Chapter 8: where did my weekends go? give it back!!
as the old adage goes, ‘time flies when you are having goodtimes’. but the problem is…i wasn’t even having a good time over the weekends. i spent the better part of saturday morning in a team meeting. got home exhausted but had many things to do. my plan was to run down to the car workshop to have the car battery recharged, put it back in, drive the car to the workshop again to have it diagnozed and then proceed to give myself a haircut. i’m blessed (some say cursed) with the fastest growing hair possible. i have to shave everyday or else i’d look like a ruffian or an escaped convict. 5 p.m. shadows? no sweat, mine comes earlier. does the opposite sex find some form of facial hair attractive? so far, yes and no. some like clean-shaved men while others die for that macho look. but i digress.
so, what really happened was; i got back home after the aforementioned meeting. procrastinated a bit. then got a request to become Mr. Tech-OMG-You-Must-Help-Me-With-My-PC. since it was near the workshop, i figured i’d kill 2 birds with a stone. i grabbed a Tee and shorts, quickly packed my PC emergency medic kit (antivirus and spyware remover, blechhhh) and dump the battery. drove like a maniac to the workshop and was told it would take at least 4 hours for it to be fully recharged. great, it’s 4 p.m. and they close at 7 p.m. i told the guy to do what he could do best and exited that place like a monkey whose arse was on fire. had to be at the place for that sick PC by 4 p.m. Reached there and to my dismay, i was late but early. the person had not yet arrived. skip to a few mouse-clicks away. i found the problem, it was infected with at LEAST 2 viruses and a crapload of spyware. great, the processor usage (brains of the PC) was at 100% all the time. no wonder it’s crawling! you don’t say. so after installing the spywear remover and some tweaking, i find the mother of all problems. it’s infected so bad that nothing else would run. this is gonna be fun i thought to myself. backed up all the important data files and broke the news to the owner of one very sick and dying PC. “I’m sorry ma’am. I tried my best”. words cannot describe the horrified looks i have come to witness. i calmed the person down and inform her that it would be best to put it to sleep. goodbye Dell.
heh, just kidding. i told her i would need to flatten and rebuild her system from scratch. it was the fastest way of killing bargain.exe, accelerator.exe and omg-super-hotsex-blonde-chick.exe. time check, 6.05 p.m. i head back to the workshop and wait till 7 p.m. done and gone. there goes my plans of fixing the car and my haircut.
sunday? summarized version…bad day. end of my blog for now.
emo: stressed and generally grumpy
