Okay, I give up.

I must reinstall my Operating System, on my Laptop.

Again.

I backed up Thunderbird. I've burned 5 DVD of data and photos.

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Here's all I know.

Last week, I did some search on Google, that took me to a malware "click here" whatever site.. like how I got the malware before. I knew not to open or download anything. I closed the browser.

A few minutes later, though, windows shut down my browser.

Every time I open my Flock browser, now, I get that same immediate windows error and notification lies that Windows will notify me when there is a fix.

Okay. So I hate using Firefox, but what choice do I have? I have been feeling like I'm on vacation, with someone else's settings, and lack of my personal shortcuts.. and I'm more than ready to return home to my comfortable "home keyboard."

Except my comfortable home keyboard doesn't exist.

Then, the other day TweetDeck started messing with me. It opens, but the columns are blank. It updates, chimes its beckoning tease, at me, and still NOTHING. I see TD tweets, coming into twitter, when I can get the browser to function..

So, I check for malware intrusions. Some by specific name. I run a MS finder. Nothing. I update my Windows... reboot..

..and now my chat program won't connect. It says I'm not connected to the internet. I'm, obviously, connected, or I wouldn't be typing this, here..

Of course, I sent The Boy, to retrieve my necessary disks and flash drive to reinstall and I've moved them.. so if I can find them..

I can do this..

Did I mention that my phone won't charge, when you plug it in, again? Yeah.. warranty has passed. I can swap batteries and the desktop charger works. But, I feel like someone popped me into the 1970's and wants me to eat Swanson TV Dinners, on tv trays, with a clicker to change the channels of my tv with 8 channels, that come into view, fuzzy, with snow and hum bars.

yeah electronic non-bliss.. gotta love it..

If you see no blogs or tweets, from me, after 72 hours, send help. :)