Tuesday, November 13, 2007

I'm here!!!

I'm at the public library posting this note. I'm sitting on a computer next to a middle aged guy who is giggling. I send quick little "spy" looks his way and notice that on his screen are little cartoon characters. I think they're those smiley face things you can attach to emails etc. Why? Why? Why am I sitting in the public library writing my blog , next to this cartoon freak who...oh....I just noticed that for some reason he has really sharp scissors inches from his right hand....ok I'm gonna make this quick.
My computer is sick. It's at the computer hospital being ministered to by the best computer Dr.s I could find. The diagnosis was simply a virus.
A virus.
Do you know how many times I tell patients...." oh it's just a virus , it'll run it's course."?
Well let me tell you that I have a new respect for viruses. They're EVIL!!!
There I was sitting at my computer minding my own business when a little pop-up appeared. ( At the time I thought...thank you little pop up. Thank you!)
So this cute little pop up told me in no uncertain terms that all was going to hell in a handbasket, (and soon), and if I didn't "Click Here" right now all my personal information was going to the bad guys. ( stuff like bank accounts and my weight).
So being the polite person that I am I did click on "click here" and another little pop up told me that I needed something really really badly so the bad people wouldn't know my weight and I'd better click faster and I started getting "a feeling".
Something in my left brain was saying..."hmmm, Dilys, this doesn't seem right". So I x'd everything and was left with this really ugly red screen with a symbol similar to a skull and cross bones in the middle of the screen!
SHITE!!! All the bad people probably know my weight now! I quickly shut off EVERYTHING...my computer, the printer, the speakers, the coffee pot, the clock radio.
So, now all the computer geeks at Best Buy are looking at my fat pictures, my favorite songs,and the short story that I tried to write and they're probably saving them to their own files or something.( Like they care!)
So, I've been without email, online banking, blogs, viagra ads, hot stock market tips for about 3 1/2 weeks! What do I do with my time you say????
I read.
I read books that I get from the library!!! Really good books! Books that are free!!!
I think I'm falling in love.
Thank you virus!