Out Of My Tree

Oh holy God, today sucked.

Biggest problem of today? The TV.  Or maybe it was just the rubbish being chosen by my family.  It was so bad I went and sat outside in the increasing wind to get away from it.  Location Location Location followed by Ground Force followed by some awful cheesy kid film followed by old Poirot and then more freakin’ Ground Force.

It got so bad I told my brother I would have a look at his laptop which had been running a ‘little slowly’.  10 minutes after turning the evil thing on Windows finally loaded… with a huge number of ‘antivirus’ programs.  All of which had viruses and adware and you name it attached.  Turns out my darling baby 23 year old brother had switched off and disabled his antivirus software after a scan started making a game he was playing run a little slowly… and that was a week ago… oh, and he hadn’t downloaded any updates for it in a couple of months!

Then the damn thing started BSOD-ing and that was me left with two choices: -

• Throw the damn thing out of a window
• Wipe and start again.

Because I knew he would be quite pissed off if I threw it I grabbed the recovery disk and loaded everything back up. Luckilly he is good at keeping his files of flash drives so the only thing he was going to lose was his music… At this I would be crying my eys out proclaiming the end of the world, he wasn’t bothered – walking away with a ‘I’ll just transfer your iTunes library to my computer.’

And by ‘I’ll…’ he meant, ‘You, sister, will do it becasue you are quite the mug.’

And the stick he gave me to do it with?  512Mb.  Yeah, it took some time!

My reward for transferring at 16 Gig this way?  An episode of American Chopper (the best thing on) and a piece of my Mum’s chocolate cake.

The cake was particularly tasty as, other than a tiny bit of dinner, this was the first thing I had eaten all day – new thing – not hungry.  Which can only help the losing of weight!

But I made my brother take the oath to never switch off his antivirus again…  He, taking the easy way out, has started looking at the Apple Store.  So in his head,right now is a small fight – Sony Vaio vs MacBook.  Easy for me but as he said, James Bond uses a Vaio…