Die Gator Die!!

I hate the Gain corporation and all of the evil corporate greed they stand for. You fuckers have fucked up my computer with your goddamn pop up ads and dodgy toolbars that insert hardcore sexual stuff on a computer shared with my 12 year old daughter.

I would never willingly click on a goddamn popup, what makes you think I want my PC bombarded with irrelevant shit that inhibits my use of my own software, locks up my windows explorer window and basically kills my enjoyment of the internet? You are all idiots, and I would gladly light the match that burns whatever back alley building you creatures infest to the ground.

So yeah, guess what I did this weekend. I edited registry files and ran spyware cleaners and I still have this crap on my computer. This should be illegal. Really, because it's intrusive, inhibitive and just plain irritating as hell. Oh and then when I came to work today, the other chick in my office suddenly had the same problems. Just out of the blue. She wasn't doing anything she shouldn't have been doing, hadn't downloaded anything for some time. Just *boom* she's got 50 popups all over her screen and desktop shortcuts she didn't add etc. So now, we've had to call the IS department to take time from them to come and fix it, meanwhile she's unable to work because they're on her computer fixing everything. Productivity loss.

Is there a valid petition or bill going through congress right now I can sign and support? This has pissed me off no end, if you couldn't tell.

Hey I'm on a roll

Looks like all I needed to kick my ass into blogging gear was a new look here, hehe.

Not that I have much of anything of interest to write about. Today was a lazy day around our house. Apart from doing the laundry, the kid and I just watched Finding Nemo and hung out. We're having a lovely thunderstorm atm which is nice to watch. It's a little light on the thunder though. I do love a good storm. I don't know what it is about them that makes me feel good. A lot of people think I'm odd because I don't wish for bright sunny weather all the time.

We have an office cleaning lady that comes in every day around 1pm and she inevitably mentions the weather. I find it particularly cruel considering our offices are below ground and windowless :) But she's an older lady who prefers warm sunny days and gives me funny looks when I sort of cringe and wish for a bit of rain.

I think it comes from my time spent in Monterey. I really came to love it when the fog would roll in over PG and drape itself like a fuzzy blanket over the peninsula. If I happened to be on the beach at the time I took pleasure in being able to listen to the waves crashing on the beach, but not seeing them. I also enjoyed the year-round cooler weather we had there. I wish I could decently describe how... comforting I found gloomy days, and still do. I don't get depressed when it's cloudy and I don't watch the weather channel like a hawk waiting for word of the sun peaking out.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not some vampire-like weirdo who only thrives in gloom. I enjoy a beautiful clear day with a cool breeze and not a cloud in the sky. The colours seem more vivid and vibrant and the plethora of big beautiful trees around here look especially nice contrasted with a brilliant blue sky during the spring. It's just that I don't get that grey-weather scowl on my face when I wake up and see that it looks like rain. And I don't grimace and flinch when the cleaning lady comes in lamenting the foul weather.

So she thinks I'm a freak. Ah well.

Knives are bad.

Forgive any typos in this entry. I seem to have sliced a good bit of my finger tonight. I was picking up the butcher's knife to cut up some asparagus and it slipped and somehow as it fell, it managed to wedge itself nice and deep into my finger before dropping to the floor.

I'm such a weenie. But I've got some New Skin on it, which hurt like a bitch putting on, and the bleeding has stopped. Alas, my already deplorable typing skills have slipped even further because I'm afraid to bend my finger.

Other than that my week has improved. I forgave my daughter for forgetting my birthday and we spent today driving around town while I took photos of her in different parts of town. I have several of them up in my photo albums, in her directory, but here's one of them:



That was taken in one of the alleys downtown. There's a set of steps in one of them that go up to nowhere, so I thought she'd look cool atop them.

Anyway, I'm going to go watch a video. Gnighty.

Hi. I'm Molly Ringwald.

I think today was the crappiest birthday I've ever had. And I think it's my own fault really. Apart from just about everyone I know IRL, including my own daughter, seemed to forget or just not acknowledge the bday, I don't want to go into much more detail and etch in stone (so to speak) everything that went wrong today. It just sucked much, and I let myself get sucked into wallowing in self-pity all day long and now I'm exhausted.

I'm babbling now. I'm going to bed. Glad today is over.

Spiffy

Soooo blogger had an upgrade when I wasn't looking. I like it so far. I've been wanting to redo the look here for a while now but lacked the energy to actually do it myself. Good job they added some spiffy new templates eh? Thank you, whomever, for saving me the work. I like this layout.

Still though, I've been quite bad about posting here and everytime I DO post, I say I've been bad about posting and make a promise to be better but who am I kidding? No one reads this thing anyway :) So to anyone stumbling onto this blog by accident, I'll post when I can and that's the best I can do.

What's new? Well not much, hence the lack of posts. Nothing's ever new around here. My grandparents bought a 2004 PT Cruiser the other day. It's gorgeous and it was quite shocking that they bought one. They've often said that the Sable and Escort they had would be their last cars (how morbid eh?) and then they called up the other day and said, 'Guess what, we bought a new car.' Was very surreal.

What else... Oh the kidlet's got a new domain. minimelia.com. Sweetiepete was a bit too childish for her these days :) so a new site and domain for her. She's got contacts now as well. *sniffle.* She's all growed up :(

Well I'm keeping it short for now. It's 24 day and I need to prepare :) :)