!@#$%^& computer!

My brother is brilliant with computers. Really. He knows how to build a computer from scratch and did so for his own home computer. He has 2 monitors between which he can move, with the same mouse & keyboard... it's great.

So you would think that our computer at home would be top-notch, since he's always fixing it for us. Unfortunately, however, there appears to be something more wrong with our computer, since he's tried several different virus protection programs and for some rason none of them work for the long haul.

Like the most recent one. You know those speech bubbles that pop up to tell you something about your computer? Well, one pops up on my computer every two seconds. And it's huge and blocks out the bottom half of whatever I'm doing at the time. Like right now, when I have to have my typing space up as high as it will go so I can see what I'm typing! And it's not like I can x it out and it will just go away. Oh, no. It pops back up honestly 2 seconds later. I counted.

I tell you what. Computers and their problems. The computer as a whole still functions, but it's getting very irritating to put up with that speech bubble. And the fact that my desktop picture is now gone, leaving me with a big blank screen (which i made a nice green color and coordinated with my windows colors, but still).



On a different not entirely, today is the 5 year anniversary of 9/11. I heard one of those tribute things on the radio this morning and it almost made me cry. At the time of the attack, I was only 12 and couldn't completely comprehend what was happening, but now it gets to me.

In remembrance of all those who died, from the airplane passengers to the WTC employees to the brave men and women of the NY city police and fire squads.