There Was a Crooked Man

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Feb 042013
 

Or, in this case, a crooked woman. I don’t know what I’ve done to myself—I was fine Saturday, but Sunday my back hurt, and as the day progressed the pain got worse until I was hobbling around and gasping and groaning whenever I had to stand up, or sit down, or change position. I guess I slept in a corkscrew, or something.

I hoped it would be better this morning, but alas. I hobbled in to work like an old crippled thing.

On the way home, I stopped by the grocery store and purchased:

  1. some ibuprofen
  2. a box of Icy Hot pads
  3. a bottle of Shiraz

One way or another I’m going to feel better tonight.

Foiling Scammers

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Feb 012013
 

I think I saved my boss from a scammer yesterday.

I’ve kind of become the unofficial tech person in the office. (I’m not sure how this happened; most of the time they figure out the problem themselves while I’m there.)

So yesterday, my boss was walking by and handed me his cell phone, saying “See if you can figure out what she’s talking about.”

On the other end was a lady with an Indian accent telling me my computer was sending some kind of tech-sounding thing to their servers, and she was going to tell me how to remove the virus.
At first I thought she meant his computer had picked up a zombie virus and was spamming people, so I said we’d call our IT guy—and she said “No, no one else can fix this, you need to go to our website.”

I basically told her it was our IT guy or nothing, and she hung up.

Then I did a search on the company she said she was from… “Windows Computer Services.” Scam city.

I relayed the info to my boss and went back to work. Stupid scammers wasting everybody’s time.

Failure to Launch

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Jan 022013
 

A few months ago I bought Duchess a scratching post with a perch attached. She loves it; she scratches it, sleeps on it, and sits on it to look out the window.

And, when she’s having a Crazy Cat Episode, she likes to race through the house and launch herself to the perch from several feet away.

Tonight she was having a ‘sode, galloping through the house, and attempted to launch herself to the perch as usual. She didn’t quite make it, and for several seconds I was laughing hysterically as she hauled herself up the rest of the way.

I explained the source of my hilarity to Alpha Geek, who nodded. “Poor energy management,” he remarked. “Should have applied more thrust on short final.”

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