I did try to blog last night - honestly, I did! But when I finally got home at 10 pm last night, I logged onto my computer and checked my emails. What I found were 58 e-mails: one from Stennie, and 57 e-mails that had been generated by that new SO BIG worm.

I knew what was going on, thankfully, because we'd gotten the same e-mails at work. However, although our IS department swears that the messages we got had been stripped of the virus, I suspect I got the virus from work. Why? Because I got the exact same messages from the same domains we'd gotten messages from at work, plus some messages using my employer's domain.

McAffee saved the day though. The virus scan saw the problem and terminated it before it could do much damage. I'm afraid that some of you may have gotten an email from my account with the worm, and for that, I encourage you to sue my employer. It is their damn fault. I wish I worked hourly so that I could bill them for the time I had to spend checking my entire computer for worm parts.

I also would like to sue those slackers at Microsoft, who failed to protect their software from this kind of b.s. It took me 20 minutes just to get to earthlink so I could delete these emails (no sense in trying to download them first). Then when I finally got to Blogger, the server was so busy, it never fully drew the edit screen. So I did what any exhausted and stuffed with Thai food would do: I went to bed.

Today, 22 hours later, the Internet is still slower than usual. I only received 5 emails - NO SPAM for the first time in about two months, and I keep getting kicked off the AOL Instant Messenger so often, that it is nearly impossible to chat with Patrick. I'll forgo trying to sue the hacker or AOL for this, because of the no spam thing. I'm a generous person!