[Blog #185] --- Neutral --- [Wednesday] - Indeed, a late return...

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Ach, it's been too long.
Indeed, I shall now explain the reason of the massive gap of blogs - and the reason I now don't really feel motivated to continue my blog... (Although, I will try.)

My PC contacted a BEASTY virus.
The type of virus that:

• Brought up constant porn sites
• Brought up links to www.viagra.com  when I wasn't even ON the internet
• Destroyed my system restore points
• Stopped my antivirus from working
• Continually brought up the offer of a fake antivirus
  
• Continually brought up adverts and fake scans of the goddamned System Pro Plus
• Ate my boot up files
• Ate them again after I re-installed them with the Windows XP disc

The list is fucking endless really.
The only way to solve it was indeed, to format my PC.

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I had to go over a week without my internet.
Serious withdrawl symptoms set in - because you don't realise what you've got until it's not there anymore.

This was bad timing - I'd recently started playing Super Mario Galaxy and Paper Mario - games that I would need the odd bit of help from GameFAQs.
I'd also re-opened my account on Facebook - and gotten slightly buzzed on it and its many wonderful features.
I also continued getting the urge to play Guitar Hero - and I refuse to play it solo if my scores won't send to the Community. (Of course, I had no Wi-Fi connection)
I had no contact with Ashleigh - and that's weird, because she's actually started coming on MSN more often.

And naturally, I couldn't update my blog.
I declined the offer that Shelly offered - for her to post blank blogs.
I felt too depressed to be bothered updating them afterwards.
Nothing at all worth mentioning has happened the past week anyway.

Either way - Shelly was round at my house four times in one week.
It was a lot of Shelly. :D

She tried for endless hours to fix my PC - trying numerous re-installs and booting from discs, but nothing seemed to work.
Apparently she was stressing out over it so much, it disturbed her sleep patterns.

Dad rang up Dell, and they sent us some discs in the post, a week later.
This was a day that Shelly had been round, and when dad managed to get the internet working within a few seconds - trying something Shelly hadn't thought of - she was more than a little bit devvoed. :)

But in effect, the format of my PC is both a good thing and a bad thing...

- I need to re-do my iTunes...
- I've lost a lot of videos that I hadn't backed up...
- All of mam's photos from her digital camera have gone...
- I've lost all of my wavs and most of my wav mixes...

But...

- My PC runs a lot faster...
- It boots up a lot faster...
- It's an excuse to re-do my iTunes and sort the gaps before they appear...
- I've gotten rid of the beasty virus...
- I've gotten rid of a lot of old shite that I didn't need...
- I've gotten rid of all the other problems that occured...
- It was an excuse to install some shiny new software...

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I just need to get myself back motivated to update this blog every day. Hmmm...
Now I've finished this, I feel just like I'd never lost the internet.

Fucking weird.