they're home, now what?

So, the kidlets are back home and we are back to 'normal' family life.

Bonnie was the first one home (Thursday night) and she promptly got onto her laptop to re-connect with her college friends that she had not seen ALL DAY!  It wasn't long before the swearing began.  Seems the night before, she had downloaded something from the 'wrong' site, and now her computer was slower than the slugs that so delight in my garden.  I started to run several of my favorite spyware/adware programs and the first one, alone, found 116 'problems'.  Then, I noticed that there were several processes running that were not supposed to be there.  One of them kept bringing up Internet Explorer at random.  But what was scary was when I noticed that it was changing her registry files when it did.  Let's just say that it is a very bad thing!

This being beyond the scope of my abilities to fix, I shut it down and called Larry, the computer guy, who came and picked it up the next day.  We haven't seen it since, so she is now using my computers. Fair enough...

Adam got home Friday night,  from the UK after approximately 35 hours of travel time.  I kid you not.  His London flight got delayed and he missed his connection and, yeah, disaster!  He didn't complain, though.  He is ADAM, after all, who never seems to have a negative word cross his lips.  He did have a raging cough, though...the hanger on of a killer week-old cold.  And he still sounds horrible!  He was content that we had shown up at the airport with his chicken burrito with black beans, which he had requested when he called from San Francisco.

Last night, we all went out with Grandma to see Oceans 12...excellent, btw...and then had dinner.  It was tons of fun to be all together and talking about their experiences.  Tonight, Adam is in Salem with his Willamette U. friends and Bonnie is having a group of high school friends over at our house.

Life is good!

Comments

[Loretta]

I'm laughing over your post about the kids being home. My husband and I went out to a friend's house for a rare weeknight dinner. When we came home, the Princess had taken over the living room and had two friends over, and Mystery Man had two friends in his incredibly messy room, with a cable strung from my Optimum connection, under my door, across the hall to his room so they could play X-Box. In order to do this, he pretty much trashed my art room.

When is break over??

[rubber-sol]

D - I am so glad that your kiddies are home now -- enjoy the holidays!

And the computer talk sounded yucky -- hope all works out for Bonnie! :)

[Margaret]

Nowdays you have to have your computer in its own fortress; it is depressing how many protections you have to have on it. Don't people have anything better to do than malicious code and viruses? (depressing) It must be wonderful to have the whole family together--I will experience that next year when our elder child goes off to college. I anticipate many crying jags.(me, not her)

[azura]

ooooh very nice.

[Stephanie]

Sounds like a great time! (Except for the computer problems. Boo.) My brother goes to Willamette (well, just finished up his last term last week). Go Bearcats! I wonder if Adam knows him...his name is Jacob Stout and he ran track and cross country.