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The spud came downstairs as we were watching Extreme Makeover last night to report that her “enter” key was no longer working for her. Fred went upstairs to check it out, and ran AdAware to see what was going on.
AdAware found over 200 things, only a fraction of which were cookies. The spud, it appears, will download anything. If something pops up and offers to install something on her system, she goes along with it. She had 12 huge, bulky screensavers, search bars on her desktop, and god knows what else.
Clearly she takes after her mother. I was about to download AIM the other night when Fred stopped me and informed me that it hijacks your something or other and even if you uninstall it, it reinstalls the next time you open AIM.
I guess I’ll stick with MSN Messenger, then.
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I’m such the
Gladys Kravitz. The people next door are having some kind of work done on the interior of their house. A couple of guys have been running a saw for the better part of a week. I don’t know if they’re building shelves, or hardwooding the floors, or what, because they come out on the front porch to cut the wood they need, and then carry it back inside and shut the door. Every time I hear the saw go, I press my face to the window to see if I can figure it out, but there’s a part of their porch that blocks my view, and it’s driving me crazy.
You suppose they’d mind if I went over after dark and pressed my face up against the window to see what’s going on?
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What was…
1. …your first grade teacher’s name? You know, there was a time when I could name every single one of my teachers through the 8th grade, but that’s no longer true. I attended first grade on Kinchlo3 AFB in Michigan and I know I had a Mrs. Radecki for one of the grades I attended at that school, but I can’t swear it was first grade.
2. …your favorite Saturday morning cartoon? Bugs Bunny! Actually I think it was the Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner show, but I hated the hell out of that stupid Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote.
3. …the name of your very first best friend? No clue. I remember a Candy Rhoades when we lived in Michigan, and also a Katie. When we lived in Guam, I had a friend named Sherri Roberson (or perhaps Robinson, I don’t remember which), and also Suzanne Dembinski. I can’t say for sure who my first best friend was, though.
4. …your favorite breakfast cereal? Fruity Pebbles!
5. …your favorite thing to do after school? When I was in middle school, I’d get home from school and watch the second half of
As the World Turns I was hooked on that show for a good many years.
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You’ve got to check out Fred’s
blog link for today. It rocks! Well, if you’re a William Hung fan you’ll think it rocks, anyway.
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“If I smack him really hard, will he get the hell out of my way?”
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Trillian! http://www.trillian.cc
Lets you sign on to (and sign up for) AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, or IRC all in one client. You don’t even notice who’s on what, really. It’s awesome. And no spyware that I can tell. And it’s free! (Though right now, Yahoo is a bit flakey in it so I signed off of Yahoo until there is a patch released)
Yeah, I didn’t care for the roadrunner & coyote either (is “coyote” spelled right? It looks weird). Bugs Bunny ROCKED, though! It’s probably a little known fact that the inspiration to create Bugs was Clark Gable’s carrot-munching character in his Oscar winning role in “It Happened One Night.” (He munched on carrots during the hitchiking scene.) I only know ’cause I’m a die-hard Gable fan. 🙂
Right now I *really* wish life were DVR’ed like that because my purse has been missing since Wednesday. Ack!
I have an entry today about the smackdown our cats went through last night…it’s heavy on kitty photos…so check it out.
What is the Bean allergic too? Isn’t it funny that many people are allergic to cats and here is your little cat with allergies? Maybe he’s allergic to people…or the other cats! Hee.
well someone already beat me to the punch on trillian, but I definitely reccomend it too. My computer nerd hubby who doesn’t like what some of the other messenger programs do to your computer uses it, and recommended I use it too.
Seeing your picture of The Bean reminded me … we used to have a cat with a similar tail (but a bit shorter), and somehow, in playing dictionary games during the dead of winter, I guess, we found that the word “scut” means “a stubby, erect tail, such as that of a hare, rabbit, or deer”. Well, obviously that cat , whose real name was Dudley, or Duddles, became “Scut-butt” from then on, or “Scuttlebutt” …
Just thought you’d want to know …
Count me in for the “Tivo of life cam!” I would of won so many arguments if I would of had it, dammit!
Hee ! The pic of the cats at the waterfall/watering trough reminded me of waiting in line at the gym for the water fountain.
Robyn-
I saw this today and it made me think of you. You’ve probably already seen it, but it’s just too cute:
http://tva.canoe.com/emissions/salutbonjourwe/salutptcom/downloads/dontworry.htm
Okay, my Survivor experience is never complete without your entry, and I can’t find it…
🙁 I’ll be okay… maybe
;
Robyn,
Where is your survivor Spoilers?
Anna and Joyce:
It’s here, at the bottom of the page.
Apparently Movable Type moves it into the archives when it’s been 24 hours. I’m still working on having a separate blog for the TV stuff!
See now, I’m the type of person who would go over to the neighbor’s house and ASK them what they were doing.
Ha ha ha!! Gladys Kravitz – I thought I was the only one who used that phrase. We have a real Gladys living across the street from us. I always tell my husband to walk around naked, but he is too poopy faced to do it, so alas, we are stuck with her!! Go on, go over and be a Gladys! I want to know what is going on too!!!!