It’s been a while since I’ve had an all-out rant fest. Well I guess now’s the time. Notice how I haven’t posted much lately? I’ve spent pretty much every free moment — granted, there aren’t really all that many of those at my disposal — working on my daughter’s laptop. I cannot even imagine how it’s possible in the 21st century that an operating system could allow software to sneak onto the system. Worms, viruses, whatever… How does a supposedly modern operating system allow the system registry to be altered witthout the permission of the operator? UGGGGGHHH!! I’ve tried the search and destroy, I’ve tried the ad-aware, I’ve even booted live Linux to delete one of the spyware apps. I had gotten the spyware off, according to the reports, and as soon as the system connected to the network, BAM!!! Microsoft sucks, they totally fucking suck.

Well, I feel so much better now. Except that I didn’t win the lottery last night. I know, I shouldn’t get my hopes up. The guy who buys the tickets for our little group came around and asked with my share of the hundred umpteen million. A new laptop, that’s all I really need. A new car would be nice, too.

How about A/C for my truck? We’re going away for the weekend — the whole family with dogs, so we have to take the truck… and we’ve discovered the air conditioner is broken. High 90’s we’ve been enjoying this week, so… no, this won’t do. So here I am at the fix-it shop and I have to watch soap operas with actual sex… what is up with that? If I wanted to see people having sex, I’d buy me some porn!!

OK, I’m going to plug in my old laptop, the one with the five minute battery life and freezes if it twists at all. What can I say, I do that too.