:: Venting Insanity ::

:: Friday, June 04, 2004 ::

spyware sucks
Someone installed spyware on my laptop that causes the computer to think I'm pressing Shift, Ctrl, or Alt at various times, nullifying my pop-up blocker, and causing my computer to think I'm either typing in all caps or executing a command.

It is EXTREMELY annoying... and I meant that to be in caps.

I'm about >thisclose< to restoring the hard drive to when I first got it just to uninstall anything that might remotely be causing this problem.

I have tried Ad Aware, SpyBot Search & Destroy, and Norton Anti-Virus. I have run Disk Cleanup to get rid of temporary internet files. I have gone into the temporary files area of my hard drive and deleted all the cookies and other things that are there. I still can't rid of it. It's making my crazy!

If I find out where it came from, I am blocking that site and I will post it here for everyone else to block it, too, so you don't have to go through what I'm going through. Also... so the owner won't get any hits. I am very pissed off.

excitement at work
So, after a slow day of nothing important to do (we cleaned the building in preparation for the upcoming moving day), we see a cop car pull up in front of one of the apartment buildings across the street. Curious, we head outside 'to have a cigarette' (I don't even smoke) and figure out what was going on.

Several cop cars show up, first aid kits in hand, followed by EMTs and an ambulance. They left the stretcher outside the building because of the stairs (they had to bring in a backboard to transport the patient downstairs), and head inside. As we're sitting there, the stretcher starts rolling down the sidewalk and tips off the curb into the street. I ran across, stopping traffic, and DeAnne and I righted it for them. The EMT came back down at that point, and we told him what happened. He asked us to stay with it so it wouldn't happen again, and so that someone wouldn't walk off with it.

At this point, there was a traffic problem because it was the end of the day on a Friday and people were trying to get home. Walter came down and started directing traffic to try and help alleviate the problem because the road was too narrow with all the vehicles parked up and down both sides. Finally, someone blocked off the road at the corner to prevent any more problems.

It turned out that the woman they came for had collapsed and stopped breathing. No one's completely sure what happened, but she's a student at the school, so Barbara's going to find out this weekend and let us all know what's going on.

It's a shame because she had just graduated with her two year degree and was probably going to return for her four year.

update on the internship
So, it seems that I wouldn't get an extension, so to speak. I would take an incomplete at the end of the session, and then the grade would be changed once I finished up the 90 hours. I spoke with Patrice Newman and told her that I had missed a lot of valuable internship time because of the trip to Kansas City. She said that's the way the school would do it.

That's not too bad. I'm not graduating until December anyway, so an incomplete at this time wouldn't be a terrible thing. It's not messing up my schedule.

snapple "real fact" #266
Manhattan is the only borough in New York City that doesn't have a Main Street.