Today is a holiday. It has been raining since early this morning except for a brief respite which, if the thunder in the background is a good indicator, is about to end. I woke up with big plans of accomplishing tasks here at home. Tasks need to be accomplished. I am one degree away from being void of the necessary skills for domesticity. One more genetic trait bequeathed on me by my paternal grandmother. Delitha, her name, was a force to reckoned with in her own right. She was not a housekeeper. She stayed home, cooked huge meals for tobacco crews coming in for lunch, maintained all the tasks keeping hearth and home together but did not seem to possess a decorating skill or a will to be unnecessarily clean in her housekeeping. I will yield to the fact that Delitha had, for most of my life, a garden, chickens, pigs and other responsibilities that I cannot pleasd to support my position on housekeeping. Nevertheless it cannot be denied that genetically I am aligned with her in important ways, eccentric ways, intellectual ability, and I do have her boobs, belly, butt and sway in my back due to scoliosis. My sense of humor came from the other side of the genetic gene pool as did the fact that I look younger than my years. I much prefer writing to making the bed, putting up clothing, cleaning the bathroom, oh dear, the list is long. Writing this out brought me to my senses. I am going to accomplish a task or two. I will return later to heap large measures of praise on myself.

Yeah, it is late! Wanna make something of it?

At 1:31 a.m. I need to assert a bit of aggression to help me believe I will make it through the day. Today turned into a slow marathon. Computer problems in the morning when I was working turned into unsurmountable mountains by the time I was scheduled to work in the afternoon. Around 3:00 p.m. I contacted the tech support for the company providing internet service. They were great! Problem was that this darling computer had a number of something called toolkit viruses. By the time the tech ran all the tests, malware, scanned every single item in the computer and then got rid of the viruses it was after 11:00 p.m. Who knew? This meant I missed three hours of scheduled work which is not good for my stats, no one took them when I placed them up for trade and I had no time to sleep before my 2 a.m. shift. I failed to mention that the anti-virus put on the computer by the internet provider tech thought all of my work related programs had viruses so I had to call the work techies and ask them to help. Clock kept ticking. Mission accomplished!

Now for the toolkit virus and the insidious way it operates. When someone downloads the newest Acrobat version from the Acrobat site there is frequently a download for something like Google Chrome. There is a box that asks if you would like it to download it also. The box is checked. If you or I do not notice that detail then Google Chrome will download along with the Acrobat update download. Fortunately Google  Chrome is not a bad download though it is irritating to have it show up when you had no idea it was piggybacking on the Acrobat download. Other sites, though, do not have such friendly downloads piggybacking on them. So, when downloading it is important to carefully check for downloads that will come along with the download we want for ourselves. I had about 6 tag along when trying to download something for my grandson. I had all sorts of things going on and it took me forever to finally uninstall those rascals. I may have a virus or 20 from times like that so take a page out of my playbook and check carefully for these rascals looking to hitch a ride with your download. The tech says these virsuses work their way into the system files. Makes for some pretty nasty stuff going on with the puter when they finally show themselves. Fortunately my mom pays money every month to have the tech support so all 7 or 8 hours of tech support were free. I cannot imagine what it would have cost by the hour.

This is why I am pulling an all-nighter. The best laid plans of mice and men and all those kind of sayings. I have something to say to all my online co-workers who have been whining about not getting enough work hours. I tried to give away three hours today and not one of those people took those hours. I want them to whine next week when hours come out. I'm gonna lay in wait for them and sideswipe them in the chat room. Know why? Just because I can.

Well, the bell is about to toll for me. Hopefully I will not get multiple calls from India tonight. I don't have anything against India. I can't understand them. Spelling their names is tough no matter how slowly they spell them. Oh, I would prefer not to get too many from China also. Again, not for lack of love, but for lack of understanding Mandarin Chinese with a little bit of English mixed throughout. O.K. I am becoming one of those whiny people. Grateful to have a job I am. TTFN