The Good... The Bad... The Ugly...

The Good...
Irises and geraniums are in full bloom. Those lovely, tiny yellow flowers in the white bowl to the left are my bok choy bolting!

The Bad...
What are the odds I'd have the virus that ate Chicago two Aprils in a row? Last time was failing to renew. This time meticulously updated Norton saw no viruses but advised me comcast was rejecting my emails because I was sending too many at a time... and they were all sexually explicit. I was Accounting and didn't even have my mail prg open! Norton could only popup hourly to call me scum of the earth. Feh.


The Ugly...
$499 Dell box with a silver front and white sides. Ack. Can't complain when it's 2g RAM and a 230g harddrive. Love the nifty new silver-rimmed keyboard but frowned when I saw he'd bought a new mouse.
"I have one!"
"You'll need this."

True. Below is my setup for the past 2.5 days. First I fished out 5-yr old software boxes then went online to get megs and megs of updates over the last 5 yrs. Next transfer current master files, critical 40% of emails in-and-out plus misc files for current customers. People complain about BillGates but boy was that easy once you fish out all locations and folder names. Staying focused is not my strong suit.


The virus appears to have taken out the old pc's dvd writer so I have to focus on: 2 pcs, 2 keyboards, 2 mouses, and ONE MONITOR to transfer billions and billions of bytes via cd.

Plug monitor into old pc to copy, plug into new pc to upload. Truly the hardest part was remembering which mouse was active.

Today I found my two memory sticks which hold gigs but take minutes to fill and an hour to delete. But all is up and running.

I'm installing a second monitor tomorrow and we'll add the old harddrive on the new pc to viruscheck all and move the other 20gigs of files. Hmm, I'll have almost 200gigs of free space.

All in all, it's been a long time since I've run on all cylinders for days so it's all good. And the new McAfee on the Dell is fabulous! All the niggly things I used to do myself it does by default!


My favorite ad of the last 20 years
or We are the people our parents warned us about.
Click photo for a larger size. This will surely sell a lot of the $3M 2-BR condos they're promoting here. Screw them kids.