Today’s Business: 2011-01-19
Today’s Activities
- Shower. DONE.
- Cat duty. DONE.
Log
06:00 AM: I’m up for a little while anyhow. Today I plan on fixing nephew Grant’s laptop; he’s having trouble installing the paid AVG antivirus package..
07:00 AM: Facebooked a bit. Friend count: 364. Fan count: 90.
07:40 AM: It’s considerably warmer outside this morning; the temperature has risen to 35 degrees from 31 last night. So I’ve turned down the basement gas heaters, as it’s starting to get quite warm up here. Hopefully all that slippery ice outside has melted.
07:45 AM: Headed back to bed for a bit longer. Back later.
08:30 AM: I’m awake again. Mom called, asking me to take her some dollars, a newspaper, and nail clippers when I visit her later this week. Will do.
09:55 AM: Over a hundred spam comments received on my blogs today. Well, I’m glad folks are paying attention. But I do not want this type of interest. 
So I may have to disable new user registrations if this keeps up, since removing these repeatedly takes too much time.
11:35 AM: Leaving now to visit Mom at the nursing facility.
11:50 AM: Arrived at the nursing home and went to Mom’s room.
12:20 PM: Mom and I visited a little. She’s rather tired, but perked right up when I offered to fetch her some Texas hot dogs from a place down the street. Heading there now on foot.
12:30 PM: I’ve returned to the home with our lunch. Mom dug right in. For some food items, her appetite is still healthy.
12:45 PM: Talked briefly with Mom’s physician. I’ll put more details into the Mom’s Status post for today when I write it.
01:00 PM: Then, I accompanied Mom to physical therapy.
02:00 PM: She finished her daily workout, and we went to the TV room on the first floor and hung out there until it was time for me to go home.
02:45 PM: My homeward bound ride arrived. I said good bye to Mom, and she gave me a nice hug; expressing her joy that I visited her.
03:05 PM: I’m back home.
06:00 PM: Continued work on nephew Grant’s computer. Solved the missing Dell Dock language file problem by un-installing Dell Dock since he does not use this organizer program.
08:00 PM: Watched today’s episodes of The Young and the Restless, Dr. Phil, and NBC’s Nightly News on the DVR.
09:30 PM: We decided not to go with AVG antivirus software, as the installations of AVG 2011 (both the free and paid editions) failed at the end with error code 0xc0070643. So I looked this up in the AVG forums and found that several people have encountered this error over the past few months as well, and so far, there appears to be no permanent software fix available. This problem can occur for many different reasons, but I didn’t have the belly for reading through an installation log file that was megabytes long. So I advised sister Christine to get her money back and instead, use the Avast free version, with which I’m more familiar. Since they do not use this computer to perform many online banking transactions, I figured that the Avast free edition to be enough for them. But if it’s not, they have the option to upgrade to the more protective paid version.
09:50 PM: Installed Avast then, and it worked flawlessly. So I then ran a virus scan on Grant’s computer, which found approximately 50 infections. Wow! So I cleared them all by deleting the files that contained them. Hopefully, this didn’t break too many of the programs that he runs routinely. But he can reinstall the ones that were corrupted. A to-do for me from all this is to learn more about Windows 7 virtual folders, as mention of these appeared occasionally in the AVG documentation.
10:45 PM: Talked with [Emmy] on the phone.
11:00 PM: Watched some of CNN’s AC 360 news show live. But things are getting foggy. So I’m off to bed. Take care, and I’ll write more in less than twelve hours. See you.
Received Mail and Shipments
None today.