I had a reasonable
night's sleep (for a change) and came down to find the newly
plumbed-in dishwashed hadn't leaked overnight. er indoors TM"
set off getting the er indoors TM"-mobile
through its MOT and I set all the washing machines to scrubbing
dishes and undercrackeres and took my dog for a walk. We went on a
rather circuitous walk today' through the park to Gaswoks Lane, then
past the Foundry and along Victoria Road to the ford. From here we
came back through the park, and home via Oak Tree Road. As we went I
couldn't help but nosey through people's windows. a lot of peple
still have their Christmas decorations up you know.
Whilst we were out we ran
into several old friends, and had quite a few good old gossips. What
woould normally have been just over an hour's walk took us nearly two
hours. Once home I found I'd not actually set the washing machine
going. That was rather a waste of time.
Whilst the washing
machine did have a go at my smalls I send out some invites to a
birthday party. If any of my loyal readers haven't recevied an invite
(and would like one) could you please let me know.
I then backed up the last
week's worth of blog entries and was rather ashamed of all the
spelling misstakes. Unfortunately OpenOffice doesn't have a spell
checker. So I downloaded what seemed to be the official OpenOffice
dictionary (from the OpenOffice website) only to find it was a
conduit hack package. I then spent an hour or so trying to get one
thousand (or so) suspect files off of my laptop. Perhaps I'm
naive, but I never expected a link from OpenOffice's startup screen
to take me to a hacking download site.
I suppose this is the
trouble with open source software - you never really know who's
giving you something for nothing.
Whilst countless scans
ran and re-ran on my laptop I watched the last two episodes of "Death
comes to Pemberley". I watched the first episode yesterday;
it was slow. However the show picked up somewhat in today's two
episodes. Mr Wickham was something of a beast; but then he always
was. Mind you I wwasn't entirely sure that Colonel Fitzwilliam's
intentions to Miss Georgiana weren't entirely honorable.
With the D'arcy family
once more happy I wondered why the laptop scanniing was taking so
long. Eventually I realised that what I thought was a PC scan was yet
another scam. Any downloaded conduit removal tool merely claimed to
find hundreds of files and then asked for money to removel them. In
the end good old AVG and Windows Defender came to the rescue. And
these people helped
too.
After quite a loot of
farting about I think I've got my laptop fixed. if anyone gets any
iffy messgaes from me then clearly the spybots have eluded me. And if
anyone knows how to get a spell checker into OpenOffice I would love
to know the secret...
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