A new puppy...

Pam's car died last week on the way home from work. I had been telling her for a couple of years to get rid of it and get a new one, but she wanted to drive it until it died and then she would get one. Well, lucky for her it decided to grant her wish only about a half mile from home. She couldn't get it going so she tried to call me on her cell phone...the one I told her to get rid of last year because it wasn't holding a charge. Guess what -- the cell phone wouldn't work either.

This all worked out OK since she was so close to home. She called me from one of the houses down there, and I went and got her.

OK. So now we went to look at new cars. I once told her that going to look at new cars was like going to "look" at puppies...you can't just look at them, you always come home with one. So now she is the proud owner of this fine 2010 Chevrolet Malibu. Boy is it nice. I certainly like the smile on her face when she drives it, and I think I felt just as happy for her as she was. It is a safety award winner (air bags all over the place -- don't read anything into that either) and really rides nicely. Good choice.

I know we don't need all those gadgets on a car, but it certainly makes me feel better about her driving to and from work every day, knowing that she is as safe as Chevrolet and I can make her.

Oh, one other thing... Some things about car shopping never change. When she went to pay for it, they tried to sell her all kinds of extended warranties and such. They asked her how long she had her last car and she told them 10 years. They tried to establish a case that she should get these warranties because if she keeps her car that long this will "pay for itself" in repair costs and will give her a well-maintained car to trade in at that time on another new one. She informed them that if she kept this one that long, she wouldn't need a new car and doubted that wheel chairs would be that expensive. Although after this health care thing gets going, they may be and she may not get one!!

Maturity is when you want to see how long your car will last instead of how fast it will go.

Hooah

Sorry about that...

If any of you signed on yesterday or today, you got a rude little Trojan Horse warning. I hope everyone had their anti-virus up and running. Anyway, it appears someone hijacked my site for a while. I was up till 0300 Sunday morning trying to attack it as a virus problem or a spyware issue.

Doug, our son, called tonight to tell me what the issue was -- hijackers!! He told me how to fix it, but I couldn't find on the tool bar the area he mentioned, so I went into the help section and typed my problem in the "search" section. It seems there has been a rash of these events recently and there were lots of them a while back. Fortunately, the "blogger" site has guys who police their area and write help articles so people can fix the problems they find.

My "fix" was as simple as deleting the cool gadgets (ball clock, fish pond, calendar and counter) one at a time and clearing the cache each time until the Trojan horse went away. What a pain. I remember when the biggest problem I had with electronics was someone listening in on the party line when I was making a phone call (some of you will remember party line phones out in the country in the 50s), or my sister listening in on an extension phone when I talked to friends at night.

Anyway, sorry about the hassle. Glad my son got me on the right path. I'll get back to the entries in a bit. I still owe you all lots of stories.

In God we trust, all others we virus scan.

Hooah