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You are just so right, so absolutely, brilliantly, right.

Sometimes we lose sight of all that.

I recently had a virus, nasty thing peo’d me more than anything. All searches I did it would take me to THEIR page, middle of night Mexican music started playing, took up 95% of my system resources. Dealt with it for three months, got to know it, got to hate it.

I have 2 computers, little cheapie laptop thingies. Bought Microsoft office, actually paid money. Both computers installed. Had Excel, Word, One Note...an office organizer program.

I didn’t want to take the thing to a computer tech for the cost involved to fix the virus. I’m there, where anything pretty much over $50 wasn’t worth it for the value of the computer. It was a very difficult virus to get rid of, attached itself to some unimportant Windows program...PING, it was called.

The only thing stopped me from completely clearing the hard drive was concern about my Excel programs and all that. Oh I could re-install them and all my other little programs I’d put on that thing over the years but I just was wary about going there.

One day, sick of that awful, awful thing hijacking my computer and wondering why this wasn’t against the law, I just....poof....found a command...something to the effect...”restore computer to the state it was in when you bought it.”

Heh.

I hit that button and never looked back.

Now I can put Excel and all that stuff back on but you know what? This was just an extra computer in my bedroom that I could sit and type in at night. I didn’t need Excel or Word and all that on it. And whatever I’d put on it over the years wasn’t that important cause I’m not missing anything.

If I need to remember something and at the bedroom computer, I don’t need One Note. I just type it in an email TO MYSELF!

Pick it up on the kitchen laptap next day where I have my organizer program.

Point is, I suspect that lots of times we have computers only for the Internet. That computer in the bedroom was part of a network with the kitchen computer and they could “talk” to each other. I thought I was so cool you turned to ice stand next to me.

I didn’t need all that on the bedroom computer and now, any virus I get...boom, I’m wiping the hard drive on it.

To end, you should smile, husband buys me a hard drive backup thing and it’s great. I just backup drive C on both computers.

Only cost around $60 bucks, don’t need no intrusive virus protection system that always starts when I least want it...slowing stuff down.

I’ll just restore from this hard drive, backed up once a week cause this is no General Motors here, just a household that last week’s backup would do just fine.

Got Photobucket for my pics, got my Blog for my thoughts.

We sometimes make life more difficult than it need ought to be.

So we can be cool.