A Friday to be thankful for

Yesterday Jeff and I took a day trip to Rehoboth Beach just to get away from things and relax, soak up some sun, get sand in our shoes, etc. It was nice. Lunch at the Robin Hood Inn and dinner at the Purple Parrot, both were great. Except for one forgivable incident, I have never had a bad meal anywhere in Rehoboth.

Jeff befriended a group of lesbians from Syracuse that seemed to show up in some of the places we were at and vice versa. They made dinner at the Parrot that much more fun. We hit a couple of the many quirky shops, Lambda Rising bookshop, you name it. ANd me being typical me, I hit the Lowes and Home Depot on the way back home to pick up a new dehumidifier, some industrial light fixtures for the storage room and a few other goodies. Didn't spot the lesbians (well, at least our newfound friends) at either place.

The weather was great, the ocean water cool and the scenery quite bereft of eye candy. I chalk that up to it being Friday. Very relaxing day, completely without planning or schedules.

I need to spend a week like this. Or two.

Fscking adware/spyware

I just spent the last couple hours hunting down and removing a pile of ad/spy/mal/scumware on this PC. I came back to my PC after showering and find a pile of dialog boxes wanting to install GAIN/Gator, CoolWebSearch, change my homepage, etc... you guessed it, all the nasties werre there. Thing is, I did not visit any websites known for that shit, only occasionally dealing with a stray popup that evades the blocker. Perhaps one of those contained the trigger. I watched as the programs 'mutated' and avoided the scanning tools. Between running Ad-Aware, Spybot Search and Destroy, killing files manually and isolating the PC from the LAN, I think I got it all.

I am not one who has an 'unsecured' PC. In fact, I run with rather strict settings to prevent this shit from occurring, and run various programs to block/scan and avoid these things. Still, it managed to come in.

I am pissed.

The purveyors of this trash should be forced to watch their children be molested by the entire membership of NAMBLA, their houses burned and their knees and ankles shattered with a 20 pound sledgehammer (I'll volunteer for the latter, I have the hammer).

Fuckers.