Digging through the crap...

I found myself with an evening with nothing planned.. so.. hey, I'll clean up a few things of clutter that I need to get rid of... now 7 hours later, I have 4 garbage bags full of stuff and clothes I'll never wear (2 garbage bags of them)   ...and still working on it.... but I'm getting tired, so I'll be continuing this tomorrow. I've made a LOT of headway in the excavation process.. now it's just a matter of putting stuff back up.. I'm taking 3 old monitors and an old printer I will never use down to where I work so that the students can tinker with them  (yes, I know that monitors can hold a charge.. these will be discharged even though they haven't been plugged up in over 2 years) 

It's amazing how much crap a person accumulates that we don't realize.  I knew I had a lot, but never this much... I'm still not sure where it all was hiding.  I still have about the same amount of room as before.  I think maybe cleaning was way overdue.  I'm glad I did it though... it makes me feel like I've accomplished something... I also found several things I thought I had lost.  ...go figure. 

Last night I figured I'd be smart and download something I knew I shouldn't... and guess what?... yup.. I got some bad virus on my system.. disabled my internet.. not only my internet explorer.. but google chrome and firefox wouldn't work... so my winsock was fried.  I downloaded spybot search and destroy.. and adaware.. but neither of them would get rid of it... so I decided to get the best retail prog I've run across.. spysweeper.  It found it.. but warned me that it couldn't clean it.. I could delete the file but it would prove to make windows unstable.. so.. I deleted.. then windows was fubar.   Luckily I had the reinstallation disks and went that route.. and even upgraded from xp to vista...  now computer is running smoothly with only some loss.. when I upgraded.. I was able to salvage about 85 percent of my old data files.  ...I need to do a better job of backing up before I do something risky like that again.

Now I am pretty much finished for the night... and I thought I would spend a few minutes putting my thoughts down.  I am anxious to find out how the evening went for my best friend... she had a lot to deal with tonight, and I know that it was possibly going to be a very unnerving situation for all involved.  I'm sure that I'll hear something before the evening is through.  I have been crossing my fingers for her...

I might find something to do to wind down for the night... I'm still wound up from digging through the crap.

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