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May 142012

Recently Alpha Geek was out of town for about a week.

The maintenance minder light in his car had been on for some time, so I thought while he was out of town I would take his car in to the shop for its maintenance. One less thing he’d have to deal with when he got back. So I called the shop and set up an appointment to bring in his car.

About an hour later, Alpha Geek forwarded me the e-mail they sent him confirming his appointment.

Damn. I’d forgot they did that.

I e-mailed back, “Well, so much for surprising you.”

He replied, “I just got the surprise a little early.”

Grrr

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May 072012

I was trying to make a copy of an exercise DVD, because I didn’t want to scratch up the original that I’d actually paid money for.

Ashampoo got an error, and suggested I should try installing a later version of itself. Okay.

The install program asked if I wanted to install the Ashampoo toolbar in my browser. I unchecked that.

Five minutes later, I go to my browser and there’s the Ashampoo toolbar.

And it seems to have reset my default search engine from Google to Bing.

Can’t wait to find out what else it did without my permission. I’ve uninstalled every trace of Ashampoo I could possibly find on my computer. Perhaps someone can recommend a CD burning program that isn’t owned by Microsoft.

What Denial?

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May 052012

Somehow the conversation drifted around to Alpha Geek’s recent surgery. “I thought I’d made a will,” he said, “but I don’t know what happened to it.”

“It’s in the file cabinet.”

“You should make one, too. We should also discuss our preferences for funerals and so on.”

“No we shouldn’t. I’m going to live forever. And so are you, cause you have to.”

“…but it’s going to be difficult to discuss until you get over this denial of yours.”

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