I slept well last night – that’s what night shifts do.
But for some odd reason I was far warmer in bed last night than I had been on
Tuesday afternoon or yesterday morning. How did that work?
I made toast and had my usual look at the Internet.
Having finally sorted my antivirus yesterday my Facebook feed was full of
adverts for antivirus products. The marketing algorithms haven’t quite got it
right, have they? Now that I’ve bought something it is too late to get adverts
for whatever it is. Last week I bought a year’s worth of razor blades and for
two days job lots of razor blades was all I saw on social media.
I got the dogs onto their leads and we went to the
woods. The upper car park has been heaving for the last two weeks, filled with
people who very rarely go to the woods so today I tried the lower car park
which was empty. No one knows it is there. We walked a different walk to usual,
and every time we took a turn that isn’t on our usual walk so Morgan would give
me a look as if to ask if I was sure.
The dogs waded in the pond that I told them not to
wade in. They rolled in the muck I told them to leave alone… an average walk
really.
We came home for a cuppa, and I farted around with the
lap-top and my phone tweaking the McAfee antivirus that I’d got yesterday.
I really needed a new package – what I had was with
AVG, The antivirus seemed to work, but although I thought I’d paid for the
tuneup software, it kept telling me that I might like to buy it. The final
straw was when they took money for it (again), but again told me the
advantages of getting something that they’d sold me but hadn’t given me.
There was a minor hiccup when I thought I didn’t have
an antivirus… The AVG antivirus that I’d got rid of was called “AVG
antivirus” (so you knew what you were getting). McAfee don’t do
antivirus. They do “livesafe” which is their antivirus package but with
a frankly meaningless name. Eventually I figured this out.
You’d think it would have a sensible name, wouldn’t
you? Their “McAfee PC Optimiser” tells you what you are getting, doesn’t
it?
After quite a bit of farting about I was as confident
that I could be that my lap-top was free of viruses and malware, and I had a
protection score of six hundred and forty-nine out of a possible thousand which
I was told was good. Was it? I have absolutely no idea.
I Munzed, and Wordled from “virus” (it
seemed appropriate) through “fluid” and “untie” to “cubit”
which was rather a stupid word, wasn’t it?
And then I pootled in the garden for a bit. Trimming
and pruning and stuff. I sat by the pond with the dogs and read my Kindle for a
bit… and woke up an hour or so later. It
was getting cold so I came in and watched a couple of episodes of “The Man
In The High Castle”.
“er indoors TM” finished
her day’s work and bearing in mind she’d destroyed the ironing board she went
shopping for a new ironing board for me. I say “for me” … it really was
for me. And whilst she was out she got a couple of acers too.
We’ve had acers in the past which have always died.
Let’s see what I can do with these ones…
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