Woo freaking hoo! For real!

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Yes I have been away from the interwebs. Did you miss me? Actually I haven't been away, I have been right here in front of my laptop, working on it. Okay, some of the time Dan (Dani's fiance) had it, and some of the time he was sitting here at my house in front of it, and yeah, Dani worked on it some too. It takes a village ...

But it takes something stronger than some nasty self-installing adware and maybe some other malware to take me down! I WIN!!! Okay, I am not running at 100% but I tell you what, I'm getting closer all the time. Thank God for Google and tech forums and message boards where I could look up any wayward message that appeared on my screen.

And a POX on any company that seeks to advertise and steal my info or whatever the heck they were trying to do by hijacking my browsers and throwing wrenches into my applications!! I came THIS CLOSE (see my thumb and index finger almost touching) to having to reinstall my operating system.

I didn't want to.

So I enlisted Dan who was a great help, he put up with my texts and calls and cat hair when he came here. He's allergic. Heh. And I sat in front of this laptop and did endless searches, uninstalled software and reinstalled it, ran scan after scan and basically played detective for days and days and days. But I am nothing if not persistent - especially when it comes to anything technical. Being self taught - some of the knowledge I have is just enough to be dangerous so I could not tell you what I was attempting to do when I clicked on whatever it was to bring this down on my head. Or when, for that matter. It was pretty deeply embedded before I knew what a problem I had.

But if my computer had a fever before - it's down to 98.8 now. Working quite well actually.

And the really sad part? Not a thing of interest happened since my computer has been out of commission for me to write about. Nada.

Aren't you glad I'm back? :)

I missed you!
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Maxine Monday

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Phoning it in

> I have no idea if A this will work and B what it will look like if
> it does.
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> My laptop is dead in the water right now. The virus we thought
> might be gone, isn't. Tomorrow my future son-in-law will be wiping
> my laptop and reloading the operating system. My files are backing
> up now.
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> I find it incomprehensible that anyone would get satisfaction from
> doing this to somebody! What kind of kicks are those?
>
> Anyway, I've commented here and there but for the most part it makes
> me cross eyed to read blogs on my phone so I'm not doing much of it.
>
> Not surprised it's gotten to this point really, it's been a bad
> day. Went to work without my tea which I just don't do. But after
> coming home from work I tossed a frozen dinner in the microwave and
> in pulling it out - my hand caught on the micro door and my meal
> went the opposite direction and landed in the cat box. Yup. Nice.
> Sauce on the wall and floor but the bulk of it in the cat box. Gah.
>
> Tomorrow has to be better, right? Wish me luck - hope to be back
> soon.
>
> Sent from my iPhone

Maxine Monday

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Hope I'll be up and running soon!

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WhyMommy's "Kick Cancer's Ass" Science Fair!

WhyMommy is having surgery today, due to a recurrence of her cancer. This science (ahem) is for her. :)
Has anyone asked you to so a science experiment lately? Not me! There were so many I wanted to do but they all involved food coloring which of course, I don't have! So I got out my USB microscope and started looking at the hair on my legs. Uh no. Not a good reveal, that one. I finally decided to show how capillary action works. Enjoy!

The explanation. Or something.

Your paper towel rope (or wick) starts getting wet, after a few minutes you will notice that the empty glass is starting to fill with water, it keeps filling until there is an even amount of water in each glass, how does this happen?


This process is called 'capillary action', the water uses this process to move along the tiny gaps in the fibre of the paper towels. It occurs due to the adhesive force between the water and the paper towel being stronger than the cohesive forces inside the water itself. This process can also be seen in plants where moisture travels from the roots to the rest of the plant.

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Observant much?

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My son opened our front door on Easter Sunday and was greeted by a sunnier version of this -



This is directly in front of the door. He turned and looked at me and asked "when did this start happening?" And the sad part is, he didn't mean when did it start to bloom this year, he meant - EVER. We've lived here over 6 years I think. This tree has bloomed every year. Maybe I should point out to him the tree on the side of the garage that blooms with beautiful pink flowers every spring.

Nah, I think I'll give him another year to see if he notices that one.
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I forgot it's Maxine Monday - Monday

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