/Johnny Cash video.
And he’s also grinning at your continuing success, because he’s tickled to death for you.
Since Hollywood is obviously out of ideas for television shows, I seriously think you should pitch your life with the Butcher as a mid-season replacement. Reality show or comedy based on your life, I’d probably watch it… hell, I don’t have cable – my choices are limited and it would beat the 23 religious channels I’m punished with.
You are so very welcome. I was hoping I didn’t make it all (as I often do) sound too complicated, but it’s really not as complicated as I probably made it sound. The only two virii/trojans I’ve been hit with in all these years were two of the drive-by ones on the WWW that were biggies, and I suspect if I had been running AVG at the time those wouldn’t have happened either, because it seems to catch EVERYTHING. It’s told me several times something has popped up my screen is probably a trojan, and none of the other usuals ever did that.
I am really interested in trying Avast too since all the techies love it so much, but I’m super impressed with AVG. And I love things that work and are free!
AdAware is clunky as shit, but it works. In any case, you just can’t go wrong with Spybot, Spyware Blaster, AdAware, and either AVG or Avast. I really need to run scans more often than I do, too, but I am pretty confident in AVG and Spyware Blaster keeping me mostly safe doing their thing in the background all the time too.
By the way – I have a friend who used to be a pro hacker, for real, back in his younger days – and he uses the same basic stuff now on his computer (except I think he only uses one of the two of Spybot or AdAware – like I said before, you don’t have to use both, but I do anyway).