When it Rains it Pours

 Literally and figuratively. It started off with a virus on my computer and it is proof once again that even someone who helps others in this field can get caught in a weak moment. It was the Driver-Fixer virus. It popped up on my computer while my mind was somewhere else and I exed out of it and then of course it kept popping up. So I contacted my virus protection people (Emsisoft) and they helped me get rid of it but it was a long arduous ordeal with many steps. It was one of those things where you had to print out the directions because there were so many steps. This took pages and hours but it was successfully annihilated.

Reminder: When something pops up unexpectedly and it was not initiated by you, do a hard shutdown immediately. Press that power button and hold it down until your computer shuts off. Then when you restart your computer it will be fine and not infected. Don't touch that pop up! Just Sayin'

And then my phone went wonky. Was it related? I am not sure but do not think so. So I have been working with the phone people to get it working correctly. The problem was the date and time kept showing January 22 2001. No matter what I did, and I did plenty, it would go back to that date. Now that might have been something a person could learn to live with but that was just one of the problems. When I texted people my response did not show on my phone and/or it said "message not sent, tap to send again" but of course that did not work. It might work correctly for a few minutes but then $%#@@&^! So the last resort was a factory reset and I did that yesterday. Now in that process, they suggest you remove your apps one by one to see if it was one of the apps causing the problem. I had 41 apps so I removed them all except Google Play. So as of late yesterday, it was still not working. I woke up this morning and it seemed to be okay but then I started working with it and I noticed the Facebook app had come back. I know I deleted it because I do not use Facebook on my phone. Never have, never will. And then I deleted it and Google Play. So now the only apps I have are the ones that come with the phone from the factory.

And then Butch got a phone call that a check he had written for cement work had not arrived and it had been a month. So a very large check is floating around in the postal system. He checked his account and it had not been cashed so he stopped payment on it and will issue them a new one.

That is three so we hope we are done. Oh yes, it did start raining and it is still raining and cold. The thermometer has been stuck on 44 for the last 18 hours. Enough already!!