Uggghhh, and a WooHoo

Uggghhh...
6 megs to update for my antivirus...
Wonder if that means Avira, the AV solution currently installed, is going to dig through this machine's pre-installs and decide, again, WildTangent Games, and such, are this malware Avira so enthusiastically works to protect me against? Avira did that last year at this time, after a similarly huge update. I keep records, yesss, patiently keep these patient records: my huge red binder. From Norton, through CA, and now Avira. And all the special little gifts from Windows Updates over the years. Every hiccough. Every event. Every session 'til shutdown.

37 minutes...Yeah, on dial-up. Reality in a half-century old apartment building. I'm not gonna muse further on that: not on the obvious advertised alternatives, not on what's actually available in a half-century old apartment building. When the building super's around to let Mr.HighSpeed in to do his magic below in the utility room. When I've time for it, when I can get time off in this much-yammered-about economic slowdown, I'll go do it.

It's not that I especially want to be online right now, anyway. If I'm online, I'm not writing. Even this blogging: it's talking about writing, I might even think-out something I want to write, but it's not writing. There are weeks of projects I haven't had time for. Much-yammered-about economic slowdown, again — and the usual pre-Christmas busy'ness, here, as usual. So I'll do my online banking next. Check-in and see what's happening at Protag.

And whatever else...Ohhh, special! Was gonna add...can't remember now. Windows Updates wants to share my dial-up bandwidth.

Oh, right — Get some writin' in, too. Obviously.

I did, one time, this week. Remembrance Day, Nov 11, was a holiday. Managed a lovely section of outline and 1600 words. Something to woohoo over.