the tech

have been having annoying computer problems since we installed the SecureIt virus control our internet provider offers. then we got FastTrack internet & still annoying problems. the computer locks up continuously, can only turn it off by holding power button in long periods of time. on my way home from work today, Kevin calls with the familiar ? "where you at?" as in how close to home am I, since if I answer the phone, I am in the vehicle (no cell phones allowed in the barns. cell phones are one of the many things that carry germs, pestilence & disease & hogs must be protected from them at all costs.) I had just went thru Ravanna. (about half way home). he had called the online tech, they had sent a real tech to the house, Kevin had to leave for work & the kids were home, but he was wondering when I would get there. I got home, the tech left after awhile, the online tech took over, I had to converse with him a bit, he was yelling into the phone, & didn't seem able to hear my responses, so kept yelling into the phone repeating himself.
does the computer work better? it's only locked up once since we had the exorcism performed, but really haven't been on it that much. I took a nap, conversed with the kids, & brushed MyScene & Bratz hair while Katie dressed them for some adventure. this doesn't sound like a big deal, but just the MyScenes & Bratz are probably easily 50 dolls. easily. when you drag in the regular Barbies (they've moved to the garage most of the time) it is waaaay over 100. she has all her own dolls, + her big sisters dolls + a big shoebox of parts in the top of the closet I can't get rid of, I have this idea of building monstrous horror movie Barbie dolls someday...
oh, people, go eat some pork. we had a reassuring email today from the parent company...and I honestly can't remember the name of who I work for, it was Premium Standard Farms, then Continental Grain, then maybe something else, now Murphy Brown/Smithfield or Smithfield/Murphy Brown....anyway, there is a link...porkfacts.com or something. common sense tells you that most diseases are transmitted by undercooked/raw meat/ or contamination with undercooked/raw meat/juices, etc. you don't get the flu by eating meat. you get flu by getting sneezed on, snotted on,coughed on, kissed by diseased people.
I think the whole problem here is that the world is prepped for THE SUPERFLU. like the 1918 avian flu. I know personally that a health care worker in IOWA has been preparing for the inevitable SUPERFLU for a couple of years, planning meetings, scenerios, stockpiling supplies, training, etc. maybe everyone is too ready for it, & have to pounce on each flu since it could be the one. yeah it's sad that babies, old people, & people with compromised immune systems die from the flu. we're all going to die eventually. and the flu vaccine...they can't prepare in advance for a flu that doesn't exist yet. takes time to grow the vaccine. I don't get the flu shot, altho they offer them free at work so we don't get the pigs sick.
kj is out on the town. he is a teenager now, coming & going all mysterious like. he usually does tell me where he thinks he is going & what time he thinks he will be home.
emailed my fave photographer about setting up SR pictures next month. one of kj's classmates has already had her SR pics done! found them on the website when I was looking at the proofs for Katie's dance pictures. glad that jogged my memory,. Jody is getting ready to move to KC the end of June, so she can do the pics if I get my shit together quickly.