Thing 1: Remember that scene in Home Alone when McCauley Culkin went screaming down the hall after applying the aftershave? That’s how I felt this morning when I found my first-ever trojan report on my personal (not work) computer. It’s the first since I bought my IBM PC-XT back in 1984. I had one virus on a work computer in 2000, and it was sent to me by my then-boss, who infected anyone who clicked on the link he sent. Yay, Trend Micro! Yay me, come to think of it. I think I got it from an infected PDF. Make sure your Acrobat is updated; there are some nasty trojans out there.
Thing 2: Aaaaah, cinnamon brooms. They’re back in the stores, and Trader Joe’s has them for several dollars less than Kroger, so I picked one up and put it in my office. My two favorite scents are cinnamon and vanilla. I prefer natural scents to man-made, apparently. Vanilla candles. Cinnamon brooms. Life is good.
Thing 3: Speaking of scents, I heart sulfur matches. When Gracie drops a stinkbomb in the litterbox (and boy, does she drop odor bombs; worst of all the cats I’ve ever had), I light a few matches afterward and things are much better.
Thing 4: I am going to be out of action most of Thursday and Friday. I am getting Lasik surgery done, all things permitting. Posting will be light, and when I post again after the surgery, I will be posting with an entirely new view on life. (Yes, I did have to say it. I’ll stop now.)
Good luck, and hope all goes well. We certainly need your clear vision to cut through the biased fog the media circulates on a daily basis.
I suggest not using Acrobat in any form unless strictly required for work reasons.
Foxit is slightly less annoying and doesn’t seem to have the security problems Adobe keeps having.
Good luck with the Lasik – refooey sheloomie and all that.
Good luck wiht the lasik surgery. I had eye corrrection done in the stone age, before laser surgery, so I had an RK (cuts to the cornea). I remember sitting up afterward and seeing the numbers on the wall clock in the operating room clearly without glasses, for the first time since I was nine. That’s a glorious moment.
Not sure if you saw this when it first went by, but it’s appropriate:
http://www.amcgltd.com/archives/004656.html
Rrrm… a little more christiany than I remember it being when I last read it, so, well, hey, I write about what I know. It’s the spirit of the thing, as it were :)
Good luck with the surgery, and a speedy recovery!
Yeah, it is a little christiany, but I can still get it. And Scott, thanks for going into so much detail about THE PARTS I WANT TO IGNORE. Always the gentleman.
Sigh.
Well, I’m nervous, but really, really looking forward to the rest of my life after the operation. I can’t imagine being able to drive without glasses.