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Best Present Ever!

12/27/2012

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After having lost Demon Cat and Miss Winnie this year, I went into the holidays with an admittedly heavy heart. They were more than pets, they were family. And they left a big hole in our hearts.

Until...

My friend, Mitzi, offered a rescue kitty, found alongside a road, abandoned like people do in this throwaway world of ours. Did we want her?

Well, duh.

So the day after Xmas, young Stormy arrived - aptly named as her delivery vehicle scooted just in front of an ice storm bearing down on us.
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She spent most of the day hiding under things, including crawling up inside my recliner-rocker. I decided to just let her be, get used to the house noises, the birds (more on that later). It wasn't until we literally shook her out of the innards of the recliner that she graced us with her presence.
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Stormy bonded immediately with my son, Kevin. In spite of being a spook, if you nab her, she really doesn't object to being held. In fact, I got a lovely purr for the 30 seconds she was in my lap.

Stormy is a mover and groover, of the no moss on rolling stone variety. She likes soft, fleecy toys, not hard plastic. I tied two puffballs on the end of one of those toy casting rods. This morning I've been kitty trolling for coming nearly two hours.

Boundless energy.

She's systematically cleaned off whatever was on the end table, climbed at least one curtain... and discovered the birds.
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Yes, she can jump that high, and yes she can climb those little plastic rungs just fine, thankyouverymuch.
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Welcome home, little Stormy.

Yes, I understand the rules...

Curtains are forfeit.
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Locked Out Addendum

12/17/2012

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My morning: 


Back-up(s) to the terrabyte device and the new 32gig flash drive ($20 at Best Buy, like whoa). 
Defragged. 
Cleaned out system files. 
Deleted all offending temp files. Prayed at the altar of registries. Nortoncized, full disk scan (>1 hour). 
Getting ready to call in the Big Guns in India.
Having fun on the computer ... no one said, ever.

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Locked out!?

12/16/2012

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Oh Face Book, how I love thee, let me count the ways … said no one ever. Or at least not recently.

Around 10pm I fired up the laptop and had inexplicable trouble getting programs to load. Outlook hung with a warning that a Norton Add-On was misbehaving, did I want to stop it. Yes.

It didn’t.

Try again, and again and again. Restart, wait awhile, still nothing’s loading. Tried getting on the internet via Google Chrome (usually reliable) … still nada. And that pesky ‘module #4’ was going all manner of frisky, putting up a valiant fight.

No, I’m not talking about Norton, not with my blood pressure through the roof.

Well, I *could* complain about Microsoft: 30 upgrades over a 3-day period. I’m thinking something ran afoul in that mishmash.

Anhoo, when I finally get Google to settle and load, FB freaks and claims my password is bad (it wasn’t), then directed me to give them a ‘recovery email address’ so I did. I get the perfunctory bot mail that asks if I’m being hacked.

I would know that how at this point?

If I’m not, ignore, but oh yes, we want you to change your password, so click here. Did that. Changed password.

Tried logging on with the NEW password, provided through their protocols.

Egads! Hacker!

Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!


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We’re convinced you are a hacker but we can’t prove it so to make your life miserable we’re going to LOCK YOU OUT  for a period of…

TICKING digital clock appears…

23 hours: 58 minutes: xx seconds


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I’m right in the middle of launching a new book. I’m running a contest. I have wisdom to impart. Cute kitty pictures to share. Friends and strangers to stay in touch with.

And I’m LOCKED OUT?

It’s Sunday. I have football. I have good eats. Nice books to read. Editing to do.

And no Face Book.

Realizing I’m addicted to social networking: not a surprise.

Realizing I’m FREE! today from the burden of social networking? Priceless.

Oh wait…

Hello Google+


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