I'd Rather Be Outside. . .

Technical difficulties known as a computer virus kept me indoors most of today. If I had to be inside this actually wasn't too bad a day for it. Bursts of cold rain intermittently blew in from somewhere. But as the day wore on, and virus scan after fruitless virus scan, anti-virus download after worthless anti-virus download, I just knew it would be much nicer if I was outside completely drenched, with wet hair, muddy feet and cold hands. The rain always looks worse when you're inside looking out. But when I'm struggling to fix a computer problem, the rain looks mighty good to me from inside too.

This is what I felt like all day. 

Unfortunately it's not getting fixed for a while because Jason, my computer consultant guru, is off to an annual bacchanal celebration tomorrow for the Memorial Day Weekend. He tried his best to advise me remotely while he was at work through Google chat. Although I think we identified the evil files (password protected so they can't be deleted easily), the machine will remain quarantined until after he returns. In the interim I will have to tough it out with my netbook. I'll try for a more upbeat post tomorrow.