This past week I've been fighting off viruses on my computer, which has made me not want to have my computer on at all. I thought I had finally triumphed over the malware, greyware and spyware when other pop-ups and warnings started up again. Not as bad as before, but still. So here I am, posting, feeling contaminated and, well, virulent. But I really want to tell you about a "duh" moment I had earlier this week. So here I am.
On Monday I took my car into the shop to get an oil change and check-up. This means looking over the tubes and belts, changing the various fluids, filters, and plugs. When I got in the car on Tuesday morning to go to work I turned on the radio and couldn't find any of my stations. They'd all been reset, and I couldn't understand what had happened. Did my mechanics just go through and set them on random stations for kicks? Were they mad that I didn't let them change my spark plugs yet? What the hell? This has to be what mechanics do as a practical joke.
I drove the 30 minutes into work trying to find all my stations and put them in somewhat similar order on my radio, and thinking about what I would tell my mechanics when I called them to complain. I had a little speech prepared and was all set to make the call when I remembered that as part of the check up they had changed my car battery. Which had reset my radio stations.
And then I felt a little dumb, followed immediately by grateful that I had waited to call my mechanic. The last thing I needed was to feel like this stupid hysterical woman who doesn't know mechanics well enough to know what happens when a car battery gets changed. I hate that. I need at least a facade of competence when I deal with my mechanics. Just on principle.
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4 comments:
Stef, that's not that big a deal... I've disconnected my batteries in cars I've owned and freaked out about the same thing. And I'm a car guy.
Hope you have a great weekend.
Thanks, Brian. Yeah, it was a little thing. But there's something about messing with my music that really can screw up my reality. The stations still aren't the same, cause really I didn't have a firm grip on what stations I was listening to. In the end it's probably a good thing since I didn't exactly like all my stations and this was an opportunity to change them, but still.
I hope you have a fabulous 4th.
How about visiting Windows Update (make sure you back everything up first just in case) or running Ad-Aware?
Or maybe you're way past that?
Well, yeah. I did do all that. Ad-Aware didn't even cover all the areas. Somehow I got this trojan thing come in and I got infected and it was just awful. I would run Ad-Aware and Housecall every two hours, and it would still be pulling up at least 15 - 20 things that should be deleted. It was awful. It's gone away a little bit now. At least I can be on the internet without getting some warnings and stuff. Sheesh. It was so frustrating.
Housecall was excellent, by the way. It got things that Ad-Aware didn't catch. It's a part of Trend Micro, in case you were wondering .
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