Friday, February 22, 2013

computer glitches

ok then, that was disturbing... suddenly the chrome browser went wonky as if caught in some manic loop of page changing as if a back button was permanently depressed or something like that and i had no control over the mouse... a virus?... a hack?... i was on facebook and also had a dozen other windows open... was i noticed?... or was it something in the hardware failing?... but what in the hardware would make a browser window go nuts and then open a windows save box (it was then i was left to push the power button cuz access to me files seemed too close for comfort)... lost hours of links and typing... we'll curse the computer gods over that later... and then i ran my anti-virus scan and the computer shut down... and then i rebooted in safe mode and check the events log and found a kernel error... it said it might have been a power loss... and then booted in safe mode again and another sudden shut down... power supply burning out?... overheating cpu?... i did unplug and plug the power cord back in, so battery burnout?... i do keep the laptop plugged in constantly... the batter power says 100%, but sometimes they do burn out and can only hold a charge for a few seconds even from 100%... please no... please don't make me spend money now... thoughts... and then i booted into normal mode and ran the critical areas scan and no threats... and then i opened a notepad to type this and as i typed this, critical scan started again on it's own... microsoft update wants to update... the same four updates that failed last time windows wanted to update... microsoft failure is annoying because it wastes so much time for nothing... anyway, since i have not yet reconnected to the internet, that will be later...

ok, so the second critical scan comes up with no threats... i should probably run a full scan, but i don't want to wait an hour... foolish, i hope not... anyway, now reconnecting to the internet, fingers crossed it was not some hacker... and starting windows update, so still holding my breath about returning to browsing and facebook... update takes way too long... i will open a browser and test my blog sites and then the internet in general and then facebook after the update... and then maybe i will save and close everything and check out the battery... holding breath all the way...

meanwhile, happiness, the incredible farting dog, decided to come out here and sleep with me tonight... usually jackson closes her door so he sleeps in there, but he chose to come out here after i came out here a few hours ago after i had gone to bed a bit before that but found i was not sleepy enough to sleep after having slept several hours in the recliner where i am more comfortable these days because of the arm... in any case, he's been farting tonight more than i've ever smelled him fart before, lucky me...

and apparently, chrome opened to this blog window and the computer is allowing me to update here... oddly, chrome did not ask if i wanted to open the previous browsing session so it did not recognize it shut down improperly... anyway, uploading this...

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