I’m the one who needs a new computer (my MacBook Pro is coming up on 5 years old, and that’s…old), but Mark is the one who got a particularly pernicious virus today. I mean his computer did.
It was actually very hateful–it got in through Skype, masquerading as an update; and came complete with a fake “support” number to call, after it messed up his browser. Which he did call, and thought he was talking to a real support person, until the person started telling him how much the support call was going to cost, even before buying the antivirus software…
He hung up on them and went to the Microsoft store with the computer (and the phone number) and got it all straightened out, but–there went that day, productivity-wise.
Until that, we’d been doing all right! I’m making progress on Q&T, and he’s got an illustration job that’s actually very cool, and I will be telling you about it in a few weeks. It’s a LOT of work, though; a wasted day is bad news.
Exercise is marching along. I have now decided that special padded bike shorts cause greater troubles than they address, so I’m back to normal shorts. I have enough of my own padding, ahem.
And our book group is reading Winter’s Tale, which is lovely, but loooooong! I can’t really complain; it was Mark and me who suggested it–and the meeting is here, next week–but wow, I’ve been pecking away at the book for weeks, and need to step it up.
I’m still waking up super early, but haven’t managed to establish the habit of morning blogging. What I’ve been doing is diving right into Q&T revisions, which is what I’m really supposed to be doing with my time, so I guess that’s all right.
Now to go read…and zzz….