Earthquake

My manager says we have an earthquake coming. He says he is of the sort who gets premonitions about these things. I have no idea if he's delusional. I do know him well enough to know he believes he can foretell earthquakes. So I guess we'll see. I asked him big or little and noted that I really can't afford another big one. He said big, sorry. Oh well. Stay tuned.

I used to date a guy who was the first to feel any earthquake. We lived in Northern California and after the 'big one' in 1989 we had weeks and weeks of aftershocks. Whenever there was one and I was with Bobby, here's the way it would go...

Bobby calling from the kitchen or some other room: Earthquake!
Me: huh?
Bobby: Earthquake!
Me: when?

Earth moves. It happened over and over again - gave me the creeps every time.

But, I did make a little money on those aftershocks. I got so I could successfully judge the scale. Whenever you were with a bunch of people and an aftershock hit, everyone would toss $5 on the table and call out their Richter nums. I made a tidy little sum on AfterShock Bingo.

My last earthquake - February 2001 - ended up costing me close to several grand and few of the drawers in my furniture at home ever quite closed right since. I don't mind the earthquake but I really am not interested in another house toss.

Earthquake

My manager says we have an earthquake coming. He says he is of the sort who gets premonitions about these things. I have no idea if he's delusional. I do know him well enough to know he believes he can foretell earthquakes. So I guess we'll see. I asked him big or little and noted that I really can't afford another big one. He said big, sorry. Oh well. Stay tuned.

I used to date a guy who was the first to feel any earthquake. We lived in Northern California and after the 'big one' in 1989 we had weeks and weeks of aftershocks. Whenever there was one and I was with Bobby, here's the way it would go...

Bobby calling from the kitchen or some other room: Earthquake!
Me: huh?
Bobby: Earthquake!
Me: when?

Earth moves. It happened over and over again - gave me the creeps every time.

But, I did make a little money on those aftershocks. I got so I could successfully judge the scale. Whenever you were with a bunch of people and an aftershock hit, everyone would toss $5 on the table and call out their Richter nums. I made a tidy little sum on AfterShock Bingo.

My last earthquake - February 2001 - ended up costing me close to several grand and few of the drawers in my furniture at home ever quite closed right since. I don't mind the earthquake but I really am not interested in another house toss.

Rollback Joy

Something I did in the past couple of days invited some piece of shit to scatter itself all over my computer. I tried to get rid of it with ad sweepers - a couple of them but this bugger was nasty. Popping up web pages at will and generally just annoying the heck out of me. Then I got more rabid about sweeping and finally swept away my ability to get email.

But, since the last time this happened and I had to use the XP rollback feature and didn't have a good recent restore point, I've been religiously making a restore point every Saturday morning. I just restored back to last Saturday and the world is smelling nice again. Whew.

My Mom is on Windows 2000, sans rollback but I bought her Norton's GoBack and my brother is going to install it July 4th weekend when he is there visiting. It will be nice to be able to roll her back if I need to.

My neighbor, Sherry, called me when I got home and asked me to come down 'and tell me it's going to be ok'. Her computer was frozen at the Windows 98 screen. After a few serious words about how I was seriously questioning all friendships with people using Windows 98 and managed to procure a promise that she is going to buy a new computer and right away with Windows XP. This enabled me to proceed.

The good news was that she knew what she was doing when it blew. McAfee scan. I was able to step through the boot up and skip the antivirus and got her back going. Deleted McAfee and rebooted with no problem. She was very grateful. Homemade brownie grateful. Works for me.

Rollback Joy

Something I did in the past couple of days invited some piece of shit to scatter itself all over my computer. I tried to get rid of it with ad sweepers - a couple of them but this bugger was nasty. Popping up web pages at will and generally just annoying the heck out of me. Then I got more rabid about sweeping and finally swept away my ability to get email.

But, since the last time this happened and I had to use the XP rollback feature and didn't have a good recent restore point, I've been religiously making a restore point every Saturday morning. I just restored back to last Saturday and the world is smelling nice again. Whew.

My Mom is on Windows 2000, sans rollback but I bought her Norton's GoBack and my brother is going to install it July 4th weekend when he is there visiting. It will be nice to be able to roll her back if I need to.

My neighbor, Sherry, called me when I got home and asked me to come down 'and tell me it's going to be ok'. Her computer was frozen at the Windows 98 screen. After a few serious words about how I was seriously questioning all friendships with people using Windows 98 and managed to procure a promise that she is going to buy a new computer and right away with Windows XP. This enabled me to proceed.

The good news was that she knew what she was doing when it blew. McAfee scan. I was able to step through the boot up and skip the antivirus and got her back going. Deleted McAfee and rebooted with no problem. She was very grateful. Homemade brownie grateful. Works for me.