Yesterday was spent doing the things I should’ve done the day before.

I dusted, I hOOvered!!!, I cleaned the loo, I rinsed the bath around, and the sink. I put the washing on, I hung the washing out. I didn’t make any colours run. I did the dishes, I wiped down the worktops, I scrubbed the hob, sod the oven. I took out the rubbish, I went to the shop for milk, I bought a paper too.

Then my friend from training came around with her problematic laptop. Yes. It was very problematic.

It took about 10 minutes to boot...

It had about 200 spyware traces..

But she didn’t have Norton on it. Phew.

She had some rubbish called Panda instead.. which.. seems even worse...

Firstly, It needs about 10 startup programs and services.. 10?? It needs 10???

Then.. it appears to block a lot of stuff.. She asked me to delete her daughter’s login name.. and it wouldn’t let me.. I connected it wirelessly to my router to download some stuff.. and it blocked that as it was an “unknown network” or something. Did the same when It was wired to my router too so ended up having to disable it.. stupid trash. It has a nice name though. Pandas are cute.

I’ve told her to join the Avast fan club.

I also asked her if she’d ever defragged her hard disk. Apparently not. It might explain the slowness. I hope it explains the slowness. As I’ve disabled a lot of startup rubbish and cleaned up all the spyware and it still seems way too sluggish for my liking.

She gave me a nice bar of dairy milk as payment for helping her out. Grr. Now I’ll have to eat it!

I mean yay chocolate!

Anyway, while all that was going on, I couldn't be online listening to football commentary or anything and I was getting very frustrated. Usually I at least can put the radio on or SOMETHING! but I didn't want to be rude..

I purposefully missed Match of the Day cos I knew I wouldn't like what I saw. Stupid team! GAH!

I spent the evening playing Pro Evo with AJ.. and we played.. and played.. and played.. until 4am.

That’s my gossip. Sorry to disappoint you all I know you were hoping for a much more interesting reason for my late night.

If your mind is corrupted it means no one can read it.

Staying up til 4am that is. Although the company I had was lovely

My neighbour decided today would be a good day to put his usually silent stereo to good use. At 9am, Madonna came blaring through the walls, followed by Tight Fit(!) and then a load of (c)rap music.

And then a dog decided to start barking its head off from somewhere.

I tossed and turned for an hour or so, I even tried a solitary hammer on the wall with my fist, but nah, they didn't pity my predicament...

So I admitted defeat and went to make me some breakfast (boiled egg...) and took a shower.

Obviously the dog and the music had ceased when I emerged from there.

And it's been quiet ever since..

zzzz...