When I opened Microsoft Word, it came up with “Document 1 (Recovered).” Microsoft does some things right. My computer shut down, maybe by itself, last night. If it wasn’t spontaneous, it was Twyla.
She ran into the computer room when I set down Roomba in the hallway and I just closed her in. When Roomba finished the hallway, I opened the door. She dashed out. The computer was at a DOS-ish screen telling me to insert a floppy or something and the hard drive light was chugging away. It rebooted okay, so it must be that Twyla did something. I have no idea what. The light was green on the UPS, so she hadn’t unplugged anything. The thought occurred that I had been blasted by Blaster, but more out of luck than planning I have all the Windows updates (I had backed up the HDD a few weeks ago in preparation for finally installing XP SP1 and got all the updates then. This is one time it really mattered).
I’m surprised that Twyla reacted so strongly to Roomba this time. The previous evening she had just sat and watched it with great curiosity as it chugged away behind the sofa (and I watched too, still fascinated, with a nice cold Yuengling). My initial explanation was that she thought it was a cat. It does move like Claudette, the blind cat, bumping into the wall, turning left or right, continuing until there’s another bump. It also smelled like a cat, since what it was picking up was cat hair, mostly Twyla hair, but that theory evaporated when, after an hour of watching me work with the Hoover SteamVac™ on a large section of the carpet.
In the picture, the home entertainment center is swung over to the right. That’s because I didn’t want to unplug and replug all the damn wires. Tonight I’ll swing it over to the left and do the other side. Meanwhile, just a few minutes ago, to be certain I had all the Windows updates, I checked out their website. Incredibly slow there! Blaster is still doing its dirty work.
Oh, that’s Claudette (the highlighted gray bump on the floor) enjoying the freshly cleaned carpet. On the news, they are saying there was a sting operation where a Russian agent and an American agent tried to sell a phony SAM to an English guy who was really Indian and wasn’t an agent. They didn't give the Indian's name. I wonder if it was Singh?
The moral here is that you better be in some official intelligence capacity if you’re gonna be selling arms. Then it’s okay. Ask Ollie North. I forget who he sold arms to. Wasn’t it the Iranians? I also forget who sold all the TOW missiles to the Taliban when they were fighting the Russians. Things get really confusing and terribly complicated when you get involved in arms deals. I recommend that amateurs avoid this line of work even now, as legitimate work is so difficult to find. Let the professionals handle it.
5:18:49 AM 
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