I’m the IT guy here

 Before I went to bed last night, I set my Spybot program up to run over night.  Usually, it doesn’t find anything, but this morning, when I got up, I found that it had and asked it to correct the problems.  It got rid of 7 of 9 problems right away, but then it said to get the other two, I needed to restart the machine, because they were in locked files.

I’ve been sort of skittish about restarts and shutdowns lately because I had to use System Restore to start it up last week – something I had done unintentionally had prevented Windows from restarting.  When it did start up, I left it on for a few days, afraid I’d not get my computer to work again – the end of my world, lol.

except it isn’t at all funny

I took a deep breath this morning and hit Restart.  2 hours and 40 minutes later, it finally did restart, after going through the registry checks and fixing problems.  Since the screen showed nothing happening, at least obviously, I almost pulled the plug and did a full on cold restart, but then the windows screen blinked and added new text – so it was obviously working silently and doing it’s job without fanfare.

For over two and a half hours.

(did I screw up?  Did it?  Will it ever work again?  STRESS)

I know a lot of my life revolves around the computer – without it, I can’t check email at home, I can’t look at OD, I can’t write or edit pictures – in short, OMFG, will it work????

It finally ran through all the checks and repairs and viola, here I am, up and running.

I ran AVG virus checker every night.  Spybot lurks in the background, protecting the computer, and MSN’s Security Essentials runs all the time.  I suppose that overhead slows down my web brousing, but better safe than sorry, I think, and look at me now!  Up and running and none the worse for wear – I even cooked some eggs while I was waiting and had the mornng news on – fully caught up on what’s happening, so I’m full, online, and not unhappy.

I’m the IT guy here, and sometimes I think I know what I’m doing.

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