So, this morning, my out-of-date McAfee virus scan found what it thinks is some kind of trojan living in the startup folder in my start menu (of course, windows explorer shows that folder as being completely empty, and McAfee doesn't know what kind of trojan it is.  anyway, i've got it "quarantined" on the basis that I might initiate a crisis by ( Read more... )

You know, Pookaknight, if you were a mean person, you would have called me back while I was watching the gas-mask zombie episode.  You probably could've caused my death by heart attack via ringing phone ; )

But it's all okay in the end. . . .

I think I may have discovered a route to appeasing Murphy (he of Murphy's laws):  abject humiliation.
Consider:
I ran some errands this afternoon, ending at the grocery store.  Having gotten back to the car and stowed my groceries in the cooler (it is 101 degrees in the parking lot, mind, so yes, I do use a cooler just to drive my groceries home), I ( Read more... )

I'm back in lovely Tucson.  It was great to be home, and great to see everyone.  Luke, sorry I didn't get to return the drive in person; it was really good to see you and to reminisce about the good ole days ( Read more... )

Two, or possibly three nights ago, I noticed a cricket in my bedroom, just before I went off to shower and to bed.  And, stupidly, I just chased it into the closet and then thought "oh well, at least this way I won't step on it in the middle of the night, and it'll find its way out, or I'll find a dead cricket in my closet at some point."  Stupidly ( Read more... )

It's raining!!  And it's been raining for a good half hour.  This is our first real, roof-pounding, street-flooding rain since, well, February or really since September, and absence, as they say, makes the heart grow fonder.  God bless the monsoons ( Read more... )

This article from the New Yorker begs all sorts of interesting questions. . . . Have the police tracked down that license plate number?  Does this actually violate any laws?

Also, I cannot, alas, find a link to the radio interview that brought this to my attention, but the folks up in Phoenixville, PA who are hosting their annual Blobfest this ( Read more... )

I'm not sure if I'll post anything substantial about the trip, but I am back, and am trying to figure out how to get my 300 or so decent pictures to the rest of the family.  And the panoramic stitch program thing for my camera seems to work really well!  Although if you're going to stitch pictures together, you have to be careful about keeping the ( Read more... )

Like my sis, gone till July 8.
Trip back to TN is scheduled for July 31 for Aug 7, because it's cheap to fly on Tuesdays.

I'm trying to make arrangements to come back to TN for a week or so in August.  Is anybody else going to be around in August, and if so, when?  Probably I should pester people by phone, but right now I need to do my little programming project.