Hospitalization

My best friend in Kentucky has landed in the hospital. She's been experiencing some stomach pains for the last couple weeks. She hit the doctor who sent her to a specialist for a few tests. When she went in to get the results of the tests, he admitted her to the hospital because all the tests came back negative. She was getting more tests done today but I haven't heard anything yet. They've already eliminated Gal Bladder and Appendix though. But I'm getting worried about her because they don't have a clue what's wrong yet.

Pain thy name is Percival

Once of the kitties at the place I'm house sitting was less than accomodating last night. He desparately required attention...to the point of keeping me awake for most of the night. I think he's REALLY starting to miss his owners. I keep jumping up on the bed and rubbing up against me, meowing mournfully. Hopefully, he'll calm down cause he's got another 7 days of me before he sees them again.

Gay Movie Surge

A few posts back I mentioned a new movie coming out with a gay subtext called "Brokeback Mountain". Well here's one that totally bends the thriller genre... "Hellbent". All the main characters are gay...in fact the movie is set in West Hollywood, so that should give you some idea. Check it out here.

400

Who would have thought that I'd make it to 400 posts?! After all the delays, the laziness, the departures for years on end...this is my four-hundredth post to my site. Oh the sites gone through numerous changes since post one way back in 2001. But then so has the world... September 11th, the Iraq War, the Mars Rovers, Columbia, the tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and on and on. So rather than look back....here's a look forward....

To the next 400...I hope I make it. ;)

WORMED...Part 2

Well i finally am having to format the system and re-install everything. Neither McAfee or Norton could remove it. They SAID they did, but after you reboot, the Antivirus program is disabled (by the worm deleting some of it's DLL) and then worm is reinstalled and running. If it wasn't so annoying & dangerous, watching all those "Scanning Email..." boxes appear in the lower right would be funny!

Oh well, it's almost done, and there is good news... I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico.

Just Kidding. :)

WORMED!

My office got attacked by a worm last Thursday, but we are just realizing it today. Can you imagine the damage it's been able to do in that time. It looks like this work just likes replicating itself. It sends 5 emails out every 30 seconds from an infected computer...attempting to infect another computer. What looks like happened here was someone's Norton failed (or was attacked by the worm) and after the failure, Norton was unable to detect any suspicious activity.

Due to the amount of traffic being sent via the worm, internet access ground to a halt on that PC. We tried uninstalling Norton and reinstalling, but since the worm was still there and taking up most of the internet bandwidth, we couldn't update Norton's Virus definations and therefore it couldn't detect the worm. By the time we had rebooted the computer just one time, the worm had already attacked the fresh installation of Norton and made it inoperable again. Lovely huh?

Can you say format and reinstall? I sooo do not have the time for this either. My workload is already piled high was things that are "top priority".

Wasted Weekend

Well this weekend was a total waste. All I did was play computer games, feed kitties, and clean litter boxes.